Interview

WHO IS PiNEAPPLE PRiNCESS?
Beth - ukein’, drinkin’, hollerin’.
Pamela -
drinkin’, ukein’, singin’, providing ethnic substance.
John B - the conga-thumpin’ pounder that keeps it all together.
Plus our newest member, the “Party Machine”- our electric bubble blower which provides proper atmosphere!

WHERE DID YOUR BAND NAME COME FROM?
An Annette Funicello song.

IF YOU COULD OPEN FOR ANYONE, WHO WOULD IT BE?
Beth: Tiny Tim (R.I.P.), the Butthole Surfers.
Pamela: The Fugs.

IF YOU COULD PLAY ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE?
The floating stage at the Tonga Room in San Francisco.

DISCOGRAPHY:
A collection of badly recorded cassette tapes. We put effort into them though, dammit! We are a better LIVE experience than a CD experience.

INFLUENCES:
Sex, Drugs and rock ’n’ roll!!!  And our big mouths – we told so many people we were gonna start this band that we had to live up to our word.

GENRE:
Hawaiian Punk Rock Electric Ukulele played with the distortion knob on 11!

FAVORITE PLACE:
The Chamleon bar (R.I.P.).

FAVORITE FOODS:
Beer is good food.

FAVORITE DRINKS:
Beth likes cheap beer, free beer and Jagermeister, Pamela likes exspensive beer, beer, cheap beer, homemade beer, stale beer with salt and/or pepper (a trick her grandpa taught her), Jack Daniel’s chaser. John likes anything with caffiene!

FAVORITE TOUR EXPERIENCE:
Well we only left SF once to play in Venice Beach, CA. We played a tiki party at Otto (of “Tiki News” magazine)’s house. The show was a success, and culminated in our discovering a very appealing bush outside the venue.  So appealing in its bulbousness, in fact, that we were swept away in the moment and found ourselves flinging our bodies against it trampoline style.  The bush didn't have as much fun as we did... and we left quietly the following morning.

FAN STORY:
When we played with Jim Beloff and he got so excited that he drunkenly danced in his underwear during our set.

PRE SHOW RITUALS:
Blasting “Polynesian Girl” by Home Grown as we dance around onstage.

IDEAL SHOW SIZE:
Small, croweded dive bar.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AS A BAND?
Get as many free drinks as possible, have fun, and get people to not take themselves so seriously.

FUNNY BAND STORIES:
Story #1: Pineapple Princess was invited to play a KISS night, where a bunch of bands were to cover KISS songs. Seeing that it was at a place called the “Rock and Bowl” (a rock and roll bowling alley) we agreed.  We called ourselves PISS, “Princesses in Satan's Service.”  Beth was Gene and Pamela was Paul, and that night found us on stage dressed respectively as such (ugh!), looking across endless bowling lanes, and at the most apathetic group of heshers ever gathered.  They didn't even look up from their games, but we courageously “bowled” through “Beth” and “Dr. Love,” and managed to eek out one of the sloppiest, most horribly distorted sets ever. 
Story #2: Pineapple Princess had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Tiny Tim before he passed to the tulip patch.  He was magnificent in his hugeness and his Mickey Mouse pantsuit.  After the show, which was eye-opening, we met the master himself.  We thought that we could share our ukulele comraderie with the gift of our band stickers. He smiled as he took our offering, but instead of treasuring them, or even looking at them, he drunkenly scrawled what we have perceived as his autograph, and handed them back to us with a lechorous grin.

ANYTHING ELSE?
Uke till ya puke!