Do you think Murray would be a good lover for my Greatness?
(Murray Neill, lead singer for local metal band, Drudgery. Check out the Murray page)

SUSAN: Yeah, you two would be terrific.

DUBIN: I don’t think so. If you were ever to “acquire” Murray, the hunt would be over and it wouldn’t be as exciting for you.

Acceptably spoken mortal. So, which came first, the Country or the Metal?

SKOT: The Country came first, I would say. When Mike and I got together to do this whole thing, at the first rehearsal, it was pretty much me throwing out some crazy Bluegrass riffs that later became the song, Disco Joe. I don’t think (anyone) was too hip on it at first. I know Dubin wasn’t (Laughs) He said, “I’m not playing Country music.” I said, “No, no, just give it a chance, ya know? Watch what it turns into.” And then it turned into what we have today.

So, you’re not a big fan of Country, Dubin?

DUBIN: Not at all. When Skot and Mike started talking to me about the band, I swear they never mentioned anything about Country. Because, if they had, I wouldn’t have called them again. I grew up in Philadelphia, and I always loathed hicks. Couldn’t stand country at all. I used to relish in Cowboy and Indian movies when a Pioneer settlement would get burned down by Indians and lots of Cowboys died. Anyway, as Skot said, the first time we ever played together, he started to play what is now Disco Joe I just about threw up. As soon as I heard the twanging going on in the verse, I wasn’t into it at all. But as time went by, I started to come to accept it and after a while, I began to enjoy playing it.

What is it you call your music again?

SUSAN: “Metal-Billy Country Punk”

Oh yeah, that’s right. Skot, of all people in the band, you look the least likely to be into Bluegrass. I would have guessed you to be the Punk/Metal influence.

SKOT: No, not true. Despite how I look, my influences are probably from Willie, Waylon and Johnny to…Iron Maiden. I grew up listening to Heavy Metal music, the whole ‘80’s Metal scene. At the same time, growing up in kind of a Country kind of family…I’ve always loved classic Country music. Always.

What about you Chris, are you a hick as well?

CHRIS: Well, Mike and I were in bands all the way back to ’93. We did mostly crap music. (Laughs) Radio friendly, crap music. Skot moved down to Fort Collins. We were in another band, but once Skot came down, we decided to shit-can that project and get going with what Skot brought to the table. Initially I was taken aback at the direction the music was going, but it was so fuckin’ cool.

MIKE: I’ve never been that much into the Country side of it. I’ve always liked the Country guitar, the Bluegrass banjo, that kind of thing. I’ve always been into something melodic. Something like Journey, all that 80’s stuff. Everything with the big choruses. I’ve always been into that.

A big romantic huh? How hot. What kind of music do you listen to when having sex?

MIKE: Good question. Everything from The Sundays to Tool. People would be surprised by The Sundays.

Murray likes The Sundays. This is acceptable to my Greatness. What kind of sex does one have while listening to Tool?

MIKE: Uh, the kind with ropes and pulleys

(Much laughter around the room)

What’s the craziest sexual experience you’ve ever had?

MIKE: (Laughs) Oh boy, here we go. I had a girlfriend that liked to get pushed around a little bit. You know, hit on occasion.

Sounds acceptable. Continue.

MIKE: (Laughs) She liked to get hit, punched. She liked to get her head smacked into the headboards like, HARD. (More laughter) She liked to get pushed around a lot. She’d do things to piss me off on purpose (much laughter around the room) She’d piss me off for the benefit of getting off so that I’d smack her head into the headboard harder. (Laughter) I once knocked her out accidentally (Everyone in the room is laughing hysterically)

What about you, Skot?

SKOT: Well, actually I have two stories. The first one was probably when I was 19 and I had sex with a 38-year-old who was my friend’s mother. (Laughs) That was the first time that a woman ever told me to hurt her, to hit her.

