My name is John Bonnell, I'm the lead singer of The Swingin' Others.
I didn't really learn that much growing up.
I didn't plan, you know, plan ahead well, I don't think.
I feel, I don't know.
I haven't got my shit together yet, no, I'm fucking too.
It seems a little...
Desperate.
I think I do just for the, just to create
and to be able to do this and travel.
We're the luckiest people in the world, I think, people in bands.
I can give a shit if I'm singing.
I'm only with the mic, but a lot of times I just want to hear them.
If they're fucking screaming it back at you, you're like,
fuck yeah, this is the song, let's keep doing it.
It's, you know, keeping me going at least at this age.
I see a lot of tattoos of songs and stuff, which is super flattering and crazy.
I mean, I always say, you guys are crazy, man, don't do that shit.
But like, you know, thank you, that means a lot.
It means that you guys are so into our band that you're willing to scar yourself up.
But yeah, man, I mean, I don't think there could be any creepiness behind it,
because, I mean, they like your music enough to whatever, do that, you know,
get a tattoo or even if it's something creepy and crazy,
I still think that's like, you got to be nice to those people.
I mean, you got to kiss the feet of the people that walk into your shows.
I think.
When it comes down to fans, they become friends most of the time.
Like a big fan will become one of my friends.
And I got a bike from one of my friends, but he's a fan.
So I guess that would be like, I mean, that was just insane.
I was like, yeah, I almost broke down crying.
It was such a nice gesture.
We were just, we just shot the shit one night and I told him I like to cruise out on a bike
every once in a while, just makes me feel really good.
It gives me a little break.
But yeah, like a week later, we had this cruiser, beach cruiser in the mail,
this big box on my porch.
It was just like, you know.
If I couldn't be in the swinging udders, what profession would I lean towards or whatever?
I honestly think it'd be just printing shirts, man.
I dig that aspect of creating stuff, something that not necessarily putting it in galleries,
but put it on telephone poles on people's phones.
Chests on his t-shirt, like, I don't know, the walking, your art's walking around, you know.
It's interacting in different places, you know.
I think to me that's kind of the raddest way to get your art out there.
