Speed Round Trevor Phipps Unearth

Speed Round Attendees: * Trevor Phipps (Unearth) - vocals * Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die) - vocals * Mike Justain (Unearth) - Drums [guitarist / mood  setter] * FourteenG staff

Ozzfest 2004 Tweeter Center Chicago 8/21/04 Interviewer: Karma E. Omowale Photos: Erika Kristen Watt

This is an excerpt of the original interview, with Trevor, Keith & Mike

Karma: Okay, here's a quick Speed Round of Questions for ya!

Trevor: Quickie questions?

Karma: Yeah, quickie questions!  You ready?

Trevor: Yeah!

Karma: If not music then what?

Mike: Drugs

Trevor: Booze & Food

Karma: Booze & Food!  Okay, would serve it or cook it…

Sharita: What?  [Uproarious laughter ensues]

Trevor: I'd consume it!

Karma: So what's the craziest thing a groupie ever said to you?

Trevor: Ohhhh

Sharita: Wow!

Trevor: Not that much, we're good boys!  We're good boys we don't deal with groupies.

Mike: What band are you in?

[Laughter from all]

Keith: YOU figure it out!

[Uncontrollable, hysterical laughter breaks out]

Trevor: What band are YOU in again?

Keith: [throws up the sign of peace]

Karma: So what's your favorite childhood memory?

Trevor: My favorite childhood memory…hummm, let me think about that!  Anybody else?

Keith: I'm not in your band!

Trevor: What?

Keith: I have one, but I'm not in your band!

Trevor: Go 'head!

Keith: No, no!

Trevor: It's a cameo!!

Keith: It's YOUR interview… [inaudible banter between Trevor and Keith]

Karma: Have at it!

Keith: Ahmmmm…no, I can't!

Karma: 'Come on Mr. English Professor, I know you have something to say! 

Erika: You have everybody's attention now…

Keith: I realized the first time I had an Oedipus complex with my mom when I saw my dad kissing my mom and I fucking put on cowboy…I went to the store and got cowboy boots with my friends and I put them on and kicked the shit out my dad because he was kissing my mom. And I tried to steal my mom from my dad.

[A stunned silence befalls the area, then laughter begins; Trevor and Mike laugh as well]

Erika & Sharita: WOW!

Karma: That's deep!

[Trevor observes with folded arms]

Keith: Every every kid, every boy has an Oedipus complex growing up with their mom and the first time they realize that their mom has an intimate relationship with another man boys get really jealous.  So I remember that as being like real like I actually went out and sought out something to hurt my dad.

Karma: Wow!

Trevor: Violent Dude!  That's pretty awesome!

Keith: Yeah, every boy deals with it…

Karma: …I guess it's just that every boy's not going to admit it though!

Trevor: Yeah!  I'll admit it!  I told my mom, I think I was 3 or 4 that I wanted to marry her!

Keith: Yeah see, you just get fucking jealous!!  You just fucking deal with it, you just blow a gauge!

Trevor: 'I'll marry you one day!'

Keith: That's exactly it!  Yeah, you deal with it!  Whether it's him telling his mother that he wanted to marry, her, or me trying to kick the shit out of my dad!  [Hysterical laughter]  That's one of the first times you realize that you're actually a human being when you realize you care so much for somebody else.

Karma: And there you have it!!  So is your glass half empty or half full?

Trevor: Always half full; gotta be optimistic! 

Karma: Well that's wonderful!

Trevor: It's true, you gotta be!

Karma: I fully agree with you!  You SHOULD be!  Do you listen to a CD all the way through or do you skip tracks?

Trevor: All the way through, I HATE people who skip tracks!  That bums me out so much!  Especially when the skip tracks and don't finish the fucking song, they just want to listen to the first verse or chorus.  I know people who do that so I'm a little offended by it!

Erika: Hear, hear!!

Karma: Hey, I only skip tracks not during the song itself!

Trevor: I hate that! That bums me out!

Karma: I only…never during the… Hey this isn't about me, this isn't MY interview!

Trevor: Tracks on the CD like Alice In Chains Facelift, that record is GOOD! [everyone agrees]  But only 5 songs are good the rest of it fucking sucks! So I can listen to that, maybe 6, but I'll pre-program the disc player to play those 5 or 6 songs.  But some of the songs SUCKED some are amazing!

Keith: So you know though? Like what we were talking about last night, Rage Against The Machine, that first CD, I can listen to ALL the way through, all day, EVERY DAY! 

Trevor: It's amazing!

Keith: Yeah!  That's one of the few records I can go all the way through.

Trevor: Yeah, there's a lot of records like that one that I can certainly listen all the way through is…[Mike's guitar picks up and unfortunately his response was inaudible]

Keith: Counting Crows August And Everything After

Trevor: Do you really?

