extensive JOE LETZ interview (audio) posted online!
September 15, 2011, 12:39:pm
JOE LETZ of COMBICHRIST, SKOLD and EMIGRATE recently had a chance to spend an evening with the crazy fuckers over at FROM HELL on WLJS 91.9FM in jacksonville, AL. here is 5 links to the complete un-editied, un-interupted interview.
in the interview joe discusses all things COMBICHRIST, touring with RAMMSTEIN, and his involvement in a few new and exciting projects including EMIGRATE and SKOLD! as well as a few other bits of expected randomness including his love for UNICORNS and GAY POP MUSIC!
woke up yesterday morning at the airport and got all our stuff off the bus within minutes and headed in to check in for the flight. wound up being there a bit early so we holed up in Mcdonalds for some breakfast sandwiches... without any hash browns?! WHAT GIVES GERMANY?! seriously.... WEIRDOS! i was so bummed on that. OH WELL! at least MJ gave me a bite of her hello kitty ice cream pop. WOOT!
everyone seemed to get a decent nap on the plane, except for me cause i was too busy harassing everyone that WAS sleeping of course (idiot, i know)... and then when we were waiting for bags, i harassed some randoms at the airport. some dude who had a hot daughter caught me staring at her ass too and wanted to fight me. he didn't say shit to me, but i could read it in his face. so i just undressed him with my eyes and then said to myself "GO AHEAD AND FIGHT ME NAKED MAN!, I WILL WIN THE PRINCESS AND SHIT ON YOUR THRONE!"... the end.
got in the shuttle on the way to the hotel where we would chill out for a bit before heading over for set-up and soundcheck. there was no air conditioning in the van and it was hot as fuck so we had a shirts off party during the hour + drive to the city where we'd be playing.. shoulda taken that as a hint of the tone for the rest of the day. no air con at the hotel either, and we'd be setting up, sound checking AND performing outside... BARF! finally got to the hotel which was in a really pretty sweet part of town and we had an amazing fucking meal just in time before we got picked up by the shuttle to head over to the festival grounds.
arrived to the outdoor stage which was like a 3 minute drive from the hotel and began setting up. the drums they supplied for us today were mixed fruit flavored, but that's okay, it was all good shit and sounded really great. it took a while to get shit in motion though and between the lack of sleep and the heat, i got pretty exhausted pretty quick, and took a nap on a table somewhere and waited till everyone was ready to get through a few songs and then fucked off back to the hotel.
had a couple of hours to kill so Abbey, MJ and i grabbed some AMAZING gelato and walked over to a park behind our hotel which overlooked the beautiful city and reflected on the tour and how much spiders suck. MJ is from australia, and i'm always terrified of going there and seeing fucking spiders, so she had a bit of freaking me out to do. went back to my room shortly after and took a nap which i woke up for just in time to get ready before heading over to the festival 15 minutes before our show.
hung backstage right before we went on, took some pics with some rabid COMBI fans, rode a vespa with some slut on the back, and then BAM, we were on. so great walking on stage to a packed festival show knowing it was to be our last performance of the tour in the warm italian open air, and that we'd be heading home soon to see our loved ones. the show itself was fucking awesome. thank you so much Italy for welcoming us so amazingly! it's a bitch to deal with how slow everyone is here and no air conditioning, but you make it well worth the hassle every time we take the stage here. we love you, AND WE WILL BE BACK SOON!
headed right off stage, took a few deep breathes and then headed over to the shuttle to be carted right back on to the hotel to get cleaned up. we got bombarded on the way out and didn't get out of there as easily as we would have liked, but it was nice to meet and take pics with some of the fans of course, and hey, you guys were great for us and sweated your asses off just like we did, so it's the least we could do.....
