► “I get a fair amount of questions sent in to me regarding how I write my lyrics, and what inspires what I write. To be honest, the lyrics for the songs are not necessarily written in the same way, but I’ll give you an example of how I wrote one of my favorite lines for the song ‘Dr. Pibb’. The line I’m referring to is ‘beware, my son, the crooked surgeon, he’ll cut you like a piece of sturgeon’. The way I wrote that is kind of weird, I can’t exactly explain how my mind came up with it, but I’ll tell you what I remember. There was a side street local to me called Sturgeon Street and while taking my daughter to school I just thought it was an interesting street name, probably named after some guy or other. At a different point in time I was walking past a pub in London with an American friend, a pub I’d seen many times before, and I’d always found the name of it cool - it’s called ‘The Crooked Surgeon’. I was already planning on writing a song called ‘Dr. Pibb’, and for someone reason I’d been thinking earlier that day about the Lewis Carrol poem ‘Jabberwocky’ with that line ‘beware, my son, the Jabberwock’. As soon as I passed that pub on that particular day my brain immediately put everything together as ‘Beware, my son, the crooked surgeon, he’ll cut you like a piece of sturgeon’. I didn’t even really have to think about it, it was just there in my head straight away. So I quickly jotted it down on the back of a receipt I had in my pocket, and that’s how I came up with the first line I wrote for ‘Dr. Pibb’. It nearly never even made it into the finished song. It’s one of my favorite lines in a Malfated song.”

► Karl Steiger, 2008.

► “I’d be very, very surprised if someone was able to show me a song specifically about plastic surgery that doesn’t glorify it that pre-dates my ‘Dr. Pibb’ song. Because I’ve never heard of one, and I know a fair bit about music. As far as I’m aware, ‘Dr. Pibb’ was the first song to ever do that.”

► Karl Steiger, 2007.

► “[Dr.] Pibb was originally going to be about a doctor who supplies drugs and dodgy prescriptions to bands, kind of like The Beatles’ ‘Dr. Roberts’ song, but more relevant to today. When I realised that nobody had ever written a song about a plastic surgeon, which is incredible to me seeing as we live in a cosmetic culture these days, I binned my original idea and went with the plastic surgery idea. I’m glad I did.”

► Karl Steiger, 2008.

► “To get the name ‘Dr. Pibb’ I just took the name ‘Dr Pepper’ and the Coca-Cola knock-off drink, ‘Mr. Pibb’, and used half of each. I thought it sounded kind of psychedelic and perfect for what I wanted to do. It also brings to mind stuff like Dr. Seuss, which is a great added bonus.”

► Karl Steiger, 2008.

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