Jerry Only
Jerry Only
Jerry Onlyis an American musician, well known as the bassist for the Misfits and later the vocalist as well...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth21 April 1959
CityLodi, NJ
everybody kidding realized situations
There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
original step stuff time vein
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
discovered obviously
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
dime
Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
cost funds gig last misfits money paid work
The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.
hated locked music
I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.
bands ramones
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
horse hour manhattan northern riding ski slope town
We're about an hour out of Manhattan up in northern NJ. We've got a ski slope in our town and horse riding and all that kind of stuff.
aspects cool corny gonna guests horror
We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.
roles
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
held joey johnny ramones
The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.
With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.