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 ciekawy wywiad z Jimmem i Jaredem z 2005 r.
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Wywiad przeprowadzony w 2005 przed koncertem w Chicago.
Interviewing Bloodhound Gang was a dream come true for me. I have been a fan of theirs since I was a freshman in high school. In fact, I almost got suspended from Catholic high school for quoting the line "You're Buddha, you're Shamu, you're Jabba the fucking Hutt" off "You're Pretty When I'm Drunk" to this overweight girl whose locker was next to mine. I guess I expected to be initiated with a wedgie or have to have my pubic hair burned prior to stepping foot on their bus, but boy was I wrong. Bloodhound Gang's ringleader, vocalist and focal point for this interview, Jimmy Pop, is an educated, well-spoken man. Sure he adds his little jokes and sneers, but Bloodhound Gang seem to know the difference between business and fun, even though they've spent much of their careers mixing the two.
Bloodhound Gang calls Pennsylvania home, but spend months at a time on tour. Rounded out by Evil Jared Hasselhof on bass, Lupus Thunder on Guitar, Willie the New Guy on drums and D.J. Q-ball, aren't really looking to be this mega band that fills arenas. Rather, they just want to come up with some music that makes you think and have a good time.
I chatted with Jimmy Pop and Evil Jared on their bus, which was parked in a small opening to the south of the Metro in Chicago. We talked about a little bit of everything from their new album Hefty Fine to previous drummers and outlooks on life.
Popular Underground Magazine (PUM): How Long have you guys been on tour now?
Jimmy Pop: Actually not long. We started October 1st, but it will go to the end of 2006. Our last tour was like that too, it was like 18 months. Jared and I have been out doing promotions, so it feels like we’ve been on tour longer. It’s just doing interviews everyday and things like that.
PUM: Hefty Fine has been out for almost a month now. How has it been received by fans, critics, who cares about them, fans mainly? Jimmy Pop: The critics have actually been better because guys who are probably six or seven years older than you, still have a place for us somewhere. So there’s less and less of musical snobbery.
PUM: How did you get with the lead singer of HIM (Ville Valo) on your collaboration on “Something Diabolical?” Jimmy Pop: We had met them in ’99. We were always doing festivals together and we just started hanging out with them and drinking and we had traded CDs and especially in 1999 and 2000 we saw them all the time. You know, Finnish Vikings, you can’t ask for better drinking partner, they’ll drink you under the table. So we exchanged CDs and I suddenly realized that no one was playing their CDs out here [in America] so I went to the singer Ville and said, “Dude, I’ll put your CDs out, I mean, I’ll start a record company just to do it.” They gave me the rights to their first four records and I put them out on Boston to start and it went really well, so then I had Universal, which is run by our managers, even though we have nothing to do with Universal, they put it out for me in the rest of the country. So just spend a lot of time together, hanging out and them going to our shows and vice-versa.
PUM: Your lyrics have seemed to spawn a lot of controversy over the years. You’ve had people protest at a lot of your shows and stuff. How do you guys react to that? Jimmy Pop: We were talking about that yesterday. The only thing that I find offensive is, without sounding too uppity, people’s intolerance to other things. Nothing bothers me, it just doesn’t, I don’t know why. I’m never approached by a gay person or there’s never a gay article written that says you shouldn’t make fun of Jewish people. It’s always what offends them the most that they’re out there protesting. It’s funny because we get a lot of that, you know “racism” and stuff. We’re taking a Japanese rock band out for six months, our bass player is [whispers] Milato or whatever that’s called. It’s funny seeing him getting called racist, his dad is darker than the top of that Sharpie [points at a black Sharpie sitting on the table].
PUM: Does it make you want to write even more offensive music? Jimmy Pop: It wasn’t pushing buttons, it just so happened that what we thought was funny and there’s a few friends that I kind of write the lyrics for and hope they kind of enjoy, it just so happens what I think is funny other people find offensive. It just worked out that way. Yeah, there’s never any plan to it. There’s a song that we were working on, we just haven’t gotten around to writing. It was about a black guy that gets shot into space by “the man” then he puts together this plan that he looks down on earth and sees to many white people and he’s gonna kill them and start with Michael Jackson. I gotta work on that, but that will raise some eyebrows.
