“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
illustrations by Jonathan Ian Mathers
Devin Townsend on the keyboardist on the Strapping albumā¦
“Yeah, Will just got signed to Def Jam and he’s playing guitar. Keyboard players unite! Give Strapping a call. If you’re not a freak and you can take being bitch-slapped and have lots of deer, you’re our guy.”
Jens Johansson in turmoil in the Yngwie campā¦
“Everybody left and he had a completely new band. But they got along OK. I think Yngwie’s ego baby had a bit of a wake-up call.”
Zakk Wylde on working with Ozzy…
“Ozzy would just call me up and go, ‘Haystack, let’s get together and knock this fucking thing out.'”
