JAYNE COUNTY
"The Gloves Are Off"
by Ginger Coyote

 
I have long been a fan of Jayne County and was thrilled when she agreed to do an interview with me.

I sent Jayne a list of questions and she took the time to reply to them in true Jayne County style. The interview was done a few days before Jayne was to do a 3 week tour of Europe................................. LOOK OUT EUROPE ......HURRICANE JAYNE is headed your way.......

Punk Globe: I remember the advice column you did in Rock Scene Magazine. You gave some of the best advice ever. How long did you work with Rock Scene? It was the best magazine. I remember reading about and seeing photo's of Bebe Buell, Todd Rundgren, The Ramones, Blondie, Sable Starr, Johnny Thunders, Liz and Rick Derringer, Bowie, Candy Darling, Cherry Vanilla, David & Cyrinda and Lee Black Childers. You had a thing for The Dave Clark Five!

Jayne County: Yes, working for Rock Scene mag. was great fun and a great way for me to develop my own style of writing! It was a great source in letting the kids out there know what was happening on the New York Scene. And what a scene!!! It was like Liverpool in the early sixties! Bands everywhere! Parties at the bands lofts, and all sorts of dressing room decadence!!! People would give *blow jobs* in the dressing rooms right in front of everyone else. It was very loose! No one gave a shit! We hated the establishment and we were out to prove it!!! Two of my most fond memories was getting to see David Johansen's *big fat cock* in the girls room at Max's Kansas City! He had just taken a piss and it was still all over the head of his red tipped penis!!! He was shaking it and he had not stopped peeing yet and the piss was going everywhere! I SCREAMED at him, to put that big fat thing back in his pants and get out of the girls room and I was at the mirror, fixing my wig and make up! The pee flung all over the mirror as I was applying my lipstick! He was so stoned! He garbled at me! Hey Wayne, you can suck my cock anytime you want!!! I looked at down at it and said, "I DON*T!!!" A similar incident happened to me with Dee Dee Ramone in the upstairs bath room of Max*s I was in there, yes, once again at the mirror fixing my make up, and Dee Dee came barreling in! AAAAAAAAAAgggggggggggg!!!! "I gotta piss" he said, then proceeded to take out his ALSO big fat cock and piss like the Mississippi river!!! Then he pulled back from the toilet bowl, and showed me a full view of his enormous appendage! It had scars all over it from where Crazy Connie had tried to cut his cock off, when she came in from work early one night and caught Dee Dee with a punter he had picked up on 53rd and Third! I put my hand down there to give it a big squeeze, then said, *Hmmmm, nice penis!!!*, then walked out!!! I didn*t like the idea of carrying on with other band members. I always just fooled around with the fans!!!!! He He he!!!

Punk Globe: At one point in your career you signed on with David Bowie's then Manager. Tell us about that experience?

Jayne County: Well, the Mainman thing started out a dream but it turned into a nightmare! It turned out that David Bowie was only using me to steal all my ideas! He stole so many!!! He would say to Tony DeFreez, *Oh Wayne is such a good song writer, I want to produce him an album. Send him in to the studio to cut more demos and then send them to me!!!!!!!* So I sent him all these fab songs! Is sent him, Max*s, Man Enough To Be A Woman, Wonder Woman, I Got The Time If You Got The Place, a bunch of others, one called "Queenage Baby." which he loved . Well, he loved that one so much that he turned it in to a song called *Rebel Rebel!!!* I almost DIED when I heard that! He had worked it out on the piano and then played it to Cherry Vanilla and Leee Black Childers over the phone from London. Cherry almost dropped the phone and screamed, *Oh my God, he is trying to sound like Wayne!!! How are we going to tell Wayne about this!!!???* Other lyrics and ideas turned up on the *Diamond Dogs* LP. Also, I at one time had told David that I wanted to record a British Invasion tribute LP. I wanted to call it *Wayne's Fave Raves!* Then just months later he came up with *Bowie Pin Ups!!!* I of course began to realize that I was being used and sucked dry by this horrible Vampire o and asshole!!!

