Trivia
FlyGuitarsNow on to the bonus round of silly but revealing questions
FlyGuitars Roundwound or flat?
JMJ Both
FlyGuitars Maple or Mahogany?
JMJ Both
FlyGuitars Active or passive?
JMJ PASSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FlyGuitars Mud, thud or piano?
JMJ Mud
FlyGuitars Pick or fingers?
JMJ Both
FlyGuitars Ebony, Maple or Rosewood (please do not put down Wenge)?
JMJ Maple and Rosewood
FlyGuitars Digital or analogue?
JMJ Both. At the same time.
FlyGuitars Coke or Pepsi?
JMJ Coke!
FlyGuitars Cat or Dogs?
JMJ Cat
FlyGuitars VH-1 or MTV?
JMJ VH-1 is the only one that plays videos now, right? So VH1.
FlyGuitars Meat or potatoes?
JMJ Fish!
FlyGuitars Do you treat your basses as fine pieces of furniture (coffee table) or as tools?
JMJ Tools, but furniture if the value is over $2K. :-)
FlyGuitars Internet or boob tube?
JMJ Internet.
FlyGuitars Do you like basses with figured wood (flame/ curly) or do you like them with Plain Jane grain?
JMJ Plain Jane!!!!
FlyGuitars BEAD or CBGB?
JMJ CBGB!!
FlyGuitars Teletubbies or Sponge Bob?
JMJ Tubbies! 'Cuz that's what my baby girl likes.
FlyGuitars Thank you now back to more serious issues. What is your view of the current music industry situation as far as the death of CD sales/stores due to I pods and picking choosing single songs?
JMJ Inevitable. More changes are coming, get ready. But people still like music, so I'm not horribly distressed about it. Especially live music.
FlyGuitars Do you think that with today's technology and the fact that anyone can be a musician who owns a laptop or a MySpace account, that it dilutes music, or do you think it makes music better?
JMJ Dilutes it. There's too much quantity and not enough quality. I get way to many shitty demos (or Myspace page links) these days that end up depressing the hell out of me.
FlyGuitars Bands are getting dropped right and left by their labels, what does it take to make it in today's music industry?
JMJ Don't suck, don't be trendy, and persist.
FlyGuitars Do you find LA the center of the rock music industry?
JMJ Yeah. London is its own center, though.
FlyGuitars Thanks again I hope you enjoy the site in the future.
JMJ Absolutely! You guys do a great thing.
Thanks to John (Redbird) Fertig and Justin Meldal-Johnsen for another great interview
Why not check out some of these links
Justin Meldal-Johnsen homepage
Ima Robot homepage
Beck homepage
and don't forget the other FlyGuitar interviews
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