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RZA says he got into rock’n’roll through John and SOAD

In a lengthy interview for Red Bull, titled “The Man With The Iron Wu”, RZA is talking about many things and, as in the most of his interviews in the last couple of years, he touches the subject of John. This time, however, he’s not giving two-sided comments on the music they make together which appear to have creeped everyone out and aren’t matching the amount of music we actually got this yearl; he’s talking about how he got into rock music.

What’s on RZA’s iPod these days – if you have one of those at all?
I have a couple of iPods and I got all kind of different things on them. You know, when I was growing up in the projects, we thought that guitars was only for Rock – and of course we thought that Rock was not cool, so to say. It wasn’t until I moved to California and had some buddies like System Of A Down or John Frusciante that I was starting to learn about Rock’N’Roll and all the great riffs of Led Zeppelin, Metallica and even to bands that are not popular, like Clutch or Bad Brains and shit like that, you know. So my buddy Shovel gave me an iPod with about 30,000 songs on it, you know, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and so on. I listen to a wide range of songs from around the world. There’s one called Mother Russia by Iron Maiden: It’s a song about how great Russia should be. I also learned a lot listening to the Beatles.

If you’re interested in the entire interview, it’s available on Red Bull website.

The two have collaborated a lot during the last couple of years. The freshest collab occurred a couple of days ago at John’s studio when they were recording music with Truth Hurts and they also performed live once, back in 2008, for Shavo Odadjijan’s birthday.

You might also want to read:
Share Watson, John and RZA are collaborating – she’s honoured!
N.A.S.A. featuring BarBie, RZA and John Frusciante – “Way Down”
AcHoZeN live with John, April 2008
The first-ever time JF/RZA collabs were mentioned here

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