"You don't know how many times I'll put on Slightly Stoopid and stand on my balcony and watch zombies walking around looking for the next best thing," Corrado said. "They have no peripheral vision so they miss out on what's around them musically."
Since finding the music of Slightly Stoopid, who were first discovered in their high school years by late Sublime vocalist Bradley Nowell, Corrado and Moser have been inhaling their sound like a well-packed hookah.
"We've had Acoustic Roots since it came out. Then we went back and got all of their stuff," Corrado said.
Moser sees the band transcendentally; the appeal in its sound is that it is appealing in an array of styles.
"They're diverse. They switch from ska, punk, hip-hop, reggae, dancehall to acoustic chill in the matter of one CD," Moser said.
Joe Bryant (sophomore-division of undergraduate studies) bears the same opinion.
"One song will be rock and the next will be punk and after that you'll hear a bass line come in with a chill-ass beat. It's music that fits a lifestyle we are a part of," Bryant said.
Moser describes it as "the surf, skate, snow lifestyle."
The band, which formed roughly eight years ago, was signed out of high school to Skunk Records, whose roster included Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars and Burn Unit. The band independently released its first two albums, Slightly Stoopid (1996) and Longest Barrel Ride (1999) and sold over 20,000 copies of its one-take acoustic album Live and Direct - Acoustic Roots, according to the band's Web site.
Slightly Stoopid is currently promoting its latest album Everything You Need, which brings the band to State College.
The band has spent most of its young career on the road with acts including Sublime, G. Love & Special Sauce and 311 among others. The band is a heavy promoter of the California lifestyle and is known to represent and therefore delve into the region of smoke clouds, which a band member, known only as Kyle on the Web site, said most of its music emerges from.
The group is arriving a year after its failed attempt to make it to State College when its van broke down leaving them stranded and local fans jaded.
Corrado hopes that means the band will play twice as long this year. He continuously switched the tracks on his CD player to show off all the songs he deemed his favorite. "Ese Loco" starts to play as Corrado hacks and explains how the song serves as a microcosm for this dynamic band.
"This song shows off all of their styles," he said as the beat switched from acoustic ballad to strong guitar riff with powerful drum accompaniment.
"Not enough people know about this band," he concluded, attributing that to blinders a lot of people seem to wear in their music selecting.
"It's not the type of music you hear at a frat party," Corrado said. "People only ever hear the same play lists from the radio. They can't find meaning in the music they listen to because there is none."
Bryant likes the band for the chill atmosphere their music provides.
Corrado agreed.
"It's not the type of music that makes you want to go out and start fights," he said.
"It makes me want to get high," he added with a laugh.
Either way, the tickets are slightly cheaper.
