Hi there everyone, this is Phoebe Pinnock and you're watching Tone Deaf TV and tonight
I am very honoured to be here with Terry Genderbender from Le Butchuretz all the way from LA, but
originally from Mexico, how are you going? Oh, I'm great. I'm not even jet-fugged. That's
how great I am. I know. And amazing, Terry's just driven all the way from Sydney to Melbourne
in one day and all the museos out there will know the pain of that and she's about to go
on stage and smash it at the North Pit Social Club tonight here. In front of four people.
Sold out crowds. So welcome so much to Australia Terry, I just wanted to welcome you on behalf
of all the musicians out there watching. How are you finding Australia so far? I'm finding
Australia to be very romantic in a way, like being in a van for eight hours, just looking
at all the little cows, kiss the grass and the sheep just hum along to the sound of the
wind. I think it's a very romantic continent and I don't know, the vibe. You know what
I mean? Definitely. I'm a little shy. I'm a little camera shy. But that's good. Don't
be shy. You're here with Melbourne and we all love you. Oh, hi. I love you. And you
just had two sell-out shows in Sydney, yeah? Yeah, it wasn't really me. It was the Amaro
Rodriguez Lopez group. He was the one that people go for him, but it's an honour to be
able to share and it was stage meetings. Definitely. Now for those people that are watching, Omar
is from the Mars Volta and he plays the bass in Terry's band. So how did you guys hook
up? It all started in 2008 in Guadalajara. I was playing a small gig at this bar called
Efe Volco, but the lights went out and he was there in the crowd. He was going to see
another friend of his play in another band, but me and my other drummer at the time, we
just kept playing a caffella. It was just the notion of the act of doing that he liked
and then he set up a lunch date the next day for all of us and all of the other people,
your friends, to just talk and feel things out, to see if we have that working chemistry.
And that's how the idea of recording an album together came out. He produced since then
the LP. So did you know the changes of lineups and he asked and he said, well, you're free
right now, you're not touring or anything. That's fine. Did you know he was there that
night when the lights went out? Did you know he was in the crowd and you're thinking I've
really got to interest him so he's good at all stuff? Man, that's a really good question.
Sometimes out of embarrassment I would say no. I didn't know he was there, but they told
me that he was there and I said, oh my, I must do something to cause attention. I'm being
honest now. That's fantastic. Well, that's what it's all about. You've got to be unstoppable
in your dreams and you've done that. So when you went and met with him for lunch the next
day and you said you've asked him, was that something you just went, yes, I've got to
take this opportunity and I'm going to ask the question rather than be asked myself?
From there, when he asked, when he said we should get together for lunch, I just said
to myself, oh, he's being a nice guy and it's probably not going to happen. A lot of people
always say, oh yeah, we'll see you later now and it never happens. But no, he was a man
of his word. We got together the next day and I just told myself, just play it cool.
Play it by ear. If anything should come out of this, it should be a friendship and not
really look at it as a, oh, I must use him to freaking make me someone. I know I just
have to play it by ear based on friendship and that's what happened and that's why it
feels so real now with the industry. I've actually heard in your interviews a lot of
what you say and what your interviews are, it's always very much based on the relationships
in a very sincere way. When it's a musical connection and musicians will know that that
is what actually makes for a lasting career is a very sincere, honest friendship between
people. And you've had a couple of line up changes and things like that, but with the
line up that you've got now obviously, touring the world, playing sell out shows, big level
and at such a young age too, how do you find that the relationships are between you and
the band members and what do you think it is that's the magic connection between you and
the guys? Well, that's a good, wow, that's amazing. You're great. First thing is first,
you try not to give people false hope and that's something I would do a lot in the moment.
I'd get ahead of myself. That's why, well, the first drummer, we didn't really see eye
to eye on certain issues and that's why she left the band. But it's just the way of doing
things and the second, people might think I'm evil, you know, like, oh, why is she changing?
Why is there so many line ups? It's just, you know, people sometimes don't see eye to eye
on many things. And right now, Omaad and Leah, you know, we're, Leah's basically my age.
We're both really naive in a lot of aspects. So we're growing together, we're learning
together and Omaad is kind of there to, you know, like a father, you know, a father figure.
