No Leashes, No Limits, No Traitors – Article in Rip Magazine

What: Feature article on Paw in Rip magazine.

When: October 1995 issue

So What: the article is full of rich details. Such as ….

• The author (Bob Gulla) spends a weekend with Paw and witnesses a barn fire, literally and metaphorically. A summary of making afternoon plans:

  • “We’re planning on doin’ some shooting this afternoon,” Mark informs me, tossing a few boxes of shells in the back of his pickup.

  • “We shout out the TV already,” remembers Peter. “But we got some heavy machinery out back we could shoot. They still got windows.”

  • “Let’s go to the lake first,” says Mark. “I could use a swim.”

  • “Or we could wet a line,” suggests Grant. “You fish?” He turns toward me and I smile. Doesn’t seem like a bad choice to me.

• Details on the farmhouse the members shared in Lecompton, Kansas (just outside of Lawrence).

• “This band is all we think about,” says Peter Fitch. “Bands that are driven to do something, bands that continue to struggle, they’ve gotta love it so deep down, or they’d just quit. This is something greater than just a simple love for music. I couldn’t see us breaking up this band and going on to another band. No way.”

• … “That’s our new saying, says Grant Fitch. “Not a great band, but they sure hang out pretty good.”

• “It’s such a weird, underwater-surreal lifestyle,” says Mark Hennessy. “It takes a different kind of person to do this rock ‘n’ roll thing. For some reason, no matter how exhausted, we like to just go … get up and go and go. Our last tour was insane.”

• The article praises Death To Traitors as “a damn good record.” With specific praise for Hope I Die Tonight, Built Low, the title track, Peach, Seasoned Glove, and No Such Luck.