THIS is an interview done with me by my good buddy Ian from Mass Movement Magazine a few months ago - it's very long but check it out for some wonderful insights, Elk style!
MM - Guitarist, vocalist, song writer, punk blogger and now author Greg Pearson, offers his views on Tourette’s Syndrome, file trading, the dumbing down of popular culture and his time in popular 90s combo Mr. Zippy and Swedish crusty rockers Lucien. Interview by Ian PickensMM - Hi Greg, most people in Mass Movement land will probably have heard of you from your time in Mr. Zippy but that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, so what have you been up to since those halcyon days in the 90s?G - “Apart from completing my jazz odyssey and working on a musical version of the life of Jack the Ripper? …
Yes, it’s been almost 7 years since I last stood on a stage with Mr. Zippy, certainly was another time in another
life. Well, I very quickly put together the band LUCIEN. I started to work as a stagehand for one of the
local concert companies and ended up working my way up the ranks to super-roadie! Didn’t even have to get
bummed by any of the bosses. I worked almost everyday for whatever band passed through, some good,
some bad. Managed to work for the likes of Slayer, Dropkick Murphy’s, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, The Boss,
Kiss…fuck, another book’s worth of stories there. Then I ended up on the road with the Swedish rock band
Crash Diet as a roadie for a while (the boys are supporting Ozzy tonight as I write this in fact).
A few years ago I moved from Stockholm to a smaller town just outside of Gothenburg. I spent a while finding
my feet and then with a lot of spare time thought “well, what the hell do I really WANT to do with my future”. So
I went back to school and am currently studying to become a teacher. Apart from that a friend of mine, Kristoffer
and I started a club night and then we started a new band THINK FAST, which I will go into later.
So right now I live in a nice Swedish town, go to school, play punk and write – it’s
pretty chilled. I turned 35 this weekend so it’s a nice grown-up way to be with all my punk sensibilities intact.”
MM - In a similar vein to Marv Gadgie in his zine and subsequent book (‘Now Then Gadgie’), you seem to have become something of a punk popular culture nostalgic? Is this due to a distinct lack of interesting popular culture in music, television, film and literature in the Noughties? Is the age of Big Brother, RnB, A-Team remakes and Dan Brown so bad that we are now viewing the 80s with rose tinted glasses?G - “Everyone thinks that “things used to be much better” don’t they? Sitting about in our easy chairs with the pipe
and slippers watching the TV and moaning at it…what else is it for? But, I dunno – I’m not sure I actually feel
that way. I just think that since I have experienced four decades of culture that I have a lot to choose from.
Though, there is a lot that I like culture wise that has come out in the last decade, punk will always be punk
and the loyal are still the loyal despite however many watered down versions we have out there. There have
been some great movies bursting out, I’d like to say documentaries but most of them focus on the nostalgic
don’t they? Books too, as you know I’m a mad reader and can’t really seem to go anywhere without some sort
of paperback tucked away somewhere.
With the onslaught of the popular media we get beamed to us, I don’t really have any exposure to the mainstream
so it doesn’t really bother me. For example I only know who Justin Bieber is via the pages of Demotivational.
com. I think the 80s and the 90s had some good things, especially the rising of their respective punk
scenes, but the true ideas of what it formed haven’t gone away and the other exposure just separated the
wheat from the chaff as it were.
I believe that there is a new punk rising on the way – we will see it all happen again the way it was in the “good
old days”. Its basic physics right? Every action creates an equal or opposite reaction. With all the Big Brother
etc like you mentioned there will be a reaction!
But on that point, I’d rather Big Brother and RnB that something masquerading as the underground or a subculture.
At least you know where to stand.
I like Dan Brown though…sorry.”
MM - Really? I find his books read like bad screenplays; as if they were written with the fully formed intenintention of becoming trashy Hollywood thrillers?G - “Maybe when you read through them you can picture them as films but I always thought that was a good thing.
The books involve a lot of back-info and explanations and I know Brown researches a lot to make the books
as “accurate” as possible, be it with new science or myth. I actually hated the movies they made because I just
don’t think they come close to how good the books are. I know a lot of people consider the books to be aimed
at a dumber demographic but I don’t really agree with that…maybe I secretly am that demographic. I’ve read
all of his books and enjoyed every one.”
