2b) As the opposite of maybe embarrassing touchy people…What was the most embarrassing moment in your career?
We don’t embarrass easily. Ofcourse there was this time that I was so ill that I had to play a show in Nurtingen with a bucket behind the stage and after eacht song I had to run and take a crap on it. But the audience loved the fact that we did show up and tried to make the best of it. Another funny story was Eric being a bit intoxicated in the Tokio Hilton a bit disoriented as well. So at night he went to look for the toilet in his room and starknaked he closed himself out of his room. He had to go 11 stories down with the lift to the reception for a spare key wearing nothing but a plant (I believe it was a ficus) he took from the hallway
3a) When you started, would you ever have expected this to go on for so long?
NO!!
3b) One special thing about Batmobile is, that you never had any line up changes. Wasn’t it sometimes hard to spend all that time together, especially as two brothers (no rivalry ever?) or the guy hanging round with two brothers…
Ofcourse we had some differences or arguments, but all and all we loved the band above anything that could come between us. The fact that we always handled our business ourselves (management, records, bookings, etc) was a great way to avoid fights as well. As soon as other people beside band members start meddling in bands business, fights start to happen.
4a) Would you say, the scene changed a lot since the old days went by? People like me and you that were around in the eighties might tend to glorify the fresh spirit, but on the other hand, a lot of things are not that bad today;-)
I guess the scene changed through the last 25 years. It’s not that it’s only been changing recently. I remember going to Japan in 1991 and Psychobilly was very new over there, when in the UK it had existed for almost 10 years already. The scene has been wandering all over the globe, which went pretty silent, because it never got out of the subculture. Now only recently it really hit the US and since they do about everything bigger then the rest of the world, Psychobilly gets a lot of attention there. And something that attracts attention also attracts assholes and wannabees. But besides that I do believe that new and young bands make the scene more alive again. It’s to us oldies to prove why we were great to begin with 20+ years ago!
