1COMIC BOOKS “I have every issue of Bewitched. I had the hottest sex obsession for Elizabeth Montgomery. That Twilight Zone she’s in with Charles Bronson about the last two people on earth? You can’t touch her!”
2GREEN BERET KNIFE “It’s beyond special ops—it’s extreme ops. If you really have to kill someone, this is the one you use. I’m a great believer in the concept that God made men and women, and Sam Colt made them equal. I’m not looking for trouble, but you never know what you’re going to find.”
3FOUR TRACK “When you fetishize something, you buy it whenever you can find it. I traded— and this is my past—but I basically traded two lines of speed and the promise of an eight ball for this. It’s a quarter-inch Sony; I use it a lot.”
4BAND PUPPETS “We were on tour with Joan Jett, and I walked onstage and there was this sweet little girl standing in the front. It looked like she just came from home-ec class. She lifted this up to me and said, ‘I made this for you, Boots.’ Isn’t that sweet?”
5KISS ACTION FIGURES “My first concert was Kiss, the Destroyer tour in ’ 76. These are the McFarlane series, those meticulous album cover re-creations, and this is the cover of Kiss Alive.”
6HUMAN SKULL “I’m a Southern Baptist, but sometimes in desperate situations I turn to voodoo magicians and Hollywood witches for help. This is the skullcap from a slave grave that had been robbed. I got it at a voodoo shop in New Orleans. Whatever is giving you problems, you have to place a piece of it in the skull and it will turn your way.”
7PAINTING “Believe it or not, I’m an educated man. And Mark Twain is one of my all-time favorites. Huckleberry Finn is the great adventure story for all boys.”
8MASK “It was a gift from the most successful fetish artist of all time, Isabella Sinclaire. We were hanging out in London and I got Satan’s hound mask sent to me a week later.”
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9KICK DRUM “That’s the very first Eagles of Death Metal drum. I stayed up all night… well, I stayed up four nights painting it. It’s meticulous, man.
10EFFECTS PEDAL “It’s an Axis Fuzz pedal, the same pedal Jimi Hendrix used to achieve some of his most crazy fuzz tones. These things are worth tons.”
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