{"id":1006,"date":"2010-07-24T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2014-08-01T21:41:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T04:41:48","slug":"murderdolls-wednesday-13-mayhem-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Murderdolls- Wednesday 13- Mayhem Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview: Wednesday 13, Guitar\/ Vocals, Murderdolls<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Venue: Mayhem Fest 2010 Cincinnati, OH<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By: Amy Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Date: 7\/21\/2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Murderdolls<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0formed during 2002 in\u00a0Hollywood, California.\u00a0The band line-up consists of core members\u00a0Wednesday 13\u00a0and\u00a0Joey Jordison (Slipknot\/Rob Zombie.)<\/p>\n

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To date the band has released one album titled\u00a0Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls<\/em>\u00a0which was released in 2002. Their second album,\u00a0Women and Children Last<\/em>, will be released this summer 2010.<\/p>\n

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We sat down with Wednesday 13 backstage at Mayhem to discuss the band re-uniting and a tour that will kickoff this fall.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: You\u2019re back together, first album, first show in six years, right?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yep, yep.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: And how\u2019s it been?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: First album in eight years, first we did our first two shows in six years in California I guess about a month ago. Yeah man it\u2019s great. Me and Joey, we got back together and decided to do a real Murderdolls record this time of original material and this record is just really well thought out as opposed to the first one. We love that record and everything about it but it was just really thrown together and we wanted to make sure this time that we made a real record with real songs and just original material this time.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: So I know you sing, you play guitar, you play bass.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I dance. I start fires.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Are there any weird instruments you play or want to play that we don\u2019t know about?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Harmonica. I dabble on the piano. I can do that brrrrrring thing. No, I mean I can play a little bit of everything, which was what was cool in the studio because between Joey and I, we can play everything. That\u2019s a good thing to have, so we are like a two-man army.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: You can just put it all together right, all the pieces?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: And that\u2019s what we did for the record too, so, yep.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Are you guys practicing while you\u2019re out here on the road?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: No, no<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Are you coming out tonight during any of the performances, are we gonna see you?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: No, I get the boring job of this tour. I get to watch everyone else rock out and I get to talk about myself all day, which it\u2019s great because it\u2019s promo for the record and I love doin it, it\u2019s just kinda bum sometimes when you\u2019re on the side of the stage watching and you think \u201cMan, I wish I was playing tonight.” It\u2019s just this whole press tour and by the time we\u2019re done, we will have done press for almost ten weeks from Paris to Alabama to set our record up, there\u2019s no better way to do that.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Plus it\u2019s your friends, right, you\u2019re hanging out with?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yeah so it\u2019s a cool thing.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: I just have some personal questions, you don\u2019t have to answer. \u00a0I know you\u2019re from North Carolina, right, you live in North Carolina?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I don\u2019t anymore, but I\u2019m from there.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: And I\u2019m from Tennessee, a fairly conservative place to grow up.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yes<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: An issues with your parents being supportive? I know you\u2019ve been doing music for a long time.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yeah my parents are great. They\u2019ve still never seen me play live, they know what I do, they understand what I do. I think they don\u2019t understand what I do, but they know what I do.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: They know what you do.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: They\u2019re super proud of me and they\u2019re super supportive. My family is great I had a great childhood and everything, but I guess just being in the Bible Belt and things like that and being around those kind of people you know, and I love those, those are my people.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: You have huge fans there, but it\u2019s still different<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yeah, but at the same time, growing up I got picked on as a kid and you know your typical stuff in school and things like that so I think that\u2019s part of the reason why I turned out like this.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: That\u2019s not so bad<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: It\u2019s a good thing. That town pretty much created me, you know.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: You can send a shout-out, thanks man<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yeah, so thank you guys for knocking me down the stairs in the seventh grade, you made me want to become a rock star.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: And you have a daughter, right?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I do have a daughter, yes.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: And how old is she now?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: She\u2019s twelve.<\/p>\n

