Article featured in The San Diego Reader By Russ Bauder "I think that Physics is kinda ambiguous," says Physics guitarist John Goff.  "It's not really a rock band.  All of us have done the rock thing for long enough and we don't give a shit anymore, but it's not like an anti-rock band either.  I don't really know how I feel about it.  It's enjoyable and it's fun, that's why we keep on doing it, but we have no real notions of ever making it big.  It's just kinda fucked up weird music." For the enigma that is Physics, both the band and the science, there is a limit on explanation.  More than one audience member has wondered why they play one musical piece for 35 minutes, and then are done.  Their songs are repetitive and perisistent -- a methodical, yet spontaneous, bombardment of notes.  The group, in one form or another since '93, is currently made up of three guitarists, three keyboardists and one drummer.  They have had six drummers; Brian Cantrell moved onto the blues-based band Hot Chicken Stew and Ben Johnson, he ended up with the indie metal group, the Owsla.  Their best show, according to Goff, was when only two guitarists and two keyboardists -- no drummer -- showed up.  After one particular performance, a guy approached the band and said, "I fell asleep, but don't be insulted -- I fell asleep -- but it was really good."  Two hours of obscure conversation with guitarist Jason Soares, including dips into quantum theory (where I have no business going), brought about only one conclusion: they are as indie as indie can get. "Personally I'm trying to redefine what makes a band in a modern time," says Soares.  "I don't like the idea of a band.  There are some problems with it, the first and foremost being is that it is a very product-orientated thing.  What I would like to see happen is trying to gravitate towards a long-lasting way of appreciating music in a different sense." Music is consumed in three minute bites these days, says Soares.  That would be only a nibble off of the 20-minute live recording the band did at the Casbah in '95.  These guys do it their own way.  For years Soares ran his own little label, Negative Records.  He released vinyl classics of Truman's Water, Powerdresser and Three Mile Pilot.  Goff has his own label too, The Way Out Sound.  For Physics, they do no marketing, no networking, no showcases.  They have a compilation CD out on Flapping Jet Records, and a soon-to-be released CD with Gravity.  "It isn't like an ends to a mean, or a means to an end, it's already done," says Goff.  "We've already gotten the satisfaction out of what we wanted to do.  We don't need a major label to make us done, we're already done.  We haven't thought about band longevity kind of things.  It could just go anywhere.  I'm not against signing to a major.  If someone gave me a lot of money, I'd be fucking stoked.  It's just whatever we want to do.  It's really self-indulgent.  I think it's highly creative because we haven't put these restrictions on ourselves.  It's just whatever.  It's just random." I think that's what Soares was trying to tell me about breaking down atomic matter, I'm not sure.