G. G. King Speaks

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Chad Radford:  Your 7-inch came out a few months back. Now that you've had some time to ruminate, what are your thoughts on your first release after Carbonas?-

Greg King:  We just laid down a bunch of new songs and they are a whole lot better.-

Are you playing with the same line-up you had with the first single?-

I sang and played all of the drums and the guitars and Chris Van Etten played the bass. Gentleman Jesse hasn't been playing with me since we did the recording. Clay Kilbourne has been playing guitar and Mike Beavers from Predator has been playing drums.-

Are you going to put out a G.G. King full-length?-

Oh I don't know. I've recorded six songs and they're demo quality. It's pretty raw and it might make a better 7-inch. I think a whole album would get kind of tiresome. I'll probably do it with Douchemaster, but I want to send it around to a few other places to see if anyone is interested, and to see who's going to give me a massive budget to go and record.-

Are you going to stick with the name G. G. King?-

I really wish that I hadn't picked that name, but I already got a record with that name on it, so I'll stick with it. As soon as we started getting the record covers printed I started getting all of these great ideas for names, and thought crap. It's totally retarded. But it does kind of plays into my obsession with when cool bands and musicians shit the bed and do something terrible... And it's an obvious reference to Dee Dee King from the Ramones doing his solo rap stuff which is pretty much unbearable.-

G. G. King plays tonight, Sat., April 11 with Jay Reatard and the Stolen Hearts at Lenny's 9 p.m. $10. 486 Decatur St. 404-577-7721.