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FREE July 02, 2011
The Hard-Rock'n Bi-Weekly Magazine
Plenty of pics, but not your Mom’s...yet
CENTRAL PA.
PLUG’D IN
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We’ve been hangin’ out at Reverb quiet a bit lately...check out our exclusive in-terview with Neil Fallon of Clutch and Jess Margera of CKY
Inside This Issue
On Tour: Neil Fallon of Clutch, Impact: Jess Margera of CKY, The Vis-
ual: A Photo Experience of J.X.M.X. Part 1, From The Grave: Dear Dead
Abby, Through Their Eyes: Exceptional Photography by the Plug’d In
Photographers, Pocket Aces’ J.X.M.X. Demo, and much more!
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Submit your questions to: [email protected]
From The Grave Abby was born and raised in the coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The oldest of eight, she constantly had her younger brothers and sisters asking
her questions about everything from how things work to why that boy threw dirt
on her. She’d try to steer them straight with her advice, though sometimes she
could be a bit sarcastic.
Abby also had an uncanny ability to see the truth in people, despite what they
tried to portray with their lies. Unfortunately, this led the locals to believe that she was with surrounded with dark forces. The summer before her final year of
school, Abby was sentenced to death by hanging, without a proper trial, simply
stating that she was a witch. Abby can’t recognize the faces of her family
through death, but she answers questions, thinking it might be one of her sib-
lings needing her guidance.
Q. My Father and my Brother don't get along at all; in fact they haven't spoken to each other in at least 10 years. They never attend the same
family functions. My dad was just diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
I really want to help them patch things up before he passes on, but I don't
know where to start. Any ideas? S.S. A. Getting involved in other peoples' business is very tricky. You could
make things worse, or make them angry with you. I would casually men-
tion it to both of them separately. Is this really how you want to leave things? You could mention to your brother that although he may not see
it now, he will regret it in the future. Does your brother have kids? Ask
him how he would feel if one of his own children never made peace with him. If they both refuse, just let it alone. You tried. Let them live and die
with the consequences of their actions.
Q. I just found out this girl I like is a stripper. Should I even bother trying to get to know her better? I don’t know if I could han-dle it. What do you think? D.G.
A. Times are hard. If that's what she has to do in order to make ends meet and survive, then cut her some slack. Just because
that's the job she holds doesn't mean that's how she is. Many times they put themselves in a different frame of mind to be able to do what they do. Very few of them enjoy their job, but it's a job and the money is better than most other jobs people are lucky to
get right now. Why don't you think you could handle it? Just the simple fact that men pay money to see her naked? There are
worse things to be done. It's not like she advertises herself on Craigslist for "other things."
Q. What’s the best way to completely get rid of a body? G.D.
A. Do you have access to a pig farm? Shave the head, burn the hair, burn the clothes, and feed the pigs. Pigs eat everything. Just
stick around long enough to make sure it's all gone. It won't take long. Anything that might be left uneaten, perhaps a bone, take it with, grind it up into flour, and bake something for a community yard sale.
Q. If you're dead how can you use a computer to type your answers? Or do you just tell them to someone else and they write them? A.I.
A. People have created some nifty little software programs that will type out what you speak. Makes things really simple for all
us dead folk.
Q. What’s the deal with this massive solar flare in 2012? Will it be the end of us? M.N.
A. I don't know, I can't predict the future, but my firm belief is no one knows when the world will end. I don't think the world
will end. I think people adapt to the changes that come. If by chance the world gets too hot or too cold for humans to adapt, then we die out like the dinosaurs. I'm really not worried about it. What's the worst that can happen? Death? Bring it. We all die any-
way.
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Impact: Jess Margera of CKY
Interview and Photos by Michael Demos
Was there one show this year that I was
completely stoked about going to? Yep…
CKY! I love these guys! I grew up in the
same area as all of them and I’ve been fol-
lowing their careers for years. I have no
problem at all admitting that they’re one of
my favorite bands of all time. I caught up
with drummer Jess Margera right before
their show @ Reverb in Reading Pa. We
got to sit down, throw a couple back, and
chop it up. Here’s what Jess had to say…
M.D.
PI: You guys have so much going on I really don’t know where to
start. So I’m going to ask you…what do you not want to talk about?
