Interview with Jimmy Cabbs on underground metal

Los Angeles and beyond. What's up? This is Neighborhood Love Radio. My name is Johnny Scott Gramercy. It's my privilege to be your host and selector this evening. This is Neighborhood Love Radio. Tonight, I got in the studio here the legendary Jimmy Cabs. What's up, dude? Johnny, how you doing? Thank you for having me here. Yeah, I'm honored that you come down. Jimmy Cabs, loved one. You probably already know who he is if you're into any kind of subculture, underground culture. Los Angeles underground metal magnate. Law enforcement knows me very well. Jimmy Cabs. He knows everybody, anybody in the underground metal thrash zone. Hi, Jenny. And he's been around these parts. He was really happy to see Jenny over there, Bored Off Jenny, a.k.a. Hands Off Jenny. Hands Off Jenny, yes. She's still Hands Off, actually. I mean, I'm going to start you guys off. Go ahead and get doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing doing guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo Mr. Roy Ayers. Roy Ayers, Ubiquity. Stranded in the Jungle is the name of the tune. He's from Los Angeles. Prior to that, we went from Dayton, Ohio. 1978, All the Way Live. Lakeside was the name of the band. And before that, The Rebirth. This is coming too, and they got a question mark in the title. So it's a weird thing to say on the air. This is coming too. It's the name of the tune. That's featuring Ms. Baskerville Jones. Brand new music from The Rebirth. And we started off the set with L.A.'s own Orgone. Overtime is the name of the tune. That's featuring the vocals of Ms. Fanny Franklin, a prior guest on the show. I got to witness a pretty incredible show at a little joint in the valley called Scotland Yard last week. And Orgone played. They're from those, those parts. And they play like big festivals, big shows now, but they can, they did a little sort of homecoming in one of the original places they play, which is Scotland Yard, which has a capacity of like eight. Those are like the best environments. It was the best. It had like a round-robin thing because all the local musicians that are friends, like Gino Garofalo, Malik the Freak, and like some other local accomplished musicians that sort of, they all came up together. It just ended up being not a convention, not a conventional show. Like one band goes up and plays exactly their songs. Yeah, it's like, it's everybody's real, right? Like it's just a very comfortable, very like, you know, very comfortable, very secluded, yet welcoming environment because it's all friends. That's the cool thing about like funk. Most funk bands, like, not all, most, it's all communication, but with the funk music, a lot of times it's a two-way communication. It's interactive. Like I saw, um, uh, I saw a parlor, a parlor man one time, Parliament Funkadelic, and Bootsy came out and did like two shows and he jumped in the audience and walked around. He's all, I'm going to touch everybody here. And like touch, he fucking touched every person at the, at the Hollywood Palladium, you know? Trust me, at the after party, he touched more people. Probably. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, anyway, enough about me and let's talk to Mr. Jimmy Cabs, uh, LA underground metal, sort of journalistic legend. Thank you. Very kind of you. Usually I'm just called a dipshit. Usually people just say, fuck, you're still into that. We'll see. It's early in the show, so we'll see what happens. Uh, Jimmy Cabs is, he used to have a show here at Skid Row Studios. He's been, um, um, Pirate Radio. He's been involved in that back in the day. Um, written for Flipside, Maximum Rock and Roll. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of stuff I'm leaving off the list though. Yeah, you know, when you're, when you've been involved in like music and then you get into the journalistic part, uh, you know, it's a lifestyle, dude. You go on and on and on. It's, I think it's incredible though now that I think back that, you know, written magazines, uh, publications are becoming almost extinct now. Everything's on the web. Do you, uh, do you still look into fanzines? Cause I, I see them floating around once in a while. They're coming back, man. Yeah. And it's not, and it's no longer like bitter old guys like myself. It's young kids that are picking up the slack and bringing it back. Yeah. I got this, this dude who works at my day job and, um, he's a young dude. He's like 22, 23. And he's wearing peg Levi's and, and Vans old schools, which is fun. I mean, it's a little humiliating because they didn't, they weren't called that when I wore them and I, when I was a young dude. Um, but yeah, he probably, he, he rides freestyle bicycles, probably knows, like probably listens to like Minor Threat and all those bands we listen to when we were young. Well, it's, you have to. You have to. I think that, that's a weird thing cause I don't think it ever, now it may have gotten more or less popular but I don't feel like it ever really left. I don't feel like