BW&BK Exclusive: STUCK MOJO Guitarist RICH WARD - "'This Ain’t Pigwalk, What The Fuck Was Rich Thinking?'"
January 4, 2009, 15 years ago
BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently spoke with STUCK MOJO guitarist/founder Rich Ward about the band's new album, The Great Revival. An excerpt from the interview is available below.
"Growing up I was never really into Guns N’ Roses," Ward reveals. "They were a little too L.A. for me because I was still into Maiden, Ozzy, Slayer and Priest, and getting into Pantera and White Zombie. Guns N’ Roses didn’t do anything for me, but I listened to Chinese Democracy a few days ago and I think it’s brilliant. The reason I like it is for the reason everybody told me ‘Don’t listen to it, they suck, Axl’s lost his mind…’ hates it; those people were big fans of Appetite For Destruction. The album is so different for them, and they were waiting for Appetite #2. Axl just happened to write a record that’s, well, not that. So, I think there are going to be Mojo fans that hear the new record and go ‘This ain’t Pigwalk, what the fuck was Rich thinking?’ And then there are going to be people that listened to The Duke record when I put it out and thought ‘This ain’t Mojo’ that are going to like The Great Revival.""The funny thing about being a musician is that everybody acts like they do whatever they want to do no matter what, and that may be true, but we still question it. There was never a point where I didn’t question The Great Revival. I did question it, but I didn’t question it enough to not put it out there.”
Watch for the full interview in BW&BK; #114.
Go to this location for Martin Popoff's review of The Great Revival. Click here for audio samples.
