Groove Lingo: Can you guys introduce yourselves for our readers?
Michael Subvert: Why am I starting?
Angie Milk Mulch: Cause you're talking
Groove Lingo: Cause you're the "leader"
Johnny Goth: And we're drinking
MS: I'm Michael Subvert and that's all I have to say about that. I sing. Kind of. But I sang very badly on the recording and I'm doing all the tracks over again on the 31st.
Steven Needy: I'm Mr Fake Name.
AMM: What name would that be today?
SN: Steven Needy, Bass Player.
MS: Which one's your name? Bass player? Or Steven Needy?
SN: Both
JG: I'm Johnny Goth and I'm out of beer.
AMM: Angie Milk Mulch
SN: I'm not getting drunk tonight, I swear.
AMM: I pick up sticks, I beat skins, but that doesn't mean I beat up coneheads. They'd kick my ass.
MS: I work with a guy named Skins, have you beaten him?
AMM: No
MS: I'm just wondering. He looked ok today, that's why I asked.
GL: Michael Subvert, you said you were going to say all intelligent things at this interview.
MS: I need intelligent questions!
GL: Ok.
MS: hahahahahahahahahah Fuck!
GL: Can you provide some of them for me so our readers can hear them?
MS: No, I'm on strike until I get some smart questions.
GL: Ok, well, you're probably out of luck then...
JG: Ok, then, more beer!
AMM: Hey! don't drink all that damn pitcher!
GL: Now that the whole suing fiasco is over, what does Trailer Trash (UK) mean to you guys besides America and Sunshine?
JG: But that's what it means to me!
MS: (singing) What does Trailer Trash mean to me?
Um... Trailer Trash... (repeating myself) .... what TT - actually I'm repeating you - TT means a band in Minnesota that's suing us.
SN: Rehearsals twice a week
MS: We used to have rehearsals twice a week... TT means that I'm not as depressed as I was when my last band broke up. I'm happy now.
(JG: On my summer vacation I went down to the drugstore to look for a job)
GL: How about you, Mr. Needy?
SN: Well, Trishy (pausing for effect like a smartass) ... I think, that TT means to me is Self-Expression. Freedom of Self-Expression.
JG: See! There's freedom! You're not allowed to say freedom.
SN: Ok, I'm sorry.
MS: Wait, who made up that rule?
JG: Well, you can't say answers you said last time.
GL: How about you Johnny Goth?
JG: It means more beer! No, there's a theme here always...
AMM: Yeah, that would make sense
SN: You need something of an answer.
JG: Oh, serious thoughtful answer ... Well, I'd like to think that Trailer Trash (UK) is a catharsis of sorts, not just for us, but for the millions & millions of little people everywhere who look to us for guidance, strength, for leadership. We're the new saviors, we are Jesus' second coming.
MS: It's incredible--people have looked at us and don't know who the f+%k we are.
JG: I don't think thery are looking here. They happen to be looking in that direction and you thought they were looking to us.
MS: They were looking to you, not to Trailer Trash.
JG: I am, after all, Johnny Goth!
MS: Legions of 15-year old girls looking to you for a place to put their panties.
GL: And you, Angie?
AMM: Ah, yeah... I think it means ... TT means a band in Minnesota that plays country music.
MS: What country?
AMM: I think, uh, that Belarus place.
MS: Belarus, Belarus
AMM: No, No No No n-n-n-n-n-no. TT... uh yeah. It's my new band.
MS: Yeah! You're in Trailer Trash now.
AMM: I'm in a band now, TT, and I've been in TT for a little over a year now and it's really cool.
MS: Johnny, how long have you been in Trailer Trash?
JG: I couldn't even tell you anymore. 10... 15 years
AMM: Over a month
MS: Steven, how long have you been in TT?
SN: 7, 8, 9 months... I dunno. I'm not sure.
JG: Longer than any other bass player.
MS: You look like you're about 9 months.
(there is some random shouting out about the tape recorder and a story about Jello Biafra and how he used to do all his songs by taping each instrument with a different tape recording and then put them all together. that was a gross oversimplification. I'll type it in later when I have some more time.)
GL: TT - I hear you're going into the studio soon to record a new cd.
AMM: We're in there studio now
MS: We're in there now.
GL: You're in there now? When are you done in the studio?
