Rapid Fire: Gap Year
Interview by Norm
Photos by Bryden Bowley
Full Name?
Keyan Ariazand Adams
Justin Caleb Phipps
Ethan Anton Guertler
Age?
KA: 21
JP: 21
EG: 22
Sign?
KA: Sagittarius
JP: Gemini
EG: Aquarius
Where are you from?
KA: I’m from here. I’m from Riverton.
JP: Denver, Colorado.
EG: Salt Lake City, Utah.
What did you have for breakfast?
KA: An egg in a piece of bread. I don’t know what that’s called when you cut the middle out. (Frog in the hole)
JP: Bacon egg and cheese sandwich.
EG: Camp breakfast: French toast, eggs, sausage, hashbrowns.
What’s one song you’d love to cover but you know the rest of the band would veto?
KA: It’s a Katy Perry song. Hot and Cold.
JP: Some King Krule song.
EG: Maybe something funny like 21 Guns by Green Day.
What’s the best Skatepark in SLC?
KA: Sandy.
JP: Fairmont.
EG: Guthrie.
What’s the worst skatepark in SLC?
KA: Fuck, Daybreak.
JP: Holladay.
EG: Kind of Fairmont.
Who’s the one who always shows up late when you’re practicing?
KA: Me or Ethan.
JP: Ethan.
EG: Me, and Keyan second.
What’s your biggest pet peeve?
KA: Getting my socks wet.
JP: Keyan playing the drums when I’m trying to tune.
EG: Annoying drivers.
Long naps, frolicking in the rain and what?
KA: Book. Reading.
JP: Smelling up the flowers.
EG: Jumping off a rock.
What’s the last movie you saw?
KA: I saw Transformers with Jeff Holce. They tied it together to the GI Joe universe at the end of the movie for no reason.
JP: Asteroid City.
EG: Can I give a series? Just finished Attack on Titan.
Did you actually take a gap year?
KA: Yeah, I did. The reason I called it that was because I was on my gap year and was like, oh if I’m not going to school, like, I got to do something. So, I was like, I’ll just try and make music. And then it just became the band account basically.
JP: Nope.
EG: I’m currently gap year’d for like, too long
What’s the second rule of Fight Club?
KA: Don’t talk about fight club.
JP: Oh, I don’t know man. Don’t talk about Fight Club or something.
EG: Oh, you did me dirty with that. I don’t remember.
God’s real and you get to ask him one question. What are you asking him?
KA: Why?
JP: Why the fuck did I end up making screamo music?
EG: What can I do after I die?
Same question but it’s Brandon Biebel instead of God. What are you asking him?
KA: Same. Why?
JP: When he was on the ride with us with Satellite Boardshop, what did he think of the Colorado skate scene?
EG: Why can’t I treflip?
Dream country to play in?
KA: I feel like a show in Iran would be insane.
JP: Fuckin Russia.
EG: Iceland sounds dope.
You put ketchup on your eggs?
KA: Yes, well, it’s in a burrito.
JP: Nope.
EG: Yeah.
Biggest red flag?
KA: If you own PacSun apparel.
JP: She listens to screamo.
EG: hating.
Biggest green flag?
KA: If you fuck with Catalyst that’s a pretty epic green flag.
JP: Good taste in movies.
EG: Being goofy.
What do you want written on your tombstone?
KA: Probably just something stupid I guess.
JP: Spread my ashes at Fairmont Skatepark.
EG: That was fun.
Seinfeld or Curb?
KA: Seinfeld.
JP: I don’t watch either. I don’t like laugh tracks.
EG: Seinfeld.
