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1. How did the band get started?
As with most things in America today, it all started with an advertisement in the personals. Scott had placed an ad, looking for love. Joel happened upon it and thought "SWM seeks SWF" stood for: "Super Wow Musician seeks Song Writing Freak". A more common mistake than you might imagine. After a few dates the mix-up was discovered. An embarrassing, and yes, disturbing situation could have turned into a troubled collaboration had not Lou, overhearing the pair bickering about fuzztone vs. feedback, decided to intervene. "Fuzzback!" he proclaimed. The three have been virtually inseparable ever since, kept apart only by the wary distance that remains between them.
2. Why is the band called ‘band called johnson’?
The band takes its moniker from Joel’s last name. But that’s not the name he was born with. His real last name is Van Halen. But that was taken. So he decided to use his mother’s maiden name, Santana. Then he realized that was taken, too. Fate settled things when his name was legally changed to Johnson after losing a mysterious bar bet.
3. Do they really play their own instruments?
They play instruments that were borrowed from other people, or hand crafted in the b.c.j. workshop.
It’s true that if Joel didn’t shave his head he’d have a shining mane of thick lustrous hair (very much like Lou’s), with not the faintest trace of male pattern baldness. He says that he just likes his head better when its bald. Rumors persist that Joel shaved his hair off because it was falling out anyway, though his publicist vehemently denies it. When cornered on this subject Joel usually puts on a hat.
Yes.
6. Does Lou play anything else besides the keyboards?
Of course, in this crazy synthesizer-driven, midi-powered, silicon-enhanced world we live in, Lou has thousands of instruments at his finger tips. But he got his early musical training on obscure, almost primitive, ‘folk instruments’. By the age of four he had become quite accomplished on something called an asswhistle. At age seven, mastered both the tenor and alto sackpipe. And during his teens, while also studying piano, became a virtuoso on the bone fiddle. But despite his much publicized prison stint, Lou claims to never have blown the skin flute.
7. Does Scott still live with his Mother?
Dorothy does visit her son frequently, but the woman who lives with Scott, and is commonly mistaken for Mrs. Halper is actually Scott himself, in drag. ‘The Snoopy Neighbor Lady’ was his most beloved character from his short lived comedy & variety show of the mid-1970s. He can still be seen going to and from supermarket openings or Shriner’s conventions wearing the costume, creating the illusion that he still lives with his mother. Which he doesn’t. Really.
8. Who was the better Darren, Dick York or Dick Sergeant?
Actually neither. No man was good enough for Elizabeth Montgomery. Both of these guys squandered a hot babe of a wife, with magic powers no less, by trying to turn her into some sort of corporate Stepford wife. Both Scott and Lou feel that they would’ve made the better Darren, though neither is sure why band called johnson fans seem to always ask them this question.
Yes.
10. Why does Lou where those sunglasses with the blue lenses?
This is usually kept pretty hush-hush, but his sunglasses possess the power to see into the human soul. And they help to distract from his lazy eye.
11. How did Scott become the "Tycoon of Teen"?
Destiny.
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