listening to the original Misfits ever, really stopped being cool that whole time. It's the same thing like with the premise of your show. You're gonna always go back to like Stevie Wonder. You're gonna always go back to Marvin Gaye. You're gonna always go back to those iconic soul fuckers. It's the roots, you know. What, um, what do you got going on nowadays? You know what, I've been writing for Bulldozer Magazine. I'm still keeping that whole spirit alive with the underground music. it's a, it's a published magazine here in Los Angeles. It's distributed throughout the whole United States and we just keep focusing on underground music. But I gotta tell you, one of the things that kind of gets interesting when you're dealing with those type of artists is you get a hunger to go back to the real classic stuff. There's only so much decapitated heads, fucking anthems you can hear, man. Yeah. Put on some Marvin Gaye and you put on some, you know, some good old soul panty dropping music, man. Now, do you prefer, um, I already know your answer, but, um, I'm sure you don't, just a standard, like you don't just do you don't just do standard interviews with bands, right? You're more of a Lester Bangs type of dude, like you're reporting on your experience with the bands, right? I'm the type of guy that you gotta remember for 30 years this music was in fucking cold. So, all of a sudden now we're, dude, you go to shows now there's like sexy females, you know what I mean? Like, you wanna bathe. And so when I do these interviews and these guys are coming around being like rock stars now, I remind them when they were eating a cup of noodles back then. Or that ugly girlfriend that looked like Lemmy, you know? Yeah. With the hairy armpits. Yeah. I keep it real, man. I think, I think when you sit down and you talk to an artist and it's not the standard interview and the fact that you are into music and you're relating to them as two music fans not, you know, a journalist and a musician, the spectrum opens up for me. And, What the, what are some of the, who comes to mind as like a, just a good, forget what came out in print or on the, or on the sound waves, like just, you had a great time in the interview. You thought it was a good all together communication process. Lemmy of Motorhead? Yeah. We discussed diabetic medication and how shitty sobriety is. Yeah, seriously. How? A lot of the stuff I couldn't print, you know, because of management and all that. But we talked about aging. Because dude, believe me, I don't know how he does it. He's hardcore. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Without a doubt. Um, and, uh, how many times have you been fired? How many times have I been fired? You know, that's interesting, man. I, I don't call it being fired. They just asked me not to come back. So I always assume, I always assume it's kind of like when you're dating a girl and she just doesn't take your call back anymore. I'm talking with, uh, Jimmy Cabs here. We're going to come back and talk a little bit more. Um, you want to hang out and listen to some music? I'd love to hang out. Play some, you know, I got a lovely lady in the booth over there. So if you could play some panty-dropping music, that'd be great. Uh, Macau Rhythm and Steel Band, they are known mostly as the Mighty Macombos. Um, from, uh, Germany. But they, there's nothing German about their tunes. Anyway, they get, they have like a thousand little aliases and AKAs. Anyway, we're going to hear them first. Uh, uh, Pimp is the name of the tune. It's a 50 cent cover. I think you'll enjoy it. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Pimp is the name of the tune. Thelonious Sanders. Memphis. Uh, Poet Dude. Hey, this is new music too. Bosk. Featuring Nicole Willis. I think you're going to dig it. Bad For Me is the name of the tune. On Ubiquity Recordings. Singles out right now. The LP is expected February 24th. I think you're going to dig it. Enjoy. Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go You know you're a sweet talker Gotta put you into the place You take all my affections My attention And then walk away I know you won't make it on your promises to be with me Time to lock up and hide the key Cause I know you're not the man I need Cause you promised me Why you gonna wait when you give up me your perfect Cause you said to me I'm the only one Ain't nobody else just one Cause you promised me Why you gonna wait when you give up me your perfect Cause you said to me I'm the only one Ain't nobody else just one You make me sad You make me sad You make me sad Cause you're bad You're super bad You're bad for me You're bad for me You make me sad Cause you're bad You're super bad You're bad for me You're bad for me you're bad for me you make me you're bad for me You're bad for me, you're bad for me I've been spending time being the good girl that you want me to be Giving my love to only you Keeping a home for just us two Why are you treating me like a fool? Things to you they don't apply though I'm done over and I can't Give my love to just