Fix my brain, but leave the hair alone ...
He may have put his life in the hands of a team of talented neurosurgeons somewhere in a hospital in Sydney, but Jay Whalley was not prepared to risk his hair.
“Before the surgery I made them tell me where it was going to be because I didn’t want them to just hack into it,” the Frenzal Rhomb front man said.
Whalley has no qualms admitting that, rather than leave it to a team of brain surgeons, he is vain enough to cut off his own dreads.
In a precise pre-op operation of his own, he removed the obstruction himself.
“And a good thing too, because that thing should not have been on my head,” he said.
“It was a definite health and safety violation.”
Despite undergoing brain surgery a few months ago, the singer said the sympathy beers had run out and it was time to hit the road.
“I had turned into one of those shuffling guys, but these days I look too robust and fit for sympathy beer,” Whalley said.
Now that he’s back in the land of the living, Whalley and the rest of Frenzal Rhomb are diving into work head first, with a soon-to-be-released single.
“Fat Mike asked us to appear on a Tony Sly tribute record,” Whalley said.
“So we took his money, and used it to demo a few Frenzal songs, and then we did one for the album, which didn’t turn out too badly.
“But now, frighteningly, we’ve realised we’ll be appearing with really good bands like Bad Religion and Dropkick Murphy’s, who have recorded stuff in their ‘Basement Studio’.
“And their basement studio is probably like Dave Grohl’s — worth about $2 million.
“But I reckon it’ll be fine.”
Australia’s favourite slackers, Frenzal Rhomb, play at the Prince of Wales Hotel tomorrow night, and clearly nothing’s changed — except for the number of dreadlocks on Whalley’s skull.
Catch them for yourself in all their glory, along with their guests Silver Lizard.
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