This yr marks the thirtieth anniversary of Filter’s 1995 hit tune “Hey Man, Good Shot.” In a brand new interview with The Jesea Lee Present, the band’s frontman Richard Patrick spoke in regards to the tune’s lasting reputation.
“God, I keep in mind [when the song was first released] simply being, like, ‘Boy, I hope this makes it,’” he mentioned. “And the tune was already taking off from the ‘Demon Knight’ soundtrack. After which it simply stored constructing and constructing and constructing. And, yeah, it’s a staple of the set. We play it final each night time often. And it’s superior.”
Patrick then went on to dispel rumors that the observe is about late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, as a substitute confirming that “Hey Man, Good Shot” was really written about Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer – who was convicted of bribery costs and who took his personal life in 1987 throughout a information convention that was broadcast stay to viewers all through Pennsylvania.
“I by no means needed to say that it was impressed by R. Budd Dwyer, however individuals had been mistakenly saying it was about Kurt Cobain, as a result of he had killed himself,” Patrick defined. “However I wrote the tune in ’91 [which was three years before Kurt’s death]. So the document firm type of simply leaked it and mentioned it’s about R. Budd Dwyer.
“It was impressed by R. Budd Dwyer’s public suicide. And I simply was, like, ‘Properly, the cat’s out of the bag.’ And so I by no means needed it to be out what the tune was about, nevertheless it’s out. And he did what he did. He made the purpose he needed to make. And I noticed it as a younger man and wrote lyrics about it and it simply resonated with me and I simply discovered it to be surprising and I attempted to know it.
“And in order that’s what the tune is about, attempting to wrap my head round, like, why would somebody do that? And [it’s] fascinating fodder for lyrics, for my part. ‘Trigger I used to be so over — and lots of people had been too — I used to be simply so over songs about like scorching rods and chicks and all that crap that they’d spoon fed us within the ’80s.”
Patrick continued: “City legend is that it’s about Kurt. However the great point is, is I went as much as [Nirvana drummer] Dave Grohl and I defined that the tune was written manner earlier than Kurt killed himself. And I used to be already signed due to it.
“After which Kurt killed himself, and the document got here out like somewhat bit later. And I defined it to Dave Grohl and I defined it to [Nirvana bassist] Krist [Novoselic]. And people are the one two individuals I care about. They acknowledged that they understood, like, ‘We all know you didn’t do it.’ So, as soon as I made it clear to them that it was written in ’91 and that it wasn’t about Kurt, and so they reassured me that, like, ‘Hey, it’s okay. Don’t really feel the load of this.’
“Nobody needs to revenue on somebody’s demise, however on the identical time, it’s about suicide and it’s about somebody killing themselves. It’s wild.”
