10 of the Best
by MCJ
Starting with the wonderful Ginger Coyote, your
correspondents words in bold
1.What is the best view out of a window you have seen
so far?
Ginger: One of the prettiest views was when WTD
played in NYC and it was the first snowfall for the season... Such a
pretty view because the Apt I was in was so toasty warm and the
fresh snow was so white and clean.. A couple days later it was all
grey and slushy...
I was sure it would be Japan, see how little I know!
2.What did you want to do when you left school?
Ginger: My main concern was leaving the State
ASAP!!! Iowa was such a repressing area to be fun . Neither love or
money would bring me back to the Midwest to live..
Any one from Iowa care to send in fun things to do in
Iowa?
3. Do you believe in destiny or do you think its
happenstance you ended up where you are?
Ginger: I believe in reincarnation and that your soul
lives 9 life's and with each life it is a learning experience.. I
would like to think with age comes wisdom... Don't repeat the same
mistakes over and over.
4.What’s pissing you off most at the moment?
Ginger: That Rosie O' Donnell is leaving The View...
I will miss her so much, because of her right on the mark opinions
and sharp wit... I enjoy Joy Behar alot but feel Rosie takes the
feeling of the liberals and voices them.. I love it when she
mentions impeachment of Bush and Cheney on the show and tell
viewer's that if they want the real news to go to the Internet or
other sources than the Network Television and the conservative owned
media in the USA.. Joy and Rosie worked great as a team... Rosie
leaving The View after Don Imus being fired sucks.. We are slowly
loosing our rights to Free Speech...
5.if you could put one law on the books, what would
it be? And do you think it would work?
Ginger: I guess my wish would be that the current
Administration leave office before 2008.
6. Is now the best time to be alive? If not when?
Ginger: Being a believer in reincarnation means you
get the perk of living in other time era's... Living now has allowed
me to meet some wonderful people whom I respect immensely... It has
also made me aware of corruption that goes on... I love the fact
that we grow with every new invention and new things are being
discovered daily.. But why so slow in finding a cure for Cancer, MS,
AIDS and other plagues that have taken so many lives...And Global
Warming is another issue..
7.When they make the film of your life so far, whose
going to play you?
Ginger: Well of course I was hoping the fun and mis-understood
Anna Nicole Smith
8.In the pre digital days, when you could look
through some ones record collection what would people find most
surprising in yours?
Ginger: My Sonny&Cher , Led Zeppelin, ELO, Kinks,
Ramones, Blondie, Jayne County, Joan Baez, Joe Jackson, Bebe Buell,
Joan Jett, Julie Brown, Judy Tenuta, Everly Brothers, Gene Pitney
LP's
9. It’s 1973, your forming a ‘super group’, whose in
it? And yes you all have to wear satin capes on stage!
Ginger: Jayne County, Joey Ramone, Billy Gould, Meri
St. Mary, Nyna Crawford, Dave Gregg, Bebe Buell, Dave Dictor, Jello
Biafra, Rosie O' Donnell, Julie Brown. Tina Weymouth, Roddy Bottum,
Graham Maby, Dave Houghton, Gary Sanford, Joe Jackson, Lois Dolan,
Tammy New Wave.... Brother Ed and Eve Bortz would be doing the
lights... We would all be wearing "Escorts of the 80's " arm bands
ohh I mean " Escorts of the 70's...."
10.When is time to stop being a Punk Rocker?
Ginger: Never as my friend Meri st. Mary said "WILD
WOMEN DON'T DIE..... THEY JUST DYE THEIR HAIR AND GET
WILDER.........
Note to self, watch out for Women buying hair dye!
*****
And now Liverpool’s finest MDM answered by Lead
Singer Mandie Shaw :-
1.What
is the best view out of a window you have seen so far?
it's
gotta be when we was coming home from Prague and I felt the plane
tip to one side, shit I thought what’s happening, wow look at that
said Rob, oh my god I could swear I was looking up into space, there
was a great expanse of clouds and then it went dark! I was terrified
but it was awesome at the same time, by the way I am incredibly
scared of heights.
2.What
did you want to do when you left school?
My
first thought was freedom....and then I had no ambition, I had no
idea what I wanted to be, I just wanted to be off all the time and
sing in the band, but sadly I needed money so I worked in shops for
a while, that was a bit boring except for relax clothing co in
Liverpool, that sold punk gear and I got to model the stuff, it was
great. I got laid off from there and still had no idea what I wanted
to do, so I got into weight training and taught that for a while,
then tried office work...boring....ran a tea room...hectic....and
then went full circle and ended up back in school which is where I
still am now...still want freedom though.
3.Do
you believe in destiny or do you think it’s happenstance you ended
up where you are?
I
believe in destiny and Kharma, most definately what goes around
comes around, and if you do something bad it comes back on you 3
fold, I know that from experience, life is what you make it,
circumstances can affect it but you can always change what is
happening, you don’t have to put up with it. I believe in fate and
that all things happen for a reason, sometimes it's not apparent at
the time and sometimes it can be very painful, but there is always a
reason why things happen to you and a lesson to be learned from it,
all that happens to us makes us stronger. Life is not easy you have
to work hard at getting the goals you aim for and sometimes along
the way you realise that some goals were not meant to be and you
change your path, but it is always you at the end of the day that
makes that decision, you fight for what you believe in or you take
the shit and crawl away to fight another day. Oh boy is that too
deep?
