Quotes

Rip It Up, Issue 235, 1 March 1997, Page 5

Quotes

“It is clear that hip-hop and dance artists are making the music that defines these closing years of the Twentieth Century.” Advance warning from BONO on U2’s next bandwagon jump. “How can it be called the World Wide Web, if more than three quarters of the global population has never even seen a computer?” SPEARHEAD’S MICHAEL FRANTI knows the whole planet ain’t surfing. “My main goal is to become more of a leader musically. I’d like to stand in the shoes of some of my heroes — like Brian Wilson and John Lennon.” BILLYCORGAN’s ego knows no bounds. “Multinational [record] companies are plainly not about music, but simply a kind of financial investment/loan business, arbitrarily connected to the music industry.” Music writer GARY STEEL pulls no punches in Lava. “The only reason we were compared with Nirvana was Daniel’s hair.” SILVERCHAIR’s CHRIS JOANNAU might be fooling himself, but he's not fooling anyone else. “It got to the point where I didn’t feel like I got a good enough rush unless I had one hand on the needle and one hand dialling 911.” STONE TEMPLE PILOTS’ SCOTT WEILAND on heroin. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.” MARIL YN MANSON falls for his fantasy. “We’re looking to tap into the eyeliner and lunch-box crowd.” DONITA SPARKS of L 7 explains why they toured with MARILYN MANSON. “We had all the food, and I had the chicken, and we had the lox and the corn beef and the pastrami, the hot chocolate and everything we had at Atlantic Records in the 605.” SOLOMON BURKE tries to record soul music in the 90s. “They’re nice, they’re courteous, they’re not an arrogant bunch, and they’re not a bunch of dopers. But it might be nice if one of them got drunk once in a while.” DOLL Y PARTON reviews the new country stars.