From owner-b7@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Tue Nov 29 12:44:37 1994 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com by fury.asd.sgi.com via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) for id MAA10352; Tu Kyuss mailing list Subject: KYUSS INTERVIEW: JESUS LOVES US! Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"GZfWH1.0.8Y2.KPvsk"@fury> Resent-From: kyuss Reply-To: kyuss X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/135 X-Loop: kyuss@fury.asd.sgi.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: kyuss-request Status: RO We came to Berlin to catch the Kyuss vibe. They should have given me a bigger net!! Kyuss, like all the music they make are *all* vibe!! Only 20 minutes before they are due on stage at Berlin's Loft, the Californian quartet are out in the street, hanging out with friends they mad last time around, making new friends, sharing a few spliffs and the occasional pipe, breathing in the night air and soaking up the atmosphere. A lot of bands play in Berlin and never see outside the venue or hotel, but Kyuss try to take it all in. They even went to the zoo this morning!! "In Australia we learned a trick, which was: you'll sleep all you need when you get home!!" explains guitarist Josh Homme with a sly grin. "There's so much nothing to do where we're from, and thid id what's cool about it, but when you're in a place like this it's like you have to get up and go!! You never know when you're coming back!!" Bassist Scott Reeder looks up from his beer: "You never know when your tour bus is gonna go careering off the road!!" he adds, referring to the time their driver fell asleep at the wheel. "We've been learning a lot on the way," continues Josh. "We've fight pretty hard hard for the right days off, like Berlin and Amsterdam. And I remember it all!! It's all one continuous blur, but I remember it. It's the names and faces I miss." Do Kyuss draw a lot of loonies to their gigs? "I hope so!!" Scott laughs "If there's gonna be five people here , I hope one of them's a crazy Metalhead, one's 40 and one's a Grunge dork y'know?" Kyuss have been learning a bunch of new tricks on their second European tour - including the one where you empty the hotel bar without paying!! "All the clear liquids are now water!!" chuckles Josh, cracking open another beer. "The first thing John (Garcia, vocals) does is pour a bunch of drinks, then he fills everything back up and resets the fridge. The next guy has to pay $60 for less than a pint of tap water!!" Isn't that bad karma? "Yeah," nods Josh "but we have many large deposits in the karma bank!! Except John, he's way overdrawn!! John's in big trouble!!" John is sleeping in his bunk, having been up all night exploring the city. He sleeps through Bob Marley tunes and more beers, but is keen to explore Berlin's Anarchist araea, Kreuzburg after the show. Josh reads when there's nothing else to do. On his trip, he bought Stephen King's "The Shining", a book on Greek mythology and the Bible. Would Jesus have been into Kyuss? "If he were alive today, he'd be bare foot and diggin' it!!" affirms Josh. "Y'know, he *is* Jesus - so by some miracle, he may have been listening to us back then!!" And that saved him from temptation? "No, because he didn't know the lyrics. He was doing his own interpretation of 40 days and 40 noghts!!" Actually, everyone does their own interpretaion of Kyuss lyrics, because no one knows what the hell they mean!! "It's all part of the bigger picture and it makes everything out of focus," offers Josh. "I think people do know what our lyrics are about in a strange sort of way. I think there's a couple of keys to how you should look at them. You should know they're gonna be ironic in some way, beacause a sick sense of humour is what it's all about!! "We don't like record companies, so lots of stuff that's on there is like 'Fuck you!!' But you should never know what our political views are through out music>" Kyuss can fill 500-capacity venues all over the world, but nobody bugs them for autographs. In truth, nobody really nkows or cares what they look like. "It doesn't matter what bands look like or say," says Josh "Fuck all that stuff!! I mean, if we're dicks, it shouldn't matter, and if you think our music's cool, it doesn't mean we're cool, y'know? The more you don't know what we're personally thinking, the better. I just want our music to be the only thing. We should be able to be total flaming assholes. "Nowadays, everyone goes 'Oh, I don't like that band, they have blue tennis shoelaces,' or something. I wanna skip all that shit. It shouldn't matter. Music is for listening. All that other stuff just fucks up the music." But it has to be very loud!! "The volume of out music keeps our ears clean because it blows the wax out," smiles Josh, offering me a weird eye-glass to look in his ear. "As long as you can feel it, you feel like you can push the sound around and it's all over you. Today, it's fucking loud!!" You don't just hear Kyuss music, you *feel* it. Kyuss could probably still play, even if they went deaf!! "I hope it doesn't get to that point," says Scott, "but it's like and addiction and the deafer youget, the louder you play. "I don't want ear plugs. I've never worn 'em and I'm starting to suffer. My ears are ringing all day every day. I try to tell myself that music is such a cool thing that you have to pay the price for taking it, and the ringing is just part of the bad side." And what would be the perfect Kyuss show? "I wish a Kyuss show would be like a Grateful Dead show!!" concludes Josh after much consideration and stories of nightmare acid trips. "The perfect Kyuss show would be whre half the people are dancing, the half are slamming, and the other half are... wait, that's three halves!! But y'know, outside the gig is like a sick carnival; they'll be fires and likes 30 people playing bongo drums. Every concert should be an event." Josh pauses and lets out a dangerous smile. "We came to take you waway from you life, and we'll put you back when we're done!!" 10 THINGS YOU GOTTA KNOW ABOUT KYUSS!! 1 METALLICA love 'em - so much that San Francisco's Kings Of Metal took Kyuss on the road with them on their last world tour. 2 FAITH NO MORE love Kyuss too. They gave Kyuss a US tour support slot. 3 Even GLEN DANZIG is one of Kyuss' Black Metal buddies, and the Evil Elvis doesn't like anybody!! 4 Danzig were reportedly turned to Kyuss by NIRVANA drummer Dave Grohl!! 5 Kerrang! discovered Kyuss at San Francisco's Kennel Club when they supported US Punk nutters The Dwarves. 30 people showed up!! 6 Chris Goss, frontman for cool-as-fuck retro rockers Masters Of Reality produced Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun and Sky Valley. 7 Kyuss say yes to drugs!! 8 Kyuss caused uproar at London's Borderline club earlier this year. They played so loud that the plates were rattling around on the tables in the restaurant above the club!! 9 Kyuss love big, fast Japanese motorbikes so much, that thier first album comtained an ode to the two-wheelers titled "Big Bikes". It's like "Wheels Of Steel" and "Hell Bent For Leather" rolled into one! 10 Bassist Scott Reeder used to be member of US Doom gods The Obsessed!! * * * * * There you go, the first of two Kyuss interviews, as promised!! Now we all have something to talk about!! Smut the dog.