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By Itay K. Live photos by Brian Crabtree So... What’s going on? Just driving to Korn’s studio to rehearse for a little show we’re doing. It’s a little like, out in the middle of a dirt field promotional thing for the new Korn CD. What’s the significance of the 3 in the title of the new album? Korn 3 is... it comes from Ross Robinson, he did the first two Korn records. This is the third one that he’s done. It’s a little confusing for people... trying to make it not as confusing. Remember Who You Are is all about remembering how we did it back in the day... Going back to our roots. Did the addition of Ray on drums help boost band morale? Yeah, I think. It’s hard to say. It just feels so good and it doesn’t feel like something different. Like when we had Terry Bozzio playing drums, and he’s such an odd player that it kind of changed Korn. We had to work around the drums. But when you’ve got somebody that sings like Ray and the writing isn’t forced, it just comes out sounding like what Korn’s supposed to sound like. Was that different than the last record then? Yeah, because it’s different when you get in the studio and write with somebody who really fits in with the band, and Ray fits so well that everything just felt natural in there. Everything just came out
NEW ALBUM IN STORES!! like Korn is supposed to sound. We wanted to keep it like the first Korn album or the second Korn album. We just kept it real raw, and just, you know we did everything as far as like going back in a little 8 x 10 room and just standing up in there like a band and rocking out the songs and meeting in the studio every day and just playing like a band; creating the songs like we did in 1993 when we were like just starting out. Do you guys write at all on the road? I do some writing, but not with Korn. I just finished a bass album, it’s called Bassically. Just like a bunch of different basses, from stand-up basses, fret-less basses, a fifteen-string bass. It’s like, it takes you on a ride from jazz, fusion, funk, latin, blues...everything. How’d you get into that? I listen to a lot of Stanley Clarke and that kind of inspired me. I just wanted to do something like that, like his bass albums that he put out. It’s done right now. I’ve got eighteen songs, a couple of songs are getting mixed. It should be out probably in the next two, maybe three months. I kind of threw it together real quick. I have another band called Stillwell, and I play guitar in that band. We titled the new album Surrounded By Liars and it’s pretty different. I got Wuv from P.O.D. playing drums, I’m playing guitar, Q is on vocals and Spider is on bass. We’re probably going to be opening up for
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Korn in February. You guys have definitely embraced the whole online and digital format. What are your thoughts on the music industry nowadays and the way it’s kind of shifted? I think that you have to just try to create a different way of releasing music. Everybody just burns CD’s. I even burn CD’s. I’ve got the new Korn CD burned on a disc right now. There’s no way around it, so you’ve got to market in different ways like touring and playing concerts and merchandise; inventing new ways of getting music. I guess it’s not really for me to worry about because we’re a band that’s always touring so I’m always making music. That’s what I like to do. What do you guys listen to on the road? I don’t know, I’ve been doing the Stillwell album, working on that and working on Bass-ically, the bass album, so I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time making a lot of music. And you know, of course around Spider, we’ll jam out - he’ll play bass, I’ll play guitar, and we’ll jam out. Working on Surrounded by Liars. We have a website: myspace/ stillwellstreetmetal. You should send us a copy of that album when it’s finished, we’d love to get Stillwell in the magazine. Yeah man, as soon as we get it closer to being done, we’re actually working on a couple of deals right now and as soon as we get that, you got it.
YMM READER SUBMITTED QUESTIONS! Do you still keep in contact with Head at all and how is he doing? - Mike B. Yeah, I talk to him probably once or twice a year. It’s been probably a few months since I talked to him, but I don’t know, we’re cool. He came out to my house recently and visited and we hung out for so long that he ended up having dinner with us and I have a spare bedroom, so he stayed the night over there and hung out. We’re still friends, it’s just...I don’t know if it’s time. I would love for him to be back with Korn, I think there’s probably not a single Korn fan in the world that would say that they wouldn’t want him back. Do you guys feel like you’ve got a point to prove being that the tide of music has changed? - Mark A. I don’t really feel like I have a point to prove because I feel like I’ve already succeeded with Korn. So now it’s kind of exciting for me to put out Stillwell and play guitar in this other band and see that become successful because it’s a challenge. It’s not really a challenge with Korn. We’ve played all over the world and have a lot of loyal fans. It’s kind of become what we do, you know?
