“Dead Mexican in my Headphones”
Phil Lewis from L.A. Gunsā¦
“I like a dead Mexican in my headphones and I’m ready to go.”
I interview rock guys two, three times a week. I use voice recognition software to transcribe these interviews. Works like this: I tape the phone conversation, then take the tape and speak my questions and their answers into a headset and voila, it’s a transcribed text file. It doesn’t always come out as planned though. Fun game: Repeat the wrongness out loud and you might be able to figure out what the guy actually said. Here are some of the more memorable miscues. More than a few of these gems ring truer than the actual words spokenā¦
by Martin Popoff
illustration by Jonathan Ian Mathers
Sammy Hagar on the Sam and Dave tour…
“Dave wanted to make it a contest between early Van Halen and Van Hagar. I’m going, ā’ haven’t been in the band for six years; he hadn’t been in the band for 18 years (laughs). What in the hell kind of a competition is that?!’ That’s a used up stupid thing. But he stuck with fat and he would not let that go.”
Phil Anselmo on life on the road…
“I read a lot and I watch a lot of old horror films. I stretch and do a lot of callous attics, push-ups, synapses, shit like that, just try and keep my heating to a minimum and stay liked for the show.”
