We’re back again with another edition of My First Time. This time the girls of Those Darlins were nice enough to answer a few questions about their musical firsts. Below you’ll hear stories of piercings, drinking, talking to boys and being in Juggs magazine.

MP3: Those Darlins – Wild One

My First Time …with Those Darlins

First record you bought
Nikki:jefferson airplane surrealistic pillow

Jessi: Bubba Dubba “Rub that Dubba Luv”

Kelley: Paula Abdul’s Forever Your Girl

Linwood: Michael Jacksons thriller

First record that changed your life
Nikki: meatloaf bat out of hell

Jessi: meatloaf bat out of hell two: back into hell

Kelley: meatloaf does sinatra

Linwood: at age six i got beach boys greatest hits volume 2

First concert you attended
Nikki: besides my dads band, the OKs, that i danced my ass off to most of my childhood……..I think the violent femmes

Jessi: The Bang Up

Kelley: The Oak Ridge Boys with my parents

Linwood: the Lemonheads

First concert that blew you away
Nikki: George Clinton!!!

Jessi: The Clutters (nashville)

Kelley: Bubba Dubba

Linwood: the AC/DC cover band that played my 5th grade dance.

First time playing live
Nikki: I played at the Rappahannock Music festival when I was 12 with two of my best friends. I was just learning guitar and I only knew beatles songs so thats all we played. I don’t think it was a very long set.

Jessi: Started playing guitar recitals when i was 10 but didnt really play with a band until the 8th grade talent show, where my friends and I formed an all girl band and we played “That thing you do.”

Kelley: I played in jazz ensembles in high school. For my senior recital I played a solo guitar rendition of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”. It was terrible.

Linwood: In 3rd I had a recorder solo during “march of the wooden soldiers”. The performance fell apart shortly into and we just repeated the theme over and over and over for about 10 minutes.

First tour (horror stories, unexpectedly great shows, etc)
Our first tour was the “Beach Mountain” tour where we started in the mountains of North Carolina, went down to Myrtle Beach and Charleston, South Carolina then back through Athens and Atlanta, Georgia. The three of us traveled in an old Buick with all of our equipment, no air conditioning, and my dog Chewy. In North Carolina we had a day off and picked up a show at a farm full of cute boys we had met at the show the night before. They offered us a couple hundred bucks and a keg of organic beer. We rode horses, ate a feast of fresh vegetables and went skinny dipping.

Then in Charleston, Nikki stepped in glass from a bottle that she broke and her foot bled in her boot all night. Then she locked the keys in the trunk of the car and passed out on top of it. AAA never came and we missed a party after the show because we were waiting around. Good thing Chewy wasn’t locked in the car!

Article continued after the jump

First instrument you learned and/or first piece of equipment you loved
Nikki: the first instrument I learned was the saxophone. I didn’t really keep that up for long. I then picked up the guitar. I we had a love/hate relationship. I found the baritone uke. I fell in love…..I kinda want to throw it in a wood chipper now, i mostly play the skin flute if i play anything

Jessi: I started out on the guitar… messed around with fiddle and mandolin but didnt stick with it. Then learned saxophone. The first guitar I fell in love with was not mine… but i got to play it. I think it was the first good guitar I had ever picked up. it was a fender Jaguar.
Kelley: the butt trumpet. My mom got a piano for the house and signed my sister, brother and me up for piano lessons. She doesn’t play anything so it was very important to her that we got that opportunity. We would play songs while she was fixing dinner and whenever family was visiting.

Linwood: the auto tuner.

First band you were a part of
Nikki: The first band I was in was Pins and Chaos. It was me and my friend Mike Cannon. We were 11 and we wrote one song. I don’t remember what it was called but the first band I really stuck with was “Stone or Rock” I don’t want to talk about it.

Jessi: The first band I was in was called “Unclassified” It was just Me and my friend, she played drums and I played guitar. I was about 13… We practiced a lot and wrote a ton of songs but never played a show or anything. We made a bunch of tapes but I dont know where they are.

Kelley: My friend Kain lived at the other end of the block down the street and I would put my amp on a skateboard and wheel it down to practice in his dad’s shed where he kept his motorcycle. It smelled of gasoline and fumes which probably explains a lot. Some guys from Loris, a smaller town nearby, started playing with us and we called the band Ether. There were three guitars and it was a mess. We played one show at the Loris Fair, where I once won second place in the chicken cackling contest. I remember it was so cold that my fingers were freezing and I could hardly play. Shortly after that, Kain kicked me out of the band I didn’t talk to him for a month. It was soooo dramatic. But we’re still friends to this day and he actually played a Darlins gig with us once.

Linwood: The Bang Up.

First time getting press and/or being interviewed
We were on the 100th anniversary issue cover of juggs magazine, its was our first real press so we had to do it

First song you wrote and/or recorded
Nikki: “red sky at noon” was the first song I wrote. I was 11 and my dad found out and asked me if I wanted to record it and I was interested and said yes. I was so nervous when I got into the studio ( a double wide trailer in the middle of the nowhere on the mountain he lived on). I think there is still s a cassette tape of it floating around out there somewhere.

Jessi: I always wrote songs, but I would write christmas jingles and things like that… The first “real” song I ever wrote was, well, it didnt have a name. But it was just a buncha teenage mumbo jumbo where i thought I was being realllll deep. I used to record all the time on this little Karaoke machine I had. I think I was 11.

Kelley: My first song was called “my first song”. It was in the key of C.

Linwood: I believe it was “Shoot that Girl”, which by some odd coincidence is about Nikki.

First awesome thing that happened solely because you were in a band
Nikki: i had sex with tony danza. whos the boss now bitch?

Jessi: I got my tits pierced.

Kelley: I got to spend a bunch of time in NYC on the record company’s dime. Fancy meals, private jets…

Linwood: Hospitality, mentality, brutality, occasionally meeting people.

First horrible thing that happened solely because you were in a band
Nikki: so many horrible things happen to me. I hate being in a band. music sucks

Jessi: Everybody likes me, Everybody wants to be me, everybody is always offering me free drugs, and booze, and sex, Everyone idolizes me like im god or somethin, and I just hate it.

Kelley: I could whine about Nikki’s hygiene on tour, eating food from gas stations or peeing my pants cause Byron our tour manager wouldn’t stop for me to go, but I play music for a living. There really aren’t any tragedies in that.

Linwood: I had to get rid of my cat. It doesn’t add up to be worth it….yet.

First reactions from your family when you played them your music
Nikki: they disowned me?…..come on what do you think? they are my family…they fuckin love me.

Jessi: excitement.

Kelley: “Is that you singin on there?”

Linwood: Never told ‘em about any of it. They’re more into photographs, five and dimers.

First musical obsession (band, song, singer, genre or otherwise)
Nikki: the beatles. I was in love with them and wanted to be them.

Jessi: I fell in love with ROCK N ROLL MUSIC and I never looked back!!

Kelley: Music videos. I grew up watching MTV before it started really sucking and I knew that’s what I was gonna do – play in a band and make videos. My favorites were Billy Idol’s “Rock The Cradle Of Love”, Madonna’s “Material Girl” and The B-52s “Roam”.

Linwood: The song La Bamba. My third grade teacher punished me every time I’d sing that refrain. I think she was anti-immigration, really ahead of her time.