Southside Johnny – HuffPost 12.30.11

Mike Ragogna: What’s your advice for new artists?

Southside Johnny: Use the internet. The internet saves you from going through a record company, it gives you instant access to your fans and vice-versa, and it lets you put out your product without anyone telling you what to do. The internet is the biggest blessing to ever happen to musicians.

MR: Johnny, is there a specific site that you’re using?

SJ: We do all the internet stuff. We’ve heard of fans from Korea coming and staying with fans from New Jersey, and then they’ll all drive to Cleveland to see the show. (laughs) We don’t have to do anything. So, I think the Internet is the way to go. Forget record companies.