Q & A
Alan Sparhawk has had his mind “cracked open”…
You’ve certainly been keeping yourself occupied, musically…
Yeah, between a few different bands and local things and just people asking, “Hey, can you do this?” “Yeah, I suppose I could do that. Let’s just get this band going…” It’s pretty fun. It keeps me on my toes and keeps me playing, and engaged. I’m better if I have deadlines and things coming up, it helps shape my motivation, figuring out each day what I need to do.
The last couple of years since Mimi passed away can’t have been easy.
It’s a wild process… There’s of course the grief, the loss, the shock of this thing that was so, so real being gone, but you really do find out how deeply you are just one part of a whole, that you’re incomplete without that person that you’ve resonated with, and lived with, and experienced with your whole life. There’s a lot more subconscious interaction going on than people realise, there’s a lot of sharing of tasks and processing of life that is really subconscious but still shared. And it feels very much incomplete without the other person.