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I've been asked to sign many weird things over the years including a prosthetic leg, a manniquins plastic butt and a speeding ticket that was got coming to our show but I think the weirdest thing is always when someone asks me to sign their skin and then after I do, they tell me they are going to get my signature tattooed. That always freaks me out. I have actually made people wash it off in front of me a few times because I know they are going to live to regret it at some point down the line when they fall out of love with our band or sober up...which ever comes first!-T[B]M
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Thank you. Mick & I had a great time in the studio making the new album and watching him play it all himself was a special treat for me as well. "Money Shot" is not really about any one person, it's more about the mindset and mentality within the music industry at the moment when it comes to women in general and how many of them behave and alow themselves to be manipulated. In brief, the song is a middle finger to current trend of women in rock presenting themselves as trashy hookers and playing up the whole slutty image. I’m just sick of all these lame chicks with no self respect who can't wait to get naked and pose for another photo because they so desperately want to be stars. The problem is, they all look like porn stars, not rock stars. They spend more time showing off their tits, tats and ass than they do talent and it's embarrassing!-T[B]M
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Yes but that was many years ago and back then I believe he was “Italian” ;)!-T[B]M
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Yes and yes depending on the show.-T[B]M
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I would never think of any of our bands as having ruled the scene, we just enjoyed playing shows together and there was a great camaraderie that we shared back then. Manhole & HWP played our first show with Snot together in their hometown of Santa Barbara and I brought them to LA to play their first show with us on our home turf soon after. We all became good friends and played many shows together and we had a great time when we did but as far as missing those days, no I can’t say that I do. That time in my life was very special because it helped shape me into the woman and vocalist I am today and it will always hold a special place in my heart as I’m sure it does for everyone who was a part of it but we all grow and change as does the music scene. It’s just part of being in a band. I can’t really compare what I do in My Ruin to what I did when I was in Manhole because things were very different back in those days and so were many of the clubs and people in this town. Mick and I are not a part of the current “Hollywood” rock scene [whatever that is now] and we don’t hang out at the clubs unless we are performing or seeing a band. Most people seem to just go out every night of the week just to be seen and that’s not our thing. We enjoy not being seen. ;) As far as the last part of this question, I can’t say that I’m really interested in re-connecting with certain people from my past or playing a show with The Start because we have nothing in common musically and haven’t spoken in years. As far as Snot goes, without Lynn Strait [R.I.P.] there is no Snot or at least not in my opinion.-T[B]M
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The song “VV” was actually written to Mick as a sort of silly rock & roll love song in honor of Vince Vaughn’s characters in a few of our favorite films [Made, Clay Pigeons & Swingers]. Mick is super funny and he does these amazing impressions that always make me laugh. While we were writing our album “The Brutal Language” we had a Vince Vaughn movie marathon and he began reciting various hilarious lines from these films to me day and night. He wrote the music for the song and it just kind of hit me to do something different than what we normally do so I decided to combine a few of the lines Mick was saying all the time into the song and “VV” was born. It was a fun track to record and it’s always been fun to play live because it’s so light hearted and flirty as opposed the other side of our songs which are more serious and/or confrontational lyrically.-T[B]M
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Thank you. I had a great time recording that track with Eazy and if he were still alive that is who I would say but honestly I am not a fan of much in the way of new rap these days. I dig the old school classic LA gangster rap but I can’t imagine doing a duet with any rapper now that I am in My Ruin so I will answer this for the fun of it and just say that I would have to stay true to my hip hop roots [so to speak] and it would be either Ice Cube or WC, who are hands down two of the best in the business and two of my longtime favorite rap artists.-T[B]M
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Lipstick!-T[B]M
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Thank you. The song “Summer of Hell” is one of the more abstract songs I have written. We haven’t played it live since 2006 so I had to go back and re-read the lyrics again to refresh my memory in order to answer this. It’s an unusual song and a bit more cryptic than my natural writing style and as I re-read it I can only imagine how it could be interpreted. Without going into full detail and naming names, I will just say that it was inspired by certain people Mick and I were working with at the time we were in writing “The Brutal Language” album who were working against us both in and around our band. It was actually re-written after Mick decided to re-record the music for our album and play all the instruments himself for the first time in My Ruin due to a change in our band while in the middle of our studio sessions. Inspiration often finds you when you are not looking for it and sometimes those help you create your most passionate and heartfelt songs.-T[B]M
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Honesty, loyalty, mutual respect and teamwork have kept us going. You’re not always going to get along though and you’re not supposed to. It’s normal to sometimes disagree or even argue but you have to communicate and try to stay on the same team even when you get pissed.
