(antiMusic) Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Psychostick's Alex Preiss tells us about "Minimum Rage" from comedy rockers brand new album "Sandwich". We now turn it over to Alex for the story:For singled out, I thought I would share some insight about the song, "Minimum Rage." Everyone has had a crappy job at some point in their life. Most of those people have also worked in fast food. So, when Josh started writing the lyrics for this one, we started talking about some of the horror stories we have about working in the food industry! Rob worked at KFC, Josh at Whataburger, Jake at Wendys (for a day), Jimmy at Hardees, and I worked at Sonic for a couple years.
One of the best/worst things that ever happened to me was when I had a shift doing the drive-thru one day. This big fat guy came up and ordered some stuff, including a large thing of fries. Now, the policy at Sonic is to put 2 ketchup packets in the bags, so the company isn't wasting money on it. The thought is, if they want more, they will ask...and they do! I gave fat guy his bag of burgers and fries, and he asked for more ketchup. That's fine; I got him about 4 more packets. (That makes 6 total). Then, he asked for MORE, and was a little more pushy about it, so I have him 5 more. (That makes 11 total). While all of this was happening, fat guy was holding up my drive-thru line! By then, I probably had between 4 and 6 cars waiting in line behind him. So, I started preparing the drinks for the cars in line, and the cooks were getting me the bags of food for everyone in line, and it all started piling up. After a couple of minutes of fat guy staring at me, I finally went back to the window and asked what he wanted. "I WANT MORE KETCHUP!" Fine, I got him more ketchup. I got him the biggest handful I could grab, and plopped it in his bag. His response was "You don't gotta be a jerk about it," and he sped away. So he got what he wanted, sort of, plus a finger out the window.
When I shared this story with the guys in my band, I quickly realized that we all had stories like this! So, we sing about what we know. And we know that working fast food sucks.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!
