Chillin' With Cold
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What�s your therapy?
JEREMY: Getting on stage and playing like I�m about to pass out.
Has that ever happened?
JEREMY: No. I get tunnel vision.
Do you think negative sells these days?
SCOOTER: Right now, no. All the hip-hop, riding in limos, wearing your platinum, you got all these happy boy bands, Britney Spears and everyone running around on the beach�Every day you can�t wake up and feel good�
KELLEY: The only way I could feel good if I was Britney Spears, would be to be a man trapped in Britney Spears body. I�d be very happy.
What�s the coldest you�ve ever been?
JEREMY: Winnipeg, Canada.
SCOOTER: The last six months, I think we�ve jinxed ourselves with our name. All our tours have been really cold temperatures. So we�re over it.
JEREMY: If it�s summer time, then it�s raining everywhere we go. The rain follows us.
KELLEY: We bring the weather with us.
We need it here right now. We�re in a drought.
JEREMY: (Pointing out window) It already started.
Can you guys stay awhile?
SCOOTER: We�re leaving Sunday afternoon. You watch, it will stop raining Sunday.
What are you guys learning right now?
SCOOTER: We�re learning a lot about the music business. On our first record, we really went in blind�On this record, with writing it and doing everything ourselves, it�s totally different. You learn by your mistakes.
JEREMY: We�re learning the geography of the country, too.
SCOOTER: We�re learning how to drink a lot of liquor.
KELLEY: I already knew how to do that.
SCOOTER: No. It�s a lot more.
JEREMY: I learned the other night that 18 beers is too many beers.
That�s good to know. 17 is okay?
KELLEY: 17 and a half.
JEREMY: It�s hard to keep count.
KELLEY: The last sip of the eighteenth beer is when you go. (Kelly tips over and hits the ground. Laughter all around.)
What about music has changed and what has stayed the same?
KELLEY: I think it all goes in cycles. You had New Kids on the Block about 10 years ago. Now you got Backstreet Boys. He didn�t take it as far as the glam bands, but Manson is glam rock.
JEREMY: The only thing that has changed that will never go back is the quality of the sound of records, because of the equipment.
You�re one song called �Everyone Dies� is about a Martian attack. What is your favorite space alien film?
SCOOTER: Aliens.
JEREMY: I like the first one.
KELLEY: Yeah.
Any of the cheesy 50's ones?
JEREMY: War of the Worlds was kind of cool when I was kid. When I heard everyone was killing themselves when I was on the radio, I was like, "yeah!"
KELLEY: When you�re a kid and you see those movies, you�re like �Wow.� Then when you get older, you�re like �That�s gay!�
JEREMY: Look, you can see the strings.
Is there any moment in rock history you wished you could of witnessed firsthand?
JEREMY: The first Black Sabbath show. That was the band that inspired me to play�I remember saying �I�d pay anything to see Black Sabbath.� Then they were on the Ozzfest tour and I was getting in for free.
KELLEY: I got to see them their last tour.
Since we�re in this room (The Elvis Room at Hard Rock Cafe Orlando), would you like to be in the bathroom when he died?
JEREMY: I�d be the one with his turd.
KELLEY: I don�t want to be in any bathroom with a man.
SCOOTER: I remember the day that he died, I was outside playing baseball out on the front lawn and my parents called out, �Come in.� It was all over the news like the president just got shot. It was crazy. Everybody�s crying. Wild.
KELLEY: I would have liked to be there when Hendrix flew in on the helicopter for Woodstock.
What was high school like?
SCOOTER: Sucked.
KELLEY: Non-existent.
JEREMY: I was a geek. Got good grades, but I hated school. But I went. I graduated.
KELLEY: I didn�t graduate.
Did you know each other in high school?
JEREMY: (Pointing to Scooter) We did. We met him (Kelley) well after high school.
Did you like each other in high school?
SCOOTER: We don�t like each other now. (Jeremy fakes a few punches to Scooter�s head) I don�t want you to slip one time�No, we�ve been together so long. It�s like brothers. A family thing. Everybody gets into fights now and then, but it�s just like fighting with your brothers.
13 Ways to Bleed on Stage (new album title), name a few you have experienced.
JEREMY: That album is more about�there are 13 songs on the record�Every one of them is our heart and soul. And when we�re on stage, we put all of our heart and soul into every one of the songs.
KELLEY: We have bled on stage�I split my head. See that scar? (Points to scar between his eyes). Got that from my guitar. I was taking my guitar off and I was standing on the cord, it slipped and hit me on the head. It was like the first song. I finished the show then got stitches after the show.
JEREMY: He had blood running down his whole face.
KELLEY: People were like, �He rules!�
JEREMY: Sometimes you bust your finger playing like this (strumming bass), then blood�s slinging all over the place.
What are you reading?
KELLEY: I just bought Anne Rice�s new one, Lasher.
JEREMY: I don�t have the attention span to read a book. I�d rather watch the movie.
SCOOTER: It all comes from us hating school.
What�s your most creative time?
JEREMY: Late at night�any time after midnight.
SCOOTER: I think our most creative time is when we have to do something.
JEREMY: When we�re under pressure.
KELLEY: Pretty much how 13 Ways to Bleed was done.
When you used to sit out there and watch bands, thinking that being on stage was awesome, now that you�re on the other side�what about it isn�t what you expected?
KELLEY: You don�t see all the crap that goes along with it.
JEREMY: It�s weird. We can get off the stage and could have our worst show, all of us just miserable. Then we go out into the audience, and they�re like �It was best show I�ve ever seen!� We�re like, �Really? Maybe we shouldn�t be so hard on ourselves.