DWS: I really don’t have any idea. The last time I started a band was, like 20 years ago. I don’t have any idea what it involves now, I just imagine it’s very, very different. In a lot of ways it’s the same; show up here, play here, But there’s all this stuff with cell phones. That’s just so different. People just didn’t have cellphones when I was doing most of my touring. There are all these internet resources, like Google Maps and being about to search and find out whatever you want about a club. And even the GPS; there’s a lot of stuff we could have used back then. When Scratch Acid went on tour, which started around 1983, we just had to arrive in a town and then go find a phone booth. It was just so sketchy. A lot of the time it makes things more convenient. But in a lot of ways it’s almost too much, it’s difficult to filter out what’s necessary and what’s just clutter.
Do you feel like people have found Scratch Acid or Jesus Lizard more on the Internet?
DWS: I don’t know, I guess. For so many people now it’s their prime source of information. So if they’re hearing about the Jesus Lizard for the first time, then yeah, it probably is the Internet.
I feel like a lot of new fans sort of are not into noise rock bands, especially at festivals. Have you noticed that change in focus at all?
DWS: Honestly, I don’t follow music very closely now. I like the stuff I like, and sometimes I’ll hear about new stuff from people that I know, I don’t read magazines or see those television shows. It’s just so tiresome, there’s so much stuff. I see all these bands I know, and most of them I don’t like when hearing it, but I don’t know which of it I don’t like. I’ll just listen to what’s at my friend’s places, which works for me better than doing the research. I mean, they’ll all just…regurgitating press packets anyway. They all say “they’re great, they’re innovative,” After a while it’s not journalism, it’s just marketing.
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