AJ Peacox is a San Diego multi-instrumentalist, playing with several different bands including Weatherbox, Future Crooks, Days of Light Gravity, and more.
JH: What projects do you have going on right now?
AP: Right now I'm playing bass in Weatherbox and Future Crooks as well as recording an EP with my personal project Days of Light Gravity.
JH: What is your song writing process like?
AP: I have this weird theory that all the songs I'm gonna write exist already in an otherworldly ether, and when I write I'm just pulling them into our plane of existence. I mean, I don't really believe that but it's a fun way to think about it. When we add a little guitar part last minute in the studio it's as if that was always supposed to be part of the song.
JH: What’s your musical background?
AP: When I was in 8th grade I read "Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock Teenagers and Emo" by Andy Greenwald and it introduced me to all the bands I still listen to today like Dashboard Confessional, Saves The Day, and Jimmy Eat World. From there I picked up on all the other punk and emo bands that go along with those bands. I really owe that book everything.
JH: How did you get hooked up with Weatherbox?
AP: My friend Griffin was playing drums in the band and they needed a bass player for their tour with the Front Bottoms in 2013. I've been playing with the band ever since and stoked about it!
JH: What are your biggest musical influences?
AP: Saves The Day is my favorite band of all time. Most of my songs are just ripping off them, Brand New, Jets to Brazil, and bands like that. I'm also really influenced by Japanese punk bands like The Pillows, Dradnats, and K-on.
JH: You are involved with a lot of bands/projects. How do you manage to keep them all straight?
AP: I basically spend all my time working on one band or the other. I'm really lucky that I'm able to fill my week with Future Crooks practice, a Weatherbox show, and then recording with Days of Light Gravity with very little overlap. Playing with these bands is all I want to do, so everything else in life comes second.
JH: How did you get into playing music in the first place?
AP: My family is very musical, so it was just an inevitability that I'd learn an instrument. I started on sax, but then when everything in the world turned to a vapid chasm of shit and terror (middle school), bass guitar came into my life and it saved me.
JH: When you aren’t playing music, what are you doing?
AP: Watching anime or listening to podcasts (usually on long drives to LA or SD to play music).
JH: What’s the coolest or weirdest thing that has happened to you on tour?
AP: The last Box tour was pretty much the weirdest thing that ever happened. The coolest thing was staying at Manchester Orchestra's studio for a couple days and hearing Cope way before it came out.
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