Thanks for all the feedback guys. Much appreciated.
Special thanks to the King for voicing most of my thoughts
There is just one detail though... I didn't ask why they picked Mangini. I wanted to explore the psychology of the band during that stressful transition period, but James didn't give me much clue, did he?
Truth is, the interviewer has to have an organization, a structure in mind before starting an interview especially if it's a video interview. Otherwise editing the video proves to be incredibly difficult! And that structure sometimes requires the interviewer to ask some basic questions to start up a conversation and then you go to the deeper ones when it's time. That's what I do, too ... I go to an interview with whole lotta questions in mind and bring them up according to the flow of the conversation.. The chances are though, whatever question you ask, the musicians give you the answer they gave million times. They basically are determined to say some certain things. You can't change that by your questions.
I experienced this with Ian Anderson too. I asked him one question and he talked for half an hour
Seriously no question could change that prepared 'speech'
As for the 'self-titled' question... although I knew it had been asked before, I couldn't have left it out as it is very important in a band's career... And so on.....
And everything aside.....
I interviewed James F*cking LaBrie