VOX: Where does the Crazy Town name come from?

Epic Mazur: There was a little crew of guys that Shifty ran with…I was friends with them too but I was into music when I was younger. Shifty was in this gang called the West Side Crazies. It was more than a gang, it was a graffiti crew, skaters, know what I’m saying…and these were all friends of ours, and this was a big part of our identity, an we lived in Hollywood, it was a Crazy Town, and that became the name years ago to the Brimstone Sluggers for a while and when we finally decided to do this it became Crazy Town again.

VOX: Where did The Gift of Game album title come from?

EM: "The Gift of Game" is just kind of like a slang for that knack or that ability to know exactly where you stand in life in whatever situation and have control of that situation and not just be like a constant reaction but be able to make things happen for yourself. And be able to see, especially in a town like LA to be able to see who’s fake and who’s real and to not let it throw you. If there are fake people in your life, use them for what they are, like we have a song, "Players Only Love You When They’re Playing" that’s kind of what that’s about. Or like what we say in "Hollywood Babylon," ‘I shake a lot of hands but I don’t have a lot of friends.’ It doesn’t mean that we’re fake, that means we’ll shake everyone’s hands but we know that a lot of these people, I don’t know if they’re thinking, ‘Oh, you don’t remember me,’ or ‘You don’t care who I am’ or you’re just bullshitting…whatever.

VOX: What influenced your sound?

EM: Everything really stems from rock and roll which was blues, which…hip hop is rock n roll, without rock and roll you wouldn’t have hip hop, and without the blues you wouldn’t have rock and roll, without jazz you wouldn’t have the blues. And it’s all basically black music, and rock and roll is white man’s version of playing the blues and it all stems from one thing and it blossoms out to these fragmentations and it comes back again

Why, Charlie Watts was the drummer for Rolling Stones and he was a jazz freak. It would have been great if the Rolling Stones would have done some jazz too but that’s not to say that’s how it should have been .

VOX: What should we expect from you guys live?