MM - Your Blog is a wonderful mish-mash of political opinion, popular culture, punk rock and metal band profiles and general commentary; do you ever struggle to find things to talk about on such a regular basis?G - “Never! In fact I don’t have enough time to write about everything I want to write about. I usually carry a little
notepad with me in order to write down the various ideas I have through out the day. It’s one of the benefits of
being ADHD and a writer of sorts.
I’m slowing it all down a bit now though as with school being my main priority I need to focus on that and just
don’t have time to keep up with it. Plus I gave up on the band Lucien and the club we were running because
I was sick of doing things purely for public consumption…and then found myself stressing about constantly
updating my blog. So I’m putting the brakes on a bit but no, I never run out of things to write. There is four decades
of stuff for me to go back to and with “punk” being such an elaborate concept there is always something
to discuss, especially now I’m in my mid-30s where “real life” or a more grown up, regular “normal” life should be taking it's grip on me.
MM - The Blog has also featured some pretty sensitive personal ‘issues’ such as your Tourette’s Syndrome and relationship with the devils brew; do you find it difficult to discuss these issues so publicly or is it a cathartic process? Does that apply to writing in general? Have your books exorcised any ghosts?G - “Well, why does one write, or indeed do anything of any cultural relevance? Of course it’s to share your opinions
and ideas. And these things that you speak of, my personal matters are things that are of particular relevance
to me and ideas I would like to raise awareness of. Especially with all my particular disorders such as
Tourette’s, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and ADHD (ADD). Many more people have it than know. I lived until
my early 30s with these disorders and just thought I was strange until I realised that I was not alone. I’d love to be able to extend that hand to someone else.
And it’s good to be able to poke a bit of fun at it as
well, for example showing the scenes from Deuce
Bigalow for an example of Tourette’s. It’s funny
but at the same time I
also wanted
to spread the knowledge that Tourette’s doesn’t
actually manifest itself in quite such a funny way
sadly and that to the actual sufferers of it, it’s quite
a damaging thing to live with.”
MM - I feel that Tourettes/OCD/ADHD are on a sliding scale and far more common than is generally recognised. Do you feel these are modern conditions caused by diet/TV/consumerism or are they just better diagnosed these days?G - “Good point, I think that it’s a bit of both. But I am
glad that they are being diagnosed, if my teachers
and parents and myself had known about and
understood these disorders when I was young I
might have had a much better chance at an education
than I got. We just didn’t have the information
available so it was just dismissed as me being odd
and difficult, and having strange habits – people
would ask me why I would do the things I was doing
and I just couldn’t explain it, or they would get
pissed off with or disturbed by me. Many twitches,
facial ticks etc, sometimes noises – and I had no
explanation as to why I did them. The same with
why did I have such a hard time to focus on things
at school…it’s just seen as being difficult. I’m not a
stupid person, I’m proving that now with my grades
but when I was younger I just didn’t have the motor
skills to concentrate on what I had in front of me
so I rebelled and as a result left school with next
to nothing and had to lie about my grades for the
next 20 years or so if I wanted a job. If someone
had have been able to identify what was “wrong”
with me at the time and acted on it, things might
have been very different. I think it’s good that more
people these days get a chance.
And again with alcoholism – certainly a subject
and a condition that many
more people have
a problem with than
would probably admit,
a modern syndrome
that needed a bit of
addressing.
Yes, it’s certainly
a release; it’s like
venting it out. In fact
it has been noted
that my blog can at
times be very negative
towards society,
some people near
to me were worried
that this was affecting
my well being
and what sort of
fucked up angry person I must
be to come up with those sort of harsh things I do ,
but it’s all a vent. I write it down and then it doesn’t
bother my real life. It’s the same with the books,
yes. I think we’ll touch on this again later on.”
MM - On a recent Inquisitive Elks Blog there was an advert for gastric band clinics in the UK, which was uh… weird to say the least; given the amount of money that obesity surgery is now costing the NHS, with a recent report citing an 800% increase in 10 years, do you feel that this is a cause you should be supporting? Doesn’t this seem like a monumental waste of tax payer’s money, shouldn’t we just say “Eat less and get some exercise fatty”?G - “There are adverts on my blog? Ok, I didn’t know
that – I will check it out. Of course it’s probably
targeted advertising so I guess my readers must be
fatties. They log onto Inquisitive Elks and then go
check out websites about cakes.”
