Yo Blittz

[Paul Blittz]

Thanks, Carl. It IS called 'This Ain't Called Anything Yet' and is a 100% Andy song - one of the last and best he wrote for the band IMHO. It was actually a 'fake' single: we sent it to Kerrang! to review as our 'new' single but had no intention of actually releasing it. We wanted to get our own back after the editor refused to publish an interview Ray Zell did with us due, apparently, to its 'homosexual undertones'. As it turned out, the 'guest' reviewer that week was a dodgy old soft porn 'model' who slagged it!

The wrong title on the bootleg is 'Dance With Me' which has mysteriously been moved two places and renamed 'Dancer'.

[Paul Blittz]

Yeah, the interview was done at the time of 'So Alone' to give it a bit of publicity. The editor, however, thought that a magazine with a predominately male teenage readership wasn't the right place to have an interview with two men in a bath. He asked Ray to make some alterations but still refused to print it. The annoying thing was that we were just trying to put forward our views on the glam image. We could never understand bands that wore make-up yet couldn't handle a bit of heckling from an audience. There seemed to be many bands (mentioning no names!) that would respond aggressively if someone called them 'queer'. We, on the other hand, responded by really overdoing it - touching each other up, kissing each other etc. Instead of trying to smash someone's face in I'd blow them a kiss and ask them to come backstage after the show. The average bloke with a moustache and Saxon t-shirt generally found this far more threatening than violence! It was obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense that we weren't a gay band and it was all tongue-in-cheek - but not, obviously, to the then editor of Kerrang!.

The saddest thing about the incident was that much later Joolz was at the Kerrang! offices for some reason and asked if there was a copy of the interview on file. Someone found it for him and he read one of the most entertaining (quote: 'Fooking hilarious!') articles Ray has ever written.

As for Mr Zell, we don't keep in touch like we used to but still bump into each other quite often at gigs. We seem to have the same taste - or lack of it. Next time I see him, Carl, I'll tell him there's a guy in the States with equally appalling taste who would like a word with him.

[Carl I.]

That would be super duper cool of you! Though, he will probably hide form me. Though, I need to get you some stuff also.

As for the playing it up aspect of people calling you "queer" and such, you should see The Trash Brats video that they released a few years ago. They opened for Kid Rock, and to say the audience wasn't too pleased to see them would be a HUGE understatement. The whole video is of them taunting the audience by blowing kisses to them and making VERY lewd gestures. Through out the whole thing all you can do is stare in amazement at how these guys are putting their lives literally on the line, and living it up. I am not so sure the bouncers would have tried to stop the audience from advancing too much, but they also seem to be enjoying themselves.