High on Firen ja Sleepin Matt Pike Aerosmithistä: ”Kaksi suosittua kappaletta ja loput urasta on höyryävä kasa koiranpaskaa”

Pitkän uran tehneen stoner rock -yhtye Sleepin kitaristi ja nykyisin myös astetta raskaampaa stoner metalia soittavan High on Firen kitaristi-laulaja Matt Pike ei ilmeisesti ole rock-jätti Aerosmithin fani. AV Clubin haastattelussa häntä pyydettiin nimeämään kappale, josta hän pitää vähiten ja hän nimesi Aerosmithin ”Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” -kappaleen. Huumorilla höystetyssä haastattelussa Pike sanoo Aerosmithin olevan kaikkien aikojen yliarvostetuin bändi, mutta varsinkin tuo kappale ärsyttää häntä niin paljon, että hänen tekisi mieli puukottaa ihmisiä. Se kuulostaa Piken korvaan samalta kuin raapisi liitutaulua tai vetelisi haarukalla lautasta pitkin. Piken mielestä Aerosmith ei ole tehnyt mitään sitten 1970-luvun ja silloinkin se oli perseestä. Lisäksi heillä on vain kaksi suosittua kappaletta ja kaikki muu on höyryävää koiranpaskaa. Pike kertoo soittaneensa Aerosmithin kanssa joskus samoilla festareilla ja halunneensa oksentaa nähdessään yhtyeen kitaristi Joe Perryn pelaamassa Guita Heroa itsestään tehtyä pelihahmoa vastaan. 

Matt Pike: I’ve just always had this thing with Aerosmith. The guy sounds like a goat. [Bleating.] “Baaa, baaa, dude looks…” It just gets under my skin. I have this button called the off button or the mute button that I call the Aerosmith button on all my stereos. I just have this weird thing with Aerosmith, where I don’t even care what people say about their old shit. I think they’re the crappiest, most overrated shit band of all time. And I fucking can’t stand them. [Laughs.] And that particular song gets under my skin to where I want to stab people.

The A.V. Club: Why this song more than any of their other songs?

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MP: I don’t know. Just because. The whole fucking theme to the song is retarded, and it sounds like someone scratching a chalkboard or putting a fork to a plate every time I’ve fucking ever heard it in my life. I can’t get through 30 seconds of it without fucking wanting to barf. [Laughs.] That’s pretty much where I’m at with that.

AVC: This song is also offensive. It’s gay-bashing in lyrical form.

MP: Yeah, it’s just… ugh. I don’t know. That was a ’70s cliché, singing about transvestites and finding out the hard way, and then on top of it having fucking Steven Tyler sing about it and do it in the most annoying way, where you just want to put the guy in a fucking chokehold. [Laughs.] Make him fucking tap out before he can get another word out of his mouth.

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AVC: It’s supposed to be about Mötley Crüe, or Vince Neil in particular.

MP: Well, I don’t care. I love Mötley Crüe, because they’re fucking 10 times the band that Aerosmith is.

AVC: Aerosmith’s members haven’t done themselves any favors with their recent career moves, either. They aren’t making anyone think they’ve gotten any cooler.

MP: Oh God, I saw a live show. We played at some festival they played on. They were the headliner, of course, and Joe Perry had his little Guitar Hero videogame, and he did a guitar solo with his fucking videogame guy. It’s cartoon him and real him having a guitar-off. That made me want to puke, too. Then all I could think about was “Dude (Looks Like A Lady),” and then all I could think about was their vast career of bad fucking choices. The simpletons of society have just eaten it up and made them as big as they are. They’re just encouraging them to make bad music over and over again.

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That band hasn’t done anything since the ’70s. And in the ’70s, which was their most redeeming era, they still fucking sucked. Two good tracks that just won everybody over, and the rest of their career has been a hot, heaping pile of dog shit. I’m just not into Aerosmith, I suppose.

AVC: You don’t even like “Crazy,” “Amazing,” or “Cryin’”? The great trilogy from the ’90s?

MP: No, I find it offensive, and I think they should be thrown out. I’m sure they’re in the [Rock And Roll] Hall Of Fame. [They are. Inducted in 2001. —ed.] The endless amounts of awards for a polished turd. Actually, that’s what they are: They’re a polished turd. You dress them up in clothes, but they’re still a piece of shit. They walk around smelling really bad, sounding really bad, and making millions of dollars.

AVC: People keep responding to it, so they keep doing it. They take it even further.

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MP: Yeah, they’re just encouraging a bunch of shitty old men to play shitty music.