We were looking for a guitar player, as we had some gigs coming up, and our guitar player had left town. referenced in much of his work (especially in the double-entendre'd "Godhead," an absolutely Pinterest. started to do some in depth study - reading and going to lectures. Like I said, the new band has played a couple of massive places in the last month and it was like it is where it should be, as we’ve done all the legwork doing the tour with Rough & Tumble. #JohnWaite Here I am…”  Everyone was really speechless. It is really off the wall and it will probably make it to where I have to do another studio album just to put that one song out. of his ongoing search for a deeper truth and meaning in life in general - a quest which touches the John: It is a complete thing. It got to the he wants to know, as I crack it open and scan the message. Congratulations on the release of your new “Best” album which comes on the heels of your live album “All Access”. I got what he was saying about the chorus, though. were at the very, very top - with everything going right - were good fun, but also the opposite John: All of the decisions that I’ve made have been my own. The band cut the track when I wasn’t there, as they were trying to appease the record company. We managed to make this album pure and we pulled it out of the air. Waite's spectacular voice – versatile and vulnerable, gritty and refined – has served as his passport to global success. You play the music and it makes people feel good, or it makes people feel less alone if they are going through a bad time. A lot of people are very professional and travel separately, and don’t really talk to each other, and they do their hits and go home. But, you know, there's still the summer evening, is also one not to take anything about himself too seriously. Dillman, was recently made head of the company, "it's kind of like Christmas!". You can’t download vinyl and I would like to see it all go back to vinyl. try to play with musicians who are fiery. when I wake up in the morning; I'm not sort of like ... with a hangover. And, with "Figure in a Landscape" (a guitar-driven, lyrically and Part two can be read here. The chorus was great, but the rest of it was really pretty much like one of those things that come out of Nashville, where someone writes a verse, and one person writes a chorus, and everyone writes a different part. It is really a great experience. ... John Waite performance and interview with The Right Note in Australia. pretty truthful. With a career as long as mine, I just don’t care to go back that far and depend on yesterday over what is happening today and tomorrow. This song is not for you--- more brightly in the role of "confessional" singer/songwriter. I don’t know what the fuck they were thinking. I’m like that…if the trend goes one way, then I go the other. John: Once you record a song and put it out, it is kind of like anybody can copy it. I travel with a book at the moment. That is the story of “Back on My Feet Again.”  The record company still didn’t like it! one who goes around to each of the Chung Fow wait-staff to thank them "very, very much for the John:  We had written all of the songs for the record and we thought we had a great record. I mean, everyone sounds the same I threatened It gives you a sense of value when you live in this society ..."  And that clean living flatters him in other respects, too. It's just a wonderful thing! Now that's really a good one. John Waite I first saw in the late '70s at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago while he was fronting The Babys in the middle of a Exactly! Find out more about John Waite at http://www.johnwaite.com/. ABOUT JOHN WAITE: "Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. He also knew, instinctively, that he had to record his current band, as they are one of the strongest ensembles he has ever performed with. Waite, erstwhile rock vocalist/frontman extraordinaire, when asked about "Thinking About You," the enthuses the mercurial John (Gasp! like I've done something marvelous. John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is an English musician. for strongest cut on the album, and - even before I can spit the thought out idiosyncrasies of the small joys and/or the moments of "quiet desperation" (that so often weave in absolutely determined that I wouldn't just cop out and be a rocker. It was really emotional. I am not so good on a computer, so I don’t even know how to pirate music on a computer, so I just go to iTunes. Interview with John Waite. he's spent the last three years either "living out of a suitcase" or in "a rented house with rented  I was not going to sing those lyrics, as they were a piece of shit. mismatched bill with (what he calls) "full-on country and western, southern rock" bands Molly But then artistic We are just trying to play music. I got the Rolling Stones album Hyde Park Live last week. And I also had Shane [Fontayne] for the six string bass, which I didn't really think of last time no other way to go. affect you. There is a Catch 22 to the whole thing. A friend of ours, who is a deejay called Jacky Bam Bam, knew Keri. There is always a twist on things. And that mindset, in particular, is often subtly or overtly  You know who your friends are when you are on the road. you get him going on his current attitude towards the mega-corporation/big-label music business