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POSTED 01/18/10

Tyler Coe

of The DAC Band

The Splattered!@%#! Q & A

The Official debut of SplattterTribe.TV's Splattered!@%#! Q & A! Well, it's actually not the debut because we have supplied a new Q & A each week of 2010 so far. (Miss January Chromegirl and last weeks Q & A with 16 year old Canadian Guitar Master Cory Manahan. This is only Week #3!) This, though, this is the first Q & A since it was 'officially' named!....... And what a name it is!

WEEK 3 - 2010 - Tyler Coe

Tyler Coe, guitar player of.... and son of...Country & Western Music Legend & Outlaw David Allan Coe. DAC is one of, if not the, most controversial artist in Country Music History, but on the same note......DAC is one of, if not the, the best Performer/Songwriters in Country Music History. That's just how it is....

So what is the son of David Allan Coe like? He's like 25 and been playing guitar for his ole' man since he was 15. He's also like..........'Officially'...........SPLATTERED! So find out a little about Tyler Coe yourself by checking out The Splattered!@%#! Q & A below and any and every link provided!

www.sleepingonceilings.com

www.officialdavidallancoe.com

www.myspace.com/whenithitsmyblood

FaceBook

www.myspace.com/iamdavidallancoe

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Tyler Coe - Guitarist & Son of Legendary Country Music Outlaw David Allan Coe

Plus BONUS Tyler Coe & David Allan Coe - Daddy What If....- video & DAC - If That Aint Country- video

Tyler Coe, David Allan Coe - Daddy What If.....

David Allan Coe - If That Aint Country....

The Splattered!@%#! Q & A with Tyler Coe

Tyler Coe: Hey, man, this is good timing. We're headed back to MO, it's slow going due to snow and I've got three hours to go. So I'll just crank this baby out real fast...

SplatterTribe: Introduce and compare yourself to something you would find in a bar room and explain why the comparison

Tyler Coe: "Hi, I'm Tyler. I'm a lot like that bathroom door over there. None of the ladies in here are thinking about me all the time but all of the ladies in here are thinking about me some of the time. And I can swing."

Tyler Coe & David Allan Coe

SplatterTribe: For anyone who has no idea who Tyler Coe is please explain who you are and what you do.

Tyler Coe: "Hi, I'm Tyler and I play guitar for David Allan Coe, who is my father. I've been doing that since I dropped out of high school at 15, about 10 years ago. We tour the country year-round, playing REAL country music and my life is a circus."

SplatterTribe: What comes to mind when you see each of these random names?

Tyler Coe:

Willie Nelson- cannabis, 2-3 hour concerts that have a tendency to become dream jams, BADASS guitar player who will bust out SUPERCLEAN Django Reinhardt covers when the mood strikes, 4th of July Picnics are the best family reunions on the planet, owns an Old West ghost town!

Dimebag Darrell- nicest person I have ever met without exception, avoided adulthood, possessed a majestic control of electric guitars, played it down when I threw up on a bed in his house, the hardest death I've ever had to accept.

Fred Durst- I don't really want to talk shit...even if I should... There's a video on YouTube of him busting out a guitar solo that says more than I could ever manage with words.

Kid Rock- some kind of genius who saw what he wanted and took it, strippers, glitter cannons that cost $10,000 a pop and go off like 6 times a show, great father.

50 Cent- magazine covers

Barry Manill- who?

(Tribe Note: Well I meant for it to say Barry Manillo but your answer is fine......)

SplatterTribe: How do you define the following words? Music, Entertainment, Art, Life

Tyler Coe:

Music is the architecture of noise and the only god worth selling your soul to. Hell, it may be the only god buying these days.

Entertainment should be called "entertrainment" and may be what finally kills America.

Art is the past tense of the word "are" and

Life is the present tense, which is what happens when Death gets too boring.

SplatterTribe: What was your reaction when your Dad asked you to join his band and was it something you had thought about doing?

Tyler Coe: I was a little nervous. I said, "I guess I'd better start learning your songs then, huh?"

He picked me up from the airport and asked if I'd been practicing my guitar playing, which I really hadn't been. but I lied and said I had. So he told me he was recording a live album in three days and he wanted me to be on it. He showed me how to play the chords that he uses and I made up cheat sheets which I taped to the floor for those first shows.

I literally learned how to play guitar onstage, in front of audiences, and I can tell you for certain that if you get up onstage in front of a bunch of people who want to see you do something you either get offstage or you learn VERY fast.

Had I thought about it beforehand? Not really.

There were just always guitars around and I wanted to be cooler than I was, y'know?

I spent more time saying I played guitar than I spent with a guitar in my hands, until he gave me that kick in the ass.

