Interview - Tim Williams

V.O.D INTERVIEW!

SHOW REVIEW/ INTERVIEW 10/11/97

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FIRST BAND (FORTY DAYS RAIN) SUCKED ASS...NOT ONLY WERE THEY STRAIGHT EDGE, BUT YOU COULDN'T HEAR A FUCKIN' THING THE GUY WAS "SINGING" ALL HE DID WAS YELL...WAS WORSE THAN DEICIDE....HAHAHA..AND THE BASSIST HAD ON A POISON SHIRT...I SHIT YOU NOT, AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS...SCARY....2ND BAND WAS DAY IN THE LIFE, FROM NY...I THINK, THEY WERE 100 TIMES BETTER, BUT THE CROWD WASN'T THAT INTO THEM (GO FIG, THEY ACTUALLY LIKED THE FIRST BAND...)...3RD BAND WAS SHED...SINGER'S VOICE SOUNDS JUST LIKE PHIL FROM PANTERA...WHEN HE SINGS AND WHEN HE YELLS...MUSIC WAS OK...NOTHIN' TOO SPECIAL. V.O.D FUCKIN' ROCKED...HEH HEH...I WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE STAGE TAKING PICTURES AND GOT SHOVED OFF THE STAGE BACKWARDS 'CAUSE PEOPLE WERE SLAMMING AROUND RIGHT ON THE STAGE! IT WAS NUTS...A GOOD SHOW...EVEN THOUGH STRINGS KEPT BREAKING, AND TIM'S MIC WENT OUT A FEW TIMES...A DEFINATE HIGHLIGHT WAS "VIOLA". AFTER THE V.O.D. SHOW AT THE ESPRESSO BAR IN WORCESTER, MA - WE STOOD OUTSIDE FREZZING OUR ASSES OFF AND THOUGHT "HEY, LETS DO A N INTERVIEW FER THE ZINE!" WE FOUND TIM WILLIAMS...THE HELLA COOL SINGER OF VISION OF DISORDER...I RAN AND GOT MY SHITTY TAPE RECORDER AND THE REST IS HERE...

INTERVIEWERZ

SAM: POOR PERSON WHO HAD TO TYPE THIS OUT...

KEN: PAIN IN THE ASS...HEHE

THE INTERVIEWED...