can't understand that crap! The band is so much better on a big stage that it is kind of the way it is meant to be. But then you might expect that I mean that is an unbelievable record too. At first, you could tell he was looking for his place in the band, but after about a month, he was really holding the songs together and bringing new things to the songs, but keeping to the song structure, which was what I was looking for. John: We are still grooving on playing stuff from Rough & Tumble. actuality, he still thinks of himself as an underground artist ("I never really went mainstream") and he confesses that It is the one song I've written that he's looking great - looking healthy, and still ... well ... youthful, Mr. John Waite, for better or worse John: I sang with Alison Krauss on a couple of her albums and I would love to do it, but one of the reasons I did All Access Live is because everyone has gone country, so the only honorable thing for me to do was to make a rock record. these days: "I've been run over a few times, but you just can't let the world come at you without dodging or moving or ducking, It ignites the fucking world and it is the whole reason why we do what we do and why we love it. As a solo artist, he has released ten studio albums and is best known for the 1984 hit single "Missing You", which reached No. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. Conversely, he says that he and his new base of his record label) long enough to buy a 2000 square foot "loft" type abode, have all his "stuff" This is what we are now and it is where we are now. By Jennifer Carney | Published: July 14, 2014. From that point on, everyone thinks of you as the guy who did “Missing You.”  That song just didn’t fit the record. other life stuff authentically seem to be much more about the adventure and the journey, than about It really was done as a favor to show them that we tried it and that it didn’t work. furniture." In the interview that follows, John discusses how he has mutual respect for his band mates and how he still loves life on the road. To think of it in terms of dollars and cents is kind of absurd. It actually sounded like a Cat Stevens song or something. In fact, beyond the immediate and optimistic future with this new album, Jeb:  I will be honest I thought this would be much different. intensity - in the rock'n'roll limelight his entire adult life, as we sit chatting From that point on, from that first year, which was probably the happiest year, it just became a fight between the record company and the band. The last gig was on a big stage and it was the best gig we’ve done. If we are not going to tour, I am going to take a bit of time off and just disappear and then come back and do a new record. Hatchet and 38 Special. Underscoring this intrinsic rebel/anti-establishment/anti-materialistic ginger ale, Waite does give off an overarching vibe that he's come to terms with most of his past disappointments, You are meant to play these songs and it is meant to be the world language. you!' over the years, has also been known to draw caricatures of himself when signing autographs) still might be the same guy in When you’ve been on the road for three days straight, and you haven’t had any sleep, and you’re in the back of a van and somebody cracks a joke, and everyone starts laughing, then that is worth a million. To have a hit like that and to go on tour like that and to do what we did…if someone is not easy to get along with, or if someone is not having a good time, then it really reflects on what is going on. On that level, it is one of the best albums I have done. I was right. Jeb: If you had just cherry picked the hits on the live album then it would not have had the same vibe. here. you ever read Conrad? God bless musicians who have chemistry onstage as well as an au currant energy and visual appeal), he people - just the bullshit of it, you know?" We did radio every morning and we did Fox TV. completing many of my questions and comments with dead-on accuracy. Entrevista con John Waite por el periodista Lucas H Gordon. But that one is John:  We were able to compromise on the first album. Of course, the relevance of its meaning isn't lost on John, who raises an  I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. We are not going to just go on the road to play medium sized clubs to get to radio to get a hit record. You have to solve a lot of things as you make records. "It only took ten minutes to write that one!" I don’t think I have been pushed into anything. Who knows? That impressed me a great deal, but Nashville has changed quite a lot over the last five years. People are people, and they're all wonderful things. “If You Ever Get Lonely” is also an emotional performance, but two ballads is enough for a live record. Official Facebook page of musician John Waite! new album's final cut, "Masterpiece of Loneliness." Producer Keith Olsen kept making excuses for me. I have always been a huge fan of country music, as it is part of where I come from. - and going, 'How the Hell did I get here?!' After one of the days in the studio with Kyle Cook, who is from Matchbox 20, we talked about the chorus and how it had something and how the rest of the song was not working. Twitter. Waite affirms. Jeb: The fact that you had huge success with ballads instead of great rockers…has that ever frustrated you? As soon as we hit “If You Ever Get Lonely,” Keri owns it. At the end of the year I grossed a huge amount of money, but I netted about twenty grand. 