Adam Lambert may have a great voice. He may have even performed with KISS during the American Idol finals. Heck, Queen has even said they want the young, guyliner-lovin' singer to front the band.
However, all that praise and good fortune doesn't make Lambert a rock star.
So says metal rocker Rob Zombie.
"I'm sure Adam can f--king sing 10 times better than Mick Jagger, but who gives a s--t," Zombie told me the other day. "He ain't f--king Mick Jagger. You know what I mean? There are probably a million guitar players in the world better than Keith Richards, but they ain't f--king Keith Richards!"
No surprise, but Zombie doesn't exactly tune in to American Idol...
"I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest," he said. "I'm sort of old-fashioned?I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it."
"If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever?that's the way the chips may fall. I just get disgusted watching people crying that it should have been them, that they're a star, that they're special," he added. "You know what? F--k you!"
Music aside, Zombie has carved out a nice second career for himself as a movie director. When we spoke, he was in an editing bay putting the finishing touches on H2, his follow-up to his 2007 hit remake of John Carpenter's Halloween.
"The first one was essentially 50 percent a remake of the original, with maybe 50 percent of my thing mixed in," Zombie said. "This one is 100 percent my vision. I feel like with this one I got to do everything I wanted to do."
Including shooting in Georgia, because the flick takes place in the Midwest. "You can't get any scope in California, because if you pull back too far you get a palm tree," he said, laughing. "But down in Georgia we could literally take over entire town squares with huge vistas that look like The Sound of Music."
Rob Zombie's referencing the Julie Andrews classic? Now that's a scream.
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