MS: Hopefully on the 31st
GL: How long have you been in there?
MS: Well, I'm not in there right now. It seems like years though, doesn't it?
JG: We've got like 8 1/2 hrs in there so far, it just doesn't mean a lot to anybody.
GL: How many songs are you gonna cut?
MS: We're gonna cut all our songs. We're not gonna put any on the cd.
AMM: How about they all suck, especially the ones we play
JG, SN: 7
MS: Seven
AMM: Zeiben
(shouted out from some direction:) Leiben-Loben
AMM: You gotta follow the German
GL: I don't know any German
JG: Viagra!
MS: I know a few Germans, (points to AMM) You know 1 German!
AMM: I know 1 German, I'm gonna go there and get...
MS: You gotta get a passport
SN: (You know a little German)
AMM: Here we go yelling again!
MS: She's ready to ask another question?
AMM: Did we answer the last one?
MS: We're doing 7 songs...
JG: Is this interesting enough or do you want us to embellish more?
MS: Did you wanna know the song titles?
SN: Potty Flow, Bucket of Shit (radio friendly songs)
AMM: Laverne & Shirley Theme song (or Our way)
SN: We've got uh... Smell of Success, Ummm.... Ahh.... That other song that you know, has that thing in it...
MS: What's the thing that we did at the end cause we screwed it up? I don't remember ... did we do Scouts?
SN: Scouts is good!
MS: Scouts makes me smile (happy song)
AMM: And what else?
MS: There's one more. And now I've forgotten... Body Blow? That was GI Joe!
MS: Oh GI Joe!
JG: GI Joe! GI Joe! Yay!
JG: He's my hero!
GL: So is that the recording that's going to make you rich and sell a lot of records and spread happiness around the world?
MS: Oh yes, because we're selling them for $10,000 each. We figure we'll each sell 5 and then we'll live off the money for a year...
SN: We're going to be signed to Capitol after that one
JG: I wanna be on Virgin
MS: You'd like to be.... hahaha
SN: Warner Brothers
MS: I wanna be on Victory!
JG: Yes, Victory!
MS: We actually just got signed to Victory cause they liked his shirt
AMM: I wanna be on the pill. I wanna be on the pill.
MS: You wanna be on the pill?
AMM: I do not want to get pregnant! I REALLY Do Not want to pass a child through my urethra
GL: Ouch!
JG: That's another song! Pass a child thru your urethra! There's a song right there...
AMM: Or is that an album?
MS: You know one of the songs we're doing tonight is called ... one of the songs we don't possibly remember... You know what the title of the song is? Battered Mangled Chicken Embryos. Ok, that last song we did.
SN: Is that scrambled eggs?
AMM: something you learn...
MS: It's battered mangled chicken embryos - gotta have 'em want 'em now
battered mangled chicken embryos - and a bloody bludgeoned cow
battered mangled chicken embryos - baby seals on whole wheat toast
& it goes on...
JG: we're pausing now
MS: ok, we're gonna pause now
(we get some more beer & other stuff)
GL: How would you say that TT is different from previous bands you've played in?
JG: We have a vocalist. I never had a vocalist before
MS: I thought you were the vocalist?
JG: That's what I mean, we never had a vocalist. We had a ...
MS: You don't count yourself?
JG: I was a guitar player who sings. But as a vocalist - someone who actually sings - who does the job of being a vocalist...
AMM: My old band had a vocalist once but he lied to us and he stole from us and he fu$#ed my girlfriend and he's gone now.
MS: He's not living any more?
AMM: he swore to God that... not to God... He swore to us that he didn't believe in God, but then all of the sudden he's like a God freak.
JG: I swear to God I don't believe in God!
MS: But when he was down on his knees and you were holding the bottles he said, I swear to God!
AMM: We... we, and I swear to God, he said, we were supposed to play the White Zombie Album release party on Staten Island, and we called up the club and the club said "We've never heard of you" and he was gone - That's how the old band was different from this one
JG: I see, that's how the old band was different
AMM: Apparently yes, we don't have a singer who's a dickhead in this band.
MS: Well, that's very nice of you, thank you for saying that.
JG: Did you play the Gothic Bar in Staten Island?
AMM: No. It was called Onstage
JG: Same place, though
MS: The Gothic Bar, that should actually be called the Bar Gothic, cause it's more of a bar than it is Gothic.