He's kind of helping us out not to trust the wrong people. That's fantastic. So I'm really
lucky. Yeah, definitely. So what's, so, I said, yeah, fuck. Anyway, so, so far, while
you've been in Australia, what, well, now you're here in Australia. It's your first time here.
So far, like, being that your band just began in 2007 and has developed and now you've got
this Omaad in the band with you. What do you think so far has been the career and highlight
of the band? Recently, it's definitely been coming here, to be honest. Awesome. Second
would be playing with Iggy. We recently played three shows with him. Iggy and the Stooges
in LA in San Francisco. That was my drawing. At the end of the show, we got to sit next
to him in his green room and just talk. Iggy and Omaad have known each other back then because
he has sung at the drive-in in one of their records. So it was kind of, it was, again,
like kind of, you know, a normal conversation. But I'm thinking to myself, oh, this is pretty
crazy. Yeah, I'm sitting next to Iggy and Omaad and, you know, I don't know, it's kind
of weird because I would go to a concert when I was young and I'd die to know how it felt
to be on the stage. But then when you're there, it comes a whole lot of hard work. Yeah, of
course. You're never aware of, you know, the situation you're in where there's these people
that would just die to meet you and to be at your show and everything like that. It's
crazy, it's crazy. Yeah. So with that said, like, say, you've just supported these amazing
bands with your idols and things like that. And as a young girl growing up in Mexico where
you come from, you had some musical idols and influences, obviously being right girls
and things like that, which are always a tribute to women in rock. Tell us about some of the
people that have influenced you over the years. Well, when I was growing up, I said this before,
the Spice Girls definitely, just seeing them all with their style, their style, like, oh,
tell me what you want, what you really want, you know, I want to be your lover. And I was
like, oh, I don't even know what this means because I'm so young, but I like that energy.
It's like, Sunny and Cher, well, definitely, most Cher as a lover. And then it just started
transcending into the Beatles and the Kenny Kills and with the whole riot girl era where
I wanted to be part of it, even though I was born way too late. You know, I don't know,
that influenced me to sing about something. And now I'm just singing about the act of
doing. If I feel sad, I have that privilege to say, hey, I'm sad. I know you guys don't
care, but I do. Yeah, exactly. Now, with being brought up in Mexico, and now I'm having a
chance to sort of look around the world and seeing how other bands have influenced some
things like that, how do you see that being brought up in Mexico has affected your view
or your style of music now that you're taking out to the world? It affected it completely.
Mexico has its beautiful sides where people are very hardworking. It's not like the typical
stereotype of, oh, Mexicans are lazy and they eat beans. It's nothing like that at all.
They're really hardworking, but the only part where I do judge is that when someone is doing
well in their career, someone else wants to drag them down. So I must admit that right
now, the Mexican press is not mentioning La Butcherette at all because, yeah, but growing
up in Mexico, it's been life changing for two reasons. Because my mother's there, she
taught me well how to appreciate things that many normal North Americans wouldn't really
appreciate. I don't know. That's up to the people to decide. And just the land. The
land there in Mexico is just so precious. And a lot of people, even the natives there,
the locals there, don't even notice what great land they have. And it's always the way,
isn't it? Like the Australians too, you know, we don't realize it too.
Go somewhere else. The trees, the trees here are amazing. They are. With the stage get-up,
so Terry wears this amazing apron with blood and has an amazing stage show, which you really
have to see to be believed, that comes from Mexico. Yeah, definitely. I'm sorry if I'm
all slow right now, but there's a lot of sexism, especially in Mexico's a third world country,
so there's a lot of sexism there. And the bloody apron at the time represented just
a girl going through a hardship and trying to express herself. And that was what I was
trying to do. Sometimes I'm not wearing the apron anymore because I'm trying to outgrow
that. I don't want to stay in that label forever. Being an artist. Yeah, being more of an artist
than a rock star. Thank you so much, Terry. Thank you very much, beauty. Can you say goodbye
to the tone deaf video audiences in Mexican for us? Of course, of course. Hola y adiós.
Gracias por ver esto. Soy Teri Yander Bender y estoy aquí con Vivi. Nos vemos pronto. Estamos
aquí en Tinder. Thanks, Teri. Thanks, everyone. Cheers for watching Tone Deaf TV. I'm Vivi.
Baby, see you later.
