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The Splattered!@%#! Q & A.

Mushroomhead-Waylon Reavis

-June 21, 2010-

 

  At the conclusion of this interview (conducted at Rock On The Range 2010), Waylon Reavis, co-vocalist for Cleveland, Ohio's veteran Monster Metal band Mushroomhead, thanked me for taking the time to talk to the redneck. His neck wasn't red at the time though, it was white. It wasn't white as in caucasian white. It was white as in white make-up white and his make-up was starting to run in the hot sun of mid-day, early summer Columbus, Ohio. When I asked why he was wearing his makeup so early (at 1:30 pm, it was still 4 1/2 hours till they're 5:05pm Showtime) he let me know he had just completed some promo work for one of the festival sponsors and that even if the makeup starts running or looking messy, he'll just throw some fake blood over the top of it hit the stage.

 

  When 5:05 hit later in the day, Waylon and the rest of Mushroomhead took to the Jagermeister Stage, with his fake-blood touch up, and destroyed  the crowd, which you can witness in the following picture borrowed from the Rock On The Range website. (BTW, if you look closely behind the yellow shirts, you will see your truly... )

 

 

  Mushroomhead first first-formed in 1993 and with a NEW CD and NEW Masks both coming soon, they continue to write NEW chapters to their book of 'shroom's. They can now also add being Splattered to the new chapter as well, because thanks to that red/white neck Waylon, Mushroomhead is now Officially SPLATTERED! AND BTW, Mushroohead Kicks Ass...It was an Awesome show...

 

(click on the thumbnails below and to the left, to view SplatterTribe's Rock On The Range 2010 pics of Waylon and his Mushroomhead band mates. Then check out Waylon's Interview below...)
 

 

 

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 All photo's courtesy of SplatterTribe except 'from the stage crowd shot', borrowed from the Rock On The Range website (www.rockontherange.com) & the group Mushroohead photo, promo shot.

Co -Vocalist for Veteran Monster-Metal Band Mushroomhead and Vocalist for Sounthern Rock Band  Tenafly Viper, Waylon Reavis!
 
 

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The Splattered!@%#! Interview with Waylon Reavis

 

 

SplatterTribe: Introduce yourself for those who may not know who you are.

 

Waylon: I'm Waylon. I'm co-singer. We got two of us for the band Mushroomhead and we're here at Rock On The Range.

 

 
 

SplatterTribe: This is a

one off show for you guys,

correct?

 

Waylon: Yes it is. We just finished our album, finished the mix before the mastering, last week. So we're gonna get back to goin, doin our normal gigs starting about August (and) you know, Halloween, is our time of year.

 

 
 

SplatterTribe: So tell us a little sumthin' bout the new album.

 

Waylon: The album's called SlaughterHouse Road. It's not like Savior Sorrow, our last album. It's a step into a totally different direction. Personally I feel it's my best work ever. A lot of guys in the band feel the same way. Mushroomhead had just kind of evolved. That was our whole thing. It's art. We're artists and it's just a real creative album. I'm really happy with it.

 

 
 

SplatterTribe: Mushroomhead's original co-vocalist left the band six or so years ago, so how did the dynamic of the band change when you joined up?

 

Waylon: Well, I'm not J-man and I don't want to be J-man. He brought that Art & Rap style... The dynamic changed a lot. They learned who I was. I learned who they where and we just kind of met in the middle. It's not the Mushroomhead from 2001. It's the Mushroomhead of today. Just like any band, when you make a change like that, you've got to be able to move forward. How many bands do you know that have changed singers and have been doing it for 6 years after that? We're one of the bands to do it.

 

 
 

SplatterTribe: So how did you treat the older songs?

 

Waylon: I treat them with respect. They're not my songs. I need to respect the guy that wrote them and I do, you know. I'm not gonna set there and make the stuff my own. I don't have that personal attachment to it. Some of the fans do, so I respect them enough to keep it goin' the way J-man would have done it.

 

 
 

SplatterTribe: A lot of bands can't survive with 3 or 4 members and you guys do with 7 & 8. how does the creative process work with that many members and how to you get on the same page?

 

Waylon: We're not on the same page...ever... and that's what makes Mushroomhead, Mushroomhead. We do know (that) we're so different. We do not hang out outside of (the band). There's 7 of us. That's alot of (people). (It's Like) "Stay away from me bro. I love ya, but GodDamn (laughs)! We all have our own flavor and that's what makes Mushroomhead, Mushroomhead because it will start out one thing and then someone will put a part into it and change it... Then someone will add to that... We never work together. I think that is the magic of the band is we don't set down together and write it. (It's like) Just do your thing and make it Rock. That's the only way to put it. Make it Rock, put your part in and add your flavor to it.