SN: This band for me is more, like, you know, punk-rock
MS: than the Christian band you were in?
AMM: than the Christian coalition you were in?
MS: The way this band differs from the other band I was in, well... differs from the last band I was in... is I like these guys. That pretty much covers it.
AMM: Oh great
JG: Mike just lost a lot of friends, I can tell you that
MS: finally, He kept saying he was gonna kill me now
AMM: This is the part of the interview that we start pissing people off...
JG: Stop the tape, actually!
(Don't worry, I didn't stop it)
GL: So if you could open a show for any of your "gods" - who would you pick?
AMM: No Means No! No Means No! No Means No!
MS: (joins in) No means No!
(No means Yes!)
AMM: I would take the Hanson Brothers, but No Means No
JG: Snapcase, snapcase, snapcase
MS: Johnny Goth said Snapcase (I'm helping you) Angie said No Means No, but I agree with Angie on No Means No, but Mike knows another one and he can't think of it
SN: The Who! I wanna open up for the who!
JG/MS: That would be cool.
AMM: I wanna open up for Led Zeppelin
MS: I wanna open up for Mudhoney but not on this tour, but on the last one when their album was good.
SN: I'd like to open up for Herman's Hermits
(oooooohh's)
AMM: I just wanna open up for Herman, and not the Hermits because I can only take one at a time
JG: I'd like Firepussy to open up for us!
MS: Here we go! Here we go!
AMM: Hey, hey wait a minute we played before they did
GL: Did you mean that in more ways than one?
MS: No, he means that in ONE way and it's got nothing to do with shows.
JG: I'm gonna get them
AMM: It's like this strange thing. It's very weird, but we all like the corresponding member who plays the same instrument
MS: They all sing, I like them all. I like the band so I'm covered
MS: We're writing a new song called Where's my Beer? which is about our encounter with FirePussy
GL: I hear the talk about a TT thong. What is that?
SN: That's a rumor that thong thing. That's Mike's line of sportswear
MS: Thing me a thong after the lovin... (singing)
GL: How bout any other TT lingerie? Or a TT lingerie drag show?
MS: Yes!
JG: That might happen actually
MS: That could happen. I want us all to dress up and him (pointing to Steven) to be Huggy Bear
SN: I'll be Huggy Bear, yeah.
MS: He wants to be pimpin' for us
SN: Where's my money?
JG: I gotta do it before I gain 10 lbs, If I'm in muscular shape I'll be bustin' out
MS: That would be amusing too
JG: That's true but I don't wanna do it like that. I don't look good at all.
MS: If I'm doing it, I'm doin' it in a gogo dress, mini-skirt & stockings
AMM: I'm just going in like straight lingerie, fishnets...
SN: Completely nude?
AMM: N-nnnnnnn no
JG: My 6-inch stiletto heels
MS: No, wait, if I do the gogo dress, should I wear like the checkerboard tights? Or the
JG: Oooh the checkerboard tights! Checkerboard tights!
MS: Checkerboard tights - OR - the stockings with the dollar bills on them and the garter belt?
JG: stockings & garters, myself - I like garters better myself
MS: I like to wear garters myself... I like the feel of garters. I also like the feel of cotton but that's a separate issue.
AMM: I'm gonna wear a strap-on backwards so if I sit on my stool the wrong way... no - wait a minute
MS: Like the feel of back-on strapwards?
AMM: A back-on strapwards
JG: I'll be wearing my latex panties. Really seriously
MS: And at the end of the night we'll all be wearing your latex panties. one at a time
JG: I have latex panties, really
AMM: So do I. I was wearing them at the last 2 shows
JG: You have latex panties? They look great and keep you all strapped in
AMM: I was doing that for the last...
(we get sidetracked talking about getting a new pitcher of beer. Sorry folks, some things are more important than latex panties)
GL: What made you guys pick punk-rock as the music that you play?
MS: Did anyone remember picking punk-rock? I don't think we really "chose" it, i think it just sort of like happened to us and we liked it
AMM: I did. I knew I wanted to get into a punk band.
MS: No I meant like TT. Did we pick "punk-rock" or did we just?
GL: I mean how? How did it happen though?
JG: I responded to an e-mail
SN: How did it happen? How did we end up playing this kind of music as
opposed to ...