JM: You can ask me anything man, anything’s fair game. (PI) We
just ran into your brother outside, do he come to a lot of your
shows? (JM) Yea anything close by, actually not so close by too.
Whenever he’s got a free day or two and we have a show he will fly
out or just hang out.
PI: What do you guys do to get ready for a show?
JM: I drink a lot of booze. (Laughs) I like to hang out with our
friends and fans. I like to know who’s coming to my shows.
PI: You guys are very interactive with your fans on ckyalliance.com. You guys actually go on yourselves and interact
on a daily basis right?
JM: We’ve been doing it for the last 10 years and it’s called “ASK CKY” and we’ve answered about 12,000 questions
on it. I like it, its fun to just hop on in the morning with your coffee. I like to have fun with it. Sometimes you get to be
a dick, or you get to help people…its cool, I like it.
PI: What’s some of the craziest stuff you’ve been asked?
JM: Holy shit…people send me weird stuff. They like know my P.O. Box or something and I’ll get an envelope filled
with hair. (Laughs) I get the weirdest shit you can imagine. It’s fun to me. Just don’t send me poop!
PI: Big News...you guys just got added to Download right?
JM: Yea, it’s cool man. We did Sonisphere last year and I heard those guys are kinda rivals. The guys wasn’t really
into having us play cause we did Sonisphere last year, but our fans went on and blew up their message boards and
Twitter so hard that it was un-ignorable. They put us on the main stage on the first day, so were pretty stoked about it.
PI: Do you have any plans for while you’re in Europe?
JM: Yea man, I love England and we always go there and rock n roll. There’s no country, no rap, it’s all rock! We’re
going to do a couple of towns there and then we’re going to do Download.
PI: You’re on a little mi9ni tour right now right?
JM: Yea, we wanted to give PA one last hurrah because we probably won’t get to play here again till next year. And
Frank the owner of Reverb was like “You have to play my new place”, and after seeing Clutch play here the week be-
fore we were really into it.
Wayne Lozinak
PI: You guys just release B-sides, are you working on any other new mate-
rial?
JM: Yea, B-sides just came out and is coming out next month in Europe. We
are doing something for the die-hards, shit they’ve been asking for from us
for ages. Shit like demos, live videos, and some other cool stuff. I under-
stand the appeal of unfinished tracks…I love when bands release rare stuff.
So, we just decided we’re going to go through the vault and release as much
shit as we can.
PI: Speaking of the “Vault”…you’ve released so much stuff…vinyl’s, CD’s,
everything, do you personally own a copy of everything you’ve put out?
What does your collection look like?
JM: Yea we own a lot. We got pretty lucky. When we signed our record
contract we made sure we held on to a lot. We’re with Universal/ Fontana
and Mighty Loud now which is pretty much our own label and they just get
it into stores for us. They take care of the stuff we really can’t do on our
own.
PI: What’s the downside about the way the music industry is now?
JM: Man, I just saw the record store I’ve been going to since I was 8 close
down. I used to ride my fucking bike there to get the new Iron Maiden tape
you know? Kids today don’t know what that’s like. It’s funny because I was
talking about that earlier. I used to have to skip lunch at school to save up $ so I could go buy the new Motorhead
tape. Kids today are like “That’s shitty”, but I’m like “Nope, it was fucking awesome!”
PI: You’re still grounded in your hometown, but you’ve been everywhere…How
far do you want to see this thing go? What are your plans?
JM: I’m cool with how things are. We played the Troc in 98’ and sold it out and
we just sold it out again last year. I don’t want to do big arena shows. It seems the
bands that get big fall just as hard. I’ve seen a million bands come and go. This
band called Hoobastank opened for us years ago. (Laughs) Then they got this
enormous hit and became huge and then they disappeared off the face of the earth.
That’s just how it is. I’m happy with keeping and maintaining a solid career. It’s
the most respectable thing when you can keep an audience for 10 or 15 years.
PI: How were things when Jackass 3.0 came out? You guys had the closing song
right?
JM: Oh yea, it was cool to work with those guys again. My brother called up and
he said everybody wants to hear some new music from you guys. So we gave
them a new song called “Afterworld” and they loved it and put it in the credits.