 

 
 

SplatterTribe: Does a member usually bring in a complete song and then everyone adds to that?

 

Waylon: Sometimes... but not really... No. We all know that when you have as many members as we do, you can't just write a whole song. (You gotta) Know your role. Bring in your part and then have everybody kind of add to that because that's the magic, being creative and being able to share your creativity. None of us are selfish. I mean we can't be. There's too many members of the band to get a good royalty check. So you got to share, you know. It's all of us. It aint me. It's not me. It's not Gravy. It's not any of us. It's Mushroomhead and we all have a part in doing that and you come together and you build.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: Where you a Mushroomhead fan before you joined?

 

Waylon: I was a fan. Yes I was. I actually opened up for them. I was in a band (3 Quarters Dead) out of North Carolina... I just got lucky. You hear it all the time you got to be in the right place at the right time. I ended up being in the right place at the right time.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: How did the SAW (Your Soul Is Mine) video come about?

 

Waylon: We got offered the Saw song. We had a song on the table. (We) where (like)

what will we use in it? How bout that new one, you know? The one where we talk about killing the girl in... "YEAH"!  And the video came about and (we) got permission from Saw to have Precinct 13 out of Mansfield, just up the street here, (film it). We shot our '1200' video there (as well). It was a one day shoot. He had the table. We all sat at the table for like 12 hours filming. We got up one time to shoot where we're playing, you know. And Skinny and ST1TCH edited it in under I think 12 hours after that. It was like a 2 day process.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: That's an awesome video. It's hard to believe it was done so quickly.

 

Waylon: Thank You. Well, we where put under pressure. We had just got off tour and they needed a video for the DVD.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: What about the set. Where did that come from?

 

Waylon: That is just a set... Actually, that is a workshop. That was where the guys do (designs) that make horror movies. That was all of their stuff that they do horror films around. We used it all. David Greathouse, who showed me how to do make-up and showed me how to do this (Points to his stage makeup), well he works there and having friends that actually do movies helps... with the visual. I mean, we're music, but we're just as much visual.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: So how did you end up with no mask in a band known for their masks?

 

Waylon: I want to throw a mask on. I didn't at first because I wasn't really comfortable doing that. Now, after putting this shit on for an hour, I'm like... Give me a mask, man. (So) when it's time to go, I can (just) grab it.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: I figured it was so people could hear you better...

 

Waylon: Well, I have a new mask comin'. You seen it in the Saw DVD. I have a couple of them. Different things are different (on them). It's molded to my head. They made a head cast and it's completely (a mold of my head)... The ear holes are right where my ear holes would be. It's for my face and my face only.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: What do you do outside of Mushroomhead?

 

Waylon: I do vocals with bands. Someone will be like, "Hey Waylon, will you do a song (with us)"? I'm like, "Yeah" and I'll sign off on it. It's like, I don't try to take anybody's money in royalties. You pay me straight up, we'll do a track and that's it. I'll do the track and I'll do it to my best ability, but I'm not gonna be like, "Where's my royalties? Where's my royalties?" So I kind of help bands that are comin' up and they want a guest spot. They talk to me. That's what I do when I'm not doing Mushroomhead. And then I have my other band Tenafly Viper with Jimmy (LaMarca) from Chimaira and Tommy (Chruch) from Autumn Offering and I go around playing southern rock.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: Does that help keep your sanity by being able to do the other projects?

 

Waylon: Yeah, It does, but I'm not real sane as it is (grins). It definitely helps, brother, definitely.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: So what did you dress up as for Halloween when you was a kid?

 
Waylon: I did Freddy. I think I did Dracula a couple of times...just normal Halloween stuff. Before I was in Mushroomhead, I really didn't have this kind of vision, you know. Joining these guys has definitely helped me become more of an artist, you know, like the visual. I've always had the music in my head, but I've never had that visual aspect. Goin with these guys, it's ALL visual to them. They'll look at a caterpillar on a turd and they'd be like, "Hey that is art", you know? They'll

be like, "It's about the lighting." I never really had that before these guys. There's a lot of them influencing me now.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: So what do you think would happen if every member that has ever been in Mushroomhead got together in the same room?.

 

Waylon: Probably a lot of fights. A lot of name calling. Words we can't use...

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: So what's comin' up with Mushroomhead besides the album?

 

Waylon: Just a full US tour. probably a European tour. We're gonna be out the next 2 years, gettin' out there and getting in everybody's faces. Mushroomhead is not dead. We're here and you can't get rid of us. We're like shit on your shoes...(end)

 

 

 

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