King's X - Doug Pinnick
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Yes, it's true, we do way too many articles on King's X in this magazine. But, how can you blame us? Usually it's one article per album release, which is what most of the bands we cover get. The frequency seems to mount when the individual members release solo albums, which is why Ty Tabor was on the cover of the March/April issue and Doug Pinnick is featured here. As usual, the conversation was way too long to include in the print version, but you, oh intrepid web surfer, have the opportunity to read thousands more words here in the internet version -- as always, uncut and unedited.
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Give me any musical reasons you had for doing this solo album.
"I just write a lot of songs, and with King's X I usually write about 10 to 15 songs for every record, and usually I only get, like, four or five songs on the record. So, these are all songs that I've wanted to do, and I kind of wanted to make my own statement."
Are there any lyrical reasons?
"Not really. I've always been free to say what I've felt. I think that the lyrics aren't a whole lot different than what I write, except that it's all me. I didn't think about King's X, or our reputation, or the people who listen to King's X and what they might think. This is sort of my individual thing that I decided to do."
So, it sounds like with King's X you don't have a lot of limitations lyrically on what you write.
"But I do limit myself with King's X, just because there's a framework that we work around that's unspoken, sort of, I would say."
How would you speak that unspoken framework?
"I think just my liberalness, the way I feel about life, I don't know... Coming from the whole place that I came from, and the stigma that we've been attached to, and the things that people believe about us; you know, the Christian thing, and just the controversial King's X that we are among the Christians, I usually stay within the limits where I know I won't cause a whole lot of controversy, even though I do cause controversy. And there's fans who like King's X for what we do, and I want to give that to them also, and be myself. I think it's sort of like when your parents come over, you don't say or act a certain way, because you don't want to disrespect them, you know."
I guess one of the things we talked about last time, and with the Ty Tabor interview, and with some of the interviews that have been in other magazines, like Metal Edge, and Hit Parader or whatever, there's been some controversy, and some people wondering, you know, "Has Doug Pinnick renounced his faith? What's going on in his life right now?"
"I haven't renounced anything. I don't feel like there's something that I have to get up and just renounce, and say, 'I don't do this anymore.' I just believe that my beliefs and my faith have gone into a direction that . . . how can I put it . . . that would probably cause many Christians to question, because of where I'm at. But the bottom line is I'm just searching for the truth, and I haven't thrown anything out as much as I've gathered much more information -- just to sort of figure out where I'm heading, if that makes any sense."
Yeah. Some people, when they hear that you're gathering more information, a flag might go up in their head, because they might think, "Oh great, that means he's gathering information from Buddhists and Hindus," and there's some other religions that don't really mix when you boil 'em down to the fine point, like, Jesus taught one thing and Buddha taught a different thing. They both said, "Be nice to people, but when you get down to their central teachings, they're completely different things. So how do you answer that, and deal with that dichotomy there?
"Okay, the answer, the main thing that I'm saying is not religion. It's just gathering information from what I see around me, and learning from just the way the world is, and seeing the universe, and the world, and human nature as what they really are. And it's really helped me to see my place on the earth, and that people are who they are. A lot of it goes along the Bible, except that it's just reality to me more now, rather than words. I find myself getting into the heart of what I've been looking for, which is, 'What am I doing here?' and 'What are we doing here? Is there a real reason and a purpose?' and, 'What do we have to do about it?' Religion-wise, I refuse to go to any other religion. As much as I don't profess a lot of Christianity anymore, I refuse to go to another religion, because Christianity is what I've learned all my life. And I don't feel that, if I'm gonna renounce my religion now, I'm not going to go to another one, because none of 'em are any different and any better.
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