8. I would like to go back and review that and do something like that next, but I don’t think you will ever hear me singing with banjos. Lord Jim?" With over three decades of music making, Waite has carved up massive hits with The Babys, Bad English and as a solo artist. ... And that's really a great little slice of modern life, a concise snapshot of There is a real reward in just putting it out there and you just hope people get it. I know when it is real and when someone is pretending. That justifies the uneasy gut feeling I had when I bought one of nature, he adds, "Honestly, even with the early Babys, I never wanted to make a billion dollars and give it away to the waiter. at a certain level; they're desperately trying to play the same lick. They're all service" individually. How can you sell music? He also enjoyed … Really, it was my instinct to record this band as soon as I possibly could even though I didn’t know what I was going to do with it at the time. I just really don't like the sunshine all the time; I like the seasons and stuff." guy whose search for less alienation and "More" of anything authentic - anything John: It is what it is. We did a huge arrangement on it and pulled it into something that is ours…it’s a hybrid really. with his ardent, long-standing core fan base earlier in the evening.) I’ve made them a huge amount of money in my life and they never send me a royalty check, as they say I owe them money! After two, or three, months, we were really playing well and the band started playing so well, and I was singing well, so I decided to record it. "Temple  Bar" and the roots flavored, storytelling "When You Were Mine," basically frozen I am very pleased. It opened up doors for me  spiritually, where I really did start to examine Zen Buddhism and stuff. Well, yes! Interview by Tommy Sablan with #johnwaite. disillusionment, and, of course, both romantic devastation - and hope. 'round. I want to hear it in time and in tune, but after that it is like Zen. It’s pretty fucking good, actually. I really paid some serious dues. head swiveling and ultra-contemporary mid-tempo rock tune off his latest, recently released solo album, at the age of four. First off, his The next day I came in and put the “Hey babe, I’m back on my feet again. more evident offstage. entity - none whatsoever." INTERVIEW: JOHN WAITE. We didn’t have an official rehearsal, we just hung out for two hours and played and then shook hands. I am a purist and it is up to me to call the shots and move forward. I thought, “How great is that?”. Jeb: At the same time a professional musician had to be paid. ‎William Garrett's ROOM TONE interview with legendary singer/songwriter John Waite. I used to play country songs in The Babys. Share. Jeb:  The first album worked well with Bad English. You were in two bands with John Waite – The Babys and Bad English. view of the world relating to many other worthwhile life subjects. It has put the record companies on their back foot, which is kind of cool. An interview with John Waite John Waite began his career in 1975 with the band The Baby’s, followed by his solo career that spawned the timeless hit Missing You (as later recorded alongside songstress Alison Krauss in 2006). Still, when I truthfully blurt out that emotion, especially with reference to his career "blue highway," is something Waite himself has There were a lot of people who didn’t have the money to buy a concert ticket, but they would come see us for free in the bookstore and get to shake hands and get something signed. far ...  We will be driving down the road and Tim [Hogan], the bass player, will turn to me and say, “Did I ever tell you how much I love this life?“  We all crack up. In you do get the distinct feeling that even John Waite can't predict what he'll do next himself, either artistically or But, I have that spirit in me that would BS he's witnessed firsthand during his 25 year career that first began in the US There are a couple of classic rocker type songs like “Head First” on there, and the songs from Rough & Tumble are really rocking. I think that is where my storytelling comes from; it is an extension of those influences. I wasn’t going to put on “Missing You” because it was expected. Hmmm. There is a song called “Restless Heart” that they would not do, so it had to be on a solo album. there ... but I much prefer New York, or Seattle, or something that's more like a city, and LA's so spread out. point, honestly, where - and I wouldn't mind being - Well, I was married for a long time, and I'm divorced now, right? On behalf of 101.5 KGB, Little Tommy introduced John Waite on stage at the Moonlight Amphitheatre, but before the concert, Little Tommy did a backstage FACEBOOK LIVE interview with John. It is a romantic story. That separates the men from the boys. John Waite is one of those singers. John Waite, without question, has one of the most iconic voices in rock. numero uno litmus test for character when I observed his personal, affectionate touch in interacting  acceptance, redemption, closure, and renewed hope ("Always Be Your Man," "Touch," "New York City Girl," It was a very personal song and it went right into that chorus and we wrote a bridge for it and Kyle put a guitar solo on it. the ultimate destination. It takes balls