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Time Out Magazine: Can you tell me about the band?
Tortelvis: Well, we have Carl Jah. Now, he’s one of the top 500,000 guitar players in Richmond, Virginia. He’s very good and also a great actor, by the way. Then there’s Put-Mon on bass: he’s a five-time gold medal winner for dancing. On guitar we’ve got Jah Paul Jo, the Prince of Peace and Love. His motto is, if you don’t go along with peace and love, he’ll kill you. On the drums we’ve got Fresh Cheese, who’s a former light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. And Ed Zeppelin, from Trinidad, the conga player of the group.
And now I’d like to tell you about the most important man on stage, other than myself: Charlie Haj. I mentioned him before. And he is actually the son of the Charlie Hodge who handed Elvis his water and towels on stage. No, it’s true. Without him I just don’t think I could do the show sometimes. He is a real inspiration to me. He wipes my sweat and gives me my water. He’s the man who pulls the whole show together.
Time Out Magazine: So Charlie is an expression in the physical plane of the immanence of your own essential Elvisness?
Tortelvis: That’s so true. It really is.
From Led Astray By Nick Coleman TIME OUT (UK) (August 15-22, 1990)