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Ryan<\/strong>: Does she listen to Murderdolls music?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I don\u2019t know. She would never tell me, she still thinks I\u2019m a dork, so I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Do you ever take\u00a0her out on the road with you? You\u2019ve toured solo too, right?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yeah, she\u2019s never seen me play live either. We go through North Carolina on this tour so I\u2019m hoping I can just get her to come out to see the show. She\u2019s never been to a huge festival like this and seen this side of the show and I\u2019d like her to see Rob Zombie\u2019s show because it\u2019s insane.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Yeah we just saw him at Rock on the Range and he blew it away.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Oh it\u2019s went up a notch since then, it\u2019s ridiculous, his show is amazing. Every night I do press and then I go and try to catch a few bands like Lamb of God and then I\u2019m always either right behind Joey when he\u2019s playing or front of house watching every night. It\u2019s cool because I\u2019ve been a fan of Zombie for years, even back to White Zombie, and it\u2019s cool to see my friend and band mate up there rocking those songs out too. It\u2019s such a killer show.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: I remember being in the pit at a Zombie show in like 1994 and got hurt pretty bad, but it was a good night. It\u2019s burned on my brain.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Oh yeah those are good nights<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Where are\u00a0you living now?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I am living in Los Angeles for the moment, until we go on tour and then I\u2019ll be living on a bus. That\u2019s my plan I\u2019m going to live on a bus and then decide where I want to live when we get off tour.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: You can check it all out, it\u2019s like the best free trip to ride around and pick out a place. And I know you tour with Alice Cooper. That\u2019s got to be like legendary in a lot of ways. What was that like? Any crazy stories from that?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I\u2019ve became really good friends with Alice over the years. The first time playing with him was when I finally got to open up for him with Wednesday 13 back in 2005 and then I have played with him every year almost since then. I just became really close with their unit and his crew. Still to this day, he is the greatest performer, one of the best shows, and one of the most down-to-earth guys. I have learned so much from him and he has given me so much advice and he has helped me out through some dark times, so he has been a really good guy for me.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: So are you guys going to go on tour in the fall? Got something planned yet?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: It\u2019s possible. I think that would be a no brainer for Murderdolls and Cooper to team up. Joey is committed to these tours, but Murderdolls comes out the 31st, and we will be touring for two years on that.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Well hopefully\u00a0we can catch a show\u00a0when you come back through here.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: I keep telling everybody that we didn’t do a lot of stuff in America last time, but we are doing a full U.S. run, I can\u2019t say who it\u2019s with, but we are doing a full U.S. run to start September 29th<\/sup> and it goes up through Halloween.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: So it\u2019s confirmed? You\u2019re going to be out and about.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday:<\/strong> Yes, and I can\u2019t tell you who it\u2019s with. But it will be the best Halloween show, ever.<\/p>\n

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Amy:<\/strong> Okay, we’ll write it down. Make a note.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: You started writing an autobiography too, didn’t you?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: No no no I will write that on my death bed. It\u2019s called, \u201cI\u2019m Sorry,\u201d and it comes out the day I die.<\/p>\n

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Ryan<\/strong>: I wanted to ask you about your accident. You don’t play guitar anymore live, do you?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Yeah yeah, I just couldn’t play it for a couple months cause when I flipped my car in 2007, I broke my collar bone and fractured my ankle and I went on tour three weeks later, and so during the day I was wearing a sling and I was still driving our van, which was probably not the best thing while being on a lot of medication, but no I\u2019m healed up from it. I still have a big knot on my chest from it, but it doesn’t bother me when I play guitar or anything like that. I had to take four or five months off because it took that long to heal because every night I was on tour and I wasn’t resting it.<\/p>\n

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Amy: <\/strong>Any guilty pleasures?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: No. I\u2019m pretty up front about everything I do. I mean I like to watch the show, Friends, people wouldn’t expect that, but I don’t feel guilty about it.<\/p>\n

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Ryan<\/strong>: You don’t listen to Brittany Spears?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: No, no. I\u2019m honest. Everything I listen to, I don’t like rap music, but I like the ghetto boys. They are so mean and angry. Talking about bitches all the time.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Do you have any up and coming indie bands that your listening to that you just love?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: Not anything new. I mean it\u2019s new to me, but its old to other people. I have become a huge fan over the past year of Killing Joke and bands like that that Joey turned me onto. When Murderdolls came out, I was just this close-minded little prick that only listened to glam rock and punk rock and I was like, everything else sucks I hate everything, and then, 8 years later, I am a huge Slayer fan. I listen to everything, you know? So, I opened my mind up a little bit, and even country bands and all that is in between.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Hey there is good music in all genres. Good music is good music.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: But I have opened my mind up to all that kind of stuff\u00a0even doing the outlaw country stuff, and listening to the other side of extreme heavy metal, and somehow I\u2019ve melded it in my head, which comes off as an influence in Murderdolls, maybe some people won\u2019t see it immediately.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Maybe not country<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: It might come out.<\/p>\n

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Amy<\/strong>: Maybe some fiddle or steel guitar?<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>: No no, just a little accent. I am from where I am from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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