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Flying out of Seattle like a bat out of Hades, The Supersuckers return to rock the world with
their new album La Mano Cornuda. Taking off where The Smoke Of Hell left off, La Mano
Cornuda is a searing slab of unadulterated punk that includes the spooky tooth wah-wah of
"Creepy Jackalope Eye," the informative "How to Maximize Your Kill Count" and the amorous
"She's My Bitch." Guitarists Ron Heathman and Dan Bolton, bassist Eddie Spaghetti and drum-
mer Dancing Eagle took a break to explain what makes The Supersuckers tick. -Brian Brannon
What made you guys do that?
Tell us why you guys moved from
Tucson in the first place.
DE: Well, Tucson was pretty much a
dead end and Seattle wasn't and it
was really hot in Tucson as you can
imagine, so we came up here to
cool off in the rain, and that's pretty
much the long and the short of it.
We didn't know there was like a big
rock scene here so we'll ignore that.
R: Ignore what?
Could you explain to all the radical feminists out there exactly what
the song "She's My Bitch" is about?
E: It's just a little love song that I wrote for my girlfriend and she doesn't
mind. In fact, she makes me call her a bitch. That's the origin of the title
there. What's wrong with being sexy? It wasn't written in order to piss peo
ple off, but our booking agent, she's all up in arms about it, "Oh, I can't
believe you put that song on your record." But it's just a good little love
song. If they would listen to the words, I would
think that they would get it.
What's up with those cowboy hats you wear
Eddie, are you a shitkicker?
E: Yeah, I'm an old shitkicker from way back.
We're from Tucson, you know. Kicked a lot of shit.
You got a horsey?
E: Yeah, we got four little horsies with Sub Pop
saddles on
What's your band philosophy?
DB: If she's got the money. I got the time.
How have your tours been going?
E: Really good. We just got back from Japan and
that was awesome. We wore our cowboy hats
over there and they did not know what to make
of it, "You look like country western band and
play rock and roll. I like it very roud. Very fast."
What made you guys decide to do the song
"Dead Homies" by Ice Cube?
S: It was just a cool song. We thought it could
make a good rock tune, and lo and behold, it did.
It turned out to be one of everybody's faves.
When we took it to practice, and we were all kind
of going. "This is a joke," but then we just kept
doing it and it sounded really cool.
What does La Mano Cornuda mean?
S: It roughly means the horned hand, you know,
the Ozzy fingers? But I don't think it really trans-
lates that well.
For a second there, your new CD sounds a lit
tle poppy. Could that be happening?
E: I don't know. We were sort of poppy in the
beginning and then we went unpoppy and then
we wrote some more poppy songs and then we
mushed up a whole bunch of poppies and made
a bunch of dope.
R: To get it dopey instead of poppy.
E: I don't know, we don't really set out to write songs like, "Hey, we need
to do some more poppy songs."
DE Or more thrashy songs.
E: Right, if the song comes out and everybody likes it and it's good, we
don't really consider whether it's poppy or not, if we like playing it.
How is Seattle these days?
It's the same wet, rainy place it's always been. Everyone's making fun of
it, though, because it got famous
You guys got any good Seattle jokes?
DE What's the difference between a Seattle girl and a pit bull?
You tell me, what's the difference between a Seattle girl and a pit bull?
DE: Jewelry
What else do y'all do besides play music?
E: We've been doing the snowboarding thing lately too. There's a store up
here called The Snowboard Connection and they hooked oned page 6
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