Author: Dennis Richards
Magazine: Rock Heritage
Issue:October 1999
Q. In the Rock Heritage Spotlite this month is singer Cody Jackson and keyboard man Doug Cherokee from the Florida-based alternative pop group, Flint. How's it going, guys?
Doug: Fine.
Q. Recently, you guys spent three weeks in Kingston. Is the pressure of making this second record getting to you?
Cody: The summer tour had just wrapped and Doug had just bought a small apartment right in downtown Kingston. He said he has this awesome piece of floor I could sleep on. There is no better place to relax than Jamaica. It was just some chill time before we go back to the studio.
Q. Then can we expect to hear a reggae vibe on this album?
Doug: No, we recognize we're white.
Cody: I like to think this next record showcases some ambition but as Doug said we recognize our limitations.
Q. How come Juwan wasn't invited?
Doug: We don't like him so much.
Cody: He showed the last weekend I was there. He's been doing a lot of the last-minute pre-production stuff. He needs to work, stay busy, where I am happiest in front of a tv.
Q. Lyrically, what can your fans expect with this album? Are any of the songs influenced by what has happened to you in this last year?
Doug: I think the songs are stronger. When I compare the new songs with our old stuff... sure, our old stuff is great but the new songs are much, much better.
Q. Will any of the new songs touch upon Cody's rumored involvement with--
Cody: Before you start. There is no connection between me and Britney Spears. So no, the new songs have nothing to do with Britney Spears.
Doug: That's a double negative.
Cody: Good one, fatma.
Q. Cody, are you bitter with your portrayal by the media as this dirty, 24 year old groupie-shagging beast about to defrock a young and naive Britney?
Cody: Good Christ. I don't really know Britney Spears. I was quoted as saying "I love her" when my comment was "I love her music" or something like that.
Doug: Actually, what you said was "I love her videos since she got those new breasts."
Cody: Thanks, buddy.
Doug: Don't mention it.
Q. Well, let's switch gears here. Would you comment on talk there is a rivalry between you and Limp Bizkit?
Cody: There's no rivalry. We're both from north Florida but they sell a sh*tload more records than we do.
Doug: Maybe it's jealousy since they sell and are such untalented morons. But they get marketed so much more than Flint does. It's more of a joke really.
Q. Isn't it true that you chumped some of their fans at one of your shows?
Cody: We played a show in Virginia Beach the day after 'Family Values' went through. Some of their fans came to see our show in their concert t-shirts with their little banners and were obnoxious to the point where even we couldn't stand them.
Q. Do you remember what you said?
Cody: Not really.
Q. How about this refresher? Doug - "I'm glad you could see talent tonight. We are a rich man's Limp Bizkit." Cody - "I am going to donate my share of tonight's profits to help that loser [Wes Borland] get some eyeballs." or "Fred Dunst is a white Gary Coleman." The comments made me laugh but isn't that a bit harsh.
Cody: We were just playing with their die-hards a bit.
Doug: We don't really give a sh*t about Limp Bizkit or their fans.
Q. Finally, what costumes do you have pegged for Hallowe'en?
Doug: I'm going to buy a red Yankees fullback, grow a sh*tty goatee and put my shoes on my knees and go around pretending to be four foot nothing and tough.
Cody: Hopefully, I'll take my kids trick or treating.
Q. Any final thoughts. We can expect the new album when?
Doug: Sometime in the next millenium.