ROB ZOMBIE Talks New Drummer, Doing WOOLITE Commercial In New Interview

Mike Ragogna of The Huffington Post recently conducted an interview with Rob Zombie. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Huffington Post: You have drummer Ginger Fish with you?

Zombie: Yes. Ginger has not actually toured or played with us yet. He did a couple of warm-up shows a couple of months ago, right before we left for Europe, but our other drummer, Joey Jordison, who was on loan from SLIPKNOT, was our drummer at the time. The dates got crossed and Ginger was just filling in, but since that time I don't know if it's just because Ginger had so much fun with us when we were on tour he quit MARILYN MANSON, and was free. Our other drummer, Joey, had to go back to SLIPKNOT, so 1,2,3.

The Huffington Post: You tour pretty often, but you're also way busy. How do you fit in all the recording, touring, film making, and commercial shooting?

Zombie: Well, it's not easy. What's happening right now is that as soon as we're done touring, I'll start my next film. Since there is a long lead time, I've been working with the effects departments and stuff between my tours, so they're sort of prepping. Then, I'll go off and tour, and then I'll come back from a tour, do a little more prep and location scouting, then finish my tour and start full-blown pre-production on the movie. That will take me through the rest of the year. Once that is wrapped up, I'll probably go right into making a record, and by next summer, I'll probably be right back out on tour. As soon as one thing ends, I just start in on the next thing.

The Huffington Post: Now, you also directed that commercial for Woolite. How did that come about?

Zombie: Just one of those things. I was in Australia, on tour, and the ad agency called my manager saying that they had this commercial they were pitching to Woolite and they were really interested to see if I would be the director for the commercial. It wasn't something that I had ever thought about or searched out, it was just something that came to me. I took a look at the material and thought it would be cool. I like the idea of doing different projects, like when I did the episode of "CSI". You always want to get these different types of things under your belt for the experience, and I had never done a TV commercial, so I figured why not start now?

The Huffington Post: What did you do with it?

Zombie: Well, it was a very weird commercial to begin with. They wanted a commercial that seemed as if it was a horror movie trailer. Their plan was to play it in theaters also, so the beginning of the commercial sounds like a horror movie with this sort of mysterious guy in the woods and it seems like he's dragging a dead body around. You find out he's dragging laundry, and he's torturing clothes. Then, this whole thing comes in about, "Don't let detergents torture your clothes." At the end of the spot, there are these nice scenes of women shopping, doing yoga, and stuff. I actually had more fun doing the nice scenes because it was something really different and something I found interesting. The beginning part of the commercial is not that odd it's very odd for Woolite, but it's not odd for me. I wanted people to see the back half of the commercial and think, "Oh my God. I wouldn't think that he could or would do that stuff."

Read the entire interview from The Huffington Post.