![]() ![]() ![]() Admittedly sometimes there is little left for me personally, but maybe that will come later. Maybe it’s turning 40, but mainly it’s finding the strength to be a mother and an artist and do both as well as I can. What has been the biggest change in your life over the past year? He’s at the peak of his ability and still growing. If anything, I try to have that same work ethic. He works very hard and it shows in his playing. I’ve never known anyone to be so focused. What have been the biggest lessons you learned from playing with Slash? ![]() What motivated you to make a Christmas album?Īlex: We basically just wanted to do something different than the lame, cheesy material everybody else offers year-after-year. Gotta keep those fuckers on a short leash. What’s been the biggest change in your life over the past year?īeing clean and sober, although my demons are never that far away. That’s pretty much the standard I try to meet with my writing now. I can appreciate a lot of other music from that period now more than I did then, like Bob Dylan’s song “Idiot Wind,” which still saves my life whenever I hear it, especially the live version on the Hard Rain album. I think it was just that it felt like there was an actual scene, but I guess we all say that as we get older. What are your fondest memories of the Toronto punk scene back in the day? Potvin: I second Kevin’s sentiments. Even though the technology is changing very quickly and people are consuming music rather differently than they used to, sadly the narrative of a greedy industry ripping artists and songwriters off remains the same. I do think though that the direct relationship between artist and audience will continue to refine and artists and songwriters will hopefully gain increased control over their music and careers. As has always been the case, the ones making the music don’t often drive the nice cars. Kane: It would be nice if the industry was a lot more accountable to artists. If you could change anything about the music industry, what would it be? I miss having the joints, muscles and tendons of a twenty-something. Rock and roll is often about hormones and ambition. Occasionally I miss the hormones, but I smile wryly at the ambition. I was never into the sex and drugs, only the rock and roll. I have always, more or less, lived for the music. If the rock and roll lifestyle is about turning the amp up to 11, I can still do that. But I wear earplugs now. Is there anything about the rock and roll lifestyle that you miss? I admire how you’ve always stayed true to yourself as a musician. Some of the answers were earnest, some were silly, but many were amusing - and it is those we're highlighting below as we bid adieu to 2016. Over the past year, Jason Schneider has posed almost 500 questions to slightly more than 100 Canadian musicians and personalities in his FYI column "Five Questions With." ![]()
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