Hey,

So it's old, but I bet you bunch have never heard the Raw magazine (some
dull metal rag we get in the UK here) interview with Pete.

UK folk can get it in back issue (number 143 March 1994) by calling
0171-437-8050 and quoting their credit card number.  Alternatively - you can
e-mail me your card number and I'll order it for you!!!   ;) hehehe

If anyone's really desperate to see the interview and piccy of pete then
I can fax it or (even) mail it.

Painstakingly typed up by myself after a hard day at the office.  Words of
sympathy and support should be emailed to Rob@longland.demon.co.uk.

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Full name and nickname

        "Peter Steele.  Some people in Brooklyn call me Lurch after the Addams
        Family character."

Date and place of birth

        "4 January 1562.  Somewhere in Southern Europe."
        (Interrogator remarks that the subject doesn't look a day over 300).
        "Well, thank you, brother".

Current Home

        "Brooklyn, New York - the opitome of urban blight.  Do I have plans to
        leave?  Yes, my main goal in life is to get out of the city."

Previous bands

        "Most people might know of Carnivore.  Primarily we specialised in a
        blend of Hardcore, Thrash and early Heavy Metal.  Carnivore broke up
        because Mark, our other guitarist, wasn't too satisfied that some of
        the songs he'd written didn't go too well with what we were doing.
        So he left, and I was pretty bored, so we packed it all in."

Favourite drink

        "Skimmed milk.  I do drink some alchohol but only with women, usually
        red wine.  Why only with women?  Because I don't have any use for
        men whatsoever".

Three words to describe yourself?

        "Tall, White and Ugly"

What car do you drive?

        "A modified 1985 Grand Prix.  It's half car, half truck, like something
        out of Mad Max.  It's not very fast, but in its present shape everyone
        has more to lose than I do.  I barrel through traffic, not paying
        attention to red lights, stop signs or pedestrians"

When you were a child what career did you want for your adult life?

        "I thought about being a doctor 'til I realised that I'd have to do
        a hell of a lot of work towards getting there"

If your house caught fire,  what possession would you save first?

        "My girlfriend."
        (Interrogator suggests that feminsts would object to the girlfriend
        being called a 'possession').  OK, but I consider her mine and she
        considers me hers.

Do you get on with your parents?

        "Very well.  Did they encourage me in music?  Well, it kept me out
        of jail, out of the hospital and out of the morgue"

Best thing about being in Type O Negative?

        "There is no best thing.  Like I said earlier, my ultimate goal is to
        move out of the city.  Money represents independance,  if I can make
        some I can achieve my goal."

        (Interrogator expresses surprise at subjects honesty)

        "Its becoming more like a full-time job every day.  I've really started
        to dislike playing live, and the rest of the guys in this band wanna
        become rock stars.  I don't want that.  I will make the sacrifice by
        making an asshole of myself onstage just to keep the band together in
        the hope that maybe, somewhere down the line, I can make that dollar
        and move out of New York."

Last thing you do before going onstage?

        "Sometimes I take these really long shits, 'coz if I had to use the
        bathroom while I was onstage I'd have stop the song dead and say
        'I really have to use the bathroom so please be patient'.  We'd
        put on some muzak like they play in a doctor's waiting room, and
        half an hour later I'd come out feeling like a new man"

Where, when and at what age did you lose your virginity?

        "At my parents house, down the the basement.  I was 14, and it was
        my first girlfriend, who was also a virgin.  So I was one of the
        fortunate virgins not to have made a fool of myself with an
        experienced woman"

What event in history would you most like to have been at?

        "Any battle between two barbaric tribes."

        (Interrogator wonders if the subject is into the bloodshed, anger and
        violence of such a conflict.).

        "Not so much the bloodshed, but all that stuff is man's real
        nature.  Its nature's way of solving problems.  If men have problems
        they should fight it out and not take each other to court. It's too
        costly and time-consuming."

Strangest request you've ever had from a fan?

        "Female fans have asked me to have sex with them."

Favourite person in the world?

        "My mother"

And your least favourite person in the world?

       "Myself"

        (interrogator suggests that subject is a person with low self-esteem)

        "No, I'm just objective"

Most peculiar place you've had a bonk?

        "Under my back porch while my family were having a barecue.  I could
        look up right at them through the cracks in the wood and they had
        no idea I was there."

Which part of your body would you most like to change?

        "I'd swap my face for my arse, then I'd be better looking."

The worst thing about being in Type O Negative?

        "Having to play live"

Worst thing you've ever had written about you?

        "I've had them all.  Fascist, racist, sexist, satanist, communist..."

        (Interrogator assumes subject thinks he's mis-understood)

        "Extremely so.  Back in the States, the Right Wing over there think
        I'm a communist because I have long hair, and the Left Wing over here
        says I'm a Nazi.  I must be pretty balanced because I'm hated by all."

        (Interrogator reminds subject that his last LP was forced to be sold
        by mail order over here in the UK)

        "That was primarily because I put my arse on the cover, and most chains
        and distributors felt that it was crossing the line.  Or maybe it was
        too beautiful for their stores."

What are your views on groupies?

        "I pity them.  I have no interest in groupies.  I have no interest in
        drugs.  I have no interest in fame.  I pretty much want to make a few
        bucks and get out."

If you were a fly on the wall, whose wall would you most like to be on?

        "I'd just find the nearest window and fly out."

        (Interrogator suggests that our subjects an anti-social git)

        "Actually I'm a-social.  It's not that I don't like people it's just
        that I don't care about them."

Proudest moment of your life?

        A couple of years ago, when I realised that I had ceased to have to
        ask anybody else for anything.  It just kinda happened, and I'm
        pleased it came about because I don't like people asking me for
        stuff.  I believe in self-subsistence."

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Does anyone know exactly how old Pete is?  I would guess at er.. maybe
28?



Rob