Rob: You have time to answer a few questions?
Woody: Absolutely dude, I`m just sitting down with an ice cold brew-ha...
Rob: excellent...I have been listening to you guys for a long long time...I have `Animosity` and `Eye for an Eye` on vinyl...
Woody: Oh shit!...
Rob: I was like 15 years old...
Woody: I was too...
Rob: I guess you were just starting out when Eye for an Eye came out, do you miss doing that kind of stuff? How do you feel about that compared to what you guys have been doing lately?
Woody: I guess you know that was definitely a cool time...I listen to stuff like that from time to time...I don`t think it would happen now, I don`t know I guess the times change, personally I wouldn`t feel good playing that kind of shit now...hahaha...I`m into it man, It was the time and the place, and we had a great time making those records...it was a weird time...It was a very cool and weird time to be in a hardcore band. You could call someone up in Lawrence Kansas or anywhere and say you know, I know you`ve never heard of us...we want to come play a show, can you hook us up? And they would be like hell yeah, no problem- show up.
Rob: Did you guys actually tour on that record?
Woody: Yeah! Hell Yeah we sure did...
Rob: Was that with Eric in the band?
Woody: Yeah, it was our first real time out, we had done you know East coast tours, but...whenever [Eye for and Eye] came out that was our first go around...we headed all the way out West and stuff, it was a trip.
Rob: Yeah, my friends saw you back then, but I missed those shows...I did see Black Flag though back then...
Woody: I did too! Changed my life! My old man had to take me...it was this place called the Pier...you had to be 18 to get in because that was the drinking age back then...I was probably 15 or 16, Greg Ginn`s amp blew up in the middle of the show...these roadies came out with soldering guns and started working on it and fixed it and they kept on playing...I was like damn that is some pretty cool shit...Black Flag was the real shit...they were the real deal.
Rob: Oh yeah, definitely...How long was Eric in the band for? I mean the EP came out with Mike singing and then Animosity was shortly after that...
Woody: I guess the 6 songs with Mike was demo stuff...There was actually a singer before Eric...that`s going way back. I don`t know he was in the band for a while. It was for a year I guess...we went out and did a little road trip...
Rob: Then Mike started singing after that?
Woody: Yeah- Mike kind of took over that...stepped up to the plate.
Rob: Then Technocracy...How do you feel about that record? Simon Bob was kind of in and out pretty quick...
Woody: yeah, we tried it but he didn`t really fit our sha-bang at the time...he`s a cool dude but he didn`t really fit. The whole deal with that was we were looking for a singer and he was a good buddy of ours so we started jamming...we had a good time but Technocracy was a...weird album.
Rob: Did you guys do much between that and...I guess `Blind` was your next record, right?
Woody: Yeah it was...
Rob: There was a lot of changes with that record...I think I told you last time we talked how I was the guy that came up and played bass on a song with you when you toured `Blind`...
Woody: yeah, I remember that...that was wild. That tune that we were doing was a Legionares Disease song...punk rock band from Texas. The song was called Rather See You Dead...
Rob: Yeah the roadie came out and said `OK play here here and here` I said OK and just named the notes off to him...
Woody: hahaha! Yeah, very simple...a couple chords...
Rob: I was pretty stoked on that because I had been following you guys for so long.
Woody: You remember what venue it was?
Rob: Melody Ballroom...you guys played with Tool opening up for you...
Woody: Oh yeah...that was like Tool`s first time out.
Rob: `Blind` was quite a bit different then everything before...
Woody: I think `Blind` was a pretty technical record you know a lot of parts...I think the reason why that record was such a crazy album was that we recorded it in New York City...it was crazy for all of us...we were basically living in NYC it was just a weird thing...I guess the vibe...we did it in this weird little building on the 8th floor down on 14th street...working `till 4 in the morning. Pepper had broken his leg so I was like wheeling him in the wheel chair to the studio every day down the street.
Rob: Phil was out of the band after that?
Woody: Phil and Carl were still in the band while we were recording Deliverance. There was like a big freak out, whatever you want to call it so he and Carl cruised from the band, so we finished the album.
Rob: How did you hook back up with Mike after that? what was he doing the whole time?
Woody: He was traveling down to Guatemala...then he wound up in Phillidelphia...when Carl and Phil left the band we basically just hollered at him and showed him some of the stuff we had been working on...material off of the Deliverance album...and he said Hey this is pretty cool stuff, ended up coming back down and re-joining the band which was very cool...
Rob: that is cool because a lot of early Corrosion fans liked Mike and his angry persona...
Woody: Absolutely...
Rob: I got the new DVD...
