YOUR QUESTION:

11/12/2019 19:38:45 Bill PHey

Trevor. A few questions if you don't mind
1) How annoying would it be during Bungle shows when the crowd was obnoxious? Seems like there were plenty of occasions of people screaming for "Girls Of Porn" or screaming just for the fuck of it in the middle of an instrumental piece
2) Why did you leave SC3 after the first album?
3) Just curious as to what your thoughts are on Sonic Youth........Similar to Bungle, thats a band that always played by their own rules and was great at constructing songs built around abstract compositions and beautiful noise freakouts. I know Thurston plays with Zorn and Winant from time to time as well so he's no stranger to that scene
4) Theres an old bootleg from 1990 where you guys debut 'My Ass Is On Fire' and the song has a totally different structure with different lyrics compared to the album version from a year later. Did that happen often with Bungle, where a song would initially be completed and then radically altered by the time it reaches its final result?
5) Some dude threw up on youtube a soundboard of Bungle from June 1988 in Arcata. Behold all 6 songs from Goddammit I Love America are played. And a full on cover of Guns N Roses 'Welcome To the Jungle'....June 88....Any memories of this gig? This must be like a month or 2 before Mike went off to join FNM and become a rock star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrtSJoMp64

MY ANSWER:

1) Any obnoxious crowd is annoying when they seem to feel that they are the performers. It’s usually some ploy for attention from their peers I would imagine. But pretty much every rock band I play in is subjected to a suggested set-list of songs of other bands I play in. You learn to tune it out as much as possible.
2) That’s a misconception. During the making of that first record it wasn’t really a band yet—more like a recording project. I did tour with them in Australia in the late ‘90s and have done occasional one-offs but Trey’s development of that band went it’s own direction other than my own (moving to NYC for example). Essentially I neither joined nor left that band.
3) Not a band I ever really got into although they do have a specific sound I like and I do appreciate the pan-tonalism and alternate tunings. Funny, I just watched the video for Bull In The Heather between Mitch Hedberg and Klaus Nomi videos
4) I wouldn’t say it happened often, but it happened. It was rare that we performed a song before we felt it was complete but that did happen from time to time.
5) Vague memories for sure. Sloppy as hell I would assume.