Punk Globe: I had no idea you were a Cancer you and Bebe Buell are born around the same day. Jayne is July 13 and Bebe is July 14.

Jayne County: Oh, yes, Bebe and I have birthdays within days of each other! I love her version of *Little Bit Of Whore!* I think her version is even better than Johnny*s! I used to play it all the time when I was D J ing at Coney Island High. That was such a great place! Good stage, good sound, good bar, good downstairs. Too bad it had to close down. The fucking Village Voice! They wrote all the stuff about the place being a coke hang out and all that. Sex in the basement, coke parties with young girls etc. What a bunch of Liberal turds I mean, I hate Nazis and Neo Cons, but sometimes the Liberal media can be just as stupid!!!! Some shitty anal canal, just couldn*t resist a *good* story! Oh wow! Great article, turd face! I hope your teacher at NYU gave you an A!!! Anyway, where was I? Oh, well, yes. Leee and I used to see Bebe all the time at Max*s Kansas City. She was always with Todd, and I loved that song on the Nuggets LP, the comp, put together by Lenny Kaye! Well, The band the Nazz! Great band! The song was called,. something about my *mind,* Now what was it? It is right on the tip of my over worked tongue! Shit, I can*t think of the name of that song by the Nazz! Eyes, *Open My Eyes!* *She, Opened My Eyes*. Ooch!!! I can hear the song in my head now. All the chords and changes , the tune but the title is evading me! Anyway what a striking couple! OOO, the back room would buzz when they walked in! On my Isis, Lisa Robinson would go bananas!!! I was close to Lisa at that time, and I got the vibe that she was very jealous of BEBE!!! Alot of the girls hated her because she was (And is!) such a beautiful woman! All the boys wanted her, and some of the girls!!! Bebe also has an incredible voice. And she is real Rock and Roll. Feels it. Knows what it is all about and what it should be! I hate all these so called new Rock chicks! They either Rock but can*t Roll, or Roll and can*t Rock!!! You have to Rock it then step back and Roll it, then jump up to the front again and Rock it! Rock it till is sweats, shits and pisses! Iggy knows how. Not many people do these days. We need another Rock and Roll Revolution, another Rock and Roll Resurrection! A new Reformation of Rock and Roll!!! OOOO, hit me Mama, with a bolt of Rock and Roll Spirit! Praise the Chords! Feel the Power! Speak in Tongues! Pass the Snakes of Glory and jump to the Beat.! OOH, help me Isis!!!!! Help me Rock across the Jordan River. Get me to the other side! Help me ROCK, ROCK ROCK down the walls of Jericho!!! Catch the Wheels of Ezekiel!!! Ride the Wheels up, up up and away, up to Cloud Nine!!!! Let me take you HIGHER! Raise up and RISE!!! Now fall back down with a big BANG! Hey now, that is the BEAT,!!! And it makes me wanna move my FEET! Oh baby, taste so SWEET. Swing low. Swing high. Sweet Rock and Roll Chariot. Swing me to the other side!!!!!!! Coming fore to carry me home! Home is where the HEART is! And my Heart is in Rock and Roll!!! So does Bebe...

Punk Globe: You have played with most all the Greats. Can you give us some dirt on them? Who was cool , who were jerks! Any bands that you wanted to play with but somehow it just did not happen?

