I met SISSYBAR at their show at THE GARAGE in Hollywood on June 6th, 1996 12pm. (Every Thursday, Rocco at the GARAGE puts together many of the finest bands!) They were very talented and I just had to interview them! (Plus I was supposed to interview DON KNOTTS OVERDRIVE and BOBSLED this month but my computer is toasted so I lost all my numbers!!! I had to interview SOMEONE!!!) It廣 hard for me to describe this band except to say that they are very good and are in the process of recording an album coming soon to a store near you! Here廣 the interaction that transpired!
CB = Chris Beyond (Me)
JM = Jim McCray (Co-Interviewer)
JR = Joy Ray (Lead Vocals and also a member of SEVENSOFT)
CO = Courtney (Guitar)
B = Brad (Banjo)
M = Mary Ellen (Keyboards/Vocals)
A = Ann (Bass/Vocals)
P = Patrick (Drummer)
CB: Well, of course my first big question has got to be...Have any of you ever held a monkey?
JR: No.
CO: No, I met Charro once in high school.
B: I pet a monkey once at a petting zoo.
CO: You didn't hold it.
CB: I think thats the closest that anyone has come to a monkey so far.
A: Well to tell you a story, I was at SEAWORLD in San Diego and I picked up one of those penguins near a fence and they made me put it down and they made me put it down. They were like "Mamn, you can't lean over the fence and pick up the penguin. Please put it down."
CB: But it wasn't a monkey.
A: It was a penguin; which is better than a monkey.
CB: So says you.
CO: Yeah.
A: I prefer the penguin to the monkey because it's much more cuddly.
JM: T dissagrees!
(I explain my encounter with Mr. T!)
A: So you ask these off the wall questions...ok, go ahead.
CB: Do you guys like off the wall questions?
ALL: (Except me and Ann) Sure, yeah, yep, yes!
A: No.
B: Like about Micheal Jackson?
CB: Michael Jackson?!?
B: "Off the wall!"
JM: I've got a question...if Micheal Jackson were to die today, would you try to buy Bubbles?
B: No not really.
CB: (Refering to Bubbles) I guess all these questions are monkey related.
A: I've met Micheal Jackson before and he's not as weird as he makes himself out to be.
JR: I thought you weren't allowed to talk about that, Ann. I thought you signed a contract saying that you wouldn't talk about that.
A: I did! I signed a seven page contract saying that I wouldn't talk about him, but I had to admit he's a nice guy.
CB: I did SOMETHING with Micheal Jackson, but I, too, am not allowed to talk about it...ok, we stole a car!
A: Ok, what's the next question? Is it about the monkey on Friends or something?
CB: Well YOUR question is the monkey question...everyone else gets the pirate question. What do you guys think of pirates?
JR & M: Arrrrrr! Arrrrrrr Matey!!!
B: We have a song about pirates!
CB: You do? What's it called?
M: It's called Argee Argee Blargee Arg!
JR: Yeah, Blargey Arg! Walk the plank with yee!
M: Until I make yee pee! Blargee Arg!
JR: I'll keelhaul yee till yee puke! Arrr Avast ye matey!
CO: First we did songs about pirates until we started doing songs about middle earth.
CB: (To Ann) Do you think that pirates would hold monkeys?
A: I think pirates are really down with anything that comes their way. They're really open and they are good people, so they would take in a monkey.
JR: It gets lonely on the boats. They need somebody to hold at night.
CB: Ok, you guys have an album coming out. What's it called?
JR: It's called "Statutory Grape."
A: Tell them what statutory grape is, because I think it廣 really neat.
JM: We know half the story! Tell the other half!
CO: In the late sixties Dodge...
B: I fuckin' know all about this.
CO: There are 5 people in the band with Dodges. We all drive Mopar.
B: It stands for Chrysler Motor Parts.
CO: It's become an acronym for More Power!
CB: And therefore..."Statutory Grape!"
CO: ...Is purple. It's the color purple! In 1969 or 70 Chrysler offered the color purple on new cars.
B: Chrysler called it "Statutory Grape."
CO: Plymouth called it "Plum Crazy!"
CB: This is Jim from the band GYMICRAE, everyone. (everyone appluads!)
JM: Thanks, you got me all flustered! I forgot what I was gonna ask! Thanks for nuthin! Oh yeah, Courtney, are you fully endorsed by Fender? I just gotta know cuz' that廣 all you guys use.
CO: I wish. Do we all use Fender? I didn廠 know that.
A: If you had a mustache that grew down, it would be a Van Buran.
JM: I did have one. I looked like I was in MOTORHEAD.
CB: Is there anyone that violence should be committed on?
(It is SUPPOSED to be the Violence issue!)
JR: Cathy Lee Gifford!
A: No, no-one.
M: Mariah Carey!
B: Skunk!
CB: The band; SKUNK?
B: No there was a skunk in my henhouse the other night and I shot it with a 25.
CO: Brad owns a farm.
CB: Wow!
B: I影e got 13 weapons!
CB: You影e got a farm of weapons?!?
CO: He has a farm...(To Brad) how many animals? Do you have more animals than weapons?
B: I lost a turkey the other day! So it廣 even now. A horse stepped on this 8 pound turkey that I was getting ready for thanksgiving! My horse, Baby. The skunk was eating the eggs.
CB: So, if there was like a special dance that people should dance to you guys, what would it be?
JR & B: The safety dance!
B: I saw fucking WANG CHUNG open for THE CARS, man!
CB: They're playing this month with ThE NeGaTiVeS!
JR: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Yo, I'm on a mission!
B: Do we get shout outs?
JM: Everyone gets shout-outs!
B: Oh, represent! ...Recognize!
JM: Let's pretend you made some decent money tonight...where is it all going? A new cord?
CO: Mutual funds. It's all going into mutual funds.
JM: What wrecked your guitar tonight?
CO: Loudness...and oldness...it was the patch cord!
JM: I think the interview can't go by without letting the readers know that you just FUCKED everything up tonight!
ALL: Woooo!!! Hey, hey, hey!
JR: Say it like it is! LIKE - IT - IS!!!
CO: I'm just gonna sit out on the next show, we're gonna discuss it and if I'm on good behaivior I'll play!
JR: I was talking to this guy before the show who was ready to audition. He had his guitar and was ready to go. He was gonna' bring it on up...He had gin and juice in hand...he was ready to go. He was german and he said "Arrr yuuu reeeeeleey loooking for a new geetar playar?"
(Brad leaves to go sing at a karoke bar.)
CO: He has to go sing "Aqualung" by JETHRO TULL.
JM: (To Ann) Your fingers are very small for a bassist. Can you still play those ripping leads?
A: I studied under Billy Shean for many years and am quite an acomplished bassist but I just hold back.
CB: Who's Billy Shean? No, really... I really don't know.
We all go our seperate ways after more talking.
Chris Beyond
