Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we spoke with Wes Jones of Pharmacose.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time? Have you been working on new music?
I’ve been working some. I still practice medicine as a pathologist, but since elective procedures have been canceled, I have been not as busy. COVID hasn’t really hit my area as hard as others, and I am not really on the front lines as would an ICU doctor. So, I’ve had a lot more spare time. I have been doing a lot of practicing. I’ve been practicing piano. I’ve always wanted to be able to play it better than I can. We’ve been working on some new material remotely as well. We’d like to release a couple new songs at the end of the year in addition to Prescription Fiction, Part 1, and the forthcoming Part 2. I think those songs would be part of a compilation of both albums. Who, knows, we might even try to throw a cover in there as well!
1. 5 albums that changed your life
Aenima – Tool
Jar of Flies – Alice in Chains
De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta
Relationship of Command – At the Drive-In
The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
2. 5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
Nine Inch Nails
Alice in Chains
At the Drive-In
Pink Floyd
Tool
3. Your 5 favorite live albums
Alice in Chains Unplugged
Nirvana Unplugged
Marilyn Manson Last Tour on Earth
Nine Inch Nails …And All That Could Have Been
Portishead – Roseland NYC Live
4. Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
We have not toured. Our first album came out during this pandemic. Hopefully we can remedy that in the future.
5. 5 favorite movies
The Fifth Element
The Matrix
Interstellar
Donnie Darko
Terminator 2
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