Boka from Ratos De Porao was so kind to answer my questions in january 2001

Boka from Ratos De Porao was so kind to answer my questions in january 2001.

You have been on the road for a long time.please tell me a little history of the group and and how many different members you have had?

in 1988 we sign with roadrunner and then we started to tour over Europe .

we changed the line -up lots of times , i joined the band in 1990 . and our new bass player joined mid 1998 .

Please tell me a little about every member in the group right now, age, family, interests, something bad a bout every one and so on?

works for MTV and he likes to buy cds and toys , play nintendo and eat .

I have three records with you, Guerra Civil Canibal, Feijoda acidente?, and Anarkophobia, what have you done more and how can I get it?

You have been on Roadracer, Roadrunner and now Beat generation, why so many different labels and is it any more labels you have been to?

- The first 3 albums of the band were released by brazilian independent labels and then we signed with Roadrunner .

in 1996 the contract with roadrunner was finished and none of the both parts wanted to continue together .

so far we didn´t signed with any label anymore , we just give the permission ( license) for some labels spreaded all over the world like Beat generation / Munster in Spain or Alternative tentacles on the US to release our albums .

How does the brazilian punk/hardcorescene look like now, any good bands, many places to play?

- I think the scene is pretty good write now , we have tons of great bands in all styles and lots of D.I.Y. productions . good places to play and some overseas bands touring often .

How is to live in Brazil, is it many poor people there?

- The poor population here represent more than the half of te whole country and they live in inhuman conditions , this is not poverty this is sublife , they don´t live , just try to survive .

we have a kind of middle class that can still live in house or flat and can buy a car or a new TV .

To justify so much poverty we have the dominant elites of the country that are totally millionaire .

politicians here get so fuckin rich in a such short time that nobody´s understand , so they stole the public money , it´s poved and everyday on TV , they go on trial , but nothing concrete happens and they are still rich .

also the big business man here that make their money stealing from the poor people anyway .

economuy is not so good and the social part is disaster , but aside of this we have beautiful beachs , beautiful girls , football , carnival , sun , cheap food and drugs , .... that makes brasil a paradise as people says ,

The childs who are out on the streets with no parents, have they been more or?

- Children lost on the street with no home or family is very common here and increasing everyday , hey grow up into the margiality and then it goes increasing theviolence and criminal life too , its a very complicated social issue to discuss and could take a days to get to nowhere , ...

- When we were at roadrunner they asked us to record in english , so we always did two version for the albums ( portuguese and english ) ,

since 1996 all stuff is recorded only in english and are albums are still released or disributed worldwide .

it never soudn cool to translate lyrics and try to sing into the same song , it lost the powerful and with so much slang and lyrics talking about brasil some translations are meaningless for some people .

- You can speak about politics in your music and try to share your toughts and experiences with the people ,

We can´t deny that lots of people could start to change their way of living influenced by lyrics and stuff .

- It must be true , what you really think and have the wish to share it with the people .

if a lyric is intelligent , positive and makes you rethink and learn things that´s good .

i think we must right positive things for a better life than just say fuck the system and this is chaos and war and cos´of this the world is dead .

When you do a song which is most important , the lyrics, the melodies or a refarin that people can remember?

- The most important thing on song is to sound cool , we make the lyrics after what is important too , but the first is the music

Who does the music in RDP, all together or how do you do music?

You did the CD Feijoada with many old punk/HC-songs, why did you do it and how did people take it?

- We are all fanatics for the music for a long , we also really like to play cover versions ,

I think people really enjoyed , that´s all good bands and good songs on the album , lots of classics and stuff

Which was the funniest songs to do?

- For me radio birdman , cos´ it´s totally different style of the music we play .

It´s fun to hear you sing in swedish, did you really try to do it or did you only come up with words when you did Spräckta snutskallar by Shitlickers?

- Gordo just pretend to sing the lyrics or maybe he took the lyrics from the 7´ it´s not difficult to pronounce your language I really agree that i don´t understand nothing , but the sound of the words and the pronounciation is very close to brasilian language

- I know lots of bands from Sweden and i think they are all great in al styles .

I also like like Starmarket albums , i apprecciate lots of different styles of music .

When I first heard you did play more hardrockstyle didn´t you, why did you change over to hardcore?

- I didn´t understood this question , maybe you are talking about the wrong band , we never played hard rock ,

in the early 90´s we used to put lots of bayarea thrash metal and crossover , but never hardrock

How would you describe your music to someone who never have heard you?

Have Sepultura make a way to other Brazilian bands?

- I think after Sepultura success lots of people knows tht we have good bands in brasil for metal or punk , altenative whtever , not only samba and popular music

Football is important for many brazilians is it so for you too. favoruite team?

How is to be manager fro the brazilian national team, you think?

Can you see anything which can combine football and punkmusic?

5 favourite records, five favourite concerts you have been to and five most important things in life?

- This is hard to say , your mind changes , I liked my first Fugazi gig , Seein´Red in the netherlands ( 1998 ) , Varukers with Olho Seco in Brasil , ....

favorite bands and records , i don´t know , I could say Poison idea - war all the time , Slayer - Reign in blood , Heresy - face up to it

- Not too many interviews and don´t think it´s boring , but sometimes i hard to find time to reply them in time , I do lots of things together so...

Which is the question you want to have but you never get, please ask it and answer it?

- I never felt this way before , perhaps i don´t want to ask myself nothing at all

How is a good gig with RDP?

How does the average fan look like?

Do you have good contact with your fans? In which way?

- For us band and fans are the same , we have good relation , I´m always together with everybody , have a beer and stuff

What do you think about the new way to communicate with email and internet and that stuff?

- I love e-mail it helps us a lot with faster and easy communication ,

defently the internet is the best instrument to put all the people in contact ogether and do olots of things like organizing tours , promote bands , report scenes , ....

I Rarely surf on the net , i use it more for e-mail to get in touch with people and business , ....

You have an own site, who does it and is it important to have it?

- We have a site under construction , yes is very important to have it for people to know about your band any time , just click and see hat´s happening , you don´t need to wait for the next zine or mag to know about you favorite bands

How much do you sell approxiemately?

- I´m not shure , things go like slightin all the tme , maybe the best sell was like 50000 copies from the live album

Which is your futureplans?

Which is the bands futureplans?

Something more to add?

- Thanks for the opportunity and i hope to visit your country someday