An excerpt from an interview I did with PopDiggers of Sweden on how the Deadbeat Poets got their name! You didn’t pick the name The Deadbeat Poets until after all the recordings were done? How did you come up with the name? – I kept trying to come up with names but I wasn’t having any luck. One night I was watching The Big Lebowski with my son Jake and I heard the “Dude” talking to the other Jeffrey Lebowski (who incidentally has an uncanny resemblance to Dick Cheney… physically and intellectually in my opinion) DUDE: You thought Bunny’d been kidnapped and you could use it as a pretext to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on, and you’d just met me. You thought, hey, a deadbeat, a loser, someone the square community won’t give a shit about. LEBOWSKI: Well? Aren’t you? The word “deadbeat” just struck me funny! I played around with it and came up with “Deadbeat Poets”. It seemed to fit Terry, Pete, John and I very well!
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:25:10 +0000