Monday, September 27, 2010

Interview #3: Stickman, Volume II

From nearly the beginning of my involvement with hardcore, I can always remember hearing wild stories about Stickman. They usually involved some insane fight story that no one would believe if it was told about anyone else, but with him, it seemed as though it might be plausible. After the first Stickman interview was published, a surprising number of people requested that I do a follow-up interview with him. "Did you ever ask him about Coal Chamber?" "What's the deal with him hating Pantera?" "I heard he disarmed a man with an Uzi..." There was a list of stories that I'd been secretly wanting to hear about in detail anyway: some that he'd told me about already, but most that I'd never gotten around to asking since we became friends. All of the requests that I was getting for a follow-up interview gave me the perfect excuse to do just that. The result is a solid mix of stories that I've been waiting years to hear. A genuine thank you is again due, of course, to Stickman for spending his time talking with me about the stories that follow. Enjoy.