From Select Magazine, January 1994

Moby

Now he's the ultra bpm messiah of skinhead hardcore keyboardry with a bit 
of Christian thrown in.  But he used to be a disciple of skinheaded 
hardcore guitaring.

"I've been in different bands since I was ten, about 30 or 40 bands.  
There wasn't a lot else to do where I grew up except form bands, play for 
a couple weeks, break up and then form another band.  When I was 15 I was 
in a hardcore punk band called The Vatican Commandos.  We were like Black 
Flag or Bad Brains.  We wore sneakers, jeans, T-shirts and good old 
American skinheads.  I think if I saw us I'd like us.  We were full of 
youthful exuberance.  It established my ethos for stage presentation.  I 
think performance should be engaging, threatening and entertaining.

"Around 1982-83 I was in Flipper.  I sang with them a couple of times 
when one of their singers was in jail.  Flipper was angstful, noisy punk 
rock.  They weren't really grunge.  Well, they didn't know how to play 
their instruments very well, so they sounded grungey.  Around 1987 I was 
in Ultra Vivid Scene - I played guitar for about two months.

"I've been listening to a lot of my old hardcore punk records.  My guitar 
is creeping back in and I've been giving my record company speed-metal 
demos and I don't think they're too happy about it..."



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