What\u2019s the most chaotic thing that\u2019s ever happened to you on stage?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still waiting for that. Maybe it\u2019s the most chaotic thing I\u2019ve ever put forth from the stage. Once a quite drunken man called out a rather rude remark for me to suck his you-can-imagine-what, so I invited him up to the stage and cracked him in the neck with a blackjack [club]. He fell to his knees and I told him to suck it himself. I\u2019m always prepared!<\/p>\n
You\u2019re in Australia to perform the songs of Suicide. Can you tell me about the impact Alan Vega<\/a> had on you as a performer?<\/p>\n They were one of the first concerts I saw when I arrived in New York at the age of 16. I think it was the mania and musical schizophrenia from one song to another, from Cheree to Dream Baby Dream<\/a> to Frankie Teardrop. I liked that confusion of emotion. Also, that thousand-yard stare<\/a> that Alan Vega had, screaming into the void as he did. They sounded like no one else.<\/p>\n You\u2019re also playing a series of shows with [Beasts of Bourbon and the Cruel Sea frontman] Tex Perkins. How did you first connect with him?<\/p>\n I don\u2019t really remember when I met him, but I was always a fan of the Beasts of Bourbon<\/a>, and when we did the Shotgun Wedding tour [in 1994, with Rowland S Howard] we covered Hard for You, which Tex and I might do on this tour. I just find him adorably funny, sexy, raunchy, everything rock\u2019n\u2019roll should be.<\/p>\n You have a long history with that lineage of Australian rock performers, Rowland most notably<\/a>. What do you miss most about him?<\/p>\n Look, missing people who have left so much in their wake is just a western form of selfish greed. As opposed to missing, how about celebrating what there was? I\u2019m just glad I got to celebrate his life with him. Most people don\u2019t get that much of an opportunity. We only are greedy for more for ourselves. The dead don\u2019t give a shit.<\/p>\n