SUNDAY 10

1. On your cover of Ripple, whose idea was it for you to play a little bit of Bird Song at the end? It is a very cool addition to your version.

Yes. I am happy to hear that someone heard that! That was in fact, my little extra homage to Jerry and the Dead. I always loved how they would weave songs together and I chose to weave The Bird song into Ripple in a similar way. That cover was recorded in England many years ago in one evening. If you haven’t heard it, I have made it available here for a limited time.

2. Do you ever get fed up with people coming on here who can’t spell and think they are funny when they aren’t?

HAHAHA! Um, yeah. I actually don’t mind the shots at humor, but the worst is when I type something obviously sarcastic or outrageous and people reply with a serious comment. Like, they JUST DON’T GET IT. This is more of a problem on Twitter than here. Like yesterday, I wrote something about never having a ‘full moon” again as a result of the bombing and I got tons of replies, “Well, actually… There is more mass etc cause blah blah blah…” I’m like… I KNOW!!!!! I’M KIDDING!!!

3. How good are you at detecting when someone is lying? Do you read someones body language and facial expressions?

No, I just assume that if their lips are moving… They are lying!

4. Hey Dr. Navarro, what was your worst relationship with someone?

That’s a pretty broad question, but I believe that even the bad ones are important because we learn things about ourselves and others. Sometimes a bad relationship is like putting your hand in a fire when you are young. You learn to not do it again.

5. Ever tweeted something then woke up the next day, wished you hadn’t, and deleted it? Care to share it again?

No, not really. Sometimes I’ll go through and clean out the ones that don’t make a whole lot of sense to the public at large when a comment is aimed at a specific person.

6. I was wondering, is it true that Ramon Novarro was a friend of the family? And in respect, took your family name but just changed the A to an O?

That is true but the spelling change was the result of a secretary’s typo at the studio. Evidently she misspelled the name and he was like, “Fuck it! Let’s just leave it like this.”

7. Hey Dave, do you like my tattoo?

Yes, Chloe, I do very much. That drawing was done by Mark Ryden, another great artist that I love who is famous for the big eyed little girls. BTW, you are pretty fuckin’ adorable!

8. To keep in line with #DNHT and #DNHT, you should start referring to yourself in the third person whenever you do interviews.

Dave Navarro sees the humor in that, but knows that doing so would be the final nail in the coffin for him. As it is, most reviewers and writers have a problem with Dave Navarro and if he started answering questions in the third person, they all would!

9. What is your opinion on the The Blair Witch Project? Did you see it in the theatre and believe it was real?

I was lucky enough to have been invited to a private screening of Blair Witch before anyone knew anything about it. I was told that it was a documentary screening so yes, I TOTALLY bought it and it scared the daylights out of me. I went into a depression when I found out it wasn’t real. (j/k)

10. Page or Angus, Who’ve you learned more licks from?

PAGE! 100% When I was a young guitarist, I didn’t get into the simplicity of AC/DC as I did later on in life. Those were some of the most influenced years of my learning and I was all about Zeppelin and Hendrix. I was super interested layers and dynamics and emotional response within a song or an album. AC/DC felt too “one trick” for me at the time and years later I learned just how awesome that one trick was.