My Interview with Perry

[zdilla]

[vikkivale]

:hello: Awesome interview NS! Thank you NS! Thank you Perry!

[Mike]

OK I have the next question done.
This one is from StickyFingers.

Mike: Another of our users StickyFingers wants to know… Is your message that we got to drop the Internet and come back to the streets, real people, real friendships, and real talk?

Perry: Well, it’s part that. I don’t think we need to drop the Internet. The Internet is a really great way to level the playing field and have people forming communities without waiting for the traditional media (channel 2) to report on you. You know you don’t have to wait for anybody to form a community. We can form communities ourselves. Like you and I met basically through the Internet. We’ve begun our own community. So I think that that’s great, but I think it’s also even more important to meet face to face to know each other because you’ll never replace human relationships. You’ll never replace a live concert with a recording. It’s just it’s not you know human beings were made this way. Just like you know we all end up having the same amount of limbs, eyes, a nose, and everything else. We crave certain things, human touch, and human relationships. So I think that the only danger with the Internet or television is that people become detached. And at the same time they almost accept that as their… that’s how they relate to the world. They look at it through the television and it’s not real. It’s also inevitably you can’t be satiated; you can’t be satisfied that way. That’s why people they end up very lonely although they think they’re not alone. They end up secluding themselves and they don’t really know what’s going on. What really happens is out there and it’s an everyday… it’s a story that you’re telling about your life. It can only happen by going out there and living. It’s OK to zone out on a TV or go on the Internet. I can get a lot of work done on the Internet but at the same time I still think that for me the hard work going out on a bus, and going and reaching the people, and seeing them face to face, and holding them, and touching them, and when I sing, is you know you can’t replace that. That’s an electric connection, that’s kinetic energy that you’re not going to get through the Internet and that goes a long way. I met a fellow who ran Presidential campaigns once. He ran Presidential campaigns for Walter Mondale, one of the Kennedy’s and Howard Dean. Is it Howard Dean?

Mike: Yeah the guy that made that loud YEEEAAAAHHHHH!

Perry: Yeah Howard Dean. Which he almost won… he ran an Internet campaign by the way. But anyway this guy said he would go out into the farm lands and drive his car into a ditch. Then he’d wait for a farmer on a tractor to drive by. The tractor would pull him out of the ditch. Then he’d say “I'm here campaigning for Ted Kennedy. Let me tell you about the Senator”. And I said you really wasted your time… to go to one guy? You waited all that time for a tractor to ride by? He said “Yeah my man because if you turn on one farmer he will go and talk to all the people in his neighborhood and he can transform a neighborhood”. I learned from him that even though you think that… you might as well try to do it another way. You know see if you can get some rich guy and have him make a bunch of posters or something. His way he told me like one guy, the right guy shaking his hand and talking to him and explaining to him can turn on the whole community. I never forgot that and I agree. You can see today groups that don’t go out there, and they don’t tour. Now after all this time they’re nowhere. Nobody… there’s no talk about them they don’t excite a community they don’t turn on an audience. We’ve got Pittsburgh turned on. Even though it might be only a few hundred people here tonight but we sure turned them on. I know that for a fact.

Mike: It was a nice crowd here tonight and they were into it from start to finish.

Perry: Yeah! That’s so much better than Paris Hilton in her underpants on the Internet. That doesn’t turn anybody on you know. It’s like a dead connection there. I don’t know that’s just the way we got to do it and every night no matter how you feel. We came from a 5:00 o’clock in morning video shoot but I put my gloves on, I had to put my drink on, Carl strapped his bass on, and once we got out there right after the first song the whole crowd lit up, and we were riding / floating on the energy again.

[zdilla]

great question and super answer!!

[StickyFingers]

WOW! Mike Perry

Perry has great spirit and energy in his body and his mind, his words (lyrics and interviews) always inspired me.....from the dark rebel past, to the brighter positive present....we grew up together.... in a kind of way

thank you Perry for your answer!

