Question from: Elaine
(2/09/05)

Do you guys remeber playing at Chubby's Inn in Allentown, PA? I use to be the waitress who ran the backroom and I always thought you guys were great. Thanks for putting out your first album on CD, can't find anyone to transfer album to CD for me, so thanks for making it easy for me.

GREGG: I remember Chubby's-it was a cool little bar down the street from the Airport Music Hall. We had some great times there, and the staff always treated us well. Chubby's was one of the first clubs we played where we played all original songs. Before that we played only covers at Chubby's. We had great times there, before, during and after the shows.

Question from: Teresa
(5/03/04)

Was just wondering when everyone's birthday is and how old they are/will be?

GREGG: Sept 24, 1804 I'm a 200 year old vampire...

LOUIE: my birthday is October 6, 1980!!!!!

MIKE: 7/18

Question from: Pete Madison
(12/24/03)

What would each member want for Christmas?

LOUIE: For the world to be in harmony! And, a three-some!

MIKE: Well, first good health & happiness to all my family and friends.
All our service people back home safe and world peace.
But if your saying I could have anything, then enough money to do what I want. Like record and put out my own cd, make a video and have enough money to get it played on mtv.
A new drum kit.
An EAGLES win in superbowl XXXVIII.
A good job!
I don't think that's asking for to much.

GREGG: Girls flashing their boobs!!!!

WEAKLEY: Devil Bat DVD ;-)

Question from: Nadia P., Philly
(11/20/03)

What does each member prefer?
a) Landing Strip
b) Clean Shaven
c) the wild bush
d) Other, if other, what??

MIKE: hahahaha......clean shaven or nicely maintained!

GREGG: just tight!!!

LOUIE: I like it clean shaven with honey.

Question from: John T. Ryan, NYC
(6/7/03)

When will Roughhouse play NYC again Don Hill from the Wed Night Cat Club
now Runs Don Hills on Spring St. it has been way too long!!!!

LOUIS: I would love to play in N.Y again. I say some time around...
sept/oct/nov/december. John Ryan help us get in there!

GREGG: YEAH, let's play there!!!

Question from: Chuck G., Allentown, PA
(5/29/03)

I would like to know who all your favorite bands and influences are .Also if all of you could be in your dream band who would the rest of the members be,dead or alive.

MIKE: As far as my fave bands. That's kinda hard to narrow down. I like so many different types of music, rock, dance, reggae, oldies. Here's the best I could do for now: KISS, Motley Crue, DLR, The Scream, SRV, Circle of Fear, The TRAMMPS to name a few.

And as far as my influences: Peter Criss of KISS was my biggest influence when I started playing the drums. But now there's so many awesome skin bashers that it's hard to just pick one. If I could be the drummer in my dream band......KISS WITH MAKE UP, DESTROYER TOUR!

And to put a band together of my faves and I would be the drummer, that's really tuff. I really can't answer that one cause I would have such a variety of players I'm not sure what the music would sound like.

LUIS: Well lets see, I like KISS, QUEEN, THIN LIZZY, FOREIGNER, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, LED ZEPP, UFO, JUDAS PRIEST, ACDC, 80S BANDS TRIUMPH, DIO,RATT, MR. BIG, WHITE SNAKE, KIXS, THE CULT...........

WOW DREAM BAND! FIRST ON GUITARS,Brian MAY (QUEEN).GARY MOORE(THIN LIZZY) ON BASS PHIL LYNOTT (THIN LIZZY)ON DRUMS JOHN BONHAM (LED ZEPP).back up singers coverdale and mercury. How's THAT! AND LUIS SINGING LEAD.

WEAKLEY: Some Favorite Bands: Bowie,Buzzcocks, Genisis, Rob
Zombie, Annie Lennox, The Cult, Stones, Bob Marley, Alice Cooper, The Vines
etc etc etc
Dream Band: Already playing in it now.

GREGG: Influences: Aerosmith, Kiss, Stones, Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Ramones,
Slade,early motown, Steppenwolf, Dead End Kids.... Favorite bands: Bands
previously mentioned plus: Foo Fighters, STP, Nickelback, Sweet, Nirvana,
Pearl Jam, Sex Pistols, NY Dolls, Guns'n'Roses, Buck Cherry, Beach Boys,
Beatles, Elvis, Boston, Chicago, Cream, Foghat, Motley Crue (I'm sure I
missed a few!)....

