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Step into the vortex. Clangs and blurts and crashes and screams. Memphis is dead and dancing on it's grave just brings bad luck. The Lost Sounds call it home!!!
A-Alicja (vox,kybrds,gtr)
J-Jay (vox,kybrds,gtr)
R-Rich (drms)
What is the Black Wave?
A: The Black wave is the style of music we are currently playing. A mess of all the other styles.
J: The Black Wave is the genre of music we are currently playing.
Is the Black Wave a curse on Memphis? I noticed on the album the Black Wave is engulfing the skies of the city.
J: I think the Black Wave is a manifestation of what's been goin' on in Memphis for years. It's a combination of all the hope and desperation of Memphis. A mess of music that sums up it's history as far as music goes. We've got the horror-rap representing the Triple 6 Mafia, a little bit of the metal, a little bit of new wave-Memphis had a couple of decent new wave bands that didn't make it, got the whole generic rock thing goin' on but, y'know maybe not so much of that gee-rage rock.
Weren't Tora Tora from Memphis?
J: Tora Tora...yes. They moved on to be in a band called Chickenhead.
I was wondering if anyone of them have tried to get a Rap-Metal thing goin' on.
J: Members of Tora Tora are in a band called Saliva. They just had them on MTV2.
Just think...A few years down the road you can hop a new genre.
J: We were watching a special on MTV2 tonight about rock stars and we're actually thinking about doin' a little bit of the rap-metal.
You should. The next album?!
J: Actually it's gonna be a 4 LP set. Each one different. One's gonna a straight hip-hop record, one's gonna be electronica, one's gonna be what we're currently doing and the final one's gonna be complete rap-metal.
Is garage rock dead?
J: I think it died a long time ago. I mean, I think as soon as a form of music becomes viable enough to pedestrians that you go out to a rock show and you see 400, 500, 600 people lining up to see these MTV2 bands. I think a genre of music is basically dead when you start having employees of chain stores like Tower Records talking about how great the new band on MTV2 is. I think it's a dead genre at that point...I just don't think it's viable at that point. I mean, what happened to your Make-Ups? You're Johnny Eat Fires or whatever, your Delta '72's. I think as soon as you have basically indie rockers emulating styles of music...it's dead. Rock and Roll is dead when a bunch of indie rock kids are doing it.
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Is There a lot of EVIL in Memphis?
J: I'm convinced that Memphis is a pretty evil place. Yes, and anybody that I would consider to being a decent human being is not from this place?
Do you think that evil has cursed you? Maybe the Black Wave has put a curse on YOU!
J: I definitely think that our curse now is we went to Elvis' candlelight vigil and on the way back we decided to try find Elvis' original grave which had been desecrated by obsessive fans and actually had tried to be dug up numerous times and Rich decided he had to piss when we were in the graveyard and he pissed on a couple of graves. I told him "Y'know, that's bad luck" and he said quote unquote "Fuck the dead people." After that he broke his ankle, lost all of his clothes and got the worst case of poison ivy I have ever seen while we were on tour.
What type of New Wave references should one make when they're talking about the Lost Sounds?
A: As far as New WaveI don't know about everybody but I think that Jay and I both like Krafwerk a lot. Y'know, Devo...the typical more popular bands. Gary Numan and that kind of stuff.
If Ric Ocasek offered to produce the next Lost Sounds album, would you let him do it?
A: Oh yes! Definitely!
What's this Hot Dog Hitler thing I've been seeing?
A: This dude named Abe was walking down the street one night and, y'know how trucks drive along and little boxes can fall off the back of them? You find some thing in the middle of the street, like a little present, and he found of box of hot box all frozen. A box of about a 150 of them. So there was this show after Zack's, who plays in the Final Solutions with Jay, wedding and these hot dogs had been looming in the freezer for awhile. Later, I guess around 5 in the morning, they rediscovered the hot dogs and started throwing them all around the place...Then it shows up on the Goner Website.
Have you ever had any brushes with Jerry Lawler?
A: Actually, Yes. I have met Jerry Lawler. I was in a wrestling match with 8 different girls and we had to pudding wrestle. One of the girls, a big girl named Mez, had known Jerry Lawler since she was a kid because he was one of her dad's friends. This was at the time he was running for mayor and he was gonna be one of the judges for the wrestling contest. We were all suppose to dress up in costumes and go meet him and I didn't know what to wear. I had this wrestling mask on, it was all black and I had a pink cape and blue stars. I was trying to look like a ridiculous wrestler and all the others came in lingere and skimpy outfits and I was like "Shit, I thought I was suppose to dress like a wrestler." So I get to meet him and he's talked about him campaign to me. He's actually reeeally small and he has all these scars all over his forehead from making himself bleed. Then we got to pose for pictures with him and I got to put him in a full nelson.
He didn't invite you out to see his Cadillac?
A: I don't remember seeing any crazy lookin' Cadillac.
Ya wanna comment on "the Dirty South?"
A: I think a lot of people don't know what it is. I mean, it's really oppressesive down here in ways but it's not like were so behind the times that the black people and white people won't talk to each other. But the Dirty south....there's just white rednecks and black ghetto people and it shocks people when they come from California and see oppression
But what do you think of the music?