Woody: Oh cool man!
Rob: I can`t believe how nice it is, the great footage and everything...Mike has a totally different attitude it looks like now a days...
Woody: yeah he kind of gets into a groove more which is pretty cool you know. He`s been working on his licks alot...if you sit down and listen to what he`s doing- it sounds crazy but it`s always in the pocket...he`s the one dude in the band that knows what`s going on I guess...hahahaha...the rest of us kind of get out there and go for it.
Rob: you guys look like you have a lot of fun on stage still...
Woody: Yeah- we do...you got to.
Rob: We are going to have a DVD giveaway at the web site...
Woody: cool...I usually do check out the web site (StonerRock.com)...I haven`t in a month or two...I need to get on there and check it out...
Rob: It`s easy to get sidetracked because there is a lot of weird stuff going on right now...
Woody: yeah...it`s crazy...you can`t help but trip out on it.
Rob: Reed, back injury/quit...now you got Jimmy...
Woody: Jimmy Bower man...
Rob: I didn`t know he could play drums so well. We played a show with Eyehategod last year and have been listening to him play guitar over the years with them...how is that?
Woody: He really came around you know...we were sort of hogging Jimmy and it was puttin a hurtin on Clearlight and Eyehategod and all that..man, we had brought Eyehategod out on the road a couple of times before and we were like `man, since we`re sort `a hoggin` you right now we don`t want to fuck up Clearlight so why don`t you bring those cats out`...it wound up being very very cool, because we had Clutch out...Clutch and Clearlight...uh, Nebula was on it for a while...Karma to Burn did some of it, they are amazing dudes...yeah but Jimmy is in the band...Him and Pepper are down in New Orleans right now working on that Down record...There is a new Down record...
Rob: What are some of the bands that you know out there...I bet I know, you know the Weedeater guys?
Woody: Yeah Dave and those cats...
Rob: yeah...
Woody: Yeah, they`re a trip they are cool...
Rob: Did you play some shows with a band called Regraped?
Woody: Yeah Fuck yeah we did!
Rob: Yeah Kip played in Witch Mountain for a while...
Woody: yeah- oh man...
Rob: Yeah he lives out here now...actually all those guys moved out here at one point.
Woody: I tell you man, Regraped- I had a great time playing with them man...but one thing I tripped out on was...they did this cover of a ZZ Top song called `Down Brownie`...anybody that`s a big ZZ Top fan, old ZZ-Top knows Down Brownie...I was like `Damn man, that`s Down Brownie` such a cool obscure ZZ-Top song...old ZZ-Top is the greatest shit.
Rob: What are some of your influences growing up?
Woody: huhuh...Gibbons...
Rob: hehehe...obviously...
Woody: yeah you know...Iommi of course...then a little later on Stevie Ray Vaughn...
Rob: Do you guys have any upcoming tours?
Woody: We didn`t really plan on any tours, we were thinking about it for a little while, I guess we are just going to buckle down and work on some new material here...
Rob: Jimmy`s gonna stay in New Orleans?
Woody: Yeah he is going to stay living there, he comes up here and hangs once in a while...work on new material. He was up here a couple of weeks ago...he stayed up for a couple of weeks and worked on some new shit, man Mike Dean`s got this Hell-a-tious studio he`s built down at our practice pad, it`s just killer man, whenever we`re down there jammin` we just let the tape roll, you know all those riffs that turn into forgotten riffs are like saved now because we just turn on the tape and start jammin, you got to...it`s like remember that riff, that was killer, but it never comes back...
Rob: Alcohol and various things involved...hehehe...
Woody: Yeah! You show up at the practice pad with a 12-pack and a little something else and get going you know and...that`s when the best shit goes on, and the time where you`re more than likely gonna forget it you know!
Rob: New record is going to be on Sanctuary...
Woody: yeah, it`s going to be on Sanctuary, which is pretty cool...not the worlds biggest record label it`s good for a band like us...we did that whole major label thing for a couple of albums you know...it was weird being on a major label...
Rob: Demandingg?
Woody: Yeah, it kind of is, they can be...and um, for a band like us we aren`t going to turn out radio hits or anything like that you know...you kind of get lost in the jumble man, it`s good to be mixed up with some people that know what the band is about and all that...Sanctuary knows what we`re doing and they give us room...
Rob: They have some tasty old school metal acts...
Woody: Yeah they do, they kind of do...Motorhead is pretty cool...When we were on Columbia it was like, hey we`re on the same label with Mariah Carey and Billy Joel you can`t win for losing...you know! hahaha...now we are on a label with Motorhead...we got Queensryche...
