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Hailing from Richmond, Virginia pop punk band Hold Tight<\/strong> produced one of the more under appreciated albums of 2012 in ‘Blizzard Of ’96.’\u00a0<\/em>It’s a record filled with anthemic numbers delivered with a punk rock edge.<\/p>\n We grabbed a quick word with bassist\/vocalist James Goodson from Hold Tight!<\/strong> for the latest edition of “If I…” Goodson spoke of his love for Green Day, why he’d like to re-live the bands first tour, Glenn Danzig and more.<\/p>\n If I could re-live one tour\/show it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I had the chance to play one venue it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could play with one band it would be\u2026<\/strong> <a href=“http:\/\/holdtight.bandcamp.com\/album\/blizzard-of-96” data-mce-href=“http:\/\/holdtight.bandcamp.com\/album\/blizzard-of-96”>Blizzard Of ’96 by Hold Tight!<\/a><\/p>\n If I could play with any person living or dead it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could bring back any band that have split up, it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I wasn\u2019t playing music, I would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could play a different genre it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could have written any song it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could have written any album it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could headline any festival, it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could organise my own festival, the bands playing would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could play any other instrument, it would be\u2026<\/strong> If I could give one piece of advice to a new band, it would be\u2026<\/strong> ‘Blizzard Of ’96’<\/em> by Hold Tight!<\/strong> is available now on Animal Style Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Hold Tight!<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a>|Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hailing from Richmond, Virginia pop punk band Hold Tight produced one of the more under appreciated albums of 2012 in ‘Blizzard Of ’96.’\u00a0It’s a record filled with anthemic numbers delivered with a punk rock edge. We grabbed a quick word with bassist\/vocalist James Goodson from Hold Tight! for the latest edition of “If I…” Goodson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8181],"tags":[62,2054,122,12291,6164,12512],"class_list":["post-28612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-already-heard","tag-animal-style-records","tag-feature","tag-hold-tight","tag-if-i","tag-james-goodson"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
James: I\u2019d re-live our very first two week tour because after we played some crazy house show in Minnesota, Alex (our drummer) peed on me and I\u2019d love to go back in time and stop that from happening.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: Any venue with people excited to see us, or some gigantic stadium to see what that\u2019s like.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: Green Day. I wanna hang with BJ.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: Glenn Danzig. He seems to be pretty grumpy to everyone but I think I could get through to him and we\u2019d get along great.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: I just want Lifetime to put out more music. I don\u2019t know if that counts as a split though, more like extended inactivity.<\/em><\/p>\n
James:<\/em> I wish I could say I\u2019d be doing something else creative but when I\u2019m not playing music I\u2019m working at a crummy job.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: <\/em> Something heavy. Hardcore, or metal, or grunge, or hardcoregrungemetal.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: ‘Basket Case.’ Perfect song, plus it would be nice to be a game changer.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: I guess it seems like I should say ‘Dookie’ after that last question, but just to go with something that was even more of a game changer I\u2019m gonna say ‘Nevermind.’<\/em><\/p>\n
James: That\u2019s a tough one, Fest would be fun cuz it\u2019s all punx there, but it might be fun to headline some insanely huge European fest like Reading or something just for the ridiculousness.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: I hope Alex is doing this interview also so that he can be a smart ass and say \u201cwell it just so happens I did organize my own festival\u2026\u201d If I had my own festival it would just be a three band show, Blink 182, Weezer, and Green Day would all play set lists of the classics and everyone would get a ton of free food and then go home before they got too worn out.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: Drums. I dabble but I want to destroy.<\/em><\/p>\n
James: Put your music out for free when you\u2019re first getting started. It\u2019s gonna end up out there for free anyway so you might as well do it on your own terms and get it to as many ears as possible. Also wear ear plugs.<\/em><\/p>\n