{"id":29433,"date":"1999-07-01T13:48:56","date_gmt":"1999-07-01T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=29433"},"modified":"2014-11-08T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:34:23","slug":"luscious-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/luscious-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"LUSCIOUS JACKSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUSCIOUS JACKSON<\/strong>
\nGetting Electric Honey<\/strong>
\nInterview with Gabby Glaser<\/strong>
\nInterview by Bryan Stahel and Dan Levy<\/strong><\/p>\n

We hooked up with Gabby Glaser as she graciously gave us some time on her way to the dentist. The interview started in the limo as we trolled around the Village looking for the ideal stoop to talk. We settled on a freight entrance after the oriental cafe\u2019s owners got pissed because we sat outside without ordering. We offered to, but they were bent on making a point. Oh well. Gabby is one of the coolest people we\u2019ve met and has a great sense of humor. That special spark that gives the funky brew that is Luscious fire.\u00a0 Speaking of that, Gabby, Jill Cunniff and Kate Schellenbach have just released their third album Electric Honey, and its flavor is everything you love about Luscious.<\/p>\n

We heard that you\u2019re in a basketball league.<\/strong>
\nI was on this team called the Varmints with Kate and Kathleen Hanna and Miho\u00a0 from Cibo Matto, it was kinda a rock\u2018n\u2019roll league or whatever.(laughs) Kate\u2019s in a league, a real one. She\u2019s like, serious.<\/p>\n

WNBA style.<\/strong>
\nNot quite that serious but . . . Personally, I\u00a0 really like two-on-two or three-on-three. The five-on-five, I was like, unhhhh…I\u2019m getting dizzy.<\/p>\n

What bands have you been playing?<\/strong>
\nWell, it\u2019s kinda random; we haven\u2019t really played this band against that band. We\u2019ve played the Beasties before but it was just shooting around.<\/p>\n

What kinda game they got?<\/strong>
\nThey got game.<\/p>\n

Because we played Orange 9mm. They should play them.<\/strong>
\nYeah? One of those guys used to work near my house, the singer. I stop playing when we\u2019re really close to touring because I jammed this pinky and I was really lucky it wasn\u2019t the other one. It would be really hard to play. I did play in London about four days ago. We did this really wretched press tour; they packed too much in there for us, and we had too much work to do.\u00a0 After everyone left, I stayed two days extra to just chill and I was walking down the street and this kid was coming the other way and had a basketball. Every time I walk by someone with a ball I kinda get this longing look, so he asked if I wanted to play. So we played two-on-two and, not to brag, but me and the guy won.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re bragging (laughter).<\/strong>
\nI know! But I think the other two guys were taking it easy on me. They could have been all in my face on D and they weren\u2019t so bad. That was really fun and it made the trip worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Where\u2019s the best place to play ball in NYC?<\/strong>
\nWest 4th is out of the question unless you\u2019re like huge and amazing, Tompkins is real good in the morning, anytime really. I\u2019ve played there for a long time. There\u2019re some courts on 5th Street between First and Second…<\/p>\n

Eleventh Street, too…<\/strong>
\nI went to that grade school!<\/p>\n

You got the name from the 76ers but you\u2019ve got to be Knicks fans<\/strong>
\nYeah, I mean the name sounded good, right?<\/p>\n

If you were in Van Gundy\u2019s place what would you have done differently? (Knicks lost the championship in the 5th game)<\/strong>
\nShit, I think he did such a good job, y\u2019know? I really do. It was interesting that Ewing was out because last year when he came back in when we were a pretty tight team. That kind screwed up the equilibrium. Ewing\u2019s great but it\u2019s a whole different game now.<\/p>\n

You tended bar at Irving Plaza?<\/strong>
\nI was fifteen and I was in this club Negril on Second and 12th — that\u2019s where the RockSteady crew started coming down. It was a cool little place, great shit every night and this guy came up to me and said \u2018I want you to work at my club. Are you eighteen?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Sure.\u2019 I had braces but I guess he couldn\u2019t tell. I bartended every Saturday night. Made like 90 bucks a night, got all my friends in, got \u2018em all free drinks; it was insane, the list I had.<\/p>\n

Did seeing all those bands make you want to start one?<\/strong>
\nI kinda had some fantasies about being in a band. When I was around thirteen, I first picked up a guitar but I originally wanted to play drums. I grew up on St. Marks and there was a record store around the corner called Freebeing and in the window they had a drum set for 250 bucks. I was gonna try to swing it but my mom was like \u2018where are we going to put that?\u2019 So I got a guitar instead. I had a little fantasy of writing songs on guitar but playing them live on drums.<\/p>\n

