Music: John Frusciante Interview

My Radio's My Heart

My Radio's My Heart--- A Conversation With John Frusciante i/v 4/04

EC: Congratulations on your new release, "Shadows Collide With People"---the press I've seen has been fantastic. 3 stars from Rolling Stone, a rave from the London Times. Are you psyched?

JF: Those things are all well & good but for me I was psyched at the end of making the record. 

EC: It's a thing of the past?

JF: It's already behind me now. It's always nice to be appreciated, but onward & upward. I'm more concerned with going forward & doing new things.

EC: Great, that's what I want to talk to you about. Where you are now?

JF: Yeah I'm proud of the record I'm glad that people like it. But I am very much in the state of mind of doing new things. But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. So it's better for me just to talk about the album that exists now, and it's an album I'm really proud of.

EC: As a longtime fan I'm really happy with it as well; it's sitting well with me personally. I just wanted to share that the first time I saw you was in '89, we were both 19. You've certainly come a long way since then. I was wondering if you could talk about your work with Brian Eno (legendary Talking Heads/U2 producer) at all?

JF: He came to one of our shows in England with his kid and I was really excited to meet him because he's been a hero of mine since I was a little kid. And he invited me over to his studio and we spent a day just listening to records and stuff and taking a walk and we ended up recording some stuff mainly because he wanted to show me a sort of a set-up he had for processing the guitar. And to demonstrate it we recorded me soloing on the guitar. So I recorded some guitar soloing and he ended up building a song around it.