What’s up with you guys and hitting women?!? (Laughs)

SKOT: (Laughs) I don’t know!

What did she do to piss you off? (Laughter)

SKOT: Nothing. She just asked me to hurt her. So, that was my first experience with wild sex. I just smacked her ass pretty good.

What is it for mortal straight guys about smacking asses that is so appealing?

Skot: I like the sound of the smack. The butt, because it’s a meaty region. I don’t know. I don’t generally smack much ass when I’m having sex. (Much Laughter) Chris is an ass-smacker (Everybody looks at Chris and laughs)

CHRIS: I really don’t have any ass-smacking experiences. The craziest sexual experience I’ve ever had is holding this dick microphone (Laughs) (All interviewees of Maris The Great speak into a dildo with a microphone built into it. Ed.)

Dubin, tell my greatness about the crazy sex you have in your life.

DUBIN: Hmmm. I don’t know if this is the craziest sex, but it is probably the stupidest sex I ever had. This girl I used to go out with and I did it on the sand dunes of “White Sands” national park. Doesn’t sound that crazy, but it was about 50 feet from a US ARMY MP outpost and only about 15 feet from the main road to the park. (I was a soldier at the time too) And she was very, very on the rag. Well, of course it burned pretty badly just because of that. But also, if you are familiar with “White Sands” I think it is gypsum and it is a very fine powder but gritty too. Needless to say, it was very painful. And don’t ask me about the Donkey Shows in Juarez

(Everybody laughs).

And my greatness saves the best for last. The mighty bass wielding Susan. Tell me about your sexual exploits.

SUSAN: With Men or with Women?

Either

SUSAN: I was once with a guy who wanted me to beat him up (Everybody in the room roars with laughter) Yeah, that was interesting. He just wanted me to keep smacking him around, and so I did. It was pretty cool. With a woman, it would probably be in the back of a theatre during a play. That was pretty wild.

If you had to have sex with one of these guys, with the criteria that you had to smack them around while doing it, who would it be?

SKOT: Probably me. (Laughs)

SUSAN: I’d just take them all on! (Laughter)

Since you were the last mortal to join REXWAY, tell me how it happened?

SUSAN: I was playing in a number of bands and hooked up with them on the Internet. I had an ad on my Porn site-no just kidding! (Laughs) I had an ad out that I was a musician looking for a band and they sent me some information. I got contacted by a lot of bands, but REXWAY was the band I was the most interest in that’s for sure. It took about 8 months, but we eventually hooked up. I have been with them for about a year.

My greatness knows all you REXWAY men want to watch Susan get it on with another woman, don’t you?

MIKE: I just want a video tape (Laughs)

Skot: I don’t think much about it.

Don’t you like the idea of two women getting it on?

Skot: Sure, I’ve been with two women. I just don’t think about it with her, I just don’t.

DUBIN: Personally, I’m not like a lot of other guys who get into the whole girl-girl thing. Nothing against it, just doesn’t do anything for me. There has to be lip-splitting penetration to get me going. (Laughter)

Do you fantasize about having sex with her?

DUBIN: (Laughs) She’s too tall. It would give me an inferiority complex (Laughter)

SKOT: She’s like a sister.

Then think of it as incest.

SKOT: (Laughs) She would never have sex with any of us anyway.

MIKE: Playing on stage is a sexual experience, so if you want to refer to us playing together as having sex, then there you go. All of us have sex on a regular basis (Laughter)

So what reason, other than sexual, would a band of guys want to have a female mortal join?

SKOT: We had always talked about having a girl. All of us. We wanted it for vocal reasons and to add an element of sexuality. When we did see her, we were like, we don’t even care if you can play (Laughs) She just looked so great. But we mean that in an entertainment sort of way, not personal.

My greatness thought that COUNTY 10 was your first CD, but there’s one before that isn’t there. Tell me how that first one came about.