got cleaned up and everyone met downstairs in the courtyard out front of the hotel and decided to do a little exploring of the wonderful town we had been passing in and out of all day long. BOY IS IT PRETTY HERE! one by one people dropped off and headed back to their rooms to get their sleep before the long journey home, but abbey and i stuck it out the longest and once it was just the 2 of us we decided to see just how high up in the mountain city that we could get. we walked for hours up hilly roads and got lost as fuck, but saw some pretty amazing scenery. its moments like this that i just fall back in love with my life and what it is we get to do, and it was an AMAZING way to reward ourselves for the hardships of missing our families to tour, and to celebrate the end of this trip together which now marks abbey's second successful run with us! so stoked to have him on board!
eventually found ourselves back upon the hotel just as the sun was rising, and we headed inside for like 2 hours worth of sleep. woke up and limped on down into the lobby to wait for our airport shuttle which we found out was like a mile down the mountain out back of the hotel through the park since the giant vehicle couldn't get through the tight street... AWESOME! this made us late and coupled with the terrible traffic jam and it taking us twice as long to get to the airport than it should've, abbey fucking missed his flight :-( he wound up getting driven back to the city to hang with andy who would be leaving the following day, and everyone else said their goodbyes and parted ways and got on their own respective flights, HOMEWARD BOUND WE ARE!
thanks again for the great shows and for reading these blogs everybody! this will mark the last blog for quite sometime until i have the opportunity to document our X-mas shows in germany. stay tuned for some sick COMBI announcements as well as some personal DJ appearances by yours truly around the globe, and the sale of more JOE LETZ TOUR PACKAGES for any and all upcoming performances. www.joeletz.com . LOVE YOU! MWAH!
MONSTERS ON TOUR europe, NORDSTERN FESTIVAL, hamburg
September 09, 2011, 12:21:am
THIS SHOW HAPPENED ON: july 9, 2011
WHAT A FANTASTICALLY FRUITFUL DAY! :-D woke up parked behind the festival grounds at NORDSTERN near hamburg. found my way to catering, which was stuck OUTSIDE in the daylight... EGH! i was less than thrilled and it took my motor a bit to get warmed up today. stoked to have some amazing company for breakfast though. my best little buddy Mia who's doin monitors for IAMX and mark from VNV were there for me to spill coffee and eat twix bars in front of.
trevor tattooed a couple of chicks today. one of them brought this amazing puppet of him which was modeled after that picture of me and him while i was getting my dick sucked with that horse mask on... yea, no reason to pussy foot around that shit anymore. everyone has seen my erection now. i know this. could be worse. at least it was the girls turn and not the guys i suppose.... ANYHOW, what an amazing puppet. you should make one of me too. it's a great excuse to get to make a fake penis now isn't it.?!. :-D
we decided late last night on the bus after such an amazingly productive MONKEYS ARE MACHINEGUNS rehearsal that we should have our live debut seconds before the COMBICHRIST performance at the festival today, so trevor bobby and i got ready a few minutes early so we could be ready to do something random like this, just as it started raining. oh, and ladies and gentle-trannies.....: RONAN FROM VNV NATION! *((CHEERS AND APPLAUSE IS HEARD THROUGHOUT BATHROOMS ACROSS BULGARIA))*
the show was a fucking MESS but fun as fuck. MAM came out and we did "I'm not racist, i just hate alot"... then we went right into the COMBI set and all hell was breaking loose. it was pouring rain, everyone was getting soaked, it was broad daylight, and the PA sucked, so andy flipped the monitors over. my drums were set up right in front of one of IAMX's drum sets, and soon after my first few hits one of their techs was sent out to sit behind them and keep a watchful eye over my reign of destruction. thankfully i didn't break any of their shit. and then for the last song, fuckin fishy came out dressed like a bumble bee and MJ like a robot. andy full on tackled her at one point, shit was goin DOWN! FIASCO STYLE, and it was fucking awesome. here's some footage of MAM shot by levi from MORTIIS, and some footage of the end of the show shot from the stage which is owned by the purchaser of my JOE LETZ TOUR PACKAGE for this particular day. everyone thank them for sharing the footage so you get to see it too!
