Buddyhead /
Errortype:11
Interview and photos by Aaron Icarus
When we heard that Errortype:11 was going to be cruising through town, we jumped at the chance to talk with these guys.
The New York based rock group has made a name for themselves through their music as well as their outspoken and brash attitude. We set up to meet the band at their show at koo’s in Santa Ana, and after the delay from Arty having to pick up his girl at the airport, we squeezed into the groups van where the topics of conversation included porno, Christina Aguilera, Oasis, and Beatles as well as Misfits haircuts.
Buddyhead:
Okay, let's gets names and what you do in the band...
Phil: I'm Phil
and I play guitar and do some vocals.
Arty: I'm Arty.
I play guitar and sing.
Buddyhead:
What's your name dude?
Matt: I'm Matt.
I drive and create humor.
Buddyhead: First question, "What's up bro?" What the hell is that?
(band breaks into
laughter)
Arty: Good
one…
Buddyhead: So
the only thing I’ve really heard about you guys is that someone in the
band works on porno?
Phil: (laughing) It gets around huh? I used to work on porn
for a number of years.
Buddyhead: What
did you do?
Phil: I did layouts on many fine magazines, such as “Big
Butt”, “Black Tail”…
Matt: “Asian
Dolls”.
Phil: “Latin Inches”, now there was a highlight… But I'm no
longer in that business, thank god.
Buddyhead: What
happened?
Phil: The band
kind of took control.
Buddyhead: What
aspect of this esteemed profession did you work on?
Phil: On the
print end of it? I did photo retouching and mini-layout.
Buddyhead:
Photo retouching... so did you make them look better or
something?
Phil: I made em
look hotter than they actually were sometimes, yep.
Buddyhead:
Hmmm... what does that involve?
Phil: Well half
the girls you get, they're just normal girls, they're not fucking
superstars. So you get it in, scan it and photo touch it up . Take the
zits off somebody's ass, etc…
Buddyhead: Did
it change your perspective on that whole industry?
Phil: It definitely
desensitized me. At first I was a little weirded out. I actually got the
job from a bunch of hardcore friends. The job was passed down through
hardcore bands in New York for years, and somehow it ended up in my hands.
I did some “clean” mag's too, I did international tattoo and art, bikers
and stuff like that which was cool.
Buddyhead: So I
was checking out the new record and it said something about Jerry Only
being involved, what was that about?
Arty: The
Misfits were recording next door to us in the studio. They're fucking
hilarious guys. We ate for free every day. Roadrunner would buy food, and
Uncle Jerry would cook for us (Arty makes a gruff Jerry Only impression)
"Come 'ere". They'd bring their fucking weight bench in and stuff. Phil
and I actually sang on their album “Famous monsters” on the song “Fiend
club”.
Phil (singing):
"We are the Fiend Club!!"
Arty: In
between every take they'd be like "Whose Up?!" and they'd be benching. And
Jerry did hand claps on our record with a bunch of the other guys that
were hanging around. And they cooked us burgers.
Buddyhead: So
they were pretty cool guys huh?
Phil: All the
guys were totally mellow nice guys, totally different than you'd
expect.
Arty: Then
oddly enough we sat next to Glenn Danzig at a Friday's.
Buddyhead: We
interviewed Glenn, he was… well he was actually way out of
touch.
Phil: He's very
skinny huh?
Arty: Yeah he
was small, it was weird. We were just sitting there and he was right
across the way from us. But we're loyal to the new misfits now so...
Buddyhead:
Really?
Arty: They're
our friends. It was told to us from day one, "Do not mention
Glenn".
Buddyhead:
Yeah, we heard that too. When I was at their show though, everyone in
their entourage, was saying "dude Glenn might get back in the band next
time".
Phil: I think
they actually called it quits this time.
Arty: Yeah,
Jerry's concentrating on professional wrestling is what I hear. He's
gigantic so I can understand.
Buddyhead:
Yeah, you bring up the misfits and Danzig get’s pissed. "That's a fucking
joke, those guys are a fucking joke" which is pretty much my take as
well.
Arty: “Jerry
and a bunch of clowns” that's what he says. I like that, I think it's
funny. We just kind of stayed away from it.
Buddyhead: Any
of you ever have devil locks when you were growing up?
Arty: No. I
think Jerry's comment on that was fantastic. He was like "I'm really glad
we invented this hair cut cause… I lost all my hair but I can still do
it."
Buddyhead:
Haha... so you guys are into tech or what?
Arty: Well that
was his deal (pointing to Phil), cause he was working on
computers.
Buddyhead:
Errortype eleven, what the fuck does that mean?
Phil: Errortype eleven is a system error, and you'll usually only get It, well it usually happens with Netscape. It's a system error, it just screws your system, everything freezes and anything you’re working on is gone.