PUM: Does anything offend you? You said that things don’t really bother you, but Do things offend you? Jimmy Pop: No, besides people who can’t accept other people. For me, I’m one of the few people who have been gay bashed and called homophobic. [During] our shows we used to bet dudes they wouldn’t make out with me for like half a second. Honestly, I’ve made out with more guys than any gay dude. I think it’s all in how things are said. No one in their right mind would find children being sexually abused funny, but it’s very rare that I meet somebody that doesn’t like a Michael Jackson joke.
PUM: Hefty Fine is your fourth studio album in nine years. Why does it take you guys so long to put out a record? Jimmy Pop: It doesn’t matter. The record company would love you to record and tour, record and tour, record and tour and after our last record, after 18 months, probably even more, considering we recorded the record together, after that we just didn’t want to be in the same room, the five us with instruments. We just took a break and put out HIM records and things like that. It’s more about the journey I think. We actually wrote a lot of songs, so our next one I would imagine would come out in 2007.
PUM: Now how did you guys get hooked up with Bam Margera? I’ve seen you on Viva La Bam. Jimmy Pop: I like Bam. Everything good in my opinion, people are very opinionated about, whether it’s The Office or Bam. You find people between the ages of 13 and 25 who love him or think he’s a sellout cunt. We both live about a half hour apart and when I went to do the record deal with HIM, I went to Helsinki and the lead singer is like, [disguises his voice to sound like Ville Valo] "Did you know that Bam Margera lives about 20 minutes from where you do?” And I was like, “I didn’t know that.” So he gave me Bam’s e-mail and we started hanging out. It’s fun because what they do and what we do; if you need someone to get drunk on a Sunday night when everybody else needs wake up for work [on Monday], there it is right there.
PUM: Where is your favorite City to tour in? I know you’ve been all over the world, but where do you enjoy being the most? Jimmy Pop: I would say, either Berlin [Germany] is good. Yeah, I would go with Berlin. It’s a cool city because it’s like the newest of the world Capitals. There’s a lot of energy. The people there are kind of doing what you’re doing where you’ll have people show up that are little 12-year-old teeny-bopper girls, but in the back of the room you’ll have a guy who all he listens to is trance, but he likes to drink Jagermeister with his friends to the Bloodhound Gang. You know, you get this eclectic mix. The last time we played there, there was a guy that came up and said, “I actually never listened to your band, it’s just I saw a picture of you wearing a “Fall” shirt and I’m like, ‘I gotta go check this out!’”
PUM: Would you say you’re more popular overseas than you are in America? Jimmy Pop: I think percentage-wise yes. We probably sold more records here, but we were double platinum in Germany, which is 500,000 [records sold] and our last record sold a million and a half here. So I guess more people here own it, but in Germany 5 out of 10 people bought it.
PUM: But I mean, as far as people coming to the shows, you seem like you’re out there a lot. You’re out anywhere, just not in the U.S. When I was reading your Bio, getting ready for this interview, I thought to myself, “They spend a lot of time outside of the States.” Jimmy Pop: Well, we started touring over there in ’96 and we do really well in most of those countries [like] Europe, New Zealand and Australia. I think you’re right, we played Malmo, Sweden, I think five times on our last tour and I think most people have never heard of Malmo, Sweden. I think we played Philadelphia, our hometown, three times. So you’re right about that.
PUM: What’s one of the craziest things a Bloodhound Gang fan has done for you guys? Jimmy Pop: The guys finds a banana and peels it and it was cold out so the banana was almost frozen. He and his friends piss on it, then works it like very slowly, so it doesn’t get all mushy, into his butt and uses his muscles to push it back out, puts it onto a plate that his friend throws up on, craps on the plate, mixes it all up and eats it.
PUM: Where did he do this at? Like outside of the venue? Jimmy Pop: Yeah, actually by the buses.
PUM: What was your reaction? Jimmy Pop: Awe, it was the most amazing thing I ever saw.
PUM: You guys have toured with tons and tons of bands. Out of those bands, which sticks out in your head as one of the craziest to party with? You guys obviously like to party. Jimmy Pop: We have done a lot of tours with Electric Eel Shock [they were opening for BHG the night I did this interview], we go out with a lot of nerd bands like Nerf Herder and Weezer and not that they’re stamp collectors, but those guys [in Electric Eel Shock] and I we were in Leipzig [Germany] and we drank a bottle of Absinth together, and I’m a lightweight, and they’re little Japanese boys and just the fact that they took it to that level. And HIM are definitely…, I mean they order three drinks at a time and they don’t stop. I’ve woke up in beds with them, so… [Evil Jared steps in]: That means he had a good night.
