Former WHITE ZOMBIE Bassist Sean Yseult - "It's Kind Of Funny To Have Heroin Named After You"
January 6, 2011, 13 years ago
Patrick Huguenin of The New York Daily News recently interviewed former WHITE ZOMBIE bassist Sean Yseult, who has just released her own book - I'm With The Band: Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie. An excerpt from their chat follows:
People assumed you and your bandmates were into hard drugs, but you say you were strait-laced.
"There were drugs and stuff all around us, but people were pretty aware of the fact that we didn't do any of that and kind of kept it away from us. At one point we were living on 10th and A and friends told us that there was heroin being sold on the street called white zombie. It's kind of funny to have a heroin named after you when you don't do drugs. I can't say that I've stayed on that path completely, but the guys pretty much stuck with coffee."Who made you most star-struck?
"In a hotel bar in Rio... I ended up in a conversation with Robert Plant, just having drinks. It was really hard to keep my cool. I was pretty much freaking out the whole time. But, you know, LED ZEPPELIN, pretty freaky. And I've always loved CHEAP TRICK. There was another night I stayed out drinking 'til 6 in the morning with Robin Zander. I'm still friends with the Cheap Trick guys to this day."Click here to read the interview in its entirety.
