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SLASH MAGAZINE p.14, October 1979
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A TEA PARTY WITH THE MISFITS: CAKE, BEEF TRIPE SANDWICHES, SPILLED BEER

ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON I GAVE A FRIENDSHIP TEA PARTY.  THE MISFITS WERE
INVITED.  THE MISFITS CAME.  NO ONE ELSE DID.  IT BECAME OBVIOUS I WAS GOING
TO INTERVIEW THEM.  AFTER WE GOT PAST THE BLUE & GREEN CAKE AND BEEF TRIPE
SANDWICHES, I TRIED TO ASK QUESTIONS.  IT WAS VERY HARD.  FOR MORE THAN ONE
HUNGOVER REASON.  LET ME EXPLAIN ABOUT THE MISFITS - THEY ARE A NEW YORK
BAND - THEY ARE POPULAR - THEY OPENED FOR THE DAMNED ON THE RECENT TOUR.  THE
MISFITS ARE GLENN DANZIG ON VOCALS, BOBBY STEELE ON GUITAR, JERRY ONLY ON
BASS AND JOEY PILLS ON DRUMS, WHO WAS NOT AT THE TEA PART.  AFTER THE
INTERVIEW WE THREW FOOD OUT OF THE WINDOWS AND THE DOORMAN WAS ANGRY WITH
ME.  I'M NEVER INVITING THE MISFITS OVER TO MY HOUSE AGAIN.  HERE IT GOES...

...Mission Impossible is on all the time/

O.K. Claire let's do this seriously, ask real questions./

What records are you doing next?/
Night of the Living Dead maybe a 10 inch of our old stuff/

Oh so Horror Business isn't.../
It's out now/

O.K., how does it feel to be big stars?/
It's cool you get free drinks/

Are the misfits alcoholics?/
Yep/

Are the misfits drug addicts/
Sure/

Are any of you homosexuals?/
Klaus is ha, ha ha/

What's your dream bill?/
Us and us/

The Temptations?/
Yeah/

Leslie Gore/
Claire still sitting in the chair thinking of a question/

Who in New York do you hate?/
Who in New York do we hate?/

Who in New York do you like?
We like the Misfits.  They're a very good band/

JERRY THROWS A BARBIE DOLL ON THE FLOOR DOLL ON THE FLOOR/
Oh Barbie.  Our new single is "Barbie bites the dust"/I want to be
party time girl/I'm party time boy/

What's your favorite movie?/
Wild in the Streets/No Night of the Living Dead/

Are you making a movie?/
Well, it's not just us making it, there's a whole mess of people, but we're
gonna be in the movie, it's about 4 different things.  It's all monster
movies, 4 different monster movies.  Howie's gonna be in one, Jerry's
gonna be in another, I'm gonna be in another, Klaus is gonna be in the other
one/

...exciting big tours you'e gonna do/
Might go to England with the Damned/

Did they ask you to tour with them?/
Yeah...didn't they?/We hate Max's, Max's sucks, we haven't played Heat yet,
a lot of people haven't played there yet/Club 57 is gonna die for sure.  C's
is gonna go under really soon.  Club 57 is just too big to handle/For a
minute they were getting the bads into the big halls and all at once they
blow it?/Because of that power pop bullshit/

CLAIRE SPILLS BEER ALL OVER THE FLOOR/
Don't spill any beer/We're changing this interview to go-go girl gets in
trouble/Heat might have a chance 'cos they can pay the rent in one date,
they can hold a large crowd./

Do you think your music has evolved?/
Sure it's just a lot tighter than it was, the idea is a lot more intense/
Bobby plays too many leads/No I don't/You do too/

Do the Misfits really hate each other/
Passionately/We have to or it doesn't come off right.  We don't have enough
violence/We fight a lot but we work everything out/I'd say it's science
fiction, that's what we are/We're not r&r, we're not r&r/We're not new wave.
David if you say it one more time I'm going to.../Phil Spector is god you
know/Nick Lowe would be a good producer even tho' he's a jerk/

Do you want to talk about a certain person's mother distributing in England?/
No/

Do the Misfits date girls of other religions?/
We don't have a religion/

Favorite ice-cream?/
Chocolate/

Racist, racist overtones/Bobby, why do you keep throwing up on people at the
Mudd club?  Is it true you threw up on John Lennon?/
Let me demonstrate/

Do you like to drink Bobby?/
Yeah/

Do you drink a lot?/
Yeah/

I'm going to grow another head be party time boy and party time girl/Like that
man with Rosey Grier with the white head and the black head.The two-headed
transplant/

Doesn't anybody want to watch TV/
I've been watching it, it's not doing anything/Barbie I love you/Chitlin,
Pizza/Little girls/We're not musicians/Rape, pillage and steal/

How can you be in a band that absolutely sucks to hell?
One dead ______ viewer

Is it true you are necrophiliacs?/
No/Glenn doesn't know what it means, you know what it is Bobby, I know.
Yeah, you know, people who dress up like g_____.  ...talk about our single
now/"Horror Business" was recorded in a haunted house/

Bobby what are your main influences/
Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Thunders, and Condemned Souls.  And Glenny/

GLENNY STARTS TO IMPERSONATE A KAMIKAZE PLANE AND BOBBY LEAVES TO DRIVE DAVE
TO THE SUBWAY/

When are you going to L.A.?
We're calling up this week for dates, we should be there in September/

BOBBY COMES BACK AND WE THROW FOOD AT HIM FROM THE LIVING ROOM WINDOW/

(Bobby) I was walking up and I see all this cake and stuff and I go ha ha
that must be them.

(ON FEBRUARY 28 1979 THE MISFITS AND A MOBILE RECORDING UNIT ENTERED AN
ABANDONED HOUSE IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.  THEY RECORDED AND LEFT.  WHILE
MIXING THE TAPES BACK AT A NYC RECORDING STUDIO, STRANGE VOICES AND NOISES
WERE HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND (esp. on Teenagers from Mars.)  NO EXPLANATION
OF THESE SOUNDS COULD BE GIVEN BY THE BAND OR THE RECORDING CREW.--Dave
Street)

* to alienate all the slimy little intellectuals who ____ we're growing up