It’s so true; that’s exactly what I do!!
“Me too, as soon as I’ve finished I log onto Ben &
Jerrys.com…or check out pictures of fat people
crying and eating. But to your point…yes. I think
over eating is getting worse than smoking for
self-inflicted health problems. There was a great
Swedish program a while back where they sent a
regular Swedish girl round America to look at some
of the worse cases of child obesity, it was an eye
opener. Those mums just fed their kids with fried
chicken and gallons of Coke because “they cried if
they couldn’t get it”. One kid was even so fat that
his legs had grown deformed under him. Jebus…if it comes in a bucket it’s probably worth leaving behind. At one point she tried to buy some fruit in a food store
and couldn’t find any apart from in a can with sugar!”
MM - Is the governments obsession with healthy eating, banning smoking, attempting to influence alcohol intake etc. another example of, to paraphrase Ludichrist, the government acting like your mother? Is the Nanny state a reality in Britain today and not just an example of hysterical Daily Mail hyperbole?G - “Although people generally live longer these days, if you look at pictures from regular folk in say the 1920s
or 1930s…how do they look? You’d be hard pressed to find a fat or unhealthy looking one and that was way
before we had any of that. Ace facial hair too and totally funky clothes. They always go for that retro look and
just pull it off a treat.
I think that in one way people should be given a really clear picture of the dangers of smoking, drinking etc, especially
we in any kinds of subcultures that are prone to seeing our heroes partaking and think it’s cool so we
do it too – especially younger kids, hell that was how I got started. In many ways we DO have all the warning
signs but popular culture gives us another picture. We are constantly looking at successful people partaking
in potentially dangerous activities. A friend of mine got into cocaine and thought it was OK to do so because
“Lemmy does it”. We’re influenced by our heroes and want to be like them, so especially the younger generation
that seem to be being set up for a lifetime of being brainwashed by the popular media.
But on the other side of the coin I certainly don’t like to be told what I can and cannot do. Personally I don’t
smoke cigarettes or drink (at the moment), I enjoy a nice cigar once in a while and I am in the process of giving
up snus (a Swedish tobacco in small tea-bag type things that you put under your lip), but these are all my
choices, I would hate to be told that couldn’t do any of the above at anytime I wanted. It’s bad enough in Sweden
with government-run alcohol stores that dictate to you the times you can buy and not buy.
I guess that’s why the punk subculture appeals to me so much; anarchism in many ways is to me my position
but only in a personal way, living outside of the boundaries that are imposed onto me while still upholding the
balance of a common society.”
MM - How different is the social/political climate in Sweden? Was this a factor in your decision to move there? Any regrets about leaving the UK?G - “I never miss the UK. I miss my family and some of my friends but that’s it. I do miss that great scene we had
but that’s gone, there will be another. Yes the political climate, especially when the UK was dragged into the
“war on terror” was certainly a reason for me to move to a neutral country.
In Sweden we have much the same problems, yet the parties are slightly different. The right is much more
liberal and the left borders on communism. Personally I think most of the parties have something to bring to
the table. At the moment the country is run by the right, which is made up of group of parties which we call “the
alliance” It’s the conservative and liberals together and more a blend of the UK versions of right and left. On
our opposing side we have the “red-green” which is more socialist and environmental parties. In a few weeks
we will actually have the national vote. I wonder which way we will swing.
We also have the Swedish version of the BNP, the “Swedish Democrats” – very scary. “
MM - Politically do you feel that Europe has swung significantly to the right in the past 10 years? Has punk evolved to address this in the way that Anarcho developed as a reaction against Thatcherism in the UK, or has it become the safe music of choice for middle class teens?G - “Yeah, the 80s American hardcore was a swing against Regan and the UK a swing against Thatcherism, I’m
not sure about today though. I find less bands addressing political issues in regards to actually parties or
people. We did have NoFX and Fat Mike setting up that whole “punk voter” thing which was a really great way
of getting even the most apolitical teenager into having a look at what was going on.
