022: Ben Verellen

Published: Dec. 3, 2015, 5:28 p.m.

b'Ben was quite young when he first accosted Dave at a show about a missing lyric sheet in an Excursion record. At the time he was the kid brother of the Botch singer, and though he always will be, he quickly established himself as a force to be reckoned with on his own. Dave tricks Ben into revisiting his days as a junior high gang member and divulging how he escaped the life in part by stealing everything he could get his thieving mitts on. And Ben thought they were just going to talk about Straight Edge\\u2026'