Grizzly certainly sounds like someone I could hang out with. Not just from his name, everyone from my neck of the woods is related to or knows someone with a name like Grizzly or Buck, Bubba, Mountain Goat or whatever.
I'm speaking about the general attitude, humor and insite. Hell, who am I kidding? He just sounds pretty damn fun. The whole band does actually. Many of you know that my musical tastes run from the heaviest of Metal through Country and Uncle Fucker combines that into a fun and great sounding mixture. Anyone who can add crunch to a Bluegrass classic like "Ole Slew Foot" and pull it off is a damn fine talent.
We've also got a new "crazy experience" to rank up there with our past gems about shit or some other fun topic. How about someone getting pissed on while driving through a snowstorm!
Unbelievable, you say? Well read on...
D-Day: Explain for us the term: "Grasscore".
Grizzly: Just a lame attempt to figure out what you call Bill Monroe mixed with the Bad Brains to a generation that doesn't know who either of them are.
D-Day: How often do you have to use the name Uncle Fugger when you tour? Do you run into alot of resistence to your name?
Grizzly: UncleFugger and all other monikers UncleF**ker, UncleFaulker, UnncleFizucker etc. are at the discretion of the folks who are posting/printing them. As far as resistance.... hard to say, I'd say it's not resistance as much as just getting ignored.
D-Day: You are working on a new album. What can you tell us about the release date?
Grizzly: I can tell you that our bassist is in jail and that's slowing us down considerably. He'll be out in a month, check back.
D-Day: What can we expect from this album?
Grizzly: More orginals, more math, more prog, more metal. I'm very proud of "Usurpers of the Tradition" But out newer stuff is a lot more developed.
D-Day: Do you have some immediate shows planned that you would like to share?
Grizzly: Saddly, no. From here on in it's prob gonna be touring or nothing. One offs are too taxing.
D-Day: Who would you consider to be the biggest honor to have as a guest on stage with Uncle Fucker?
a) Charlie Daniels assisting on fiddle
b) Alison Krauss assisting on fiddle and back-up vocals
c) Roy Clark on banjo or mandolin
d) Terrance and Philip singing their hit "Uncle Fucker"
Grizzly: That's a good one. Hmmnn... Well, Terrance and Philip is too obvious. Alison Krauss is an amazing musician but I actually don't like anything she's done in the last 20 years,
Roy Clark is a cool entertainer but I hanestly never though much of his playing andI can't really grasp why everyone else thinks he's some kind of virtuoso, Charle Daniels wrote that song which every jock always wants us to play, so that puts him on my shit list.
I think I'm gonna go with Alison Krauss and I'll tell you why. I think it would take a bigger leap of conciousness for her to want to play with us than any of those other guys. Charle, Roy, T&P they all might do it just for shits and giggles but Alison would really have to put her whole goody goody christian thing aside, and I'd be more honered by that.
D-Day: You have a following for bluegrass, metal and punk. Do you concentrate on one type of show or festival more than the other?
Grizzly: A following? Yes of course! Kind of hard to define though. Teenagers with Dayglo hair and 40 year old biker chicks?
We're very popular with folks that work at Tattoo shops actually. The next CD is gonna have to be advertized in some Tattoo mags.
D-Day: Which genre or fan do you tend to hear from the most?
Grizzly: Well like I said, the Tattoo shop workers are usually our biggest fans but their usually to cool to e-mail us n'shit. I'd say we hear most from the gay and lesbos age 15-21. Crazy rocker kids stuck in the heartland with nobody to fag off on, so they get into wacky bands like UncleFucker or Screaming Monkey Boner to express themselves.
D-Day: Along those lines, tell us one of your more crazy stories concerning fans or show events. Any fuck-up, police action, drunken moment etc. stick out in your mind?
Grizzly: Jeezus! Do you have a month?
How about when our Banjo player took our bus for a drunken joyride with us asleep drunk in it at 4 Am . Then grinded it repeatedly into a closed carwash causing $100,000 damage? How about getting ejected from a sold out 800 seat venue in Milwaukee for indecent exposure?
How about the one were the roadie gets drunk and pees on the banjo player while he's driving in a Nevada snowstorm?
Like that kind of story?
D-Day: Which three other bands would you want to be on your "fantasy tour" along with Uncle Fucker?
Grizzly: Phantomas, Yngwie Malmsteen.
D-Day: What is your current situation involving record labels?
Grizzly: We're distributed by Hairball 8 records which is OK. They book shows for us. Honestly we've been bombarded with offers from hundreds of people, but they always turn out to be some group of losers who have inflated views of what they are capable of and no one ever has any money.
D-Day: Have you ever considered replacing the bus or van for one show and coming in on a tractor and wagon as a hayride?
Grizzly: Yes actually, we've disscussed coming in on tractors and horses and in horse trailers. We've also fantasized about bringing Chickens on tour with us and having them on stage with us while the whole stage is covered in Chicken wire. Might be inhumane though, I don't know if chickens have sensitive ears or not.
D-Day: Do the Fuckerettes peform for every show or is it for special occasions?
Grizzly: Only at home. We don't have the money to bring them out on the road.
D-Day: What is your biggest dream for uncle Fucker?
Grizzly: To have a running show in Vegas
D-Day: Thanks for talking to us! Any final words for the fans new and old?
Grizzly: 911 was an inside job. John Kerry and George Bush are cousins. The monetary system we use is 1000% bogus. Free energy sources are being held from us and their inventors killed. Hitler was financed by the Jewish side of his family, the Rothschilds and the "Star of David" is actually the family Coat of Arms. Every American President has been related by blood to the English Royal family and every election is won by the candidate with the most Royal genes.
Think about it. Discuss.
xoxoxxo
Grizzly
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