Bassist CHUCK GARRIC – “I’ve Been Fortunate Enough To Play With A Couple Of The Best In The Industry, ALICE COOPER And RONNIE JAMES DIO"

Editor Don de Leaumont of The Great Southern Brainfart recently conducted an interview with Alice Cooper bassist Chuck Garric. They talked about his time with the Alice Cooper band as well as his original band with Alice’s daughter (Calico), Beasto Blanco. An excerpt follows:

Q: Chuck, you’ve got quite a history behind you so I’m really excited to talk with you.

A: “Thank you so much, Don. I’ve been fortunate enough to play with a couple of the best in the industry, Alice Cooper and Ronnie James Dio. I mean, Coop and Dio have contributed so much.”

Q: You have been with Alice for quite a while now. Being that you’ve been in the band for so long, do you feel like you have kind put more of yourself into these songs than you did say when you were first starting out and just playing these songs you had learned?

A: “Absolutely. These songs have become my own. They’re part of me. I don’t think about them while playing them as much as I did when I was learning them and becoming a touring member of the band. They’re engrained in me and it’s been my life now for 14 years. It feels very natural.”

Q: So before we get to far into this interview, I have to ask, what is the one question you get asked so much that if you get asked it again, you’ll kick something.

A: [Laughs] “I think the question I hate the most is, “What’s your favorite place to play? What’s your favorite city?” I mean, how do you answer that? Wherever I have a fucking bass in my hand. Hell, I don’t get to see the city anyway [laughs].”

Read the full interview at The Great Southern Brainfart.