I am aware of my mortality and I’m not afraid of it.” “I’m 71, on my second liver, so I just want to keep going, to keep making records and playing gigs. I look out into the first few rows and I see how I’m affecting them and for me, that is far more important, I like to establish eye contact with as many people as I can.”Īnd with your storied life and career, do you have anything left that you want to achieve? You know, I just like playing to people, you can play a small bar and have the best gig of your life, I feed off the energy and the involvement of the audience. I’ve played many beautiful venues before, I’ve played the Royal Albert Hall, I’ve played Carnegie Hall, twice, so I’m very satisfied with where I’ve played. What about the future, do you have any venues or locations that you would love to play? However, I think I’d probably go somewhere like Dealey Plaza on 22nd November 1963 and see just what was going on, head to the grassy knoll and find out who really killed JFK.”
“I’d love to go back to the cavern club and see the Beatles, or head to a juke joint and watch Robert Johnson. If you had a time machine and could go back in time, would you want to see any of them live? Obviously the Beatles, Mike Bloomfield, Clapton etc.” It showed me that music can be very simple, three chords and easy to learn but still be powerful. So who are you musical hero’s? Who was it that inspired you? “I tend to still listen to the music that first inspired me when I was young, but I do like people like Yola, Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedy’s oh and Radiohead.” Sometimes I do need a nudge from my manager, who is also my wife.”ĭo you listen to today’s musicians at all? “Every time I set out to write an album, I don’t know if I have anything left to say, but I find that I can get into a zone and it then comes easily. I have to feel it or else I can’t sing it.”
As I said, this is my 30th album and 99% of the 300+ songs I’ve written are auto-biographical in one way or another. This song reflects on my memory of playing with these two mates and like the album, it has an emotional resonance with me. For example, the song Fertile Soil is about my first band of the same name, I was in it with two of my best friends who are now both dead. “This is my 30th album, I wrote it on my own in about 10 days and I suppose that it is me reflecting on my past life. Walter, please tell me about your latest album ‘Ride’. Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself.Ĭheck out my review of his new album here. I couldn’t help myself telling him about the gig he played in Cardiff in 2008 which is still in my top 5 gigs of all-time. I had loads of questions but we ended up having more of a chat than an interview and to be fair, I did ‘ fanboy‘ a bit. Thursday, 21st July 2022, I had the absolute pleasure to have a little chat with the great Walter Trout as he was driving through Germany on his way to a gig.
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