Ryan Engleberger, bass
William Kennedy, keys
Graham Ulicny, guitar/vocals
Andrew McFarland, drums

How would you describe the “Reptar experience” in one sentence?

Graham Ulicny, Reptar frontman, likes to pregame with Jell-O shots. KRISTY DENSMORE/Staff

William: Imagine — you are in a Siberian greenhouse orbiting the second moon of Jupiter and the artificial clouds just erupted with Gak or slime, multicolored slime in very small microscopic mini spheres showering your body. That’s good.

Graham: Oh wow. I would have to say … a summation of every orgasm you’ve ever had in your life with everyone you’ve ever loved in your life.

Ryan: Alien abduction notwithstanding, experiences will be encountered that will be more foreign … more intense … more intimate and more jubilant than any others which you ever may experience. That’s all I got right now.

Andrew: Oh, I knew this was coming. Very prickly, but not so hot that it’s too hot, and breaking off to the point where existence is non-existent and where humidity becomes intertwined with the asshole god of the desert.

What’s your favorite before-show drink?

William: Shirley Temple.

Graham: Jello shots.

Ryan: That’s a tough question, I’m not gonna lie, because I know Andrew and I both like bourbon and ginger ale, but sometimes I like vodka tonics too. I like to have a lot of drinks before we play shows. It’s a pretty solid gameplan.

Andrew: I like to take blowjob shots. It’s where you get alcohol and then you put whipped cream on it. And someone lies down — I typically like to do them off Ryan — and you put the shot glass on their crotch, and you have to put your hands behind your back and bend down and grab the shot glass with your mouth and take the shot. And it’s called a blowjob shot because the whipped cream typically gets, you know, everywhere. That really gets me amped.

What’s the most exciting thing about playing outside of Athens?

Ryan: Well, the most exciting thing for me about playing outside of Athens is that I suffer from a very mild form of dementia, which involves me getting lost all the time — very, very often, at least three times a day. Sometimes multiple times in the venue. So it gets exciting when I’m not in Athens because then not only am I imagining that I’ve never met these people but I actually have never met these people. And so I don’t even know what to ask them to help get me back. That can get very exciting, when you’re wandering around in a place you don’t know at all, completely lost.

What’s the craziest thing you hope to do on tour?

Andrew: Oh my goodness. Um, well, I saw a billboard sign for a Victory motorcycles dealership, and Victory motorcycles are really awesome. And I’m at the driver’s wheel, just kind of cruisin’ through the desert right now and there are like — I don’t know if you’ve ever spent any time in Arizona — but there are these gigantic kind of mountainous hills just kind of sticking out of the desert. But we’re coming back to Phoenix and I would really like to get one of those motorcycles and ramp off of one of these mountains and then land back on another one. Like a totally different mountain. I think that would be just about the coolest thing you could ever do. They’re probably about, let’s see, maybe 20 to 30 miles apart, but that would be really fun.