4.What’s pissing you off most at the moment?
I have
some situations in my life that are pissing me off, and I am working
through them, deciding what’s best as it happens.
I am
also pissed off that the band don’t seem to get recognised as much
as I feel they deserve after 20 odd years of slogging around the
punk scene, I feel sorry for the lads in the band, maybe if they
were in a band with a male singer they could get taken more
seriously? I get pissed off with the male dominated scene and feel
female musicians should get taken more seriously. we need more
female dominated bands, promoters, ‘zine writers...cos after all
boys we are better than you.
Anyone
car to comment on this ? As you’ll see most of the band’s
interviewed here have female lead singers…..cos I think by and large
they sing punk better……
5.if
you could put one law on the books, what would it be? And do you
think it would work?
Thats
far too serious ha ha....but yes anyone who interferes with kids
should be removed from society and not allowed to live where kids
can come into contact with them, I strongly believe we should have
the right to take the law into our own hands when kids are concerned
.And yes it would work because we'd be doing society a favour. scum
like that don’t deserve our pity.
6.Is
now the best time to be alive? If not when?
Yes now
is a good time to be alive, what with all the technology and change,
but I wish I was younger because I could appreciate it more.
Does
anyone under 30 appreciate the digital world, class please discuss
….
7.When
they make the film of your life so far, whose going to play you?
Beki
Bondage...ha ha because so many people think we are so alike! No
seriously I really don’t know, probably Meryl Streep cos she plays
everybody!
But it
would be nice if it was Gwen Stefani cos she is beautiful and I
would like to be depicted as beautiful, strong, fun and talented....cos
films never really depict true life ha ha.
8.In
the pre digital days, when you could look through some ones record
collection, what would people find most surprising in yours?
You
find all sorts of weird stuff in peoples record collections and they
always have a good excuse for it.
Me well
anyone looking through mine would probably be surprised to find
stuff by The Monkees, Billy Fury, Elvis Presley, ELO....I have very
varied musical tastes, most embarrassing would probably be the
Osmond’s! well I was young once.
OK, no
problem with any of it except The Osmond’s! As a teenager at the
time of The Osmond’s mania, the sight of one more girl writing
‘Donny’ on her school books will send me off the deep end!
9.It’s
1973, your forming a ‘super group, whose in it? And yes you all have
to wear satin capes on stage!
Bugger
that I would hate to be in a dinosaur super group....ewe. Rick
Wakeman and all that oh no thank you.
I’m
sure Rick and the other talent less tossers are devastated ….
10.When
is time to stop being a Punk Rocker?
NEVER.
*****
Next up
we have Gloucester’s finest Demob, answered by lead Singer Andy K :-
1.What is the best
view out of a window you have seen so far?
Some bird playing
with herself, it's true
2.What did you want
to do when you left school?
Footballer
That’s Soccer for
you Americans. And Congratulations to Gloucester City finishing 10th
in the league
3.Do you believe in
destiny or do you think its happenstance you ended up where you are?
I believe there is a
plan but we make most of the choices
4.What’s pissing you
off most at the moment?
Total injustice
worldwide
5.if you could put
one law on the books, what would it be? And do you think it would
work?
Capital punishment,
yep it will work against those who deserve it
Again for America,
no death penalty in the UK, interesting this is the second punk
person to come out in favour of it ….
6.Is now the best
time to be alive? If not when?
I have enjoyed my
life so far, sure there are things I would change but everyday is
the best time to live
7.When they make the
film of your life so far, whose going to play you?
Fook knows, Shrek
8.In the pre digital
days, when you could look through some ones record collection, what
would people find most surprising in yours?
I have all Jimmy
Nails albums
America not going to
help you, you’ll have to google him !
9.It’s 1973, your
forming a ‘super group’, whose in it? And yes you all have to wear
satin capes on stage!
Me of course,
Watford John, Gary Anorak, Ted Pass, Bev Rage, Micky Geggus
10.When is time to
stop being a Punk Rocker?
When I die
*****
And
finally, Detroit’s finest Choking Susan, answered by lead singer
Colleen Caffeine, who is still working on her answers to the set
questions in the mean time has answered these from her sister and
inspiration in life Dawn: -
1. What song made
the biggest impact on your life?
I think it was
Humpty Dumpty..cuz I learned all the kings horses AND all the kings
men couldn't put humpty together again
2. Which song, that
you wrote, is your favorite and why?
"you're so pretty"
I like it because I
wrote the words and music and I'm the best so it must be the best
3. Who do you best
get along with in your band and why?
I get along with
whoever buys me the most stuff or lets me manipulate them for the
longest period of time...it changes all the time
5. What is your best
quality or feature?
Well certainly it is
my gigantic bosoms! isn’t it apparent?
Not a word from me
……
*****
Thanks to everyone
who took the time to answer, next time we’ll have questions the
bands wish they’d been asked and Beki Bondage of Vice Squad’s
answers to these questions and insights on Her life as a Mandie Shaw
impersonator!
