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Stubble Interview by Ken Zebbyn

I caught up with LA's BUTT TRUMPET at Providence's Club Baby Head. The show was with the new 4 piece lineup with the split up between band founders Thom Bone and Bianca Butthole leaving Tom on the outs. The girls really click together onstage sharing vocal duties and really keeping it all moving. A high energy performance highlighted by "I've Been So Mad Lately", "Ode To Dickhead", and the song getting airplay on WBCN "I'm Ugly And I Don't Know Why". Very few people seemed to even know about the parent who got the band in trouble in Leominster as the disc was bought by a 12 year old girl, getting it banned. I sat outside the club with Singer/bassist Bianca Butthole while The Meatmen did their sound check and recorded these comments.

KEN: Here is our newest issue.

Bianca: Wow,......what a piece of crap.

KEN: What got you started in 1992 ?

Bianca: We have been together 2 and 1/2 years.

KEN: Were any of you in any bands before of mention ?

Bianca: Sharon was in The Lovedolls, I was in this band called Spoon.

KEN: What happened in Leominster Mass ?

Bianca: Yes we are banned in Boston.

KEN: Have you been banned anyplace else ?

Bianca: We haven't really been banned, but a store in Florida got busted selling porno for our single.

KEN: How much has it helped or has it ?

Bianca: In Boston it has. No body else really knows about it anywhere else, in fact most of the people in Boston don't even know about it. Last night we played there last night and mentioned it everybody looked at me like....hey stupid!

KEN: How much did GG Allin, or like Black Flag influence you or who did ?

Bianca: I'm from LA and I'm influenced by LA punk bands, that is what I grew up on. Basically I didn't know anything else.

KEN: Tom had been quoted as calling your band "Loud,vulgar, tasteless...and extremely addictive" as well as sadists. How much is real and what is show ? <.P>

Bianca: We are pretty sincere in our vulgarity, we always have been sincere about anything we write about, weather its a serious song or a funny song its just like our humor. Humor has saved my life. I guess we're humorous in a vulgar way. Most of our songs are either imagination or experience, a lot of the songs on the album are from experience. Tom and I wrote most of the lyrics, Tom's no longer in the band, and now we all collaborate on songs. We are even louder now. I'm plugged into both bass rigs. Sharon's playing guitar now, we have 2 guitars. And it works out great, really good.

KEN: Do you have any flannel with you now ? What is this the LA versus Seattle thing ?

Bianca: No I don't think there are any flannels in our van. We usually like to pull the suckers that are wearing flannels up on the stage and make them go- go dance. we usually call them grunge, insult them. The Seattle scene has really died out in LA, but when we wrote that song ("I Left My Flannel In Seattle") it was 80 degrees out, people were wearing wool beanies and flannel, for the sake of fashion is pretty ridiculous to me.

KEN: Who thought of Funeral Crashing, is it based on a real story or something ?

Bianca: I did! With my sick twisted mind I was driving by a cemetery one night and it just started coming out, I just started thinking that would be really funny if.........ha ha ha.

KEN: Do you have to build up anger before going on for a show ?

Bianca: No, I don't usually get psyched up never. When we did record a song recently about my ex-husband I'm so over it now, that scumbag. I wasn't singing it angry enough. So Sharon started reminding me, Then hells bells, I broke loose. That is the only thing I psyche up for, when I sing that song I think of him, then it really comes out natural.

KEN: How many lunchboxes do you have ?

Bianca: I have 58. They go back to the 40's I believe. The last one they made was "Rambo" back in 1985.

KEN: Which one is the most valuable ? Favorite ?

Bianca: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, my favorite probably Welcome Back Kotter. My Bee Gees one is up there. Its got Barry Gibb on the front and its beautiful.

KEN: Did you ever have one with a broken thermos glass and you tried to pour a drink ?

Bianca: No, I haven't had that yet. It was my birthday yesterday and THE MEATMEN got me a Get Smart thermos. I want the lunchbox real bad but they got me the thermos, its excellent.

KEN: Is Primitive Enema about anal sex ?

Bianca: Yes, it is. We had the idea to call the album that and Tom wrote the song, title song.

KEN: Does an artist have social responsibility ?

Bianca: No, don't listen to it. throw it away ,take it back.

KEN: Is the band named after farting ?

Bianca: No,yeah, its for blow it out your ass.

KEN: Describe each of your band members as animals ?

Bianca: Blare would be Satan, definitely, Jerry would be a dog in heat, Sharon would be a turtle, and I myself would be a pussycat. I'm an animal lover I love animals, they don't hurt you people do. People are fucked.

KEN: Its great that you are on a major label, I mean you are the only white act doing anything harsh, since 2 Live Crew got busted, labels would censor anything but rap, and you guys are paving the way for them.

Bianca: We could get dropped tomorrow, it doesn't matter if it did. I love playing and I love traveling meeting people like yourselves. I'm trying to put together a Punkfest for the summer, with bands like Face To Face, Jawbreaker, maybe even Rancid might do it.

KEN: Any final comments or words to inspire or live by ??

Bianca: TAKE THE CORK OUT AND LIVE A LITTLE !!!!!!!!!!