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14 years have passed since a New Orleans studio-owner nearly evicted Eyehategod from their recording studio midsession, asking the band’s label whether these so-called “Godfathers of Sludge” were sane. A blind man could see that these fourteen years have done nothing to quell the chaos surrounding the South’s arguably most chaotic sons.

After repeated attempts by security to throw us back out into the Baltimore streets, Jimmy Bower intervened and invited us backstage for our interview. Exiting stage right and summiting the narrow, winding staircase, we came to the band’s newest temporary residence, and the scene was just as frenetic as recording sessions past (minus graffiti scrawled in blood). In a half-painted, dimly lit room, dripping with spit and awash with the echoing ambience of Johnny Cash’s “At Folsom Prison” album, we found these modern-day outlaws holed-up.

The scene might as well have been a Dallas ER after the Kennedy assassination, with wild-eyed photographers, hyperactive fans, bearded roadies, and otherwise shady and unknown characters coming and going as if it were a Tokyo subway station. Singer Mike IX Williams sat slumped in the room’s lone couch, flanked by guitarist Jimmy Bower (our interviewee) and drummer Joey “buy an 8-ball with your FEMA money” LaCaze. Across the room sat bassist Gary Mader ; guitarist Brian Patton was nowhere to be found. For any other band this setting would be a party, but there was an unmistakable, stagnant hostility in the air. The band drifted between apathetic aggravation and fleeting moments of lucid insight, often shouted through mouthfuls of the room’s axial pizza, which minutes earlier had been the subject of one of Mike IX’s withdrawal-induced breakdowns (“where’s my pizza?! What did the guy look like who took it?!”).

Everyone who took part in the interview was quick to agree it was a disaster, however if the eight minutes of proverbial slag we recorded is any indication of where the band’s headed, it tells us more than any golden nugget of an answer ever could. Eyehategod is still Eyehategod, hateful, untamed, and unpredictable. Therefore, Tyronehood.com proudly presents Eyehategod, in their unedited and unholy entirety.

EYEHATEGOD, FUCKER!

-Jack the Ripper, Tyronehood.com
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IX [Singing]: Every time I do it I do it for my [pauses] HOOD, every time I do it I do it for yo [pauses] HOOD



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14 years have passed since a New Orleans studio-owner nearly evicted Eyehategod from their recording studio midsession, asking the band’s label whether these so-called “Godfathers of Sludge” were sane. A blind man could see that these fourteen years have done nothing to quell the chaos surrounding the South’s arguably most chaotic sons. After repeated attempts by security to throw us back out into the Baltimore streets, Jimmy Bower intervened and invited us backstage for our interview. Exiting stage right and summiting the narrow, winding staircase, we came to the band’s newest temporary residence, and the scene was just as frenetic as recording sessions past (minus graffiti scrawled in blood). In a half-painted, dimly lit room, dripping with spit and awash with the echoing ambience of Johnny Cash’s “At Folsom Prison” album, we found these modern-day outlaws holed-up. The scene might as well have been a Dallas ER after the Kennedy assassination, with wild-eyed photographers, hyperactive fans, bearded roadies, and otherwise shady and unknown characters coming and going as if it were a Tokyo subway station. Singer Mike IX Williams sat slumped in the room’s lone couch, flanked by guitarist Jimmy Bower (our interviewee) and drummer Joey “buy an 8-ball with your FEMA money” LaCaze. Across the room sat bassist Gary Mader ; guitarist Brian Patton was nowhere to be found. For any other band this setting would be a party, but there was an unmistakable, stagnant hostility in the air. The band drifted between apathetic aggravation and fleeting moments of lucid insight, often shouted through mouthfuls of the room’s axial pizza, which minutes earlier had been the subject of one of Mike IX’s withdrawal-induced breakdowns (“where’s my pizza?! What did the guy look like who took it?!”). Everyone who took part in the interview was quick to agree it was a disaster, however if the eight minutes of proverbial slag we recorded is any indication of where the band’s headed, it tells us more than any golden nugget of an answer ever could. Eyehategod is still Eyehategod, hateful, untamed, and unpredictable. Therefore, Tyronehood.com proudly presents Eyehategod, in their unedited and unholy entirety. EYEHATEGOD, FUCKER! -Jack the Ripper, Tyronehood.com Follow Eyehategod on: Michael IX Williams [Singing]: Ford Taurus leave, everybody came back AYYYY IX & Joey LaCaze [Singing]: Hope dem boys didn’t find my sack Jimmy Bower [Pointing to IX]: [Did you] record that? IX [Singing]: Every time I do it I do it for my [pauses] HOOD, every time I do it I do it for yo [pauses] HOOD Tyronehood: Eyehategod style IX: Every time its gooood, I do it for the hooood TH [to Jimmy]: Ready to roll man? Jimmy: Yeah, I’m ready TH: Alright, dude Joey [Singing]: Everybody on the block got the same agenda TH: Well we’re here with Jimmy Bower, after his show in Baltimore, Maryland. Joey [Singing]: Hustle from the first to the end of December TH: The show was awesome, how was Baltimore? Jimmy: Awesome. Baltimore is the first place [Someone]: AYYYY Jimmy [to IX and Joey]: Isn’t Baltimore the first place we played in the US? Joey [Singing]: Posted on a corner like a light... Jimmy: [indistinguishable question] [someone]: Yeah Joey: Yeah, Rev’s Tavern Jimmy: At the Rev Tavern Jimmy: And uh, that was a long...that was ‘93 TH: Damn
Jimmy: And uh, yeah Baltimore is always cool but weird [Pause] TH: Awesome, man Jimmy: If that makes sense Jimmy [to IX]: Wouldn’t you agree? IX: I agree Jimmy: Its always a little weird IX: It is always a little weird to play Jimmy: Yeah, they don’t get too violent here TH: Yeah, yeah Jimmy: Everybody kind of just stands there. They just kind of, you know [looks up] Jimmy: Grunge, man, grunge IX: Seems like when we played the last time they were crazier [someone offscreen]: Grunge and Modest Mouse Jimmy: Huh? [same person offscreen]: They love Modest Mouse here Jimmy: Modest Mouse [photographer enters, background chatter] Jimmy: Go for it, bro TH: You recently had some time off from the last Down tour [someone 1] What? [someone 2] Interview [Someone 1] Inter- oh
TH: you’ve been in New Orleans, on vacations. How’s it been. What’ve you been up to? Jimmy: I’ve been doing work around the house TH: Alright Jimmy: I’ve been uh, practicing with Eyehategod, and uh, lookin’ to write a new record with Eyehategod. TH: Awesome. Jimmy: That’s my main focus. Other than that, my mom’s too old to walk up the stairs, so IX: [indistinguishable] Jimmy: she has to have a shower downstairs, so sucks to be me. IX [to Jimmy]: You bathe her? TH: Alright [Someone]: I gotta (fiddle?) Jimmy [to IX]: Huh? IX: Do you ever bathe her? [someone burps, Joey laughs] Joey(?): Where’s my straw? Jimmy: I wanna bathe my mom. Joey(?): I got that (?) good I’m here
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