Mark left because he wants to pursue a country-music career.We released a single called West Seattle Acid part about 6 months after we formed the band and then we did a single called Fight in the Storeroom and he left after that. He did a tour in Europe with some country band and he came back to one of our shows and asked us if he could be back in the band. Kurt was in the band and every time we would play a show we would get into three songs and then he would stop playing and start running around with bass in his hand and then throw it out into the audience and then he would jump out into the audience. So, that’s why we used to play only ten minute sets and when Mark asked to be back in the band I said, “Yeah,� and we kicked Kurt out of the band, got Mark back and now he’s done the same thing again. He wants to be a country musician.
Blind Marky Fletchtone

Yeah and actually we auditioned Jason Freeman from High Karate and he wrote one of the songs that’s gonna be on the new album. Not Dirty Sanchez but the one that is coming out after that called Death Valley. Jason was doing ok and then the kid called and said, “I’m your new bass player.� I told him, “No, we already got somebody,� and then he told me he was taking the bus up anyway. So he asked us just to let him play one show with them and to tell you the truth, he played better and sounded better and plus he knew all the Zeke songs whereas Jason just knew the ones we told him to. So we decided to get him and it’s worked out really well.
Blind Marky Fletchtone

The Murder City Devils are friends of ours from Seattle and we got to know each other pretty well on the road and they’re really great kids and they just got a taste of my bullshit and I wrote a song about how much of a liar I am and dedicated it to them. The song that I dedicated to the Dwarves, I felt like I was trying to write a Zeke/Dwarves song that would rival something off “Blood, Guts, and Pussy� and so I dedicated it to the Dwarves. Also, me and Blag are always giving each other shit.
Blind Marky Fletchtone