Nashville Pussy

Review, Interview and Photos By: Goth Brooks 

     I’d never ventured outside of L.A. or Orange County on assignment up until this night and all I’ve got to say is that people from San Diego are fuckin’ crazy!  First band up at this show was Candarella-X from North Beach, San Diego.  They’re a band who brings their heavy Detroit Rock type sound to So. Cal.  Definitely a band to see if you get the chance.  Next up was another band I’d never seen or heard of before.  Red Eye Gravy is a bunch of toothless, inbred, boogereating sheepfuckers who play a solid, somewhat twisted brand of X meets greaser rock to the full approval of their rabid following.  Another must see band.

     What could I possibly tell you that you don’t already know about Nashville Pussy?  They kick ass more than the last time every time I see them.  One highlight of the show was Tracy hitting Ronnie G. (Harms Way, Grin) with a knockout left that gave him one of those hairline cuts over his right eye that doesn’t stop bleeding.  I’ll let Tracy tell you all about why Ronnie got what he deserved.

Goth Brooks: This is Goth Brooks for deadontheweb.com, Goth Brooks the most electrifying man in music entertainment history that is.

Tracy: I’ll say!

Goth Brooks: I’m here with Tracy  A.k.a. Tracy Kick Ass from Nashville Pussy.  How you doing Tracy?

Tracy: Good, really good.

Goth Brooks: Tracy, for the people unfamiliar with Nashville Pussy tell us what you do in the band.

Tracy: I play bass guitar and make a general mess up there.(laughs)

Goth Brooks: What are some of the things You find shocking or offensive?

Tracy: Not much to be honest, I think I’ve seen it all and there’s not much that can shock me at this point.  Offensive?  I don’t like it when people take advantage of the fact that I’m up there rocking out and they do stuff like pull on my bass strings.  That makes me furious and offended.(laughs)

Goth Brooks: What really pisses you off?

Tracy: That’s like the number one thing.  That and not being able to find good coffee.

Goth Brooks: What’s the range in ages for the fans Nashville Pussy attracts?

Tracy: It’s really strange, we obviously appeal to people into bands like AC/DC, Ted Nugent, all those bands you can’t see anymore.  We have a lot of young kids who’ve been turned onto or gone back and discovered those kinds of classic rock bands. 15-16 years old.  We also get a lot of older people who miss all the old classic rock.

Goth Brooks: Marcello Halford(Grin vocalist) has entered the room.  Hey Marcello, what are you going by this week? Halford? Bon Jovi? What?

Marcello: Fitapauli

Goth Brooks: Was traditional rock music what formed your musical identity into what it is today? How diverse were your musical tastes growing up? Anything a fan would be surprised to hear as a musical influence coming from a member of Nashville Pussy? Would you say you have any eclectic tastes?

Tracy: I’m really like a guitar player and a drummer and a bass player you know? So for like every instrument I have my favorite type of music.  I played drums for years in a band called the Wives, an all female hardcore band out of New York City, I played lead guitar in a band called Helldorado out of New York also.

Goth Brooks: When learning to play guitar were you more concerned with learning the smoking guitar lead? Or were you concentrating more on songwriting?

Tracy: I was more concerned with making the smoking guitar lead.  Yeah, absolutely!(laughs)

Goth Brooks: Did that change and did you progress into a songwriter?  I know you write songs.

Tracy: I do a lot of songwriting and I’ve given some of my songs to like Texas Terri and stuff like that, so yeah I enjoy writing songs and they’re all kind of different and I try to give them out to people who I think they’d be most appropriate for.

Goth Brooks: There’s some pretty funny lyrics in some Nashville Pussy songs, and this question was for Blaine, in some of the songs like Somebody Shoot Me and Johnny Hot Rod you’ve got some pretty humorous lyrics in there.  Do you happen to know where Blaine drew the inspiration for like the first song he ever wrote and what the song was about?

Tracy: I don’t know the first song he ever wrote but I just write music, I don’t write lyrics in the band.  But that really intrigued me when I was just a Nashville Pussy fan before I was in the band I thought the lyrics were fuckin’ great and hilarious, so I was really excited to give him some music and see what he came up with.

Goth Brooks: da da da da da da dick in my hand telling all the kiddies I’m the ice cream man?

Tracy: (laughs) That’s one of them.  I wrote a song called Jack Shack and another called Here’s to Your Destruction which is a really great Southern Rock song and the lyrics are just phenomenal.

Goth Brooks: do you have any idea when the new Nashville pussy album is coming out? And at this time are you guys still between labels?

Tracy: Well, TVT sucks ass so bad that they will never get this record.  We’re in the process of getting rid of them.  We know the album will definitely come out in Japan before it ever comes out in the U.S.

Goth Brooks: Any prospective record labels looking at it?  Or is it owed to TVT?

Tracy: I don’t listen to the business.  I just try to enjoy myself. (laughs)

Goth Brooks: Who attracts the most groupies in this band?

Tracy: Ruyter, absolutely.

Goth Brooks: What’s the ratio between female and male groupies she attracts?

Tracy: well you know our audience is predominately male, so I would have to say male.

Goth Brooks: It’s not all guys out there, I see lots of girls at your shows.

Tracy: There are some girls here and they’re hardcore.  They’re really big fans and totally supportive.

Goth Brooks: Do you or any of the other members of the band have any unusual hobbies that wouldn’t normally be associated with a rock and roll personality?

Tracy: Blaine is a kick ass baseball player.  He’s been batting and going to batting cages and just kicking so much ass.  He does that just to kind of relax on tour and relax when we’re off tour.  He’s just so good now that we’re afraid we’re gonna lose him to a minor league or something eventually cause his playing is just so amazing.  It’s just really good for stress.

Goth Brooks: In a previous interview I asked what kinds of cars you guys drove and I couldn’t make out what you said.  Did you say the 4 train?

Tracy: (laughs) I said the 6 train

Goth Brooks: Do you not drive? Are you an unlicensed driver or is it just easier for you to take the train?

Tracy: No, I’m very much licensed and used to own a pick-up truck in New York but it’s so unnecessary to have a car in New York when you can pretty much just walk to everything.  To park the truck in New York costs the same as some people pay rent to live.  So, I got rid of the truck cause I’m away from New York ten months out of the year anyway.  Now I drive a big old van full of equipment and that’s about it.  But I’m licensed and I’m a very good driver.

Goth Brooks: So you’re like a bass player/roadie?

Tracy: Well, I don’t carry anything that’s for sure.  I just drive, I like driving cause when you drive you get to listen to whatever music you want.

Goth Brooks: Alright Tracy, that’s all I have.  Thanks for doing this for deadontheweb.com

Tracy: No problem.

Goth Brooks: Nashville Pussy still rules, Thanks for a great show.

Tracy: Thank You, Thanks for coming.

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