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Why is it that Bizzy Bone tends not to perform with you guys as a group? Bizzy Bone is his own person, and no matter what, he’s got a gift that we have been blessed with. But, one monkey don’t stop the show. We’re here because we got love for our fans and we gonna show up for them when they spend their money to come see us. We don’t look at them like everyday fans, they are family to us. Without them, there wouldn’t be no Bone Thugs-N-Harmony! Much love to you all, keep supporting us. We’re gonna keep trying to inspire you all as much as we can. Its all love, each and every city, and each and every day. What’s the writing process like for Bone Thugs? You guys still active in the beatmaking process? We all experiment a little bit. Everything that we’ve done has been with different producers. Many artists come to us and tell us “I’ve listened to ya’ll’s music and this is what I came up with” and we flow with them, but the bottom line is, we’ve always made our own beats. What do you all do on your time off from tour and music? We all run our own businesses. We raise our families. We’ve got children, wives… We tend to our families and responsibilities. We also get up, bust our ass everyday, hit the studio; it’s our life routine. We live life like regular human beings and tend to our business everyday.
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Bless the earth for music festivals! Am I right?! We all know the complaints: expensive food, too many stages, you miss the bands you really want to see, plenty of bands you’ve never heard before, you forget the sunscreen, and you wake up with a strange rash. This Vans Warped Tour was no exception! But there’s no need to surround yourself with negativity - leave that for the AFI fans. VWT is celebrating its sixteenth year of existence and I was excited to attend for the first time, despite being told I missed the “Good Years.” Sure, supposedly, the typical heavy hitters in the punk scene were absent and the majority of the bands I would want to see I already saw perform at Punk Rock Bowling, but the Bouncing Souls were playing, Ska Parade sponsored a stage, and a punk legend stage for the dads who had to bring their daughters for All American Rejects. I scrambled out of bed nice and early, ready to hit the road and make my way to the Shoreline Amphitheater for a fantastic ten hours of music. Of course, the show was on the same day and time as the USA vs. Ghana World Cup match, but judging by the result, I’m glad I was at VWT instead. Getting lost only once, I made it safely to the event grounds and Brian Crabtree and I were ready to attack VWT with full force and enthusiasm. With a $2 schedule/map that even Data from The Goonies would have trouble solving, we entered the grounds that resembled a mainstream swap meet. Vendors covered the asphalt with fold-out tables displaying everything from cool shades to CDs to skateboards and, of course, band tees, followed by band tents which were all put to shame by Andrew WK’s “Party Tent.” The name is a bit obvious. Brian and I finally made it through the crowds to the Main Stage only to find The Bouncing Souls finishing their set. Who’s idea was it to put the Chunksaah juggernaut on first? Bad choice Kevin Lyman! Missing one of the main bands that I came to see perform, Brian and I were left to scour the grounds (schedule in hand) for the
next stage, only finding bands we were unfamiliar with. Maybe I’m not adorable enough, anorexic enough, silver-spoonfed enough, or just getting too damn old, but some bands I just don’t understand; almost sounded like Will Smith right there. Playing it a little safe, we bounced back and forth from the Ska Parade Stage (Monkey, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Flatliners) to the Punk Rock Legends stage (Adolescents, Swingin’ Utters, Dickies) with occasional stops to the Main Stage for a three song dance with Alkaline Trio and Face to Face. The heat was expected to be high, but thankfully it didn’t seem to stop the crowd’s energy, thanks to a little help from the perfectly placed inflatable water slide located adjacent to the garlic fries and beer vendors. Despite the schedule being confusing (from a fan’s standpoint), the performing bands went straight to business on time, blasting through songs in order to fit as many as they could in the 25-30 minutes allotted. As soon as the last chord was struck, the group on the neighboring stage began, with crowds either shifting or vanishing. The main bonus of VWT for me, and maybe my colleagues as well, was a reminder of the music I grew up with, the feeling it gave me, and the reason why I was standing in the heat in Mountain View, California. Hence our return to the Punk Rock Legends stage. Angry Samoans, Swingin’ Utters, GBH, Adolescents, and, my favorite of the whole tour, The Dickies! I have the bands entire catalogue, and their performance reminded me why. Standing in front of the stage were generations of punks awaiting the theatrical performance of lead singer Leonard Graves Phillips, who used hand puppets and costumes to keep the crowd smiling and entertained. Not bad for an old man. Phillips filled empty space with clever commentary, VWT mockery, and flirtatious statements. If VWT gave out awards for best live performance statements it would go to Phillips and The Dickies: “This is a beautiful crowd and we would love to go down on each and every one of you, but we just don’t have enough time.” This should be reason enough to go to the next tour! I will. Maybe. Thank you to all the bands that made my first Vans Warped Tour worth not watching the men’s national team lose, and thank you beer vendors for emptying my wallet, and to all the kids that happily accepted the magazine I was handing out. Next year, pre-gaming is a must!
