Justin (Most Precious Blood/Indecision) on 07-14-2000 by propheci

I think most hardcore fans have heard of Indecision, one of the greats. Their breakup caused the creation of Most Precious Blood. Here's my little AIM chat interview with Justin; as usual, bold is me and un-bold is Justin.

1) who are you and what are/were your involvements in Indecision/Most Precious Blood?
Justin Brannan. I play guitar and write songs.

2) who all are involved in Most Precious Blood?
Most Precious Blood is my new band. Its me on guitar, Rachel on bass, Tom sings and Pete on drums.
Rachel played guitar for Indecision and Tom was the original singer for Indecision. Pete's played with Sheer Terror and NRSV

3) where did the name come from?
Most Precious Blood was Indecision's alias for many years. It has some religious connotations and we always liked to play with things like that. Roman Catholic imagery is very easy to manipulate. Most Precious Blood is a synonym for friendship, thats what it has become to mean.
cool.
But its really inexplainable. It transcends meaning.
i see

4) is the new band going to sound very different from Indecision?
No. We've already got a bunch of songs and it sounds like Indecision. I wrote a lot of the music and lyrics for Indecision over the years so whatever I play seems to sound like it somewhat. Its all I can play really.
But we didn't intentionally MAKE it sound like Indecision. Whatever comes out, we play it.
cool
and it just so happens 3 of us are from Indecision so...
yeah

5) any plans for tours and albums?
No tours planned yet. We are recording in a few weeks. Just demoing some songs and putting them on tape. Right now I'm just doing music for fun. I'm not retiring,
I still have the urge to tour. I'm setting up some stuff for Most Precious Blood in Hong Kong and South America. I'm getting really involved with trying to help out other scenes in remote parts of the world. I'm writing NYC scene reports and columns for a lot of foreign fanzines.
I want to get more involved
I definitely feel like I've done my share and I've continued to contribute over the 10 years I've been into hardcore but I feel like since we were on tour so much doing our thing, that I wasn't really contributing enough. I don't know. I am still exhausted with the amount of work we did with Indecision
I can't see myself wanting to go back on tour anytime soon but eventually we will go back out. For the first time in as long as I can remember I'm playing music as a hobby, for fun and nothing more, I truly forgot what that was like

6) how did the decision come to breakup Indecision? i guess it's not really a breakup, just a continuation...
Well Most Precious Blood and Indecision are two different bands. Indecision's break up certainly wasn't planned. We pushed ourselves too hard and we had a lot of communication problems. We toured for 9 months straight supporting "Release The Cure". Everyone was just burnt out and everything fell apart. We should've taken a break and worked out our differences but thats not how we all were as people because of the communication problems.

7) what are your feeling on the general hardcore scene? any changes you'd like to see?
I'd love to see the violence go away. Violence has leveled the hardcore scene in NYC once again and thats really frustrating.
do you think that stems from the dancing? meaning if clubs disallowed dancing, the violence would cut down?
No, it just stems from people not respecting each other and acting stupid. The tough guys and plastic gangsters ruin it for everyone else. Dancing is one thing, its fine, its a release of emotion but fighting at shows is just retarded

8) how do you feel about bands that are actively promoting "straightedge", vegan, or Christianity?
I've been straightedge and vegetarian for 8 years. I think bands that still sing about that stuff are good because theres always new kids who need to learn about stuff like that but I have no tolerance for the intolerant bands.
Its like doing the right things for the wrong reasons.
I think xstian hardcore bands are funny. I feel religion has no place in hardcore ESPECIALLY xstianity because of its blatant sexism and anti-gay scripture.
The bible is a book of fiction.

9) what was your most memorable concert?
I don't know, we've played so many shows... Everytime we played in Atlanta its been awesome, Texas, Chicago, New York City of course! Playing in places like Hungary and Croatia was insane. Our shows in London are always amazing. Touring Puerto Rico was nuts too.
which band that you've played with sticks out?
as far as being crazy or whatever
We learned a lot from touring with Sick Of It All. Hot Water Music and AFI are two amazing bands as well. We learned a lot from Agnostic Front as well.

10) last question, what bands do you listen to?
Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure, Diamanda Galas, old Integrity, Angry Samoans, Kill Your Idols, Silent Majority