We met with The Osteoblasts at their rehersal space in Simi Valley, CA and boy did we have a blast!  March 7, 2021

Q1: What is the origin of the Osteoblasts? Is the current lineup, the original lineup?

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[Ernesto] - “No, the Osteoblasts started after I graduated high school and I was in a band with Inglewood, George, who lives up in Portland now. He was the original drummer. We started out as a duo because my original bass player [Nico] from the band I was in before, moved up north for school. Once Nico came back, we started the Osteoblasts as a trio. The current lineup is different. Now I have Steven and Mark, but it was George and Nico before.”

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Q2: How did you all meet?

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[Mark] – “I met Ernest back when I was out of high school and he was still in high school. I think we met at Mikes house when you were still dating Sara! She had this dude creeping on her, and I pretended to be her cousin so he’d back off. I threatened him and I told I was going to fuck him up! Laughs Then he got all fucking scared and he told Ernesto’s girlfriend’s mom that her cousin was threatening him. But it was me, you know?”

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[Ernesto] – to Steven “That’s when you were in the Cigaratz!”

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[Steven] – “Laughs Ernesto and I have known each other since 6th grade. And then I met Mark after high school when I started playing music.”

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Q3: What first got you into music?

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[Mark] – “I was always into music when I was a kid. I dunno it was weird to because I moved to Simi in 96’ and I used to watch a lot of MTV. My music taste was way different from my sister’s who was listening to rap music, while I was listening to Brian Setzer and Nirvana. I got into punk rock in my freshman year of high school. Then, when I was 16, I met actual psychobillies and that’s how I got into psychobilly music. And it just progressed from there.

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[Ernesto] – “For me, when I was a kid, music was always around, my parents being Latino and all. I’d have that, but I wasn’t into that type of music at the time unfortunately. I grew to love my culture and its music later. But my uncle used to rage all the time and sometimes I’d go to my cousin’s house on the weekends and spend the night. We used to stay up late, and I would listen to my uncle play guitar while he raged. He would play “La Bamba” and I thought it was so rad. From there I watched the film “La Bamba” and got into Ritchie Valens, which propelled me into wanting to play music as a guitar player. Then I started taking lessons in the 7th grade. From there, I began listening to metal core, which then progressed to Mars Volta, and then psychobilly music. That’s how the Osteoblasts was created.”

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[Steven] – “When I was a kid, my dad was into classic rock. Which back then was just metal and not classic yet laughs. He was a metal head and therefore rock n’ roll and metal were always around. My uncles lived with us, and growing up, there was hip hop in the house. There was always punk rock from KROQ, my dad’s music, like Van Halen, and then my uncles playing Cypress Hill. When I got into middle school, that’s when I found out about punk rock and I started listening to AFI, which I thought was the hardest band at the time laughs. In high school, I started listening to street punk and the Casualties. I wanted to be just like George from the Casualties laughs!”

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