This Electric Reptile’s song Bombay Sapphire was featured on our #40 podcast, in which we reported everything we know about this artist (nothing). John speculated that he might be a deeply-undercover member of Roxy Music; evidently this or some other nefarious deception is true, because in this interview, This Electric Reptile goes on to reveal approximately nothing about himself:

My favorite thing to wear onstage:

Jackets

Why

Girls like it, don’t they ? Crap ?

My favorite musical instrument or item that I purchased recently is:

Old japanese Epiphone Casino

Tough to play. Doesn’t stay in tune.

I love it because:

It’s tough to play and doesn’t stay in tune

The musical instrument or item that I really really want is:

Gibson ES 330

Why

It’s easy to play and stays in tune

The artist who has influenced me most is:

That’s a tough one ! There were so many ! Basically I went back all the way to the country blues from let’s say 1930’s onwards. I made all the way to the now and then and hoovered up everything along the way. I like 70’s Rock, 80’s Disco, 90’s Crunch etc.  To make a long story short, any sound I ever heard influenced me in one way or another. I’m a musical hoover

Editor’s note: One thing of value from this response. Americans don’t say ‘hoover’. That isolates the artist’s location to anywhere but the USA.

Something I wish I’d known before joining a band:

No cashflow

I live in this city:

Gotham City. The general vibe is Mayhem. Some examples of that vibe include my neighbor’s apartment.

Pictured here is the Gotham City ride from Six Flags over Texas

The best place to SEE music here is

Rehearsal places. They’re close and intimate

When people look back on our culture in a hundred years, they’ll say:

Colorful, crazy, upside down ,mystic, superficial and dangerous

My favorite thing to watch on tv is:

Don’t have a tv ! Prefer a book. It goes much deeper, where the real beef is…and if you don’t like it you can throw it in the corner always

The last music I downloaded was:

Believe it or not I still buy albums. I like the haptics of it and reading all the information printed on there even if it’s useless.

Editor’s note: According to wikipedia, Haptics is any form of interaction involving touch. It can refer to: Haptic communication, the means by which people and other animals communicate via touching. Haptic perception, the process of recognizing objects through touch. What you see here is the gold record featuring Sounds of Earth that went up in Voyagers I and II. It probably had great haptics.

In my heart I wish I was:

Elvis

My personal analysis of the current state of the music industry is:

That it is starting to evolve and that I probably won’t live long enough to see what  it’s goin’ to be like in the future. I mean it’s really hard to tell in a few words !!

When people come to visit me, particularly if those people are cooler than I am, I take them to

I can’t think of anyone cooler than me right now

Favorite seasonal beverage:

Water. Cuz I drink it all the time any season

Give me a super-brief summary of your current musical status, in a bio kind of way:

Desperate