EddieTrunk

Well first happy birthday to your dad! And secondly, the one musician I've never interviewed at all in any way, shape or form and I'd love to (and ironically I was in the same room as him a week ago) is Jimmy Page. I've met with him and spoken with him, but I'd love to do a real in-depth interview with Jimmy Page. This is of the people I've never interviewed, I've been lucky enough to interview tons of people.

My favorite Lemmy drinking story is I was backstage at a Slash show about 3 years ago, and I was having a few drinks with Lemmy and the night was getting later, and I decided it was probably time for me to stop drinking, and I went over to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water and went back to continue my conversation with Lemmy, and he looked at me with total disgust and berated me for even considering to stop drinking just because it was getting later, and completely convinced me to go back to the refrigerator and get a proper beverage. So the visual, really, is what sells that story and unfortunately we don't have that. His face looking at me with the bottle of water is priceless.

That is true, up until the most recent season, we taped 2 shows a day, so that is 100% true that there were artist interactions backstage while the shows were changing over. And most of the artists, I never experienced any real issues where any artist came to me and said "hey that person is there i don't want to see them" or hid in their dressing room. Most of them know each other and are fans of each other and have a good camaraderie. And you'd be surprised. there's a lot of people that artists into more extreme metal wouldn't be excited about meeting an artist who is more of a classic rock artist. And that is COMPLETELY the opposite. For instance, Lars Ulrich and Sammy Hagar stood in the hallway and talked forever at one show. Corey Taylor was completely excited to meet Night Ranger, which is something you wouldn't expect. So that sort of stuff is interesting to see. A guy like King Diamond is excited to meet Alter Bridge. So things like that are really cool to see, that interaction and that a lot of these guys are fans of artists you may not expect them to be fans of, and i love seeing that sort of interaction. I've tweeted out some interesting photos from over the years, and that's part of the reason why, is the crossover in the halls. This most recent season was the first time we went to a one a day format.

That's an interview that I'd love to do over. We waited a REALLY long time for that interview. And Axl claimed he didn't really know we were there and waiting. So by the time it happened, we were surprised it was even happening and not to make excuses but after sitting for about 15 hours it was certainly not the way we wanted to go into doing an interview like that. But people really loved that we were the first tv show in 15 years to have him on, and people were really excited to see him talk and speak and be Axl Rose. So it was a great moment for the show, and a great score for sure, but it was an interview as someone who prides myself on being a pretty good interviewer after all these years, it was one I'd love to have done over under different circumstances and would like to do a better job. I've never had an issue with him personally, and I saw him just a few weeks ago when we hosted The Golden Gods and Guns n Roses performed in the show that's airing this Saturday, and Axl also gets an award that's given to him by Nicolas Cage, so people will see all that on the Golden Gods this saturday. But he's always been cool by me.

Oh boy, I get that question a lot.

Well, I would say one of my all-time favorite guitar players is John Sykes. One of my all-time favorite singers and front men is Steven Tyler. One of my all-time favorite bass players is Geezer Butler. And one of my all-time favorite drummers is Mike Portnoy.

I completely pulled that out of left field because these questions are so tough for me because there are so many musicians that i love to death, these are just random musicians that I love and I think their playing would be an interesting mix, I would think.