on the way back to the dressing room after our performance we ran into IAMX who's room was right next to ours, had hugs, took some sick pics, and they invited us to come onstage with them towards the end of their set for their song The Alternative. that shit was fuckin ROCKIN! i played on the singer Chris's drums cause they were the tallest, and trevor smacked a keg over on the drummer's kit. unfortunately i gentle gianted the fuck outta chris's drum head so i felt compelled to leave him a little note which i guess he'll see next time his drums are unpacked for the next show or something. :-(
watched a bit of VNV NATION after that, always a pleasure to see my homegirls up there owning the giant 5 foot tall platform!, then i headed out to the bus to play DUCK DUCK GOOSE with my home girl and mother of my tranny-icorn GINA fucking DORKA and her buddy, , and then... and THEEEENnnnn, it was time for chris corner from IAMX (and SNEAKER PIMPS for those who don't know) to tattoo trevor! trev asked him if he'd be into tattooing "IAMX" on his ankle, and since its something he'd never done before, he was pretty stoked on it. and he did GREAT! i remember tattooing dennis from BLB and i SUCKED at it.... SHEESH! chris should start tattooing for realz!
eventually the night came to an end, and we had the rest of the evening to hang out, play UNO, fuck chicks, have relay races with used condoms and prepare and pack the rest of our stuff for a quick exit off the bus in the morning once we arrived at the airport to leave for rome. just before bed i went for a walk with abbey and came across a poster advertising a RAMMSTEIN show on the next tour coming up that we won't be on, and that made me sad. :-( see ya tomorrow ROME! beebittybobbittyboobitty.com motherfuckers. <3
MONSTERS ON TOUR in Europe: Amstelveen, Netherlands
September 07, 2011, 02:57:pm
THIS SHOW HAPPENED ON: july 8, 2011
well well well, today marked the very last day that MORTIIS would be on the tour. that's right. another exciting era of hob-goblining and eating the brains of small children and seahorses has sadly come to an end... so i thought, WHAT A GREAT DAY TO WEAR A PINK SHIRT AND DRINK URINE! :-D
it was a pretty relaxed day all in all. i took some time to organize all my shit on the bus as eventhough we have 2 more shows, there is only 1 more with the bus, and after tomorrow we'd have to fly to rome for our last show... FML! well it felt good to know i'd be going into the last day on the bus well organized and already packed up for the most part. bobby spent his downtime filming a "day in the life on tour with COMBICHRIST" with levi. and trevor spent his day tattooing a good VFIM buddy of ours from last time we were in the netherlands, who's son Conner was hangin around all day to. he's a drummer and told trevor that he'd love to play a song with us at soundcheck, so trevor didn't show up (surprise surprise) and he filled in on his kit for Never Surrender! GREAT JOB CONNER! :-D
ate an awesome dinner after that, and had some time to kill before doors so trevor and bobby and i decided to have our first ever live MONKEYS ARE MACHINEGUNS rehearsal. we went over live versions of timeless classics such as I'm not racisit i just hate alot, and Seal's face. also, a new music video for Seal's face has emerged, CHECK THAT SHIT OUT HERE. we exhausted a very large budget for this video, so we hope you all enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it, cause if we weren't poor before, we sure as fuck are now!! (its a facebook embed link, so if it don't work, sorry. i never posted one of those in here before)
once doors opened it was time to get ready for our cock and roll show (that was an honest to god typo that i just found while proof reading. keeping it!) . the shirt i made for tonight's show says I <3 POTHEADS. it was meant as a nod to the fact that you guys are usually really mellow here, which i blame on the fact that marijuana is legal and widely consumed. i am okay with that, but BOY OH BOY did you guys surprise me tonight, you were fucking RAGING and it was awesome! i made a comment on stage about you guys usually sucking but being awesome this time and that just came out wrong. i'd like to retract that statement and say that you guys are just usually alot more mellow! almost everyone of the shows we play here are my fav's of each tour, but you guys seriously took it to a whole nother level tonight, and thank you for that. we had SUCH a blast on stage, and also celebrating the expiration of the MORTIIS reign on the COMBICHRIST tour at the end of our set in true COMBICHRIST "end of the tour" fashion.
