Interview With Dave Walsh (The Explosion, The Loved Ones)
While on my way back home to Philly recently, I ran into the Explosion/the Loved Ones members Dave Walsh and Chris Gonzalez on the Chinatown bus. I’m sure most readers of our site know that the Explosion recently announced their plans to disband after nine years of constant touring, with two full-length albums (a third, Bury Me Standing, waiting in the wings) and a handful of EPs left in their wake. The band has been a favorite of mine for quite some time now and I wouldn’t hesitate to put their best work Flash Flash Flash (Jade Tree) as one of the best punk rock albums of the last ten years.
I’ll be sad to see them go but at least the boys are keeping at it with different projects, specially Dave and Chris who recently joined the Loved Ones as full-time members. I had a chance to shoot Dave a few questions as the band was on their way to California to play the Explosion’s final West Coast show.
Damian has said before that band members being tired of the constant touring contributed to the break up. Were there any other factors in the decision to call it a day?
Well, for the most part I think Matt was finding touring to be more tedious than anything else. He was figuring that the law of diminishing returns was happening for the band, and in a way I totally can see that at this point. After touring constantly for nearly nine years, if there is not a substantial growth after the fifteenth tour, frustration definitely takes it’s toll.
