TYPE O NEGATIVE Frontman Talks About Recent U.S. Tour

DuffsBrooklyn.com recently conducted an interview with TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

DuffsBrooklyn.com: You just recently completed a swing through the U.S. How did that go? Any highlights?

Peter: The USA? Yeah, it was cool, I liked Texas. I love Southern girls, ya know (in a southern accent) "Hi Peter, hi Peter." Oh my god. Ya know, I mean doesn't your dick get hard with even me sayin' it? And I have a really high testosterone level. (Southern accent again) "Hi Peter." I'm like holy shit man. I'm like — I'm sorry about the war and Northern aggression... Pardon me about the Youuu-nited states (more indecipherable southern type ramblings). So I just apologize. "Hi Peter" — I'm like, oh, you can do whatever you want to me. Like a fuckin' dingbat outta hell.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: All right now, lemme ask you a question. There was a show cancellation in San Antonio. Is there anything you'd like to say to the fans in regard to the cancellation of the show?

Peter: Yes, I am ill, of course it's mentally ill, but um... There was, um... sociopolitical problems within the band. I mean we have Democrats, and Republicans, and parameciums within the band, and, ah, I consider myself to be like e-coli, so I didn't agree, so the show had to be canceled. The show was canceled for reasons that I really can't go into, but I am extremely sorry for the fans. I mean, San Antonio has always been great to the band. And, I promise, as a mammal, that we will attempt to make it up to our fans in San Antonio.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: Some people have been grumbling that sometimes you sit down during the set. Are there any medical problems that make you sit down? I mean, what's the story with that?

Peter: No, it's just that I'm even more bored than the audience.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: I thought maybe you had bunions or something.

Peter: Bunions?? I will tell you something honestly — I fell of my bike a couple of months ago. I have this prototype Harley Davidson, it's called an MT 500. And it was in the shop, and Harley Davidson got my parts from Italy, fuckin' Transylvania... Ya know, so when I finally got the bike out, I had not been on the bike for two years. So I'm goin down fuckin' 18th Avenue in Brooklyn and this car pulls out in front of me, and I'm thinkin', "Do I really want the last thing through my head to be a windshield?" So I decided to lay it down. And look (Peter drops his pants to reveal two large gnarly purple scars on his shin and kneecap.) I actually fell off the bike and fucked my leg up. I had no license, no insurance, no inspection, or disrespection, whatever... I just picked the bike up...

DuffsBrooklyn.com: What did you do? You just split?

Peter: Yeah. I had a friend following me, a cop friend that I won't name, and I said, how did I look when I fell? And he said, 'you hit the ground like a fuckin' ton of bricks.' So now I have an excuse to look the way I do.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: Now what was it like to take out CELTIC FROST on the road ?

Peter: Oh my god... it was... We had too much of a good time. They were great. All the members, we've always been really big fans, and apparently they had been fans of us as well. You know, what do you want from deaf people? BRAND NEW SIN, who Joey Z produced, you know Joey Z from LIFE OF AGONY and CARNIVORE.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: Yeah, sure.

Peter: Right. You made a fool out of yourself one time at a CARNIVORE show.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: I did, yes I did.

Peter: Yeah, but I made a bigger fool, 'cause I was onstage for 70 minutes, you had one minute of glory, I was a super dick. But, um, CELTIC FROST, they are great guys. It's like, all these creepy, horror, deathrock, satanic bands — They're like the nicest guys in the world. You know, you want them to be like the catering company at your fucking wedding. But only if you're marrying a dead girl.

DuffsBrooklyn.com: Band business aside, most people don't know that you drive an interesting vehicle. What can you tell me about that?

Peter: I have two interesting vehicles, the first one is a modified 85 Grand Prix that I raised up on swamp tires, 33's in the back, 31's in the front. Cut out the wheel wheels, took off the bumpers, welded on I beams with chains... took out the back seat... no dashboard, pretty much it's gas, brake, stick shift, which I put in myself... It used to be a 350 transmission, but now it's... I put a tractor engine in there, and ah, woof woof. I have a PA system in there, I can yell at people... And I also have a Long Island railroad train horn, with the the compressor in my trunk. So when I hit the horn... (Peter makes train horn noise.) It's tuned to BLACK SABBATH's "Black Sabbath", the devil's triad.

Read the entire interview at DuffsBrooklyn.com.