Jayne County: Well, yes I did play with alot of bands! Not their cocks, but on stage! At Mercer Arts Center I played with the Real New York Dolls. And Suicide, and Teenage Lust and Ruby and The Rednecks, and Eric Emerson and The Magic Tramps, and Jobriath! It was a hoot! David Bowie came down and stole from everyone!!! He came down and the next thing you knew he looked like a cross between Wayne County and Jobriath!!! What a scuzz!!! He was even doing that years later when he sneaked down to CBGB's and ripped off The Human League! He has never came up with an original idea in his entire life! The only original thing he has ever done was to marry Angie!!!!!!! And his fucking knobby knees! When he is fucking you he jabs those ridiculous knobby knees into your sides!!! And he kisses like a snake! I wouldn*t be surprised if he was the original snake in the Garden Of Eden!!! So HE was the one who seduced Eve and created all these horrible problems we now have in the world. That MOTHERFUCKER!!! (He He He!!! I really got my BITCH HEELS on today!!!! He He. Well I was nice for a long time. And now that I am going to die soon, I don*t care!!! I gotta a hit list as well!!! Here comes Hurricane Jayne!!! Well, I did'nt play with Television, thank you Isis! What a bunch of art shit crap! And what an ugly band! Tom Verlaine*s guitar playing was always out of tune and he was always missing notes. He would play like it was meant to be like that, but he was really trying to sound like George Harrison of The Beatles!!! What a dork! Did you know that my band Queen Elizabeth, played CBGB's four whole months before they did! And they lie and tell people they were the first! They were complete homo phobes! And Patti Smith was a Transphobe!!! They can*t stand the fact that a transgender performer played there BEFORE they did!!! They lie!!! I hate liars! So this interview should be called, *"Rock and Roll Lies and The Lying Liars That Tell Them!" Jayne County takes her gloves off. Better cherish all this Ginger, cause this stuff would NEVER be printed in the mainstream Rock press. I have to play too much of the game! But thank you Isis I can tell you the REAL story!!! And I have learned alot from Eminem and the Left Wing heroes of mine like Michael Moore, Al Franken, Jon Stewart and Bill Mahr. I am no longer going to passively stand by and watch all this lying going on without saying something! Well I also did not play with the Dictators. Dick Manitoba is one of the most nicest and sweetest people in the world. We are friends now, and he is totally for REAL. A real person with a true Rock and Roll heart! Not the limp, fake, heart murmur of Lou Reed, but a true, heavy beating Rock and Roll Heart!!! The only similarities between those two is that they both are in AA!!! I liked Lou best when he was a junky. At least he wrote good songs and fucked transexuals!!! I never got to play with Lance Loud and the Mumps. That is a shame. They were great! They had this great song called,*You Should Have Seen Her Face Before The Accident*, that was fantastic and hilarious!!! Lance Loud was famous for two main things back then in NYC. Having a fab band and despising Patti Smith!!! He used to call her *an ugly, smelly, speed freak!* Well, she was a speed freak! And she was SMELLY with a capitol S!!! Honey you NEVER sat too close to her! Even at her shows,the first few rows of seats would be empty cause the smell was so disgusting! She never shaved her arm pits so the filth and scud would corrode under her arms, ans stink to high Heaven!!! And she was always throwing her arms up in the air! When she did, it was like a vampire having to back off from a cross or garlic cloves!!! And that screechy voice! The speed would dry out her throat and the sound live was like King Kong raking his giant fingernail across a giant blackboard!!! I once had to review her show for Rock Scene, and I had to wear ear plugs to keep my eardrums from cracking! It was like watching the *Creature From The Black Lagoon* trying to sing!

Punk Globe: How long did you live in London for I remember seeing a Zig Zag Magazine and you were winning all these awards.. You were in alot of photo's with Siouxsie. A couple with the guys from The Clash. I think there is one of you and The Sex Pistols if I am not mistaken.. Were you close with Nina Hagen and Poly Styrene?

Jayne County; Siouxsie was so nice to me! We clicked immediately, even if she was a bit perplexed by my wearing cowgirl boots at my sound check for my Roxy debut!!! We played together that night and it was a madhouse! Packed with lines around the corner! They were all extremely respectful and supportive of me, Yeah, I remember that Zig Zag party. Siouxsie and I made all the papers cause we skipped to the toilets together and then we gave each other make up tips at the mirror! Leee and I sat at their table at the party. I won some awards but I can*t remember even one of them! Oh, I sang a guest spot with Levi and The Rock Kats. Yes, it was a great party. The Pistols were there, everyone!!! It was like a whose who of the London Punk scene! Oh and the Police were there. I know them cause they had toured with me on my first Euro tour. They opened up for me!!!! I used to sneak peeks of Stewart's *penis* when he didn't know I was watching! You know in the mirror or from behind a curtain. Well it turned out that he knew all along, and was kinky enough to give me a free show!!! *What a sweet boy!!!* That tour with the Police was a hoot. I tried to push my guitarist Greg Van Cooke out the van door doing seventy miles on the Dutch express way!!! The Police were horrified. Greg and I fought constantly!

