I really got into music around the age of 10 or 11. I was playing with my G.I. Joe men one day and my parents were watching "The Peoples Court". During a commercial break, they showed an Alice Cooper advertisement for an upcoming concert in town. I remember my mom saying "That's the guy that bites the heads off chickens and snakes." After hearing that, I had to find out more about Alice Cooper. I just started getting into music from that point on, but Alice Cooper has been a staple in my head since the beginning.

Who is your single biggest influence in music and in life?

Musically, so many people have influenced me. From Alice Cooper to Motley Crue, Plasmatics to the Cramps, T-rex to James Brown, the list goes on and on. Movies, television and cartoons are all major influences to me as well. They inspire me to create as much as music does.

Does your family approve of the choices you have made regarding your lifestyle and music?

At first they didn't understand what I do, and I'm not quite sure if they do now. They know that this is my life and my career, and I support my family with it. They have always been supportive of me though.

You were in a band called "Maniac Spider Trash" (MST) and if I am not mistaken, you released two albums with them. You then formed "The Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13." (FDQ). What happened in MST to cause its demise? Who was in it with you and were the albums ever professionally pressed and where can I get them?

Maniac Spider Trash was a band that formed out of my very first band called Mizery that I joined when I was 15. We released demo cassettes only and that's about it. It had a revolving door line up thru the years, and at the end, consisted of Abby, Sicko Zero, and Dr. Damn-it. On a very sad note "Dr. Damn-It" AKA "Michael Patrick" lost his life to cancer a few years ago, he was way too young and I do truly miss him (R.I.P). We recorded a full length album but it never saw the light of day. We had a company reject it and refuse to press it because of the theme, I believe they actually said "they would not support the devil and violence toward children." I had a good time with that band and we did a lot of weird shit, it was my escape from the real world. Tensions formed between members in late '95 and I quit that band to form FDQ. I had really planned for quite some time to quit MST and form more of a punk rock horror thing.

The Drag Queens were a huge underground phenomenon and released quite a few albums with various members. Who are the "Original" members?

The FDQ "phenomenon" was much like Ed Wood (one of the main inspirations behind the band) it came after the band was dead. During our time we had fans here and there, but we were still playing shows in front of 30 to 50 people if we were lucky. When the Murderdolls formed and people learned of my history it sparked the interest in FDQ. The band originally started with Seaweed on bass, Sicko Zero on drums and myself on vocals and guitar.

In your opinion which "FDQ" is the best album or your favorite? What is your favorite "FDQ" song while we are on favorites?

They are all different to me and represent different times in my life. It's hard to pick one, but I worked the hardest on 'Songs from the Recently Deceased," so it's a little closer to my heart. My favorite FDQ songs are "Rocketship Oddity 13", "Rambo", "Scary Song" and a lot of the later stuff that is on the upcoming 6 years, 6 feet Under the influence.

How in the hell did you come about joining the Murderdolls with Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Acey Slade (Dope- he replaced Eisen when he had to leave) and Tripp Eisen (Dope/Static-X)?

Basically here's the short story: A guy named Dizzy that was singing for Joey's band, the Rejects, was a fan of FDQ and recommended me to Joey and turned him onto FDQ. I Knew Tripp and Acey from Dope, and Tripp was doing the side thing with Joey in the Rejects. They contacted me and asked me to play bass for the Rejects. They flew me out to Iowa and we went in and recorded some songs in November 2001 for what was then planned to be the Rejects album. We did only 2 live shows as the Rejects in January 2002. Over the months things changed and I became the singer and we changed the name to the Murderdolls, which is basically a name combination of The New York Dolls and The Murder Junkies. We found drummer Ben and bassist Eric in Hollywood and asked them to join. We basically put this band together like Frankenstein, a piece from here a piece from there. I hate the fact that it wasn't like a band of old friends who grew up together and started everything from a smaller place. I wish we had time to create and write all new songs on the debut but this was the way it was, the moment was there "take it or leave it"...I took it. This was like an experiment, we just made up the rules as we went along and it turned out really cool.

Where did Eric and Ben come from and where can I find some of there older band's cd's??

They are from Hollywood, and I'm not really sure where to get their stuff.

