I know there are plenty of local websites, radio stations, newspapers, etc. that love to interview bands & musicians. You know what? In my opinion, most of that stuff is crap when it comes to band interviews. When bands get asked to do an interview for a website, radio station, or a newspaper, most bands would jump on the opportunity ’cause interviews is good marketing and promoting for your music.

If the interviewer wants to get more respect from the band, the way to do that is not ask the same damn questions that you ask every other band. I’m sure the band gets the same damn questions every interview they do and I’m pretty sure they get tired of answering the same stuff. Don’t make the questions too easy and simple. Make them different and unique.

If you want to entertain your readers and the band’s fanbase, you want to make the interview entertaining. Almost every local band interview I read or hear, you always hear the same questions being asked, “What inspired the music on the album”, “What is the songwriting process like”, “What instruments do you play”, “What is this song about”, etc. *yawn*

Hmmmm….lets see, how about questions that are more interesting? Here are some better questions to ask bands: “How old were you when you first picked up the instrument”, “What was the first song you learned”, “What equipment did you use”, “How do you come up with songs? Do you improvise them or write them down”, “What scales did you use for that solo”, “What is your dream guitar that you can’t afford?”, etc. Ask musician questions like those, and they would be talking non stop.

Soon I’m going to start doing band & musician interviews in this blog, and I’ll show them how it’s all done.

Kev