The Mr. T Experience: Girls and Television
From Dutch television
Ruud de Wild: We've got the Mr. T. Experience here. Nice to meet you guys!
Joel, Jym, Dr. Frank: Yeah [...]
Ruud de Wild: Nice to meet you. Okay, who and what is Mr. T. Experience?
Dr. Frank: ... is a Punk Rock band from Berkeley, California... and... it's... just a ten-year-old Punk Rock band with songs about girls and television...
Ruud de Wild: Songs about girls and television? Nothing about cars and accidents?
Dr. Frank: No, no cars and accidents. Mostly girls and t.v., the television shows we watched when we were kids and the girls that are destroying us now and in the future. There's not much more to say than that, you know, it's: Punk Rock band, Girls, T.V.
Ruud de Wild: Okay, what are you doing in the band?
Joel: What am I doing in the band? Yeah, that's a good question. I often asked myself the same thing. But... truthfully... uhh... I think that I was born to be in this band. I think it was destiny. That is as good an answer as anyone... uhh... it was fated to be, by a power greater than us, and far beyond our understanding.
Ruud de Wild: Are you guys like Green Day?
Jym: Are we LIKE Green Day ?!?
Ruud de Wild: DO you like Green Day?
Jym: Do we like Green Day? Yes, we like Green Day. We're not LIKE Green Day, though.
Ruud de Wild: You're playing with Green Day...
Joel: Absolutely correct. We're playing a European Tour with Green Day, eight weeks. It is fairly comprehensive. It should hit every major Western European nation, and a few Eastern ones as well. And we're greatly looking forward to it." [NOTE: THIS TOUR WAS CANCELLED]
Ruud de Wild: Who's the song-writer?
Dr. Frank: Me...
Ruud de Wild: On your own?
Dr. Frank: Yes, I'm Dr. Frank and I make up all the little songs about girls and television.
Ruud de Wild: Only girls & television?
Dr. Frank: You know... that's pretty much... uhh... I try to think of an exception, but I...
Joel: That's fair to say, I think that... uhh... Dr. Frank's song-writing genius is exclusive to girls and television. Sometimes girls and television in the same song, sometimes only television.
Ruud de Wild: Can we expect in the near future a song about bottles and beaches?
Jym (slightly irritated by this question): I DON'T THINK SO !!! Just girls and television.
Joel (in the meantime, to Dr. Frank): Beaches...
Dr. Frank: Oh... bEAches...
Ruud de Wild: Girls and bitches... Is there a message in the music of Mr. T. Experience?
Joel: Uhh... if there's any message at all, it would be the...
Ruud de Wild: Girls and television?
Joel: Girls and television and just that... it's easy to be hurt by love. But it's not so easy to be hurt by television. Television is our friend!
Dr. Frank: Television is our friend...
Joel: Girls are not!
Jym: Girls bad, television good...
Ruud de Wild: What? Sorry?
Jym: Girls bad, television good...