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Interview by Itay K. Pierce The Veil’s new album Selfish Machines features catchy pop hooks paired with metal tinged guitars and aggressive vocals. “We are all in one way or another selfish machines,” says lead voaclist/guitarist Vic Fuentes. “In no way is this a negative thing, it’s human nature. We all have natural tendencies to want, love, and take.” He adds, “It’s about that ‘evil’ thing inside of us that is really not evil at all, it’s just there and always will be inside all of us.” I had a chance to speak with Vic the morning of the US team’s debut in the World Cup about the new album and their upcoming journey on Warped Tour. So, did you watch the World Cup today? I actually didn’t wake up early enough. I wanted to... I think my brother did. How’d it go? Who won? It was a good game. I actually woke up early myself. Ended as a tie: 1-1. I’ll definitely be watching that later. Yeah dude, we’re friggin stoked on all that stuff man. The whole band’s super into soccer. Did you guys all grow up playing? Yeah, we all grew up playing. We still put together little games here and there, like try to find fields and stuff. We’re trying to organize something for Warped Tour because I know a lot of bands on the tour are into soccer. You guys do band teams? Yeah dude, jerseys and everything. Sweet! So, your new album Secret Machines has just been released. Tell me a little about this vinyl figure bundle you guys are putting together. Are you guys all secretly comic nerds? No, not really. Our label threw out the idea at us and I thought it was fucking awesome; To do something totally different that I’ve never even seen. They just drew up the likenesses of the two kids that are on the cover, drew up pictures of them as Kid Robot characters almost, these little bio-Kid Robot things. We got to see the process of them as they were carving them, not making them, but the molds. It’s crazy man, they’re gonna make these super impressive little toys. So those will be in the deluxe edition, which will be in a box that glows in the dark. Those toys will be in there, and you’ll get a wristband and a DVD. Did you have a specific direction or theme going into the making of Secret Machines? Yeah, we started the record out with a strong direction. It was right after we got off tour, we had been on tour for almost three years and so we looked at the new record and we thought “why not make a record that will be super fun to play every night.” So we kind of kept that stage
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thought in mind; the thought of being on stage and having things be really exciting for the shows. The new record’s got a lot of energy and is going to be fun to play. Would you say it’s more reminiscent of a live show than your previous album? It’s just going to make for a fun live show. We didn’t necessarily make a live recording, it still sounds like a quality record, it’s just that we tried to keep it in mind for the songs. What’s it like being in a band with a sibling? Are you guys closer now? It’s awesome, man. We’re only a few years apart. We’re real close. We hang out, we go to bars together. It’s cool, we have something that I don’t think anybody else could ever really have... like that higher kind of connection like I know what he’s doing, so when we’re playing together he can just look at me and I’ll know exactly what he’s saying. I’ll know if he wants to speed things up or pause... I just know exactly what he’s thinking, we’ve been playing together since we were kids. It’s cool. How do you think your sound has evolved the way it has? What’s influenced that? I think that a lot of things influenced it. Personal progression, getting better guitars, me taking vocal lessons over the years trying to get better at singing... The whole band has progressed pushing themselves for each record so that each one sounds a little different. Any favorite activities while on tour? One time on tour our keyboard player Andrew cooked Thanksgiving dinner while we were driving. Other than that, we all like the movie Good Will Hunting. That’s one of our faves. After Warped Tour, will you guys be touring at all to promote the album? Yeah man, we’ve got all of 2010 booked already. After Warped we do our first Australian tour, which is the Australian Take Action Tour, and we’ll go to Japan for the first time as well.