JG: How did he e-mail?
MS: I, Michael Subvert, was putting stuff all over the web trying to find people to be in my band. And I guess I kept putting punk and hardcore on my notes
JG: Yes you did
MS: Actually it was just punk
JG: It was just punk, no hardcore
MS: You were the one who kept saying Hardcore and when you wrote to me saying hardcore all that I could thing was that you must be some BIG beefy guy who hated homos. Remember that e-mail I sent you?
JG: Yes
MS: I quizzed you. I said "you know in the band I was in last, I used to dress up in women's clothes. Does that bother you?" 'cause all I could think is he's this BIG Beefy hardcore guy and we're gonna have a problem immediately.. And then you said - "By the way, I happen to wear a skirt."
JG: I'm Johnny Goth!
MS: So yes, I definitely wanted to be in a punk band. I didn't want to be in the pop-alterna band I was in for the last several weeks I was in the Subverts. What did you do?
(some beer talk. sorry. Priorities!)
AMM: I'll tell you how I got in the band. It took a day.
GL: All day?
AMM: A whole day. It took a day. I decided on a whim to send an e-mail to Jo-Ann of Thorazine that said, I'm looking to get into a punk band and play drums. I tried this before, it's like, I'll try it again. Next day she gets back to me and says, oh - e-mail this guy, Mike Subvert, blah blah. Next thing you know...
MS: You know what she says to me, right? She calls me up & says to me: I HAVE your drummer. She's like there's no question. Mikey will BE your drummer. And she was Jo-Ann so like, ok. I believe you.
AMM: Anyway, that was me. did he answer? (points to Johnny) Johnny has to answer now.
JG: I've been playing punk rock for like... since I've been in bands, basically. I was actually... since I got in Philly, I stopped being in a band as a bit of a lull. and I ended up being in 2 goth bands at the same time actually. One of which could have gone very far had things not gone bad between me and the other performer. Long, sordid story. The other band could never meet on my schedule. That fell apart so.
SN: It was all about Johnny!
JG: It's all about me. So I sat around for like 3 months just waiting to be in a band. Went to a wedding reception. It was my friend in Buffalo, my drummer from my old band, may as well plug 'em: Grandma's Phat Phree Stubble
AMM: That's Grandma's Phat Phree Stubble
MS: WIth P-h's, those are important
JG: we played a reunion, we played 3-songs at the reception. Then the band I went to college with, they played the reception. They played a whole 2 sets, they were on tour. I thought - I wanna be in a band, I wanna be in a band and then there was this ad. I figured I wanna play punk and hardcore music only cause that's what I'm really comfortable at, and sure enough there was this ad looking for a guitar player and so I responded. It just happened to be punk & hardcore sounding stuff as opposed to being a Gothic band, and well, I can't play anything else. so that's all it comes down to.
MS: by the way, after you replied to the ad and came to the 1st practice and joined the band, about 2 dozen people who had seen the ad various times wrote to me just to tell me I was stupid and I was never going to find a good guitar player online and so I delighted in telling them: I found Johnny Goth!
AMM: You know, you actually found him on AOL too!
JG: The worst place to find people. Where'd that other guy come from? Yes - there was another guitar player for the 1st rehearsal.
MS: But he was a metal guitarist. Nice guy though
JG: Yes he was a very nice guy. He actually helped to write some of those early songs
MS: He just wasn't into what we were doing and we weren't into what he was doing, so it was like a cool parting but he was like a nice guy. Chris
JG: Chris, yes.
MS: That's right, he (Johnny joins in) played Gui-tar
AMM: And Angie would like to say he's the only cool guy in the band because he's not on AOL
MS: What? Chris is the only cool guy in the band?
GL: No, Angie
MS: Gabe!
JG: Gabe! Gabe is the only cool guy in the band!
AMM: (making a face) Gabe...
GL: Yeah - what ever happened to Gabe? I don't even want to ask.
JG: and our myriad of other bass players
MS: All of our bass players actually get sent to this home, it's in Idaho
GL: Uh-oh!
MS: And there's this little room & they have to talk to each other
AMM: You know what they do?
JG: They masturbate?
AMM: No, no no no... they make those potato chips with their...
JG: their masturbation?
SN: I'm NOT going there
MS: That's because you're not gonna ever leave the band
SN: That's cause I'm not really a bass player
JG: Who's been in the band then?