CHRIS: Well, we initially got rushed into the studio because we had a deadline, so we rushed into the studio to knock some songs out. We did a 4-song demo. All four of the songs ended up on COUNTY 10.

When did County 10 get recorded?

MIKE: June of ’99.

How did County 10 come together in the studio?

DUBIN: First of all, we don’t use a click, and a lot of bands frown on that. But it seems to work out well for us. When we went into the studio, we ran into some snags. For example, we tried to revamp Disco Joe a few weeks before going into the studio. This turned out to be a pretty big mistake. We wound up spending a lot of hours trying to fix things on ‘Disco, and we wound up throwing out the whole revamped take and put the take from our original EP onto the full length. We also had some other problems. We started to go over budget and this wasn’t a very good feeling, because we all wanted to get it out for people to hear. I think there were some cool things that came out of it though. The decision to have a female vocal for Wendy was pretty wise. At the time, I wasn’t too thrilled about it, because I generally don’t like female vocals…but listening to it now, I am very happy we did it. As for my drumming approach…the songs were pretty much worked out way before we got into the studio, so my approach was just natural. Actually, some of the songs, we had been playing over a year already. When we were recording, I just tried to play as if we were in front of an audience. I think by doing that, I was able to play with more energy and emotion. Those are two elements that are extremely important to me, and I didn’t want to lose that (as many people do) in the studio. One song that I know is not a huge hit with all or our fans is Only Indians. But this is by far one of my favorite songs. If you listen to it on the CD, I am bashing the crap out of my drums on the chorus’ and I think that the emotion and energy come through.

When can we expect a new CD?

CHRIS: Right now we are working on the new album, tentatively titled PIG IRON. We are recording in a church up in Eaton.

SKOT: Hopefully, we should be prepared to record it this summer.

Since you aren’t on the COUNTY 10, Susan, how are you involved with the creation of the new stuff?

SUSAN: I am now singing a lot of background vocals. They can’t shut me up now that they got me on the mic.

What are some of your influences?

SUSAN: Well, I grew up playing the blues. The Blues funk. Anything with a groove. Jazz. I love Jazz.

Was it difficult getting into the musical style of REXWAY when you first joined?

SUSAN: Nope. It wasn’t hard at all. I pretty much felt it. The first time I ever heard the music, I felt it. I felt that energy.

Skot, are you the main writer of REXWAY’s songs?

SKOT: Actually, it’s Mike and I.

MIKE: Skot and I have been writing stuff since early High school. For the last 15 years or so. We both separated for awhile and kind of found our own musical style; as far as what we wanted to write, and then when we came back together, we just started writing. I started doing a few things with things he had written, he started doing things with the stuff I had written and we kind of went from there. On COUNTY 10, Skot wrote a couple of things, but the majority of the lyrics are mine. But we pretty much create the majority of it together and then bring it to the rest of the band. Everybody puts his or her own little flavor into it.

DUBIN: Once Mike and Skot bring a riff or a skeleton of a song to the band, I start working out my drum part, then Mike inevitably will look at me with disbelief of what I am playing, tell me that it sucks, I get pissed, and play a few different variations till I get a thumbs up from Mike. Then, after a few months go by, when the song is set, and everyone is comfortable with everything, I start to sneak bits and pieces of my original drumline into the song, but I do it gradually so Mike doesn’t notice. Finally, the drumline is just about exactly the same as when I first played it. (Laughs) Actually, the last part’s not really true. Mike has a really good sense of what a song needs, and I respect that, but I don’t always agree with him. I think that from the drumming standpoint, what makes the music happen is mostly the dynamic and energy levels. We have a decent variety of songs with different tempos and degrees of intensity. Take a song like North Shore. That song is really a hard rock song. And I play it as such. I don’t have a lot going on besides a really heavy back beat with some embellishments from time to time. But it is really a steady rock song. But a song like Micro Flora is much more groove oriented with somewhat of a country feel. I can’t say that a standard rock drummer wouldn’t or couldn’t vary like that, but it’s really important to be flexible in this band. You never know what kind of riffs are going to come to the table. Also, no standard rock drummer has ever had to or probably will not have to deal with Chris. That bastard constantly glares at me like I am playing something wrong. (Laughter)

Dubin, my greatness finds you an incredibly talented drummer, tell me about your background in drumming and your influences.

