Deer Tick: ‘Today’s Rockstars Are Pussies’

Alternative band Deer Tick think the party hard rockstar mentality is a thing of the past, with the exception of themselves.

In a recent interview, frontman John McCauley confessed to his band's own brand of hell-raising antics.

“You know, shit happens,” McCauley smiles. “We've done some pretty funny things, on and off-stage. Shit like taking insane amounts of LSD and flooding our hotel room, and lighting our guitars on fire, whatever... Sometimes we're in the mood, sometimes we're not. I mean we always try to put on a good show, and when we don't we generally feel pretty bad about it. But I think seeing us live makes our records make a little bit more sense. There's not a lot of bands around now that do what we do, which is anything that we fucking want.”

McCauley admitted not everyone was a fan of Deer Tick's behaviour, but he and his bandmates couldn't care what others think.

“I don't know, when I read The Dirt, that Motley Crue book, I was, like, 'Man, musicians today are a bunch of fucking pussies!' We get frowned upon for acting up and doing some of the things that we do, and it's just kind of, 'Well, look at who our heroes are!'”

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