SN: Oh - I'm a guitar player.
MS: He was a guitar player in the band I kind of had between the Subverts and TT
AMM: that would be the guy who changes his name all the time
MS: That would be Garth, no Steven, No wait...
SN: The one who's not talking (laughs)
MS: The band was called Scum of the Earth but then we decided it sounded too metal
AMM: yeah
MS: But then again, the band was almost a band, but then it wasn't so it doesn't matter really, now does it?
JG: Was, not was
GL: If you guys weren't playing punk/hardcore music...
MS: We'd be in a bar doing an interview hahahahahahahahhaa
(oh how they love to give me a hard time. I should have kicked him under the table)
GL: NOooo... If you weren't playing that kind of music, is there any thing you're hearing right now (not this very minute) but in the past few months or so that you find really interesting, even if you don't think you'd get into playing it now yourselves
AMM: not if I don't get into it
JG: I'm doing it now if I'm into it
GL: That you don't really play yourself, but you find really interesting and that you might actually...
MS: That we might actually play if we weren't doing this?
GL: Yeah (see... they ask me the questions...)
JG: But I do play what I'm interested in when I'm not doing this. I have a little home studio and everything
MS: Actually, you do, like... you play bluegrass and
JG: I don't actually play bluegrass. I'm into bluegrass and stuff but I don't play it.
MS: What are you playing at home?
JG: I'm trying *SO* hard to make techno drum-n-bass kind-of stuff, industrial and gothic. Even learning jazz. and I'm waiting for my bluegrass videos to come.
SN: See, on the side, I'm actually a singer-songwriter out of the band
AMM: He does a LOT of stuff
MS: No, you're not out of the band. You can stay
SN: I mean out-Side of the band
MS: Oh, now you stay
AMM: he gets things done outside the band
MS: I've actually heard some of his solo stuff, The solo stuff he's done on his own
JG: I like the solo stuff he did with that guy. That was much better.
AMM: Really cool
MS: He did this song that's on this compilation. Were they all Jersey bands?
SN: I'm not sure
MS: He did this song on this comp of Jersey bands called "Waiting for Punk". He did this song called "Win the Lottery", which i really like
SN: Under Yukon Fudge
MS: Under the name Yukon Fudge - If you've ever seen a big pile of Yukon Fudge you don't wanna see it again. But it's a good song. It's a cool song. He does cool songs.
SN: I have this other stuff that's kind of folk-y, but punk-folk-y
JG: maybe that's it, where we can go to play punky-folk music, cause all my acoustic stuff is punky-folky
SN: I'm gonna start doing open-mic's next week
MS: I'm gonna start doing funky-polk music
GL: How about Funky Polka?
AMM: I knew her, she had to get her breasts reduced because they were too big, no... that's Punky Brewster...
SN: Notice I say that every week... There's an anti-hoot by this guy Adam Brodsky
GL: Oh yeah. I know him. Have you heard of that guy LeRoy Montana?
SN: No?
JG & MS: Bad, Bad, Leroy Montana.... (singing)
AMM: Baddest man in all Idaho
SN: Where's he from? Here?
GL: He's from New Jersey, but he plays the Grape Street a lot and some coffeehouses and George's 5th street and LaTazza and stuff like that
SN: Is it supposed to be aggressive-folk or something like that?
AMM: Aggressive folk? (laughing)
GL: Sort of like just him and his guitar, a little bit, but not really aggressive. They're more funny, like comical
MS: I know a lot of folks who are aggressive. That's actually a genre - believe it or not
AMM: Oh, I didn't know
MS: I kid you not
SN: I'll have to send you some of my solo stuff
JG: Well how many songs do you play when you do open mic?
SN: 2 or 3
AMM: but when you play with the corn in your ass, that's Agro-Folk
end of part 1... check back soon for Part II. More photos of the band will also appear then!
Check out the Trailer Trash UK website!
Their next scheduled Philly show is April 29th at Upstairs at Nicks.
Their next BIG show is Friday, May 7th with L.E.S. Stitches, the Hudson Falcons, Thorazine, Crispus Attucks, and Hope Beyond Hope @Bizmos, E. Stroudsburg, PA... check out the Bizmos website, http://welcome.to/bizmos. Show is 6pm, All ages.
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