The Vandals - Bios
David Quackenbush
Joe Escalante
Warren Fitzgerald
Josh Freese

Residence: westchester, CA

Birthday is on: June 21

High School: didnt really enjoy it

For his day job he: tells customers he is not the guy in the vandals

Hangs out at: howard hughes center, the putting edge(glow in the dark
indoor mini golf)

Favorite Places to Play: place we have not been before, oh yeah and
orange county

Watches these TV shows:dog the bounty hunter, south park, aqua teen
hunger force, howard stern, arrested development(havent actually seen
it but everyone says it will be my favorite)

Listens to these radio shows:howard stern, Phil Hendrie, steve jones

Favorite movies: anything with will smith

Eats at these restaurants:
beacon(culver city) Ronnie's diner(wla)

Favorite Books: i stopped reading

Hobbies: someday i will get one but for now my garage is still empty.

Motto: life is not complete until your garage is not empty

Awards he has received:
something from the us army saying that my
punk rock music has brought comfort to some soldiers in iraq, ahh
also says im a true patriot!! how about that?

 

Residence:
residence, Hollywood, 90046

Birthday is on:
January 30

High School he attended was:
Los Alamitos High School

For his day job he:
Owns Kung Fu Records

Hang's Out At:
Club 33, Trader Vic's, Chinese Theater, , Griffith Park Afficionados, Albanos on Melrose

Favorite Places to Play live at:
Baghdad, Rome, Japan, House Of Blues, Anaheim

Watches these T.V. Shows:
The O'Reilly Factor, Space Ghost, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Porter Wagoner Show, California Gold with Huell Howser, Tendido Cero, The Beltway Boys, Arrested Development, Hee Haw

Listens to these radio shows/stations:
KFI:PHil Hendrie, Indie 103.1

Favorite Movies are:
Bring it On, Gummo, High Noon, Hidden Fortress, The Little Fugitive, Lost In Translation, Deliverance, Spirited Away, Take the Money and Run, Lost In America, Year of the Dragon, Bottle Rockets, Ruben and Ed, Little Noises, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, King of the Hill, Ed Wood, The Barefoot Executive, Rascal, any movie with a monkey in it, Tampopo, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, virtually any Viet Nam Movie, The Party, The Producers.

Eats at these Restaurants:
Trader Vic's, Sushi Nozawa, Musso and Frank's,  A&W, Ole's Big Game Lounge in Nebraska, The Hunan on Sansome in S.F, Pacific Dining Car, Rainbow Inn, Waikiki.

Books that he likes are:

Confederacy Of Dunces, Every Harry Potter, Official Negligence,  What Makes Sammy Run,  Into Thin Air, A Perfect Storm, Roughing It by Mark Twain, The Bible, Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer, Fear and Loathing, Agony and the Ecstasy, Bonfire of the Vanities, Michael Jackson Was My Lover, The Magus, Beautiful Wasps Having Sex, any Icelandic Sagas.

Hobbies he enjoys are:
Playing the bass, bullfighting, occasional game of golf,  Movies, Reading, Ultimate TV (it's like Tivo, but better,  Flashlight Collection.

His Motto in life is:
"If it doesn't kill me, it will make me more punk."

Awards he has recieved are:
B.A. in Old Norse, UCLA, 1985
J.D. Loyola Law School, 1992
Western U. Law Review 1996. ASCAP, BMI, and the Sherman Anti Trust Act: Are Today's Top Stars In Bed With The Blanket License?
RIAA Gold Record for writing Oi To The World, recorded by No Doubt
RIAA Triple Platinum Record, Sublime's Sublime: As attorney for Sublime/Skunk

Residence: Seal Beach, CA

Birthday is on: Sept. 15th

High School he attended: Edison High School (Huntington Beach)

For his day job he: Record producer/painter/writer, bad actor.

Hangs out at: Hawaii Gardens Casino, Main Street Seal Beach, Pavillions.

