Our newest feature here at Scene Point Blank is our semi-daily quickie Q&A: One Question Interviews. Follow us at facebook or twitter and we'll post one interview every Monday-Thursday. Well, sometimes we miss a day, but it will be four each week regardless.
After our social media followers get the first word, we'll later post a wrap-up here at the site and archive 'em here. This week check out Q&As with Divider, Supersuckers, Asgeir & Mo, Gehenna.
Anthony Fusco (Divider)
SPB: How has the increasing digitalization of the music industry changed how you listen to music?
Fusco: For me, it's one or the other. If I am doing something that requires some kind of audible stimulus in the background, it is almost always Spotify or Pandora. The continuous flow of digital music is awesome when you are trying to complete some kind of task. On the other hand, when all I want to do is listen to a band that I like, it is almost exclusively to a physical copy of their music. The increasing digitalization of music has made me appreciate the physical copy that much more.
Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers, solo)
SPB: In one of your columns you wrote for us, you talked of being a disco DJ at house parties. What’s the best disco song out there?
Spaghetti: Hmm. Tough question for sure. So many good ones. But if pressed to pick the ONE, genre defining moment of Disco, I'm gonna have to go with “Disco Inferno” by The Trammps. It's close though, with KC & The Sunshine Band's Get Down Tonight giving it a run for its money. But I think the fact that Disco is mentioned in the title and the requisite pumping bass line of “Disco Inferno” edge it out by a hair. I remember putting this song on and the dance floor would instantly fill up. The lyrics are pretty great too - "Burn baby burn..." the place is on fire and they just don't care! So there you have it. The greatest Disco song of all time.
Asgeir Aarøen (Aesgir & Mo)
SPB: What got you interested in the flamenco guitar?
Aarøen: I first saw flamenco guitar live at the age of 26, back in 1998 I think, when I lived in Oslo, the capitol of Norway. At this time I played mostly classical guitar and had a past as a rock/metal guitarist for many years. I didn’t know anything about flamenco at that time—[just]that it is Spanish Gypsy music.
I did become aware of the flamenco club there and liked the music. The flamenco guitar opened a new world to me, and gave me something that electric and classical guitar didn’t offer me. The sound of the flamenco guitar is so special. It’s more snappy and percussive than a classical guitar, and it’s possible to combine melody and chords in another way than electric guitar. I still love electric guitar, but nothings beat the sound of a flamenco guitar.
The flamenco music, with guitar players like Paco de Lucia, Tomatito, and Gerardo Nunez was amazing to discover.
Mike Apocalypse (Gehenna)
SPB: What is your most common tour food?
Mike: I'm not sure, but I think it's a close tie between marijuana edibles and fresh vegetables. We like to stay high and we also like to get our health on.
