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About Music for Teens discussed the band's background, fan sites and the Napster issue with Adema guitarist, Tim Fluckey. Here's what he told us...

Teenmusic: Tim, tell me a little bit about your background.

Tim Fluckey: Mark and I got together and started writing songs and we got through only two songs and realized we could use like a bass player or something. That's were Mike came in then we had like three or four songs we were going to demo. You know just to have. Then we needed a drummer. We all knew Chris had some free time. So we called him up and he was like "f*ck that, I want to be in your band." So it all worked out.'

Teenmusic: How are you guys dealing with being compared to Korn, since Marky's brother is Jonathan Davis?

Tim Fluckey: You know it doesn't really affect us, I don't think we sound like Korn. We kinda do our own thing. We've told people that you don't see Bon Jovi's brother out there, I mean the band has to be good. A lot of people have these misconceptions that Korn helped us get signed. They didn't... but we would be dumb to say that didn't help us get somebody to listen to our records.

Teenmusic: Yeah, they wouldn't have sunk that much money into a band without talent.

Tim Fluckey: Exactly.

Teenmusic: What's this about a bidding war with the record companies?

Tim Fluckey: What happened was that we did our demo and we didn't plan on shopping it to record companies or any thing like that. We were still in the studio mixing the demo and having people come in and listen to it as far as like a couple management people and one label guy here, then all of a sudden it turned out that a week later there were like twenty record labels that wanted to sing us. We were just all tripping.

Teenmusic: That's got to be overwhelming!

Tim Fluckey: It is totally overwhelming. I mean we were like working on these three or four songs for awhile, getting them ready and all that, but then to have twenty companies coming at you, at you at the same time, it's totally overwhelming.

Teenmusic: When's the album coming out?

Tim Fluckey: August 21st.

Teenmusic: And the first single will be?

Tim Fluckey: "Giving In" We just shot a video for it last week. And it should be out in about two or three weeks.

Teenmusic: Do you have a favorite song on this album?

Tim Fluckey: I like the album as a whole, but I'd have to say "Trust" is my favorite.

Teenmusic: What are some of your personal musical influences?

Tim Fluckey: I like a lot of stuff, but my biggest influence is Pantera, I'm a real big Pantera fan. Like older Metallica, stuff like that.

Teenmusic: When you guys aren't on the road or in the studio what are you doing?

Tim Fluckey: We're all usually just hanging out or writing music. Playing video games. [laughs]

Teenmusic: Yeah? What's your favorite video game?

Tim Fluckey: Right now we've all been playing a lot of golf. It's pretty cheesy but we were like "Golf? That's gay" but when we started playing it we just got hooked.

Teenmusic: What's your take on the whole Napster issue?

Tim Fluckey: that stuff shouldn't go on the Internet anyway as far as I'm concerned it's like a give or take it's like a freeway to get your band out there you shouldn't really worry about that, we don't.

Teenmusic: There are already a few Adema fan sites out there on the net do you ever get to visit them?

Tim Fluckey: Oh yeah! We totally check them out. We always try to leave a message and tell them how cool they're site is.

Teenmusic: I get a lot of teens asking for advice on how to get into the music biz. Do you have any advice for them?

Tim Fluckey: I think the most important thing is to stick with it. It's really easy to get let down and say you don't want to do it and quit and think you're not going anywhere... but you never know. Like my thing is songwriting. It took a few years to get to where I am now, where I'm happy with it. That's the hardest part for me is going forward. But it's important to just keep going because all labels are looking for the next big thing. Just be yourself and do what you can do.

Teenmusic: For those that have heard nothing about Adema what do you want to tell them?

Tim Fluckey: I guess the only thing I can say is if you like good hard rock, give us a chance. Come hear us play live, that's what we're all about.