Shariya: You know as well as anyone that Say Anything can have some crazy, obsessive fans. There is a rumor that you called the S.A. message board kids crazy. Is this true?
Coby: They’re kinda crazy but I love all the fans that come to the shows, I love you all *muah* [Coby kisses the recorder]

Shariya: How do you feel about the obsessive fans, besides the love? Is it ever weird?
Coby: Um, it’s never gotten crazy except for one time when someone attacked [lead vocalist] on stage. But it hasn’t gotten too crazy it’s all normal it’s all normal fans, that really like the music the way I really like all the bands, like I’ve never been that obsessed, some fans get really obsessed but it’s cool. For everyone it’s different, and everyone has their own way for expressing what they like.

Shariya: What happened when he was attacked?
Coby: Well he was not really attacked, just like, someone was trying to sing with him and it got way out of hand. He wouldn’t let go and our techs had to sorta get him off stage

Shariya: I read in an interview that you were kinda of upset when he went crazy, and that it was alleged that you quit the band for a while. How did it feel when you got the call, when you heard that tours were cancelled?
Coby: At the time I was like anyone would be, I was like, understanding but kinda upset you know, and disappointed but it turns out that things are much better now than they were.

Shariya: Did that put a strain on your friendship as well as your professional relationship?
Coby: It was a little barrier we were kinda apart for a little bit, but things are better, it’s like, taking it slow. We’ll always be friends you know, he just has stuff to deal with obviously.

Shariya: When you met Max, way back in the day, what did you see in each other that made you say ‘let’s start a band’?
Coby: His beautiful Jewish penis is what I saw.
Shariya: You saw the penis and you were hooked?
Coby: I was hooked. [laughs] Naw, I am just kidding. I don’t know, we really just clicked musically. We liked the same bands, and we were pretty equivalent talent wise. So we could jam together better than anyone could, that we knew.
Shariya: Is that why you and Max have stuck together when the band has gone through different members? [Max and Coby being the only remaining original members]
Coby: Yeah, well like Max is an amazing songwriter, and he’ll say he’s not that good at guitar, but he’s really creative and good. We just click really well, he makes me better at drums, and he says I make him better at songwriting.

Shariya: What’s it like leaving a relatively small label like Doghouse, and moving onto J records?
Coby: It’s not really different. You don’t see the differences right away. Like, we have a bus now, and we have our CD in every store and we have all this promotion and our video is on MTV. We made a video. You see things slowly, and just more people care about you at the label. It’s really good, it’s a really good jump. A lot of people are really skeptical about it, but if you find the right people, which luckily we have, it’s really an awesome thing. It just turns out lucky that we found the right people to work with.
Shariya: Have you gotten any clout for selling out to a major label?
Coby: Yea of course, every band has that but you have to work past that because you can’t dwell on what people say about you. You have to do what you feel is right.

Shariya: Do you have a girlfriend?
Coby: I don’t have a girlfriend.
Shariya: Since you are single, do you feel that because you are in the band, that it is hard to find a girl who will love you for who you really are. Is it easy to distinguish a groupie from a true person?
Coby: I’ve been in this band since the beginning of high school. The high school I went to it was kinda rare that people did this and everyone looked up to it cuz it was different. It’s cool. Some girls, you can’t really trust girls, you know. I don’t really have a girlfriend, I’ve been dating, but I just haven’t found the one. And it’s hard, it’s hard thing to find the one, and I’m so young and it’ll come.

Shariya: Because Say Anything is well established with a loyal fan base, have you seen any problems with the new members being accepted?
Coby: No, this lineup hasn’t been hard at all. It’s been fairly easy, everyone is fairly creative. Everyone is good at their instruments, everyone is good at what they do. It’s a really good lineup, it’s a really good mesh of people and we all get along. It’s been bad in the past, but now I can’t ask for more. It’s a great bunch of people.

Shariya: When your ex bassist Casper Adams was kicked out the only explanation I read was that he was a douche bag and you don’t like douche bags in your band.
Coby: I said that at a time Max was going crazy and I was sorta mad at everything. Pretty much because I was home and not out on tour. But to clear it up if this gets out in anyway, I love Casper, I wish him the best. He’s a great guy, but as far as him with the band goes it didn’t really work. We all knew it, I think even he knew it. He felt like it was his shot, his chance to be in a big band and it was. But for the longevity of the band, it just wasn’t right.

Shariya: I heard rumors that you guys might possibly be doing a B-sides tour.
Coby: That is a wrong rumor. We did b-sides tonight. We did ‘A Walk Through Hell’, and ‘We Will Erase All Life on Earth But Us’. But that’s it. We aren’t going to be doing a full on B-sides tour.

Shariya: I heard that you were going to re-record ‘But a Fleeting Illness’.
Coby: It may happen, probably not. We have a lot of new songs for the new record, and it’s a good recording. We don’t need a new recording for that song. And we probably won’t even play it.
Shariya: So what will you be re-releasing?
Coby: We are releasing EP online, we re-recorded ‘A Walk Through Hell’, and ‘We Will Erase All Life on Earth But Us’ with Steve Evans and I think Max did a couple songs for the record acoustic. We are going to release it online or just a little EP. We are working on a new album right now, so we are going to record that.
Shariya: In defense on the genre?
Coby: Yeah.
Shariya: How did you guys come up with the name for that?
Coby: Max came up with it actually, and it just goes with the concept of the record. If you actually think about the title it’s like... A lot of people go with the whole ‘emo’ label and it’s considered a genre and you see Panic and the Disco and their like we are above emo, we’re greater than emo. But if it wasn’t for Get Up Kids and bands like that, they wouldn’t be around. The Get Up Kids, they are a rock band, but they are considered a big emo band. You know other bands like Dashboard [Confessional]
Shariya: Saves the Day..
Coby: Saves the Day is my favorite band of all times
Shariya: You and Max alike then?
Coby: Yeah we both love Saves the Day.
Shariya: Do you have a Saves the Day tattoo?
Coby: I don’t, I don’t have any tattoos.
Shariya: Is that a Jewish thing?
Coby: Yeah it’s a personal thing. I want to be buried in a Jewish cemetery. It’s a personal thing in respect for my parents, you know, they raised me. But if I wasn’t Jewish, I would have a Saves the day tattoo. Probably a lyric, I thought about it. Saves the Day was on my high school profile though.

Shariya: As far as tattoo’s go, there are a lot of people that have say anything tattoos. How do you feel about those?
Coby: Pretty crazy, pretty fucking nuts. I never thought, I mean I sorta thought it but I guess that in a big band crazy shit happens. Not that we are a big band. But we are a band that people like us, and crazy shit like that happens. It’s cool, I like it.
Shariya: A homage to you, forever on their skin.
Coby: Just the fact that we could mean something that much to someone that they would have us on their body forever... It’s too overwhelming to talk about. You can’t really describe that. You look at it and think wow, that is amazing, and you feel really humble about it.

Shariya: Is there anything else you wanted to say?
Coby: This is our last tour for a little bit, as we record our new record I hope everyone sticks with us. And the new record is honestly going to be really good. So I hope people like it.
Shariya: Who’s going to produce it?
Coby: Probably Brad Wood. He’s done all the Mewithoutyou, and he worked on the Doors, smashing pumpkins, and worked on Did that Dog, and Pete Yorn records.