![]() Schwartzel: The four of us recorded it and produced ourselves. Was it weird adapting his skill set to the kind of music you wanted to make? THR: Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliot Smith) mixed your album. He’s not sober but… we don’t do bad drugs, is how we like to say it. And so he went to a few rehabs back then. Schwartzel: He had a bit of problems when he was a teenager back in Hawaii, where he’s from. This is not music for parents, I don’t think. I was like, “Alright, I’ll put you on the list if you really wanna go.” They left after the first song. But we played San Diego not too long ago, and they came to a show. Schwartzel: My parents? My parents don’t like it at all. VIDEO: Jason Schwartzman Draws Ron Swanson’s Ire in ‘Parks and Recreation’ Preview We party just as much as any young broke kid in a big city. I think a lot of people hear the songs and think we’re 100 percent, all the time, f-ed up. THR: So many of your songs, like your first single “Cheap Beer,” are about drinking and drugs - do you really party that hard? But with that one, I almost got a little nervous that we might get overpowered. It was wild - kids were losing their shit. People were climbing up the rafters of the stage. I think it was three or five bucks with an open bar. There was, like, no security at all and a ton of kids. ![]() But I don’t they were quite ready for a rowdy punk show. It was for this thing called Artopia, this art thing that the LA Weekly set up in this cool-looking area of Chinatown. THR : You’ve grown infamous for your live gigs - and are touring the U.S. I think we should be able to keep it because we could find a lot more uses for it. We didn’t have it and were like, “Oh shit, we paid for that!” I think the prop guy kept it? I don’t know if that was part of the deal. Schwartzel: Well, that’s the thing! We made the video in two days between tours and then took off again. He was walking around with this tube hanging out of his jeans, just completely straight-faced. It’s very dry, very serious, very subtle. Schwartzel: Um, he’s not quite as extreme, I guess. THR : How “Ron Swanson” is Nick in real life? We were, like, “Hey, you wanna be in a video?” All the locations - the parks and the rooftop - that was all at our house, where me and Zac live in Highland Park. Schwartzel: Everyone that got peed on was a friend of ours. THR: Good call! How does one ask folks if they want to get peed on? We didn’t want to be around a bunch of families having picnics at the beach, and here comes Nick Offerman with this huge fake dick, peeing…. And it was Memorial Day - busy everywhere. But we pretty much only had the one day to shoot. landmarks - get him to pee on the footprints at the Chinese Theatre and off the cliffs of Malibu. Schwartzel: Well, initially we were going to do L.A. THR: Did you have a checklist of things for Nick to pee on? ![]() He’d be out of the shot controlling the swell of piss from this scuba-size tank and had to fill it up maybe five or six times. He was a penis tech! The prosthetic was hooked up to this pressurized tank. Schwartzel: We had to, like, pay a dude we called the Penis Wrangler. It looks pretty real in the video, but if you really look at it…the texture is pretty impressive. We were all checking it out, holding it, and everything. We got it made by this prop guy that Nick knew. Schwartzel: Actually, that prosthetic was the whole budget! It was, like, two grand or something. THR: Tell me about this prosthetic he’s using. PHOTOS: NBC’s 2013-14 Season: ‘Blacklist,’ ‘Ironside,’ ‘About a Boy,’ ‘Believe,’ and ‘Sean Saves the World’ Schwartzel: Nick actually came up with the initial idea - of him getting drunk and pissing all over Los Angeles. Elvis played him some stuff, and we always were hinting, “Oh man, it would be awesome if you did a FIDLAR video.” Finally he said, “Okay, let’s do a video for ‘Cocaine.’” I think that was the song he liked the best. Nick would do these comedy shows every now and then, and play music - Elvis played with him a few times. He’s played music for a long time with Nick’s wife Megan Mullally - she does music when she’s not acting. The Hollywood Reporter: How did you get Nick Offerman in your video?īrandon Schwartzel: Max and Elvis Kuehn’s dad used to play in an old punk band called T.S.O.L. What precipitated this mind-blowing collaboration? The Hollywood Reporter rang up giggly FIDLAR bassist Brandon Schwartzel for details.
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