That’s crazy. What was it like having Scott Asheton babysit you?
Well – I wouldn’t say babysat, cos babysitting is like, under ten, but more like we’d be dropped off at their house and they’re the only adults around, you know? We were maybe thirteen, or even younger. Sometimes we would drink the orange-juice that was in the fridge, and it tasted like it was stale, but it was vodka – it was like a pitcher of vodka and orange juice. He told us so many stories. He told us about “Lake Mummies.” He lived on a lake, North Lake in Chelsea, and Lake Mummies came out after dark, and they were half human, half frog – they had webbed feet. They were kind of like the The Swamp Thing. But they’re also wrapped like mummies, and if you got too close to the water after dark, they would pull you in. Especially kids. There was also, if you went into the woods late at night – he would tell us about the Wild D-O-G’s, and the Wild D-O-G’s were like giant dog-like werewolves. So basically he tried to scare us not to go out into the lake or the woods at night. But the big
