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Motor City Foxes
Rachel-zilla of Detroit's Broadzilla spills the beans |
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Broadzilla is (from left to right) Kim-zilla, Rachel-zilla and Angie-zilla
visit their web site (they've got free MP3s....) Sneak a peek at the Screamin' Demon tour bus or Rachel Zilla's flower garden Broadzilla is tearing up the Midwest music scene. They've opened for Joan Jett and L7, and Fred Durst ( yes, that Limp Bizkit guy...) is madly in love with them . They're totally rock n roll: pure foxy --ladies wailing on guitars then planting flowers in front of their pad, drinking beers and watching TV on Tuesdays nights. Totally kick ass, totally down to earth. Here's what Rachel Zilla had to say to us: What's your favorite thing to do on a Tuesday night? This is great. We are certainly not a TV band, however, Tuesday night is TV night at the Broadzilla Headquarters. The season schedule has changed a bit but we used start off with That 70's Show, followed by 24 and then of course The Osbournes. We usually sit around and bullshit, catch a buzz and laugh our asses off at Ozzy and Sharon. Brilliant show! Oh jeez, you're really gonna get me on this aren't you? I absolutely love to cook - the band doesn't mind it either! I'm like the Julia Childs of Rock!!!! And I love gardening. My hometown actually awarded me with a beautification award for my gardening efforts. It's pretty funny to drive past our house and see a tattooed rocker chick out there pulling weeds and watering flowers. More about my beautification award...well let's see...at the end of the summer, the city awards random properties for their efforts in improving the appearance of the city. I went all out last year and planted a ton of flowers in both the front and back yards. I would be out there every morning watering and taking care of the yard.
Everyday that I get to play music is success for me. As for what's next? Broadzilla World Domination. Our best plan of attack is to keep the unity and bond that we have as a band and continue to constantly improve upon what we do. We don't always know what the next level will be for us, but we always seem to get there. Yeah, I don't think that will ever stop. Ignorance of female talent lives world wide. Wait
are stage door johnnies kind of like, "Backstage Betties?" lol. Yeah, we have a saying for those guys, "Dems my Bitches." No but seriously, I think it's the same for the guy musicians too, they have tons of girls throwing themselves at their feet. For the most part, the guy groupies are harmless - they're equally as smitten with us as we would be watching them perform. I think that's all part of the business and should be expected to some extent. You certainly can't get up there and do what we do and not expect to raise the testosterone level a bit! This is an easy one. If you listen to the opening track of our latest CD, there is a vocal clip of me as a very young child proclaiming that, "I wanna be a singer when I get older." I've got pictures of me at a very young age...probably around 4 or 5 with my record player and a cheap old plastic guitar. My dad is a musician and I was brought up around it. It was just a natural progression for me to be where I am today. I've had to give up a lot to do what I do, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Despite the tired old cliché
..I was seriously "born to rock!"
The one thing that bothers me the most I guess would be the infamous, "show me your tits" phrase spewing from the mouth of some drunk mullet-head in the crowd. It's kind of like, "Wrong bar jackass." "Now how about if I shove my f'n Les Paul up your ass you f-r." lol We're quite confident that we can lay down some serious rock n' roll with the best of the boys out there so hearing stuff like that is a complete insult. For the most part, I'm really good at ignoring it but I have been known to spew a few choice words back out. I'm great at the quick one liners. Yes, we all still work day jobs and at times it's difficult to juggle a full-time band a full-time job. But we all really love our music and as hard as it is to get up and go to work, we know at the end of the day, we can always go home and pick up a guitar. As far as the worst job I've ever had...hmmmm...I've had many. I once taught aerobics - YUCK! I also worked at the "Safe Sex Store" A funny story about that...a customer came in one day and picked up a tube of "cherry flavored anal ease" she looks at me and says, "why is it Cherry flavored?" Now how am I supposed to answer THAT. |
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