TM - Hi this is Amelia and Elizabeth from Twinmusix and we are here with Blaine from Nashville Pussy, thank you for having this interview with us today we appreciate it.
BE - Thank you.
TM - what can fans expect from your Australian tour?
BE - A great rock and roll show like usual. It is getting better and better and it is going to be an onslaught.
TM - Do you have a favourite guitar to play live?
BE - I either use a Les Paul or a SG. It is a basic setup and it is hard to go against that. I also have a safe case so I can travel with my guitars so I will be ready.
TM - What can fans expect from your setlist?
BE - It is going to be some deep cuts of some of our greatest hits. We have been adding and taking away songs during the sets on our tour. There are so many good songs to choose from and there will be some great surprises.
TM - What's your favourite song to play live?
BE - Pussy's Not a Dirty Word is my favourite song to play. We normally start off with my favorite song so it's great. Once we get that down we know everything is going to be great for the entire night.
TM - Are you working on any new music?
BE - I am always working on some stuff and I think we will record some songs in February and take it from there. We just had a line-up change and covid which put a damper in the works. I am working on some personal stuff and I am back on track and going to record in February. I will keep putting music out, so I hope everybody is ready.
TM - What is your favourite gig you have played?
BE - We are popular in France so every time we play Paris it is really special, they are a rock and roll country. London is amazing and it is so intense. We played at Frankie's Pizza and it was amazing, it was one of the craziest shows we have ever played. We have played a lot of good and great gigs, so it is hard to pinpoint it the best gig.
TM - You played at Hellfest in France.
BE - We have played it twice and it was great. We played the main stage and there was a 15-minute short about us playing hellfest on French television, you can find it on YouTube. It is one of our favourite festivals. We got in early and since then it has grown. I think last time we played there was in 2016. I think we are over due to play it again. We also played one of the first ones, when it was smaller, back then the production was small and the amount of people I think at first it was 10,000 or 20,000 people. Everyone thought they were crazy for trying to have a metal festival in France and now it's one of the best festivals in the world and Waken was great to.
TM - Hellfest is one of the best.
BE - Last time we played Rammstein was there and I went out to watch Ramstein and I was backstage where I had some beers and there was a VIP bar. I stepped out in the crowd for a second and I was like I am claustrophobic, I can't do this so I went backstage and I missed it.
TM - What was your first band or Artist you saw live and can you tell us a story?
BE - My first concert was when I was 12 years old and I saw KISS and It was the Destroyer tour in Indiana. Bob Seger opened up and I had never been to a rock show. Kiss was really controversial at the time and everybody told me that you are going to get in trouble with the Devil if you see KISS because they sacrificed goats on stage and I got scared. My parents let me go anyway but they didn't believe that stuff. They told me when you are sitting there and buy a drink you have to put your hand over the top of the cup because hippies will come along and drop acid in it, I don't know where they got that story from because of course no one is going to do that. I had to wear my nice clothes because my mom said you are going out in public and wear something nice. It was the same type of clothes that I would wear to church, is what I wore to the KISS concert. My friend and I both sat there with our hands over our Dr Pepper and we're looking around for hippies in case they put acid in it but we didn't think about that when KISS came on. It was a great show and we were mind blown and that was the only thing I thought about until I saw KISS two years later.
TM - Did KISS influence You to play live?
BE - They were so perfect that they didn't even seem like people. It is like they were cartoon characters. I couldn't see myself as a member of Kiss because that would be sacrileges. I am not KISS, who am I kidding, even though I dressed up as KISS for Halloween. Then I saw Aerosmith and I was like okay these are guys playing rock and roll. I saw Aerosmith about two years later and out grew KISS. I thought I like Aerosmith now and this is 70s Aerosmith not the pop Aerosmith and when I started liking them more than KISS I thought I had matured. They were musicians on stage playing live and I could see myself doing that. They were sloppy as hell they were f****** up left and right and I was like I can do that. They were having fun and it wasn't a planned to show like KISS. It was like a Broadway show, all staged and planned out but Aerosmith was winging it and it was cool.
TM - That's cool.
BE - My first punk band I saw was The Ramones. They were out of the mainstream music scene and they were something different. We wanted something more. I mean we like Aerosmith but when everyone around you likes them you think there might be something else. What is the one band people are missing and that's when I discovered The Sex Pistols followed by The Ramones. The Ramones are a religion at this, it is almost where I take it for granted because I've heard it so much in the public mindset and the mainstream culture but if it wasn't for them I wouldn't know what I would be doing.
I saw Guns N' Roses when they opened up for Alice Cooper in 1988 and "Appetite for Destruction" had just come out and Guns N' Roses were getting a cult following at that time. They had not blown up yet and there were not that many people there, but Alice Cooper was great and Guns N' Roses were getting popular because they were the band people were coming to see. They played first and I liked the sound of them. I just didn't like the singer, I just thought they would never get popular with this singer and I was totally wrong the world doesn't think like I do.
TM - Is there anything else you want to say to your fans?
BE - come on out it is going to be a great time. By the time we hit Australia, it will have been four or five months since our last gig. Our last tour was in Europe and we played every day for six weeks and we got really good and we haven't done anything since. Our next gig will be in Australia and we are going to nail it and it is going to be great. You have to come out if you like rock and roll it is going to be the place to be.
TM - Thank you for having this interview with us today we appreciate it.
BE - Thank you.
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