I think these days people are aware of what’s going on in the world, and are willing to address it, but not a lot
else happens. For example you can in many high street stores in Sweden buy clothes with statements about
recycling, or aids awareness etc – but is that it? A T-shirt? You can say (or could say) “fuck Bush” but to what
extent did anyone actually go out of their way to actually do anything about it. As I said before, those underground
are still underground and the numbers still grow.
A lot of our subcultures have been replaced by large company-run versions, when I think of music magazines
and festivals etc, sadly. But I remain hopeful that anyone can start off by listening to bands like Green Day and
then work their way inward.”
MM - You have been highly critical of the Pirate Party in your writing (most well know for their opposition to the targeting and conviction of file sharers but also opposed to copyright in general including patents, the party is more well known in Sweden but has chapters in many other countries including the UK); doesn’t their position equate more closely with what punk used to be about, i.e. the free exchange of ideas rather than profiteering?G - “There are both good and bad things
about The Pirate Party, although mostly
bad simply because of the way they go
about what they do. I am actually opposed
to their policies because they
have set themselves up as an actual
political party with no agenda other
than free downloads, no patents and
internet privacy, and I must say that I
can’t agree with them on any of their
points.
However I do not have a sensible
workable solution to an alternative. I
myself download, just last night in fact
I downloaded the first episode of the
new Made in England ’86 series as
I couldn’t find anywhere to watch it
online (the BBC website won’t let me
view it outside of the UK). Should I
be arrested for this? I say no.
We are forced to pay license fees
for our television sets and do we
ever actually watch what we pay
for? I don’t. Instead I watch things online, I feel this a
fair exchange.
Anyway, with PP they haven’t thought it through – they want everything to be free and they mainly attack the
faceless multinational corporations, but they don’t seem to realise that not everyone out there is a faceless
corporation. Downloading has already damaged the record industry to the point where it’s hard for any emerging
artists to get any sort of a break and they would have this taken away too. Not every musical industry is
faceless and evil; there are many small operations that would also get damaged. In fact, the way I see it is that
if everything was free the entire music industry would grind to a halt as there would no longer be the motivation
or turnover to do it.
And this trickles down. Even within the faceless multinationals you have many more honest people who rely on
them for their work. Think of the touring artists, you have their road crew, and when they come to a venue you
have armies of stagehands like I used to be, living hand-to-mouth from every job. The truck drivers, the lighting
guys, the people who work in the ticket stalls, the t-shirt stalls, the people who make the t-shirts, the people
who make the posters, the people who clean, the security, the people who work in CD factories, the people
who CLEAN them…and so on. Millions would be out of an honest job.
So where as their ethics may be admirable, their plan is not. Even the people within the PP believe that downloading
would be OK because there are still people out there that might hear an artist and then go out and
support them for life, buy their CD’s/ITunes, whatever, go to their gigs etc. But that’s NOW, when you can’t
get everything for free. If you totally legally could, who would pay? They seem to rely on a utopic reality when
everything is free and the industry is funded completely by honest people who like to still pay, like an “honesty
box” set-up. And everyone would be laughing and dancing round with rainbows and unicorns with their free
medicine and free music/films and the creators would still be happy. In reality…it would be an empty and hollow
desert.”
MM - Case in point Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ which they made available for whatever fans felt compelled to pay; a significant percentage paid nothing and the band haven’t persisted with the concept. Proof positive that people are basically selfish assholes?G - “Exactly – or maybe selfish is the wrong word, more “why the hell not”. If you can get it for free why would
you pay, especially nowadays when you can take your mp3s/Spotify everywhere you go there is no reason to have an actual physical format of any kind. And of
course it makes the music more throw-away. Basically….
you can’t beat vinyl can you? Timeless and
classic.
I see it a bit like home taping – it’s sneaky, turn a
blind eye, we’ll all get on with it, everyone is happy.”
MM - Let’s talk a little bit about your musical projects; Lucien: this was your first ‘proper’ band after Mr. Zippy right? It was more of a Metallic/ Misfits influenced band than the skate/pop punk of Mr. Zippy? Things were looking pretty good following the release of the self titled album on Irelands’ Dead Lamb records; what went wrong?G - “The day I decided to stop was the day that I had a
“Murtaugh Moment”. I dropped to my knees to play
a guitar solo during a gig and did a Spinal Tap….I
couldn’t get up again! That was when I thought “I’m
too old for dis shit!”
