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Eric Wareheim: Yes, I was in Ink & Dagger, the infamous vampire band. Only for one month, though. I toured with them, and they were SO CRAZY that I had to quit. I mean, there was this one tour where we literally lost our minds and we had no money. This one show at a university, they didn’t pay us our guarantee, so the guys in the band unscrewed the entire PA system and stole it. We drove into Canada and sold the PA system in the next town to make up for the money. There are a lot of stories that I can’t even tell you. There’s a documentary about this that this guy shot that everyone wants me to edit. But the singer died, and he was a good friend of mine. I just feel that it wouldn’t be appropriate. It was almost like real-life Jackass, before Jackass existed. The Ink & Dagger thing was just a little sidestep. I was always in my own bands in Philadelphia. One was called Sola, one was called The Science Of. They’re kind of instrumental, Tortoise-inspired prog rock-y bands. There was a moment where music was my entire thing. I was also a photographer. I was making music videos for my bands forever. So that’s where the inspiration to make music videos came from.