wanted to give us free shit like
purple psychedelic shirts and we
started incorporating all of that
shit into our look. By the end
of the album cycle, our hair was
gigantic and we were wearing
psychedelic clothes!
We never had a uniformed
look like the Ramones. We
just kind of floated and did our
thing and it wound up biting us
in the ass because people said,
‘Hair metal!” I remember Rick
“I saw you at our show the other
night” and he goes, “Yeah man,
we saw your hair and we got
scared and left!”
You scared the ‘Mats!”
Yeah! And the Replacements
did their 15 minutes of hair-
spray too.
Is the reunion show a one-time
thing or is there a chance of a
show in the NY/NJ area?
‘I saw you at our show the other night’ and he goes,
‘Yeah man, we saw your hair and we got scared and left!’
Richards of the Georgia Satel-
lites and Paul Westerberg of the
Replacements were in the audi-
ence one night when we played.
I saw them before the show, but
halfway into the show I looked
at the booth where they were
sitting in the club and they were
gone. I ran into Westerberg a
couple of nights later and said,
NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 5
Yeah, we’re talking about it.
I’m pretty sure it’s going to go
well and we’re going to want
to do it. That won’t be the de-
ciding factor because I’m sure
we’ll want to. We could book it
right now, but we would want to
make more of a big deal about
it. We just released a new single.
First it’s like let’s do a gig. Then
INDEX
NEXT ARTICLE
41