[Mike]

WOW! Mike Perry

Perry has great spirit and energy in his body and his mind, his words (lyrics and interviews) always inspired me.....from the dark rebel past, to the brighter positive present....we grew up together.... in a kind of way

thank you Perry for your answer!

Well said StickyFingers.
I was transcribing last night and it's a lot of work.
Not that I'm complaining.
I found myself listening in my more comfortable position of "fan" instead of transcriber.
I still need to transcribe it but after one of Perry's answers my reply was "thank you".
It's just as you say, we grew up together and it was really such a pleasure to chat with him.
BTW StickyFingers, there's another question of yours still to come.

[OzMic]

nice !!!

[Mike]

I finished another question last night.
This one I asked Perry as it tied in with the previous question. :hello:

Mike: Do you want to talk a little bit more about the video shoot last night?

Perry: Yeah sure. ESPN heard this song Celebrate that we have on the Satellite Party disc. “Only Love, Let’s Celebrate” they want to use it for the college…Saturday night college game night but they wanted a rapper and they wanted a female vocalist. So they were talking about 50 Cent. To me 50 is riding high. He’s probably the most credible rap artist going today as far as I’m concerned #1. I really wanted to get to work with him because that track was written at between 100 and 105 BPM which is what Hip Hop tracks are written at. It was programmed with sub sonics, 808s and everything the way they program Hip Hop. The reason I did all that was because I wanted it to be given to a DJ using that and all of our rock knowledge so that we would get played in clubs. I felt that we weren’t getting played in clubs. Not us, but rock artists aren’t getting played in clubs anymore by the DJ’s because rock artists they don’t understand about beat matching and how important it is to set a BPM. So that a DJ can mix it in and so once the track is mixed in you have to have the right sub sonic frequencies otherwise it’s going to sound crappy and thin next to the Hip Hop tracks. So 50 when he heard the track and when his producers heard the track they jumped on the track and Kelly jumped on the track too and she was able to sing because it’s also pop format in a way. We had a lot of fun. We stayed up all night and we blew off pyrotechnics right on Times Square last night about twenty-five times. I started to see that blue when the sun starts to come around but first it starts to turn blue before the sun starts to come around. Made friends and hopefully we’ll catch up with them. I expect we’ll be able to catch up some… maybe at the college championships. Wouldn’t that be cool? Go out there at halftime and perform it with them.

Mike: That would be the bomb.

Perry: That would be the bomb.

Mike: I remember back in the Porno For Pyros days you guys did a song with the rapper Kurupt; “Streets On Fire”.

Perry: Yeah.

Mike: That’s the only other instance I can remember of you like kind of crossing…

Perry: Ice-T.

Mike: Well…

Perry: Ice-T way back in the day except it wasn’t rap.

Mike: It wasn’t rap. Exactly, but I think it’s interesting that you’re getting into that genre because it helps to expose you to another fan base. I like that.

Perry: Well I love… Listen I like rap a lot but obviously I’m not a rapper. But I know that I can be like a… like a Hype Man for them. Which is when you hear the track you’ll hear it. Kind of like Flavor Flav was for Public Enemy. Where because I can sing… they need kind of like a Hype Man or a singer just to hit the parts. I like it because… just it’s a flavor. I don’t do it a lot obviously but to work with 50 Cent man I would definitely, definitely consider doing it again. I’d like to see if I can get that track… remix that track and get it out on iTunes or something too.

Mike: Excellent.

[Mike]

I don't have another question done just yet but here's another picture.

Photo courtesy of hydro.

I hope to have the next question up latter tonight or first thing in the morning.
Sorry to keep everyone waiting.
I guess I should have considered typing in high school.

[hydro]

yeah!!!!I cant wait to wake up on the morning!!! Ill be up at the crack of dawn with my cup of coffee and bowl of buds.great way of keeping us in suspense I was there listening to every word perry said but they are great questions and awesome answers and I cant wait to read the next one!! Perry gave such great long detailed answers im sure its alot of typing!!! take your time mike your a true professional and doing a awesome job!!!