Ground Zero- Kody's Avenue

Ground Zero

Created: April 1998

PHIL: for the video you've got a camel called Mary Lou, that was shot in a bowling alley
PAUL: Yeah- Mary Lou
PHIL: What's that all about?
ADAM: The truth of why the camel id in the video is because we were trying to create peace in the Middle East. It's an effort, it's a first political effort of Matchbox 20 to create a global unity of love, just one monitary peace. We're trying to get the whole world right now, not just Europe to have one piece of....
PAUL: I could honestly say that I couldn't care less.
PHIL: Let's talk about the hidden track Dizzy.
PAUL: What?
PHIL: Dizzy
ADAM: Ahh, do you know what they're referring to? They're referring to that band...
PAUL: That band
ADAM: ...that other band....that uh
PHIL: Oh. Van Halen?
ADAM: Yeah..... No!
PAUL: No
ADAM:Oh. You want to talk about them?

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At the time that this interview was done, Phil was also interviewing Van Halen. This is also the time that Matchbox 20 supposedly had some sort of grudge against them. I think that a.) Phil thought that he'd stuffed up with the "Dizzy" thing, and maybe it was a Van Halen song (although it's Tabitha's Secret) or b.) they needed to cut into the Van Halen interview, and that was the perfect opportunity...
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