MS: How long have you been playing?

JR:

Long enough. I started playing guitar at age 12... it was the early 1930's..

MS: How did you learn to play?

JR:

Strangely enough, I initially learned to play guitar from my current stage mate, Vince DelSole. I'm still picking up things from him, mainly his cigarette butts in my apartment.

SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vince-DelSole-Guitar-Teacher/271093755014

You're welcome Vin.

MS: Do you enjoy performing?

JR:

No, not really, It's nerve racking. I like rehearsing and I like the idea of performing, but I'm a perfectionist. The jitters tend to get in the way of perfection. I just close my eyes and try to forget that I'm me.

MS: What, to you, is the most difficult aspect of being a musician?

JR:

The hordes of women throwing themselves at me, it's really quite exhausting. I mean there's only so many hours in a day, ya'know?

MS:It has been said that musicians brains are wired differently- do you agree?

JR:

Hard to say, I never went to college let alone medical school.

MS: What is your earliest memory of making music?

JR:

Screaming my way through the birth canal.

MS:What makes your music unique?

JR:

I'd Like to think it's my writing and singing style.

MS:Tell me something I wouldn't know about your band unless you told me?

JR:

We all met while filming a porno in 1987.

MS: If you could say in your head "I've done it" what would have to happen?

JR:

My bath water would have to slowly fill with my blood.


The music in the player below is from the Alter Boys fearturing music, vocals, and production from Johnny Rydell.

Hear "Blood of the Piranha" performed live on January 21st by Johnny's band Los Diablos.