SUICIDAL TENDENCIES' Mike Muir - "A Lot Of The Time, I Say I Wish I Could Get Somebody To Take My Place"
November 26, 2008, 15 years ago
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES founder/vocalist Mike Muir spoke to D.x. Ferris from Cleveland's Freetimes.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
Freetimes.com: The rumor mill said the band was gang-affiliated. Were any of you?
Muir: "The world is a gang. There's certain words people use [to call attention and stigmatize], like 'Oh, oh, oh!' Anybody that grew up in Venice, if you didn't know somebody that was in a gang, you didn't know anybody. It has nothing to do with anything."
Freetimes.com: You're the only original member. What does it say about the band?
Muir: "That's the way it is. It doesn't mean anything to me. A lot of the time, I say I wish I could get somebody to take my place. I say that in a funny way, but in a real way. A long time ago, I used to say I wish I could just be in the audience and check it out."
Freetimes.com: What does Suicidal Tendencies represent to you in 2008?
Muir: "I think it would be a success if people hear it and think, 'You've got metal, you've got punk, you've got all this stuff - but there's something else. There's another way to do it.' If there's some 14-year-old kid, I don't want him just trying to play like Suicidal. I want him to sit there and go, 'You know what? We don't have to do what everybody else is doing. How can we do something completely different?' That's what we've tried to do with each of our records. People should hear it the first time and go, 'Whoa, that's not what I expected.'
Read the entire chat here.
