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Bad Sports: Still The Undisputed Kings of the Weekend

Interview conducted with Orville Neeley (Guitar/Vocals) and TV's Daniel (Bass/Vocals) Shock Treatment: So I’d like to take this to the very beginning of Bad Sports! How did you guys meet and decided to form the band? Orville: Daniel and I met in 2004 at UNT in Denton, Tx. He had another band called The Wrists that I went to see several times. At some point in 2005 Daniel talked about doing a more rock’n’roll style band with Mike from the Wrists and I basically begged him to let me play in the band. As far as I knew, there was nothing like that happening in Denton. I wasn’t yet familiar with the Marked Men, but I would be soon. These were the days of “dance punk”, emo, and grindcore. Most of the shows I saw in my first year in Denton consisted of some such bands and I was pretty sick of it. Lots of Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand wannabees around as well. Fast forward to summer of 2007; I had just gotten back from a disastrous first tour with another one of my bands. It looked like...