Drifting over the scattered conversations of a packed dressing room the hum of an old record player blasts Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. What is meant to be a dressing room for one band has become host to at least two bands tonight at Starland Ballroom in New Jersey.

As drinks are passed around and the music flows freely, Adelitas Way separates themselves from the buzz of the room and settles into a back corner. An outsider placed into their hectic environment, it’s funny to see how it barely phases them. In fact, Adelitas Way is a band based in finding inspiration from chaos. It’s this unique quality in both their stage performance and their demeanor that seems to make Adelitas Way a force to be reckoned with. From their impressive resume of credits (songs featured on the WWE, touring with Breaking Benjamin, Hinder) to their zealous live act, the band seem to thrive from the chaos.

Just ask them about there name.

(Interview conducted by new CWG writer Kristen Tully)

Q: I hear you have a pretty interesting back story to your name.

Rick: It is a whorehouse in Tijuana. Robbed and arrested in Mexico, ended up in a bar called Adelita’s. It was a pretty crazy day! I met a girl called Adelita, she was a prostitute- since she was twelve years old actually- and she told me a touching story. I felt bad when I left there I kind of realized that I had life good.

Creighton: Maybe we should tell that story first before we say it’s a whorehouse…lead up to it!

Q: What was the band’s name before that then?

Creighton: It was the Freakin Rick’s Rainbow Project

Q: Was this the original line up?

Creighton: I mean, I’m new but Rick’s had the band going for a long time. It’s been, how many years?

Rick: About as long as since the last time I got my haircut, so you can imagine…it’s that long! Pretty damn long if you ask me! But we’ve all been working and touring hard for the last year, and I feel like that’s been the real trenches. This line up has been breaking the record and working hard. I think the work started the first day we went out on tour.

Q: As your debut album why did you decide to go with self titling it?

Rick: Cause we’re not big enough to come up with a cooler name! You know, ‘inside the minds’ like what do you name your record? You know what I mean?! People already don’t give a shit about a band they don’t know and then you come up with some clever name and they’re just like…wow [sarcasm]! If we sell four million records then we’ll come back with something clever like ‘Life Starts Now.’

Trevor: But right now no one cares. People can’t even pronounce our name right!

Q: What is so hard about pronouncing Adelitas correctly?

Keith: Uhh Exactly! You’re smart!

Rick: We get a lot of people who are like man I love your band Theory of a Deadman. We haven’t played yet, but thank you! Or, ‘Oh My God! Are you in Breaking Benjamin?!’ ‘I’m like no! They’re onstage right now! Obviously, you don’t hear the song being played as we’re doing this!’ You know, it’s pretty funny though.

Q: Funny stories aside, for a first album though you have some pretty hard hitting songs.

Rick: Yeah, I think the first record was a great experience and I think the next ones going to be even better.

Q: Have you started recording the follow up?

Rick: Not recording, we started writing, getting some ideas together and compiling?…. complilations? Well somewhere in there is the answer… but it’s cool we feel really good about it so far.

Q: Tell me a little bit about the story behind Brothers.

Rick: It’s a true story. I have a brother who’s addicted to heroin and he’s been in and out of my life and I kind of wrote the song trying to send a message to him… It really didn’t work.

Q: That’s pretty heavy to share with the world. You basically say in the song he’s dead to you. Why share that?

Rick: Well, I think- when you put it like that I sound like an asshole- but I think the whole record is about life and working things out that we’ve been through and that’s something I feel I had to get off my chest.

Q: So it’s a really personal record to you guys then?

Rick: Very

Q: So what’s the writing process like then for you guys?

Rick: There are so many different ways to write a song. You could come up with the chorus first, the lyrics, an awesome riff, drums- you just never know when its going to come. It just happens at the weirdest times. So you can’t really say we write songs like this, or we started out with that. We just let it go.

Q: So have you had any wild experiences on tour that will make a track on the next album?

Trevor: We’re gonna have a new song called ‘Waffle House Baby’. There’s so many!

Rick: ‘Outragous Denist Bill’ we had that coming! ‘Oh Shit My Back Hurts’

Derek: Backiotomy-

Rick: Part I and II. We have a lot of crazy experiences on the road. I think the best thing the road does is, we’ve become so close that you become like brothers. And I think that when you’re making another record it’s very easy to get everyone in the same mentality of you know, ‘Let’s make a kick ass album’. We all know each other really well, so it’s a great feeling.

