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want people to know that he doesn’t like me.”
I think the reason we really got kicked off is
because Axl Rose hates Dave Grohl and I love
Dave Grohl so much. Dave actually said the
next day, “Being disapproved by Axl is like
being Knighted by the Queen.” He made my
career in a single move with that comment,
because he put me on AOL.
So you just went and got it tattooed on your
arm…
Yeah, well you know, we sell so many
“Pigeons of Shit Metal” t-shirts it’s fucking
hilarious. I invited Axl to do a Christmas
record with me and do it as the Pigeons of Shit
Metal. It could have been a fucking rad song
and be like, “Come on Axl, come back into the
club of rock ‘n’ roll.” But you know, I never got
any word back.
You seem to be surrounded by or in conflict
with a lot of redheads – what’s that about?
We’re fucking out of our minds, girl. We’re
fucking crazy.
You do consider yourself as a proper
redhead, right?
Oh yeah, absolutely. I disguise my redheadedness
a little bit because I know how
fucking nuts we are.
Do you consider yourself as a redneck?
I am a hillbilly, girl.
What’s the difference?
A hillbilly makes sweet blue grass music and
when he shoots his gun, he hits what he’s aiming
at. A redneck is a lowdown illiterate son of a
bitch. One lives in a house, the other in a trailer.
Could you tell us more about the place you
grew up in?
I grew up in a place called Greenville, South
Carolina, which is literally like the fucking
buckle in the Bible belt; we’re talking about 450
Baptist churches in one small little town. When
my parents divorced, I moved and finished
growing up in the desert of Southern California,
which is probably by far the weirdest place any
child could ever have grown up in the world.
It was a freak show of extremities, like third
grade kids in 1981 selling drugs and knocking
girls up. Just unheard of, because it was a weird
clash of lowbrow working class families with
kids, brushing up with the richest of the rich.
The desert is a vacation community; it’s where
the president goes for holiday and where movie
stars hang out all the time in places like Palm
Springs. A lot of drugs and a lot of fast action.
Music
And did you grow up in a musical environment
or was it not too much part of your
upbringing?
When I was with my dad yeah, but by the
time I was eight, I grew up in a very strictly religious
environment. I listened to a lot of music
but I had no real interest at the time. It happened
by accident and by fate. Let’s put it that
way; I never ever wanted to be in a band.
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“I believe in God, I don’t
care to believe in magic
talking monkeys just to kill
my sins. I’m a fucking stone
sinner; I’m an evil dark
motherfucker, that’s the
cold hard fact”
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What’s the first record you remember
getting?
Destroyer by Kiss, with my dad in 1986.
© Ulrike Biets
And the last record you bought and liked?
The Meteors – Greatest Hits – and Electric
Wizard. I fucking looove Electric Wizard. Check
them out; they’re heavy as fuck. Funeralopolis,
that’s the song you gotta check out first.
Do you believe in God?
Of course. I believe in God, I don’t care to
believe in magic talking monkeys just to kill my
sins. I’m a fucking stone sinner; I’m an evil dark
motherfucker, that’s the cold hard fact. But is
there a God? Of course there is. I’d be a fool to
disavow what I think. I look at evolution and the
concept of accidentalism and here’s what I see:
so magic gases blew up, magically created everything
and magic talking monkeys turned into us.
OK. You can either have magic talking monkeys
or a magic man. I’d rather have a magic man.
Do you believe in hell?
Of course, and it'll be hotter in hell for me
than it'll be for you.
You’ve had quite a few struggles with substance
abuse in the past but managed to
kick them. What’s your current vice of
choice?
My current vice of choice is the ultimate
female that has ever been created by the
devil’s hand and laid to Hollywood Street.
I’ve been chasing the tail of the ultimate queen
of Hollywood and her name is Tuesday Cross.
Is she the one who broke your heart?
Hell no! She’s the one who took my heart
and re-made it in the devil’s own image.
You’re very vocal about your republican
views. Being quite unimpressed with
Obama’s performance, what would you do
if you were in charge of the Oval Office for
a day?
Let’s see, let me think about that (pauses
for a second). By executive order I would
eliminate the department of education and
homeland security. Constitutionally convene
a session and hold a hearing on the validity of
the Patriot Act, which I would then attempt
to have eliminated before day’s end. I would
ban all surveillance of citizens in America,
repeal the income tax completely and abolish
most federal legal oversights in each individual
state by executive order. And then my last act
in office would be to declare myself eternally
as the American biggest dick in the world of all
time, greatest lover and most magical person
with the greatest hands ever, beautiful eyes
and a great smile. Jesse Hughes, forever and
ever, amen.
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