YOUR QUESTION

10/12/2020

Sorry, I have 3 questions.
1) Would you be annoyed if someone intentionally chose to listen to your Nocturnes record at, say, 2 o’clock on a bright, sunny afternoon?
2) Are you friends with Lev Zhurbin or was he more of a hired session player? I remember back in the MySpace days circa 2006 when he was an unknown player just starting out and he had some pretty cool compositions, but I hadn’t heard anything about him since then.
3) This is not a common position but I think I hate Flea even more than Kiedis and I know some people love to say how it’s really just Kiedis who is the problem and that no one else in that wretched band is a dick or whatever. I know Kiedis was direct with Bungle management about hating you guys’ (or at least Patton’s) guts, but I’m just wondering if Flea and you ever crossed paths, like at WB in Burbank or a festival or something, and if he was “nice” to you, because that’s his schtick, being a suuuuuper nice guy!

MY ANSWER

1) People are free to adhere to their own rituals as deems fit. Also, I probably wouldn’t be aware of it.
2) The Secret Quartet was put together by my friend Jenny Choi. I didn’t meet Lev until the first rehearsals for that piece, so really more of a hired hand.
3) Believe it or not I saw Flea once at a FLEA MARKET in South America once — maybe Santiago….? I swore I would have punched him in his stupid mouth if I’d had the opportunity. That guy is loathsome every time I see him in some music documentary that he thinks he has the authority to talk about. Why do all those guys talk so much?