Nina Hagen is so cool! A Rock and Roll Lunatick. or Lunachick! Hmmm. Good name for a band. The Lunachicks! We played together in Stugart Germany in l979! The East Berlin authorities had asked her to leave cause she was causing such a fuss there! She is a true freak, and I mean that in a good way. I love freaks! I*m a freak. Let your freak flag fly! She was using a German band from West Berlin called Spliff. Spliff is a giant German joint! They roll them with tobacco there and take a piece of cardboard and make a filter and everything. Those joints were strong! You better be where you need to be BEFORE you smoke one cause you ain*t moving for up to three hours or more after smoking one! I had walked on *moving sidewalks* before, but only on LSD. Honey those joints , shook those sidewalks out like a dirty rug! The worst moving sidewalks I ever experienced was at the Fillmore East, at a Led Zeppelin, and Iron Butterfly concert! The ailes of the Fillmore were moving up and down like floating mountains! The walls were also melting like melting wax dripping from a candle. And that fucking psychedelic light show they had by the Joshua Light show. Isis! I liked to never got to the bathroom! And when I did, I could hardly get out again
Poly Styrene! SLOWLY I TURNED, INCH BY INCH, STEP BY STEP!!! Then I grabbed her by the her blue print Indian Sari, I swung her around the room!!! I shook her till her Krishna bells went tingling off her chubby fingers! Isis, Ginger you are bringing up the dregs! I hate that fucking troll! Out of everyone, I hate her the most! She was such a bitch to me! She is definitely a homo and trans phobe! And she is such a hypocrite! All that religious crap! If you really are trying to be one with God, hey that is OK. but don*t condescend and look down on others just because they don*t fit in to your narrow minded version of inner peace! I would like to inner peace her! A piece of her, here, and a piece of her over there!!!, Spread out all over a rail road track! She is a nasty, ugly, google eyed monster! She was a band wagon jumper! She had nothing to do with anything! I hope when she dies, she comes back as a cock roach so I can stomp the shit outta her!!! Disgusting pig!!!

Punk Globe: I knew you performed with Levi & The Rockats did you ever record anything with them?

Jayne County: We recorded a song I wrote called "Evil Minded Mama!" Levi is singing vocals with me. It is on the flip side of "Trying To Get On The Radio". Also it is on the RPM CD. comp. Safari Records, my label then, left his name off the credits! I was so embarrassed! Leee was really pushing those boys, pushing them a bit too fast I think, cause they weren't quite able to play yet. But it was good really cause you got to see them learn how to play as they went along! And they looked incredible! Those huge, quiffs, the tattoos, the stand up bass, and the brightly colored mis-matched socks. Leee dressed them himself. Leee was always wearing mis-matched socks, and the Rock Kats adopted the style and Incorporated into their act. Years later, when the Levi and The Rock Kats came to play in NYC and LA. those Long Island guys, who went on to become the Straycats, literally stole the entire act. The music, the style, the mis matched socks the whole bit! Leee was INFURIATED!!!!! And the Rock Kats were so upset! The Straycats went on to do really well and Levi and The Rock Kats just went on!!! They were pioneers! They blazed that trail for the Straycats to follow!

Punk Globe: "Fuck Off" is one of the best songs ever! The lyrics in all of your songs are so great and fucking funny. I also like "Evil Minded Mama" and I think it is called "You're Driving Me Crazy" the song about complaining about everything from a Cat to weighing 96 LBS and complaining about being fat.

