Rob Zombie set aside some time for a chat with Full Metal Jackie and was asked how collaborative the writing process was for his forthcoming new album, he replied:
“The songs were all written by me and John 5, basically together. ‘Cause I don’t know how anybody writes with a whole band. It never can, it’s almost impossible. So what would happen is me and John would write the songs and then Matt [Piggy D.], sometimes when he would do his bass parts, he would improvise a few things, so they would kind of go to another level. But the basic songs were done by me and John all the time. ‘Cause it’s always been like that all the time.
Back in the day, like with White Zombie, we would always try to work as a band. Jamming in rehearsal space. And that was like, fuck… torture. You know, torture. It just takes forever and at the end of the day you were, like, now 18 hours and cassettes filled with riffs that go nowhere. So I can’t stand working like that.
I need one other person and we just get it done. And I like John cause he’s so talented. I have no patience in the studio, none! And what’s great about John is he can think super fast. So whatever I say, he can do it, he can do it, he can do it, he can do it. And as soon as it bogs down for one second, he can’t take it so he doesn’t want to be bogged down so it’s great.”
He also spoke of his next film project, a Groucho Marx feature which is based on Steve Stoliar‘s memoir, ‘Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House‘:
“I just love movies. The first movie I did was a horror movie so that kind of led to the next one of which I did really try to vary the format. I really wanted to make my second film, The Devil’s Rejects, more like a post-modern western. But, I mean, it’s really hard to break out because horror movies are so profitable. Once you start doing something that is profitable, that is all that everybody wants, because all they see is dollar signs. So, over the years I’ve tried to… I’ve wanted to break out of the genre.
Because I love all kinds of movies, but there was never the right project. For a moment I had a thing called, Broad Street Bullies, that I really, really wanted to make. It was a hockey film about the Philadelphia Flyers. But that just fell into too much red tape and got bogged down ’cause I don’t own the rights to any of the Philadelphia Flyers or anything. But then I had read this book Raised Eyebrows, about the last years of Groucho Marx’s life. I mean I had read it years ago.
I never thought about making a movie about it. And then Tyler Bates who had done some of the scores for my Halloween movies, said, “Oh a friend of mine is friends with this guy Steve Stoliar, who wrote that book. He was so excited that you read it.” So I was like, fuck it, and I immediately called Steve and was like, we have got to make this into a movie. And he was just about to sign a deal with somebody else and I was like, “Don’t do anything!” And then I bought the rights from him.”
Rob Zombie‘s next film to hit theaters however will be the horror feature, “31“, which is currently in post-production. No word yet on when we can expect the new album to hit.
[via Loudwire]