TIM WILLIAMS

SAM: HOW WAS OZZFEST?
TIM: "IT SUCKED" (LAUGHTER) "IT WAS ALOT OF FUN"
SAM:YOU RECORDED YOUR ALBUM HERE IN MASSACHUESTTS...
TIM: "YEAH, IT WAS COOL, WE DID IT IN GLOUCESTER, WHICH IS A PRETTY COOL TOWN...I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHERE THAT IS..."
SAM: YEAH, I'VE BEEN UP THERE
TIM: "YEAH, IT'S NICE MAN, WENT UP THERE, CHILLED...
SAM: BEACHES AND STUFF...
TIM: "YEAH, YEAH, WE KINDA STRESSED OUT...BUT FOR THE MOST PART IT WAS ALOT OF FUN"
KEN: (POINTING TO TIM'S LIP) DID THAT HURT WHEN YOU DID THAT?
TIM: "DID WHAT? OH, NO, NO, WAS NO BIG DEAL..THERE ARE PLACES THAT HURT..BUT...NOT THAT."
KEN: (LOOKING AT THE CAR TIM JUST GOT SOME STUFF OUT OF..) ALL OF YOU DROVE IN THAT THING?
TIM: "YEAH RIGHT..." (LAUGHTER) "NAH, THIS IS MY FRIEND'S CAR, THAT'S OUR MANAGER'S CAR...WE GOT THAT BUDGET VAN, SO WE DON'T NEED NOTHIN' FOR 2 DAYS...DON'T MATTER."
KEN: YOU GUYS SHOULD GET A BIG VAN, LIKE A TOUR BUS OR SOMETHING
TIM: "NAH, TOUR BUS IS A WASTE OF MONEY, BUT..AH, WE ALWAYS HAVE VANS...FUCK BUSSES...SUCK...THE'RE FUN, BUT YOU GET SO MUCH MORE FUN OUT OF TOURING IN A VAN, YA KNOW?"
SAM: TOUR BUSSES COST ALOT AND STUFF?
TIM: " THEY COST ALOT AND THEY JUST...THEY DON'T...YOU JUST DRIVE TO THE NEXT PLACE. ALL YOU SEE IS WHERE YOU PLAY, AND THAT'S IT...NO FUCKIN' MOUNTAINS OR, YA KNOW, YOU GO WHERE THE BUS GOES. HE WON'T STOP AND YOU CAN'T GO RUNNIN' AROUND AND SHIT, YA KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN?"
KEN: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PART OF TOURING?
TIM: "HUMMMMM....DAYS OFF? (LAUGHTER) IT WAS A GOO D SHOW MAN, IT'S ALL GOOD, YA KNOW WE PLAY GOOD AND THE KIDS ARE GOOD...TONIGHT THE KIDS WERE ON...WE WERE A LITTLE OFF IF YOU'RE ASKING ME."
SAM: YEAH, GUITAR STRINGS KEPT BREAKING...
TIM: "VOCALS KEPT GETTING FUCKED UP"
SAM: YEAH, LIKE HALF A SONG...
TIM: "YEAH, IT DROPPED OFF"
KEN: THAT SUCKS...
TIM: "YEAH, IT'S PRETTY WILD..WHAT NATIONALITY ARE YOU? (ASKS SAM...)
SAM: ALL SORTS OF SHIT..(LAUGHTER)
TIM: "YEAH?"
KEN: SHE'S A MUTT...
SAM: YEAH, I'M A MUTT.
TIM: "LOOK LIKE AMERICAN INDIAN..."
SAM:..IRISH, SCOTCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH...AMERICAN INDIAN?..I WISH...I DON'T KNOW...COULD BE..
TIM: "YOU GOT THAT FACE...COULD BE.."
KEN: ROB WORE A V.O.D. SHIRT ONSTAGE WHEN THEY TOURED WITH PANTERA..
SAM: MACHINE HEAD!
TIM: "YEAH, THOSE ARE OUR BOYS MAN, WE LOVE THEM, GONNA SEE THEM WEDS NIGHT ACTUALLY...PLAYING NEW YORK"
SAM: I'M SEEING THEM THURSDAY...AND THE WEDS AFTER THAT...
TIM: "WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT TOUR, WITH MACHINE HEAD, WE WERE GONNA TOUR WITH THEM...BUT...UH..SHIT JUST GOT FUCKED UP..HAD TO TAKE A BREAK"
SAM:
TIM: "HUMMMM....NEW DEFTONES, RADIOHEAD....INTERGRITY...STUFF LIKE THAT...BADBRAINS....GOT THIS WEIRD PAIN IN MY THROAT..."
SAM: FROM SCREAMING 'CAUSE THE MIC WAS OFF (LAUGHTER)
TIM: "SMOKED ALOT OF WEED TODAY..."
SAM: THERE WE GO...
KEN: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MARYLIN MANSON?
SAM: OH JEEZ...
TIM: "I AIN'T GIVING 'UM DISRESPECT, THEY DO WHATEVER THEY WANNA DO, I JUST...I AIN'T REALLY INTO THEM...YA KNOW..I'M INTO BANDS LIKE PANTERA...SHIT LIKE THAT, HEAVY FUCKIN' SHIT. AND MARYLIN MANSON AIN'T HEAVY ENOUGH....BUT THEN AGAIN YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN, LOOK WHAT THE GUY IS DOING, TURING A FUCKIN' GENERATION INTO TRANSVESTITES (LAUGHTER). MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT EH?"
SAM: WHEN DID YOU GUYS START OUT?
TIM: "STARTED OUT IN '92...I PLAYED MUSIC SINCE HIGH SCHOOL...BUT THE BAND BASICALLY STARTED IN '92...3 OF US HAVE BEEN TOGETHER SINCE DAY ONE, AND THEN...AH..BRANDON JOINED..AND THEN FLEISCHMANN JOINED, WHICH MADE IT 5."
KEN: THEY ONLY CREDIT 4 OF YOU GUYS ON THE CD...
TIM: "YEAH, THAT'S 'CAUSE FLEISCHMANN IS FUCKIN' PSYCHOTIC...IT'S A LONG STORY...ACTUALLY, NOT EVEN THAT LONG. HE DROPPED OUT OF THE BAND FOR A MONTH AND UH...WE DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THANKIN' HIM...AND THEN HE CAME BACK (LAUGHTER)"

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