Chicago, Illinois
Baby Teeth
Musicians

We love pop music and top 40, but we all have very weird musical filters, so, when we try to play pop music, it comes out all mangled and strange. But, as a great man once said, "It's still rock and roll to [us]."

Once we were playing a promo show at a Virgin Megastore in Chicago, and the DJ would make announcements after every couple songs. At the end, he would always mangle our name in a different way: "The Baby's Teeth... Baby Tooth.... Betty Teeth....", etc. We were pretty bewildered, because we deliberately chose a band name that we thought was as un-fuck-up-able as possible! Oh well.

On writing “For the Heathers”… “I think it was because Heather seemed to me like a name that could mean a lot of things. She could be the cheerleader, the pothead, the junkie, the nerd. The name is transcendent, and it really got my creative juices flowing, and luckily the other boys felt the same way.”Why were you motivated to write songs about Heathers: I think it was because Heather seemed to me like a name that could mean a lot of things.  She could be the cheerleader, the pothead, the junkie, the nerd.  The name is transcendent, and it really got my creative juices flowing, and luckily the other boys felt the same way.

Eh, not really.  I think all of us, in our past bands, wished that we were in bands with simpler names.  For example, my last band was called "Pearly Sweets and the Platonics."  Too complicated.  Speaking for myself... have I ever wished I were named something other than Abraham?  Of course!  The name Abraham is a lot to live up to.  I often wish that I were just Jeff or Bob.  My middle name is David, so for a while I considered going by "A. Dave."