one man Cause you promised me Why are you doing right when you're doing doing doing Cause you said to me I'm the only one and nobody else just one Cause you promised me Why are you doing right when you're doing doing doing Cause you said to me I'm the only one and nobody else just one Cause you promised me Why you gonna wait When you're giving me your love Cause you said to me I'm the only one Ain't nobody else just one Cause you promised me Why you gonna wait When you're giving me your love Cause you said to me I'm the only one Ain't nobody else just one You make me sad Cause you're bad You're super bad You're bad to me You're bad to me You make me sad Cause you're bad You're super bad You're bad to me You're bad to me You make me sad Cause you're bad You're super bad You're bad to me You're bad to me You make me sad Cause you're bad You're super bad You're bad to me You're bad to me You're bad to me You're bad to me Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bosk from Costa Mesa, California, believe it or not. I would have never thought that. Yeah. He's a pretty cultured dude. A lot of Afro and Latin rhythms with him. And he's pretty productive, man. Sort of an artist, producer, Bosk, B-O-S-K-U. That's featuring Nicole Willis. She plays with a band called The Soul Avengers. Anyway, the LP is expected out February 24th on Ubiquity Recordings. Bad for me was the name of the tune. Prior to that, Thelonious Sanders. Our pulse in it. Benjamin Thelonious Sanders, sorry. And before that, from Hamburg, Germany. The Picao Rhythm and Steel Band. Pimp was the name of the tune. As I mentioned, it's a 50 Cent cover. They're an alter ego of the Mighty Macombos. Mighty Macombos from Germany, they have a lot of little AKAs and alter egos, and that's one of them. That is out on Truth and Soul Records. That's actually from a comp, Truth and Soul comp called Falling Off the Real, Volume 4. Out a little bit earlier this week. I think it's a little bit later this month. Anyway, present time right here, right now, with Mr. Jimmy Cabs. We're talking a little bit about underground culture, underground music. We have a shared history with... because Loved Ones, that's how I first came up on my skateboard, you know? We're both mixtape experts. Yes. That's a... That's a lost art form. I don't think that will ever go away with me. We're talking about dubbing cassettes, and poorly, because that's all you had. No, but we didn't have, like, that kind of mix tape that you had at home. At least I didn't. I'd play records, and like, you'd hear that little pop in between songs, and try to make that girl that mixtape that's gonna get you in there. My favorite, when you would play the record and then have the radio, and then you could hear your mom in the background telling you to go get some milk. I did do that. And you'd hear... Sometimes I used to record off the radio all the time, and you'd hear the DJ voice like, you know, or the beginning of the call letters like, and then you'd clip, it would end right there. So you didn't get laid either, huh? I didn't have any money for records and stuff, so I had to get it where I could. You're talking about writing for Bulldozer magazine, but also you used to write for Flipside, Maxima Rock and Roll. Oh, that was an epic era, man. Legendary papers. That was great. You know, when you think back to that era, it's similar to, like, this type of genre of music. It was ahead of its time. It was a culture. Very, very brave. People were just doing different things that no one was doing at the time. Yeah, I remember Maxima Rock and Roll was pretty cool, because they were pretty lo-fi in production, you know, like, just simple black and white pages, high-contrast photos, you know? Yeah, they weren't McDonald's specialties either. And a gazillion ads for demos. Send $1 and a returned addressed envelope. A lot of artists became millionaires because of that. I mean, do you remember the Rob Zombie, White Zombie ads that were on there at the time before, you know? I don't, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, he was on there all the time, man. There was a band in the Bay Area called the Yeasty Girls. And I answered, and I did the ad from Maxima Rock and Roll, sent in $1 and returned envelope, and a stamped addressed return envelope, and they sent me a cassette and a used tampon. Oh, that's iconic. The Yeasty Girls. They're a cappella rap, and they would sing about, like, disgusting stuff. But that's what I missed, though, man. I missed the danger element in music. Do you think that still exists now? Because what supposedly is dangerous and extreme, I don't think it is. Yeah, it still exists, but it's, I think the novelty, everybody's a little more desensitized nowadays, so. But that's, I think, that's what always, I've always loved about the metal and thrash. Like, a lot of times, I mean, there's a lot of punk rock bands, man, that, I mean, there's no way to classify it all into one scene, but a lot of punk rock bands just take it so seriously. A lot of, all good metal is at least