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For the past five years this former co-host of Louisiana Jukebox ("I like to think I played a part in that show's demise.") has been hawking a TV pilot called Quest for the Unknown: "I play E. Willy P.," E.P. drawls, "a country guy with simple smarts who goes out and investigates supernatural goin-ons." Two full episodes can be seen at questfortheunknown.com (website currently down for renovation.) In the process of playing a record store clerk in Carl Perkins' ("Blue Suede Shoes") electronic press kit, E.P. and the king of rockabilly penned a little ditty about astronauts having sex. He also had a bit part in B-movie Candyman 2, and played drummer DJ Fontana in the recent Elvis TV movie: "Thank god there wasn't a drum- kit at the audition," laughs E.P., a novice drummer who practiced like hell after he won the part. "At the audition the casting guy asks, 'So can you play drums?' I said, 'Good enough to be in Elvis' band.' The guy's like, 'That doesn't sound too good.' I said, 'What? You don't like Elvis?'" But currently, E.P. is focusing all his energy on Sleepstation 41, "A documentary about my wife talking in her sleep." After seeing clips, I can honestly say this is one of the weirdest, funniest things I've ever seen. So amazing that, "I'm afraid people won't believe she's asleep," confides E.P. In one scene E.P.'s wife loudly channels a Molson Golden beer commercial that doesn't exist, but should. In another, E.P. slips a keyboard beneath her limp hands and, though she doesn't play, she instinctually tinkles-out a repetitive little melody. - an exerpt from the article "No Man Band" in the August 2005 issue of Offbeat Music Magazine in New Orleans By Michael P. Welch Read the full article at this Link |
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