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Published on: 1/13/2007
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Eddie and the other three Supersuckers , guitarist Dan Bolton, drummer Dancing Eagle (a.k.a. Dan Siegal) and newest member, guitarist/ singer Rick Sims , are sitting in a conference room at the Hyatt [the infamous "Riot House" of Zeppelin fame] in beautiful uptown West Hollywood.
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Whatever Ron's reasons for leaving, they're irrelevant anyhow , the bottom line is that the Supersuckers wound up with the indie-label score of all time: Rick Sims, former frontman for the Illinois-based Didjits, joined up.
"We needed to get a guitar player, and we had two lists," Siegal/ Eagle explains."We had people out of town and people in Seattle.Rick Sims was on the top of the list of people out of town and nobody thought he would do it.But we called him first thing and he went, 'Sure.'"
"I don't think he said, 'Sure'," Spaghetti contends."He said,"
And, in unison, everybody imitates Sims: "Weellll ... okay."
The Supersuckers couldn't have found anyone more perfect.
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And Sims is happy that he doesn't have to carry the band's full weight."When I was in the Didjits," he says, "I wrote all the stuff.
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Nevertheless, Sims prefers to keep Chicago as his home base.
"We can't seem to get him to move," Spaghetti shrugs.
"Yeah," Sims agrees dryly.
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"In that song," Sims adds, "me and Bolton have, like, dueling rock guitar stuff going on.
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Like many a guitarist, Sims can give a nifty vocal imitation of his licks.He turns down my request for more examples, however.Too bad, because I would like to have heard his rendition of that familiar, classic riff at the end of "Ozzy."
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"Well, a spade is like a card," Sims dutifully explains.
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"We like those states that are conservative, racist and homophobic," Sims asserts.Then, naturally, he has to correct his statement.
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"They just said, 'We arrested him too,'" Sims says, imitating the cop's sarcastic drawl.Eventually, someone sprung them from their confinement, but not before Spaghetti had resigned himself to incarceration."I was all ready to spend the night," he says.
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