KCM: How long has the band been together? MP: I put up a Craigslist ad in November of 2011 and at that time it was just me, I had made the record already and I needed a band to get behind it. KCM: So the record is all you? MP: Yes it’s all me. It originally started with this other guy but it didn’t work out so we split the songs. I took the ones I wrote and he took the ones he wrote. At the time I only had three songs so I had to write a few more, so I got together with a producer and we finished it all. He played drums and I played everything else. I used the album as a tool and my guitar player answered the ad like a week later and then the bass player answered and they were both super gun ho about being in the band. So we played together without a drummer for another two months and then we found Shane in January. Shane is probably the most experienced musician in the band and the youngest guy in the band. He’s a professional Jazz and Rock drummer so it took some coxing to get him into the band. He had five or six gigs going on at the same time, but then he decided that he really loved what we were doing and he decided to stay. KCM: So why Electric What’s behind the name?
Black
Horse?
MP: This is kind of funny but it’s a true story. I travel for a living and I happened to be in L.A. I went to a bar and they had one of those mechanical bulls. I got really drunk and I was thrown from the bull and when I fell my head hit the wooden post like a corral. That ended up to be a big joke of the night. The next day when we were driving my friend said” Hey man you almost got killed when you got thrown off that electric horse” and that name just stuck in my head “Electric horse” so then later we drove by this horse farm that had all these race horses and when we stopped at a light there was a sign on this stone wall that said “The Black Horse”
and I was like “Electric Black Horse” that’s the greatest band name of all time! I went home that day and bought Elecrticblackhorse.com and yeah I sort of built the band around the name. KCM: It was a sign! MP: Yeah totally, and even to this day if people don’t like the music the first thing they say is Electric Black Horse it’s a great fucking name. I’ve given the record to people like Dee Snyder and Scott Weiland and the first thing they’d say was; Electric Black Horse what a great name. I don’t know if they listened to the music because if they did I’d probably be little bit farther along but at least they liked the name. KCM: As a front man you’ve created this character, so who is he? MP: It’s probably every Rock’n’Roll front man all rolled up into one with me trying to be myself as much as possible. Listening to the album is one thing but if people are going to pay and come to a show, I wanna give them something that’s out of control. KCM: My first impression of you was Bowie meets T-Rex but with no hair! MP: (Laughing) two guys that I love! I love Bowie and Marc Bolan. All that stuff Mott the Hoople, Sweet, Slade especially T.Rex. To me the music is great already but what they were doing visually just enhanced it all. KCM: Who are your favorite bands of all time? MP: I love funk, Sly and the family Stone are one of my all-time favorites. Kiss, Cheap Trick, Ramones, and Aerosmith. Vain is one of my more current super-duper influences. I like the stuff that reels the girls in and makes the guys wanna stay. KCM: If you could have the perfect musical era right now, what would you call it?