Ok, I have missed a bunch of questions lately, so I rounded a few up to field, Dave-style.

1. Have you seen "Mayor of the Sunset Strip"? Curious what your thoughts are since Rodney is in your backyard there.
Mike C. (FLA)

No, haven't seen it, is it good? I see that guy every once in a while like at a Denny's or something in L.A. Back when the Skycycle record came out, he played our cover of "God Only Knows" on the radio, one of the only times we got played in town.

2. Can't wait to hear more songs. Any plans to post additional files to the TPC site? Also, will you guys actually make some production videos prior to signing? Obviously, an expensive thing.
Mike

We're going to post files sporadically, we are building a site that will be a giant archive of live stuff, candid stuff, and outtakes. The way you can have a band site is one of two directions, the "flash experience" that is set up to hype just the upcoming release with a few pics, videos, and content bits, then there is the giant web archive that accumulates the story over time, and you can get lost in. The latter is the type of site we are making. Until the release of the record though, we won't be putting too many full versions of songs up because we don't want the surprise to be missing when you hear the CD. We are archiving everything we do as well as we can, and after the release we can put up alot of stuff we are holding on to. Bloody Mary was a crazy bit of happenstance.

Mark Racco is a buddy of Dave's and a talented director who offered to bring some cameras down to the Key Club show. We were excited to have some "real" coverage of the The Panic Channel. About two weeks after the show, he said that he had cut up a full video for us from the footage. The only problem was the audio from the club's board mix was really bad, so Dave came up with the idea of getting Gummo to mix one song form our record and use that as the audio for his video. Once we saw a rough cut of it, we were speechless. We had just played a show, and done some recording, and all of a sudden it was there, crystallized. Mark, Louie (who managed the shoot), and the editor, Jamie did a great job, and we are very fortunate to have such talented people who wanted to chip in and add their talents to our band at this early stage.

As for the question if we are doing production videos prior to the record -  We have some business to do with a label to see how the record will come out, and hopefully they will let us do a video. With the way the record business is these days, you never know. No matter what, though, we will do whatever we have to to make the best videos we can, and we're not bothered by waiting to see if we have help with that or not. Personally, I believe some of the best videos ever are the low budget, really creative ones, ones powered by a great idea. I am super over the big budget, high grade film stock, over lit, models-in-slow motion video. The only video I have been excited about in the last 5 years is Queens of the Stone Age's "Go With The Flow" which might possibly be the best video ever.

3. Was curious what book it was you gave your gf about the Freemasons?
Karess

"Ruled by Secrecy" by Jim Mars

4. Are you thinking of having a song that is purely instrumental with no vocals? I have a feeling you guys will give birth to something like that. Sometimes the instrumentals alone speak for themselves and no vocals are needed.
mortisha8

Yes, I have been thinking of one lately. Nothing for this record, but if we do "Project P" there is a section at the end that I think would only be suited by a completely beautiful, aggressive, self-indulgent Rock instrumental. I personally love when a band takes just the music seriously as music and can bust it out as it's own piece. Also, the company that I am keeping musically, I believe, warrants it. Rock these days is way too safe and worried about each song being single sounding, and single sized. (Except for Green Day - kudos to them for "Idiot")...As a listener, I love to hear a band go off and do something fucking huge and arrogant and bloated and spectacular. Hey, I love drum solos, you know what I am saying?

In the big picture, why worry about selling big- Rap is the only thing that does these days anyway. Better to bust out with the GRANDNESS! That is what Rock does that no other genre can touch, the power and the majesty ...to shrink from that with the talent in this band would be a sin. So at some point, yes, I see some instrumentals in the Channel's future.