1) What is the thing, or things you are always working on?

G) what to destroy or not. life around me. what gets the knife,or boot...or what lives, and flourishes.

i have to keep myself on my own leash. I'm either the nicest guy in the world, or I'm Satan! always ready to fuck shit up, including myself. i try and save that for the stage now, but its like saving money.sometimes it (life) just burns a hole in my pocket. sometimes i can bank it. its fucked up!

2) What is the real story behind you and Tom Zutaut ( a,and r, geffen records)

G) That was a long time ago...oh man, what the fuck....uuuuug, ill tell it for the last time.

I didnt know who he was. we were playing the Viper room in l.a ca. (with the band i had formed called the Okra Pickles)

He was justa prick, throwing his money around, talkin shit about the songs, what i needed to do to get signed(what the fuck is that anyway) back then i guess it meant allot.like i said i didn't know who he was. like it would have made a difference anyway. i got tiered of listening to his shit, i just swallowed a fist full of pills, and drank a 5th of something, 20-30 beers. i just walked up behind him, with everybody watching, and put him in the sleeper. he went down, and was doing the heeby jeeby, making a snoring sound, and when he got up, and found out it was me that had done it...well...i was black balled in so many words. ended up on the sidewalk, but that's the night i meant the cats with  Jagermeister, and signed up to do tours for them. been with them ever since!

i love those guys!

3) you actually got totally sober for like 5 years.

G) yea..just stopped everything, meat, coffee, booze, pills, everything..it was part of my manic bi polar...everything in excess!

going back out on the road was so boring, and being the only sober cat, a whole new set of responsibilities got laid in my lap. all the songs i wrote during that period were crap...no struggle, no shit, cant get inspirado from a glass of iced tea. i remember going back out with "WHITE ZOMBIE, AND PANTERA" and had a beer with DIME, that was the end of that..it was cool, cause all that down time, for a while, it was like getting drunk for the first time again! it felt good. started kicking out good songs again, bullet proof!..manic, bi polar, back to the other side!

life's a trip, and i stumble, allot...see ya next fall..(laughs)

4) so how about now? where you at know?

G) well i bought a house in Oregon, and converted it into a studio. still touring, still living it! now more than ever.

its crazy, when i was younger i always said "if i don't make it by the time I'm 21 ill kill myself"...fuck, it takes so long, just to ground yourself, prioritise. Ive slowed way down on the partying. some jagermeister, that's about it...full circle. i was diagnosed(funny word) with some sort of growth on my spine...fucking painful, so, the doctors got me on meds...and mood stabilizers.

i don't take them when i tour, or am writing...just fucks everything up...reality is somebody's idea of what there life should be, not mine! still battling demons, but have turned allot of them into friends, they help in my writing . i have no way i write, no formula. its like this...

if you have to shit, you sit on the toilet, and shit comes out. if you don't have to shit, you can sit on the toilet all day, and no plop plop!...in other words, you cant force a song, its either there or not, good or bad. i have never been able to just sit and write a song on demand...Ive done it...but its not the way i like to do it!

i sleep in the controll room, i love waking up surrounded by gear!

i do 12-20 hrs a day in the studio.

i never grow tiered of it!

i have some great friends, endorsements, that keep me rolling. its that thing, you know..(or maybe you don't) when someone believes in you, its just an awesome feeling.

life is just life, a thing that you wake up to everyday. its what you do with that life!

money, i pay the bills, but am always broke....

having allot of money, only gives you the luxury of not having to worry about money.

love, love is something you earn.

and music, is a way of life, love , and little money.

at this level, that is to say, living it, not a hobbyist, it is work. don't kid yourself....it is work, HARD WORK...if you ain't got it in you at birth, if your not born unto the life, no matter how hard you try, you'll never get it, and to get it, is more of a curse than a blessing!