Bob Log III (Part 2) : Tit Clappin' Boob Scotchs From Arizona

By Jens

LC: I wanna talk about your fascination with boobs, songs like "Boob Scotch", "Booby Trap # 1 & 2" and "Clap Your Tits"?

B: I did write a lotta songs about boobs...

LC: Is it connected to your mother and being breastfed or the lack of?...haha.

B: I don't know, I think I have to ask her. But basically, boobs are there, you can use'em and they look good. Girls walk around and say; "Look at my tits, don't they look good?". But I say boobs can do other things, you can have fun with boobs, a boob can actually kinda be sorta goofy. It's just a sack of fat with a nipple on it, you can clap'em together. They can look good all day, but at nighttime; get'em drunk and do something funny with'em. That's kinda one of the reasons I come to town, I mean, dudes got boobs too. Some women get upset about all the songs about boobs, and think you must be some sort of sexist bastard motherfucker. Well, I do happen to like girls' boobs, I'M A GUY! Excuse me. But I also wanna point out the fact that dudes got boobs too. Any guy can put his boob in a drink, you just lean forward, put your boob in a drink without spilling anything, take your boob out and give it to your girlfriend, and if she smiles you're probably gonna get lucky. If she doesn't want your hairy boob in a drink, that's probably a good sign of you'd get another girlfriend. But personally I prefer a girl boob in my drink, I mean, I'm a guy.

LC: Well, I think Jerry A.'s (of Poison Idea) boob would be difficult to fit in a glass...

B: I had fat dudes clappin' their tits together at shows, but hey, any size boob can go in a drink if you do it right. And that's what I'm doing, driving around the world and showing people how to put their boobs in other people's drinks, because it makes your day better. There's lots of bands who write songs about feeling bad, I write songs about what made me feel better. That's what I do, haha.

LC: I read that Tom Waits really likes your music...

B: I read it too and I had no idea that he likes me, and it probably meant that some checked me out because of that. And if I do see Tom, I'll put my boob in a drink and give it to him!

LC: How would you compared your latest, "Log Bomb", to the previous albums?

B: It starts with a slow song, well, I got fast songs and I got slow songs, and most my albums start with fast songs, and this one starts with a slow one. I recorded it in my house, I put an amp in the bathtub, I put another one under the desk.

LC: You recorded all your records in your home?

B: I recorded all my records in my house, in my practise space, and I don't know, maybe I've gotten better at it over the years. I think it's the best sounding record so far, I pushed all the right buttons, but I still love my first record, and I still love my 2nd record. I like that dirty sound, that's why I put the amp in the bathtub, because my bathtub is dirty!

LC: What kind of equipment do you play on, you sometimes use electronics with the drum and guitar?

B: Sure, I got a drum machine I can turn on with my foot, it's never the same twice. Kickdrum I do with my other feet. I play a Silvertone guitar, two different amplifiers, I got two different pickups on my guitar, one's acoustic, one's distorted and my telephone runs into another amp. That's pretty much what I do; foot, foot, guitar, guitar, head.

LC: You like to get a girl on your lap when you play a certain song, and I talked to the one who was on your lap here last time and she actually enjoyed it. Do you some kind of special voodoo power over girls, haha.

B: Well, I don't know for sure, but I think I'm the only band who even ask girls to sit on his knees, I can't think of any other band that girls can sit on. I mean, you got two girls, why sit at a table when they can sit on me. I found it in every country, in every city, girls wanna sit on me. I don't know why they like it, but sometimes at the end of the night there's a little wet spot on my knee. I like to bounce'em around while I play my guitar. Sometimes in Texas I get these really fat girls on my knee, and I can't really bounce'em around, haha. I don't disciminate; C'MON LAS VEGAS, GIMME YOUR BIGGEST FATTEST GIRLS! I kinda regretted that, I was limping for days, haha. It's my job!

LC: I heard you turned down a Nikon commercial...

B: Every once in awhile you gotta say no to something, I'm not opposed to doing commercials, if somebody wants to pay me for a song I already did I'll take the money, but if the deal is like you gotta sing about cameras, sorry I don't do that. But if it's already a recorded song, I don't care if it's Coca-Cola or a whiskey company, if you're a musician you should take the money. But that's me, I didn't wanna write a song for Levis or Nikon, if they wanna use a song I already recorded, that's fine, but I'm not writing the songs for you. I write songs for other reasons, usually boobs, haha. If somebody wanted to sell boobs I'd probably help'em out.

LC: What do mainstream blues radio or festivals think of Bob Log?

B: I don't know, they don't really call me.

LC: But I know guys in their 50s who's into John Lee Hooker and stuff and they actually love your music!

B: I get the blues fans at my shows, and I get asked to play at blues festivals, and I play at every single one they ask me to. I'm not on the blues radio stations, but that doesn't bother me. I know where it's coming from. Take Robert Johnson, he's got the Sweet Home Chicago sound which everybody love, and then he got the Preaching The Blues sound which is really weird and different, that's where I branch off, I'm following the Preaching The Blues sound. I know there's blues in my music and eventually I get asked to play at these festivals. I'm fine with my own little niche, and if you come to my show I'm cool with that, man.

LC: I'd imagine that hardcore blues fans are hearing these quirky edgy artists on Fat Possum Records and thinking; are they making fun of the blues?

B: Look at the old blues players now! Look at B.B. King and $800 guitars playing through a $2000 amp, Robert Johnson was playing a $40 guitar on shitty equipment or what ever was lying around, that's the kind of blues I listen to. So I don't listen to what anybody's gonna say, I grew up listening to Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Bo Diddley, they took the blues and turned it into a party, and turned it up.

LC: Have you toured with Lightning Beatman (Swiss one-man band, Voodoo Rhythm label owner and amateur wrestler)?

B: I've toured with Lightning Beatman many times, he's one of the best one-man bands I know. Mr. Quintron, Lo-Bo from Memphis, there's a million one-man bands around in the world.

LC: Anything to add?

B: I hope somebody will put their boob in my drink tonite, I had over 230 women put their boobs in my drink since I wrote "Boob Scotch".

Afterwards Powersolo came backstage, and Bob (real name Robert Reynolds III) told an insane story about a club in London where he was booked to play. Apparently the more politically correct women at the club saw the 'sexist' inner photos on the "Leg Bomb" album (featuring Bob in helmet/jumpsuit outfit, a naked girl and a drink of Scoth between her breasts) and completely freaked out. The club ended up paying Bob £ 600 not to play!

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