pahxc: WHOS'S IN KRUTCH

Richie Krutch: krutch is: me (Richie) on the guitar, Father Karl on vocals, Simon Smooth on
bass, Battle on skins, Chris the brain on guitar, Big Poppa Joe vocals &
various other shit...

pahxc: HOW MANY PEOPLE DID WE HAVE TO BEAT UP TO BE LABELED A TOUGH GUY BAND?

Richie Krutch: Good question, we became a "Tough Guy" band in 96', before that we where only
in a triple A tough guy league....But in 96 we beat up the required amount to
turn "PRO Tough Guy band"...I believe the number was 666..We are very very
proud of our "TOUGH GUY BAND" Status, originally we where going to be a
"Youth Crew" band, but we where not skinny enough..then we decided to try
"Emo", but noone in the band wore glasses, plus sweaters make me itch..The
whole Vegan thing woulda been great for us, except for the fact that we love
to torture animals and stuff, so eventually we tried this "Tough Guy" style
out, and it's workin' out O.K.

pahxc: KRUTCH HAS BEEN A BIG PART OF PAHC, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE SCENE NOW
COMPARED TO WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED?

Richie Krutch: Geez, when we first started off, there was nothing that we knew of going on,
i mean the only shows in PA. that we where aware of where in Allentown, Pa.
at a Club called O.J.'s and another place called "The Airport Music Hall",
also Reading Pa. was having shows, but we never went to those...that place
(airport) is now infamous, mad amounts of white power professional wrestling
looking types of skinheads would be there at any givin time. VERY very
violent, always riots..But they had the best shows...Only bands from Pa. I
remember hearing about back then was "S*W*A*T" (exmushmouth guys) and "No
Ones Hero" that was like 87/91 maybe, I'm not sure, but we recorded first in
89, just for ourselves, we really had no where to put this demo, we played
like a dozen shows from 90/93 then we tried to get serious, at that time we
started hitting shows in Scranton Wilkes Barre and also booking our own in
Stroudsburg..About 95/97 I think the PAHC was greeat, always good bands
passing through, lotta clubs having shows, kids doing 'zines and shows, good
bands. We got to play out all the time, never had trouble finding shows...A
real family vibe was in the air back then...Now a few years
later...99/2000..Aww, it's O.K., PAHC gotta get hyped again...So comparing it
to when we first began to now. i would have to use three stages at
first...Crappy...Then DOPE...Now O.K....

pahxc: WHEN HOW AND WHERE DID KRUTCH GET THEIR START?

Richie Krutch: Idea, 88...Recorded 4 songs in 89, played very poorly where ever we could,
mostly parties that would turn into riots. We (the original members) went to
High School together I moved to Pa. from Newark N.J., our singer from
Brooklyn N.Y., we are the only 2 original members, in our area of Pa. at the
time, everyone moved in from either NJ or NY, so we really lived in a boring
area, we had to drive mad far to see shows, thats kinda why we started
playing and booking in our area....So where..Poconos
pa....When...90...How...Just getting the word out...

pahxc: WHO FROM KRUTCH IS IN COMIN CORRECT?

Richie Krutch: Well noone is in Comin Correct anymore, that was a side project band we did
with Rick Ta Life for anyone who is unfamiliar, we all left that band. Here
is the story...We where getting ready to do our 2nd tour of Europe with Comin
Correct, alot of us had to quit our jobs to go, all of us had to make special
arrangements, but that was fine, we wanted to go. Just before we where going
to go, we found out about some details we didn't know about. That detail
being that there was one less ticket then there was supposed to be, we
decided to all go together or not at all. Rick went without us. Now we
would never had made that decision, we don't hold it against Rick, but thats
what happend, he did what he thought he had to do, we woulda just fronted
loot for the extra ticket on our own but he wasn't down for that. Through
out the years I became real close to Rick, he is still a good friend, I don't
hold that against him, but I woulda did things different.

pahxc: YOU HAVE A NEW FULL LENGTH CD AND A SPLIT CD COMING OUT< CAN WE HAVE SUM
DETAILS?

Richie Krutch: Hell yea you can have details my brother...The full length is out now on
Cartel Records, dope ass layout produced by HoyaRoc of Madball, it's 12
songs, alot of old material from split 7's and demos, that are not available
anymore all remastered, also 2 brand new tracks, 2 covers a Warzone song "As
One" that can also be found on Hatecore Rec. raybeez CD tribute Comp. and the
other cover song is Y*O*T by Youth Of Today, and 1 track taken from out first
recording from 89' that was never released before. the split will be out in
Jan. on THORNZ Records...It's with No Retreat Our PAHC brother, their drummer
is the drummer on that Krutch track from 89' he was our original drummer, he
moved to Pittsburgh and started this band, if you only heard old NR stuff
disregard it, the new stuff is great..Anyway 5 brand new trax from each band.
then soon after that we just finished our full length, like an hour of
music, crazy sick stuff all brand new, alot of surprises

pahxc: HOW DID YOU COME ABOUT PUTTING THIS RECORD ON CARTEL?

