Please explain what just happened.

I’m not sure. I’m blaming it on the jet lag.

What is your earliest memory?

Talking to my great grandfather’s ghost through a picture window on our farm in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

If you weren’t a musician, what other profession would you choose?

I used to say social worker, but I’ve become bitter and jaded since then, so I’d have to say a screenwriter.

I thought you OD’d.

Is that a question?

I mean, I keep hearing rumors that you OD’d – what’s up with that?.

I‘ve heard those rumors, as well – apparently, fans and others can’t understand why I would choose to lay low in New Orleans as opposed to whoring out my celebrity status after White Zombie broke up, so therefore I must be dead.

It’s been fifteen years since White Zombie broke up –- why a book on your days in the band now?

It was in reaction to going through my storage room two years ago – I found about ten boxes labeled White Zombie, and began to open them up for the first time since I packed them and shipped them to New Orleans in 1996. This was because our management had contacted me for tidbits for our upcoming boxset at the time. With dread I went to dig through my boxes. What had ended as a bad memory suddenly exposed itself to me for what it was –- an amazing, triumphant adventure in an era that not many people know about, unless they were there. The whole story of us coming out of the ratty, arty Lower East Side and becoming a huge 90’s metal band is ridiculous in itself, but those bands, the intensity and extreme testosterone-driven music – it just brought back a whole world that is so distant now. I felt the need to share it.

Please explain what just happened.

I just returned from my studio then swiftly entered cyber-space with a cup of coffee and a chocolate biscuit.

What is your earliest memory?

Being about four years of age and peeing on a slide in a park. Then a very unlucky women went down the same slide getting a very wet behind. Let’s just say she had a petulant look on her face.
I was a pretty mischievous child.

If you weren’t a musician, what other profession would you choose?

Footballer or painter.

Please describe the current contents of your refrigerator.

Cheese, olives, cucumber, butter, lettuce, yogurt and loads of scrumptious eggs. Can’t live with out them little babies.

Jeffrey Pillow talks with the Avett Brothers about their new album, tour, and whether or not there was beard envy with Rick Rubin.

Ronlyn Domingue went to a party she never forgot. It changed the course of her life.

Please explain what just happened.

Joe is playing one of our new songs in my living room while we watch Groundhog Day. Seb and Jamesy are out getting firewood and snacks for our Joshua Tree trip we’re about to leave for. I hope they get s’mores, but I forgot to ask them.

What is your earliest memory?

My first memory involves me being in a high chair and is totally embarrassing, but I’m serious. I can’t believe I remember being that young. So I’ll go with when my mom and I threw away all my baby bottles and I cried about it.

Ever have one of those nights when nothing goes right? Well, this is one of them. Aren’t you glad this isn’t your life?

It was me on drums. Jim on bass. David on guitar. We were three ragtag guys from San Francisco, collectively known as Blue Movie. Our sound was like The Violent Femmes and Husker Du engaged in a threesome with R.E.M. It was February, the dead of winter. We’d already been touring for two months. We were [...]