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The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs' Frank Meyer addresses the Pointless Questions
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The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs


You can read Splendid's reviews of The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs' Live on KXLU or buy it and their other albums at Insound.

WHAT IS THE MOST EMBARRASSING THING YOU'VE EVER DONE IN A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT?

Frank Meyer: Puked all over the tables.

IF YOU COULD ELECT A MUSICIAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. (OR LEADER OF YOUR HOME COUNTRY), WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

FN: I would have chosen Frank Zappa or Bill Hicks, before they died. Now I'd choose George Carlin.

HAVE YOU EVER SHOPLIFTED? WHAT DID YOU TAKE AND WHY?

FN: I shoplifted two tapes from a Music Plus back in Junior High. The tapes were Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow and Faster Pussycat's 1st album. I got caught and they asked me to fork over what I'd stolen. I just gave them the Pussycat tapes and kept the Beck on me during the whole ordeal. They threatened to call the cops but didn't. They let me go and I went home and listened to Blow By Blow all night.

NAME A BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY, AND TELL US WHY.

FN: No book has ever made me cry.

WHICH IS MORE EXCITING WITH A MEMBER OF WHICHEVER SEX YOU "GO FOR": A CLOSE GAME OF TWISTER OR AN INTENSE GAME OF SCRABBLE?

FN: Naked Twister would be the way to go.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE FORM OF EXERCISE?

FN: Playing on stage.

WHAT DID YOU DO FOR THE MILLENNIUM?

FN: Passed out drunk and puked from bad clams.

NAME THREE SITUATIONS THAT WOULD BE MUCH FUNNIER WITH THE ADDITION OF MONKEYS.

FN: EVERYTHING is funnier with the addition of Monkeys. But, since you ask: sex, tripping on acid, and playing on stage.

IF YOU COULD ISSUE ONE ALBUM OR ONE BOOK TO EVERYONE IN THE WORLD ON THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY, WHAT WOULD THE ALBUM/BOOK BE?

FN: One of these: Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Rilke, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson and Crazy From The Heat by David Lee Roth.

WHERE WOULD YOU RATHER PLAY: A CLUB THAT GIVES YOU LOTS OF GREAT FREE FOOD BUT HAS HORRIBLE BATHROOMS, OR A CLUB THAT DOESN'T FEED YOU BUT HAS HOT SHOWERS AND BIG FLUFFY TOWELS?

FN: Always take the food. Always. Fluffy towels are for fags.

ARE YOU COMFORTABLE SHOPPING ONLINE? IF SO, WHAT DO YOU BUY?

FN: I buy lots of music online and on eBay. I have no problem with it at all and have yet to be ripped off. Just bought a Plasmatics book online...

WHAT WAS THE WORST INVENTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY?

FN: The beeper.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH KIDS TODAY ANYWAY?

FN: They don't listen to rock n' roll anymore -- just techno metal and dance music.

IS A FEMALE PRESIDENT THE ANSWER TO AMERICA'S PROBLEMS?

FN: A good president is the answer -- male or female.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT CELLULAR PHONES? LIKE THEM? HATE THEM? GRUDGINGLY APPRECIATE THEM? WHAT? WHAT, DAMMIT?!

FN: Used to hate 'em before I had one for work for a bit and now they don't bother me that much. I like it in the car, but hate when you're talking to someone in person and they take a cell call right in front of you. It's like, "Dude, I'M RIGHT HERE NOW!!!"

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PETS. IF YOU HAVE NO PETS, MAKE ONE UP.

FN: I have a cat nameed Iggy who acts like maniac, screams all the time. Recently I had to have his dick cut off due to bladder problem -- he doesn't scream quite as much anymore.

NAME AN OBJECT YOU OWN THAT HAS LITTLE MONETARY VALUE, BUT THAT YOU WOULDN'T SELL FOR A MILLION DOLLARS.

FN: My Six Million Dollar Man action figure set...and my Mr T doll.

WHAT'S HARDER: PLAYING SOLO FOR AN AUDIENCE OF 1000 FOR AN HOUR, OR GIVING A 30-MINUTE SPEECH TO THE SAME AUDIENCE?

FN: 30 minute speech -- who wants to hear or play an hour long solo????

IF YOU HAD TO BE TRAPPED IN A TV SHOW FOR A MONTH, WHAT SHOW WOULD YOU CHOOSE? AND WHY?

FN: Baywatch - for the chicks!

WHAT IS THE FUNNIEST LOOKING ANIMAL?

FN: Mark "The Animal" Mendoza from Twisted Sister.

IF YOU COULD HAVE THE "ORIGINAL" OF ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

FN: The original super 8 footage of the Stooges video boolegs I have. Mine are all grainy looking...

NAME A COMMERCIAL JINGLE THAT, FOR YOU, WAS CATCHIER THAN MOST POP SONGS.

FN: That song "You Better Be Strong, you better..." -- until I found out it was a real song.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?

FN: Payday.

WHAT IS THE MOST FASCINATING SMELL?

FN: Farts.

IF YOU KNEW THAT BY NEVER LISTENING TO LOUD MUSIC AGAIN YOU'D ADD TEN YEARS TO YOUR LIFE, WOULD YOU DO IT?

FN: Fuck no.

WHAT KIND OF PERSON WEARS THONG UNDERWEAR?

FN: The lead singer of the Streetwalkin' Cheetahs -- me. Becasue I don't like my privates dangling around. I like them snug like a bug in a rug.

IF YOU HAD TO GIVE UP ONE SENSE (SIGHT/SMELL/TOUCH/TASTE/HEARING), WHICH ONE COULD YOU MOST READILY DO WITHOUT?

FN: Smell -- I live in LA so I could do without it.

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Frank Nesper is lead singer/guitarist of the Streetwalkin' Cheetahs, whose Live on KXLU is one of the loudest and most raucous live albums ever recorded. Watch for them later this year on the Triple-X sampler The Five Fingers of Doctor X. If you can't wait 'til then, look for them at SXSW.

-- George Zahora



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