NEW YORK WASTE, April 2007

GRANDE Interview
By
FRANK WOOD

FRANK WOOD: ALRIGHTY, SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN TOGETHER?

PAM, ERIC and CHRIS: Us 3 have been together for a year (we played together in another band). We found Jeremy about 8 months ago, through our friends Blue & Fernando(SUPERVILLIAN). They worked together at Guitar Center. Once we found Jeremy, everything came together nicely...

W: HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU REALIZED YOU COULD POSSIBLY MAKE A LIVING PLAYING MUSIC?

ALL: We're still waiting for that one!

W: WHY DID YOU GET INTO PLAYING? I MEAN WAS IT:

A) TO SCORE GIRLS?

CHRIS: YES!

B) LOVE OF THE MUSIC?

JEREMY: YES!

CHRIS: That too.

ERIC: Yes!

C) TO NOT BE ONE OF THE CROWD?

ALL: (Funny looks)

D) 'COS ALL YOUR FRIENDS, ETC TOLD YOU YOU WERE GOOD?

JEREMY: I have no friends.

E) 'COS YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOOD?

PAM: Well....yeah!

W: IF I ASKED THE OTHER BAND MEMBERS WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF YOU PERSONALLY,WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD SAY?

ERIC: I'm a real jerk.

JEREMY: They would crack jokes about my age, cuz they're OLD!

CHRIS: We all have nicknames: I'm "the lifer Peifer", Jeremy is the secret Soss, Pam is The METAL QUEEN, and Eric is Wiggy.

PAM: I have nice tits.

W: HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING?

ERIC: 27,since I joined the Kiss Army.

JEREMY: 13... My Dad played me a Kiss record, then showed me what a HiWatt sounded like when it's turned up all the way.

CHRIS: Most of my life... My Dad took me to see Kiss on the Love Gun tour, Judas Priest opened, it changed my life!

PAM: 30-ish... I guess dressing up like Paul Stanley when I was a kid must of had something to do with it. He's a REAL lady!

W: IF YOU HADN'T BECOME A MUSICIAN, WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'D BE NOW, DOING WHAT?

ERIC: Nicaragua, getting TP for my bunghole.

JEREMY: 6 feet under, getting eaten by maggots.

PAM: Bartending..ha-ha!

W: EVER BEEN IN JAIL/PRISON?

CHRIS: I was incarcerated one lovely weekend during the Guiliani administration.

W: WHAT FOR?

CHRIS: Nothing very glamorous, though I did get to eat a lot of bologna sandwiches.

W: JEREMY?

JEREMY: Not yet!

W: PAM?

PAM: yes. Bologna & welfare cheese sandwiches.

W: WHAT FOR?

PAM: For putting up flyers!

CHRIS: It happened to Nick Cave & Steve Kilbey, I guess it's a right of passage for Rock'n'Rollers!

PAM: Yeah! And narcotics!!!

W: ARE YOU CONTENT WITH YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW?

ERIC: Partaking in this interview has made me so!

W: SO I MADE YOUR LIFE COMPLETE?

ERIC: Absolutely!

JEREMY: Mostly, everything but the fact that I'm always broke.

PAM: I am, this is the best band I've ever had!!!

W: DOES YOUR MANAGEMENT/RECORD COMPANY LISTEN WHEN YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION TO MAKE?

ERIC: No they act like a bunch of invisible assholes!

W: WHO IS THE MGMT?

PAM: That's a good one!

W: WHERE ARE YOU GUYS HEADED?

ERIC: Panama!

CHRIS: We're on the Highway to Hell...

W: HOW ABOUT A CD? ANYTHING WE CAN LISTEN TO WHEN YOU'RE NOT PLAYING LIVE?

ALL: It's on the way...we're waiting for Pam to finish the vocals.

W: WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DRINK? BEER, WINE, WHISKEY, ETC.?

ERIC: Beer!

JEREMY: Bushmill & New Castle

CHRIS: Whatever Pam's serving...She makes a mean hot toddy!

PAM: Sancerre & Verve Cliquot

W: FAVORITE BAR?

ERIC: 7B

JEREMY: Three of Cups on Fridays with DJ SuperMorgan

CHRIS: OTTO's, on certain nights.

PAM: THE BOAT & LUCKY 13 in BROOKLYN!

W: BEST JUKEBOX?

CHRIS: Nat's ipod at Lakeside.

PAM: My ipod at OTTO's.

W: WHAT DISC/RECORD/MP3 IS ON YOUR PLAYER?

JEREMY: MASTADON, "Blood Mountain"

PAM: THE SWORD, "Age of Winters"

W: FAVORITE PLACE TO PLAY/ENTERTAIN?

CHRIS: Europe, tho' NYC ain't so bad.

W: FENDER OR GIBSON?

JEREMY: DUH!

CHRIS: WTF?!? RICKENBACHER, for the love of LEMMY!

W: DO YOU PLAY AIR GUITAR?

PAM: All the time!

JEREMY: Only when I'm naked.

W: I THINK I FEEL SICK!

W: HOW LONG HAVE YOU GONE WITHOUT DOING LAUNDRY?

CHRIS: Two months while on tour! I wore one pair of leather pants the whole time, & washed my t-shirts in hotel sinks & hang dried them in the van. When I put them on, they'd be damp & smokey.

W: FAVORITE JUNK FOOD?

ERIC: Coffee heath bar crunch.

JEREMY: Poutine.

CHRIS: Walker's crisps.

PAM: Cheesy-poofs & Fritos.

W: ANY PETS?

ERIC: Two cats - brothers STIV & CHEETAH.

JEREMY: A dachshund - Getty Lee.

PAM: Two French Bulldogs - DIO & DOLLY PARTON and a cat - TOONCES

W: CHRIS? DO YOU HAVE ANY OR DID YOU EAT THEM?

PAM: He's a vegetarian!

W: THE BOSS ASKED ME TO ASK THIS NEXT QUESTION. FAVORITE SEXUAL POSITION?

ALL: We're not sure... guess, ALL OF THEM!

W: WHEN IS YOUR NEXT GIG?

PAM: We are playing May 11 at Trash Bar.

W: WHO ELSE IS ON THE LINE-UP WITH YOU?

PAM: METAL JOHN, KING DUST & I think SUPERVILLAIN and some others. The promoter hasn't told us yet!

W: IF YOU COULD CHOOSE THE BANDS TO PLAY WITH, BESIDES YOUR FRIENDS?

PAM: MOTORHEAD, CLUTCH, HIGH ON FIRE and, of coarse.... BLACK SABBATH!

W: WELL, WE'LL BE BE WAITING FOR THAT SHOW, ON MAY 11 AT TRASH, AND THE NEW CD. HAIL SATAN! (I had to add that or PAM would kick my ass!)

ALL: HAIL SATAN!

FRANK WOOD