Lucien was sadly never quite what I wanted it to
be. The other guys in the band were awesome
people and still my very good friends but as a band
they didn’t really share my vision. Vic, the guitar
player and I were the two people who drove the
band and we were pulling in opposite directions.
He wanted more control to the songs and to slow
down and get more commercial and I wanted to
just get faster and faster. With the pull - me wanting
to play screaming crust and he wanting to play
AOR it met in the middle and became what Lucien
was. But with the rock scene in Sweden being what
it was we were just never understood or appreciated
as a band, and it went so far that I just couldn’t
stand up on the stage and fake it any longer that I
was into it and enjoyed it.
I didn’t want to be a “rock star” or in a rock band
trying to make it any longer. When I moved from
Stockholm I told the guys in the band that I would
give us 6 months and if they didn’t come up with
anything solid I would quit. They didn’t so I just
gave up and the band decided not to do it without
me.
Shame as we had a record contract and distribution
set up for the next album but I just couldn’t
do it. Vic started a new band called City Demons
that sound a bit like Kings of Leon. I started THINK
FAST.”
MM - Post Lucien there was talk of you joining a band on the verge of signing to Victory Records; are you able to expand on that?G - “The band are called SISTER SIN and based in
Gothenburg. Actually they are signed to Victory records,
which was the thing that attracted me. I had
a few auditions with them and got on with the band quite well but musically they were just
not my style.
When
I was
auditioning
there
was
talk of
rehearsing
three
times a
week,
many
tours all
over the
place and I
just thought
I was getting
a bit
old for all
that. To be
fair also they
deserved
someone in
the band that was going to be committed to it
and love it instead of someone just going along for
the ride. They just toured in America with Motorhead
actually, missed that one eh!”
MM - Coincidentally I just reviewed their new album ‘True Sounds of the Underground’ but it’s on Metal Heaven not Victory; cool ‘80s style metal, the singer has a hell of a pair of lungs on her…G - “Yeah, she’s awesome! But I didn’t realise they’d
changed labels actually – it was a bit of a shock to
me that such a band was on Victory which as you
know is more well known for it’s hardcore. And as
you’ve heard – the musical style really wasn’t my
thing. Good band though, and really nice people.”
MM - Returning to Mr. Zippy; your new book, ‘Second Place Heroes’ is a kind of diary-cum-memoir of your time in the band; did it bring back a lot of happy memories of the UK punk scene in the late 90s/early ‘00s or reopen a lot of old wounds? How did the rest of MZ react to the book?G - “It certainly did a lot of both. Many, many happy
memories of the great things we did. Shooting off
round the country, to Japan, to Norway, all those
fun things we did together, and the old wounds of
how shitty it all ended. Again it was a catharsis,
especially for me who felt like I had been wounded
by what happened and I guess in many ways still
wanted to show to the band what happened and
how I felt. But as I was writing I realised how much
I had changed and how much I had developed beyond those sad, bitter feelings.
I think I worked through it though; it was this that got me over all those feelings. Made me re-visit them, see
things from a different angle and work out my own problems. I think that a part of me was still holding on and
trying to prove something that just couldn’t be proved or explained to the guys (in the band) – it helped me to
realise this and move on.
The book actually got finished over a year ago and was in its original “more bitter” format, stating all the things
I felt went wrong and whose fault it was (and admitting my share of blame too). But when I read through it I
realised that it wasn’t the story I wanted to tell. So I shelved it for a year and then went back to it this year to
make it what it is now, what I wanted it to be.
Basically I see it as a document of a time and a feeling, but also the story of how we as a band started as
wide-eyed kids and learned along the way how to do things and actually grew into an international professional
act, and the people we met along the way who were also in that scene, and where it went wrong.
The rest of the band…well, I don’t know really. They haven’t really said anything about it. Nothing on their website,
MySpace or Facebook, not even a mail from the band to say “Oh that’s cool”. I actually had to email them
all twice recently as I was afraid that with the complete silence they might have in some way objected to the release
of the book. Only one of them replied. Bear in mind that I was only in the band for 6 years and they have
been going since 1993 so, I was only a third of their whole existence. The one guy that replied was cool and
said everything was ok; they were just too busy working on their current stuff. I’m a bit hurt that they couldn’t
find the time to acknowledge it or just even write a few words to me but it’s also kind of what I expected.