DUBIN: Well, thank you for the kind words.

I am not being kind mortal!

DUBIN: Ok, Ok (Laughs) First of all, I don’t really consider myself an incredible technical drummer. I definitely put a lot of power, energy and emotion into it because it is the only thing in life that I have found to love wholeheartedly. As for my background, I started taking formal lessons when I was 6. That continued till I was about 14. I spent a couple years trying to teach myself a lot of drum stuff by listening to records and playing along with them. After I realized that I needed more instruction I went back to formal lessons for a few more years. My main influence growing up was listening to Stewart Copeland from the Police. His drumming on their songs still amaze me to this day. I think that a lot of who I am as a drummer can be attributed to that. He really made a great impact on my life. My most recent influence is Jimmy Chamberlin from The Smashing Pumpkins. Several years ago, I started to get disillusioned with drumming, or more specifically, my drumming. At about the same time that I was contemplating quitting music altogether, I heard “Gish” from the Pumpkins. I was completely amazed and the started to constantly try to figure out what Jimmy was doing on the songs. It really inspired me to go back to practicing my technique and to really try to improve again.

You say that you were disillusioned, why do you think that you got to that point?

DUBIN: The thing is, I just plateau’ed and I didn’t know what else to do to improve. At the time, I couldn’t find a teacher that I was comfortable with, and I couldn’t really find a direction (on my own) to go. I think that I just needed to feel inspired again.

You left the band for a period of time and then rejoined. You will now tell me what happened.

DUBIN: This is still kind of a topic that we joke about but it is a wound (for me) that hasn’t really healed completely. Our second bassist (Paul) joined the band as kind of a favor to me. We had just fired our original bassist and we had shows coming up. Paul knew our music very well because he is one of my best friends and came to just about every show. He isn’t really a bassist; he is a guitarist and took on the role to help out. After a few weeks, he started digging it, and I was pretty happy that he was in the band. But I don’t think that he ever really clicked with the other guys in the band.
At the same time that all this was happening, I was having constant disagreements with the band mainly about the business end of what was going on. Though we did have some creative disputes too, but I think the biggest rift was the financial/business aspect of things.
Anyway, I think the guys perceived this as me being unhappy or “not into it” and they just felt that they needed to start from a clean slate. So Mike called me to tell me Paul and I were fired. The funny thing is, I think they expected that I would be relieved or something when I was fired. But several days later, I emailed Chris to see if I could get some CD’s or something like that. A few days after that, I guess they realized that I wasn’t relieved and Mike asked me to come back to the band.
Unfortunately, at the time, I didn’t feel right about it. I was pretty upset about the whole ordeal, and I was really pissed what had happened to Paul. But after a few months I started talking to Mike again, and they asked me again. It took a couple weeks to decide but here I am.

MIKE: There’s a lot that could be said about the whole topic, with different opinions, but the final reality was that I think when we were apart, we realized how much he belonged in the band and I think he realized how much he belonged with us. So we basically saw him walking down the street one day and we basically kidnapped him. (Laughs) We said, “You’re rejoining the band!” (Laughter)

REXWAY seem to write songs about unusual topics. What are the songs about?

SKOT: Which ones?

Francis.

SKOT: Francis is a folk song I wrote in ’94. It’s about a 98-year-old lady that my Grandmother used to take care of. I used to go visit her all the time. The last time I visited and saw her, that was what the song is about. She died after that. The lyrics go, “I just sat down so I could visit Francis. She has the ears of years, so it appears I must yell.”