(PI) Do you guys get a lot of new fans when something big like that comes out?
(JM) oh yea, it’s funny because I’ll be dropping my daughter off at daycare and
the kids and parents will recog-
nize me. Just recently I was at
the airport getting my bags x-rayed by some old dude and he knew
who I was. It was hilarious.
PI: What has been your favorite show?
JM: New Orleans the day of…this is a crazy story. We were
booked in New Orleans Aug 29th, 2005…the day Katrina happened.
So obviously we cancelled that show and moved it to Little Rock,
but the roof of the House of Blues just blew the fuck off. They told
us they were putting the roof back on and they’d be ready for us in
Jan of 06’ and they welcomed us to be the first band back. So we
were driv-
ing down
there and
we were
thinking
“Who the
hell are we
going to be
playing
to…the
cleanup
workers?”
The place
was still a
fucking
disaster zone. So, that’s ex-
actly who we played to. The
fucker sold out and it was just
the people still there and the
cleanup workers and it was
the most insane night of my
life! People were thanking us
and telling us that their houses
were destroyed but we helped
them take their minds off it and shit. We end up at this bar afterwards and
this dude Shitbird who is my drum tech and uncle tells all the people that
the drinks were on me. I didn’t know this. So, it was an insane night and
everybody was smashing shot glasses on the tables and going nuts. It had
to be the craziest night of drinking in my entire life. At the end of the night
I get slapped with this bill of $3,200 and the bartender told me that Shitbird
said give it to him, meaning me. He was laughing his ass off at me. Before
we could even get into an argument about it this kid, who was maybe 24,
says “I got it!” We were blown away. He owned a trucking company that
was pumping water out of the city so he was getting paid anyways, but it
was super cool of him. He said it was the best night of his life. Shitbird
lucked out that night! (Laughs)
PI: Thanks Jess for sitting down with us and giving us a chance to get
Plug’d In.
JM: Yea man thanks a lot. Had a good time!
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On Tour: Neil Fallon of Clutch Interview by Michael Demos
Awhile back I had the pleasure of sitting
down with Neil Fallon, vocalist and guitar-
ist for the band Clutch. I caught up with
Neil before their sold-out show at Reverb
in Reading, Pa. It was the first show I
caught at Reverb and the place is amazing.
Living up to all my expectations and easily
surpassing them, Clutch put on a spectacu-
lar performance that night and are one of
the best live “Jam” bands I’ve ever seen.
Here’s what Neil had to share with us…
M.D.
PI: Neil, you guys just had an amazing sound check here @ Reverb
in Reading, Pa. What do you think of the new place?
NF: It’s nice to have a club in Reading. I was talking to Frank ear-
lier about the last time we played here and I think it was at the Silo
like four years ago. We have played Central Pa since, but not Read-
ing per se. It’s always hard to judge a club at 3 in the afternoon, but
I can tell it’s going to be good. It’s always more about the people in
the room, but the sound here is good. It’s also so new it doesn’t
stink yet.
PI: You guys are getting set out on tour and this is your first show.
Are you ready?
NF: We don’t really rehearse too much before a tour. We just really get out there and plug and play. It’s terrifying, but
we prefer it that way. When you’re scared you get that adrenaline rush. When you over-prepare you get lazy. This area
and this region have always been good for us.
PI: You guys are known as an amazing “Jam” band. Are you pulling out all the stops this time around?
NF: Well our reissue just came out so we did some acoustic reworking of some of our songs and will probably be do-
ing them as an encore. We have a lot of material so we try to pick a little bit of everything from the last 20 years.
PI: You have your own label and you put everything out yourself right?
NF: In the 90’s we signed with major labels, then we signed with smaller labels, and we’ve done everything in be-
tween the two. I think in this day and age its easier for the artist to sell directly to the fans. You don’t have to sell
platinum and gold records to make a living at this. You might not become “super rich”, but you can subsist off it. In
the business aspect it’s all about cutting out the middle people. As for our label it’s the four of us and 2 other people.
It’s a lot cheaper to put out an album; we can afford better CD packaging because we cut out the middle man. It’s a
learning process and sometimes it’s hard to divide the artistic and the business aspects, but so far I think it’s been ok.
PI: Years ago did you see the music industry changing the way that it did? Did you prepare for it?