They are very special people, I would go so far as to say stubborn, in a good way sometimes though. Now
I am not in the band I know they want to distance themselves from me (as an ex band member) as much
as they can, but the truth is that it’s hard to do for most people as during the time when they were most well
known it was myself that was the go-between in almost all of their affairs. In fact they were an unsigned local
band before I joined and went back to being pretty much just that when I left. 99% of people I talk to about the
band ask what the guys are doing now and are surprised when I tell them that the band never broke up, they
are still playing.”
MM - Yeah, I thought they had called it quits years ago...G - “The thing is though that they are my friends and I love them and as a friend I really want them to do well, (
NOTE - or at least I did at the time of writing, since my recent return to the UK and the treatment I have recieved from the band they can, with the exception of my brother and BFF, drummer Pete...go fuck themelves and dissapear up their own too-busy self import asses for all I care)... I appreciate
that they band is on another level now, it’s more of just a hobby and that they have seen what it’s like
to be “up there” and want to live more as normal people, but I do want them to be successful in a better way –
not for my own benefit but for theirs. Since leaving the band I have offered them gigs, tours, distribution deals,
record deals, help, to get them onto Spotify and more…and each time has been met with complete silence.
And that’s pretty much how the release of this book was met too, the band themselves have not mentioned it
publicly at all. Yeah, I’m a little bit sad about this but at the same time I
realise that they don’t want me to be a name attached to the band
anymore, it was 7 years ago. But on the other hand it was a very
important part of my life and the reason I revisit some of these
memories is that it was simply one of the best things I have
ever done, I can’t just forget it. I’ve moved on a great deal with
my life but this was still a high point.
My wish is that the book would create a re-newed interest in
the band that would spur them on into completing and releasing
the album they have been promising for the past 6 years
and that people would discover them and they could go on to
get the recognition they deserve and sell a bunch of new albums,
just for their sake. They will always be my brothers and some of
the best friends I have had. The dedication in the book is to them
“without who, life would have just been ordinary”.
MM - Do you feel you missed out on a more exciting period of Hardcore in the early-mid 80s? If you could pick a period in which you were making music which era would you choose? You seem to have a penchant for heavier rock/stoner/doom as well as Hardcore/Punk/Grind; can we expect to see you explore these musical territories in the future?G - “I was watching that new Rush documentary a few days ago and thinking how awesome it would have been to
see them at the time they were unleashing 2112 – but then I thought, or would it? Because now I love it because I know every note and all the history about it but to see it at the time you have none of this knowledge
so how can you appreciate it for exactly what it was/is. The punk scene I lived through was awesome, that really
was fun. Would have been great to have lived through the 80s American hardcore scene sure, of course!
I’ve actually started 2 new bands, the first will be a thrash/grind, yet to have a name and the other is called THINK FAST who are playing kind of old school punk/hardcore stuff. It’s
myself and members of some other quite cool Swedish bands, Heldback, The High Hats, Gatans Lag and The
Process. I met Kristoffer the bass player last year and we just hit it off, he lives near me
so we’re always at each others houses, sharing books, movies, comics…we’re like long-lost brothers just waiting to find each other
so we could form something, and from it came THINK FAST.”
MM - The name kinda sounds like an 80s USHC/sXe band…G - “Certainly does! Yup, that was kind of the point, they whole “youth crew” style sound to the name. We actually
found there was another band with that name so for ages we tried to come up with a better one…and couldn’t!
But that other band split up so…we took over.
I actually think it’s the band that I’ve always wanted to be in, everyone in the band is totally on the same page,
we’ve started rehearsing and should have 7” in the near future, it’s gonna be awesome!
www.myspace.com/thinkfastswe by the way!”
MM - If you had carte blanche to put the ultimate ten band line-up together who would be Greg’s Choice?G - “Ooo, hard to say…Misfits, Dead Kennedys,
Black Flag, Slayer, Isis, Minor Threat, Fugazi
(yup, Ian plays twice), Sepultura circa 1991,
Ambulance, Discharge.”
MM - Ambulance – is that an actual band or a practical addition to deal with mosh pit casualties?G - “Ha ha! No, it’s an actual band from Umeå –
the home of the best punk!”
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