Keith: Yeah!  I played that CD so much it warped, literally!!  Like it got screwed up because I was listening to it so much.  It's great if you listen to that one all the way through.  Uh, Stone Temple Pilots Core like I listened to that CD ALL the time.

Trevor: Really?

Keith: Yup, all the time!  I didn't think it was possible to warp a CD by listening to it so much. But constantly…[snapping fingers] 8, 9 hours when I was home from school in my room, just play the record and play video games forever, forever.  Then the CD would skip because you were playing it so much.

Trevor: Yeah!

Keith: Then you realize the CD's gonna skip because you are playing it so much.

Trevor: My Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power does that!

Keith: Oh yeah for sure! 

Trevor: The whole entire disc

Keith: [mimics skipping noise]

Trevor: You play it and then there's this weird sound!

Keith: [makes sound again]

Trevor: Yeah, yeah!!  [breaks away from conversation with Keith] 

Keith: They're done with us!

Karma: [laughing] So what do you guys do in your spare time?

Trevor: What do I do in my spare time? 

Karma: Yes

Trevor: Nap!

Karma: Which we disturbed you from!

Trevor: No, no [hysterical laughter] I had too many drinks of Jager and I came back here and took a nap.  I didn't mean to keep you waiting, I apologize!  [in reference to him being asleep and keeping us waiting until the time of the interview]  I didn't realize you were waiting, I came in and then you were with Lacuna Coil…

Keith: The thing of it was they were just ACTING like they wanted to be hang with us, and we're giving them beer…

Trevor: YEAH!  [How the hell would he know, he was asleep…just kidding Trevor!]

Keith: They don't really care about us as people their just going to bail after this interview.

Karma: That's not true!  I want to see Dimmu Borgir! And if I didn't care about you as people, I wouldn't be asking you questions such as these!

Trevor: If they go see Dimmu, they'll be back.

Keith: We'll see!

Karma: Oh ye of little faith! [We did hang with the guys after we saw Dimmu's set…come on, Dimmu's from Norway, when will I get the chance to see them again? And as my luck has been running as of late, if I miss a band they seem to lose a member before heading back this way or worse, break up!]

Trevor: They'll be back!

Karma: It's a short set!  I just want to hear that ONE song!

Trevor: Which one's that?

Karma: "Blood Hunger Doctrine"

Trevor: They'll play it!

Karma: Hmmm, probably not, but I still want to see them! 

Keith: DEMON BURGER [hysterical laughter erupts]

Karma: Basically!

Keith: I don't give a shit about Demon Burger!

Karma: [shocked] You don't give a shit?

Keith: I really don't!

Erika:  Uh-oh!! [Uproarious laughter]

Karma: I think they're entertaining…besides that's what makes this world so great being able to have a differences of opinion.

Keith: [smirks]

Karma: What's the one CD you have in your collection that no one would ever believe you'd own? 

Trevor: Uh, probably Tori Amos Boys For Pele

Erika: Alright!

Trevor: Really?

Tina (FourteenG's legal representative): I love Tori Amos

Karma: So does Erika!  So how about you?

Keith: Me?  Dude this is YOUR interview!

Trevor: YOU'RE IN IT!

Keith: [stammering] No one would believe I own Simon & Garfunkel!  I listen to Simon & Garfunkel all the time.  "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Boxer"…  I listen to their CD's all the time.  I bought my mother a hundred dollar ticket for Mother's Day to a Simon & Garfunkel, she had absolutely no one to go with and she wanted to see them so bad.  I was like, 'I am taking you! I'll buy another ticket!!'

Group: AHHHHHH!!

Trevor: His dad didn't get invited to that!

[laughter from all]

Karma: That was a GOOD one!  Good tie in!

Keith: Yes it was MOTHER'S DAY, DUDE!

Karma: Here's the last question, who would you ask these questions of?

Trevor: Ask what questions of?

Karma: The quickie questions I just asked you!

Trevor: Phil Anselmo, that would be interesting!

Karma: Here's my final question, aren't you happy?

Trevor: WHATEVER!

Keith: Whatever [laughing]

Karma: Who would you take on a deserted island?  Who would be you desert island snuggle bunny?

Trevor: Desert island snuggle bunny?!?!?!  What the hell is that? [laughs]

Keith: How many do you get?

Karma: As many as you want!

Keith: All of you!  [first complete silence befalls the room, even Mike stopped playing momentarily]

Group: That's good!!  [laughing]

Karma: Clever little bugger!!

Keith: I had to! [laughter erupts]

Trevor: In addition to all of you, Kristi, my girlfriend!

Group: OHHHH!!  How sweet!

Karma: I'm sure she'll love that!

Trevor: What a guy! [beaming]

Karma: Well thank you very much Trevor for sitting down with us! 

Trevor: Thank you for much!

Karma: And thank you as well Keith!

Keith: I'm sorry, I'm sorry

Trevor: What are sorry for?

Keith: I shouldn't have intervened…

Trevor: You were a apart of it!