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Nick Weidenfeld talks with vocalist Eddie Spaghetti You live in Seattle. I hear there are a lot of suicides there because of all the rain. How many times have you tried to kill yourself? I've only tried to kill myself like three or four times. I'm low on the rung. Nothing intentional though., just your standard daredevil suicide. Most people say that country music's for Homo's. What do you say to that? I'd say they're right. I'm gay as the day is long. If you were a season, which season would you be? I'd be a lovely springtime Eddie. Or fall, perhaps, not too hot and not too cold. See, I told I was gay. What type of groupies do you get? We get the hottest heroin chick studs out there. For them, it's the Super Suckers or Limp Bizkit. They go hand in hand. Gays do go head over heels for the Bizkit. Well, the first time we met him was pretty funny because we just met him and recorded the song. I t was my birthday and we have been recording down in South By Southwest for about a month. He came and recorded with us, and after the recording I couldn't have been any higher on life. I'd just recorded with /Willie. So we were walking around downtown, and who gets arrested? I do, thank you very much. I told the cop I was just recording with Willie Nelson, he's a local legend, an icon. The cop was like, "Yeah right, buddy." We were so close to jail, they just walked me there. What were you arrested for? You know, drunken publicness. Do you get arrested a lot? Not that often. It happens occasionally. It's always for something silly like that. Never something really cool like bloodletting, or pillaging and plundering. What's the stupidest thing you've ever been caught doing? International drug smuggling, although I guess it's not that dumb. Our readers can't get enough Willie Nelson stories. Do you have any more? One time we were on his bus, imbibing on all there is to imbibe in the vehicle. My roommate at the time was there and he likes to say he passed out. But I saw it, he fainted. He could do nothing, the stuff was too strong. And after he fainted, Willie looks at me and says, "Hey, he should be careful, this is the shit that killed Elvis." So, is it true he's a natural redhead? Yeah, he is a natural redhead. The drapes match the carpet. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Willie called you a pussy. What's that about? I would have to call him out on that one, because we arm wrestled and I kicked his ass. Are you a big drinker? Yeah, that's my main claim to fame. But every time I drink beer in the wrong place, I get arrested for it. I always thought I couldn't drink that much, but my friend Tim Bolton, in my band, was quick to point out that I can put back as many beers as anybody, and not even show it. I don't know. Sometimes I have four beers and I'm hammered and other times I put back a twelve pack and still feel like I can keep drinking. There are those mornings where I say I will never drink again, and then there are those when I roll out of bed and go off to the store for a tall boy to get rid of the hangover. Have you ever been with a prostitute? I haven't. I was just talking with my friend Danny, who was with one in Amsterdam. But he had a very unfortunate experience there. Would you punch an alien? An alien from outer space. Or an illegal alien, I had an incident in Boston with some unsavory fellas. I punched one of these guys in the face and my knuckle is still sore from it. So I think I will never punch another thing as long as I live. I've taken a vow against punching. But I will kick the fuck out of him. Do you own any guns? I don't own any. I writer about killing but I don't own a gun. I guess I'm pro-killing, anti-gun. Have you ever been to Tijuana? Actually, we just came from there. That's where I do the bulk of my international drug smuggling. It's the best place to do it. Last time I was there, we were at a club and there was this Mexican cover band playing Top 40 songs. We convinced them to let us play. So, we're playing and this crowd started gathering, and it was getting pretty good. Then, all of a sudden, something happened and it turned unruly in the place and they were after us. One by one, we slowly had to stop playing and take off. We kept doing more drinking, and I remember at one point I sat down on a street corner, and that's the last thing I remember before I was being prodded awake with a machine gun by a policeman on a horse. I was lying half in and half out of the street with all these bags full of cheesy Mexican blankets in my arms. The cop's poking me and screaming "Get up!" And so I jump up and say, "I'm really tired from shopping." I was just wasted, shit! You wake up to a guy on a horse with a machine gun, and it's a pretty frightening proposition. Do you party like a rock star? I have been known to. I can't say that I'm proud of it, but occasionally the urge bites me. And I've been known to tie one on. Recently I went down to Vegas and I got married. I got married to this skanky prostitute down in Vegas. She sold me some bad coke and I just said, "let's go get hitched". Later, we took this ecstasy, and we went walking around, like three miles up the strip, just out of our minds. Apparently, I was sleeping and walking at the same time. I kept saying things as if I was dreaming, and I'd wake up and say something like, "What are we doing? What's going on?" I was just a fucking mess. And I saw these photos from it, and I just can't believe my face. I'm wearing these glasses I have to wear when I drive or see a movie and one of the lenses popped out. And my eyes are so red they look like they're burning a hole in my head. I was just so fucked up, it was hilarious. How's the marriage working out? It's working out pretty good. We're about to go to Amsterdam together right now to get some more bad crank, and I'm going to make her work down in the red light district. We're going to rake it in. Where's the strangest place you've ever knocked a girl's boots? INowhere really that strange. Me and my wife were talking about that the other day and we decided to pull the car over and do it in the back seat. We were just on the street in Seattle, under the Space Needle. She could look at the Space Needle while we did it. Who would you like to talk shit about while it's on the record? I would like to talk shit about Limp Bizkit and Korn because they suck and are ruining music. All I have to say to them is: Die, Die now.
-courtesy of "While You Were Sleeping" -end of interview |
