GODSMACK Drummer: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman

Amy Harris recently conducted an interview with GODSMACK drummer Shannon Larkin. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Amy: Every time I watch heavy metal drumming, I am always in awe anyway. It has to be the best workout you can possibly get. How do you stay in shape because it seems like it is really hard on your body?

Shannon: My thing is just trying to keep the weight on. I sweat so much with that workout and it's so hot on stage. Usually if it's not a thousand lights, then it's a hundred degrees out. So my biggest problem is that it doesn't really beat my body up. I just lose weight every night. I eat, believe it or not, I'm a 120 pounds soaking wet and I eat like a horse but the way I play it just burns the calories. My biggest problem is trying to keep the weight on.

Amy: Now you're just making me angry.

Shannon: I know, I know. It's crazy. I used to do all these elaborate stretches and all this crap. Now as I get older, I just do a 12-ounce curl, pick up the sticks and walk on stage. It's getting easier if anything rather than harder for me. I don't know why.

Amy: After I met you last year, I heard your name mentioned on a VH1 special on famous rock star groupies with Pamela Des Barres based on her book "Let's Spend The Night Together". I don't know if you saw it. It aired about six months ago. They were talking about you being in Arkansas with "Sweet" Connie. I said if I talk to Shannon again, I may ask him about how that came about.

Shannon: You may have to excuse the crudeness here, but all I can say about that is, she sucked somebody's dick that day but it wasn't mine.

Amy: I'm glad you could set it straight.

Shannon: That was shocking even to me and I've had a lot of shit said about me over the years but I figure, if I cheat on my wife it's not going to be with a 60-year old. Evidentially, she is really into drummers. I didn't see it, honestly, but my friends, believe me, all my friends told me, "Oh my God, you and Keith Moon and John Bonham." I don't even know if she blew those guys, but she definitely didn't blow me.

Amy: That's good to get it straight from you. I was shocked when I saw it. My initial reaction is that there is no way. I know things get crazy on the road, and I'm sure there are many stories through the years but that one did not seem right.

Shannon: Yeah, I know. Another thing someone told me was she holds up a pair of drumsticks and says they were mine. They were red-tipped drumsticks, which I have never played in my life or career. So she, I don't know, I think she's just one of those groupies looking for attention and, unfortunately, I was the guy she picked to say that she blew. But not true.

Read the entire interview from Amy Harris.