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ROB ZOMBIE LIVE AT PLUSH
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD
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INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS BY MAX MICHAELS
INTERVIEW FROM 8/9/05
Are you on the tour already?
Oh, yeah, we’ve been out for about a month and a half.
So what are you touring for with this time around? Are there any special occasions for this particular tour?
Not really. I mean I don’t have a new record so it’s not in support of a record. It was just something that came up. I had been working on my movie The Devil’s Rejects for so long and then when that ended the summer was free and so I got the offer for Ozzfest so that was perfect timing. If anything it’s just a warm up tour for the winter when the new album will be out.
So when is exactly is the new album going to be out? Do you have set the date yet?
No, not yet but it will be right after Christmas.
On, fantastic. We will look forward to that. What’s it going to be like?
Well it’s hard to say at the moment since it’s not completely finished. So far the direction is a lot more live and raw is the best way to put it.
Nice. What can we expect out of this particular tour? Since it’s not in support of an album or anything are you bringing any special props or sets or pyrotechnics or anything with you or it a straight up rock show?
No, none of that because fronting Ozzfest you've got like a hundred bands going. So we are doing something that we tested out a couple years ago just playing stripped down with nothing, just the band, and it was so great.
Cool, that’s really exciting. I can’t wait to see you in that type of scenario.
Yeah it’s funny for all the giant pyrotechnics and all the craziness no one has mentioned it. Which is funny. Nobody seems to miss it.
Well that’s a good thing too.
Yeah, it’s great.
So how did The Devil’s Rejects all turn out for you?
It’s worked out amazing.
We did a movie party for it here.
Oh you did? It’s going great. Still hanging in there amongst huge blockbusters and it’s still holding it’s own.
Yeah definitely. It seems like the style that you used for that one matured a little bit from House of 1000 Corpses. Was that a conscious process?
Yeah, I applied everything that I had learned on the first movie to the second movie essentially.
Karen Black wasn’t in The Devil’s Rejects. Was it just scheduling?
It was just you know, sometimes you just can’t come to an agreement with their people. That’s all it really was.
Did you find the first movie a hard lesson to learn?
Well, it’s just one of those things that, I mean everything is like that, but you just don’t know what it is until your doing it. You learn. You go in with as much information as you possibly can have but at the same time things will come up every second of the day that no one would ever mention to you. You just have to learn everything the hard way. It’s really the only way you can do it.
What was the first project that got you into directing? What was the first project you directed?
The first project was a White Zombie video back around 1990 I think it was.
Cool. Have you found it more difficult to be a director or a musician?
Well at this point being a musician. I mean none of it is really easy. Directing a movie is a much bigger challenge.
Right. Is there going to be a sequel to Devil’s Rejects?
No. The next movie I’m going to work on will be something totally different. I’m not sure what it is yet. I have a couple of things going, but it won’t be connected to that film at all.
Ok, but you are planning on doing more movies then?
Sure.
You got the bug.
Yeah, it’s great. I love it.
Right on. How’s the comic side of things going?
I really haven’t been working on that. All the comics I pretty much stopped at that for now. The just wasn’t any time.
Well what you are working on right now is just the album is that pretty much your sole focus?
Well yeah. Actually at the moment I’m on tour so the album is on hold till I get back and I have been really working on the script to the next movie.
Well out of everything you have done so far - comics and music and film - is there anything that you haven’t done?
No, to me all those things are interrelated. Focusing on film is what I am really interested in.
Do you have any special guests on your new album. Anybody you are working with?
There are always a lot of different people. Like Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit.
He’s from Jacksonville, where we are based.
Right. He’s playing guitar. He recorded all that before he rejoined Limp Bizkit. Tommy Lee played drums and Josh Freese from A Perfect Circle played some drums also. John 5 who is now in my band will come in and play guitar once this tour over. Those are the main people.
What got you into music in the first place? Is that your first passion twenty years ago or so?
I don’t know. As a kid you love everything. I always loved music. Probably the first thing I ever saw was The Monkees on TV or The Banana Splits or something. I’m pretty sure that’s what got me into music.
Wow. That’s pretty crazy. When did you get your first guitar?
I don’t know. I was pretty little.
So you have doing it a pretty long time?
Yeah, well I have always loved music as a little kid. I was totally obsessed with it.
What’s the first horror movie you remember seeing that blew you away?
I think the original King Kong.
Are you looking forward to the remake?
Yeah, I’m interested to see how it comes out. Definitely.
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