Jesus Hernandez

MIKE: I used to live underneath a Church, in the basement of the Church. There was a guy we call Pastor Paul, cuz that’s what we call him in the song. He played music- kind of a rock band. He played the same songs over and over and over again. He would wake me up at all hours of the morning in the day, practicing with his band. I just couldn’t take anymore of the Jesus stuff. (Everybody laughs) He was a really charismatic, David Koresh kind of preacher. He was like, getting all these people in there. He would get the kids in there with “I’ve got this rock and roll music.” During the church service, he would play the same song like, 4 or 5 times over and over, back to back (Everybody laughs) So anyway, the song came about as kind of a tribute to him.

Wendy

MIKE: Actually we didn’t write that one. It’s a song by Andy Prieboy. Concrete Blonde also performed it on the Bloodletting CD, I think. From what I understand, the song is about a friend who is dying from A.I.D.S. Trying to pretend that the person has another day to live. In actuality, you realize the person’s gonna die. I’ve always enjoyed the song. In the band Chris and I were in earlier, we did an acoustic version of it. We just thought to try to do it with the rest of the band. Put some drums and guitars into it.

Do people compare your singing style to Axl Rose?

MIKE: (Laughs) No, I never get Axl actually, but at the very end of that song I live, I throw in a little bit of Axl just for the crowd. I usually get a lot of Ozzy comparisons, but I don’t see that in myself. In long hair, people say I looked like Ozzy.

You have a great voice. Where did it come from?

MIKE: It happened completely by accident. I always knew I wanted to play music. I was always pretending to play music when I was a kid. Never knew how to play an instrument. My Dad bought me guitar but I didn’t want to learn how to play it. I was at a party one night. I always sang along to the radio and I was singing some AC/DC. Somebody was like, “You should be a singer.” I said, “Yeah, I am.” I made up a nice little story about having a band and stuff to get girls. The next thing you know, I was hanging out with people who actually play who expected me to sing and… I couldn’t. But over time, just doing so much and for so long I’ve kind of learned what to do and what not to do.

Dubin, I was told that you have a fascination with earwax. Please explain this to my greatness.

(Laughter around the room)

DUBIN: Fascination is too mild. It’s more like a perversion. I have a daily flow of brown gooey sticky earwax coming from my ears. I mean, like, I swab with 3 Q-tips (both sides) in each ear…every day. And every day, I get massive amounts of the stuff. I just love the smell and feel of it. The smell makes my eyes tingle. I have an ongoing collection of ear-wax at home (hidden) because I hope to try to make a candle out of it one day. I do like other people’s earwax too, but it isn’t just the smell. The feeling of it squishing around inside just makes me crazy.

MIKE: Watch him when he plays sometime. He’ll remove his earplugs after a song and put them up to his nostrils because he loves the smell 

(Much laughter)

If you have seen the other guys in the band in their underwear or naked, please describe their wee wee’s or bulges to me. (I.e. large, small, uncut, cut…etc) Also, please describe your own.

DUBIN: (Laughing) I never had the misfortune of seeing anyone’s cocks. Though Mike and Skot are constantly talking about their cocks and their massive sizes. I have never seen them first hand. I suppose if we ever go on tour, I will eventually see…I will give you a call to let you know then (Laughter) As for my own, if I had to describe it in one word, I would have to say “banana.” (Laughter)

SUSAN: I’ve seen them all in their underwear. Skot is a BIG boy (Laughter)

DUBIN: Oh yeah, one time Mike said he was “hung like a cheeto,” so I’m not sure if he is just covering or not.

Why doesn’t Rexway play in Denver more?

CHRIS: We’re gonna start. We played last night at The Soiled Dove. That was a lot of fun. We’ve played at The Cricket. We are really gonna start hitting Denver more.

