Jackson Rathbone in Chart Attack
November 19, 2009 by Sara
Filed under Interviews, Music, News
Chart Attack spoke with Jackson Rathbone about his band 100 Monkeys, as well as about being a part of the Twilight franchise.
CHARTattack: Twilight came out last year, you’re doing press for New Moon and you’re working on next year’s Eclipse. You don’t feel like your life has just become about Twilight all the time?
Jackson Rathbone: I don’t, actually. I have a lot of things going on outside of theTwilight world.Being a musician, I have my band 100 Monkeys, so whenever I’m not working on a film, I work with them. We make music constantly and we’re constantly on tour. It’s a pleasure to be part of the Twilight books, but I’ve got a lot of other stuff going on.
As well with film, I’ve got some other movies going on. I’m actually producing my first film this year with my production company. It’s going great because of the wideTwilight fanbase I’ve been able to have people follow my other projects, which is just such an honour. They’re so supportive of all the movies and of us as individuals.
Twilight isn’t the worst place to be as the singer in a rock ‘n’ roll band. Vampires are pretty rock n’ roll, aren’t they? Those broody kids who watchTwilight probably are very into the fact that you’re a musician.
All of the fans have been very supportive of 100 Monkeys. We have a lot of Twilightfans, but we have a lot of fans who aren’t into Twilight, too.We aren’t a tweeny-bop rock group. We’re not the Jonas Brothers. Our songs aren’t about loving the girl next door. Our songs are about drinking and the devil and women who cheat and steal.
When you look at our songs, we sing kind of more blues-oriented songs. We idolize bands like The Doors and The Rolling Stones. Our sound is often compared to The Doors and Tom Waits and Coldplay. We hope our music is acceptable, but we play music that we love, we really do. And because we play music that we love, we find that other people like our music, too.
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