RAG: How did you come up with the name UNDEAD?
Bobby: Well, it's because I hate the Grateful Dead so much and I think rock and roll is something that should be alive.
RAG: How long has the band been together?
Bobby: Since January '81.
RAG: Where did you do your first gig?
Patrick: The A7 club.
RAG: Did you headline?
Bobby: Yeah, we headlined.
RAG: What was the crowd's reaction to the Undead?
Bobby: They liked us.
Patrick: Chaos.
RAG: How many songs did you play at that gig?
Patrick: 11 or 10.
Bobby: We did songs back than that we forgot now. We don't do them anymore.
RAG: Do you guys get together to write songs?
Bobby: Most of the songs are written separately, but we have written a few together.
RAG: Do you have a favorite aong?
Bobby: The "1812 Overture".
RAG: I mean a favorite Undead aong.
Patrick: I like "I Left My Heart In San Francisco", our newest one.
RAG: Why?
Patrick: I like Tony Bennett.
Bobby: "Our Kind Of Town".
RAG: Why?
Bobby: It's got a good beat, you can dance to it. I'd give It an 85.
Natz: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco".
RAG: Why?
Natz: Bacause it's fast.
RAG: How many gigs have you played so far.
Bobby: Maybe about 25 or 30.
RAG: How is it that you play more out-of-town gigs than the other up and coming NY band like The Attack or Even Worse?
Bobby: We try harder.
Patrick: Bobby works his ass off.
RAG: Do you have a manager?
Bobby: Na.
RAG: Do you have an album or an EP out yet?
Bobby: We are putting out an EP soon.
RAG: What songs are going to be on it.
Bobby: Alright, here's the big question. Let's aee if I can remember them all. I always forget one. Ah--
Patrick: "'84".
Bobby: Nah, it's going to be "Life Of Our Own", "When The Evening Comes", "My Kind Of Town" and "I Want You Dead".
RAG: What label is putting it out?
Bobby: PLAN 9.
RAG: What kind of music do you consider your music to be?
Bobby: Punk.
Patrick: Chaos.
Bobby: Punk rock. Loud. Fast.
Patrick: Music to kill kids by.
RAG: Any bands inspired you to play this kind of music?
Bobby: First it was British, then the NY Dolls but a lot of my influence comes from Sunkist orange sodas.
Patrick: Liberace. I like Liberace,
RAG: What about you, Natz?
Natz: It all comes froa Neil Sedaka. It all originates from, that.
Bobby: I really like Buddy Holly. That's where the serious influence--
Patrick: and there's Eddie Cochran. You can go back to those guys.
RAG: some of the early big bands, like the Clash for example, started out very raw. Now they seemed to have mellowed out.
Natz: That will never happen to us.
RAG: Now they are playing the kind of music that Springsteen fans can identify with. Do you think this la a sign that punk is dying?
Bobby: Nah, you know. It's like, you know. It's like, you know--
Patrick: Punk never died. It's been going on since 1917.
Bobby: Yeah, the Beatles did it. You know, they came out in toilet seats. Yeah, you know, dressed like toilet bowls, ha ha....
Natz: Punk ain't dead. It's just out of the media and back into the streets, where we like it anyhow.
Bobby: There's always a chance we could get a number 1 hit on WABC, but it won't be anything different from what we are doing now.
Patrick: Bands mellow out, but bands sell out. That's the thing.
RAG: What states have you played in?
Bobby: We played in Pennsylvania.
RAG: What's the punk scene like In Pennsylvania?
Bobby: It's not that big, but the kids we played for were really into it. They were cool. They were dancing, you know...
Patrick: It's small, but it's good down there.
RAG: You played in New Jersey, what's the punk scene like there?
Natz: Boring as hell.
Patrick: They should blow up New Jersey.
RAG: What club did you play in Philadelphia?
Bobby: We palyed at Omni.
RAG: What club did you play in Jersey?
Bobby: We played at Knups and uh--
Patrick: Shitsvllle, ha ha
Bobby: Ha ha ha. Don't say that, they might read this. It was Hitsville. We played the Fast Lane and--
Patrick: City Gardens.
Bobby: Yeah, and city Gardens is about the best club we played in New Jersey.
Patrick: Yeah.
RAG: Why's that?
Bobby: Good crowd, you know. They were diving off the stage, getting drunk and puking, you know.
Patrick: And it's funny looking at fat people.
RAG: You played Studio 10 and it got bombed a week later. You played Omni and it burned down two weeks later. You played Knups and they closed a few weeks later. Does this mean anything?
Bobby: Ha ha ha. The night we played the Peppermint Lounge there was a fire. Ha ha.
RAG: Oh shit, I didn't know about that one, that got by us. What does this mean?
Bobby: Ha ha. It means nothing. It means they should be nice to us. Ha ha ha...
Patrick: That's their problem. Ha ha...
RAG: Has this prevented you from getting booked at other clubs? Ha ha--
Bobby: Ha ha. Nah, nobody's added that up yet. Ha ha...
RAG: OK, anything else you want to add, I can't think of anything else.
Patrick: Prince Charles is a faggot.
Natz's girlfriend: Yeah.

Ronnie Ramone