SplatterTribe: First things first, does it piss you off when someone calls you at 4 o'clock in the morning?

Eddie Spaghetti: (laughs) Yeah, it doesn't thrill me that's for sure but, you know, I'm a good sleeper, so I'm able to get back to sleep no problem.

Eddie Spaghetti: We're exited to go over there again. We really like it over there. It's been long enough now where I think  there's gonna be some excitement about the shows. We're gonna go over there with Nashville Pussy, so that's gonna be a good, strong bill to be apart of and we're really exited about it.

Eddie Spaghetti: Spain, they eat it up. I don't think we've been to Portugal. So we're looking forward to that. But Spain, we do really well in Spain. We always have since our very first trip over there. The Spanish people really eat it up.

Eddie Spaghetti: Well, Spain is definitely one of the standouts and the UK has been really good for us. Sweden is really good for us. Some of the places that standout that aren't so good are like France, Italy. I think because they're used to doin like, kind of, a dance, sort of a Disco night every night. The live music doesn't really translate good over there.

Eddie Spaghetti: Oh, yeah definitely still worth the trip.

SplatterTribe: So what do you do on your downtime from touring?

Eddie Spaghetti: Yard work (laughs)

Eddie Spaghetti: (laughs) Naw, can't even get out of that.

Eddie Spaghetti: Yeah, I have a wife and kid. I just kinda do, uhm, you know, I'm just kind of the Rock N Roll Dad when I'm at home.

Eddie Spaghetti: Yeah, I try to do some of that every morning.  I try to pick up the guitar and pick around on it a little bit. See what I can come up with. I've been doing alot of that on the road lately too. So that's been working out for me well

Eddie Spaghetti: 'Paid', that was uh, that was a cool riff. That was actually a cool riff I had for along time and I had some words that just sort of lent itself to that vibe, you know. What it's like to be on the road and how we're just kind of slaves to the road; because we have to make our money. (It's about) how similar it is to a guy who works a 9-5 job. How you've gotta work and you've gotta get paid.

Eddie Spaghetti: (laughs)  That's just a fun goof on BE STRONG, BE WRONG. We wanted to have something for the guys

Eddie Spaghetti: That one was actually inspired by.....my wife, one was getting her drink on a little bit and fell down outside of the club. She pulled her friend down with her and the next day they had all of these bruises. We were joking that she had the bruises to prove it and that became a song.

Eddie Spaghetti: Yeah, totally.

Eddie Spaghetti: That one was actually another one inspired by the Miss' . When she was pregnant she wasn't sleeping to well. So I joked about her being a Sleepy Vampire and you know, I once again turned that into another good, good song.

Eddie Spaghetti: (laughs) That one's pretty self explanatory. That one was written on the road. You know, somebody brought some 'Killer Weed' backstage and the chorus was born. Then I kind of just fleshed it out from there.

Eddie Spaghetti: 'I Don't Wanna Know', that's a pretty interesting song. That one was just a rip on everyone having to know everything all the time. And my , kind of desire to not know everything all of the time. My sort of blissful ignorance takes me through life, I think. Sometime to a detriment, but usually it works out in my favor to not know to much about any one thing and I sort of glide through that way.

played on 'Here We Go'." So we wind up playing that song live. It all winds up in the Supersuckers den anyways. I'm not trying to be some solo artiste or anything. I just like to keep busy and give the guys a break sometimes. That's how it started anyways. You know, it became a nice little thing I do when the band has down time. I'm able to keep on going.

Eddie Spaghetti: No, so far they just prefer the downtime. I mean Rob sometimes has the occasional project here and there but generally speaking, it's just me that keeps busy in the meantime.

Eddie Spaghetti: No, we had no idea it was about to become Rock Mecca USA. We were really glad we did though. It was a super thrilling thing to be a part of. You know, to be involved and know some of the people that were having this huge success was cool. You know, because we saw it was possible. In the meantime there was never anything like that........There was never a spotlight shining on our city or anything like that (before the move).  We thought when we were gonna go up to Seattle and be the best band they ever saw. We thought for sure. You know, who's in Seattle? What band has ever came out of Seattle (laughs) and then we get up here and there's all of these awesome bands. We were like, "Oh man, we've got alot of work to do!"

Eddie Spaghetti: Yeah, I don't think we'd still be a band if we'd went to New Orleans. It was a really fortunate thing that we wound up in Seattle. To make us hunger for that success and see that it was possible.

Eddie Spaghetti: (laughs) It was a scene where uh.....I think....Steve was his name, was being.....not so good. He was gettin' involved in some drugs I think, or something like that. They played our song, "Bad, Bad, Bad" during some scene where he was doing stuff he shouldn't be doing.

Eddie Spaghetti: Yeah, it was awesome.

Eddie Spaghetti: Yes he is. He's an endless supply of one liners and an endless supply of Killer Weed.

Eddie Spaghetti: (laughs) I think alot of people walk off that bus saying the very same thing. A friend of mine, one time we went on his bus and the friend of mine fainted (laughs) that was pretty funny. He says he passed out but we say he fainted.

Eddie Spaghetti: Oh yeah, he's great. He actually was at one of our shows recently at South by SouthWest last year and got into a fight with a bunch of young kids. (He) got kicked out of the club. It was fantastic.

Eddie Spaghetti: Yeah, he's a Hellraiser still and he's a brilliant songwriter too.

 

SplatterTribe: Hank III   Eddie Spaghetti: You know, we've only had one run in with Hank III and it wasn't that positive. You know, I need to give him another try cause I like his music, you know. We played a show with him, it was the South By Southwest show and he threw like a,, a little fit onstage because the distortion pedal wasn't working or something like that and he stormed off stage. Left everybody

hanging and kinda put a bad taste in my mouth toward him. So I think I need to give him another shot because I hear he's a nice guy. That he's a fan of the Supersuckers. So uhm, you know, I wantta like him.

Eddie Spaghetti: Riki Rachtman, he's a cool guy. He's actually been really good to the Supersuckers. He wore our t-shirt on one of the shows he was hosting on MTV. To see him on that show (though), Charm School show, that's real funny.

Eddie Spaghetti: Wee man's a good guy to. He's really great.....Little Jason Acuna. He's super cool. He's been really good to the Supersuckers.

Eddie Spaghetti: I don't know, I'm influenced by greed, gluttony, sloth. The seven deadly sins are my main influences.

SplatterTribe: I ask those I interview if they have a good question to ask a future interviewee. The question I have for you is from Jeff Cerzosie of The Infinite Staircase. His question is, "I know as much as anyone just how depressing, stressful, and disheartening the music industry can be. How do you keep or get yourself out of a rut when the music industry gets the best of you?"

Eddie Spaghetti: Oh man, that's a good question. You just got to count your lucky stars. You gotta be thankful for what you have and not focus on what you don't have. That's a big problem, I think for bands at our level. They tend to focus on the negative aspects of what they have and not the positive. You know, You just, kinda, gotta keep positive as much as you can. Your lucky to have this be your career, if it's your career. Your lucky to have this be a side thing, if it's a side project for ya. You're lucky to have it. (You've Got to) constantly think of it as a good thing in your life and not be hung up on what somebody else is getting....or what someone else is dealing with. What your doing is what's important to you.

Eddie Spaghetti: (pause) Uhm, Yeah. What do you like to eat on the road? What's your favorite food to eat on the road?

Eddie Spaghetti: Uhm, I picture people covered in blood. Running naked through the streets covered in blood.

Eddie Spaghetti: (pause) Well, I guess I'm just kind of a beer drinkin' guy, So anything you can chase down with a beer would be my favorite thing to eat.

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