Jayne County: Oh, you mean, the song *Worry Wart*. *You*re 6 feet tall, you weigh 93 pounds and you*re worried bout being fat!* *You*re just a worry wart, and it*s a driving me ca raa yea zy, baby ! When I met Iggy in West Berlin years ago he was ranting about that song. He loved it. I remember saying, *Well, fucking record it!!!* I have had alot of *famous* people say they *love* my songs, but none of them have fucking recorded any of them!! Shut the fuck up slut mouth and just record the motherfucking song!!! The Donnas love *Cream In My Jeans*. Well, record the fucking song you bitches!!! Show me you love me, don*t tell me, FUCKING SHOW ME! Your*re the one with the mega mainstream record contract! Shut up and record!!! Elton John was quoted in an article saying how much he loved my song *Fuck Off*. You know. *If you don*t wanna fuck me baby, baby fuck off!* Well, Elton, you *Hey I*m Gay after all , I am now outta the closet, huge, mega star and screaming queen!!!* RECORD THE FUCKING SONG!!! I need the money. I need a tit lift!!!

Punk Globe: Who are some of your influences? I know you love Dusty Springfield. She was sooo underrated!

Jayne County: Well, Dusty Springfield was pretty famous in the 60*s, but as time went on she became more and more underrated and ignored. I really identify with her. She was an original! They broke the mold when they made her! Or I should say, *When she made herself!!!* She was really a shy little Catholic school girl, under neath all that thick eye make up and false eye lashes.! And that hair! I still wear that style today! Teased and sprayed to death! Lacquered thick so it looked like an army helmet! One thing about those hair dos then. You could walk out into a fucking hurricane, and the hair would not move a hair! In fact I remember a story that happened during Hurricane Zelda, back in 1965. This beauty parlour was totally destroyed, and it killed the owner of the hair saloon. They found her body, all broken and bruised and bloody! But her hair was PERFECT!!! I wrote a song about Dusty and it appeared on my CD, *Deviation.* The song is called *I'm In Love With Dusty Springfield.* I met her back in the 70*s during one of her many come backs. She was FAB! And that voice. That smooth, silky, seductive voice that I think worked best when she did a Burt Backrarak song. I think my fave Dusty song must be, *Losing You!* I still can*t hear it without breaking down and crying like a baby! The lyric, *How many tears must I cry, before my heart breaks into* Well. how bout *96 Tears!* And that is too many teardrops., for one heart to be crying! Oh that song *96 Tears* is one of my most fave songs of all time. The band Question Mark And The Mysterians*, were one of the best garage bands of all time! What a name! But Dusty is one of my all time idols! I was so shook up when she died! Really heart broken. One of the most startling voices of all time. Dusty Springfield, Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin, and Etta James. Voices that sometimes even seemed like they were coming from another world! Totally original! One of a kind! Rare birds! Like the Raven! Tap tap tapping at the window pane! Voices like that. NEVER MORE!!!

Yes, I still love my fave band in all the world, The Dave Clark Five!!! My new NYC band are called *The Jayne County Five.* The JC5!!! The new tracks are really great. I am writing alot of new material these days. And I certainly have alot of inspiration with all this asshole, conservative, scum shit flying around these days. I wish all the cool people would move to Amsterdam and then China could nuke AmeriKKKa!!! Anyway, yes, we need more great bands like *The Dave Clark Five,* The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, Chocolate Watch Band and The Castaways!!! I love the Ramones but too many bands now sound like a watered down version of them!!! And those awful Two York Dolls!!! Oh Isis! Why did they even bother??? Johnny Thunders is dead and so are the Dolls! What an incredible band they were!~ But the Dolls entire sound was Johnny*s guitar sound.! That idiot they have on guitar now makes the band sound like Poison or Cinderella!!! Or like Tom Waits with Poison behind him!!! As much respect as I have for Sylvain and David, the new Dolls are embarrassing! So it sounds like a great Rock band! Who cares???? We have hundreds of great Rock bands. The Dolls were not just a Rock band! They were alot more than that, and now the Two York Dolls are mis- representing the Dolls legacy!!! And all to make a few bucks! Honey I could go out and give blow jobs and make more money than that!!! I hate to sound so bitter but the truth hurts!!! And I can*t support lies! I love the Dave Clark Five!!!

Punk Globe: Jayne, I hear you are "Thee Dee-Jay in NYC. Very Good and in Demand.