DUBIN: Well, after our last show in Denver at the Cricket, it was decided that we needed to start working on some new material. We have been working on about four new songs since then. And like Chris said, we played Soiled Dove last night. Hopefully, by mid-summer, we will be playing Denver at least twice per month.

Where’s your biggest audience?

SKOT: Wyoming. We get such a demand to play in Wyoming. They also pay a lot more up there (Laughter)

Mike, you are known for doing some rather impromptu activities when you’re on stage

MIKE: (Laughs) Yeah, I just do things that come to me at the moment. Once there was a guy talking on his cell phone while we were playing. After the song, I walked up to where he was sitting and asked him why he was talking on the phone while we were playing. (Laughs) He said he thought his brother would love us and was calling him to get him to come down (to the club). So I said, “Give me your phone, I’ll talk to him.” (Laughter) This guy on the phone was not happy about being called in the middle of the night. (Laughter)

What’s the thing with the game of Twister?

MIKE: One time we rolled out a Twister mat and got some people from the audience to come up and play for free shots and free CDs. We don’t always do stuff like that though. We like to focus on the music. But the people are there to have fun and we are gonna make sure they have some fun.

Chris, tell me about your musical beginnings.

CHRIS: My Dad was a band director. I used to fuck around with everything. I learned how to play drums, skin flute and uh… (Much laughter around the room) Saxophone- a bunch of different stuff.

Do you handle most of the leads in the band’s songs?

SKOT: Actually, we both handle leads, but I handle the majority of them. I really don’t like to call them leads though. I like to call them melodies think the word “lead” is kind of an ego term. We just like to accentuate the song with melody.

Susan, I found out some dirt on you. First off, I heard you can be heard on morning radio.

SUSAN: Yep. I’m a traffic reporter. I’m an Associate Producer with Airwatch. You can hear me Monday through Friday on AM560 KLZ reporting on the traffic.

I also heard you were once a wrestler. Enlighten my greatness.

(Everyone applauds)

SUSAN: (Laughs) Yes, I used to be a pro-wrestler awhile back, late 80’s, early ‘90’s.

What was your character?

SUSAN: I was “Liberty”. I wore red, white and blue. We had a TV show and traveled around the midwest.

What was your favorite move?

SUSAN: Body slam.

What kind of training did you go through to become a wrestler?

SUSAN: We had a real rigorous training program. I was in Florida, training. We had to do gymnastics, workout and aerobic exercise. You’d get in the ring and learn how to fall. You learned how to throw people, you learn how not to get hurt. I mean, if someone is gonna drop you on your head in a piledriver, you can break your neck if you don’t know what you’re doing. Sometimes falls went bad and people actually got seriously hurt. So you’d learn to protect yourself. Plus, it would be planned out so we’d know who was gonna win. They knew who was gonna be the titleholder so we’d work out story lines and skits to make it work. We were all friends.

My greatness didn’t know the outcomes were worked out.

SUSAN: Yeah, at least in the group I was in. They were fixed. At times, we would already have all the matches prepared before we’d go into the ring.

(Lisa Filippini, the photographer for my greatness now asks a question)

LISA: So if it was pro and you made money, who chooses who makes the money?

(Laughter around the room)

SUSAN: Well, we all had individual contracts with the company. Everything was paid for- all of our food, costumes…etc. So if you were sleeping with someone like the producer, you made more money, as opposed to not sleeping with the guy. So it was that kind of deal.

So I guess the next most logical question is did you make a lot of money?

(Everybody laughs)

SUSAN: (Laughs) No, I didn’t make a lot of money! (More laughter)

If the rest of you were wrestlers, what would your character, name and costume be?

SKOT: Um, Buddy Holly. The pissed off ghost of Buddy Holly. (Laughter)

CHRIS: I’d probably be the “Flame” cuz I always wear the fire shirts. I’d wear the exact thing I wear now.

DUBIN: I’d definitely be ”Clyde The Clobberer.” (Laughs) And my character would be that of a bully for sure. I would be the guy who takes on all the weak opponents and make their lives a living hell. My costume? Um… probably shaved head, shaved chest, and just a brown thong.

