My Interview with Perry

nexis · Post by **nexis** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:51 am

It’s inspired playing by a real drummer but now the next frontier is the drummer has to be as effective using effects as the guitar player or the singer

Post by **Mike** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:17 pm

Pastel wrote:I enjoy this... thanks mike

but....one moment...

and my question about janes says?

jaja, no, it´s a joke...

I enjoy this interview

Saludos!

Hey Pastel, I know you're joking and I'm glad you're enjoying the interview.
I'm happy everyone seems to be enjoying it for that matter.
I do apologize that I was unable to ask every ones questions though.
However there's only time for so many in 45 minutes though.
I hope to be able to sit down with Perry again in the future and do it again.
If / when that opportunity arises perhaps we can decide as a group on a set of questions.
Thanks to everyone for the nice comments on my interviewing skills.
I was so nervous when Perry agreed to do the interview.
But once we sat down and got started Perry quickly made me feel at ease.
With the last part that I posted I would say were a little over halfway through.
I'm trying my best to get the transcription done so all of you can enjoy it.
There are some really good subjects coming up including Eric Avery, Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros, family life, Timothy Leary, and the sixties.
Stay tuned!

Post by **Mike** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:52 pm

As I said in my previous post we're over halfway through with the last question.
I got about halfway through asking this question when the batteries in my camera died.

Luckily for the fans waiting outside the venue this gave Perry a chance to sign some autographs.

Photo courtesy of hydro.

Mike: Alright we’re going to go back to the Jane’s Addiction days for a second here. nexis asks this question. What would it take for you and Eric Avery to make up and become friends again?

Perry: So Eric Avery, great bass player. You know I don’t know. I can’t speak for Eric. I only can speculate why Eric doesn’t want to get involved in things I do. You know we didn’t have an easy time of it. We went definitely, definitely in different directions. During the Jane’s days he got… he had a very different outlook on life. He had a tough time of it for a while and came out of it and just decided to go the clean and sober route. You got to wish him well and let him do his thing.

Mike: Absolutely.

Perry: But I would invite him to join Jane’s and maybe he didn’t want to go through it? You know I still party and I’m not about to stop. I’m sure that being around people that party sometimes can be… especially if you’re not partying… I don’t know it can probably be annoying or whatever and it could be that. Also I do like to have things my way. I’m a sharing guy but I definitely have very strong opinions about things and maybe that has a lot to do with it too. Eric is a very smart guy too and so… probably there’s always a power struggle when you have two strong willed / strong minded guys with strong opinions and he’s an intelligent guy too. It could be that but again like I say I don’t know. You could probably ask Eric and he’ll probably be able to tell you a lot better than me. I always thought that we should continue to play together for a time but I gave up.

Mike: Fair enough. Fair enough.

OzMic · Post by **OzMic** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:58 pm

nexis · Post by **nexis** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:02 pm

Mike: Alright we’re going to go back to the Jane’s Addiction days for a second here. nexis asks this question. What would it take for you and Eric Avery to make up and become friends again?

Perry: So Eric Avery, great bass player. You know I don’t know. I can’t speak for Eric. I only can speculate why Eric doesn’t want to get involved in things I do. You know we didn’t have an easy time of it. We went definitely, definitely in different directions. During the Jane’s days he got… he had a very different outlook on life. He had a tough time of it for a while and came out of it and just decided to go the clean and sober route. You got to wish him well and let him do his thing.

Mike: Absolutely.

Perry: But I would invite him to join Jane’s and maybe he didn’t want to go through it? You know I still party and I’m not about to stop. I’m sure that being around people that party sometimes can be… especially if you’re not partying… I don’t know it can probably be annoying or whatever and it could be that. Also I do like to have things my way. I’m a sharing guy but I definitely have very strong opinions about things and maybe that has a lot to do with it too. Eric is a very smart guy too and so… probably there’s always a power struggle when you have two strong willed / strong minded guys with strong opinions and he’s an intelligent guy too. It could be that but again like I say I don’t know. You could probably ask Eric and he’ll probably be able to tell you a lot better than me. I always thought that we should continue to play together for a time but I gave up.

Mike: Fair enough. Fair enough

Some very good insight there, thank you!

esqfool · Post by **esqfool** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:51 pm

Cool questions. Looking forward to what else ya asked him. Thanks!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:52 am

I'll get another part of the interview posted latter today at some point.
I just got home from a nice Holiday weekend and I'm still rocking like I'm on the boat.

zdilla · Post by **zdilla** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:34 pm

thanks NS!!

scabdates · Post by **scabdates** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:36 pm

Nothing's Shocking wrote:I'll get another part of the interview posted latter today at some point.
I just got home from a nice Holiday weekend and I'm still rocking like I'm on the boat.

Hehe, awesome sir. You'll soon be rocking with the Farrells.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:04 am

Sorry for the delay.
Here's another part of my interview.
I think this part will answer plenty of questions that are floating around.
Including one that I know of that was asked in this thread.

Mike: This is a question that nexis asks and I actually have a lot of interest in this as well. As will a lot of others. Do you have any demo songs in your catalog that never made it onto an official release that you would be willing to release through a medium like itunes for your devoted fans?

Perry: Yeah. Well we do we have… there’s songs that we recorded for “Strays” that we never finished… we never… we didn’t put on the record. I think there was at least two or three of them.

Mike: One I can think of is “Bring The Mood” but I can’t think of any others.

Perry: Yeah that song could be… that could’ve been great and I wanted to release it. We’re putting… supposedly we have a box set that should be coming out with all the rest of our material the last Jane’s stuff. Of course Capitol Records doesn’t want to release those tracks. They don’t want to be helpful at all. I wanted to put their stuff on there to the Capitol Records stuff and they wouldn’t cooperate with Warner Bros. So fuck them. It will sit there for I don’t know how long. Who knows? Maybe one day they’ll get their acts together and do it. But other than that I don’t know. Maybe Stephen Perkins has got stuff lying around? Pete’s got stuff from Porno that he gave to me on a cassette. Its God awful because we were just so high and so terribly stung out that none of us could play very well. It was only… we were practicing on a cassette that’s how long ago this was. You know he wants me to record and finish… do more Porno stuff. I would get together with Pete at a certain point and absolutely do that. We have to wait a little bit. I have to work this project and get this project cooking. Like I say you’ve got to go out and touch the people. I can’t be off and away from the street for to long. I’m just getting out onto the turf but when we get up the road sometime down the line I’d love to get in there and have some fun with Pete and do some more recording with him and Satellite Party. We’ve got our Pro Tools rig set up finally on the bus now, tonight.

Mike: I saw it the other night. You got kind of a kick when you saw it there under the table. Is Satellite Party currently doing some recording while out on the road?

Perry: We just got it set up now. So there’s no stopping us.

Mike: Awesome. Awesome that’s good news.