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Dana Glover

		Tue. October 29.2002 11:39 AM EST
		Halloween 2002: Boo To You, Too   Rockers talk about the scariest night of the year, past and present and future.   by C. Bottomley, Gil Kaufman and Jim Macnie
			Halloween (VH1.com)

Here are a few things to remember this Halloween. Don’t take candy from strangers. Always trick or treat with an adult guardian. And if someone knocks on your door in a Spider Man mask, red T-shirt and jeans, don’t be stingy with the candy corn. It Sign up to receive FREE UPDATES for Dana Glover! E-Mail this story to a friend Add RSS Headlines Add VH1 News to My Yahoo might be Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas. Oh, and don’t go anywhere near Flaming Lip Wayne Coyne’s house unless you want to be scared out of your Slipknot gas mask. How do we know these things? Because with our hands still messy from making our Alice Cooper jack o’lantern, we asked some of pop's biggest stars to share some their Halloween stories. Rob Thomas: We didn’t have a lot of money and we never had costumes growing up. I would either dress up as a hobo or go to the store and buy a Spider-Man mask from the bargain bin. Then I’d wear it with a red T-shirt and jeans. I was like Spider-Man before he got the costume! Last year I went to a party as an Indian, with a great Indian head dress. My wife Marisol was a little Indian squaw. I’m married now so we’ve gotta go as couples. I can’t be Godzilla. Unless she goes as Mothra! Adam Gaynor: Halloween is my favorite day of the year, but I’ve been some really stupid things. Once, I had to go to a high school party and I had nothing to wear. I found a blue worker’s jumpsuit in my sister’s closet that was really small on me, so it looked weird. Then I put on a hockey mask and I put a football helmet over that. Then I made antennas out of aluminum foil and put on hockey gloves. So basically you have a freak with high tops and a blue thing with a hockey mask on, a football helmet, and antennas with hockey gloves. There was no reason for anything. People were just looking at me like, “It’s not scary. It’s just dumb.” Paul Doucette: I’ve never been into Halloween. Last year my wife and I went to a party and she was me and I was her, but we dressed pretty much the same. When I was a little kid my mom made a Jawa from Star Wars costume for me. She made a little headband and taped tiny little flashlights to it for the eyes. I had a brown hooded thing and my eyes would glow. When we were making our first record I lost the use of my right eye for some inexplicable reason. I couldn’t move it! I had to wear an eye-patch for six months. So during the recording of Yourself or Someone Like You I was a pirate! Wayne Coyne: We always had great homemade costumes, which would veer towards lots of gore and blood. As we got older, we would dress up as KISS and cavemen and run around naked. When I was very young I remember being petrified by these very lo-fi house of horrors my brothers would set up each year. They’d walk us through the dark garage with flashlights illuminating bowls of what were supposed to be cat brains and human hearts, but were really just food coloring and Campbell soup. When you’re six years old you think you really have your hand in someone’s intestines! [These days, when the neighborhood kids come trick or treating] I have this horrible human torso with the guts all pulled out and I fill it full of spaghetti and food coloring. I have a huge speaker system with a recording of a human heart. I turn it up so loud you can hear it a half mile away. I stick a battery-operated heart inside the spaghetti and as kids come up I say, “You have to touch the heart before I give you some candy.” As they reach closer to the heart, I turn up the beating with a volume pedal underneath the table. Then the minute they touch it, I zap them with these strategically placed strobe lights. It’s the fright of their lives. I hope, as they get older, they remember being scared in that fun kind of way and thinking that these are things in the world people can protect you from: monsters and things like that. Because as you get older, there are real scary things in the world people can’t protect you from. Tracy Chapman: I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I went to FAO Schwartz and I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. I bought a stethoscope and one of those little flashlights that you use to look in your eyes. I had a lot of business cards printed up, too. They read, “Party Animal, Vet Services.” Craig David: Back in the day, everyone was dressing up like The Wizard of Oz on Halloween. So I went as a little scarecrow, with a little straw hat and straw everywhere all up my body. It gave me a lot of itching problems! Patterson Hood: Our guitarist Mike Cooley goes as an alcoholic every Halloween. He wears the costume year-round! Aimee Mann: I was an Indian every year, because I thought that I could grow up to be an Indian. I loved the whole Indian thing: riding the horse side saddle, learning to shoot a bow and arrow over its neck, skinning the buffalo and using every part of it including the hooves for glue. That was my thing! Dana Glover: When I was in kindergarten, my mom put all this time into me making this cute little clown suit, but I was too embarrassed to wear it and I never did. That was my saddest costume; thinking about it still breaks my heart. Sam Farrar: I was always really big into gory make-up, so the past couple of years I’ve been using those latex bolts that make it look like you have a bloody screw stuck in your face. I made it look like there was a piece of glass in Darren’s forehead for a show we did with Tenacious D. I put glow in the dark face makeup all over us. We ended up sweating and looking disgusting. That was just a Halloween show, but we’re thinking of doing it every day now. Donnie: I remember going as Batman one year. We didn’t really celebrate Halloween once we moved to Atlanta, but I did when I was growing up in Lexington, Ky. Our pastor there was more liberal. He was like, “Take these children out and get some candy!” ?uestlove: Every year we do [a Halloween show]. We were pimps last year. Now we’re a six-man group, and since we’re going to be in L.A. at the House of Blues on Halloween, we’re flirting with doing the N.W.A. motif, complete with an N.W.A. medley of songs. Black Thought: I want to be Ice Cube. I want to be all the rappers in N.W.A.! [Laughs.] I’m going to go as MC Ren and Arabian Prince

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