What was the first song you learned to play?<\/strong>
\nUmmmm……….<\/p>\n

\u2018Smoke On The Water\u2019?<\/strong>
\nNooo, what was it….<\/p>\n

\u2018Stairway To Heaven\u2019?<\/strong>
\nUmmmm……….Ramones, na na na na na na na na na na . . . \u2018California Sun\u2019! They didn\u2019t write it, though.<\/p>\n

Closest thing to a lead Johnny Ramone ever played!<\/strong>
\nHe lived around the corner from where I lived. After St. Marks, I moved to 10th and 4th. My mom would get really mad at me and hide the phone. His girlfriend would get really mad at him, and he\u2019d be outside making phone calls, so we\u2019d always be at the phone booth together. It was really funny.<\/p>\n

What was the first time you encountered someone who was like \u2018Oh, you\u2019re from Luscious Jackson!\u2019<\/strong>
\nI remember being on one of these blocks near here and I knew somebody and she was with someone else and the band name came up and the girl next to her goes \u201cOhhh . . . I hate Luscious Jackson sooo much!\u201d I just looked at her and was like \u2018I\u2019m sorry to hear that!\u2019 (laughs) So that was like the first thing. New York City is not the kind of place where people are like \u2018look who that is.\u2019 If you put Madonna in the Lower East Side, people aren\u2019t going to go crazy, unless they\u2019re tourists.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019re from the Village but you\u2019ve lived other places?<\/strong>
\nI spent a couple of summers in London when I was around 18. I expected dirt roads and it to be all colonial but it was really cool and a great time. France when I was 19, and when I was 21, I moved to San Francisco where I met up with Jill again and we lived in the Mission.\u00a0 That\u2019s when we started jamming together and writing lyrics, and then we went to Provincetown right after we made the demo tape, the first three songs off Manny. Our tape kinda got around there, someone gave it to someone else kind of thing and they were like \u2019I really like your tape.\u2019<\/p>\n

Where does that funky Luscious Jackson groove come from?<\/strong>
\nWow, you\u2019re giving me these cryptic ones! (laughs) We just mix it up and try to have a good time, y\u2019know? sound we like, beats we like, we put \u2018em in and\u00a0 . . .<\/p>\n

(the cafe owners got pissed at us at this point and made us move)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the best interview; we\u2019re getting kicked out!<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m so used to getting kicked out. All my life I\u2019ve been sitting in restuarants with people and the waiter will come over and go \u2018Excuse me. What are you talking about?\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t know. Why?\u2019\u00a0 \u2018People around are very offended and they\u2019re changing seats because you\u2019re saying some nasty stuff.\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Sorry.\u2019 (laughs)<\/p>\n

What do you think about doing a gender specific tour like Lilith?<\/strong>
\nThere\u2019re guys on it, too! (laughs) But it\u2019s obviously woman-based and what stands out is it\u2019s a real civilized tour, y\u2019know? You don\u2019t have the guy or girl with a bottle of Jack Daniels going \u2018fuck you!\u2019 with the cigarette hanging out of the mouth. You don\u2019t have all that madness. Some tours are totally out of control, like what you would expect a Led Zeppelin tour to be. This one everyone gets treated with respect and it\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n

Why do you hate men? I saw something like that in these notes . . .<\/strong>
\nMay I see that? That\u2019s a lie!<\/p>\n

No, Dan\u2019s a dumbass! It was reasons why men suck.<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s got to be a misquote. If it wasn\u2019t for a man, I wouldn\u2019t be here! I love the mens!<\/p>\n

OK, I\u2019ve got this date and I really like her and want to make a good impression. What would be Luscious Jackson\u2019s date tips?<\/strong>
\nMeet her around dusk, the magic hour. Sun\u2019s going down; lighting\u2019s beautifu; you both look good. Hang out in a park for a little while at first. Then it depends if you like to drink or not, you can always do the glass of wine at an outdoor place, pretend that you\u2019re somewhere in Europe or something.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in New York City and should pretend to be in Europe? Do Europeans pretend that they’re in NYC? (everybody laughs)<\/strong>
\nDon\u2019t talk too much about yourself. Don\u2019t be too pushy; she doesn\u2019t need the life story and all that stuff. Just have a good time and be objective in your conversation, not too personal. Don\u2019t get too personal\u00a0 on the first date. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good idea. Hopefully, you\u2019ll like good music because it\u2019s a drag when you\u2019re with someone and you find out they like horrible music!<\/p>\n

What five things make you happy?<\/strong>
\nFriends, guys I like, great music, basketball, comedy.<\/p>\n

Wow, that was really fast<\/strong>
\nPretty easy, huh?<\/p>\n

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