Since joining the Murderdolls and disbanding "FDQ". It's been very evident that there is bad blood between you and former members. What happened to cause harsh feelings? Will there ever be any reconciliation? Was this the reason none of those guys were on "Viva Los Violence"?

I'll try to make this as honest and simple as possible, but to understand the bad blood you need a little background on the evolution of FDQ. There was a revolving door in the band over the years. I was 19 when FDQ started and we all did dumb things and made bad decisions here and there. I made the mistake of firing Seaweed only after a few months of the band being together, replaced him with a guy named Rat Bastard and then just a month and a half after that, drummer Sicko Zero quit the band in Dec '96. He packed up his stuff and left a note that said "never call me again, I quit." Rat Bastard was not into being a full time member of FDQ so we parted ways right after that as well. Seaweed and I worked out our differences and put together a new line up for '97. In comes Abby Normal who joined in on guitar and Saidso on drums. We played some shows and did one demo and then Abby Normal was let go in the summer of '97 because he could not commit to touring. Honestly, I don't think he really liked the band that much, he complained of the music being too simple for him. I think he wanted it to be more like MST and I didn't. We did some touring that year, fired Saidso and then all of a sudden Sicko Zero calls me out of the blue. We put the bad things behind us and he returned to FDQ in '98. We did the "Night of the Living Drag Queens" album in '98 and 'Songs from the Recently Deceased" in '99/2000 . Then more problems arose, Sicko Zero became the problem in 2000 with Seaweed and myself. He wasn't committing to rehearsals and canceled a show, and just really started to distance himself from us as both band members and as friends. I got a flash back from the beginning when he just up and quit and left a note, so I wasn't gonna get fooled again and I found another drummer. The 2001 "Viva Las Violence" era was formed with Scabs and Ikky. I thought everything was going great and then just shortly after we recorded the album Seaweed quit the band. This was totally unexpected but I carried on and found a replacement in way of a guy we called IT. This led up to me hooking up with the Rejects /Murderdolls gig and then, I disbanded the band in 2002 to commit full time to the Murderdolls.

That's the short back history of FDQ. I'm not saying I was golden and did no wrong, I'm just giving the facts on what happened. Now that I went on to do things with Murderdolls and the fact that FDQ material was on the debut album, it has caused quite a bit of shit. I was offered a great opportunity out of a what seemed like a dead end situation (due to the past of FDQ) and I took it. Fact: I wrote everything for FDQ that was ever recorded and released on the albums, it says so on the credits. No one in the band stepped up to debate that then, for 6 years I was always credited on the albums for music and lyrics - 100%. The guys in the band knew this and acknowledged that fact. I'm not being arrogant I'm just stating the truth, that's how it was. When the Murderdolls album comes out in 2002 it's suddenly accusations of "Hey, I wrote that." I'm sorry to say, but those are my songs and FDQ was my band.

There are no future plans of working out our differences and reforming.

The former members of "FDQ" went on to form "The Graveyard Boulevard" (TGB) and released an album on the Indy Label "Antidote Records". Have you heard the album and if so what are your thoughts?

Yes, I heard it from Seaweed, who I talked to for a short while last year. I listened to it and I liked the first song and few others, it's cool to hear Seaweed sing. I choose to keep my thoughts on other parts of the album to myself.

 A few months back, my wife purchased the Murderdolls Special Edition CD + DVD for me. I wanted to make up my own mind about the band and low and behold, a load of old "FDQ" songs were on it that had been revamped. With all due respect, why not do an all new album rather than doing covers of your own songs?

Basically it was a "now or never" sort of thing. Our time together to write was limited (being that we lived in different parts of the US) so I pulled out my old stuff, Joey pulled out his old stuff. We slammed it together reworked it and it was done. Those songs were pretty much unheard of to most of the general public so to put it out again on a major label and let people hear songs that I wrote and thought were really good didn't seem like a bad idea to me.

On the special edition of the "Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls", you have a song called "Welcome To The Strange". On "Songs From The Recently Deceased", you have a song by the same title but the song is completely different. Matter of fact, it is almost a rendition of "The Doors" tune "Riders On The Storm". These are two of my favorite tracks that you have written. How did you come up with each of the songs?