A: Yeah! I love Memphis rap! I really like 3-6 Mafia, I like the a lot of the Project Pat songs but some of them are just so depressing. I feel like that even though these bands would never listen to the Lost Sounds I think it's the same form...It's seems really dark and evil and scary to other people but to us it's fun and funny. It similar cuz when you live around it everyday...It's just weird. There was this hardcore band that came from California, they were this political band and thinking that they were gonna save the world and they drive down this normal street in Memphis called Danny Thomas Blvd and they're all freakin' out and locking the doors. They said in Maximum Rock-n-Roll that they had never seen oppression like this before. I was like "God! I can't believe this. No wonder you're so idealistic that you think you can save the world with a hardcore record."
Do you think there's a Lost Sounds curse.
A: Lemme get Rich on the phone?
R: Do I think there's a Curse...Naw...Hey! Detroit! We try to hip it up tha HIP HOP!
Yeah! Dirty South man...
R: Mix in some CLASSIC ROCK!
Dude! You're in there.
R: We try to do with the PUNK ROCK! We try to mix it with the HIP HOP! Kid Rock man! Detroit!
Yeah! I know man...he does that shit He don't fuck around. Y'know, he put Detroit back on the map
R: FOREVER!!!!
You should demand to sing a song on the next Lost Sounds record so you can scream "I put Memphis Back On The Map!"
R: He even loves Pabst Blue Ribbon doesn't he?
And George Jones!
R: You know what funny is that a friend of mine made me a video of a bunch of shows and at the end of it there was an Insane Clown Posse video.
They're really kick ass, aren't they?
R: I dunno, man. THAT BAND IS WEIRD!!! Their music is STRANGE!!! I had never heard one Insane Clown Posse song ever before. That's shit's just...what a bizzarre band.
Their fans in Detroit are some intellectual giants.
R: The Lost Sounds have a Detroit member now. Jonas has left the band.
Really? What happened there?
R: He's gone on to do some other things as far as school and that kinda stuff. Our new bass player's cousin is the singer for the Piranhas. He lives here in Memphis.
Have you ever seen Jay break a tooth on the microphone yet?
R: No...Not yet! No broken teeth yet.
How about his forehead. Is it all calloused now from smashin' it against the mic?
R: It usually just leave grill mark image on his forehead. Jay don't do that stuff much anymore.
Did he stop in the last six months or so then?
R: Pretty much.
There's was a lot of blood goin' on that one night here. I mean, of course, before that fight and that shitty blood started happening. Y'know some live Rock-n-Roll blood goin' on.
R: Well...That's what the kids wanna see y'know.
I think it was something to watch when everybody got to drinkin'.
R: I got Miller Light.
Alright! Was it cheap?
R: $5.99. That ain't too cheap.
Is it your beer of choice?
R: My old lady gave me six bucks.
My old lady gave me ten. I think I should head down to the store myself.
R: You goin' out? Man! We gotta keep talkin'. Have you heard the new record?
Yeah! I played it in the store today as a matter of fact!
R: Are the Detroit kids warming up to it?
Ahh...The people seem to dig it but it's not the Indie rock kids though. I don't think most of that crowd even really like music. They buy stuff because their suppose and put on a shelf so the look cool when they have friends come over and look at their collection.
R: Like the Strokes!!! WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT THOSE FUCKIN' ASSHOLES?!?
I'm not advocating them either. I don't get it either. What do you think of the Faint?
R: They're horrible!
Got a dirty joke?
R: Anybody here got a joke? Nah. Nobody's got one?
Ever had sex in a graveyard?
R: Anybody here had sex in graveyard?
J: Does a handjob in your grandmother's house count?
Yikes!!!
J: Here's my dirty joke. The singer from the Faint, he decides to be a crusty punk for the summer and he's gonna hitch-hike across America. So he get's out on the interstate and a trucker pulls up and says "Hey! Where you goin'"
He says " I'm goin' to San Diego where all the good former emo slash now new wave bands are gonna go and I'm goin' out there to hang out and make it big."
The truck driver's like "Oh! that's cool, man. Do you want to meet my pet monkey Choo-Choo" and he's like "Yeah! I wanna meet your pet monkey Choo-Choo."
So Choo-Choo jumps on the
singer from the Faint's shoulder, starts playing with his black emo hair and the truck driver says "Hey! I wanna show you something. Look what Choo-Choo can do." So the truck driver slaps the shit out of the monkey then Choo-Choo starts givin' the truck driver a blowjob. The truker finishs off on the Monkey's face and then jumps back on the singer from the Faint's shoulder.
The trucker asks him "You wanna give it a try?" and the singer of the Faint says "Yes I do but I'm afraid you'll slap me too hard." That's my dirty joke....Anyway, I'm totally loaded off Excedrin and 40 ouncers right now.
Hey! You've snorted Pop-Rocks, right?
J: Yes.
Didn't you get some drain from it the next morning?
J: Oh, Of course!
Was it like a Cocaine drain?
J: I'd have to say it was like Kayro Syrup.
Did it fizz in your nasal passages?
J: It actually gave me a headache. It started popping in my sinuses. It kinda hurt. Alicja has a joke....
A: What's a pornstar with a blonde on either side of him?
What?
A: Full Support Ho's!
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