Last week brought the announcement that, after 30 years of bickering and lawsuits, The Misfits would be putting aside its differences and reuniting for Riot Fest. The punk-focused festival has a history of launching high-profile reunions, and one that is rumored every year is that of legendary East Bay punk act Jawbreaker. Yesterday, Substream Magazine writer Scott Heisel did some digging and found this YouTube video filmed at Giant Robot in Los Angeles last month where Jawbreaker drummer—and California member—Adam Pfahler fields questions from the assembled crowd. Talk quickly turns to reunion rumors and Pfahler spills all the juicy details.
It’s been known for years that Jawbreaker had played together while doing interviews for a documentary that’s been in the works for nearly a decade, but what wasn’t known was that it happened again a couple years ago, too. Pfahler says, “I went to New York and Chris [Bauermeister, bass] was in New York seeing his dad, and we all got together and we played. We just went to Blake [Schwarzenbach, guitarist-vocalist]’s practice space and played a couple of songs just to see if we could still do it. We weren’t sure if we could still do it. We could still do it.”