How did Cartel form?
WILL PUGH: Well, we’ve all been friends from high school; Nic and Kevin have actually known each other since third grade. We all started picking up guitars and playing in bands in 7th or 8th grades. I was in private school at the time, so I didn’t come to the public school where they were until my freshman year in high school, which was their sophomore year. I had a band that didn’t include them; they had their own hardcore band, and then Joseph was in another pop-punk band. Then one of their friends joined my band-it was this whole incestuous thing-and Joseph, Kevin and I were in Last Chance, which became Summer’s Disregard, and Nic and Ryan were all, at one point in time, in that. So that would be the first time we were all in a band together. Then Nic went off to college, Ryan went to cut hair, and we reformed as Cartel in August 2003. Originally, you had a different guitarist, Andy Lee, who left in 2004. What happened? The four of us–Ryan, Kevin, Joseph and myself–were growing up