Q: So were you all friends before the band?

Rick: We all met through friends and then you kind of know, out of the gate, when you are hanging out with someone and vibe with them, whether they’re going to be a douche bag or not.

Q: So no douche bags allowed in the band then?

Rick: No, no!

Keith: None in this band!

Rick: We got rid of them all! If you’re listening… you know who you are…you’re a douche bag!

Q: So what douche bag is My Derailment about?

Rick: It’s about all my friends I was growing up with pretty much. When I was like ‘Oh I’m gonna do rock music’ they laughed at me and were like ‘Go ahead! Good luck with that! You better get your burger-flippin-hand going!’

Q: Well, you’re here and they’re not!

Rick: Exactly! We did something right!

Q: Have you had any crazy fan moments yet?

Creighton: Yeah a lot of them actually.

Rick: The other night a girl walked up and had Dirty Little Thing tattooed on her ass!

Derek: It was pretty cool!

Q: Did she actually pull down her pants and show you?

Rick: Yeah, she did it up! She was like, ‘Look I love you guys!’ and it said Dirty Little Thing right on her ass. I was like ‘That’s pretty awesome!” I also had a lady tattoo my initials on her ankle. That scared me! She was going to put my face, but my hair would have gone up her whole leg and she didn’t want a tattoo that big!

Trevor: That would be a big tattoo!

Q: That’s wild! How do you react to that?

Rick: You run! You’re like ‘What does that say? Oh ook see yuh later!’ I’m going to run away now- I don’t know if you know I ran Junior Varsity track!

Trevor: Ahh! Remember from Family Guy!

Rick: ‘Hey Death! Does that file say I ran two years of Junior Varsity track!’

Q: Besides watching Family Guy what do you guys do to entertain yourselves on tour?

Keith: Video games, Xbox, golf. Once it gets warmer we are golfing!

Rick: I’m down with some golf. We are an active band. We do a lot of activities and I don’t know if you know this but we are a championship caliber team!

Derek: We’ve won many a championship. Many paper made trophies.

Rick: Actually, right now we’ve got a belt being made in Guatemala. It’s gonna come, and it’s gonna be awesome. Jack of all trades championship belt! All sports that don’t matter. We are the best at every sports that doesn’t mean anything. Like you know that paddle with the ball attached that you just bounce it? We are the shit at that!

Q: Is that a sport?

Rick: Uhh yeah!

Trevor: Eight-thousand-two-hundred-and-sixty-two-thousand consecutive bounces!

Rick: I don’t know though…you put us in a game of football and we’ll do pretty good too. Soccor, not so much, hockey-

Derek: no so much either!

Q: Speaking of sports you guys had your first single featured on the WWE.

Rick: Yeah, pretty awesome! It made me wanna go around and just kick everyone in the stomach and body slam them.

Q: Bus or van?

Rick: No we have a hover craft. It floats around like the Jetsons. If you saw that fancy white van out there- we got the fuckin ‘that-looks-like-trouble-van’.

Creighton: We got the van parked in the back ally. The one that says FREE CANDY! That’s what we’re driving.

Rick: We’re in the van that when it’s parked somewhere someone always calls the cops. ‘What are you guys doing here?’ ‘We’re just sleeping officer’ ‘Well why don’t you go to a hotel?’ ‘Uhh cause we’re in a rock band!’ ‘Give me a CD and we don’t ticket you!’

Q: Favorite song to play live?

Keith: I like Scream or Invincible.

Rick: Invincible makes me just want to ninja kick someone!

Q: What’s with guys wanting to be ninjas?

Rick: I don’t know, have you ever seen a guy do ninja moves with cat eyes?

Creighton: I’m more of a pirate, myself. Loud music, yelling, and alcohol. I’m definitely more pirate.

Derek: Ninjas don’t party do they? They just kick peoples ass.

Q: Well I’ve never met a real ninja.

Rick: Oh really? I’m Rick…nice to meet you.

Keith: By the time you meet a real ninja you’re already dead.

Rick: Well I’m sparing lives right now. When they told me you’re getting interviewed I thought I’ll go out in regular Rick but when I put the cloak up, when I go out there, it’s on…total chaos!