Rob Zombie was a huge collector of vintage horror movie posters, but that all abruptly stopped in 2004 when Zombie's good friend Johnny Ramone died. He told Apple Music's Zane Lowe, "He was another psychotic collector. And the day he died, I remember being over his house and he had died. And I was just like, now what? I swear, I never bought another thing after that."
He added, "It just seemed like, who cares? And I stopped talking about posters with people. I stopped buying them. It was just like, I don't know. You don't realize how much the collecting is connected to a friendship with someone until they aren't there anymore. The last poster I bought was . . . this giant French Wolfman poster. But actually Johnny bought it and he had it in his house."
Zombie says Ramone sold the poster to him before his death.
Zombie's new studio album, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy Theory, will be released on March 12th.