White Cowbell Oklahoma
A Twitter interview with Clem from White Cowbell Oklahoma
Do this job long enough and you’ll hear every platitude and cliché in the book. Just like athletes, whose clichés are as timeless as they are uninteresting (“Just got to take it one game at a time…”), musicians have their own set of bland, beige things they say to writers.
Anyone who’s ever chatted with Clem from White Cowbell Oklahoma knows he’s a little different. The first time I interviewed him, in April 2009, he described a typical WCO show like this:
“We shoot out testosterone rays. We’ll go backstage just to catch our breath, and hit the oxygen tank, and whatever, but leaving those poor women in a state of depraved excitement and excited depravity, it’s lucky guys like you in the audience that… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Everyone gets laid at a White Cowbell show.”
As quotable a guy is there is in the business, Clem’s also quite the Twitterholic. And, because we do most of our friendly correspondence via Twitter, it only made sense to do an interview via Twitter.
Without further ado, an interview—140 characters or less at a time, to preview White Cowbell Oklahoma’s upcoming Montreal gig with Filly & the Flops.
Dave (@combatdavey): You’re playing in Montreal with Filly + The Flops. Or is it “vs” Filly and co.?
Clem (@whitecowbell): WCO and Filly are having a battle-royale of unstoppable rock majesty and rockabilly magnificence! We’re going to rip a hole in time.
D: Have you played with Filly before? If so, who won last time? If time was ripped or light bent, what were the scientific ramifications?
C: WCO have discovered a whole new science of quantum rock sorcery. We haven’t locked horns with Filly before but now our might is formidable.
D: Of what you know of her, what do you think her most fearsome quality—as an opponent—is?
C: Well I believe she’s a redhead, so that suggests she’s quick with a knife. We’ve been working on our rock n roll kung fu evasion techniques.
D: With the juxtaposition of rock majesty + rockabilly magnificence, could a new genre be conceived onstage? If so, name it.
C: We think Billy Roll—it’s also a new alcoholic dessert confection with erectile properties WCO Industries are marketing.
D: Will there be a chainsaw at the Montreal show, or in the late night commercials for Billy Roll? Might Shannon Tweed be in the ads?
C: There will definitely be chainsaw in Montreal—stand back, it’s real. Shannon Tweed will be flogging Billy Rolls. But no Gene Simmons.
C: We prefer Ace Frehley in all his staggering drunk glory.
D: Sounds like you’re talking about yourself. Or Filly. Or me. Should we start a supergroup?
C: WCO are already a supergroup.
White Cowbell Oklahoma
Filly + The Flops
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