Yes, they have the same title but they are different songs all together. The FDQ version is a combination of the "Doors" and our own song. The Murderdolls version is a song I wrote back in '97 called "Circus in my Head." We never recorded it and I never really had any lyrics to it. I always wanted to work on it again and put it out, so Joey and I worked it up in the studio in December 2002 and completed it. "Welcome to the Strange" is one of my favorite Murderdolls songs.

You also do a cover of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" on the special edition cd. What made you cover that song? Were there any other songs that you fellas had in mind to cover as well?

We were thinking of a cool cover to do and I had attempted a version of "White Wedding" back in the MST days. We worked up our version of it and it turned out really cool. I always thought that song had a weird, eerie vibe to it. We we're discussing doing "Cold Ethyl" by Alice Cooper; maybe later.

Can we expect another "Murderdolls" album after Joey gets back from doing the "Slipknot" thing?

Yeah, we have about 40 songs written for it now, not even counting what we will have by the time we go to record it. It will be an album of all new songs, I assure you.

Now that Joey Jordison is working on the new "Slipknot" album, you have chosen to do some solo tours. The band backing you is combined of members from the Floridian band "Death Becomes You" (DBY). What made you choose these guys? Did you know them personally or just dig their tunes? Did you have any second choices?

I read a bad review of them actually, and the things this guy didn't like about them in the review sounded appealing to me. I checked their site out and knew right away these guys we're the right guys for the job. I didn't know them at all, so I contacted them and worked it out from there. They came up to NC and did a few shows at the end of January as my backing band and it was a blast. We are heading to the UK in March for a 10 date trek which should be complete mayhem, I can't wait.

I am a huge fan of "DBY" and I have just completed reviewing their latest cd entitled "Make it Bleed". What do you personally think of the album? and when the Dolls fire it back up will you be taking them out on the road with you? That would be one fucking awesome show in my opinion!

I'll be helping these guys out as much as I can. Their album is really good. My favorite tracks on "Make It Bleed" are "The Hearse," "Scratch The World," and "Cadaverize". Hopefully we can do a Murderdolls/DBY tour in the future.

I have also noticed that you will be releasing a new "FDQ" album so cleverly entitled 6 Years 6 Feet under the influence on March 15 of this year. If I am not mistaken, it will be released in Europe first, when will the USA be graced with this masterpiece? Also who all played on this album?

6 years, 6 Feet Under The Influence is coming out on March 15th in the UK On "People Like You Records," and will be officially released in July in Europe. Japan will be releasing it soon as well. Unfortunately we have no release date or label for it in the US yet. This record is re-recordings of all my favorite FDQ stuff as well as never before heard tracks from the final days of FDQ. The basic tracks on this album were recorded in 2001 before the Murderdolls gig came about. We had planned to release a "Best of" type record with some new tracks back then, but the idea and band got shelved when I jojned the Murderdolls. I dusted the tapes off about 6 months ago, went back in the studio and finished the record. I think it sounds amazing and it is by far the best sounding recording ever of FDQ. I play everything on the album except for drums, which were played by Scabs.

You have started a clothing line called "Thirteen Dead Kids" tell us a little about that and how business is going for you on that end of the spectrum.

It's a lot of work and a lot of fun. For me to do something outside of music is cool. The reaction so far is great. The characters were drawn and created by me along with the help of my lovely wife, Mrs.13. "The Thirteen Dead kids" were inspired by The Munsters as well as different cartoons, movies etc. Once we got the concept down for the characters, the ideas just started flowing like crazy. The merchandise line will be released worldwide in March. I'm also releasing a book later this year called Wednesday 13's-"The Thirteen Dead Kids and other Gruesome Scarytales". I'm keeping really fucking busy and I'm having a blast with this.

Now onto the fun questions! It's no secret that you are a fan of Glam/Hair Metal, I mean FDQ & The Dolls wreak of those wonderful sounds. I grew up on that stuff and I am fanatic about it as well! What is your favorite Glam/Hair band of all time and why?

I don't have just one, there are so many. Starting with Motley Crue and Twisted Sister, and onto the late '80's early '90's with The Zeros, Tuff, Pretty Boy Floyd, Kik Tracee, Vain - the list goes on.

What is your thought on today's current music both underground and popular? Who are your favorites?

