Retro Interviews: The Bad
Yesterday we looked at the good interviews by us but there were
interviews where we forgot, the phone connection was bad, or the person
was just too high.
London LeGrand (former Brides of Destruction frontman) had a side project with George Lynch called Souls of We. Unlike George, London was long winded, went on for five minutes then forgot his point or the question, and was a mish match of thoughts and words. He knew the interview was a mess because at the conclusion he then asked us to email him to make sure it was coherent. I am a rock reporter, not a miracle worker, London. Check out the interview here.
Peter Klett from Candlebox called us almost an hour late and high as a kite. We had a few great questions for him, but he couldn't tell if they were jokes or real and got offended. I will give him credit, he didn't hang up, but probably should have. The Boom mic operator question was the turning point in the interview that was about as generic as vanilla ice cream or Tom Petty. You can read the interview and listen to the podcast here.
I am usually on top of interviews and when they are set to take place, but I forgot Dusty Redmon from The Almost was calling me until he was actually calling me. I had zero questions prepared for him and had done no research on the band. If I had done research on him, I would have realized he was a Christian band and would not have asked him to play Porn Title or No with me. You can read me try and create questions on the fly and still make it engaging here.
Sometimes me not being prepared for interviews isn't my fault. We had an interview set up in person with Shane Told, lead singer of Silverstein. I did my research on him and had some great questions lined up for a full 20 minute interview with him. However, 10 minutes before the interview, we were told we are not going to be interviewing Shane, but Paul Koehler, the drummer, from Silverstein. We had 10 minutes to research Paul on my iPhone 2G while being stuck in a mosh pit. It didn't work out. I had no idea he was a vegetarian and hated beer; and it was just a sloppy mess. You can read the train wreck here.
I had been planning for weeks for this Josey Scott of Saliva interview, but I hate Saliva and didn't listened to only one song on their Cinco Diablo album. I really wanted to dive into the fallout between him and Chad Kroeger and see if Scott would slam him for taking most of the royalty money from the Hero song from Spiderman. I was told by the record company to keep the interview on Cinco Diablo and the upcoming tour, but I was about as interested in that tour or that album as I am in teaching kids how to read. The result was a clusterfuck that reads better than it sounded. Check it out here.
Sometimes you get so many rules by a publicist you think "what the fuck am I doing this for?" Such a thing happened with Breaking Benjamin. We were offered an interview with Breaking Benjamin front man Ben Burnley. However, we couldn't ask about Breaking Benjamin, had to call him BENJAMIN, and had to talk about his up coming acoustic shows. I refused and the interview never happened. You can read the full account here. They don't pay me enough to suck that dick.
London LeGrand (former Brides of Destruction frontman) had a side project with George Lynch called Souls of We. Unlike George, London was long winded, went on for five minutes then forgot his point or the question, and was a mish match of thoughts and words. He knew the interview was a mess because at the conclusion he then asked us to email him to make sure it was coherent. I am a rock reporter, not a miracle worker, London. Check out the interview here.
Peter Klett from Candlebox called us almost an hour late and high as a kite. We had a few great questions for him, but he couldn't tell if they were jokes or real and got offended. I will give him credit, he didn't hang up, but probably should have. The Boom mic operator question was the turning point in the interview that was about as generic as vanilla ice cream or Tom Petty. You can read the interview and listen to the podcast here.
I am usually on top of interviews and when they are set to take place, but I forgot Dusty Redmon from The Almost was calling me until he was actually calling me. I had zero questions prepared for him and had done no research on the band. If I had done research on him, I would have realized he was a Christian band and would not have asked him to play Porn Title or No with me. You can read me try and create questions on the fly and still make it engaging here.
Sometimes me not being prepared for interviews isn't my fault. We had an interview set up in person with Shane Told, lead singer of Silverstein. I did my research on him and had some great questions lined up for a full 20 minute interview with him. However, 10 minutes before the interview, we were told we are not going to be interviewing Shane, but Paul Koehler, the drummer, from Silverstein. We had 10 minutes to research Paul on my iPhone 2G while being stuck in a mosh pit. It didn't work out. I had no idea he was a vegetarian and hated beer; and it was just a sloppy mess. You can read the train wreck here.
I had been planning for weeks for this Josey Scott of Saliva interview, but I hate Saliva and didn't listened to only one song on their Cinco Diablo album. I really wanted to dive into the fallout between him and Chad Kroeger and see if Scott would slam him for taking most of the royalty money from the Hero song from Spiderman. I was told by the record company to keep the interview on Cinco Diablo and the upcoming tour, but I was about as interested in that tour or that album as I am in teaching kids how to read. The result was a clusterfuck that reads better than it sounded. Check it out here.
Sometimes you get so many rules by a publicist you think "what the fuck am I doing this for?" Such a thing happened with Breaking Benjamin. We were offered an interview with Breaking Benjamin front man Ben Burnley. However, we couldn't ask about Breaking Benjamin, had to call him BENJAMIN, and had to talk about his up coming acoustic shows. I refused and the interview never happened. You can read the full account here. They don't pay me enough to suck that dick.






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