Author Archives: Mike
Author Archives: Mike
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for kids coming into music right now? Corey Taylor: Just get all the practice you can in, and I don’t mean in the basement or the garage or whatever. I mean go out and play live. Go out and cut your teeth and learn your craft. Don’t be […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Hello, Chuck Brown, you’re doing well? CB: Yes sir, I’m doing great, I’m happy to be seventy-four. I just had my seventy-fourth birthday, and I’m happy, happy, happy. Everything makes me happy. MR: Congratulations on your recent birthday. CB: Thank you, sir. I’m just happy to be living, and still be able to […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What do you have, as far as advice, for young people getting involved in music? Chuck Brown: Well, I think it’s a great thing, you know? Some of them may get into go-go, and some of them won’t play any go-go, but they’ll play jazz or blues or whatever they play. Everybody has […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: How are you, Corey? Corey Taylor: I am freezing. MR: Freezing? Why’s that? CT: Well, it’s not cold outside, but it is on this bus. I don’t know why they have to keep it at refrigerator levels, but what do I know… MR: Perhaps it’s for preservation? CT: It is. I feel cryogenically […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Hey Gene, how are you? Gene Simmons: I’m deliriously happy. MR: Why didn’t you let your daughter keep her pony? GS: There are Beverly Hills ordinances that I wasn’t aware of. You aren’t allowed to keep farm animals that poop bigger than a certain size. Do you believe that? MR: (laughs) No, I […]
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