Jon
When I first started it 10 years ago, I
came up to San Francisco and spent a
little time with a really incredible virtu
album covers, I wanted to take that onto
the stage. And when you started a band
in the ‘60s, you always thought that you
were making a band to go on tour and
go onstage. You never ever thought
you’d get the chance to have a hit
record or even make an album – you
just did it because you loved performing. And here I am, at 72 now, still performing with ARW, and it’s still the
same effect. Last night, we played to a
packed house in Salt Lake City, and
they were standing up for most of the
show. And we were playing “Awaken”
and “Long Distance Runaround” and
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al reality guy. And everything was
about being able to fly, to swim with
dolphins and be part of that dolphin
energy, and then get involved in tribal
and totem lore – things like that. And
that takes a lot of sketching it out, and
artistically, I’ve been working with a
guy in Poland who’s doing some beautiful computer animation for it. But it’s
just going to take time before it’s heard
or seen.
IE: Have you always seen music visually?
JA: Yeah. I always kind of did. When we
first got Roger Dean involved in the
“Heart of the Sunrise,” and people were
just singing along. This music is like a
ritual – it’s not something you hear on
the radio that much. But it’s still great
music.
IE: Like Lynyrd Skynyrd with “Free
Bird,” do you get tired of audience
members shouting for you to play
“Roundabout”?
JA: Well, we do it as an encore, and it’s
fun. It’s just fun to sing that song, even
when I’m doing my solo tours. People
want to hear it, and I can still sing it.
And I know that I’m having a good
time.
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