Last Days Here Page #3

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never mind going to work

that day

- # All right #

- So Gene and Paul show up

Toilet boys are still at work

Not only were they off

cleaning toilets that day

but they hitchhiked to work

- They didn't have a car

They had to hitchhike home

wearing some type

of janitor-type outfit

[car horn honks]

- I guess we got off work

Vince and I did

and we got to the house

We're all grubby

from being janitors

[laughs]

- The landlord who I guess

lived in the house

started bitching and complaining

that it was too loud

and had to shut down

- Came running

"Man you guys

got to turn it down!"

And I'm like "God damn it man

KISS is here" you know?

- F***ing KISS is in the house

watching them play

You think they'd give

the landlord something

Some peanut butter sandwiches

and 25 bucks

to f***ing go away

for the day

But you know so it was just==

I guess it was just horrible

From what I hear KISS

some of the things

they said are

"Well your name's Pentagram

There's only four of you

"The singer and the bass player

have bad skin

The drummer's too fat"

And they blew it

I mean should have taken

the day off from work

f***ing did a month of aerobics

f***ing got some Oxy pads

you know?

[birds chirping]

- Should I pull 'em out?

Some Enchanted Evening

My son has the platinum

Some Enchanted Evening

I'm told that

the Johnny Winter is platinum

I'm told that Blue Oyster Cult's

first three records

have gone gold

but Sony is too cheap

to send me gold records

Uh this is

I had done at least a couple

of Blue Oyster Cult records

I was looking for the real thing

to follow Blue Oyster Cult

Pentagram really seemed like

sort of a street Black Sabbath

That was just what I was

looking for you know?

I wanted the male-dominant

thrust of heavy metal

But it sort of had a "F*** you

and the horse you rode in on"

kind of thing

Post-Page pre-Sex Pistols

It was almost as though

I'm sitting at a computer==

if there were such things then==

kind of generating this band

that was perfect for 1 97 4

I was ready to seriously

seriously commit to them

[heavy metal music]

- Here was our big break

Columbia records is paying for

us to go do a demo in New York

- And you know we're

on the train to New York

Man I'm seeing stars

in my eyes

- We went into the studio

and did three tracks

with Murray Krugman

producing it

- We get through

all the rhythm tracks

and Bobby's laying down

the vocals

- Bobby completed

a vocal track

and Murray said

"Okay that's fine

Come in and listen to it"

And Bobby says "I'd like to==

I'd like to redo that

There was a couple parts

I wasn't really happy with"

Murray says

"Don't worry about it

We'll fix it in postproduction

Just==it was fine"

- We could have corrected

that vocal

but there would have been

some other thing

where he's hearing a finished

$200000 record in his head

and can't understand why

an eight-hour demo

isn't gonna give that to him

- And Bobby got real upset

about it

and called Gordon

who was our manager

out into the singing booth

- "Gordon

can I see you a minute?"

Pain in the ass I was

Called him out in the main room

Made sure I was by a live mic

I said "What's this guy being

such a f***ing a**hole for?"

- Murray just got up

and as I recall

he didn't say a word

Vincent thought

he said we were

the most difficult band

to work with and walked out

I don't recall him saying

anything

I just recall him getting up

and walking out of the studio

without saying a word

And we never talked to him

again

- I felt like killing Bobby

- I've fantasized

many many times

if Bobby had just said

"No problem" you know

and walked in and we'd listened

back to the session

What would have happened

the rest of that day?

What would have happened

the rest of that week?

And what would have happened

with the rest of our career?

- We would have gotten a deal

through them

No question

Record deal national tour

fame and fortune

It would have happened

There

but for the grace of God

[announcer speaking indistinctly

over television]

- I used to say to him

"When I see you

on Saturday Night Live,

I'll know you made it"

And you know

I've seen some lousy acts

That shocks me

Bobby Pellet's here

- Hehe's here?

- Yeah

- Good lord

- Everybody in unison==

I mean total==

"Move him out of your house"

- Everybody everybody

I mean to this day

There's always tons of laundry

around here

I don't know

He can change three times a day

He's already changed twice

today

He keeps spilling his coffee

- Even now everything that

he has comes from us

- How much have you given

for Bobby?

- Financially?

- I have

- Financially

over $1 million

- Thanks appreciate it

- All right good

Brush your hair?

- There's Fig Newtons

aren't there?

Mom?

There's Fig Newtons

aren't there?

Yeah

- I've always been afraid

that he'd either go out

and steal

or knock somebody

You don't know

Addicts are crazy

- It's a very tough thing

They call us enablers

I said "Really?

"Did you ever see my son?

Do you know him?"

"No"

"And you're in

social services?

Where is your sensitivity

to people?"

His brilliance

in the music field

has never been to fruition

because of the problem

He has all this talent now

- Yes he still has talent

- He has it

- Do you guys think that Bobby

could stop doing drugs?

- [sighs]

- At this stage of the game

of anybody you know

it's a prognosis question

- Yes

if he were out of pain

He's in a lot of pain that

people don't realize that

And he also has truthfully

a delusion

that he has

a parasitic infection

Bobby's not insane but he can

act insane with the coke

- My fingers turn black

every night

There it's starting now

That's not from the coke

That's all parasites

See those dots that look

like dots embedded?

- Mm-hmm

- All of them

Did you see my lips?

They're not chapped

Come here

See the line

along the bottom?

- Mm-hmm

- That's all parasites

See all that black?

Those are all parasites

- Holy f*** man

- Yeah

- Never saw it huh?

with that

- See when he starts

pulling his skin

he does what he thinks==

he calls "debriding"

He'll pull at it

and put it on

a piece of paper towel

and pull out

his magnifying glass

and he'll come==

"You never want to look

You never want to look"

I said "I've spent 1 0000 hours

looking Bobby

It's not bugs

It's dead skin"

If he didn't pick his arms

I know they'd heal

and I know

everything would be fine

- It's a fact

I have something unknown

that is parasitic

- Truth is that she said

you've been to the hospital

about 50 times

since you lived here

- Mm-hmm

- We're gonna be there for

eight hours in the waiting room

and they're gonna let you out

Unless you go there and say

you want to go to detox

and then they'll admit you

- They're not gonna treat me

for this in detox

- I've watched you smoke

a fuckload of crack right now

- Mm-hmm

- It's in your blood

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