Interview: Scissorfight
(this interview originally appeared as the cover feature for issue #33 of Modern Fix Magazine in 2002).
– interview by bushman
Purity is hard to come by in rock and roll.
Oh sure, many have mastered the cloning of the retro-rock formula to varying degrees of “rockin”, but it’s the elusive quality of purity in the motivations and executions that is so rare in today’s rock scene. One has to bring a flashlight and start looking in the corners where the spotlight of music “scene” rarely if ever shines. I’m talking the rural America that breeds the hunters, the drinkers, the brawlers… the rockers. People so untainted by what’s “cool” in rock and roll that it becomes an almost inbred sound, bastardizing upon itself rather than soaking up all the influences that assault and water down the popular market. Now take that environment and mix in a healthy dose (literally) of drugs and alcohol and filter it through a grad school education in Ame