The Band Talks About The Inspiration Behind Their New Single "151"

In this post, a few of the guys from Crash Midnight sound off about the inspiration and general story of how their latest single "151" came to be.


SHAUN: It’s funny, this song wasn’t really intended to be a real song. We were out partying and pouring through bottles of 151. That song Nightrain came on by Guns n’ Roses and we kind of were joking around like, “those guys were some of our biggest heroes and we’re drinking harder stuff than them.” We thought we were being really cool and so we started spoofing on that song, singing about 151. The song was originally kind of a joke on that and then so many people kept telling us how much they liked it, we decided to make it into an actual song.

BO: The stuff is jet-fuel!

SHAUN: Yeah and we’d be going out emptying a bottle of it every night.

ALEX: We started signing a bunch of empty bottles and giving them away to people.

SHAUN: Even though we gave a lot of them away, we still had stacks of those bottles in our apartment. We found a place that would sell it for like $16 bucks and we pretty much ran them out of stock each week.

ALEX: My uncle owns a bunch of bars in Columbus and when he heard about this song he said “You know that 151 is something you're only supposed to have a little of once every couple months or it destroys your body?” We probably went through a lifetime supply about every week, but I love this song, and I love this spirit. I remember being 18, in this band, and drinking nothing but 151 for a year. And that's about all I remember.

SHAUN: This was the stuff that was the root cause of a lot of stories for this band. Bo passing out in the Boston Commons comes to mind.

BO: I drank a lot of that