1. Where are you right now and how are you doing?
Scott: I am sitting in my living room in New York. Its hot outside. I am doing pretty good, decompressing from a few months of travelling and touring. There was an article in the Village Voice this week about global warming which made it seem like New Orleans and Miami would possibly be underwater by 2050. Big waves are coming. My apartment in New York is on the 4th floor, so when and if one day New York is like Venice (I guess Venice will be underwater also) maybe my apartment is high enough up to be OK. So I am doing OK
2. You have left Geffen after just one record with them, what happened?
Scott: The situation with GVSB and Geffen is a long story. Geffen signed GVSB back in 96. We did one LP that did not crack the mainstream, or mainstream radio. Geffen then collapsed during the 1998 Universal/Vivendi merger, so by the time Geffen was "born again" all the people we knew and had worked with were no longer there. The new Geffen and GVSB had no relationship, and things went sour pretty fast... Basically you can call it a worst case scenario of a band signing to major label. Its not unique. It happens all the time. Band signs to major label and doesnt sell a million records. Goodbye band. Its the nature of the game in the business of entertainment. Once we finally got legally free from Geffen, we made this new record, and here we are.
3. Where did you get originally the idea of playing with two bass players?
Scott: the idea of having two bass players was really an accident. We started this band as a studio project, so for the beginning it wasn't really important who played which instrument. When we started playing live for the first times there was a song that ELi had played bass on in the studio, so instead of Johnny playing something else, we just had two bass players for that song. We liked the sound of it and wrote a lot of songs after that with two basses. Our album "Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby" was really the fruit of our experiments with the two bass player set up. We did the same thing with distortion. A lot of times changing something in your set up is very good for having new ideas. Buy a new pedal= write two new songs. It was the same with the basses. To change things up gives you new ideas.
4. How do you feel about your new record; what does the title mean to you? (you can't fight demons?)
Scott: I like the new LP. For me it is in a way a very simple recording. It really sounds like what GVSB sounds like LIVE. After the last record we made (Freakonica in 98) we wanted to do something more stripped down and dirty, and real, I guess. So much music is overprocessed these days. I like the simplicity of the new record. Its just rock and roll music.
5. Any Chance seeing you touring Europe next months?
Scott: We are doing a european tour in Oct/Nov this year. Its our first tour of europe in 5 years, at least. There are 3 or 4 shows in Italy planned.
We toured Europe so much in the mid 90's. It will be interesting to see what the shows are like in now. See you down there. We'll bring the bass.
thanks
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