Jayne County: Oh honey, I have DJed all over. I got known as a DJ from playing at Max*s Kansas City back in the 70*s. I was lucky to have DJ ed during both incarnations of Max*s. During Mickey*s reign and the Tommy Dean era as well. I was the first all Rock and Roll DJ. Max*s even coined the term *Rock Disco* and that horrible copy cat of a toilet up town, *Hurraw* stole the title! What jerks! I used to get alot of stick about playing all Rock as well. Accused of being a Racist and all that! Honey every club in NYC and the country or world for that matter was playing Disco, and soul music. Music considered to be *black music* so get the fuck outta my face and kiss my shitty, tranny ass hole, for being the sole DJ on Planet Earth for playing Rock and Roll! And Rock and Roll even when played by white people is still *black* music!!! IDIOT!!! AND I did play black artists, when they Rocked! Like Jimi Hendrix, Sly and The Family Stone and Little Richard!!! And as far as I am concerned, black or white, those artists are still more important than all those fly by night *soul* and *disco* *groups* of the 70*s. Ignorant people, black or white, make me want to throw up, and throw up on THEM!!!

I have also DJed in LA, Tel Aviv, London, Manchester, England and Berlin. Berlin is easy because they will dance to literally anything! The Europeans aren*t as divided up musically as the AmeriKans. They are more open minded in general and more adventurous. AmeriKans are rigid to a fault and everything has to be set in categories. In Berlin you can play a rap song, followed by the Sex Pistols, followed by a Disco song followed by AC DC and they will keep dancing! It kind of freaked me out my first time DJing over there! You can*t go wrong! It*s alot harder in AmeriKa. Dance people are so limited and closed minded. Some of my worst experiences have been at Gay clubs frequented by young Gay kids. The don*t have a clue and it is so frustrating. You try to educate them and they turn on you like the Salem Witch Trials!!! *What is that, I don*t like that I can*t dance to that play something I can dance to!!!* *Do you have something fun?* *Can you play Poo Poo Rynna???* OOO, we wanna hear Madonna! Play Britney, play Britney!!!!!* Isis, it makes me vomit! I think all children should be forced to attend Rock and Roll School!!! What is it you wanna hear, asshole? Sorry, No Requests! What you hear is what you get! No I don*t have the new Leanne Rhymes dance mixes! I have this old James Brown LP and I am going to break it over your fucking head if you don*t get the fuck outta my DJ booth!!!

Punk Globe: : Are you still in touch with the original members of The Electric Chairs? I read you were working with Elliot Michaels? I know you have issues about the Movie "Hedwig" care to elaborate.

Jayne County : Well, the original Electric Chairs,(And there were many!! He He!) are all scattered across the globe. John John, one of the FOUR drummers I had in the band, went off to play jazz! I last heard that he OD ed on an overdose of junk. Well, his fave book of all time was William Burrows, *Junky* so I guess he lived out his dream!!! And he smoked way too much pot! And Val Haller, my bass player, got really lucky, and married a rich American woman! He now lives in LA!!! He never shows up at any of my shows or DJ gigs. I think he has a grudge against me because I left the band and went solo again,! That band was driving me up the wall! And they had the fucking nerve to try and continue as The Electric Chairs! That did not last long, as they got intimidated by my fans in London,. who kept coming to their not well attended gigs demanding and chanting *WE WANT JAYNE WE WANT JAYNE!!* What really gets me is that they actually thought that they were that important!!! They were Wayne County*s backup band! I was the star and the show!!! Once they said to me, *Well we are a band, it should all be equal* and I remember they really shut up when I said, *OK. then each of you can start doing all the interviews and see how interested the press are in that!!!* The press NEVER wanted to speak with any of them! They were in a fantasy world! It was all about MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Without me, they fell completely flat on their faces! They soon went howling off with their tails between their legs! And I went on and on and on and on and here I am today!!!

