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Speaker 1: The Psychedelic Firs are playing at the Asta Theater November fifteen.

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Speaker 1: You can get tickets through Tiker Tech and joining us now.

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Speaker 1: Bass player for Psychedelic Firs, Tim Butler, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Tim, How are you doing out there?

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Speaker 3: Very well?

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Speaker 1: How many times have you been to Perth?

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Speaker 2: Never?

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Speaker 1: Never?

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Speaker 3: Never?

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Speaker 1: I thought so that would explain why.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen to We toured in America in Australia

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Speaker 2: twice and never got over to Perth. So we're looking

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Speaker 2: forward to it.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Here, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: So Tim tell us the band took eight years off

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Speaker 1: from the early nineties to the year two thousand. What

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Speaker 1: did you do in that time?

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Speaker 2: Richard and I had a band called Glass Bitt Love

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Speaker 2: and then I left that. And when I was an

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Speaker 2: engineer at the Electric Lady Studios in New York, which

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Speaker 2: was Jimmy Hendrickson's studio, I was on the other side

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Speaker 2: of the glass doing the production engineer in as as

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Speaker 2: to being in the librarom.

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Speaker 3: Right, Tim, A lot of bands have come out and

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Speaker 3: you know, recorded your songs and proven their fans. And

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Speaker 3: I know that Robert Smith of the Cure is one

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Speaker 3: of the Killers and Dave Growl from the Food Fighters.

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Speaker 3: Have there ever been any bands that have come out

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Speaker 3: and said they were influenced by you guys or loved

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Speaker 3: you guys and you were really surprised or shocked at

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Speaker 3: who it was.

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Speaker 2: Yes. I was really surprised when Corn did a couple

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Speaker 2: of Love My Ways, Yeah, because that doesn't seem like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the sort of song that they'd be into.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't tell me. Some people have really

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Speaker 2: broad musical taste. The singer of Death lepart Camber us

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Speaker 2: in a couple of hours ago in Ireland, how come

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Speaker 2: you, you know, like our sort of music? And he goes, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, just because I'm in a heavy metal band

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean they don't have a broad spectrum of musical taste.

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Speaker 2: And he particularly likes President Gas to him, could totally

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Speaker 2: play in Ireland if you're if you're home con touring,

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Speaker 2: you know, tell us and come down and you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe sing a couple of verses, you know, trade

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Speaker 2: off with Richard. Yeah, and he's beamed up for the idea,

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Speaker 2: so we'll see he does.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very Colctic music toys, Joe Earlier, Love Loves You.

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Speaker 1: Tunes, Tim You're one of my favorite bands from the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Who were some of your favorite bands from the eighties.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'd have to say probably early here, the peche

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Speaker 2: Mode you two of course, you know our contemporaries that

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Speaker 2: started up about the same.

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Speaker 3: Time, Tim, Is it true? Might be honest?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 3: Did you really want to tell David Bowie you couldn't act?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, one drunken night he had the best comeback.

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Speaker 2: He said, that's because I didn't take your advice. And

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I didn't give you any And he said,

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Speaker 2: bad fits a great comeback, you know to a drunken

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Speaker 2: teenager who was a huge fan of Bowies. Yeah. Alcohol, alcohol,

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Speaker 2: that was weird and stews.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely want to come back back.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty six, John Hughes named his movie Pretty

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Speaker 1: in Pink after your song Pretty in Pink, and of

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Speaker 1: course it appeared on the soundtrack. John Hughes was just

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Speaker 1: such a force in movies at that time. What was

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Speaker 1: that like, being the center of that sort of attention.

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Speaker 2: It had its plus and minuses, and the plus work

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Speaker 2: that got us through to our name through to a

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Speaker 2: lot of a lot more people because it was, you know,

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Speaker 2: in a big successful movie. The bad side of it

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Speaker 2: was the fact that our original fans soillt We've sold

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Speaker 2: out and like you know, you know, I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to not going to go and see him anymore. You know,

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Speaker 2: had its plus as minuses. Nowadays we have, you know,

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Speaker 2: a bit of both. We have. After that whole period

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Speaker 2: of Midnight to Midnight and the movie, our original fans

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Speaker 2: started to come back. Of course, we retained the fans

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Speaker 2: we had got, you know, from the movie, So it's

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Speaker 2: a lot healthier nowadays.

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Speaker 1: The audience, Yeah, don't I expect you picked up a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of a new, younger fan base after the

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Speaker 1: Ghost and new featured in season two of Stranger Things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that. And the fact that it was

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Speaker 2: being called by my nail, call it by my aim

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Speaker 2: or yeah that may bee for quite a few times.

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Speaker 2: And we actually did a food nailed dancing up in

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Speaker 2: the street they're talking about one of them went to

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Speaker 2: theto Psychedelic first and that Richard, but is amazing. So

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Speaker 2: that all.

