COOL ROCK/INTERVIEW SHIT

When I interviewed Al Cisneros (Sleep and OM), at one point I asked him, "What is your favorite Black Sabbath riff?" because they sound so much like Sabbath and OM hadn't put out a record yet. I was interviewing him for Holy Mountain Records which was owned by my friend, John Whitson. Al Cisneros and Sleep had disappeared forever at that point so them putting out a record was huge. When I asked Al that Sabbath question he said, "Tony Iomi's riffology is irrefutable." I'd never heard the word riffology, I have used that approximately 1,000 times since then. Later in the interview Al finally said his favorite riff was "Cornucopia" which is on Sabbath Vol 4. 

When I wrote for Rhapsody at one point we had an editor who had worked at fucking Creem when it first started. She was actually mentioned in an article written by Lester Bangs about going to see Black Sabbath in like 1974 or something. We're talking rock royalty here. At one point they had me writing promo's for the website, we were supposed to write and type things as ads. I came up with one that said, "Q: Who is a better guitar player than Billy Gibbins? A: None. There is not better guitar player than Billy Gibbins." and the editor from Creem (Jaan) told me, "I emailed the promo to Billy Gibbons and he loved it." This is incredible that it happened. I could have retired at that point. 

The other great thing I have about Billy Gibbins is that recently in an interview he was asked if there was a guitar player today that he liked and he said, "The best guitar player today is Graham from Lecherous Gaze." Cool, I totally agree. That guy Graham is a fucking bad ass guitar player.

They had me interview a lot of people at Rhapsody. My first interview was with this awful boy band from England called BBMak and my last thing I did as a full time employee (before I went overseas) was to interview Tommy Lee. In the middle they had me interview Bryan Adams, that was cool. He was actually super nice and all we talked about was hockey. Even though he is from Montreal he is a Bruins fan. That blew my mind. I asked Tommy Lee if he had ever smoked crack and he said, "Kid, I've done everything." 

I was not at this show. It was in the 1970s and my friend/boss was at it. It was in a shit Boston town called Waymeth. My friend/boss, Pete was there to see Tom Petty or someone. It was outside in a playground type area. The New York Dolls were opening. Some irish/american Boston "yah-dudes" were freaked out by the New York Dolls all being in drag. At one point a fucking tennis ball bounced off of singer David Johanson's forehead, thrown by a "yah-dude" obviously. My boss/friend saw this happen and told me about it one night when I was cranking "Frankenstein" at work.