Dream band-to have the opportunity to play with Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon,
John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, Pete Townshend,
Steven Tyler, Jim Morrison, Bon Scott, Angus & Malcolm Young, Mic & Keith of
the Stones, MK of Chumbi.

I can't think of a dream band, but I can think of people I would love to jam
with...

Question from: Todd Colegrove
(4/17/03)

1) Did you guys get sick of putting on the rags and makeup...It was always interesting watching you guys put it all together in the basement of the Pine Grove. ( I will admit though...I loved that look!) Hey Dave, Gregg and Louis...(I never knew Mike or Rob)...It's been a long time!

LUIS: No I didn't get sick of the rags. Its just well we needed a new look and it
took close to two hours do get ready for the shows. By the way I love the
pine grove. I miss it very much. The club was wild, the girls were wild, and the
fans were crazy! We tried are new music there and always got great
responses.Songs like moon is full/lock up your daughters/racin/sleeze
patrol/keep on rockin....and more.Todd i hope to see you soon. By the way I still have my rags there in my attic. Wonder how much they are worth on ebay?

2) On the Teeze album there's the classic bit after the song "Going Away" where everybody's laughing and Luis is saying "Sorry" and Brian is saying something like "Thats it...Thats it"...and then it sounds like a door slamming shut.
What was the story behind that?

Gregg: Are you sure Lui's saying sorry? The reason why I said that is
because I thought I was the one who farted in the studio while we were doing
backups, which would make me saying "sorry".... Maybe it was Lui who farted
in the studio, I'm not sure. Ask Dave. Lui's got some awful farts!!

Question from: Charlie Bagarozza
(3/28/03)

1) Whatever happened to your yellow school bus from the old days?
WEAKLEY: We had a total of 3 busses. The first one "151"lasted a while. The second one was "Blue Bird" (I think.) and the 3rd one we bought was from a church and had "Church of the Nazarene" painted on both sides. We took the busses everywhere we played. When one would die, we would go get another. We had 5 or 6 rows of seats that we kept to sleep in and we gutted the rest and boarded up the windows on each one. We built a wall after the seats and stored all of our gear there. We had a ton of gear. A huge light show and a powerful pa system. We ate, slept, partied and fought in those busses. They were like a safe haven for us. Lots of stories in there. Once we started to get popular and into full time playing we bought a van too and the band traveled in the van and the crew traveled in the bus. The band was required to do interviews or record store promotions and the crew had to set up the show so, we had to buy the van. We chose never to alter the paint on them because they were loaded with everything we owned and if anything were ever stolen it would have been horrible. Tom Friel was our soundman and main driver but, over the years everyone of us learned to drive the bus. The busses were sold to a guy who owns a garage in Chalfont Pa. At least one of them was anyway. We sold our gear too and sub contract our lights and sound to this day. So many stories in those busses.

GREGG: We had some CRAZY times on those buses!

2) Who came up with name SMC for your indie release?
GREGG: An early associate of the band used to get drunk and say "Suck my C*CK!!", which eventually became our slogan, "SMC". I thought it was a good idea to call the record company SMC as a way of telling the major record companies to "Suck my c*ck


3) Why did the TEEZE sound change so drastically when you evolved into ROUGHHOUSE?
WEAKLEY: Our sound was always changing . Live there is no difference in sound. Its raw. On record I have to agree. The RH record lost its balls in the production. Max was a great producer but our sound deserved to be raw and balls out. He mixed it as well and we didn't have time to keep re-mixing because our manager (and downfall of the band) said we had a deadline to release it. We weren't happy with the mix but loved the songs and we prayed that the songs would be strong enough to overshadow the production.That whole time in our lives was 100 miles an hour and we followed the wrong people. Our next release will be raw and balls out. I guarantee it.

MIKE: You have to remember, we DO NOT sound anything like the RH album. That was what the record company and our producer wanted us to sound like. Again, if it was up to us, it would've been heavier w/ more drive.