Tyler Coe & SplatterTribe Alumni Tonya Watts

SplatterTribe: What percentage or the songs writtin' in the David Allan Coe camp, ever make it to press and what happens to the one's that don't?

Tyler Coe: Man, I don't even know. It depends on your definition of the word "song" because he's got just a ton of things written down on yellow legal pads that don't even have melodies to them.

He's probably also got melodies without words somewhere. I mean, we're talking about a guy that will sometimes make a song up in the middle of a show, so there's just no telling.

SplatterTribe: Finish the following sentences for me

Tyler Coe:

If you don't like Tyler Coe you can.............go find a mirror to stare at for a few hours.

I cannot stand...........up and sleep at the same time.

There aint nuthin' cooler than.............Jimmy Page.

SplatterTribe: Do you believe in or have had any experiences (if so please explain) with....

Tyler Coe:

Ghosts, I believe, are constructs of the minds of the living, as are individual personalities or egos or whatever you want to call them. So they are real subjectively but not objectively. I do believe the human mind will convert sensual perceptions of energies it doesn't understand into concepts and images that it can understand and therefore explain away.

UFO's, or Unidentified Flying Objects, are sighted all the time, really. As to whether or not they are alien spacecraft, well, I certainly hope so... but I've spent a lot of time praying to be abducted by aliens to no effect, so if they're out there they're seriously pissing me off. I do hate to think that all this space is here just for humans to go around fucking up each others' day, don't you?

Sasquatch is something I've never thought about much but now that I am thinking about it, I'm fairly certain there are some of his relatives at every show we play.

SplatterTribe: What is it like getting asked all the time what it's like being David Allen Coe's son?

Tyler Coe: Oh, man... You have no idea... Most of the time I say something like, "I don't know what it's NOT like to be his son, so I can't say", but every now and then the urge strikes me and I've got to come up with things like, "Well, imagine if every time it rained you shit your pants and everyone laughed at you. It's like the opposite of that."

SplatterTribe: What come's to mind when you hear the word SplatterTribe?

Tyler Coe: Honestly? Ejaculation. Is that a common answer?

(Tribe Note: Uhm.....Well Tyler......No.....That is not a common answer..........)

SplatterTribe: I ask everyone I interview if they have a random question I can ask a future interviewee. The question can be anything serious or tongue in cheek, whatever. So this next question comes from 16 year old Metal Guitarist Cory Manahan and his question was.

---What's your top 5 Metal Albums?---

Tyler Coe: Well, Cory, currently I'm gonna have to go with: Converge's Jane Doe, Botch's We Are the Romans, Wolves in the Throne Room's Malevolent Grain, Godflesh's Selfless and Isis' Panopticon. I like my metal to utilize the space between notes and/or the texture of distortion in order to create MASSIVE "lumbering" sound which will completely envelop the listener. And anyone who listens to a ton of Black Sabbath is probably good too.

SplatterTribe: Do you have a good random question I can ask a future Interviewee?

Tyler Coe: What is the scariest nightmare you've ever had?

Yeah, that is (from l-r) David Allan Coe, (unknown), little Tyler Coe & Waylon 'Goddamn' Jennings

SplatterTribe: Do you have any questions you would like to ask me?

Tyler Coe: Have you ever come to a DAC show?

( Tribe Note: I've been to one a couple of years ago. I would have been to more if these lame ass outlets in my state would advertise the shows more! It really is BS.....Nothing but RESPECT from me to the DAC crew!)

SplatterTribe: Make one combined sentence out of the following words or phrases.

Jack Daniels
Valentines
Business Card
Splatter
penny
thumb tack

Tyler Coe: You're some kind of pervert, huh? All right, "Penny, it's Valentine's, I've been drinking Jack Daniels whiskey all night and I'm gonna press your ass to the mattress like a business card thumb tacked to a wall until we both splatter, c'mere!"

SplatterTribe: If you where going to start your own Musicians Hall Of Fame (individuals not bands) who would be your top five nominees?

Tyler Coe:

Bob Dylan,

Thelonious Monk,

Ennio Morricone,

Charles Mingus and

Kevin Shields

SplatterTribe: Songwriting time, I wrote half a verse and then Bonnie Parker of TANG wrote half a verse. I need you to write the next half...

Me: I'm not learning no more lessons
So quit trying to teach

Bonnie Parker: But if you had half a brain

You'd know you're on my leash

Tyler Coe: bee, you move like a winter fly
bury your stinger or bury the hive

SplatterTribe: Closing Comments concerning anything you want said, known, printed or shown?

Tyler Coe: www.sleepingonceilings.com

Awesome, I'm only an hour from home now. Peace.

Tyler Coe's Been Splattered

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