Photo by Brian Friedman
Rocks Off was recently able to conduct an e-mail interview with comedian / musician Stephen Lynch, who plays tomorrow night (Saturday, April 4) at the Verizon Wireless Theater.
Rocks Off: We'll get the dry, technical question out of the way first: what comes
first, the music or the lyrics? Do they arrive together?
Stephen Lynch: It's different every time. Sometimes the music will come to me, and bounce
around in my head for a year or two before I figure out the lyrics.
If anyone knows crowd control, it's Stephen Lynch. He has to. Just as he assured us in our interview, someone was bellowing out for "Almighty Malachi, Bowling God" after the evening's very first song Saturday night. Lynch improvised a short, two-line ditty instructing the fan to "bowl yourself into my nuts," and assured him "that's as close as you're getting to the bowling song, motherfucker!"
It is the talent of a veteran comic to chastise his audience and make them happy for it. No matter