I hope we play NYC sooner than later as it’s been years since we played there.=MM= -
I was exposed to rock music at a really young age in the 70’s through my older brother who played guitar and turned me on to all the great hard rock and metal bands of the day. I wanted to rock ever since I can remember.
Religious imagery makes for great art to decorate our home and strong metaphors for Tairrie to use in her lyrics but no...I’m not religious at all and never really have been.=MM= -
We have had so many great shows in Britain that it’s hard to pick a favorite. Tairrie’s birthday show at the Mean Fiddler in London in 2006 was very memorable. I guess the worst was in Liverpool in 2003 when our crooked tour manager freaked out and took off with most of the band’s money. The gig itself was great though.=MM=
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I was in a hybrid progressive punk metal band in Knoxville called Hypertribe from 1989-1995. We enjoyed a huge hometown following and some regional success touring mainly around the South-Eastern United States and released one independent CD in 1994. In 1995 the band made our way to the West Coast for some gigs and decided to move to Los Angeles by early 1996.
HT changed up the style of the music a bit and became Movement when we relocated to L.A. and we rocked the Hollywood scene from 1996-1999 looking for that “record deal”. The band almost signed with Noise Records (ironically Manhole/Tura Satana’s label) in ’99 but it didn’t work out because they had no idea what to do with a southern fried alternative stoner metal band.
In 1997 I did some touring and one video shoot as the bass player for the Knoxville punk band 30 Amp Fuse.
Right before I joined My Ruin around 1999/2000 I played a bunch of gigs with Hollywood’s heavy electronic rockers Dead Girls Corp I actually met Tairrie through their singer Toddy T who was a part of the original My Ruin “Speak & Destroy” touring line up in ‘99.=MM= -
I wish I could have seen Randy Rhoads on Ozzy’s “Diary of a Madman” tour in 1982. His last show was in my hometown Knoxville, TN on that tour. I was only 10 years old at the time so I missed out on seeing it.=MM=
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I think it’s a little bit of both ;) It’s not just Tairrie they are working with, it’s both of us. Some people get sick of being around us and we get sick of being around some people. It works both ways. The underground rock business isn’t necessarily a picnic or Sunday school and people grow apart and situations change.=MM=
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At the moment our inbox is pretty full and we're trying to play catch up and sort through all the questions because we haven't checked it for a while until yesterday so for those of you who have sent something in, please be patient with us. We are trying to answer most of the questions being asked and no questions that have been sent in so far have offended us but when it comes to our family and [yes] other very personal topics, there are certain things we prefer to keep private. That being said, we hope you understand and will not be offended in return.–T[B]M
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Thank you. In 2000 we covered "My War" by Black Flag as a hidden track on our album and Mick and I are both fans of the Rollins Band so we thought it might be fun to finally do a cover of one of their songs as we always like to do at least one cover track. We really like the song musically and it has a very cool spoken word/scream vibe to it which is right up my ally vocally so we felt we could do it justice and add our own little twist to along the way. One the flip side of that, the lyrics really spoke us about how we were feeling this last year after certain things went down in our band and I guess you could say that it just felt very appropriate for the occasion.-T[B]M
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Slipknot were actually very cool to us. We had no idea what to expect but were pleasantly surprised by everyone including their crew. We were just ending our own headline tour in the UK and about to go home when we got the call to play their release show for the album Vol.3: (The Subliminal Verses). Apparently Joey Jordison who we knew had requested us as the other band on the bill and we thought that was really nice. I remember I was very sick at the end our tour but we decided to stay in London for a few days extra to play the show and had a great time - despite our then label Century Media Records giving us no support and being complete a**holes because they didn’t want us to play it for some crazy reason. No one acted like rockstars, in fact on a very sweet side note; Corey Taylor had a box he used on stage to stand on during his show and he offered to let me use it during ours, which I did [when I wasn’t as you said -“climbing on the barriers” lol!]. We have so many of our shows and tours on video but sadly this is one show we don’t have on tape and wish we did. It was a fun night and a nice memory for us. Glad to know it was for you as well and thanks-T[B]M
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