Have any of you out there ever had your heart broken? Not a
broken heart, I mean has someone stuck their cold lifeless hands
deep into your chest only to rip out your innocent heart and show
it to you while it's still beating. No reason, no logic- just
lies, deceit and trickery. They say they need space. "I need
space, things are going too fast, let's start over and just take
things slow," they say. Bullshit! They need to clear their damn
conscience because they were fuckin' someone else behind your
back.
Well, me and the MTX boys rapped about that ever so resilient
topic-LOVE. Maybe because they just released a kick-ass new album
on Lookout! Records all about girls and boys called Love Is Dead,
or maybe just because there really isn't anything quite like
exchanging devastating break up stories in the back of a dive
over a couple of brews.
Erik: So this Love Is Dead thing, is it really dead? What made
you guys decide to write about love?
Dr. Frank: (Dr. Frank is the lead singer, guitarist, chief
songwriter and all around good egg of the MTX) Well how much time
you got? I've been and stayed at the "Heartbreak Hotel".
Erik: Okay I'll start off. Check this, I had two girlfriends,
count `em TWO, and both of `em left me for my best buds. A four
year relationship, down the tubes and then a year long
relationship.
Dr. Frank: I had a girlfriend who had a multiple personality
disorder. I discovered half way after going out with her that the
personality I was going out with was a five year old girl.
Erik: You pedophile!
Dr. Frank: Well you know, I don't know if that would stand up in
a court of law, but that was definitely the weirdest.
Erik: In general how was the relationship? No-wait tell me about
some of the other personalities.
Dr. Frank: The little girl, a seventeen year old lesbian...
Erik: That would have been cool.
Dr. Frank: In some ways it was cool, and then their was one who
was in her twenties and a seventy-six year old woman.
Erik: I had a girl who had two personalities.
Dr. Frank: Two? Yeah two is...well one is hard enough...
Joel: (Joel is the bass-master of the mighty MTX, only 18 years
old and a funny guy) I have yet to master one, I can only imagine
the complications arising from more than one.
Erik: All right Joel-man what about you, have you been tossed?
Have any input lyrically?
Joel: Lyrically speaking, I can't say that my romantic woes yet
have contributed to the material for the band. But I certainly
have been done wrong in my time.
Erik: Let's hear it.
Joel: No particularly juicy stuff, just things broken off. Once,
well nothing really interesting. (Disturbingly long pause) Wait I
might get in trouble for saying this.
Erik: Don't worry I won't tell anyone. (Good cover, huh?)
Joel: A girl once dumped me to return to her ex-boyfriend who she
said she was still in love with. She said she was pregnant with
his love child. (Yikes) That one really hurt. I had the
proverbial heart ripped out of my chest and stuff like that but I
don't want to place blame. Things like this are a little bit too
close to home.
Jym: (Jym is the wild man. The frantic drum thumpin' beatster of the MTX and also
nervous around reporters) Well, now that you've talked about it with us don't you feel
better?
Joel: Why yes, I feel closer to everyone here.
Erik and the MTX: (SIGH)
Dr. Frank: Disappointment, heartbreak wishing you were dead-it's
all a part of growing up.
Erik: "You're The Only One", who wrote that tune? That's a really
cool song. I think I'll call up my new girlie and leave that on
her answering machine.
Dr. Frank: If the relationship spoils, that's the cool thing
about our songs-they are recyclable.
Joel: Reduce, recycle, re-use.
Erik: So anyone else have a good fucked-over story? Jym, I know
you've been fired.
Jym: I don't have a good fucked over story.
Joel: Jym's being modest, I know for a fact Jym's been fucked
over.
Jym: Who hasn't, it's all the same you know. Girls leave you for
someone else, that's always the case. When a girl leaves you, it
is always for someone else, at least in my case.
Joel: If they say different-they're lying.
Erik: What about relationships now?
Dr. Frank: I have one now, could you believe it?
Erik: Normal personalities? How long?
Dr. Frank: It been off and on, but about a whole six weeks now.
It has been a rollercoaster. I met her on tour in England.
Erik: Is she European?
Dr. Frank: Yep.
Erik: Does she shave?
Dr. Frank: Yes, she shaves. She's a real cutie! She's out there
right now. (I got a look at her during the show and
well...Frank's a lucky guy)
Erik: I saw you guys out there with a few cuties, was she the
blonde?
Joel: That's my sister.
Erik: OOPS.
Joel: Hey man, that was my sister you were...
Erik and MTX: (Much more group laughter)
Erik: What about you there Joel?
Joel: I'm just sorta relishing my sort of freedom. I wouldn't say
it was a freedom, because it resulted from emotional devastation.
I'm not sure if it can be accurately described as freedom, you
know. I am currently uninvolved and that is an emotional
necessity for me. (I think old Joel is suffering from a case of
the broken hearties)
Dr. Frank: Larry told me, Lawrence Livermore at Lookout! Records,
claimed that he engineered the whole break up - the last break
up, so the record would be better. When he found out that I was
back together with her, he said were gonna have to pay her off
again so that you could come up with more good songs. I'm not
sure if I should believe him. So afterwards I went up to my
girlfriend and asked her if it was true. She wouldn't say yes or
no. Just a little smile in a mysterious way. So she could be
raking it in from Lawrence Livermore who is trying to keep me
productively unhappy.
Joel: Well the rest of us are much richer for it.
Erik: I am like in that prenatal stage of a relationship.
Dr. Frank: Prenatal?
Erik: Yeah, well maybe prenatal isn't the right word for it, no
pregnancy or anything like that, I mean the beginning, birth - I
just met her and I think she's rad. Any last loving words?
Dr. Frank: Love is like oxygen. You get too much, you get too high. Not enough and you die. Love gets you high.