Maybe my grandkid should be named Zappa?
Musical Drivel
What led you to record Redneck Shit and how did you coerce Dave Cobb to produce it?
Iâve been in Nashville for a while, bouncing around. Iâve had some bad luck in the music industry. I pissed some people off. Then my buddies said, âYou gotta meet this guy Dave Cobb.â And I said, âWell, if he makes real records, I donât know if heâll make this one.â But I took my fucking life savings, which I donât want to mention here, 'cause it ainât much to brag about, and I gave it all to Dave and said, âLetâs make the album without any fucking record company telling me what to do.â
Clearly, because itâs a pretty filthy record.
But we took the word âcuntâ out. Thereâs no cunt on the album. We had a song called âShave Your Cunt,â and Dave said donât record that. But just wait for Album 2, when I find a producer with some fucking balls.
Do you worry your lyrics could be considered offensive?
I was doing an interview on the radio the other day and I said to the guy, âDo you think the album is offensive?â And he goes, âIt sounds like youâre singing the way people talk.â . . . So why canât I fucking do it? Country radio is so fucking shitty. Garth [Brooks] sounds like fucking Hank now. How many times have you heard someone say, âI like all music, except for countryâ? Every time I hear that, it pisses me off. Iâd be upset if people thought I was making fun of country music or rednecks with this record. I am a fucking redneck, these are my people and I love country music. You canât make a record like this without loving country.
Is this a response to bro country?
It wasnât my goal to go in the studio and fuck with those people. I just wanted to make a good record and do it balls-out. Afterward, people are coming up to me saying, âMan, thatâs a great statement on bro country.â Iâm like, âFuck yeah it is,â pretending that it was my point all along. But I just wanted to make a real country record. . . I got my ass handed to me my whole life and this is the record that came out. âFuck You Bitchâ is serious shit. âCanât Fuck You Off My Mindâ is a regular country song.
âDrop 'Em Outâ may be the first song to use the word "cocker."
I was running out of rhymes there at the end of the session. That was everyoneâs favorite song and I didnât know how to record it. In my head, itâs an Oak Ridge Boys song. The Oaks were everywhere growing up. I wanted their harmonies, but itâs so hard to do it. I donât want to give away the Oak Ridge Boysâ secrets, but. . .what do I give a fuck? You just stack vocals and keep singing over and over until you have a perfect version.
The interesting thing about this record is you donât discriminate. You bash everyone equally, yourself included.
If someone put in a machine, âWhatâs the way to sell the least amount of country records?â I did that. I pissed off every group.
Letâs do some word association. What do you think of when you hear the name Luke Bryan?
Weâve got the same agent. Nice guy.
Conway Twitty?
That reminds me of driving from Kentucky to Nashville and Iâd always see âTwitty Cityâ [billboards] and Iâd think, âWho is that fucking asshole on there?â We never stopped. We did go to Dollywood though.
Blake Shelton?
I donât think I could name you two Blake Shelton songs. Fucking dude broke up with Miranda Lambert. Dipshit.
Florida Georgia Line?
Complete horseshit. Stay out of the gym. All that time youâre in the gym, man, you could be practicing. Just get out of the fucking goddamn gym and practice your fucking singing and your fucking guitar. You wonât need Auto-Tune if you take some singing lessons. Get off the fucking charts â itâs Wheelerâs turn.
I havenât read this yet but apparently Quincy Jones says some controversial things:
I heard it as his thinking the early (63) Beatles were poor musicians. And they were. In fact, later, they made âgoodâ music, but werenât âaccomplishedâ musicians at all. Not on par with the likes that QJ was accustomed to dealing with.
Heâs a brilliant guy. Made a whole world of music that we all love and are influenced by. Guided so many people to success. Likely ignored others.
And letâs not forget his achievements and advancements in terms of getting black music into the mainstream.
Heâs entitled to his kvetching (bitching).
Translating for the non-Jews!
And BTW, Iâm a non Jew.
When I was on Win Ben Steinâs Money, I won an early questionâ
The answer?
A mohel.