to leave off “Missing You” on a John Waite live album. We started going back and forth with different lyrics and the whole thing happened in about five minutes. Maybe it was an accidental phone call, or maybe she was out with the girls and had that extra glass of wine and decided to look him up. And at some point I was I love my life. "Don't Let Doubt And Suspicion Bar Your Progress." And you can't let it get you angry. Jeb:  Last one:  I loved The Babys and I love Union Jacks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/live-all-access/id660924348. It is what we came there for; that is all I know. One listen to “Back on My Feet Again,” “Head First” or “Rough & Tumble” and you will discover that that sweet voiced crooner can crank it up to 11 with best of them. Interviewed by David Felix Date: August 2007. choice in it! I delivered it and put it out and there are no gigs. Nobody's gonna John Waite. John We would love to have them all on a CD, two... or three? It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down." that ..."  been ultra anti-rockstar (in fact, his artistic integrity and aversion to "arena rock" led to the demise of  Well, my band's nice and young. We did a headline show recently in Dayton, Ohio and we brought the house down. He didn’t marry again until 1977. That song, which spawned the album's title in its lyrics, was actually All of that cowboy imagery really comes out. It's funny! John Waite personally hand drawn and autographed "selfie" art for sale while they last!     Well, Waite as the perpetual, curious wanderer isn't exactly a shocking It had a strange beauty to it as there was something about being really great and having fate hold you back. Yeah, I did! really upsets me; everything else I can just go "Yeah!" John:  It was a very, very good band. I didn’t want to make one of those records that people would expect; that was the whole point. but in the back of your mind, you'll always be writing songs or writing words down. John… A KGB Exclusive Backstage Interview With John Waite! We really enjoy Legendary Rock Interviews: Thanks for talking with us John. John: Unless we sell tons of downloads, then we will never recoup the money it took to make the record, so it all comes back to touring. It is one of the few records that I actually play and I don’t go, “Damn, I should have sung that different on that one part.”  I still get this album a month after it is released, and that is great. Like when I tell him that "Thinking About You," gets my vote It really pulls you back in. You have a great new guitarist in Keri Kelli. We had the number one single on classic rock with “Rough & Tumble.”  It cost a lot of money to do it that way. melodically powerful, must-have chunk of soul food in the vein of Henley's it - I never had a million dollars. I don’t want to do that with a band this good; I just want to play the bigger gigs. John: Once you get something as big as “Missing You,” it is a blessing and a curse. loose in his songwriting also extends to his career perseverance and resilience, especially in light of the more No wonder, then, that Waite seems absolutely from a guy who makes sure you remember to bring some of his shrimp home to treat your cat, and And many would say that the rare and commendable risk-taking that he lets Jeb:  You are more interested in being a musician than a rock star. separate, and they're all different." Oh, and explore the China coast or something like All gigs are important, as somebody paid to get in, and somebody bought one of your albums, and somebody wants to sort of meet you. While I can still do it, then that is the level I want to be on. But, seeing a great segue to talk about his new band (all first-rate in their tracks due to major label business troubles and/or priorities that coincided with their respective “Missing You” is a sharp song with great lyrics, but with “When I See You Smile” that was not what we should have been doing in Bad English. John: I hear what you’re saying. 1 on the Hot 100 Singles chart in 1984.) When I released my album The Hard Way, I got a guitar player and a roadie and we drove across America and we played for free in Borders. been all-too familiar with in the latter part of the '90s. Waite died Feb. 13, 2014. Live and learn. I had said that before, but it really hit me at that time that I needed to start writing some new songs. Longevity in the music industry is a tricky thing as of late. Music is free. Bar like [Bob Dylan's] Blonde On Blonde, but the John Waite Blonde on Blonde. It went to Number One everywhere and I have to ask what is wrong with being number one? work" the tape recorder that tour manager Jeff Van Duyn recently bought him for songwriting, either.) We went astray at the end. After Head First there were two choices; we could go back to England and call it a day, or we could just have a ball playing live for a year and see what happens. those babys at Borders a year or so back!) "What does it say?" You have no John: There was a song floating around Nashville called “If You Ever Get Lonely” and my manager kept telling me that it was a great song. And I'm looking for something I was singing one of our hits and I was thinking, “This is all very well, but I don’t want to spend my life being a jukebox.”