4) Refresh my memory as to why the name changed from TEEZE to Roughhouse.
Was it because of an R&B group of the same name?
WEAKLEY: Yes.....Same label too. Epic/CBS

MIKE: Yeah, you're kinda right. There was another band on Epic/CBS that was called, "Tease". I think they were, like jazz, r&b(?). They had an album (their 3rd) due out the same time as us and CBS didn't want to have to explain the difference...(we were the white TEEZE, they were the black Tease)..etc.
So they asked (told) us we had to change our name. THAT SUCKED!!!!

Question from: Tony
(3/20/03)

You guys are great and should have been huge. Question. If you could go back in time would you guy's have done things differently knowing hindsight is 20/20? Kept the Teeze name? Different label? Different image? Would be interesting to hear your guy's perspective on it.

MIKE: Doing things differently...........OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As far as keeping the TEEZE name, YES, absolutely we would have kept it! Remember, it wasn't our idea for the name change. Don't get me wrong, we love the name ROUGHHOUSE but it's one of those things that we didn't really have any control over. Maybe if we would've fought w/ the label alittle and let them know how important the name meant to us (and our fans), it might've helped. But, remember, we were away recording the album when all this went down. Our concerns at the time were w/ the recording. That was just another wrench thrown at us.
As far as a different label, again, at the time, CBS/Columbia was very high on us and we thought we were in the perfect situation w/ how we got signed (Tommy Mottola) and everything. We never thought they were just gonna throw us to the dogs. We had other offers from other labels but like I said, CBS/Columbia was very on w/ us.

Of course if we knew how we were gonna be treated (right before and even after the album came out) we would've probably looked else where. We really got the shaft form CBS.
A different image, well that was our decision to change our look when we came back out as TEEZE in '86. The record company had nothing to do w/ it. It's like it was another chapter in the history of TEEZE. 2 players were gone and 2 replaced them. And besides, we weren't being taking seriously by the record industry w/ all the rags and make-up. So we thought the time was right to make a change in our image if we were serious about getting a record deal. And for what it's worth, it worked. --- Hope that answers your questions,

GREGG: If I could go back in time- I would have gotten the Teeze name copyright immediately, but when you are 17 years old, you have poo-tang on your mind, and playing the next gig. The last thing you think about is business! All kinds of screwed-up things happen in life. I've seen many of my idols and close friends bite the dust way before their time, some of these guys were
incredibly talented. I'm just happy I didn't drink or do drugs during that period, and most of all, that I'm living a happy life! Think about the bands that were really huge-sold millions of records, were on top of the world, but aren't doing anything now! I know I went through a lot of emotional head crap when the band split up, (and we were never as big as some of those bands), but I got it back together. I was always one of those guys who liked to look ahead and never look back. I'm just glad that we all met up at Dave's birthday party and enjoyed each other's company so much that we decided to play together again! My goal now is to try to make every Roughhouse show as special as possible, cause you never know how long you have on this earth...

LUIS: Kept the name...well it was hard finding out we had to change our name due to the fact that another band with CBS had it .even though we were teeze before them..but in way i like the change because it gave us a meaner-cooler name. I think anyway, going with a different label might have been a better choice due to the fact that CBS was back then a very bad label to get any real help or time from there management when the band needed them. Our manager had his head always up his ass. He was the biggest downfall for us. He worked for champion entertainment. Who at that time was run by Tommy Mottola, back then CBS WAS A VERY F**KED UP LABEL TO WORK WITH!

Image not sure if we had any real one image. We were like most bands back then, but on stage we were one of the best show bands to see in the phila/ny/nj/da/ma area. I was very proud of that we tried very hard to give everything we hand at shows. Even if it meant busting ourselves to do
it..we live to play and loved our fans. We tried never to come off fat headed. We knew who supported us. It was the fans and close friends. We will always be grateful for that. I hope someday more people give us a chance to hear some of our new music that never was released--and hope those songs see the light of day. Thanks and hope to see you soon.

Questions from: Troy Sharesky
(3/12/03)

1) Luis said (at the Croc Rock show) something about putting the old music back on the shelves...when exactly will this happen?
WEAKLEY: Hopefully by the summertime we'll have something out. We are booking studio time to re-master the Teeze record and put it on CD with some extra live stuff added.

2) Do you have any idea when the new CD will be out?
WEAKLEY: We will be writing for the new CD this spring.

3) Will Roughhouse be putting the song UGLY BITCH on any upcoming CDs?
WEAKLEY: Anything is possible.
MIKE: yes. as far as when........we really can't say.