BUCKCHERRY Guitarist: 'We Don't Take Direction Very Well'

Stephen Centanni of LagniappeMobile.com recently conducted an interview with BUCKCHERRY guitarist Keith Nelson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

LagniappeMobile.com: One thing that I think is so unique about your band is that you've been able to maintain your outlaw status and still get played on mainstream radio, which is rare these days. What is it about BUCKCHERRY that allows y'all to be outlaws and still get heard on the radio?

Keith: We don't take direction very well, and we have a complete problem with authority. You know, I think we do things the way we want to do it, and that's all we're really concerned with. We're concerned with the five of us being happy with the records that we make and the way we go about. We know that there's a certain segment of the population that will go along with that. For those of them who don't, well, f*ck 'em!

LagniappeMobile.com: The new record, "Black Butterfly" is on the shelves after a year of production. What was it like trying to get this monster out?

Keith: It actually wasn't that difficult. We came off the road last October, and we wrote a lot and kept writing and kept writing. The actual recording was fast. We did the record in 21 days, but the writing phase with pre-productions and rehearsals was a time consuming thing. All things considered, if we started in October, and this hit the shelves September 16, it's not really all that long. We're pretty happy with the way that process went.

LagniappeMobile.com: How do think the fans are going to react to the new record?

Keith: I think that anybody who was expecting us to play it safe and make the same record again is going to be sadly disappointed. I think that anybody that wants to hear a real rock-and-roll band make a real rock-and-roll record will be pleasantly surprised.

LagniappeMobile.com: I was watching the video for "Too Drunk…" the other day-the unedited one, I might add, and I kept noticing something different about some of the footage spliced in. Was that actual footage from backstage?

Keith: I don't know exactly which version of that video that you're referring to. There's a couple of different of versions of that video floating around. I know that some of the folks at Playboy Lounge are handling some of the girls and some of the talent, so there's that one floating around. There's also a version that's like us roaming around from behind the scenes stuff. So, there's a couple of different ones out there, but all of them are great.

Read the entire interview at LagniappeMobile.com.