1.In Silver, When Nick says "Bobby you be
quiet out there*, he is taking to his dog. He
doesn't have the dog anymore though,
because he bit the pool man!
2.P-Nut got his name from a friend in high
school who thought his head was shaped
like a peanut.
3.S.A. stands for *Spooky Apparition*!
4.The *Nazz* in Brodels refers to Trevor
Cole, the guitar tech's grandfather.
5.Terrence Henry in Silver is an ex-friend of
311's who ran up a huge phone bill of
$2,000.
6.The front of the Grassroots cover is really
fungus on the side of a dumpster.
7.Homebrew is about expirementing with
acid.
8.Nick, Chad, and Tim are from the west
side of Omaha. SA and P-Nut are from the
south side. They are the slobs, slackers,
and left-handers of the group.
9.P-Nut has taken up Yoga!
10.SA and Chad were roomates in college.
11.P-Nut played the violin in second grade.
12.The 311 Logo, website, CD design, etc.
was designed by Pawn Shop Press. It is
mentioned in [Nutsymptom] - *turn out the
dope shit like the one that's called Pawn
Shop Press*.
13.The three Omaha releases, *Dammit*,
*Unity*, and *Hydroponic*, along with
*Omaha Sessions*, were self-produced
and released on the band's own record
label, What Have You records.
14.Some call SA *Grandpa* because he
sleeps a lot.
15.Adrian Young from No Doubt credits Chad
Sexton as being an influence on his
drumming.
16.Joan has watched the *Enlarged to Show
Detail* video once. P-Nut warned her first.
(lol)
17.The girl inside Grassroots is just a vintage
card.
18.Three tracks from *The Beacon Street
Collection* by No Doubt were recorded at
the 311 house with assistance from Nick
Hexum and Scotch Ralston. Also, Nick and
311 are thanked in the liner notes to
*Tragic Kingdom* and 311 also thanks No
Doubt back in *Transistor*.
19.Todd Whitener, guitarist from Days of the
New, credits 311 as an influence.
20.When P-Nut was younger, he had
sleepover parties.
21.Of all the band, P-Nut considers himself
closest to Chad. Joan is also closest to
Chad's mom than the other moms, and
they attend many shows together.
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22.An original copy of *Unity* is worth more
than a thousand dollars. But a later
version is available at some record stores
for $15 to $30.
23.The noise at the end of Galaxy is Scotch
Ralston saying, *There is just no denying
it, that was it.* Then Chad says, *Yeah.*
24.The French lyrics in Salsa, *Je vais a la
plage parce que le quignol est chouette*,
can be translated as *I go to the beach
because the puppet show is cool/grand*
or *I go to the beach to dig chicks.*
25.The line *Stranger Flowers* from 8:16 AM,
comes from the book *On The Road* by
Jack Kerouac.
26.If you ~rewind~ about one minute and
thirty seconds before the first track on
*Transistor*, there is a hidden track. It
appears in Enlarged To Show Detail. Note
that this only works on some CD players.
27.At the very end of *Transistor* there is
anoter secret sound.
28.On the last night of the Sugar Ray/311
tour, Sugar Ray presented the band with a
cake with the 311 logo on it.
29.A *brodel* is a brother.
30.In Electricity, when Nick sings, *We're all
from the same Lucy*, he is referring to the
remains of early humans found my
scientists which support the theory of
evolution.
31.311 *DoEs NoT* stand for KKK!! It is an
Omaha police code for indecent exposure,
and has other meanings as well. Such as
there were 3 members, then 1 was added,
then 1 more - 3+1+1=311. It is supposedly
the total that P-Nut always gets every time
he goes to Taco Bell. P-Nut also states
that, *Also knowing a little numerology and
studying a little magic, which I do: in some
factions, three is man and eleven is
magic. So it's like a magician sort of
thing*. To Tim, it was dictated to them by a
higher intelligence. And to Nick, it's five
friends making music.
32.Marc Herismendy of *Save Ferris* was
influenced by 311.
33.311's first real show was on June 10,
1990. They opened for Fugazi at Sokol
Hall south of Omaha.
34.311's obsession with aliens is partly from
an out of body experience SA had in
college. He claims he was not using drugs
at the time.
35.Grassroots debuted at #193 on the
Billboard top 200.
36.The sumo guy in the Down video was the
guy in Unnesassary Roughness (an early
90's football film). He is the fat Hawaiian
center for the team. He is the one that has
the big crush on Cathy Ireland.
37.Nick says the things he missed most on
tour are his girlfriend and his dogs. He
gets to see his girlfriend, but not the dogs.
38.SA Takes blue-green algae, and Nick
takes ginseng.
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