Chords for Mike Ness and Brian Setzer - Interview - 7/24/1999 - Woodstock 99 East Stage (Official)

I'm Bradley Jay.
We're at Woodstock and it just gets more and more fun.
Just talked to Brian Setzer and who shows up?
Mike Ness.
How you boys doing?
Well, we know Brian's doing fine.
How you doing?
I'm doing great.
I've done, I've worked already today.
Now I can relax.
You guys are pretty good buds?
We became, we had like mutual friends, but we never met like in 20 years.
And I asked him to play on my record and he came and we smoked a cigar.
_ And, and a very inspiring session.
Very, very cool.
[Gb] He showed up with a hook.
_ You know, and I always show up with a hook.
Yeah.
You smoked a cigar.
You're a cigar guy.
I love cigars.
Yeah.
I remember though, when I first started smoking cigars,
I used to get satisfaction because it was like six or seven years ago.
And
I just [N] girls would used to go, that is so foul.
Right now.
It's, you know, obviously so trendy, but _
what is your fav?
I, my favorite cigar is the, uh, Pedron _ Anniversario.
Is it square?
Yeah.
Square, dark chocolate, kind of _ hard to find.
_ Everybody's like raves about Cubans, Cubans, Cubans.
Don't you [G] think that's
hype kind of, I mean, aren't some Dominicans and [Gb] aren't they just as good?
_ No, no, they're just not.
There's something about the Cubans.
It's like they're hard to beat.
I don't know what it is.
Preference is a [G] funny thing, huh?
Yeah.
He likes them.
I can, I don't even have to light it.
I [N] put it in my mouth.
My stomach goes,
uh-uh. _
I go, ah, this won't work.
I like the Dominicans, Hondurans.
[B] Right.
Yeah.
Sometimes, uh, by the time a Cuban gets to it, it's been to Canada and then [G] Florida and
driven around in somebody's [Abm] trunk so long, it's all [Ab] beats.
It's been in somebody's orifice.
[G] Yeah.
_ You know, I always, Mike, I knew you guys were good in my head, but seeing that set,
it was like, wow.
Like it was reinforced.
Jesus, these guys are really good.
What is it that you have that makes me feel that way?
What's the intangible?
_ Uh, [Gb] I think it's, uh, _ _ there's guys in _ _ [B] bands _ and there's musicians. _
And [Abm] I feel that my, [N] my whole life I've been a musician.
I love music, not for what I can get
from it, but what I get, you know, doing it.
And, um, _ I think it's just a passion that's inside
that, that you can't either have it or you don't.
And, uh, I'm sure I can attest to that.
Right.
Yeah.
I saw a set at rock.
Yeah.
But it is about that, you know, it's about a passion for,
for performing.
And _ like I said, making those guitars rattle.
Right.
So if you just got in it for the chicks, you're okay for a while,
but if you're really in it for the music, that's kind of the difference.
My first five years was a party.
Right.
_ Then I realized_
It's about the same with the Stray Cats.
We party for a couple of [Ab] years and then
you want to, you want to play.
You realize if you want to keep doing it, you got to have to look at it as work [G] and put in,
put in, you know, put in the, _ _ uh_
Can you tell me about the guests on your record?
_ There's one right here, Brian.
Right.
Bruce Springsteen. _
These guys didn't even want any money from me.
Did you?
I just got to say that, you know, they, they, they, they wanted to be a part of the record.
And that was very flattering.
They're _ _ obviously at higher levels of success.
Right.
[Ab] _
And that was, that confirmed, you know, this record was a risk for me,
leaving, you know, [G] a format of record making for 20 years and venturing into something different.
_ _ And to have [N] guys like, like Brian and Bruce Springsteen, Billy Zoom, and _
_ _ [Bm] _ it confirmed and helped [A] me, you know, believe in what I was doing was [Abm] the right decision.
Why now?
[Ab] Why now did you branch out?
What made this the time to take the risk?
_ Well, I just, I've been patiently waiting six years.
I just, you know, I've waited and [Abm] waited
and I just felt like now was the time.
Brian says, ask him about his sled.
_ Is that your car?
[B] Yeah.
Well, we share an affection for the old, uh, you know,
[Gb] _
clothes and hot rods and low riders [G] and motorcycles.
Are you [Bm] building one?
_ Yes.
Um, I, uh, _ _ just built my first motor myself.
You bought, wow.
_ [Am] And that's [Ab] body and paint.
_ How did you do?
I mean, did you screw it up?
Well, I have, well, I have screwed _ _ _ up.
Yes.
In the past, but I have an older guy,
you know, who, uh, we, we built this, a small block Corvette motor, 1962 nostalgic,
_ uh, in his backyard, you know, but he's done it and he showed me how and, _ and, uh, so now it's
getting mounted and [G] we're doing some headlight work and [B] grill work and be back on the road.
Cool.
Yeah.
That's another form for me.
I don't know about Brian, but _ [G] like for me that
the, uh, _ the image and the cars and the bikes and the guitars [E] and, and, uh,
there are other just forms of expressing just like the music.
And like the music, [Abm] there's certain discipline with building an engine to pay attention [N] and not
just go crazy and screw it up and take your time.
It's tough.
I know I'd screw it up.
Yeah.
Well, I don't remember anything he taught me.
All right.
I see dice on Brian's neck.
Are you guys CeeLo?
I heard you were CeeLo players.
Yes.
As a matter of fact, _ I'm proud to say that for a change today,
I took some money from management.
Cool.
Now how does CeeLo work?
_ _ CeeLo is a street craps game.
Three dice, right?
You need two to match.
The third one is your point
high point beats a low point.
Then there's variables.
There's triples.
There's a one,
two, three is the worst you can roll four, five, six is the best you can roll.
I took money from Trump's last night.
You did?
[B] Oh, yeah. _
_ _ Brian and Mike.
I took a grand from Trump. _
All the best.
And thank you.
Great to have both of you.
Thank you for stopping by and best of luck in your career.
_ Thank you for coming by Woodstock.
I'm Bradley Jay.
You guys are cool, man.