KMFDM Conclude 2nd Decade Together! - Page 4

SK - Yeah, both. I mean, we got screwed here and there along the way and I’ve always been quite on the…outlook and pretty alert on those kinds of things, but it definitely happens. I mean, people have their hands in the pot and they can’t help but take, you know?

PITRIFF - Yeah.

SK - And, so now it’s really all where it should be. If one dollar comes in, the four of us get twenty-five cents each.

PITRIFF - That’s cool.

SK - There’s no manager, there’s no one that gets himself enriched by our work, other than ourselves.

PITRIFF - The way it should be, man, at least you have total control. I’m starting to see a lot of that; it’s more the wave of the future. I think people are getting savvy to what’s going on in the business world and taking measures in their own hands.

SK - Yeah, exactly, and that’s a good thing. I mean, the ripping the system example would work on many levels in many different creative genres, I’m sure. It’s not necessarily limited to music and the music industry.

PITRIFF - Right. Now forgive the length of this next question, but you guys have had the unique opportunity to sound off against both Bushes, you know, on Angst and WWIII. I personally take the position that the more conservative our climate is, the better and more urgent the music scene becomes. You and Ministry tackled Bush, Sr. with “Drug Against War” and “N.W.O.” respectively, and now you get to do it to his son on WWIII with “Stars and Stripes,” “Bullets, Bombs and Bigotry,” etcetera. So first, would you agree with the theory I’m posting here, and second, have you felt something of an obligation to protest through your music? That’s probably an obvious question.

SK - I think if anyone needs to protest, it’s musicians. I’m actually surprised that there’s so few of us who actually open their mouths and really say what’s going on. Maybe it’s not enough to enlist with punkvoter.com and then go out on tour, maybe it’s much more important to convey your message in your songs, you know? Yeah, the Bushes have had a pretty horrific and deep impact on American history over the last fourteen years. I think that’s certainly something, you know, enough can’t be said about.

PITRIFF - Absolutely. Again, I think the whole scene today has really climbed the past couple of years with all this shit that’s going on overseas, and Bush’s, in my opinion, false war. So I myself am very invigorated to see so much of it getting stronger and stronger with each year, you know?

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