PUM: What’s it like for you guys to be on a tour with a band like Weezer? Jimmy Pop: We never did a tour with Weezer, we just did so many shows in a row that it felt like a tour. We’re one of those bands where we’re all really big music fans, but no one ever took us out on tour. The [person] that has ever offered, back in ’94, the guy from Sublime offered and then he passed away. And then we were recording this new record and No Doubt asked us. That’s the only two times we’ve ever been asked. Weezer’s cool. It’s very rare that you meet someone that’s not. No matter what record label you’re on and what management company you work with there’s a very few number of people that need to like you to make it happen. So many bands piss off those people that they just dissolve before the get there. Most people know that Limp Bizkit are assholes. Evil Jared: No, John’s alright. Jimmy Pop: John Otto? Evil Jared: Yeah. Jimmy Pop: I’m glad that they had their demise. Saliva were kind of rude weren’t they? Evil Jared: They were assholes. Jimmy Pop: There was one other band that were jerkoffs. Evil Jared: Everclear. Jimmy Pop: Everclear, oh right. But I mean anybody, whether it be Marilyn Manson… we don’t have a lot of celebrity friends. The ones we have are like “C-List.” Not Wendy from Snapple C-List, but I’m friends with one of the guys in Duran Duran; Tommy Lee, you go out to their shows and they come out to ours, you know, nice down-to-earth people.
PUM: You guys said that you’re really into music, so what are some of the bands that you’re really into right now? Jimmy Pop: I’m gonna get the new Depeche Mode, just got the new Fall record, Franz Ferdinand, the new HIM record. Evil Jared: Don’t forget the new [Iron] Maiden record.
PUM: You’re lyrics are somewhat indescribably crazy, but I think they are genius, where do you come up with what you write about? I think it takes a lot of talent to be able to do that. Jimmy Pop: Oh, thank you. The ideas come, the theme if you will. For instance, our first single in Europe, I guess it was supposed to be our first single here, but no one played it, “Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo,” we were just trying to find a lot of ways to have a code for fucking. Jared and I, we [wrote] it via E-mail, you know like, here’s a word; wallet, a vagina looks like a wallet, what words can we put in front of it? Ham, ham wallet! “Ralph Wiggum,” that one took a long time because we went through all the Ralph Wiggum scripts.
PUM: In your bio it talks about how you consider yourselves not to be good musicians, but I think you are. Evil Jared: What are you talking about, the only one of us who’s an actual musician is Willie [the band’s drummer]. Jimmy Pop: I had piano lessons from age five to eight. The fact that so many other bands use the sounds that came with the synthesizer, Depeche Mode would take the time to turn the mouse and make their own sounds and that’s how I got into music. To play a song straight through without a mistake, I don’t think any of us could do that. Evil Jared: I don’t think any of us have gotten up and stage and not fucked up.
PUM: But no one would really notice that.. Jimmy Pop: Yeah, you’re right. That’s part of what we’re about. Being in a band is better than being an actor or something.
PUM: When Bloodhound Gang first started out you had a hard time keeping a solid line up and selling CDs, what’s one of your biggest hurdles right now? Jimmy Pop: Willie our drummer, he wants to record and do the videos and photo shoots, but he hates touring, so what we’re going to do, come January, we’re going to get our friends like Spanky G (formerly Bloodhound Gang’s drummer). Evil Jared: First of all, we ain’t friends, second of all, that asshole ain’t coming back. Jimmy Pop: I think we all beg to differ, you’d enjoy that! Evil Jared: I would not enjoy that! Jimmy Pop: Why are you holding grudges? Evil Jared: I told you, Evil Jared holds grudges. Jimmy Pop: Besides the Spanky G idea, all of our friends that play drums, we just made a list today. (Jimmy reaches for the list) There’s some that we got that we know would never do it, like Dave Lombardo [Slayer drummer]… Evil Jared: That was like our pipe dream list… Jimmy Pop: Not really cause we put… Evil Jared: Tommy Lee. He might do it! Jimmy Pop: Who’s Stinky? Evil Jared: Spanky! Jimmy Pop: Oh, you just won’t give him the credit… Evil Jared: Right.
PUM: You guys were talking about Spanky G, how hold was that dude when he was in the band? Jimmy Pop: When he started, he was like 16. He had a growth problem. Evil Jared: His parents were hippies and they were all into Woodstock and shit, they were always doing drugs, like well into the third trimester so he was born with all these birth defects.
