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2011.04.07

A Conversation with John Wetton(2)

テーマ： UK～エイジア～ジョン・ウェットン(1674)

カテゴリ： UK～ASIA～ジョン・ウェットン

I love the music you do with Geoff and the ICON cd’s. Do you find it confusing to wear all these different hats? ASIA hat, ICON hat, solo hat?

JW: No not really. The thing I have with Geoff is that we always have gotten on and written well together. We came out of similar backgrounds and have the same sort of style etc. Some of the stuff for ICON Geoff and I originally wrote for ASIA. When we found that some of the things worked with ASIA and some not, we decided to record them together anyway with ICON. It works out really well. It all is the same thing. We just write. We have loads of material. With ICON it can be anything we want it to be. It’s all material. Some may go to solo projects too. With the ASIA stuff it is kind of like a mother-ship which sends out all our solo, materials and then we go back to it when we want to.

Kind of like going home?

JW: Yes, exactly. ASIA is like a home base for us. I’m really looking forward to working with the guys again. I haven’t seen some of them for about a year so it will be really good.

Well all the fans are looking forward to it too!

So for a different subject…if I went out to your cd player in your car, what would I find in there?

JW: You would either find a UK cd of material that I am working on now or you would find the cd of my solo material that I have just finished up in January. When I’m coming up for a tour or working on a record I can’t really listen to other stuff. It is very difficult for me to concentrate on it all when listening to other music. I really devote my time to just getting into all the music I need to do at the moment. Especially with the radio or other rock albums. I just can’t focus on what I should be doing. In order for me to get the music imbedded in my head and learn it I just listen to it over and over. It’s just until we start the tour. As soon as the first date starts I am ok and listen to everything I want.

Well how about when you are not working?

JW: Gosh…everything from classical and choral music to some female singer songwriters, like Tori Amos or Joni Mitchell. Stuff like that. I don’t really listen to a lot of progressive rock music. I come from a classical and church music background. My brother was an organist and I grew up with a lot of it. English church music has had a lot of influence in my life. Unbelievably good.

JW: Well it’s called “Raised in Captivity” and as with anything I do, it’s autobiographical. A lot of it is basically stuff that has happened to me along the road and the main theme with it as with the past three projects I did is basically just living for today, making every day count. If I recorded it in the UK it would have been a different proposition but I recorded it in California with Billy Sherwood and we have a long association together over the years and we have done a lot of work together and knew each other’s capabilities. I knew that he would give my dreary kind of folk tunes a bit of edge and a bit of California style. It all sounds quite edgy and shreddy and I really like it. It takes me out of me a bit. It will be released in June just as we are finishing up the ASIA tour.

Well as I had mentioned before, I first saw you in 78 in Boston. My question is, if John Wetton now could go back and talk with John Wetton then, what would he say to him?

JW: (laughs… ) I would tell him to get a grip!

Would you give him a dope-slap? lol

JW: Yeah…definitely! Lol Get an f-ing grip! You can put that down!

For sure, I didn’t have a clue what was going on. I had always been doing this for a living since 1968 and being about 18 years old. Then I got to the age of 40 and didn’t have a clue on how to do anything else. Couldn’t even change a light bulb. (laughs) Really the past ten years has been a giant learning curve for me. At that age in 1978 I was 28/29 and I thought that was all I had to do. Everything else would just take care of itself. It doesn’t! None of the things that come into play like being nice to people, having children, thinking of others for a change didn’t even come into my head then. If the 61 year old could talk to the 29 year old I would just tell him to “Get a grip.”

I end every interview I do with this question. Fill in the blank.

John Wetton is _______________________?

JW: Hmmm…. Yeah…John Wetton IS! Lol

Can we put that on a tee shirt?

JW: Absolutely! John Wetton IS! We will leave it at that.

We can’t wait to see you in Boston on April 8th. Take care!

COME ON OVER TO THE REGENT THEATER IN ARLINGTON MA FOR A GREAT NIGHT OF MUSIC WITH JOHN WETTON AND EDDIE JOBSON..TOGETHER AGAIN! 8:00 PM AND PUT ON BY THE LOCAL MASTERS OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK SHOWS- NEWEARS!

SEE U THERE!!!!

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