MTV NEWS: I think I read somewhere that you guys were in an eighth grade social studies class and that's where you met. Is that right?

BRETT: That's where we met.

ALLISON: Brett and I met like that. We knew each other at school. I was best friends with Maya since like 6th grade. And I knew Torry since 4th grade.

TORRY: So we've known each other for pretty long.

ALLISON: But the band sort of started... I asked her (points to Maya), and we decided that we wanted to play guitar and bass. We didn't have a band and there was this show called "Day on the Green."

TORRY: It was at our middle school at lunch time and it was like the big thing for the boys and they came up to me one day and said, "Do you want to play drums?" and I was like "OK" then we just started it.

ALLISON: We actually just played covers our first show because we had about a month before to get the whole band together and rehearse something to play. And it was only like a 15 minute show that you would get to do because it was half of the lunch time. So we did just four songs that weren't even ours, and basically, we had so much fun we just kept doing it. It was never meant to be a long term thing. It was just totally for fun and it still is for us.

TORRY: Yeah.

ALLISON: It's not like we do it for money or whatever, because it's not like we make any money (they all laugh). Right now we're kind of losing money. But it's cool. I'd rather lose money than just sit at home.

TORRY: Yeah, totally.

BRETT: Costs less than college. (They laugh)

MTV NEWS: You say your first show you just did covers. Were you a cover band for a while, or did you start doing original stuff right away?

TORRY: The next show after that, which was a few months later, we started doing original stuff. It was after 8th grade that we started. Then there was the whole summer and then the first couple of months of 9th grade we played our first show. But it wasn't in a with Maya since like 6th grade. And I knew Torry since 4th grade.

club, it was in a community center for high school bands. The city put it on and we had written all of our own songs by then.

ALLISON: So I would say we probably had eight or nine songs that we wrote. We don't play those songs anymore (they all laugh). We didn't do covers for a long time after that first show, but now we play one or two covers like any normal band.

MTV NEWS: How serious were you about the band and the music at that point? Was it more just like a joke, a fun thing to do on the side, or were you really serious?

MAYA: We practiced everyday.

TORRY: We practiced everyday for hours after school.

ALLISON: We didn't have anything better to do.

TORRY: But we were never like, "We're going to make it to the top." So we weren't serious like that. It was always fun but we basically did practice all the time.

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