O: But don't you feel a little pressure to dress the part of a rock star?JW: Well, yeah. I always kind of do, anyway. I'm always interested in being a part of what's going on. That's more interesting than pulling the "I'm the hot-shit drummer guy." I won't name names.
O: Well, here's a name. You played on The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore, but Kenny Aronoff toured with them. When he toured with them, he really looked like the band dressed him up. Kind of silly.
JW: They didn't dress him up! That's him, a hundred percent. I mean, I can't say that, but I was supposed to do that tour, and I decided not to, because... [Laughs.] Billy Corgan wasn't going to tell anyone how to dress, that's for shit-sure. That was purely that guy being, like... [Laughs.] It's funny you should bring him up. That's the ultimate, like, "I'm Drummer-Guy." At least in that gig, he wasn't playing as part of The Smashing Pumpkins. I'm sure he was like, "Oh, shit, I've been doing this for a long time, and I'm not getting as much work as I have been, and I'd better look young."
O: But that begs the question: Were John Mellencamp and John Fogerty dressing him down? You know, "Take off those silly sunglasses!"
JW: I can't believe he did it. I know exactly what you're talking about. It was so mind-boggling, he just looked silly. At a certain point, if you're doing rock 'n' roll, you've got to age gracefully. You can't try to be young, because it's not going to work. Because you're up against 25-year-olds, and you shouldn't care in the first place.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 November 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link