a little bit cheesy. All of it. Oh, without a doubt. All of it. And, I mean, the legends in the business, the people that stuck it out the longest are, I mean, Lemmy, King Diamond. I mean, they're just cheesy as hell. And people, and myself, and, and probably you, we just eat that stuff up. We love it. Yeah, man, and they all own Usher bullets now. Wow, types have changed. I got one for Christmas. I've used it, there's probably been two days since Christmas that I haven't used one. Oh. It's always, it's always interesting when you really reflect on music overall. Like, what I really like about your show is it still has that danger element, where you don't know what you're gonna be listening to next, and your mind is constantly expanding. Thanks, man. Yeah, man, and that's what it's all about with these type of shows. This is why these shows really are the foundation of real music, because we're the vocal point. We expose it to the audience. You know what, well, despite the genre of music, there's just kind of one thing I can't stand, man, and that's verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, bridge, bridge, chorus, chorus, chorus. Predictable. And it doesn't matter how fat the groove is, it's just gonna lose me in a few seconds if that's what happens. So these shows, I mean, they don't even necessarily have to be underground per se, but just where there's much more smaller venues, there's a lot more two-way communication going on between the artist and the audience, and that makes for better songwriting as far as I'm concerned. And I think the other day I was going back, and I got in a nostalgic mood about Metallica, and I went back and found some of them, when they were just getting on the festival circuit in Europe, because, you know, the metal was always a little bit bigger in Europe back then than it was here. It's always been thriving over there. And these young kids were on stage, a young Cliff Burton, and they're all, and they, you could just tell in their face, they're just eating it up, and that's gotta be such an amazing feeling now. And what happens down the line, you know? Yeah, we all get old. Yeah, it's no longer the novelty's there, the hunger's not really there, and the two-way communication's not really there. It just becomes a product that people are purchasing. And I'm not trying to bag on anybody, you know, especially not them, but it's not so interesting. You know, it's always funny because when you think back to the way it is, it just shows how we're aging. Maybe you are. I'm only getting younger. I gotta tell you, man, I don't know what Sephora moisturizers you're wearing, but you look amazing. Hey, thank you. Alabama Shakes made a lot of waves last year. They got some new music coming out this soon. And incredible singer. Check her out. Alabama Shakes. This isn't some time Yeah, it's for always If I'm gonna love you with all of my heart And if there is no more time There's always a man Even as the fire spins the sepulcher I remember the days I waited so patiently For God to bring me somebody Gonna be good to me You know it blessed my soul I'm gonna love you with all of my heart Well, I traveled a long way I traveled a long way And it took a long time Took a long time But I found you But you know I found you I remember on them lonely days I traveled out on my own Then you brought me everything And you made my house a home But it was not the real deal Well, I don't know Cause I showed that feel And I think it showed that show I remember all them days I waited so patiently For God to bring me somebody Gonna be good to me And you know it blessed my soul I remember all them days I waited so patiently For God to bring me somebody Go on doing doing doing Well, I traveled a long way I traveled a long way And it took a long time But I found you And oh, I found you And it blessed my soul I traveled a long way And it blessed my soul Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, it did Oh, yes, it did Oh, yes, it did Oh, yeah, it did Oh, yeah, it did Oh, yeah, it did Does it echo in your head? When you cry from the heartache Do you save the tears? When the wind blows Do you hear my whispers in your ear? Oh, my heart just won't be Without your strange eyes Strange love, strange love Oh, was it all just a dream? What is this strange love, strange love, strange love? What's it all mean? Oh, strange love Was this just a dream? Oh, strange love Strange love Our connection separates us Still I search my heart My perception is so clear now Watching you from afar Without permission Hoping and thinking That you'll soon be mine My intuition A feeling sinking That it's all in my mind Oh, my heart Just won't be Without you Strange love, strange love, strange love Oh, was it all just a dream? What is this strange love, strange love, strange love? What's it all mean? Oh, strange love Was this just a dream? Oh, strange love Strange love Strange love Strange love Strange love Strange love Strange love Strange love Strange love Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.