Page 66 - RAGEBREED MAGAZINE - ISSUE 2 FLIPBOOK

1.First of all, after listening to your music, there is a certain punk goth
rock feel about it, do you have any inspirational influences that led you
to this unique combination of genres/image within rock and metal?

A DJ told me the other day that I have created a whole new genre1To me it is what I have
been doing all along, but I picked songs with a slightly darker feel and lyrics with a more
personal subject matter. Fans have told me that my lyrics are what they have in their own
mind...Identifiable. Lately I have started doing poems and am finding even more that I seem
to have the ability to read people’s minds and touch them. Many report tears when reading
my poems. My music however is meant to rock out to! I played hooky one day from school
and hitch-hiked down to see Alice Cooper whose album School’s Out was my main influence
at the time. The roadies picked me up as fate would have it and swiftly offered me some
Peruvian rock coke! I got in free to the show in exchange for setting up all the equipment
with them. Seeing that show greatly influenced me and I don’t think I will ever be the same!
It was for the ‘’Killer’’ album, and he still had his original band. Theatric but not overly
Dramatic. Scary but sleazy and heavy without being metal...That show had it all and when
the crowd came rushing up to the stage when the doors opened, I was up there in my Coke
Is the Real Thing T shirt and my red clogs and long hair and I swore to myself that I was
going to be onstage myself one day and I suppose I have never stopped! So, Alice Cooper
Band, New York Dolls, Ziggy Stardust period of David Bowie, Mott The Hoppled The Stooges,
The Sex Pistols, Queen and T Rex are a few of my influences.
2. One of your songs is about addictions “Get Out of Rehab” have
you ever suffered from addictions or was this song written from

Imagination/creatively? What advice can you give people who are
suffering from addictions?

I often drum in the park a block away from me here in Toronto and one Sunday morning
a guy came up to me and I went Oh No, do I really need to be accosted by some freak?
You know because I get them. However, I talked with him for a long time, and it turned
out that he had just escaped from Rehab which is in the area and was now drinking in
the park. He couldn’t take it anymore because they didn’t let him have a cigarette. From
this encounter I wrote the song. I have not ever had a problem with hard drugs. I would
say to people who are addicted to heroin or cocaine or oxygens to smoke pot as there
are many different types with different effects out there. Replace one addiction for
another ...a much less harmful one. People who are addicted to Heroin don’t hit it to
feel good...they do it so they don’t feel anything but eventually you have to use daily just
not to feel sick. Coke will tax your heart muscles and I started to get chest pain when
I did it a few times when I lived in Hollywood in the 90’s. The biggest addiction is Sex
addiction and that is a tough one. Liquor is the most common one. The trouble with all
these meetings that one is supposed to start going to is that they tie in religion, and
they become very much like cults.