JOE BONAMASSA - "There's Never Been A Mention Of Me In Rolling Stone, Nor Will There Be; I'm Fine With That"
March 23, 2009, 15 years ago
Guitarist Joe Bonamassa is featured in a new interview with Nightwatcher's House Of Rock. An excerpt is available below.
NHOR: Any opinion on why there hasn't been a single mention of you in Rolling Stone Magazine your entire career? They have these supposedly hip indie bands in there who sell maybe a few thousand albums, yet someone who is at the top of the charts doesn't rate a mention....
JB: "Well, because I don't wear the right sneakers, I don't use the word 'punk' in my music, and I like to play performing arts centers where creepy old people like to come, not Pabst Blue Ribbon sipping scenesters (laughs). People think that's the music business. They'll go, 'Oh, well, we played Spaceland, there were 200 people, but they were the right people.' Well, if those people paid $200 a ticket, then we'd actually make some money. But no, they paid $8.00, which means after the club takes their cut, we've made $500 tonight. Oh, that's fantastic. You can't pay your band with that. You can live in your van. That's stupid. There never has been a mention of me in Rolling Stone, nor will there be. We've never been on national television, nor will we be. Which, to be honest with you, I'm fine with that."
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