hung out with some friends after the show, got a penis measuring gift with which everyone talked about measuring their penises but never did. that little toy basically put everyone on the spot and then everyone wound up just talking about how small their dicks were. i got stoked on that though cause now i imagine that i can fit everyone's penis in my ass all at once. WIN! bobby wound up getting a boner while we were talking about everyone's tiny dicks and he didn't know what to do with himself so he offered to crack MJ's back. :-)
got kicked out of the venue when they were finally closed up, hung outside for a bit and then fucked off to the airport to drop of my best homie in the whole wide world, chris kling. we arrive at the NORDSTERN FESTIVAL tomorrow where the rest of the MORTIIS dudes will take the fuck off, and where we will also be reunited with some dear friends and bands who we all know and love. VNV GAY-TION! HERE WE COME! :-D stoked for IAMX as well!
woke up in a place called "Ingolstadt" in germany today? didn't really know what to expect. shoulda known, playing in the basement of a coffee shop. hey, at least they had free wifi.... seriously though, choo choo came into the bus and woke up the band and had us all come in and suggested we cancel the show. the stage and room were SO small... eh, we've had to rough it on even smaller stages, PUNK ROCK SHOW was the decision.... wasn't like there would have been anything else for us to do in this fucking town anyways.... so we just raged the wifi in the coffee shop all day and took advantage of free ice cream sodas and shit of that nature.
chris and i decided to take a walk for some food at one point, but nothing. we even walked into the hospital to look for a fucking cafeteria, and nothing. we got lost in the fucking thing. at least we found nice bathrooms in there. chris told me he masturbated in one. don't tell him i told you though. got back to the bus and ravaged the Trannyicorn and then we played dress-up together. thanks again gina!
VFIM was a small group today, and since people had eventually started filling up the coffee shop we decided to do it on the bus. 2 of the VFIM's brought us like the most AND most random shit ever to sign, like a whole bunch of plane t-shirts, tennis balls, and a human fetus in a jar... shit was off the hook! we celebrated with a wang-a-lang-ding-dong-athon! we passed out the remainder of the hot dogs and everyone except for me deep throated that shit right into their tummies.
headed inside the basement to the back of the stage to get ready in the concrete underground fortress. it was feeling like a pretty half assed day to me so i did some half assed make-up. totally ripped off one of my favs, ADAM ANT... and then i got bored waiting to go onstage, so i next leveled it with some pigtails and lipstick... and then i thought about how this would really only be funny for about half a song and then i'd be sitting there raging for an hour plus, looking like a giant ugly chick onstage, so i ripped em out and wiped that shit off.
the show wound up being fun as hell! yea we were basically sitting on the fucking floor and i was basically playing for the front row as those were the only people who could see me, but there was a cute girl there and when it was time to play IN THE PIT i made her sit on my floor tom and i gave her a drum stick and she helped me out and that shit was fun. so a big thumbs up for the show tonight after all... THANKS INGOLSTADT!
went backstage after the show and i decided to take way too long to put my clothes back on while i was changing back to my "street gear"... dunno why. must have been something about the appeal of being naked inside that sleek concrete dungeon. or maybe it was MJ's tits... nah, it was definitely the fact that there were 10 other dudes walkin around, especially jason fiber. yum.
signed some tits on the way out to the bus, found that chick that sat on my floor tom, and told her and her friend to wait around till trevor and i got back from taking a shower together so we could all make-out. but we took too fucking long and by the time we showered, watched porn, stopped at mcdonalds, and finally got back, everyone had fucking left the joint. lame. had to settle for putting ketchup all over bobby's dick and watching him clean it off with his bare hands and eat it.... shucks. at least the night wasn't a complete bust. ;-)
