Cyco Miko Suicidal Survivor

Rip It Up, Issue 219, 1 November 1995, Page 16

Cyco Miko Suicidal Survivor

Recently Mike Muir (legendary frontman for the legendary Suicidal Tendencies) and his band of merry, troubadours visited these shores. If anyone was blessed enough to catch the Cyco Miko/lnfectious Grooves type thang, they would have seen Mr Miko doing his Cyco thing on stage. If you missed out on Mike’s fiery and ferocious* performance, then - ' fret not, for here are some fiery, ferocious and damn straight answers from a damn straight shooting from the hip kinda guy. .' \' ', ' ‘

During his time as Suicidal Tendencies frontperson, Mike Muir wrote some jolly intelligent, witty and perceptive lines, and proved he could be deeper than a deep sea diver diving deeply in a deep sea. Dive deeply and journey to uncharted and, at times, unfathomable waters, as we give you Mr Muir’s views about... Politics and the Government ‘I went to your schools / I went to your churches...’ etc., etc. “Whenever anyone runs for office, they always say: ‘l’m going to make your life better.’ Well, if anyone ever says that to me, I'm gonna beat the shit out of them because that’s insulting. How the fuck can they make my life better? They don’t know who the fuck I am.” Bill Clinton and Splinters in Yo’ Ass? “Clinton got elected because he said he believed in a place called Hope. If he said he believed in a place called Hard Work he never would have been elected. Hope’s a bench you sit on and get splinters in your ass. I don’t believe in PC [political correctness], I believe in CS, common sense. If people had common sense there’d be a lot less need for politics." Fear “We need only fear the sky falling on our heads." Chief Vitalstatistix

“There is nothing I’m scared of. My father said: ‘lf you’re scared of something, you should do it.’ That’s why you should never be scared of things. Fear is something you create when, in reality, it should be something you destroy." Rage Against Rage Against

the Machine A couple of years back there was some sort of tiff between Mike and the RATM boys. Was it all some inflated media bollocks, like the Blur/Oasis rivalry, or did they really despise each other? You be the judge. “I really hate rich kids telling everybody how screwed up the world is. You come to where I grew up and try to live there! I don’t need you to tell me how fucked up everything is. If you say the fundamental problem is corporations, then why are you signed to one of the biggest corporations in the world? Everything they do is majorly hypocritical.” Extreme Rage Against Rage Against the Machine “They are a bunch of fucking idiots. In interviews they say the reason they got together was the violent overthrow of the government. They never spent a day of their life in jail. They never had unjust happen to them. If they think they can overthrow the government, why did they start calling up my label and manager and going

[imitates scared, wimpy ‘Rager’, .whining pathetically in a pussyish way] ‘ooooooooooh’, when I said; ‘You’re a bunch of fucking pussies and I’ll beat your ass any city.’ They should shut the fuck up\ ‘ Final Word on ' . Rage Against the Machine ; “They're pussies!" " Woodstock and Lollapaloser : “We ' are not part of that fake hippy shit. Woodstock was completely stupid. We : do . not want to fit in. We want to give people a ’different presentation. If people don’t like it, they, can go listen, to some other crap they think makes them happy." : \ f ‘ • . . ’ , ■ / Mike’s Music \ \ A “No bullshit. No bullshit. That’s how I’m v ; ? </ livin’ my life." : • c :No bullshit z ’ - r : \ After experiencing Infectious Grooves and Cyco Miko: live, it was . a pleasure to find Mike was absolutely spot on when asked what the fans ; in New Zealand could expect live. '' . “We play great music. That’s the only kind to play." -...t> •’

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