Q 1) WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCERT?
Johnny: 1979 Van Halen.
Q 2) WHAT REALLY PISSES YOU OFF?
Johnny: Idiots who think they're more important than they really are.
Q 3) WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T A MUSICIAN?
Johnny: I'd be a bartender.
Q 4) WHAT'S A GOO GOO DOLL?
Johnny: Uh, 33-year-old man that regrets ever coming up with that name.
Q 5) AS A KID WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY?
Johnny: I had this great Tonka
dump truck and this other one that was
like a backhoe. You scoop
the dirt into the other Tonka truck and drive
it away. It was
awesome. It was rad.
Q 6) IF YOU WERE A CAR WHAT KIND OF CAR WOULD YOU BE?
Johnny: A 1968 GTO. But it
would be all Jake, man. It would be
like--it would need a paint
job, and the inside would have that kinda
weird smell to it, y'know?
But it would still be loud. Like one of them
project cars that never seems
to get painted: It's got amazing rims on
it, but it needs a paint
job.
Q 7) WHAT'S YOUR POISON?
Johnny: I try not to drink
to much. I like drinking Vodka and Tonic.
I like a nice Vodka. I'd
rather have a couple of nice Vodka and Tonics
than like a gallon of something
else.
Q 8) SUGGESTED VODKA?
Johnny: Belvedere, man. I'm
telling you, you can drink like an entire
bottle of it and then go
out and run a marathon. It's so pure. I'm
telling you there's no hangover.
It's freaky, because when you drink it
and you wake up the next
day, you're like, "Jesus, this is dangerous
shit." 'Cause
there's, like no pain, and you forget how much you
actually drank, because there's
no hangover--it's a really smooth buzz.
Q 9) GINGER OR MARY ANN?
Johnny: Mary Ann. You see,
Mary Ann would be your girlfriend, but then
you'd, like, sneak out of
your hut once in a while and see Ginger.
Q 10) DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE WORD?
Johnny: Wow. I've got a lot
of favorite words. I love words. Not
even so much what they mean,
but the way they sound. Um..."Lascivious"
jumped to my mind. I love
to describe things. I'm really good, like,
with adjectives, y'know?
Which is kind of a weird game we play on the
bus, which is we'll just
try to describe things, like--but it's usually
something really disgusting--like,
it would be, like--and they're
usually completely X-rated--so
it's sorta, like,"You lascivious,
misanthropic, blathery...."
[ starts laughing] Y'know, just like it goes
on and on, "Scaly..."
Q 11) IS THERE A SONG YOU WOULD NEVER COVER?
Johnny: I would never cover
"Left of the Dial" by The Replacements,
because it's probably the
most perfect rock 'n' roll song ever written,
and there's nothing you could
do to make that song better.
Q 12) WHAT MUSICIAN, OTHER THAN YOURSELF, HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE?
Johnny: Um...wow...Mick Jagger,
for sure. Which was really crazy to
actually get to see him play.
I never had enough money to actually go to
a Rolling Stones concert.
But we got to open for 'em, and I got to watch
them every night, and I saw
the Rolling Stones six times, so I'm, like,
"Yeah, cool." I wanted to
be like The Damned or The Clash.
Q 13) WHAT ARE FIVE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU?
Johnny: Confused. Insecure.
Vain. Um...Tired. And, it's sort of a
phrase, but "Not-a-bad-guy."