You're gonna do the popcorn all over the place!

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S: Any words of advice to new filmmakers out there?

JMM: Yeah, just watch Steckler's LEMON GROVE KIDS MEET THE MONSTERS.

S: Ray Dennis Steckler...

JMM: Look at how simple and carefree the art of filmmaking is! It's a gorilla suit and a pretty girl! Just shoot the film for Pete's sake! Lately I've been wondering if editing is even all that important.

S: Do you think Russ Meyer's films are personal?

JMM: Sure. But all the reviews I've read of FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! don't really refer to that. No one has ever noted how the characters are metaphors for Meyer's World War 2 experience: Tura is Japan, Haji is Italy (or Spain), and Billie is Platinum Americana. Tura and Haji are in bed together, politically and sexually and Billie winds up stabbed in the back, but not before befriending the Victim, who is a metaphor for Europe, or perhaps the Jews.

S: The bookworm survives as well.

JMM: As does the vegetable, who defeats Tura's machine. But it's American book-smarts and a bikini clad Playmate who walk away at the end of the movie! Oh yeah, and Stuart Lancaster is FDR: the old man in the wheelchair!

TV, 60's garage punk, comic books, jungle movies, deep-ghetto R&B

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The Cramps' first 45 was just about as gonzo as their second, and hoisted them as a mutant compliment to the Ramones & Dictators' corner of the New York underground. "Surfin ' Bird" was the band's five-minute mutilation of the Trashmen frat fave, commonly called "the worst song of the 60's" by squares who didn't know any better. Ivy and Brian Gregory create a dense aural cave for Lux Interior to wail and cry in, and the Cramps again proudly exhume the corpses of their rock heroes - bones, worms and all. The treatment given to Jack Scott's "The Way I Walk" is more reverbed, rollicking and loose .... the rockabilly hustle of the original is slowed down to a leering, sexed-up and fuzzed-out swagger. They continued this winning streak for quite a few years, cashed in (relatively speaking) on their own image around '85 or so, and were last spotted playing as Camel cigarette sponsors at kool niteclubs nationwide.

they were insinuating that we had sex with Iggy to get on the tour

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It's not like I've never drank and I've never done drugs. I've experienced those and they are completely boring compared to when you get into another human being. When you can experience anything in life without those things in the way, you find that they are just in your way. They just dull and blur the intensity of what you have in front of you. And the last thing I want to have to do is get drunk to have sex with somebody, you know, because that's pretty bad. Sex, people, and rock'n'roll are such intense, amazing things that I would hope that you wouldn't have to get totally wasted to experience them. For me, I don't have a penis, but for those who do, they may find that too much of either substance can ruin that whole program.

''You fuckers will never play here again!"

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They were some wild, drinkin', crazy people, with a really dark sense of humor, and who loved to pick fights that they could not win. The show in Amsterdam was both of us opening for the Chesterfield Kings. So the Teasers just insulted the Chesterfield Kings the entire set, right at the front of the stage. 'Fuck you, You idiots!' They'd even made these quick homemade signs with 'You Suck!' 'Fuck You!' Now the Kings were not wimpy guys, a couple of them were real bruisers, and they were really mad. 'As soon as this set's over we're gonna kick all of yer asses!' And the Teasers are just laughin' and laughin'... So the set's over, the Kings rush out to the parking lot to get to the Teasers, who are now totally shit-faced and still talking shit - these little tiny Scottish guys. And one of the Kings grabs the Teasers guitarist and starts threatening him bad, about to really tear into him. And the Teasers guitarist goes, 'Oh, yer a big man, picking on the wee li-ill faggot like me. Ho, you're a big man!' He's out of his mind drunk, but using this amazing psychology on the guy. So after five minutes of this, the Kings guy pushed him away and says, 'All right, I'm not even gonna fuck with you, you faggot!' And it defuses the whole situation. It was amazing to behold.

What is your definition of Soul Music?

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It's easy to laugh at trainspotters and bird watchers. It's harder to understand what motivates them. Forced to defend themselves they might just say that some birds and certain trains are worth waiting around for. Well, i've witnessed the excitement of people revelling in the first flights of baby falcons in the Bristol area, and seen the joy of enthusiasts catching the sight of new Eurostar high speed train en route for Paris as it tears through London's jumbled suburbs. Delighting in the unexpected and the joy of discovery. Now that i can understand.

"Wow, you're Dan from the Gories? Wow! really?!"

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Mick Collins: We’re sitting on Tav's porch just hanging out, and this car pulls up. And this girl gets out, and she’s walking to the door and said, “Hey, excuse me for just a moment.” And she busts the window and then reaches around and opens the door. We’re like, “What the fuck?” Then she’s in there and we’re sitting there, like, “We’re from Detroit, you know. It’s not like we haven’t seen this before.”

Dan Kroha: So we drive up to Tav’s, and the first thing we see is Tav’s recently ex-girlfriend, Lorette Velvette, climbing out of the window of the house. She had broken into the house to get back some of her stuff. We said, “Hey, how’s it going?” She’s like, “Hi!” We were like, “What’s going on?” She’s said, “Oh, I’m Lorette.” She had a bag of potato chips. She goes, “You guys want some chips?” I said, “What are you doing?” She’s like, “Well, you know, Tav and I just broke up, and I was just getting some of my stuff out of the house.”

we were going to show people what primitive meant

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Dan had gotten this compilation called Scum Of The Earth, the most ridiculous record with the stupidest bands ever! I was like, Man, I can play guitar better than that and I don't even know how to play guitar.If these guys can get records out and 20 years later we're hearing 'em, we thought we can put a single out and 20 years later kids'll be pointing and laughing at us, too.

the rockinest, sexiest most primitive rhythm and blues

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I've seen the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion a couple of times and they're rockin'. This young girl came up to Jon after their Detroit gig and asked him how did he get so much soul. He said he sucked a lot of black cock. That girl had obviously never heard a Stax record. Dig? - Dan "Croha"

Hey,someone puked in the wastebasket

                                                           Never let the audience forget who they saw