What’s the movie you’re filming this show for all about?
It’s not gonna be some crazy movie with explosions and car chases. It’s more of a documentary showing what we’re like onstage and what happens in the audience. I haven’t really decided if we’re gonna put it in theaters or if we’re gonna put it on DVD or if we’re just gonna show it to people in their homes. Normally a ticket for a film at a movie theater is like $10 or so. If we show it in people’s houses, we’re going to try charging people $180 per person so we make the same amount of money. Plus we’ll get free food.
What’s the latest in Cheese-land, musically speaking?
We’re recording two new albums right now, one for the summer and another for the fall, and every single song has at least one swear word—that’s our new mantra. I think we’re doing “Gimme That Nut” by Eazy-E, which is a beautiful love song. And at our shows we even do brand new material—requests from the audience for things we’ve never played before. A lot of them I’ve never even heard of, ’cause you know, the kids that come to the shows know all this crazy stuff that they’re downloading on Limewire and exchanging in their dogfighting clubs. But my musicians are pretty talented at picking up the groove, and nowadays if I don’t know the lyrics, you can get them instantly on your iPhone, so I’m able to sing the songs spontaneously.
Didn’t you officially retire from performing a few years ago?
Oh yes, I have retired. I’ve been retired for four years. This is our third reunion tour. I learned a big lesson from the Eagles—tell people you’re breaking up the band and then do the reunion tour, ’cause boy, we make a lot more money that way. The truth is that I’m not really touring around the country as much as I used to. I’m really trying to stay in Vegas. So I guess you could say I’m retired from touring, but not from performing, from drinking or from taking groupies back to my hotel room. Why would you retire from that?
January 26, 8 p.m., $13.50-$32.50. The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, 693-5066.