| Part 2 Of Jay Gordon, Undercover interview |
| TC> What put the idea of covering Blue Monday in your heads? JG> Um, Blue Monday, it's always been stuff that we've always liked, and when we started the record I brought a cassette that I had of it. That was an actual old cassette from the 80's that I had found, and it was in really shitty condition, and we went to a used record store near Tahoe, Lake Tahoe where we recorded the album in California and the cool thing was that I saw a copy of Substance there, and you know how that was basically everything from New Order, a lot of it anyway. And so I was like this is blasphemous that this is even in here. So we went back to the cabin, or the house where we had been recording, and it sounded much better that the cassette that I had been listening to, and we were like 'lets do this song' and we knew that people were going to freak out, because it's such a popular song. It was the most popular 12" of all time. So we knew that people were going to freak out but we didn't care we took the chance and we loved it. TC> Were you big fans of the 80's? JG> Oh totally, I love Richard Butler, Psychedellic Furs, I was a big Stiff Baiters fan, Lord of a New Church, Mission UK stuff like that . TC> Was it difficult playing the Family Values Tour. I'd imagine most people were there to see Korn? JG> Um, it actually wasn't. The fans were real receptive towards us, probably because of the fact that we were so, quote unquote 'down' with Korn. They kind of were interested to hear what Korn signed in the band. So they come back from Family Values to see us play, and we've managed to retain quite a few of these Family Values people, mostly girls. I have no problem with females at concerts, I'm sure guys don't either. TC> I heard you had knives thrown at you at one show? JG> Actually no, Reggie told us, actually Fieldy of Korn actually told us one time when he was on stage, it was either him or Munky that told me that they felt this thing go right pass their face and when they turned around there was a knife stuck in his cabinet. So maybe they got the two stories confused, but no knives, thank god! TC> I hear you're managed by the same company that manages the Backstreet Boys. JG> Well, the Backstreet Boys, well uh... I guess you could say that, yeah, because lets see, first it was Korn, then it was Limp Bizkit, then it was Ice Cube. Actually it was Korn, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Ice Cube, and the Backstreet Boys are just recent, they only just picked them up. But that's only to do with management, that has nothing whatsoever to do with Orgy, in any kind of way. TC> So you're not huge screaming Backstreet Boys fans? JG> Huge? Screaming? Maybe running away. I don't personally have anything against them, you know. It's a different kind of thing for me, what they do is what they do and I have respect for people that do what they do, that's about as far as that goes. TC> I hear you have a hairdresser in the band? JG> Ryan Shuck! Our guitar player used to be a hairdresser. TC> Has he ever gone back to his hairdressing career? JG> No, I don't think so, unless he's going to spend his money on opening up a salon of his own. But I don't think so, I don't know. He cuts the bands hair still. ~ THE END ~ |
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