We recently caught up with Dicky Barnett from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Even though he is currently busy playing the Warped Tour, he was kind enough to take a time out and answer a few questions for 9X. We covered such topics as Jenny McCarthy and modeling, and not in the same sentence or even the same paragraph. They probably shouldn't have even come up in the same interview, but they did!

9X: How is The Warped Tour coming along? Dicky: It's going great. It's a lot of fun to be on. 9X: You recently played at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Los Angeles. What part of the show did you enjoy the most? Dicky: Us. Being on stage. I thought the Foo Fighters were really good. When they play they care and they deliver. Some of the bands there were super-hyped, and then they get on stage and don't really give a shit. 9X: Which did you like better - the Weenie Roast or the Warped Tour? Dicky: Definitely the Warped Tour, it's more my style. 9X: What are your three most coveted possessions on the tour bus? Dicky: This is really sad: The Texas Rangers baseball team in the 70s, the Dean Martin CD and the Gameboy. 9X: What's your favorite game? Dicky: It's this new kind of Tetris where the Tetris pieces explode. There's actually a play station on the bus with these really advanced games that I can't play. I can play Tetris maybe because I'm obsessive-compulsive. I like to stack and fit things together. That's my game, it's the only one I've ever played and now I play it with exploding pieces. 9X: Do you consider yourself to be a good dancer? Dicky: No, I do not. I think I used to be, back in the 80s with all the Footloose dances. I was really good at the 80s dances. The dances changed and I was left in the past. Now I don't. Which is OK because now I have Ben to do all my dancing for me. 9X: When the Bosstones aren't touring or recording new music, is it common to find all of you hanging out together? Dicky: We take time off and we say OK, I'll see you in a week, but before the week's over we're calling each other and hanging out. We've formed into this dysfunctional unit that really needs each other. < 9X: The Bosstones have performed on a few talk shows starting with the John Stewart Show where you performed the anti-TV song. But more recently you've showed up on Conan O'Brien and David Letterman. Which was the best time? Dicky: Probably John. He's a really good guy and let's you do what you want. 9X: Who wore the best suit? Dicky: I couldn't really see Letterman's, but it was probably him, although I like Conan's style. John Stewart probably wore a leather jacket and a t-shirt. Maybe it was the guy on the Viva Variety show, he wore a tux. Or maybe it was Jenny McCarthy's suit, which was probably a swimsuit. 9X: Do you like her? Dicky: She's alright. She's nice. She wasn't so annoying. You judge her on TV just from that dating show, but meeting her in person is a whole different story. She's Irish and from Chicago and I like big city Irish girls. A lot of people call me a big city Irish girl. 9X: The Bosstones were posterchildren for Converse's line of plaid Chuck Taylor's in the mid-eighties. It's 1997 and you are a very well-dressed band. Are there going to be any modeling offers in your future? Dicky: Modeling? I think you have to have good looks for that! 9X: If you could have the power to ban any American slang word, which one would it be? Dicky: None of them have gotten on my nerves. I think people may say "awesome" too much, but I'm guilty of that myself. 9X: Are there any bands out there today that you believe deserve more credit than they're getting? Dicky: A band that I'm really into on this tour is Pennywise. I think they deserve everything, but I don't think they really want anything. I think they just want to be Pennywise. They're very powerful and they're an important band. They're also nice people. 9X: If you could have any performer play at your funeral, who would it be? Dicky: I actually have two. Either Shane McGowan or Neil Diamond. But I think I'll outlive both of them. It would be sad if I died before either one!