Everyone has his or her own personal demons in life. What are yours? (I.e., drugs, alcohol, woman, temper…etc)

CHRIS: Maris, you’re my biggest demon (Laughter)

DUBIN: Well, I don’t drink, smoke or do any drugs. Probably one of my biggest problems is that I am extremely anal retentive and anal expulsive at the same time. Doesn’t sound possible, but I am utterly a perfectionist with certain things, and completely neglectful of lots of other things. I tend to have a pretty nasty temper, but not to the point of bar fights or anything like that.

MIKE: Probably for me, it would be that I’m too nice of a guy.

SUSAN: For me, it’s probably that I’m a pot smoker.

SKOT: Women. I’m addicted to woman. I’m a terrible womanizer. I’m trying to stop it cuz it gets me into trouble. The other biggest demon I’ve had to deal with has been having my brother in prison for the last 10 years. Having him not be with me, not having him go through all of this with us. His name is Rex. That’s where our band names comes from, by the way.

Carolyn’s Mother are your friends. That’s a weird band for guys like REXWAY to be buds with, don’t you think?

MIKE: No, it’s not a weird band to be friends with. Music styles may be different, but they are actually some of the coolest musicians that we’ve met. They’ve helped us out quite a bit. They kind of helped us get our foot in the door in clubs when we first started playing. I think Chris actually met them at one of their shows. They played our CD in between their set and asked us to do a show with them up in Greeley. Then after that, they helped us get into a lot of clubs, a lot of different places. They’re great guys.

What other bands have you played with and had a good time?

SKOT: I enjoy Carolyn’s Mother. I’ve always enjoyed playing with Rubber Planet. Brethren Fast are a lot of fun. Sketch is always fun. We get along really well with all of those bands. We took Rubber Planet with us to Wyoming. Now they have their own following there. They’re always fun.

What about Nationals?

SKOT: Well, our biggest was with Tesla. We opened up a sold out show at The Ogden. It was damn fun.

How did their audience receive you?

SUSAN: They fucking loved us.

SKOT: I really didn’t pay attention. I was just scared to death. I went up there and tried to play my ass off. I didn’t worry about what the audience was thinking. I was just too scared. I almost threw up before I went on.

If you were gay, do you think you would be a top or a bottom? (I.e., the fucker or the fuckee?)

Chris: Sideways (Laughter)

SKOT: Uh, I don’t know. I don’t want to answer that. (Laughter) I wouldn’t be.

SUSAN: That’s not an answer. That’s a cop out.

SKOT: I’d be the fucker

DUBIN: (laughing) I would definitely be the fucker. But not for any over exaggerated sense of masculinity. There are some reasons for it. First of all, I don’t chew my food nearly enough, so I tend to have way too much garbage coming out that still is in its original form. Secondly, I think that I still have an anal gland…Human’s were supposed to have evolved out of them, but I think I am a mutant. And third, I could probably bend a steel pipe with my ass…so I would have to say for the person’s safety, I would be the fucker.

Anything else my greatness needs to know?

DUBIN: Since I have been back in the band, I have finally seen a sense of purpose and a lot of realistic goal setting. What I mean by this is that before I left the band, there were definitely goals that we had set, but we had a really hard time accomplishing them. I also feel like a lot of the bullshit is gone, and it is a good feeling. We are more focused as a band, and our priorities have definitely become more clearly geared towards kicking people’s asses. Though there are a combination of reasons for it, some major reasons are that Susan is in the band. She doesn’t tolerate any shit (Laughs) and her coming to the band is profound reason for us still being together. She plays her ass off, like everyone else, except Chris (Laughs) and it shows on stage. Also, Shannon Boyles, our manager…damn, she has made some things happen that I still can’t believe…and I am sure that it will only increase with time.