I can write about other people's backstage. Like, uh, I went see McCartney's show, right? You know Paul? The guy from the Beatles? I know a Beatle, haha! So I go backstage to Paul's show, and I'm with my drummer, Liberty DeVitto. Liberty has a really good sense of humor, but it can be a little crude sometimes.
So we're backstage... and we're like, you know, it's showtime. It's just about showtime, and showtime is like dinnertime for most people. Like when I go on stage--like right now!--you know, it's like around dinnertime and I'm hungry! So, I'm a little pissed off, ya know? I gotta work and I'm hungry. I'm usually eatin'. So... but you're supposed to be a little hungry, you go on stage, you want that edge. If I--you can't eat before you go on, because, you know... Y'know, you're digesting your food, it's no good. So, uh... and then after the show it's usually too late to get anything good, so, you know, you eat junk, and that's bad to do at night, so um... you're hungry.
So we're backstage, we're at Paul's show, now Paul is a well known vegetarian, okay? So we're backstage and me and Liberty are looking for something to eat, anything, because Paul's gotta work, not us, so we can eat. We just got this extra hunger. We're lookin' around and all he had is like... crudité. Like, raw broccoli. Raw cauliflower. Carrots and crap... y'know all that? We're not expecting big slabs of beef here, just something else besides the raw vegetables. So, we go into Paul's room he's
"Hey, Billy, look at ya, how ya doing? Nice to see ya."
"Listen, man, you got anything else to eat besides the vegetables? Like, shrimp? Or, y'know even fish or something?"
He goes "no, no, I don't eat anything that's got a face."
So Liberty leans over... Liberty leans over to me and goes
"I guess Linda's shit outta luck."
Paul didn't like that. Paul didn't think that was funny.
How are ya gonna work that into a song, ya know? I don't eat anything that has a face.
