interview cont. again
C: How is the touring life?
Nick: It’s nice, I find myself being bored often. Because now, ya know, I mean we’ve got a lot of our friends on tour helping us out, ya know, taking care of, ya know, all of the of, ya know, behind the scenes stuff, ya know? And we’re totally grateful for it because all we gotta do is plug in and go for it. Ya know, and uh, ya know, thankfully we get 8 hours of sleep at least every night so, ya know, I’m grateful for that. Where as last time you saw us we were in a van about as big as this table right here, and we had 8 dudes in it and it was not comfy and we were all sick and we were all miserable and we weren’t getting any sleep.
J: And stinky probably.
C: Yeah, how do you wash your clothes?
Nick: Um, whenever we get a chance. For example, we played uh, I think it was Tallahassee Florida, and there was a laundromat right beside the vineyard, so I just, ya know, we get there at like 2 o’clock every show and so I just, ya know, while they’re loading in gear, I just go wash my clothes.
C: You all wear the same shirts a lot.
Nick: Yeah I know
C: Like Ty, I’ve seen that INXS shirt I don’t know how many times.
Nick: Yeah, We only have like 5 t-shirts each.
J: You have the first outie I’ve actually ever seen.
Nick: Really? Well it’s half and half.
*We proceed to look at his half and half belly button*
J: At least you’re unique.
C: Well I already asked this, but you’re the most high maintenance?
Nick: I am.
C: Who’s like the low maintenance one?
Nick: Well I think Tyson took a shower for the first time in about 9 days today.
C: That’s good.
Nick: Ya know, none of us wash our hair or change our clothes often, yeah. When it comes to uh, when it comes to say the number of hair products items we have I probably am the winner.
C: Well your hair is awesome.
Nick: I grow it myself.
C: Do you have any other talents?
Nick: Um, I’ve recently been able to drink A LOT of beer without actually getting drunk.
C: Is that a good thing?
Nick: *laughs* I don’t know you tell me.
J: How much is a lot?
Nick: I mean I usually I told myself I couldn’t drink before the doors open.. But by the time we got on since this is our headlining tour I can usually take out a sixer before we play *laughs* and then usually about 12 afterwards.
J: I could drink like three before I.
C: Don’t kill your liver.
Nick: I won’t too late. Other talents? I dunno. This is all I’ve ever known how to do. I flunked out of school and, uh, ya, not any other talents.
C: What’s your favorite snack?
Nick: Starburst. Original. (my note: there’s more to that, but that’s all I’ll say, haha)
C: What is the newest movie you’ve seen?
Nick: The newest movie I’ve seen? We went and saw “house of a 1000 corpses” the other night cuz we had a day off in Orlando. It’s that rob zombie movie. It’s basically an hour and a half long rob zombie video. It’s pretty dope.
J: He was the director right? Was he in it?
Nick: He wrote and directed it, he wasn’t it. I don’t believe unless it was a little cameo that I didn’t even notice.
C: What are your feelings on “teenyboppers”?
Nick: Um you know what? I was one myself. I had pictures of C.C. Deville on my wall ya know. Poison. Ya know, I, there’s bands when I was ya know, a “teenie”, there’s bands that I worshipped that I’ll always worship. So I mean, sometimes we play 18 and up shows and they’re a lot of fun don’t get me wrong.
Ty: Ya know, sometimes we DON’T, man.
Nick: Exactly, but seriously, sometimes I feel like the people who appreciate the music most are these teenyboppers you’re saying because that’s the most influential age. I mean anything they take in, I mean, they’re gonna hold on to it for a lot longer.
Ty: Where did we get our influences. How old were you? I mean.
Nick: Exactly, that’s what I’m saying. So I mean, fucking Bret Michaels could shit on a CD, hand it to me, and I would fucking buy it from him.
Ty: Just because they go ape shit doesn’t mean, ya know, they don’t like the music. Just ya know, whatever.
J: Just cuz they think you’re cute.
Ty: Well if that’s all they think, then that’s not a true fan.
Nick: The kids that screams at shows and you feel aren’t appreciating the music for what it is, I believe actually, ya know, I appreciate them for a lot more than it actually is. But then vice versa, ya know, I mean the kids who are older and, ya know, are sitting there and taking it in are appreciating it in another way, ya know what I mean? But I do feel if we can be say a band like poison for these teenyboppers you say, then I’m fucking honored as shit because honestly, we’ll be a band with them, I mean we’ll be, they’ll be like fans forever. Ya know what I mean? That’s fucking pretty great. I’m sorry.
C: It’s cuz everyone on the toastboard hates teenies. They get all mad, and tell them to leave.
Ty: I think what defines a teenie is a person who puts “I love Nick and Tyson, they’re so hot.”
J: Yeah, they just registered and they’re like. “oh Tyson’s so hot.”
C: And ask “which one is your favorite?”
Nick: But you know what, maybe they’ll grow up and they’ll understand the whole other side of it ya know? But still, however they fucking.
Ty: Maybe they’ll just grow older, like the new kids.
Nick: Maybe so, but, ya know, hey I still listen to new kids
*Ty and Nick proceed to sing “oh oh oooh, oh oh ooh” like the new kids*
Nick: Yeah, she’s taping this. *Laughter*
to be continued…