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Interview by: Emil Persson, Sweden Rock Magazine 2013Pictures by: Michael JohanssonTranslated and brought to you by: tim-skold.tumblr.com crew
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A couple of years later the group got a contract with the American record label Relativity and finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean. They changed name to Shotgun Messiah and released in 1989 their first, self-titled album in USA - a remixed version of “Welcome to Bop City”.
Zinny J Zan has talked about how he burnt his and his girlfriend’s mutual holiday cash to go to USA to get that record deal, but Tim didn’t want to know of that description at all.
- I put effort into not talking shit about Zinny now and I really put in a lot of effort. What I remember about that event per se is that Zinny, together with the drummer Stixx who was also with him, came home from USA three days earlier than planned because of an earthquake had occurred and they were scared. And nothing had been done.
Instead Tim means that it was a nice review on Harry’s guitar playing in ‘Guitar Player Magazine’ that together with some publicity in 'Kerrang!’ that was the foundation of the proposal for a record deal.
- Me and Harry went to Los Angeles to really launch the operation. We met a lawyer, and the record company, and then started to file an agreement. Zinny and the drummer signed it when everything was worked out.
Initially the whole band lived in an unsteady hovel in Hollywood that popularly went under the name Hell House.
- If the rumors are true, the house was earlier inhabited by the first edition of Guns N’ Roses. It was a kind of band house we inherited.
I read one of Slash’s snakes had gotten lost in that house to never be retrieved.
- I’ve never heard that.
In an article from 1990 Harry states that another tenant left voodoo dolls and exploded diagrams of human skulls. Do you remember that?
- No. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m right. We hung out a lot together, but everyone had their own friends and lives. But I’ve never heard about any snakes, exploded diagrams or voodoo dolls. We could have bought a lot of that shit, though.
What are your memories from that time?
- I remember we had a yellow Cadillac from 1971. The gas was ridiculously cheap compared to in Sweden, so I appreciated driving around in it. I remember we ran around the house, partied, and got fucked up. I remember there was at least one or two strangers who slept on the couch or sat in the living room and watched TV every time I woke up. I remember Zinny went to the bathroom and me and Harry sneaked around to the outside of the house and started stomping our feet on the ground unison, whereupon Zinny ran out from the bathroom with his pants around his ankles and yelled: “Earthquake! Earthquake!”
[Laughter.]
- He was really scared of earthquakes for some fucking reason. Why do you want to move to Los Angeles if you’re scared of earthquakes? I have no idea.
How was it with drugs for Shotgun Messiah during that time? And for you?
- For me? I like how you added that, because I’m more comfortable with talking about myself rather than talk about others, since I’m the only one here. I don’t take drugs and I’ve never taken drugs. It’s very simple.
Not even tried?
- Yes, I have tried. When you asked about Hell House I was going to get into some of those stories. Drugs seem like fun and you can have a lot of fun with them, but they have their price. Now I’m entering sensitive areas, but I’ve had people around me who more or less have been changed because of drug abuse. My reality is pretty fragile and vulnerable. If I fuck too much with it I immediately get so paranoid that I lose the small perception of reality that I have and that makes me completely fucking panicky.
Have you had any really bad, transformative drug experience like that?
Tim smiles a profound Jack Nicholson-smile.
- What’s this? The confessional?
You don’t have to answer.
- True, I don’t have to. But it’s just not much to talk about. To be young and to be dumb is often the same thing, but as an elderly I would recommend other means of entertainment.
You’ve seen people around you get changed by drugs, you said. Who are these people?
- Guess.
Marilyn Manson?
- Mr. Manson is a fantastic spokesman of drug use, yes. I used to call him “fantastic”. Now I call him “fantastic spokesman of drug use”… But I’m not out to backstab anyone.
Interview by: Emil Persson, Sweden Rock Magazine 2013Pictures by: Michael JohanssonTranslated and brought to you by: tim-skold.tumblr.com crew
Part 2/7
A couple of years later the group got a contract with the American record label Relativity and finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean. They changed name to Shotgun Messiah and released in 1989 their first, self-titled album in USA - a remixed version of “Welcome to Bop City”.
Zinny J Zan has talked about how he burnt his and his girlfriend’s mutual holiday cash to go to USA to get that record deal, but Tim didn’t want to know of that description at all.
- I put effort into not talking shit about Zinny now and I really put in a lot of effort. What I remember about that event per se is that Zinny, together with the drummer Stixx who was also with him, came home from USA three days earlier than planned because of an earthquake had occurred and they were scared. And nothing had been done.
Instead Tim means that it was a nice review on Harry’s guitar playing in ‘Guitar Player Magazine’ that together with some publicity in 'Kerrang!’ that was the foundation of the proposal for a record deal.
- Me and Harry went to Los Angeles to really launch the operation. We met a lawyer, and the record company, and then started to file an agreement. Zinny and the drummer signed it when everything was worked out.
Initially the whole band lived in an unsteady hovel in Hollywood that popularly went under the name Hell House.
- If the rumors are true, the house was earlier inhabited by the first edition of Guns N’ Roses. It was a kind of band house we inherited.
I read one of Slash’s snakes had gotten lost in that house to never be retrieved.
- I’ve never heard that.
In an article from 1990 Harry states that another tenant left voodoo dolls and exploded diagrams of human skulls. Do you remember that?
- No. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m right. We hung out a lot together, but everyone had their own friends and lives. But I’ve never heard about any snakes, exploded diagrams or voodoo dolls. We could have bought a lot of that shit, though.
What are your memories from that time?
- I remember we had a yellow Cadillac from 1971. The gas was ridiculously cheap compared to in Sweden, so I appreciated driving around in it. I remember we ran around the house, partied, and got fucked up. I remember there was at least one or two strangers who slept on the couch or sat in the living room and watched TV every time I woke up. I remember Zinny went to the bathroom and me and Harry sneaked around to the outside of the house and started stomping our feet on the ground unison, whereupon Zinny ran out from the bathroom with his pants around his ankles and yelled: “Earthquake! Earthquake!”
[Laughter.]
- He was really scared of earthquakes for some fucking reason. Why do you want to move to Los Angeles if you’re scared of earthquakes? I have no idea.
How was it with drugs for Shotgun Messiah during that time? And for you?
- For me? I like how you added that, because I’m more comfortable with talking about myself rather than talk about others, since I’m the only one here. I don’t take drugs and I’ve never taken drugs. It’s very simple.
Not even tried?
- Yes, I have tried. When you asked about Hell House I was going to get into some of those stories. Drugs seem like fun and you can have a lot of fun with them, but they have their price. Now I’m entering sensitive areas, but I’ve had people around me who more or less have been changed because of drug abuse. My reality is pretty fragile and vulnerable. If I fuck too much with it I immediately get so paranoid that I lose the small perception of reality that I have and that makes me completely fucking panicky.
Have you had any really bad, transformative drug experience like that?
Tim smiles a profound Jack Nicholson-smile.
- What’s this? The confessional?
You don’t have to answer.
- True, I don’t have to. But it’s just not much to talk about. To be young and to be dumb is often the same thing, but as an elderly I would recommend other means of entertainment.
You’ve seen people around you get changed by drugs, you said. Who are these people?
- Guess.
Marilyn Manson?
- Mr. Manson is a fantastic spokesman of drug use, yes. I used to call him “fantastic”. Now I call him “fantastic spokesman of drug use”… But I’m not out to backstab anyone.
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