If it hasn’t come to the attention of the Detroit electro-metal band Electric Six already, I would like to point out the powerful trend in their most recent tour. E6 is touring with six members, in support of their sixth record KILL (Metropolis, 2009) and their show in Tucson is on Monday, Nov. 9 (inverted six).

Best known for their singles “Gay Bar,” “Danger! High Voltage” and “Dance Commander,” and their fans that dress like Freddie Mercury, who lead singer Dick Valentine cites as an influence, Electric Six are for fans of Andrew W.K., The Darkness and Lordi.

Bring your fake mustache and fist pumps. It’s going to be electrifying.

Below, Dick Valentine, singer and dance commander of E6, discusses Rock Band’s influence on America’s youth, playing their favorite hits night after night and how they got the name for their most recent tour.

AZNB: Who are we talking to and what is your favorite mythical creature?

DV: My name is Dick Valentine and my favorite mythical creature is the Country and Western humanoid

A couple of weeks ago, Electric Six had a few tracks added to the video game Rock Band. How do you feel about people playing your songs?

DV: I love it! It’s awesome to know that we are a large part of the dumbing down of our country’s future—one lost, misguided, unsupervised, over-medicated teenager at a time.

Your music videos show a large part of your image as a band – ‘Gay Bar’ with the Gaybraham Lincoln costumes, ‘High Voltage’ with the light up crotches, and the ‘Down at McDonnelzzz’ video, where you’re a centaur. Were these mostly your ideas or were they talked through with directors?

DV: It depends on the video. The centaur idea came from a couple of our band members. In the ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘High Voltage’ videos, that was completely from the director.

Is it true that you had a difference of opinion with the director over the music video for your song ‘Dance Commander?’ It seems like there are two separate ideas battling each other in the video.

DV: I guess that was true. I really wanted the Latin American dictator thing going on. The director wanted a “Risky Business” vibe. What you get when you fuse those two things together is a video that makes no sense whatsoever.

Tell us a little bit about your popularity over in England. Your song ‘Gay Bar’ is frequently played in the background of BBC shows. Do you think you’re more popular in England than in the U.S.?

DV: I would say the average person on the street in the U.K. has a better chance of being familiar with ‘High Voltage’ or ‘Gay Bar.’ I suppose our shows over there are slightly bigger, but the disparity in attendance at shows isn’t as big as you’d think.

Is it true that you literally used to pick fights with other Detroit bands when you were starting out, or were those more like dance-offs? Did you take a swing at Jack White? I’d imagine to live and fight in Detroit would be pretty tough. How has the town shaped Electric Six?

DV: Detroit has shaped us in that we can’t wait to get the fuck out of there as soon as we can, which is why we tour as often as we do. As for everything else you are asking, I have no idea what you are talking about.

On your MySpace page it says, ‘Electric Six wants to return to simpler times.’ It’s certainly something that your fans expect from your live shows—that you play songs from your past—but in what ways are you saying ‘fuck you’ to your fans currently and how much are you ‘done trying to not sound like [your] first record Fire.’

DV: We honestly don’t really think in those terms. Yes, we have to play ‘Gay Bar’ at every show, but it doesn’t really bum us out. We try to do a good job of playing stuff off the new album and at least try to play one song off of every album.

Where did you get the name I’m Cutting a Fuckin’ Spot, Tony for your present tour and what does it mean?

DV: It’s from a blooper recording of Barry White cutting a radio blurb for a charity performance he was going to perform sometime back in the ’90s. It’s where the title of the album comes from. He is quite the potty mouth as he becomes more and more frustrated with his inability to finish the promo. At one point, someone (presumably Tony) says something to him and he snaps back ‘I’m cutting a fuckin’ spot Tony!…Kill!’

Tell us about THE KILL TOUR MIXTAPE, which is a six-song EP featuring music, remixes and mash-ups of Electric Six and the bands you are touring with – The Gay Blades and Millions of Brazilians.

DV: It is a little nugget that highlights the splendor of all three bands that you will see at our show. It is a souvenir that allows you to relive the night…over and over again.

You recently played two shows in New York and in Boston where you performed live on boats. Tell us about Electric Six at sea.

DV: We were seduced by the songs of New Jersey sirens and jumped into the Hudson River.

You’re currently on an expansive U.S. and U.K. tour and you just released your sixth record KILL, but what else is on the horizon for E6?

DV: We take what they give us. If they give us another album and more touring, we take it. I put it like that because that’s all they’ve ever given us—another album and more touring.

Is there anything you’d like to say to Tucson?

DV: Ease up on the new-age hippie shit.

Electric Six perform with he Gay Blades and Millions of Brazilians Monday, Nov. 9. Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 9:30 p.m.