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| my name is butch.. not really, but my real name bored me after 18 yrs so i changed it. i have a band called The Lets Go Out Tonites. lets get this straight... i am a solo artist, but i have a band. so when you stop me and say, you look like youre in a band, you are correct. but i record and perform as Butch Walker and the Lets Go Out Tonites. so dont seem so confused if i look like i am in a band but dont call myself something like Confessions on Bleeding Heart Sundays. i roll like the old guys.. Costello, Elton, Petty, etc... you see? its fucking simple.
my favorite word is fuckle. its like one of those pug/beagle hybrids but in a cuss word.
my favorite music is good music. i hate all these sub-post-hyphenated-genre music categories. as a matter of fact, i think i will call Tom at Myspace and tell him to add a new genre called Post-Hyphenated-Rock...Core. sign me up! if you sound like Trapt, i will probably hate you. if you sound like anything Wayne Coyne would play while mowing his yard, i will probably love you. oh and i didnt say that i sounded like any of these guys.
how come disco music was so cheesy and hated by the punks, but now its what every punk indie band sounds like? im confused... how do i start this song... four on the floor disco beats yall. at the end of the day, Gang of Four will lose a fistfight to Tom Petty... get over it.
i never thought i would see the day that rock bands would be turning down big money, major label record deals. i feel kind of bad for labels. i think bands should try to sign Labels. stand in the tuesday morning power-meeting in the back, while on our sidekicks and blackberries, rocking our heads to the beat of their marketing strategies.... then offer them an advance and a limo ride to a stripclub. dont worry.. its non-recouperable..
why dont celebrities go out alone? in pictures, they have to have someone that no one knows with them. when i get famous, im gonna go to peoples weddings and funerals that i dont even know.. solo.
people at restaurants and clubs with bluetooth headsets on should be shot. hard.
in La, when you get stared at by wannabes when you walk through the door, i call that walking in someones yard. because thats what i felt like i just did.. like i offended them for walking into their yard without permission... whats that stuff you throw on the lawn to kill everything? i want some of that.
is it me, or is the internet getting thicker? magazines getting thinner? nicole ritchie thinner? Adam Yauchs voice thicker? Mariahs falsetto thinner? her brain thinner? im done with that.
my new record is called the rise and fall of butch walker and the lets-go-out-tonites. yes its a play on the old bowie record. yes i misspelled tonite. yes you are a dumbass if any of this bothers you. yes its only rock-n-roll ...and i like it.
it comes out july 11th on POWERBALLAD/EPIC records.
see you on tour this year. a lot. |
Dan McCarroll