Well, I know, my book *Man Enough To Be A Woman* was very well received everywhere. I don*t think I ever read a bad review anywhere! Rolling Stone raved about it and they had never so much as even acknowledged my existence before! That is why I got so disgusted with them when they went all hog out on that horrible, derogatory, bad version of my life, *Hedwig!!* Really! That was a gay man*s trans phobic nightmare!!! How many blonde, Glam/Punk Rock and Roll Trannies from the 70*s do you know??? I am the only one!!!!! He lifted parts of his embarrassing film right outta my book! A friend was over at his apt. and guess what book was out on his coffee table!!?? You got it! My book *Man Enough To Be A Woman!!!* AND he had all my albums and the cover of *Things Your Mother Never Told YOu* was up on his wall! He totally copied my look on that! That period! My Berlin period! The photo on the posters for Hedwig look exactly like that and the cover of my CD comp. *Rock and Roll Cleopatra!* Everyone knew all this! Everywhere he went he got it! It got to the point where all you had to do to make him break down into a slobbering, rug chewing, maniac, was to mention my name!!! I remember Pete Burns coming up to me at Life, where I was DJing and saying. *Jayne, we just saw Hedwig ----- long pause----- knowing look------ pinched mouth------and you know what? It reminded me of YOU!!! Even the New York Post ran a huge whole page article called. *Jayne County, Is This Your Story???* And the Daily News said, *Well, it was alot more fun when Wayne County was doing this 30 years ago!!!!!! NOW that was the mainstream press! And that was BEFORE I even had seen it. This was all coming back to me! It got me TOTALLY CRAZY AND DEPRESSED AND I HAD TO GO ON ANTI DEPRESSION MEDICATIONS!!! Thanks Hedwig! Or I should say, DEADwig!!! *Deadwig and The Angry Investors!!!* Same reaction in London! Most all of the reviews brought up my name.! And I am ALOT more well known over there than I am here!!! One review in London said, *Jayne County and Lily Savage do this much better, and besides Jayne County is THE REAL DEAL!!!* Poor John Cameron Mitchell, the writer and actor playing poor Hedwig! It will follow him to his grave. AND I put a real honest to Isis CURSE on him! I hexed him and he is still suffering from it! I want PAYED to take the hex off!!! I have Cherokee Indian on both sides of my family. I am Scotch Irish/Cherokee!!!!!!! My great Grandmother was a SHAMAN!!! I know secrets that no one else knows and I ain*t telling any body! Honey I know all these curses and I can whip up a hex quicker that Samantha Stevens can twitch her nose and change Darren into a frog!!! There's one my Grandmother taught me, as it was handed down to her called The Curse Of The Falling Feather!* And Mother Isis, it is a motherfucker! It specifically causes the poor hexed person to *lose favor in the eyes of his ancestors* thus causing him to receive no more protection from the forces that control the spirits of the dead!!!* But I did a double whammy on the Hedwig people. I also put the curse of *Aseroth* or *Asteroth* on them! Aseroth is one of my personal, protectors. She is an ancient Caananite Goddess. She has SIX BREASTS! And the other one that I sometimes call on to avenge my honor is Bass or Basti, The Egyptian Cat Goddess! Between all those, Hedwig didn*t stand a chance, and still dosn*t. The Hexes keep the film and play at a certain level and can*t be moved until I take the hexes off!!! Also it is fixed so that as time goes by, Jayne County actually becomes the one who benefits from *all things Hedwig* the most! John Cameron Mitchell, becomes diminished in the eyes of his ancestors and Hedwig actually begins to work AGAINST him. And I want one million dollars to take the curse off!!!

Punk Globe: Your book "Man Enough To Be A Woman" was such a great read. Congratulations on all the fabulous reviews. Are there any plans for a Movie based on the Book?

Jayne County:Yes, the BBC are interested in turning it into a movie. Also the docu. on my life is almost completed. It is called *You Are Now Entering Wayne/Jayne County!!!* It is the real deal and we have mega interest!

The entire Punk Globe staff would like to thank Ms.County for this wonderfully candid interview and suggest you all check out her web site for more information. Jayne County is a force to be reckoned with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.jaynecounty.com/

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