Favorite places to play live at: Japan, Vegas, NYC, Baghdad, New Orleans, San Berdo, Corporate sponsered events.

Watches these T.V. shows: Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, South Park (as much as ever) Jeopardy.

Worst T.V. shows: Any countdown, list, or show made from red carpet footage that re-hashed while retarded douche bags comment on celebrities lame outfits (half of VH1's & E's programming)

Listens to these radio shows: KFI 640 - Phil Hendrie, Coast to Coast AM, Air America, 103.1 Indie, K Mozart, Howard Stern.

Favorite Movies are: What The Bleep Do We Know? (The documentary part) Dialogue Heavy, hand held indie films, Anchor Man.

Eats at these restaurants: Finbar's, Mahi, Popeye's Chicken is fucking good, Sushi of Naples, Los Barcos, Charo Chicken, Del Taco, Anastazi, Trader Vic's, Wahoo's Fish Taco, Any Cajun place, Wienerschnitzel, Mothers, Matsu

Favorite Drinks: Gin and soda, Bushmills and soda, Gin bloody marys, "Ultra" Hollywood diet beer, Coppola Rosso, Jagermiester is liquorice vomit-dont believe the hype

Books that he likes are: Carl Segan's Cosmos, Tuesdays with Morrie, How I Stay Alive While My Brain Is Trying To Kill Me, The Elegant Universe, Rhyming Dictionary, Andy Kaufman bio, Alan Watts-The Way of Zen, The Gnostic Bible, Female Perversions.

Hobbies he enjoys are: Texas Hold' em, reading, cooking, BBQing

Motto in life: Everything is perfect.

Awards he has received: Various military accolades, gold record for Tenacious D album, 3 months no complaints Daily Pilot route #3407, gold records for producer of No Doubt's Oi To The World, Grammy Nomination for Oingo Boingo Farewell video.

Residence: Long Beach, CA

Birthday: Christmas Day

High School Attended: El Dorado in Placentia. All year and a half of it.

Day Job: Drummer to the stars......and to some losers as well!
Hangs Out At: Home.....and sometimes various High School Car Washes.

Favorite Places To Play: Hawaii, San Francisco, Miami, Orange County.

Favorite T.V. Shows: The infomercials for "Just Kidding".and "Mr. Show"
Favorite Radio Stations: KFI (Phil Hendrie).

Favorite Movies: A Clockwork Orange, Pink Flamingos, The Big Lewbowski, Smokey and the Bandit, The Shining, 2001, Desperate Living, pretty much anything by Stanley Kubrick or John Waters.

Favorite Restaurants: Sushi Nozawa, Mexico City, Mums, Hofs Hut (Gay Hofs on 2nd St.), Que Tortas in Placentia, Josephs Cafe, The Potholder, Ruths Chris Steakhouse, Five Feet in Laguna, the Hunan place in S.F. in the NorthBeach area off of Broadway....oh yeah, La Cumbre in S.F. in the Mission
District....the best burritos in the world!

Favorite Books: Mostly biographies and autobiographies.....John Waters
("Crackpot"), Divine ("Not simply Divine"), Stanley Kubrick, numerous ones on Howard Hughes, especially the "Hidden Years", The Real Frank Zappa Book, "The Strange and Savage Life Of Hunter S. Thompson", and most everything that Hunter has written. Also there's a great Bio on Jass Bassist Jaco
Pastorious, incredible! Maybe "12 Days on the Road" with the Sex Pistols too.


Hobbies: What are those?


Motto In Life: Motto? Ummm......yeah, sure.


Awards Recieved: Most unique style in High School, #2 studio drummer and #2 up and coming drummer in Modern Drummer Magazine. Numerous Gold and
Platinum Records for "A Perfect Circle", "Tracy Bonham", "Meredith Brooks", and probably a few others that were never sent to me for records that I've
played on. After all, I'm just the drummer!