Whether it's staring in the who's who of Punk documentary due to hit theaters in early 2006, to the Sid/Nancy pop coupling of Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whilbley (Lead singer), meeting “Chuck” (an ex-Canadian soldier now working for the UN) in the wilds of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to having an introduction of destruction to one of rock's most volatile bands (Motley Crue), I spent a “Half Hour Of Power” with lead guitarist Dave Baksh to pose the eternal question, “Does This Look Infected?”
Jackie Lee King: How is Sum 41 infected with music?
Dave Baksh: It involves vacation for me and Stevo. Deryck writes the core of the stuff and we end up getting demos and Deryck will be like 'can you help me with the solos here' based on some riffs. So I'll do that stuff and Stevo will come up with his drum beats and Cone will come up with his base lines. So it's pretty easy for the three of us.
What would you be doing if you couldn't do what you are doing now? And I mean nothing to do with music.
Even not being able to fix guitars? I would be annoying the shit out of a bunch of guitar techs. I would be tapping the guitar techs on the shoulder with hooks if I didn't have hands or with my lobster claws. I suppose I would be a lobster.
What kind of a lobster would you want to be, and where?
A Portuguese lobster. Those are the only ones that I believe can kill divers. Diving in Portugal, from looking at them (The Portuguese Lobsters) in the sea food restaurants, it looks like you have to go down there with navy seals.
That's kind of scary, so what scares you?
I went to the Spy Museum yesterday in Washington. I was walking though it and I was like 'yeah propaganda' and they're trying to make you into a spy. Blah blah blah and whatever and then all of a sudden you come to the end of the Spy Museum and there's this movie being shown and the first words I heard were, “We are not safe at all anymore.” I just tuned my head to see this 10 minute movie with footage of Muslims, Asians or anybody that America is having trouble with right now, caring and firing weapons. I had mixed emotions before I went and saw that movie, but once I saw it I couldn't fucking believe it. The Spy Museum scared the shit out of me.
So tell me a story about the tour?
Tommy Lee has this dressing room which is called Tommyland. After the show you go in there and it's Tommy Lee on a pair of turn tables and this huge sound system and his dressing room becomes a dance club. DJ Tommy Lee! Apparently he does a wicked job too, but I have no Idea.
So you haven't been to Tommyland?
No I'm way too much of a stoner to go to Tommyland. I hang around our tent which is called “Carnival Of Sins / Guys Guys Guys.” It's ok with my wife, though. I've been going out with her way too long. So, she's fine and she knows I'm with her. With me I'm fully married, so the women don't fit in anymore. Just hanging out with the guys, occasionally
So for the stalkers out there, what is your tour comfort weakness?
Ween! It's good time music. Honestly, it sounds so fucking cheesy but it really helps. Music really helps. It's very cliché, but it's cliché for a reason because it works.
What sucks?
Well. Not a whole lot right now, honestly. There's the obvious thing…the world sucks on a whole if you split it into percentages of good and bad a lot of people are having a bad time. Other than that, fuck it dude. Wait, I'll tell you something that sucks. Punk Rockers hanging out at the Taco Bell and McDonalds. If they're going to yell at me for not being Punk enough I'm going to fucking call them out on buying a fucking Big Mac. That's what I'm talking about. I mean I'm not calling out the old schoolers, because I'm sure it was way harder back in the day. Especially the dress that Punks wore, but now you can just go to the fucking mall. And another thing that sucks is elitism in musical genres. Punks can ruin it for everybody else. It's the same people I'm getting down on for eating at McDonalds.
So finish this story.
So, this guy stealing a golf cart to impress some woman he has just picked up. What he doesn't realize is that he is on a pier and at one end is a police station and at the other end a lot of water. So he drives down the base of the pier and the police stop him but the woman bails on him just as the police start questioning him. He then drives toward the water…
…but what he doesn't know is that the cart is filled with the explosives. The cops are trying to stop him but in the end he just drives off the end of the pier because he can't deal with stealing a golf cart and it explodes in the air and the woman is ok and the hero cop saves her and everything is ok.
Hey, it sounds like it should be your next video.
(Laughs)
Just make sure you have a quote at the end of the video saying “Thanks to Jackie Lee and fuck the posers.”
• Jackie Lee King is Lumino's Senior Music Writer
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Written by Guest on 2008-05-19 17:21:37
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