records where we got real crazy and experimental with the production or whatnot, the mixing. This one I think is lot more straightforward. It’s a savage record in a way; it’s raw, and quite raucous at times. But really it’s just, “OK, here’s the three of us and we’re making a racket.”
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What are some of the chances you took with this one?
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Just in making it, which could have been an opportunity for us to fall flat on our faces. We’re not kids anymore. We’ve been playing in this band for more than 22 years.
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But it’s not like the band broke up and now is coming back together to reclaim former glory.
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With some of our contemporaries, some of our peers, there’s a lot of talk about reunions, or bands going around and playing their classic albums. With The Blues Explosion, we never really broke up, there was no stop, so we’re not really in the same camp. There are bands that are my favorites, real hero bands. The Stooges is a good example. And as much as I love The Stooges, and as important as the band is and was to me, what I’ve heard of the new studio albums…it’s not really my bag. But I can’t begrudge them for wanting to do it, you know? So I guess speaking from a fan’s point of view, I can understand why someone might be a little suspicious to hear that The Blues Explosion was putting out a record in 2012. But I think we made a really great record, and a record that’s very much alive with energy, passion, and a lot of ideas. Yeah, I think in a way it’s a classic thing… but it’s also new in the sense that we ‘ve been doing this so long, and with all that experience comes a kind of wisdom or energy or power, and we applied that to making this record. The Blues Explosion has always struck me as a reminder for those who lose sight of what’s important in rock ’n’ roll. Why do people keep forgetting?
I think anyone going to a concert, going out to see a band and getting sweaty, that person doesn’t need to be reminded. There’s always this stuff in the media about the death of the guitar and the demise of live music and bands. I don’t think that’s ever going to go away. It’s part of who we are as animals. It fulfills a very strong need. It’s this very weird, spiritual, communal happening, going to a show. What’s your songwriting formula?
When we write together, it’s very much a collaboration as far as the music goes. I write the lyrics. We just get together and play. You could call it jamming, but I don’t like that term so much. We just get together and play and the songs just sort of come; they happen. One hundred years from now what will they say about the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion?
I hope someone will still dig it. I’ve always been knocked out by records that seem out of time, out of place. And hopefully some Blues Explosion records will be like that for some kid to puzzle over or marvel at and enjoy as well.
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