Full name and nickname
Jeff: Jeffrey McDonald. My nickname is Mick Jadestone. Years ago I told an interviewer it was my real name, and it stuck!
Steve: Steven Shane McDonald. My nickname is Mtumbe; it's Portuguese for the devil!

Date and place of birth
Jeff: 10 August 1963 in Hawthorne, California.
Steve: 24 May 1967 in Culver City, California.
Jeff: Before he was born I had tons ans toons of attention 'cos I had nine aunts and uncles.
Steve: I go through the family photos, and they're all of Jeff - none of me. I'm very bitter!

Current Home
Jeff: A stone's throw away from Griffith Park Observatory in LA, at the top of a hill.
Steve: I live at the bottom of the hill. I'm sleazy - there's transvestites around the corner.
Jeff: Glenn Danzig, Debbie Gibson and Flea live near us - we all use the same 7-Eleven.

Previous Bands
Jeff: Redd Kross is the only band we've been in.
Steve: Yeah, we started when I was 11 and Jeff was 15.
Jeff: We're the Punk Rock Osmond brothers!

If your house caught fire, what would you save?
Jeff: My wife.
Steve: My Tony Tenille doll (doll modelled on 70s cult US duo - The Captain and Tenille).

If you gave up the music business, what would you do?
Jeff: Make films
Steve: I'd like to think I'd go and join the peace corps and go to India, but I'd probably sell dope!

Who's your favourite person in the world?
Jeff: My current favourite is The Lemonheads' Evan Dando.
Steve: Mick Jagger

What part of your body would you most like to change?
Jeff: My chronic chapped lips - if I don't use lip balm they get flaky, and I've got real good at chewing chunks of my lips!
Steve: My hair 'cos I've always wanted an afro.

What do you wear in bed?
Jeff: I sleep nude or wear boxer shorts. Sometimes I wear a T-shirt and boxer shorts.
Steve: Boxer shorts.

What is the most ridiculous thing you've done while drunk?
Jeff: eating an entire cigarette and licking the bottom of an ashtray to impress a lady friend.
Steve: I hassled Molly Ringwald (US movie star) for a date. Finally, she gave me her phone number and it turned out to be the one for the local post office!

Worst job you've ever had?
Jeff: At London Fish And Chips (in LA). I was a fry cook and I smelled like fried fish.
Steve: A smile-and-dial Tele-marketing job. It was heinous.

Who would you most like to have a fight with?
Jeff: Natalie Merchant from 10,000 Maniacs. Her cover of Patti Smith's classic, 'Because The Night', is criminal.
Steve: The four-year-old French Pop singer, Jordie. He has a huge Rap single and it's awful.

What's the most stupid thing you've done on stage?
Jeff: I smoked Angel Dust on stage once. I haven't done drugs for years, and that was real dumb.
Steve: We did a tragic cover of Alice Cooper's 'I'm 18' on my eighteenth birthday. It was so bad, the crowd mourned!

Who would you least like to share a dressing room with?
Jeff: Luther Vandross. Apparently he east two entire chickens before very show. I'm vegetarian and that would make me nauseous.
Steve: Biohazard might be scary... they might rape me!

Where, when and at what age did you lose your virginity?
Jeff: I was 12, in Hawthorn, with a lovely young lady of 16.
Steve: I was 12, she was 23, and it was in the back of a 1978 Chevy Nova.

Who is your ideal date?
Jeff: Sarah Ferguson. She's hot!
Steve: Vintage Anita Pallenberg (quintessential 60s Rock chick).

What's the best thing about being in Redd Kross?
Jeff: Playing all over the world and making new friends.
Steve: Just the band, 'cos it's like being in summer camp.

What's the last thing you do before you go on stage?
Jeff: Try to pee.
Steve: Meditate.

What's the biggest myth about Rock 'n' Roll?
Jeff: That Rock musicians are stupid people.
Steve: That it's a tragically, lonely, depressing lifestyle. It's not, we're desperately happy!

What do you think about groupies?
Jeff: I can relate to anyone who digs Rock 'n' Roll. I'm a groupie myself. I've had several female Rock 'n' Roll conquests.
Steve: The people we meet are just interested in music. We put the kids who follow us around on the guest list!

What's the best dream you've ever had?
Jeff: I dreamt I met Michael Jackson at this club called Bogarts. he asked for my phone number and I wrote it on his chest.
Steve: I dreamt I was in bed with John Lennon, we were just hanging out - it wasn't sexual.

And your worst nightmare?
Jeff: That my mom was a junkie.
Steve: That my teeth fell out.

Why should someone buy one of your records?
Jeff: Coz they're great value for the dollar and we never out fluff or filler material on them.
Steve: We have a lot of fun making them, and that might rub off on the listener.

What's your best memory of childhood?
Jeff: Putting this band together, and seeing The Beatles.
Steve: Backpacking with my Grandfather and climbing mountains in Yosemite Valley.

Have you ever been arrested?
Jeff: No.
Steve: The girl I lost my virginity to kidnapped me when I was 12, brainwashed me, and took me to Las Vegas. When the police found me they out me in Juvenile Hall for one night. My parents were really worried.
Jeff: I was too.
Steve: ... now I'm afraid of women.

Who would you most like to go one a pub crawl with?
Jeff: Joan Jett.
Steve: Dave Davies (of The Kinks).

Who would you least like to wake up next to?
Jeff: Prince Charles.
Steve: The Queen Mother.

What's your best chat-up line?
Jeff: I don't have one.
Steve: "Would you like to share an orange with me?"

What would you like engraved on your tombstone?
Jeff: I'd want to be a classroom skeleton, and the plaque would read, 'Jeffrey McDonald, former Punk Rocker'.
Steve: To quote Patti Smith, 'Steve McDonald, Rock 'n' Roll Nigger'.

How would you describe yourself one a computer dating form?
Jeff: Tall, slim, likes movies and quiet evenings. Well off Satanists, and into Punk Rock and Speed Metal. Seeks same.
Steve: Single white male bass guitar player.

What's your biggest fear?
Jeff: To be stuck in an elevator.
Steve: Going deaf.

Proudest moment of your life so far?
Jeff: When I got married last August.
Steve: When we played the Whiskey A-Go-Go in 1980.

Interrogation: Mel Bradman