Last week, I posted a new interview with the one and only Devin Townsend, perhaps my favorite artist of all time. For real. But not everything he said made it into the article because some of it, I just couldn’t find an appropriate place to stick it in. Sort of like having sex with a Read More
I speak to metal and rock musicians all the time. I tape every single interview, but don’t end up using it all. Most times, I get stuck with leftover quotes that just end up at the bottom of a Word document, never to be seen. I’d say that, for most stories, I use about 60 Read More
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is always good for quotes, so when I get that dude on the phone, I keep him on the phone. Mustaine, who is too cool to share golf carts, loves to hear himself talk and I spoke with him recently for a story I wrote for Rolling Stone. But not everything that Read More
I have interviewed Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine a bunch of times. No, that doesn’t make me any cooler than anybody else. Trust me — after a while, interviewing rock stars isn’t fun anymore, and you just go through the motions, ask the usual questions, and then get back to “Mario Kart.” Anyways, I have spoken with Read More
Ask any music journalist, and they’ll tell you that, out of every interview they do, there’s about 15-percent that never makes it into the final story — for space issues, or because it wasn’t all that interesting, or because its too juicy, and they have to keep it for themselves and the book they one Read More