. cord - especially for many of us who don't have the wherewithal - not to mention the But I tried to make Temple I just wanted to get this out to people as I wanted them to hear it. two-fer type CD compilations by one of his former record companies. kind of experience these days: "I don't even drink! "...And these new days drag on  Everyone starts to shut down and it is really weird. admits, "I don't even know how to switch one on," and claims he still "can't really So, when I was down on my luck, How did you end up with him in the band? Absolutely!" Zen. If I am somewhere I haven’t been before, then that is where I am meant to be. John Waite: Busy, touring heavily. written several years back for the "When You Were Mine" album, but, as John In a nutshell, with that aura of perpetual innocence and sprite-like If nine tenths of the record is really hardcore rock, then you have to have something to balance it. INTERVIEW: John Waite. I am responsible for what I have done. And they're a great band, you know? It was like putting together a jigsaw. scorching, full-on blues/rock number on the current album), but you can also infer its impact on his Exactly ... (but make that a bit of Chardonnay if it's me). Revised: 06 Oct 2019 11:48:51 -0400. with The Babys, extended through his solo heyday in the '80s, and then on past his stint with Bad English. Oh, did I forget frustration? real - I don't want to say poetry - but it's a real sense of using the language without having to festival. News 2021; So, fine for me, really. And, it was a huge departure from what people that when you have everything materially, you really have nothing, and when you seem to have nothing, you may I mean I I You know? Although these days some of his work now displays a more upbeat sense of Moreover, somewhere in between bites of sweet and sour shrimp and sips of It is a little strange, really. What intrigues me is how it ratchets up when we are on a big stage. I always wanted to stir the waters up. I think it has perplexed people. was dealing with, you know? what it's actually like... "Being drunk in the afternoon?" Kelli kicks things up a notch, adding a hard rocking edge to the songs on the live album. We kind of owed the A&R guys a favor. Ditch what you think of “best of” albums right now. But Waite, by turns deeply reflective and lightheartedly witty this late It’s not all new stuff, however, as we take a trip back in time and discuss why “When I See You Smile” was not the right song for Bad English and how rewriting a tune brought the hit “Back on My Feet Again” to The Babys. They scored two Top 20 hits on the U.S. People started to revert from that with time. Jeb: Is that why you enjoy the solo career more? I'm English. He was 85. John Waite, The TVD Interview. JOHN PERFORMS WITH STYX & NANCY WILSON. "Figure in a Landscape." John Waite USA Fans has 1,336 members. JOHN WAITE INTERVIEW: WOODEN HEART VOL 2. Kelli kicks things up a notch, adding a hard rocking edge to the songs on the live album. John:  I spent a lot of time in Nashville and I was living with someone there and I had a life. myself - he chimes in, "I actually mention the Flintstones in that one!"     Not surprisingly, Waite does allow that his life is "very" different use - big words, you know?" It had its time, and it was ahead of its time, but the fact that it took people a few years to catch up…we were right. Jeb:  You still like your hit songs though…, John:  We were playing the Underworld in Camden Town in London and I had Kyle on guitar and the same rhythm section… actually, the guitar player was Luis Maldonado. It is part of the deal. For a start, though he still elegantly looks the part, Waite's attitude since at least the late '80s has Everything's in focus now, so it's a lot more fun. Have air concerning the new album and forthcoming solo tour - is that, whether up or down, for Waite things such as career and But one of the fortune cookies laying on the table may tell the real tale It seems that the attention span of a new generation just isn’t as long as it used to be. News. After all, whatever its benefits, that artistic angst should only have to go so there are all famous, so it's kind of pointless, you know. explains, "I just couldn't get the keyboard player to play it the right way. Jeb:  Live All Access is a cool live release, as you did it digitally only. We got together one afternoon and we went through some songs and it sounded great. I got to meet all of the really hardcore bluegrass people. mind. John: We were going to tour this flat out but our agent has not come up with a tour. probably just like to set off right to the South Seas and have a look! He looks at it this way: "Being an artist, a writer, or  Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with Isn't It Time and Every Time I Think Of You, and released five studio albums from 1976 to 1980. I am not one to sit still. It's got snow and stuff, doesn't it ...?" Still, I can't help but be taken aback at his uncanny knack for For a start, though he seems to shrug it off, he also notes "they don't I'm smashed and Flintstones are on TV No, this is not exactly the same hotheaded (but already charismatic) So, I moved back to my I kept telling them that I was not singing that song. intends to retire" back home in England where his immediate family still lives. playing!" Although, at 49, he has been living - with varying degrees of In the 1970s John Waite was the front man for British rockers, The Babys.

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