NF: I don’t think anybody saw that one coming. Nobody really understood the ramifications of digital data transfer
until it was already there. But with us, we’ve always made our living and taken joy from playing live. We didn’t take
joy in reading Billboard Top 200 charts. I think because of that we’ve been insulated against these major changes. Our
shows are always good, we’re always on tour, it takes a little while longer to build up a fan base that way, but it also
lasts a lot longer too. I kinda have a bone to pick with bands that complain that no one buys their records anymore and
they have to go out and tour. Boo-hoo! There are people who tar roofs for a living. I mean c’mon, let’s put it into
perspective. It’s a double edged sword. Maybe someone burns
your record, but maybe they also come to your show and buy a
t-shirt. It works out even.
PI: We hear quite a bit about the different touring scenes be-
tween here and Europe. Is it different for you?
NF: Not so much. For us Northern and Western Europe is
good, Southern Europe is a different temperament to crack. The
same can be said for California. It all varies and that’s ok be-
cause we will play in a room for 5 people just as hard as we
will for 500. It’s tough in Europe and sometimes it’s like a
catch 22. People aren’t coming to your shows because you
haven’t played there very often, but you haven’t played there
often because people aren’t coming to your shows. (Laughs)
There is always a way to break that cycle, usually by opening
up for another band.
PI: What have been some of your favorite place to play?
NF: I love Australia. Great place, great people! It’s very famil-
iar in a lot of ways, but very different in others. Scandinavia in
the summertime is pretty amazing. The sun barely goes down.
When you get off stage at midnight and it looks like 6pm, it’s
always cool. Scandinavians in the summertime know that win-
ter is coming so they want to have a really good time! We just
played Greece for the first time last summer and that was in-
sane! I had such a good time there and the people were so great. I’m going back there this summer. I think that’s the
cool thing about touring…you meet people all over the world in a non-tourist capacity. You sit down and eat with
them, you drive with them, you meet their friends, and you’re not marching around a city with a tourist brochure.
That’s one of the great things about touring.
PI: When you’re in an exotic local do you try to schedule yourselves down time
to explore the landscape?
NF: If time allows, but a lot of the time there isn’t time to do anything. In
Europe a lot of the night clubs are in the middle of nowhere. A field is a field is
a field no matter where it is. (Laughs) When you end up in a city like Athens all
you have to do is walk around the corner to see something great. I think every-
one likes to get away from each other and go places in the wee hours of the day
to get their heads straight. When we’re on tour there are 10 of us and we all need
some “D”
time.
PI: What
would be
your favorite
and least fa-
vorite things
about tour-
ing?
NF: My favorite thing would be getting to see and
experience things most people only dream about.
For example…my parents. They did one trip to Ire-
land when they were 60 years old, and they saved
up for forever to do it. They still talk
about it and it will always be their trip. I take it for granted because I get to do
it all the time. The part that I don’t like about touring is leaving home. It gets
harder and harder the older you get. Marriages, kids, mortgages…the simple
things in life become hard to leave. The older you get the deeper your roots go.
PI: Thanks so much for sitting down with us Neil!
NF: Hey man, no sweat!
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We have a pretty cool issue here. Both
of this week’s interviews are mine and
they were a real blast. Neil Fallon of
Clutch is such a down to earth guy. We
hung out in his tour bus for his inter-
view and things went really well. We
had a super cool “off the record” talk,
but his interview was amazing too.
Jess Margera was a blast! We down
some drinks on the back patio at Re-
verb and Jess is the coolest! He was
surrounded by friends who made the
drive to catch CKY’s show that night.
We also tied in with his brother Bam which we were pretty stoked
about. Jess gave a great interview and I’m personally excited to
see their fans reaction on their website www.ckyalliance.com
Not sure if all of you know who he is, but the guy in the picture
on the right will me is my partner Billy Mohan. Billy’s no longer
an active Plug’d In staff member, but he still remains a strong
supporter. He kind of like Plug’d In royalty. He was there from
inception, thru the first interviews, printings, deliveries, and
more. Without his help there would have been no Plug’d In. He
came out to J.X.M.X. with us so it was really cool to hang with
him again.
Hope you enjoy this issue and until next time…
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