Frequently Asked Questions

These are extracts from several interviews with Vinnie.

I Am The Avalanche? What? Why?
It's me. That's what I was when I named the band: an extremely volatile thing that was ready to spill over. I wrote it in a lyric and then just used it as a name. I was toying around with other names but as soon as I wrote that down I knew.

Were there any songs that didn't make it to the record?
Yeah, there is one song that we recorded... Well there was a bunch that were written that got cut early. We recorded 13 and 12 made the record. We didn't want 13 songs on there for one, and two, we should leave this one song, it's called "Summertime Rivington Vibe". Yeah, we call it "Summertime". It's a good vibe, it may pop up somewhere down the line. We did a lot of work on it in pre-production, but it didn't feel natural and I didn't feel like it was going the right way.

Why did The Movielife end?
Movielife ended because it was time to end. I mean, there was no really in-depth, dramatic explosion of an end that kind of happens to a lot of bands. There are bands that break up and are mutual about it because it's sort of a the-band-ran-its-course kind of thing, and I would imagine Movielife was similar to a lot of those cases as far as it being the band's time. Basically people grow up, I was 18 when I started Movielife, and everyone grew and everyone wanted to go on to do different things, whether it be musical or career-wise or just a get-away-from-each-other type of thing. It got ugly for a little while on tour and things weren't going that great. Things were going great as far as people digging the band and coming to see us, but as far as our mental state, and our happiness with each other, that wasn't really happening. And the vibe with the Movielife, and the vibe, I think, with any band that I do, especially Avalanche, is just a family vibe. It's good vibes during the live shows and that's kind of the way things go. And the last thing I wanted was for people to notice that the vibes weren't good any more. I didn't want to tarnish anything. I didn't want to drag it through the dirt for another year, and have people be, "Yeah, Movielife are just whatever now..." So it just kind of ended mutually in way that we were all like, "Let's just end this because we can't really come to any sort of understanding as far as where we're going, and what we're doing, and when we're playing, and where we're playing." So it kind of ended like that.

Have you've ever touched Daryl Palumbo's bits?
(Laughs) I'm sorry, (Laughs) why would I have done that! Definitely not! (Laughs) I tattooed his ass once though... I don't think anyone knows that, I guess they will now. It says my name with a heart over the I. He tattooed me too, it just says Daryl on the top of my leg.

Do you have any hidden talents?
I can clap my hand with one hand. And no, not the Ali G way.