ROB ZOMBIE: 'I Was Just Burned Out On Music'

July 18, 2006

Alan Sculley of the Appleton Post-Crescent recently conducted an interview with Rob Zombie. A few excerpts fromthe chat follow:

On the perception that his run of platinum-selling albums was coming to an end a year ago because of a filmmaking career that was set for take-off with a new project, "The Devil's Rejects":

"Basically I was just burned out on music. I had come off of the tour for (the 2001 CD) 'The Sinister Urge' and the guys in the band weren't getting along. It just really was not that much fun. It was kind of a drag and I was kind of sick of it. Then I went off to make 'The Devil's Rejects', and that was a great experience, 100 percent awesome. When that was over I was, 'Do I really feel like getting back into music?' because I really just didn't feel like dealing with it anymore."

On scaling back the visual side of the ROB ZOMBIE live show:

"I felt the last couple of tours for me the show actually got too big and got a little ridiculous. It sort of stopped feeling like a band (and more like) something like this 'Disney on Ice' spectacular. So I scaled it back a little. It's still a big rock show, but I wanted to make sure the band never got lost in the craziness."

On the upcoming release of Zombie's first animated film, "El Superbeasto", which is based on his comic book series, "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto":

"'El Superbeasto' is sort of like an over-the-hill, washed up monster-slash-hero. It's not like an action movie thing. It's very much like a weird super hero/monster/sex comedy."

On being in filmmaking for the long haul:

"With your first movie, people don't know if, 'Oh, it's just a one-time thing. He's just dabbling. Is he serious? Is it a vanity project?' Anyone who makes movies knows that can't be the case because it's so much work. But the people who don't make movies don't know that, so they think, 'Oh, he just wants to put his name all over everything.' But as time goes by and you make a second movie and a third movie, people know he's as serious as anyone else."

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