Well I came up to Seattle a few years back, about three years ago and I just sort of kicked it around, did a lot of writing and things like that. People had been coming up to me and saying "Why don't you do that? Let's do it." and I kind of toyed with the idea. I thought well you know, I don't want to reform the band because everyone's got their own thing. Everyone from the second album line-up is pretty much doing their own thing. I wanted to give it more of a personal insight and angle. I thought the best thing to do was take the concept with which I had started the band in 1979-1980, to the year 2000 because there was no way I could think of reforming those members. I thought it would be a good idea to take the concept and see what happens. So about 3-4 years ago I decided that I would do it.
HIP: So who's in the band right now?
Right now I've got Tom Curry on drums. Me on guitar, vocals and songwriting. I've got my wife Sherry who used to head the hardcore punk band Rubber from Seattle. It was three girls and it was just fucking amazing! She's a perfect guitar player. I've always wanted the band to have a chunkier, heavier edge to it since day one but it's hard to play guitar and sing at the same time. I never could find the right guitar player to fit the mold and it just happens to be fate that she fits the mold. On bass I've got a guy named Jeffrey Sopko, keyboards I've got Jack Atlantis, who's also a producer and solo artist. He used to have a band named Drumatic. He's a professional, also a great engineer and producer. So when it comes time to do a KFK album for the year 2000 he'll produce it I hope.
HIP: None of the original members?
No because for one, in the past weve had a few head-trips going on, too many head-trips. I'd done some collaborations, musically as well as songwriting and some of it started to get taken over to where it started to sound like Depeche Mode and that's not what I had in mind when I started the fucking band. It was more like death rock, you know. I wanted it really heavy and early Bowie-ish like his first five albums. So there's no way we could ever re-unite. I don't really trust that situation.
HIP: I saw you guys at the Sunset Junction Festival (L.A.) and you weren't playing guitar, was it just for the show or will you also not be on guitar for the new KFK?
Well we played our first show as the 1999 Kommunity FK at the El Rey Theatre January 18th 1998 and that was a killer show. I wore a long black wig and we sounded fucking amazing, I got this killer video of the whole show. I just wanted to get away from playing guitar, I always had. I've always wanted to find a guitar player so I could be more of a frontperson. Its more fun to be without a guitar. I love playing guitar but I just really wanted to be a frontperson. Though I think I will start playing guitar a little more when I need two guitars otherwise Sherrys going to hold all the guitars down. Shes a fucking amazing guitar player.
HIP: What made you decide to reunite Kommunity FK instead of starting something totally new?
The demand for it. I noticed by getting on the Internet that theres tons of other eluding, unofficial KFK stuff on there. I checked them all out and I was just amazed, and when I worked at Retail Slut I had people going in there all the time going dude, when are you going to play again? Plus Ive kept putting stuff out on compilations and I thought, fuck man, I love Kommunity FK Its always a part of me, always was, since the day it came out of me and I just see it foregoing. It wont stop; I mean everything Ive tried to do, starting other bands and all that stuff, always ends up someone wants to hear KFK. I just figured, fuck it, lets just do it. 2000, heavy fucking year you know, the millennium ending and all that stuff. New and beginning, its perfect. Perfect setting for us.
HIP: Retail Slut? It seems like everyone has worked there at one time or another. When did you work there?
Me and my wife Sherry both worked there. I stopped working there October 19, 1998 when I broke my leg. I got hit by a car skateboarding.