Conny Bloom (Electric Boys, vocalist & guitarist) Interview

From his home in Stockholm, Sweden, Conny Bloom of the Electric Boys and Hanoi Rocks talked with me about his music, the new Electric Boys album out April 30th, touring--past and future--the secret to staying young, whether the global pandemic was his fault, and the scariest moment in his life--that time he played Led Zeppelin in front of Led Zeppelin and thought Jimmy Page was going to knock him out. Music and links at https://rockn.me/hhh296 Contents: ---------------------------------------- 0:00:00 - Start 02:00:06 - Introduction 02:35:10 - Touring and Playing with the Dan Reed Network 03:40:09 - Same fashion sense--Keith Richard's ring 04:07:10 - Coming up with the Electric Boys sound 04:39:18 - Musical influences growing up 05:36:16 - "We need to put a band together and find our own thing." 06:03:24 - Coming up with "Lips N' Hips" 06:19:04 - The inspiration for "Psychedelic Eyes" 07:11:18 - What motivates the distinctive Electric Boys sound? 09:03:18 - "It's not something you can practice, read about, or watch on YouTube." 09:39:10 - The song "You Spark My Heart" 11:08:12 - "I'd rather be too experimental than too safe." 12:00:23 - They're not AC/DC 12:48:00 - Two differences being a band now versus in the 80s and 90s 14:14:08 - Feeling the loss of MTV 14:35:06 - "Every band has this same question." 15:09:15 - Crowdfunding albums 15:28:06 - One of the few lines Conny Bloom has ever borrowed 16:14:08 - The sickly sound of greed 16:43:05 - Music? Not if you want to make money 17:17:14 - Game, Set, Bloom, a casualty of 2020 18:19:08 - Is the global pandemic Conny Bloom's fault? 18:39:17 - Or was the global pandemic Motley Crue's fault? 19:11:13 - "Everyone is hanging on the edge, just waiting." 20:44:22 - Niklas Sigevall missed out on the new album 21:23:13 - The Electric Boys is now a 5-piece band 22:07:00 - An Electric Boys live album 22:46:04 - New album, Ups!de Down 22:58:24 - Getting back to touring 24:04:06 - The 30th anniversary of Groovus Maximus 24:48:01 - Whole-album concerts and songs there were never written to be played live 25:51:03 - Playing Led Zeppelin... FOR Led Zeppelin 27:04:24 - Experimenting with a Led Zeppelin tribute for the Royal Family and the royalty of Led Zep 27:40:07 - "Jimmy Page is going to knock me out now." 28:27:05 - The musicians' secret to staying young 28:54:01 - Alice Cooper and playing where the Beatles played 29:46:10 - "You don't have to get old and boring." 30:24:04 - The music of today 30:57:21 - Reggae and older Rock N' Roll 31:37:21 - "A wall of sound." 32:20:19 - A musical conversation 33:38:08 - Covering ABBA's "King Kong Song" 34:20:08 - It's all about the riff 34:54:07 - "Sweden was always a Pop [music] country." 35:43:22 - Did you have to bring up that song? 36:53:14 - "It was about the melodies and the right words to go with the melody." 37:26:01 - The opposite of Bob Dylan 38:11:22 - "They always start their songs with the title." 38:47:22 - Interesting openers to the Electric Boys songs 41:24:17 - The advice of Bob Rock 42:12:06 - Coming up with "Captain of My Soul" 42:32:17 - New song release dates 43:23:07 - Ups!de Down: Harder, edgier, more varied 44:23:02 - Building a supergroup around Conny Bloom 45:42:20 - Mitch Mitchell 45:57:20 - Dan McCafferty so I can be really annoyed 46:13:14 - John Entwistle 46:20:19 - John Lord 46:26:21 - Soul singers and horns 46:36:21 - Pariah Burke, Executive Producer for Conny Bloom's supergroup 47:34:15 - Where to find the Electric Boys

Added 24 Jul 2026