Interview by James Ballinger refuseinfect@hotmail.com for Pit Magazine

Bullheadgod: you there?
Dale C:  Yes sir.
Bullheadgod: Sir...how fancy.
Bullheadgod: I had to review a Gwar show last friday....it was horrible. I see why it was horrible for you.
Bullheadgod: I got cum on my camera....
Dale C: I didn't know they were still around. They were nice to us.
Bullheadgod: I was talking about the fans.
Dale C: I figured. How was the band?
Bullheadgod: lame.
Dale C: Too bad.
Bullheadgod: IT WAS PACKED, I'm talking like 2000 kids
Dale C: Wow! In Tampa? That's amazing that they can still draw that much.
Bullheadgod: They said it was there biggest FL show ever.
Dale C: Sounds big.
Bullheadgod: I think I might just use this as the entire interview if that's swell by you. You remember my g/f/Tracy?  Well, she says hello.
Dale C.  Sure I don't mind. Tell her hello back.
Bullheadgod: Hostile Ambient Takeover ... tell me the meaning behind the name of the new record.
Dale C: Kevin came up with the title. I can't remember where he stole it from. Sounds good though. H. A. T.  for short.
Bullheadgod: Every Melvins record is different from the next...how is this one going to be different?
Dale C: It's better than the rest, and it's the newest.
Bullheadgod: Haha, you think so?
Dale C: Maybe. 
Bullheadgod: well then all of us are in for a treat. 
Dale C: It came out good. We haven't recorded anything in over two years, though it looks like we work all the time.  We just stack up the releases.
Bullheadgod: You guys seem to be a very busy band both independently, and as a collective. How do you find time to keep it all together?
Dale C: None of us work day jobs. We have lots of free time when we're not on tour. We don't sit around. We have lots of songs. We work quickly. 
Bullheadgod: How long did it take you to record the CD?
Dale C: We spent three weeks. That's a long time for us. I think that's the longest session we've done for one record.
Bullheadgod: Really? Even Stag? That's cool.   Who produced the CD this time?
Dale C: Nobody. We just used an engineer. He was real good. A Japanese guy named Toshi.
Bullheadgod: I've heard it was Ann Wilson from Heart...hahahahaha.
Dale C: It's was Nancy, not Ann.
Bullheadgod: That's it...  But that was a rumor right?
Dale C: Yeah. Funny though. We were listening to a Heart CD and noticed that they did some real cool recording tricks. Maybe she was there in spirit......
Bullheadgod: I wonder where people get this stuff.
Dale C: The Internet of course. It's full of lies.
Bullheadgod: Mackie is doing the artwork again then?
Dale C: Mackie did the art. My favorite cover so far. Nice and colorful. Looks like candy. I want to eat it.
Bullheadgod: Have you seen the inside cover for the new Ween CD? It looks like Mackie's stuff...
Dale C: Really? I wonder if she knows about it. I've seen other art that looks like hers. Close enough that they had to know her work. We borrow ideas too, so I guess that's okay.
Bullheadgod: The CD is called white pepper, the inside cover pullout thing is like a big stack of peppers different colors. Very Mackie.
Dale C: There's lots of books that have art you can use for free. It could be something similar.
Bullheadgod: What's new with Altamont?
Dale C: Not too much at the moment. We hope to do a new CD in the summer. We hope to be on some of the Melvins tour in the fall. We'll see what happens. Bullheadgod:  As far as the Melvins CD on Mans ruin, and the altamont stuff, any plans to get that on a new label?
Dale C: We hope to get all the Altamont stuff back out there. Our booker has a label called Hall Of Records that Altamont will be on. We hope to re-release Electro Retard at some point.
Bullheadgod: what about the 10 songs re-release?
Dale C: We just remastered 10 songs. Now it's 27 songs. It will be out this year on Ipecac.
Bullheadgod: So same as the G. P. T.  CD, with demos?
Dale C: Demos and the original 7 inch, which is a different recording than what came out on 10 songs. We didn't have the tapes so we had to master 6 songs from my only copy of the first 7".
Bullheadgod: You are really trying to play 100 dates this year? That seems like a lot...
Dale C: We want to play everyplace. Every shithole possible. It will be fun. It won't be too hard because the tour is broken into two.
Bullheadgod: Do you have anyone else playing on the CD?
Dale C: Adam from Tool did something on a song. Dave Stone did some things too.