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You guys just finished playing about an hour ago, and people were trickling in. How does the band feel about the vibe from the crowd? Steve: People were trickling in and that’s a good thing. We started with probably around 30 people in the crowd and it kept growing. Oscar: It’s always better to end up with more people than you started with. It means you didn’t fuck up too bad! Touché, man! People are walking by and hearing something that they like, and they’ll stay to check it out. Steve: Exactly. Oscar: Involuntary diarrhea is something you can’t help though, cuz that happens sometimes. Steve: What? Oscar: So you gotta account for at least four people that are going to shit themselves. So if you have only one person in the crowd, you probably had at least five people show up? Oscar: Exactly. Dysentery, it’s the number one killer at festivals. Oscar: That’s what I hear. Steve: It’s the Warped water. They fool you with Monster. Oscar: It’s really from the pond. I’m drinking it though, I only have six toes. Steve’s been drinking it for years! Steve: I’ve been trying to get more toes on my hand for years. Is this the band’s first time doing Vans Warped Tour? Oscar: The whole thing! Steve: We did it once before for 10 days but now we’re on for the whole tour. Oscar: This is the seventh course, and I’m still waiting for my Filet Mignon, medium rare. You guys played on the Punk Rock Legends stage with Adolescents, Swingin’ Utters, Angry Samoans and more. How does it feel to share the stage with such “legends?” Steve: We were actually supposed to start on the “Skull Candy Stage,” and we got switched over
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for some reason. Oscar: I think they chose us because we’re a punk band and we don’t wear girl pants and sing high-pitched. Wow, you actually hit that note. Oscar: But I was really excited. When you share a stage with all those punk bands, they’re all bands that we’ve been into since we got into punk. It’s pretty cool to perform with bands that have inspired you. Yeah man, those guys have at least 20 years under their belts, and they’re out there jamming and still loving it. It’s awesome to see. Oscar: Yeah, Swingin’ Utters put on an awesome show. Steve: Johnny Bonnel was into that like nobody’s business! Nothing’s stopping his good time. Being on this tour, is it just to get out there and play, or are you guys promoting something in particular? Steve: We totally are! We just lost our minds for four months recording our new record, and now we have it on us. Our embryos have spoken and they say we have a new record called Forgettable. Oscar: Almost forgot to tell you. Steve: It’s coming out July 29th. Go to oldshoerecords.com and check it out! Far from Finished and we’ll kill you. Old Shoe Records, look out for it! Billy Joel, I’m coming for your fucking candy Long Island ass!