Richie Krutch: Well lets just say OP and the Cartel squad are "Friends Of Ours" Cartel is a
real underground HC label, and those are the kinds we always worked with,
BTB/RPP/InnerRage/EOH all underground and hardcore, they know whats up, and
they do a good job.

pahxc: KRUTCH IS VERY MOB ORIENTED IS ANYONE IN THE BAND INVOLVED WITH ORGANIZED
CRIME, DO YOU HAVE ANY HITS OUT ON ANYONE RIGHT NOW?

Richie Krutch: Yes, we are all involved in the underworld organized crime circuit, hardcore
just does not pay the bills. 2 members of Krutch are indeed made members in
a major player organized crime family, the other 3 are associates that are
contracted by the same famliy. Krutch is our crew representing the B*F*L
Crime Family, we have not been involved with any hits since 97, now basically
we are working on extortion rings, it's much safer until the heat goes down,
then back to our high paying hits. We are planning to take a hit out on Fred
from Triple Crown Records as soon as the details are planned out properly.
DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS TO SUPPORT THE NEW RELEASES?
Yea April or after I think we may do A European tour.

pahxc: DID KRUTCH EVER OFFICIALLY BREAK UP?

Richie Krutch: No, we played what we called "Our last Show" because we knew it would be a
long time before we played again, but at that same time we where in the
studio recording, so we knew we would have to play again to support that
release, we stopped playing because our singer and bass player both knocked
up some broads, Karl has a baby girl named Emerson, and Simon has a boy named
Colby, good looking kids. So we took a break, we all did our own thing, our
drummer myself and Chris recorded a full length side project called Divided
with Battle on vocals, I joined Mushmouth, since then I moved to SC to work,
but I'll be back north soon. So it was always understood we would be back,
but to call that show our last was an advertising scheme.

pahxc: WHAT IS KRUTCHS DEFINITION OF HARDCORE?

Richie Krutch: Hmm, well you gotta look out for all the bands, be cool with everyone, you
can't take shit off people though, thats not hardcore, if someone talks
trash, you knock their teeth out, but don't start no beef..Just look out, be
cool..Stay underground, it's not what you play, it's what you say. it's not
about old school...it's about the scene..

pahxc: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE AMISH SUBCULTURE IN PENNSYLVANIA?

Richie Krutch: Well i really never see those loony guys, I don't live in that area..i think
it's nuts, I mean come on, ya think cause you drive a horse and buggy you are
gonna go to heaven? they do all this stuff, get with it. they are really
mean to their kids, always smacking them around and what not. I think heir
nuts, I mean I hope your not Amish, I would hate to insult you, but they are
crazy. Whats the point of being like behind the times. I mean why not use a
car? So before cars did the Amish refuse to use horse and buggies? And
before candle did they live in caves? To me its a cult, get with it. Know
what though, those Amish niggas won't have to worry about Y2K or anything
like that..but aww..their nuts.

pahxc: OVER ALL THE YEARS YOU HAVE BEEN TOGETHER AS A BAND, HAS THE MOTIVATION TO
STICK TOGETHER AS A BAND CHANGED ALOT, AND WHAT DIRECTION IS THE BAND HEADED
IN TODAY?

Richie Krutch: ya know, our band has always been real tight, we chill out all the time, not
just for practice and for shows, but honestly, we where always lazy, and
never really did this band the right way, we just have fun with it i guess.
As for our direction now...We are totally taking this seriously, we will be
on a major label in the next year and plan to tour extensively...naw just
playing, we will be lazy as usual.

pahxc: FINALLY, ANY THANX SHOUT OUTS?

Richie Krutch: yea, thank you for the help and the interview we appreciate it, and you got a
dope site, we need more PAHC heads doing stuff like this...Cartel records CD
is out now check it out at WWW.cartelrecs.cjb.NET, the THORNZ CD and our full
length will be out soon. Check out our site at WWW.onelifedrugfree.COM..What
up to the B*F*L MenOfHonor crew, NA$E, No Retreat (they gotta full length
out now on WWW.Da-Core.COM), Mushmouth (new rec. out soon) Strength for A
Reason, Fury Of V, MobKing recs, 2nd 2 None, all the PAHC bands, everyone,
e-mail me for info. MobHit99@AOL.COM