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Interview by Gary Pig Gold
With a brand new compilation disc most appropriately called Dropped On The Head -- not to mention a very grand new four-song, seven-vinyl-inch single -- just out from this high-flying, lo-fi man's own Illbilly Record Co., I have decided it high time at last to virtually entrap the Georgian rockabilly rascal- deluxe, in order that I may address to him, on behalf of all us discriminating listeners, my Eight Questions For James Richard Oliver:
1. "Munsters" or "Addams Family": Which one's for you, and Why?
"Addams Family" hands down! Morticia has more sex appeal than Lily. Gomez is way cooler than Herman. Uncle Fester's torture/relaxation chamber is much more stimulating than Grampa's basement lab and Wednesday's deeper than JoJo the Dogface Boy will ever be! It's no contest. But I will admit the Munsters' theme song is much cooler, I'll give 'em that.
2. Who in the world, living or dead, would you most like to play a game of "Twister" with?
Betty Page.
3. How many Sid King & The Five Strings records do you own?
He was okay with the Pistols, but I didn't much care for the solo stuff.
What? Wrong Sid?
4. If you had been working the front gate at Graceland that night back in '76 when a drunken Jerry Lee Lewis showed up, shotgun in hand, to "put that damn Elvis outta his mis'ry," what would you have done?
Bugged out! I might have buzzed "E" and told him to eighty-six the Hong Kong Phooey shit 'cause the Killer was packin'! Then I'd've been at the nearest waffle house.
5. "Ginger" or "Mary-Ann": Which one's for you, and for How Long?
Ginger, for as long as we are in syndication.
6. What single song, living or dead, do you most wish you'd written... and Why Didn't You?
"Don't Let Another Penis Come Between Us" by Redneck Greece. I didn't write it because I don't drink as much as he does.
7. Whose guitar would you most like to be reincarnated as?
Leo Fender's first Tele, the coolest slab of wood to come down the pike.
8. In 2000 words or less, Your Hopes, Aspirations and Goals, musical and otherwise, for your life and your country?
"Hope I get old before I die": I am the Anti-Who.