What was the first time you encountered someone who was like ‘Oh, you’re from Luscious Jackson!’ His girlfriend would get really mad at him, and he’d be outside making phone calls, so we’d always be at the phone booth together. My mom would get really mad at me and hide the phone. He lived around the corner from where I lived. ‘California Sun’! They didn’t write it, though.Ĭlosest thing to a lead Johnny Ramone ever played! Ummmm……….Ramones, na na na na na na na na na na. What was the first song you learned to play? I had a little fantasy of writing songs on guitar but playing them live on drums. I was gonna try to swing it but my mom was like ‘where are we going to put that?’ So I got a guitar instead. Marks and there was a record store around the corner called Freebeing and in the window they had a drum set for 250 bucks. When I was around thirteen, I first picked up a guitar but I originally wanted to play drums. I kinda had some fantasies about being in a band.
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Made like 90 bucks a night, got all my friends in, got ‘em all free drinks it was insane, the list I had.ĭid seeing all those bands make you want to start one? Are you eighteen?’ I’m like, ‘Sure.’ I had braces but I guess he couldn’t tell. It was a cool little place, great shit every night and this guy came up to me and said ‘I want you to work at my club. I was fifteen and I was in this club Negril on Second and 12th - that’s where the RockSteady crew started coming down. Ewing’s great but it’s a whole different game now. It was interesting that Ewing was out because last year when he came back in when we were a pretty tight team. Shit, I think he did such a good job, y’know? I really do. If you were in Van Gundy’s place what would you have done differently? (Knicks lost the championship in the 5th game) Yeah, I mean the name sounded good, right? You got the name from the 76ers but you’ve got to be Knicks fans There’re some courts on 5th Street between First and Second… West 4th is out of the question unless you’re like huge and amazing, Tompkins is real good in the morning, anytime really. Where’s the best place to play ball in NYC? That was really fun and it made the trip worthwhile. They could have been all in my face on D and they weren’t so bad. I know! But I think the other two guys were taking it easy on me. So we played two-on-two and, not to brag, but me and the guy won. Every time I walk by someone with a ball I kinda get this longing look, so he asked if I wanted to play. After everyone left, I stayed two days extra to just chill and I was walking down the street and this kid was coming the other way and had a basketball.
We did this really wretched press tour they packed too much in there for us, and we had too much work to do. I did play in London about four days ago. I stop playing when we’re really close to touring because I jammed this pinky and I was really lucky it wasn’t the other one. Yeah? One of those guys used to work near my house, the singer. We’ve played the Beasties before but it was just shooting around.īecause we played Orange 9mm. Well, it’s kinda random we haven’t really played this band against that band. The five-on-five, I was like, unhhhh…I’m getting dizzy. Personally, I really like two-on-two or three-on-three. I was on this team called the Varmints with Kate and Kathleen Hanna and Miho from Cibo Matto, it was kinda a rock‘n’roll league or whatever.(laughs) Kate’s in a league, a real one. We heard that you’re in a basketball league. Speaking of that, Gabby, Jill Cunniff and Kate Schellenbach have just released their third album Electric Honey, and its flavor is everything you love about Luscious. That special spark that gives the funky brew that is Luscious fire. Gabby is one of the coolest people we’ve met and has a great sense of humor.
We offered to, but they were bent on making a point. We settled on a freight entrance after the oriental cafe’s owners got pissed because we sat outside without ordering. The interview started in the limo as we trolled around the Village looking for the ideal stoop to talk. We hooked up with Gabby Glaser as she graciously gave us some time on her way to the dentist.