There is nothing going on now that I'm blown away by. I've noticed the rise of horror bands over the past few years in the underground, and the rise of this emo, two lead singer, screamer stuff that I just can't understand. I really like the new records by Turbonegro, The Wildhearts and Monster Magnet.

 Give me a thought on each of the bands listed below, of course if you remember them..

Slammin' Gladys- I hated this guy's braided hair look, kind of like the Offspring guy before they came out. I hated them, never liked them at all

Nitro- Yes, "O.F.R." is a great fucking record. The highest screams and fastest guitar playing ever..."You're in trouble in Double Trouble"

Wrathchild U.K. (Not America)- Stakk Attack is one of the worst recordings ever but still a good record. I have all of Wrathchild's albums.

White Lion- I had their albums back in the day, never been my favorite, I would say they have a handful of good songs.

TUFF- Yes, proud member of the TUFF fan club, thank you very much. Good band, good songs...'Good Guys Wear Black"

Lita Ford- Never really cared for her solo albums but she married the singer for Nitro so she must be cool. W.A.S.P.- WASP is great and I enjoyed the older stuff a lot. "Live in the Raw" is my favorite release by them.

EZO- Another great overlooked band. These guys had 2 amazing records and I still listen to them often.

Poison- Poison also had some great stuff. "Look What the Cat Dragged In" is a classic. It's funny now because I've become friends with those guys and got to go on stage and perform 'Rock N Roll all Night' with them last year. That was pretty amazing.

Twisted Sister- One of my favorites of all time. Dee Snider is a god.

Skid Row- I loved these guys, and from time to time I get the "You sound like Sebastian Bach" comment. I'm glad to take that anyday, and the last record "Sub Human Race" was excellent I thought.

Guns N' Roses- I really liked "Appetite for Destruction" but after that didn't care about them too much.

Rock Goddess- I'm stumped here.

Blacklace- I'm stumped here as well.

Tigertailz- Another great band. The album "Berserk" was so produced and so cool. I thought these guys were gonna be huge, guess I was wrong. At the last Murderdolls show in London in July last year, someone threw a copy of their live video at me on stage.

Salty Dog- I never liked these guys, and I thought their single "Lonesome Fool" was terrible, The guy's voice was so annoying.

Warrant- I had the first two albums. I saw them open for Motley Crue on the "Dr. Feelgood" tour. I was down with the down boys.

Europe- I had the first album I'm sorry to say. This band was awful.

Helix- One of the ugliest singers in rock, and I didn't like the band either... Rock You!!!

Vixen- I hated them. I remember the drummer Roxy saying her motto in life is 'Sex, Drums, and Rock-n-Roll," that's pretty dumb.

Warlock- I never liked Doro, but I met her last year and she was really cool. She has the drummer Johnny Dee from Britny Fox in her band, that's impressive.

Cinderella- These guys had some great stuff. I really liked them a lot, Tom Keifer had a cool voice.

What Glam/Hair Metal band would you like to see in concert?

I really would have liked to see Twisted Sister.

What is your favorite movie and why?

Texas Chainsaw Massacre as far as horror movies go. I just loved the family. It's a comedy to me and very close to my heart.

If you could have a conversation with anybody dead or alive who would it be and why?

Probably Ed Wood, just because he seemed really passionate about what he did and I think we could have some good conversations over a few drinks and trying on some angora.

Who is Wednesday 13's personal heroes or hero?

Chuck Norris, and Sylvester Stallone as a kid...as an adult Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone...and Alice Cooper.

Now that you have tasted some success and made a little more money than usual what are some things that you have found yourself purchasing?

I try to be careful now and not buy things that I don't need. I've collected toys for years but I'm more selective with what I buy now.

What was your day job before your career took off and if it all ended tomorrow would you go back to it?

I was a magazine delivery guy. I hated it, and no I would not go back to it.

What will you do when your career is all over?

Start another one.

Well now that I have asked you every question under the sun..Can you leave us with a quote that you live your life by, a little advice if ya will?

Yes, Life is a shit hole, filled with shitty little people doing shitty little things. Look out for # 1 but don't step on #2. Also, "It's not Necrophilla if your dead too"..."sit Ubu sit... good dog...ruff!!!"