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This interview was conducted by Matt Pinfield, wich will be referred to as MP.
MP:Explain how you put your lable "TOP DOG" together.
KID:God it was a long time ago, like back in '87-'88, in high school I had a kid draw me up a little logo...I had the whole idea for TOP DOG. I thought there was a void in the mid-west. We had the Luke Skyywalker independant thing in the south, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Cold Chillin', and Delicious Vinyl. I just kinda wanted to fill the void in the mid-west, and ya know, just doin' independant stuff with it. Hopefully after I get myself where I'm goin, like a lot of other people with their lables, get some other cats goin' ya know.
MP:I like the story about how you acually financed the record lable by selling records.
KID:I took like an $8,500 loan on my last release(E.M.S.P.) and flipped it into 120 grand in like 9 months. I started blowin' the money real fast on cheap women and wine......it's a lot of fun though.
MP:Explain to people what a BULLGOD is.
KID:It's just probly the lowest form of a human being that you could possibly be. It comes from a picture on Monster Magnet records, evil picture of the Bullgod ya know. I think Wyndorf had somebody draw it up for him. One morning I woke up when I lived out here on the east coast, after an all night binge I think it's safe to say. I was sittin there in my underwear drinkin a can of Hi-C on the couch and looked down at that record and said "I think I'm the Bullgod, I'm pretty sure I feel exactly how that picture looks." Then I just wrote a song about it.
MP:I'm sure Dave(Dave Wyndorf: Singer for Monster Magnet) loved that, you're doing a tour with them in January of '99 right?
KID:It looks that way, yup.
MP:Now, you fuze that rock/rap thing very successfully. On this record you'll here a little of that Alice In Chains thing in the chorus, and even a little bit of a Rage thing....that's cool.
KID:More important you'll here that Lynard Skinard and RUN-DMC thing.......that's what I'm really proud of.
MP:Speaking of wich, that rap/rock formula is very popular right now....but that song(Bullgod) is a bout 5 years old right?
KID:Yea, that song was recorded and put out on the "Fire It Up" EP. We re-did it and they picked it for the first single. Wich is kinda funny because we were doing the rap/rock thing back then. We'd take it to stations and nobody wanted anything to do with it. It was too much rap for rock stations and too much rock for rap stations. Now I'm sitting here saying "ha, ha, I won."
MP:Where did you get the name for your band Twisted Brown Trucker?
KID:God, I don't know. I think that was during that same time in my life when I was sittin on the east coast not livin right, and I just came up with that name.
MP:You were livin in Jersey city right?
KID:Yea....lived in Brooklyn for a while too.
MP:What about Joe C., the little guy in the band?
KID:He's out of his mind, that cat's 100% shere terror.....Joey C. will kill you.
MP:What about the rest of the band?
KID:It's a good mix. We aren't a bunch of metal heads, we aren't a bunch of hip-hop kids....we aren't anything. Everyone brings something different to the table. We put it together and it's a good mesh of stuff, and I'm like the conductor....ya know?
MP:Now one of the biggest FCC fines ever took place because of "YO-DA-LIN In The Valley". Let's talk about that.
KID:Well ya know, that single came out on Jive. It's not hard to figure out what it's about I don't think, oral sex. There was a station that had the balls to play it, and somebody happened to be recording it. They sent the tape to the FCC, but the tape didn't have the stations call letters on it. So the FCC dropped the $23,000 fine....so once again "I won".
MP:Thanks for comin by, it's been cool.
KID:Yea....FIRE IT UP! Ha, Ha.
MP:YEA!
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