REGGIE
"I read somewhere
that 12,000 copies of Promotional Copy [Reggie's
second album] were returned..." James:"Yeah, when it first came out. We sent it to people at stores and theydidn't know anything about it, so they opened up the box and sawnothing but "promotional copy." Because we made it look like apromotional copy, it totally tricked everybody that worked at musicstores. The people at distros were returning it, so that was the joke"
"Three wishes from a genie, and
you can't wish for more wishes."James:"Who would wish for more wishes? That's so, like, '95 to wish for more wishes. All right. I want Carmen Electra's band to perform at my house everyday until she starts looking old and stuff. And I want a trampoline. And I want a big group of swimming pools and one is full of jelly beans and one is full of skittles, and one is full of Jell-O, and one is full of fudge. Just big groups of kiddy pools that you could lay in and if you want to you could just start eating at any time"
"Do you get recognized when you're out? Is it kind of like the Hootieand the Blowfish thing, like you'll always be known as Reggie?" James:Well, it's weird; people call me all kinds of things. They call me Klaus and they call me Reggie and they call me James. My mom calls me Reggie now." [Laughs.]