PUM: How has the reactions of people changed since the release of Use Your Fingers or One Fierce Beer Coaster through Hefty Fine. Jimmy Pop: I think more and more people, as we get older, I mean we’re not Red Hot Chili Peppers old, but we’re not Simple Plan young either. A lot of those people in the music business, journalists and producers from television shows had us in their CD collections in high school and college.
PUM: Do you get as much shit now, you know like people outside with signs? Jimmy Pop: We don’t get any now. I was just telling [Jared] how it’s funny when people call him a racist. His dad is African American. Evil Jared: I’ve been trying to get the protests started again. I like a lot of… Except when people said that we’re anti-Asian, which I don’t think we really are considering we hang out all day with those fucking Japs in Electric Eel Shock all day. How can you be racist if you’re buddies?
PUM: Give me a day in the life of Bloodhound Gang on tour. Jimmy Pop: I guess we wake up between 10 and noon… Evil Jared: I wake up a little earlier than that. Jimmy Pop: He also likes to work out, so while he’s working out, I drink Starbucks, gain weight and answer E-mails and we turn that back room in there (points at the back room on the bus) into kind of an office. Then we do promotion, answer more E-mails, do a meet and greet, start drinking about two hours before, play, lately everybody but [Jared] has a girlfriend, so what we’ve been doing, I found myself stuck with girls that look 10 or dudes that look like they want to blow me to wing for [Jared]. Evil Jared: I go out and look for the filthiest whore in the club. Jimmy Pop: Or whores, like you had in L.A. That was good. No one had to wing, cause he had those girls.
PUM: Isn’t one of you guys married? Jimmy Pop: Lupus [Thunder], Jumbo has a wife. Evil Jared: Yeah, that ain’t gonna last.
PUM: Yeah, I was going to ask, how do you keep that on a level playing field? Being on tour, having all these women coming up to you and having to balance a relationship. I would find that hard to do. Evil Jared: He is on the phone getting yelled at all the time. Jimmy Pop: The worst part of it is, his wife knows exactly what she was getting herself into because she was Eminem’s booking agent.
PUM: What keeps you busy when you’re not on tour? Jimmy Pop: Doing Viva la Bam, Jared went out and MC’d Slayer shows… HEY, the Slipknot drummer! (Refers back to list of potential drummers) Evil Jared: Joey? You know they’re in town. They’re playing tomorrow right?
PUM: I think so.
PUM: Can you imagine your life without Bloodhound Gang? Jimmy Pop: Three of us have degrees.
PUM: In what? Jimmy Pop: Mine was a major in Communications and a minor in History. [Jared’s] was business and Q-Ball’s is Environmental Science or something. We started doing this professionally in ’94 / ’95, so it’s all we really know how to do.
PUM: If someone walks up to you and gives you $50 in cash, what would you do with it? And you can’t give it back to them. Jimmy Pop: Was the person cool?
PUM: Yeah. Evil Jared: What else are you going to do with a guy that gives you $50? Give him a blow-job! Jimmy Pop: I’d go get a pack of Red’s and some Mickey’s and hang out. That’s at least $10 right there. I would buy him or her some smokes and Mickey’s and we would walk to one of those clubs [that says] who gets in and who doesn’t, because you know the cover is gonna be like 20 bucks anyway. I would blow it there and be in a club with hot models or something. Evil Jared: I don’t know, we were in that club last night it was like…It was in a place that we played at so they couldn’t kick us out. It was like a pornographer fashion model party. Jimmy Pop: In Minneapolis, Jared! Evil Jared: Yeah, but it wasn’t great. Jimmy Pop: The girls there are Minne-so-so.
PUM: When is the Hooray for Groupies DVD coming out? Jimmy Pop: I don’t know. Evil Jared: That’s a good question!
PUM: You’ve been working on that for a long time haven’t you? Jimmy Pop: Yeah, well, we just keep getting set back. One of the directors for our video, he spent two weeks working on that video and he’s the same guy that edits that stuff so we just gotta get our act together. Evil Jared: It’s a good DVD, at least it would have been four yeas ago. Now, it’s over. We were paying people to do all kind of crazy stuff, but since then, Jackass came, Viva la Bam, Fear Factor, so everything we did then, has been done a million times.
PUM: I read on your website, that you guys don’t feel the need to be this huge band, is that true? Jimmy Pop: Absolutely! We’re in a very comfortable spot because with every record we renegotiate and that kind of equals job security, but we’ve never been massive and we’ve been able to maintain. We have friends that can’t go out to the grocery store and shit like that.
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