DEADBOL
Hail
Halloween!
Somewhere on that
lonely stretch of road, a semi truck
and heavy exhaust flame across the
moon in the black of night like a
chrome steel witch. That night the
creeping notes of Deadbolt fade into
waves of evil laughs swimming through
the haunted balconies of the Fillmore.
Gathered for mass are the dead. The
only link we have to the underworld
union of evil societies, such
hobos, carneys, and voodoo shortwave,
now speaks to you. Since Tiki Man,
Voodoo Trucker descends farther into
deadpan darkness and the trucker code.
H=Harley Davidson
M=R A MacLean
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Tonight the guy from the
Swingin' Utters is on drums.
Where is Les?
H: He was busted by the cops.
M: The cops caught him on Geary
and Larkin-a trans-testicle thing.
Can you shed some light on the
clown mafia underworld?
H: I don't know if we should talk
about this.
M: The clown mafia... it's creepy,
you know. We used to be able to talk
freely about it, during the Tiki Man
album, but we've gotten some...
communication... that we need to
move on.
H: Everything is connected: freaks,
hobos, clowns, carneys, drifters. All
have this underworld.
M: Coincidentally it just happens to
go along with the albums that
Deadbolt makes. Which brings us to
the latest one, Voodoo Trucker.
H: We just researched this one
album, Hobo Babylon. Kind of a train
album that dabbles in the world.
M: Sort of a tribute to the true
knights of the rail.
as
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girl... tried to hunt her down. We know
she did it.
Did you hear that from the inside?
H: A Cunning woman she is. Very
cunning.
M: I mean, you see her on TV, and
you look at her and think, what? But
yeah, we know she did it.
If you knew a person in an
apartment building was har-
boring a fridge full of orange
soda and a tub of shit, what
would you do?
H: First, you clear out all the tenants
and put barbed wire around his place.
A tortured person like that goes on to
become a serial killer.
M: My first reaction when you say
that is, hey, I feel a song coming on.
But no, the guy needs a little food
adjustment, and also what Harley said
about the barbed wire and getting the
tenants out.
Are you bummed that you have to
play here tonight and miss out on
the rodeo at the Cow Palace?
M: Absolutely not.
H: His dad is in the rodeo.
M: True story. My parents are in the
rodeo. I saw them last night; my dad
came in third in team roping, and I'm
H: We call 'em Bo's. Very, very evil' really proud of him. He didn't appreci-
group of people.
M: The Kelly clown thing really
gave it a happy image. There is a lot
more involved.
H: Yeah. Roger Miller's "King of the
Road" was kind of a nice song.
Tonight, being Halloween and a
terror-ific show with The Cramps,
what did you do on Devil's Night
in preparation?
H: We tried to undress Patsy
Ramsey, the mother of the Ramsey
ate me throwin' a Coors bottle at one
of his opponents, but we ironed that
out and everything is okay now.
You have what I would consider a
very fine merchandise booth. Do
you get the goods from the black
market or a tiki merchant hopped
up on Miller?
H: We have slaves. Kind of an out-
reach center where we hire...
M: Small boys. And they did
this exposé...
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H: We tried to hire the homeless.
M: But they're not worth a shit, really.
H: They were trying to turn the glue
into booze.
M: And asking what day was pay-
day. It could be two weeks away and
they just got paid. It's a vicious cycle.
H: It's a nice small sweat shop.
I hear the kustom koach for the
tour is a Nissan pickup; how's that
thing treating you?
H: First of all, we are going to Japan
to find and kill the guy who designed
the seats. His name is Hung Go Pae
Chow. "These seats are designed for
varhy light body." We've got a contract
on the guy.
Is the contract through the
clown mafia?
H: We've got to take care of it our-
selves. You see, hobos and derelicts in
Japan make the Japanese a little nerv-
ous. They don't like punk rock bands
coming over.
M: On this album we didn't piss off
as many groups of people as we did
on the last one. We really centered
ourselves, and the thing is dedicated
to the trucker. Instead of pissing off
ten or twenty groups of people,
we're down to four or five now,
which is nice because we just focus
on what we do.
You don't want to piss off
truckers, though. One time I
I was almost run off the road
and had a huge wrench thrown
at my car by a trucker.
M: Shit, man.
Hey, where did you get that
wrench, MacLean? Harley, what is
going on here? NO!!! AAAGHH!!
H&M: Hey, somebody better get
more beer.
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