and we can make more money if we stay at home. On my wish list of bands in the Psychobilly world would be Nekromantix and Mad Sin would be up there, but on the other side I think we’d do good with bands like Social Distortion, Rancid and the Misfits and then also I think we’d like to go outside of that realm and jump on tours with punk rock bands, metal bands even some of the older bands like Faster Pussycat I think we could do a good run with and again that would be expanding our audience. We’d probably play to people who never heard of us and that’s how we’d win over a whole new fan base. We spoke to Taime about it and we’ll be pursuing that. KCM: What’s to your advantage actually is that you can fit on tours with bands from different genres of music. Mickey: Yes for sure and that’s how we’re going to grow our fan base by playing to people of different musical genres. KCM: These days a lot of the younger bands don’t think that way and I think it’s because they lack experience which certainly you have a lot of. Mickey: Yes and nowadays it’s hard to get an agent, it’s hard to get a manager and it’s hard for a label to give you any support so you gotta figure it all out on your own. Kids today they do have the internet, they have Facebook and these type of social networks which we didn’t have back in the day, but on the downside you’re now competing with bands all over the world and the market is definitely over flowing. It’s not good enough to just be on MySpace and Facebook and Twitter now you gotta be a master at it and you gotta figure out how to get the most plays and the most views so it’s definitely tough. KCM: But in your case I think that you have the upper hand on everything.
Mickey: Yeah, we just have to keep on touring and we have yet to lose. We have yet to play a losing show. KCM: You have a lot of tattoos on your body, could you possibly pick a favorite? Mickey: I have some favorite work. I have a friend in L.A. and he owns a tattoo studio on Melrose called Zap Tattoos his name is Von Shock he did my whole back piece and the masks on my side which are actually from an old Ed Hardy design and then I have another friend named Justin Lewis who’s working out of Burbank and he did the flying pumpkin with bat wings in the center of my chest, so that’s like my most recent one and he’s an amazing artist. Yeah those are probably my favorite two. You know Danny’s gotten all of his work from Mark Mahoney at Shamrock Tattoos. We’ve been fortunate to get work done by a lot of amazing people and then there’s the little stuff. I got a little hot sauce bottle when I was in Louisiana and I got a little alligator head in Florida. I like to get things that represent States that I had great time in. KCM: After Jetboy ended what did you do all those years? Did you ever want to reunite with them? Mickey: Well Yeah we actually just did reunite. We did a Jetboy reunion show on June first at The Whiskey and it was the original 1990 Damned Nation tour line up so we had the original drummer and we had Charles Norman on bass who was in the “Evil” video and did that tour with us and the original guitar players and it was great, we’ve had a great time. We’ve done a few Jetboy shows over the years. In the last five or six years we’ve done the M3 Festival a couple of times and Rock the Bayou and Midwest Rock Fest we’ve done a bunch of those and we’ll probably