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Speaker 3: Helps absolutely bit of popular culture about I once read

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Speaker 3: that Richard had an unusual way to Mikey's voice taper,

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Speaker 3: but it wasn't whiskey or vodka. Is that true?

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Speaker 2: Milk. You always told if you were seeing it in

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Speaker 2: the studio not to drink milk because you get the

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Speaker 2: phlam in your throat. That's what made his voice like

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Speaker 2: it is very distinctive.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, speaking of Richard, what the key to successfully working

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Speaker 1: with the sibling in the music industry, because there's great

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Speaker 1: a few that haven't worked well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a matter of I mean, back

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Speaker 2: in the day when news, drink and party, you know,

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Speaker 2: we were more on each other's backs about you know,

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Speaker 2: our egos were on fire. But when we got back

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Speaker 2: together in two thousands, we realized that we both have

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Speaker 2: equally important jobs in the sound of the psychoatic first,

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Speaker 2: so we appreciate each other more than you did back then.

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Speaker 3: Right, So, mate, when you and Richard started playing in

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Speaker 3: that front room at the family home, could you imagine

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Speaker 3: your dad being above Dylan fan. Dylan would actually send

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Speaker 3: you a song cause Jacob his boy, loved you. Guys.

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Speaker 3: It's mind boggling stuff, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It is? That was crazy when you got that we

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Speaker 2: were recording forever now and we got it to us

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Speaker 2: a yer our in our person at CBS. It was amazing.

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Speaker 2: Not that we ever thought about doing it because we

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Speaker 2: never did cover so at that point we didn't. But

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Speaker 2: it was like a fifteen verse song. It's a typical

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Speaker 2: Dylan song.

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Speaker 3: Like Hurricane Hurl.

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Speaker 2: Clip was cool clip it was. It was called clean

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Speaker 2: cut clit believe.

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Speaker 1: I have to be careful with that, Tim. So I've

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Speaker 1: always loved the name psychedelic first. Is there any story

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Speaker 1: there at all?

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Speaker 2: Well, the major part of it was the psychedelic was

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Speaker 2: that we wanted to show that when we started, all

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Speaker 2: the plant bands were having names like you know, the

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Speaker 2: sex Pistols and Venus and the Razor Blades and the

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Speaker 2: Clash and the Stranglers. Yeah, they were making fun of

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Speaker 2: sixties music, you know that, like you know, one generation

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Speaker 2: does the generation before. But we just wanted to tell

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Speaker 2: people that we were influenced by they bands. So that

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Speaker 2: was a psychedelic part of it. And the furs. I

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Speaker 2: guess we're out discussing it one drunken night and someone

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Speaker 2: came up with how about the psychedelic first? And they're like, hey,

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Speaker 2: it sounds good.

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Speaker 3: That sounds great. But I've read recently. I always heard

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Speaker 3: that Chrissy Hinde is no longer playing when she does

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Speaker 3: Love shows playing pretender songs. Obviously you guys wouldn't do that,

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Speaker 3: not play your back cattalog. But is there a song

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Speaker 3: that if you didn't play it then the crowd would

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Speaker 3: go nuts and they wouldn't be happy. Is there a

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Speaker 3: particular favorite amongst fans around the world.

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Speaker 2: I'd have to say probably pretty emtinct.

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Speaker 1: Oh way, Yeah, okay, I would have thought it was

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Speaker 1: Love My Way, right, Yeah, okay, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: There's certain songs we have to do. Yeah, as we

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Speaker 2: would get Lynch goes give you Love my Way heartbeat,

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Speaker 2: be pretty emptinct, can happen all the fame? Which is

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Speaker 2: that's it's yeah, yeah, we just decide what the other

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Speaker 2: two thirds is going to be.

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Speaker 3: Well worked hard for their tickets, mate, Yeah, Tim, Before

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Speaker 3: you go, mate, what was the last band or artist

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Speaker 3: T shirt that you wore? You into wearing band merchant or.

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Speaker 2: I don't don't. I don't wear T shirts with at

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Speaker 2: least of writing on them.

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Speaker 3: It's always one or the other. It is never good Tim.

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Speaker 1: It's been an absolute pleasure to talk to you. We

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Speaker 1: are so thrilled that you're finally getting to Perth. The

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Speaker 1: Psychedelic Furs will be at the ASTA Theater November fifteen.

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Speaker 1: You can get tickets through ticket Tech.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Tim, Thanks mate, finally we get to see you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm sorry it's taken so long ago.

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Speaker 3: I may have rained the album talk thirty years speak

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Speaker 3: away now. We're very patient. Thanks Tim, thank you, Thanks man.

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Speaker 3: Take care,