[Via assignmentx.com...]
Ross Lynch stars as Austin Moon on Disney Channel’s hit show, AUSTIN & ALLY.
Austin, an overnight Internet sensation is trying to make it big in the
music business. With the help of his friend Trish De la Rosa (Raini
Rodriguez) who manages Austin, which sometimes backfires no matter how
hard she tries. Finally signed to a record label, Starr Records his
dream is about to come true, along with his good friend Ally Dawson
(Laura Marano) who writes all his songs. Ally works at her fathers music
store Sonic Boom, but is too shy to sing herself. Calum Worthy (Dez) is
Austin’s nutty best friend and is always getting Austin and himself
into trouble.
ASSIGNMENT X sat down with Ross at Radio Disney’s
N.B.T. Kick-Off Concert held at Hollywood and Highland recently and
talked about the show and his real life music career with the band R5,
which consists of Ross, his siblings Riker, Rydel, Rocky and along with
their best friend Ratliff, are the five R’s of R5. Recently they were
signed to Hollywood Records.
ASSIGNMENT X: How did you get the role on AUSTIN & ALLY?
ROSS LYNCH: Just like any other job you just go through a lot of auditions and hope for the best.
AX: You do play a lot of instruments, even on the show?
LYNCH: Yes, I play guitar, bass, drums and piano and
a bit of ukulele and I’ve recently picked up the violin, but it’s not
my best instrument. (Laughs)
AX: Do you write your own songs?
LYNCH: Not for the show, mainly because I am
focusing writing songs for my band R5. Although I haven’t written many
because I’m just so busy with the AUSTIN & ALLY schedule, but hopefully in the album that will come out in early 2013 I will have a song on there.
AX: What process do you use when you write the songs?
LYNCH: Whatever comes first. It could be a cool
guitar lick or a cool melody or even a cool line…whatever comes first
and you just try to add on to it and grow it into a song.
AX: Anything special that the band does before going on stage?
LYNCH: I basically just go crazy. Just push my
brothers around and kind of wrestle and then we get in a huddle and we
put our hands in and we say, “Ready, Set, Rock.”
AX: Have you ever had any weird fan encounters?
LYNCH: I was in a hot tub with my brother and a fan
came up and thought my brother was me. And they were going “oh my gosh
your Austin on AUSTIN & ALLY and I was like no,
actually that is me. And they were like “no it’s him.” And I was “no
seriously it’s me.” And finally I ended up singing for them and they
finally believed me.
AX: Do you consider yourself like a boy band even though your sister’s in it?
LYNCH: We are not actually a boy band, we’re like a
band, band. We play all the instruments. So I feel like out biggest
inspiration is like McFly, and Fallout Boy, kind of like the more band
type stuff.
AX: What was the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you on stage?
LYNCH: Nothing really embarrassing has happened to
me on stage, but it didn’t happen to me but one of my brothers Rocky was
rocking out pretty hard and he hit his head on his guitar and his head
started bleeding. But that wasn’t really awkward, it was kind of cool…it
was like Rock N’ Roll you know! That was kind of a fun moment!
AX: The music that you do with the band is totally different then what you do on AUSTIN & ALLY?
LYNCH: In a way. AUSTIN & ALLY is more sense and more kind of poppy, but for our band it’s very guitar driven and it’s more rock.