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Eminem Recovery Interscope On the surface, Eminem’s new album, Recovery, is a solid Eminem album. It’s angry and catchy, it flows, and it eats people and spits them out, but it just doesn’t have the same visceral hook that his previous albums have had. Starting off with tracks like “Talkin’ to Myself,” “On Fire,” and “Going Through Changes” that wallow in self-pity while trying to reach out and relate to listeners means that the album sort of stumbles along until “Seduction” comes on, whereupon Recovery settles down and starts to walk on its own two feet. The many voices besides Eminem’s bring a soul and R&B influence that sit on the table very well, while the beats are refreshing and heavy without being copied and pasted from past productions. On the low end, Em’s cultural references are uninspired and shallow alongside engineering tricks (like turning down the volume of the mix as he talks about being turned down) that are unnecessary and not very clever, but at least he’s trying. Recovery presents an artist who is trying to prevent stagnation while avoiding reinvention, which is probably why the album is worth listening to. Eminem still throws out hooks that stick in your head when you don’t want them to (“ain’t nothin’ but a white trash party”) and hasn’t lost his knack for turning a phrase with a furious tongue, but the album is almost supersaturated with heavy emotions and melodies that only let up for short bursts as opposed to being wellbalanced like previous albums. Originally planned to be titled Relapse 2, a continuation of 2009’s Relapse, the album is better suited as a counterpoint as the album is a reflection on the 37-year-old rapper’s life (including kicking alcohol and numerous prescription drug addictions), and, therefore, the heaviness is tolerable and even enjoyable (“Cinderella Man” and “25 to Life”), but undermined by the opening tracks. Recovery is good. Solid production with thoughtful flows as new styles sprout and take root amongst Eminem’s familiar vocal stylings. Using many different producers (almost every track has a different hand on it and only “So Bad” was produced by Dr. Dre), Eminem is no longer the lean-and-hungry rapper known on The Slim Shady LP or The Marshall Mathers LP, and it may mean an end to his Slim Shady alter
ego, but what we have now is the level of acclaim that Slim Shady aspired to, and an Eminem who is walking on his own. The biggest complaint would be that 17 tracks are about 6 too many as he has stepped away from skits and has moved towards more melodic and user-friendly sounds. Old fans might have a harder time sitting with this album but, knowing Eminem, he just don’t give a fuck. - Andre Estournes
Nas & Damian Marley Distant Relatives Universal The very first thing I have to say about this CD is WOW. This is one of the best CDs I have ever listened to in my life. I saw Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Nas in May and was completely blown away by their performance. They connected with each other so powerfully and fed off each other’s energy. It was not just a show—it was a spiritual experience. So, of course, I had to buy their new album that they released called Distant Relatives. Produced by Nas and Damian Marley, this album is incredibly deep, honest and has substance. Their main focus for this album is brotherhood: two legendary artists coming together to collaborate and create a masterpiece. They explore how no matter where you are from, we are all descendents of Africa, making everyone distant relatives. Every song was a collaborative effort. The CD also features Stephen Marley, K’Naan, Dennis Brown, Lil Wayne and Joss Stone. The fact that they are singing and rapping together makes such a powerful force. Some of the top songs on this album are “As We Enter,” “Strong Will Continue,” “Africa Must Wake Up” and my personal favorite, “Count Your Blessings.” Nas and Damian articulated that we should put more attention into how truly fortunate we are. These are not just flavor-ofthe-week artists. They are legends that I was lucky to see and meet. They were both so down to earth and in touch with the world. This album truly touched my heart, and I literally cannot stop listening to it. My favorite album of the year! - Danielle Negrin
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Sacramento rock band Eightfourseven has just released their first full length album entitled Lossless, an alternative rock album with traces of progressive rock and electronic music. Seeing that a full-time member of the group was credited with not only bass but also programming, I knew from the get-go that this album would be full of modern touches. I was right.
The production quality is on point. Working with “Big Bass” Brian Gardner (who has worked with Dr. Dre, Gwen Stefani, and Alice Cooper), Eric Stenman (Senses Fail, Thrice) , and Shaun Lopez (guitarist for Far) couldn’t have hurt. Doing work in Santa Monica’s Red Bull Studios with the aforementioned artists helped them achieve a sound on this album that at times simply radiates with force. The style of the album is hard to describe. Drawing from the styles of Linkin Park and Nine Inch Nails, songs like “8 Armed Baby” and “Mirror Box” are more electronic than rock and roll. To me, it’s sort of confusing. It’s clear the band wants to showcase a variety of styles, but it’s not clear why. If I had to change one thing, it would be the style of the vocals. Call me old fashioned, but I found it really hard to understand what the singer was saying. - Ben Baker
Devo Something for Everybody Warner Bros. Devo has released a new album. Take a second and digest; one of the fore-runners of new wave ‘80s-technopop, having been dormant for twenty years after their 1990 release, Smooth Noodle Maps, has now come out of hibernation with 12 tracks and a whole new style that’s exactly the same. This new Devo has ditched their iconic conicalstacked hats for futuristic masks that could be found in the carnivals of Victorian Italy (just throw in a few feathers and glitter), but they refuse to let go of the ‘80s and I applaud them for that. They also hold on to the same basic theme since their debut album in 1978 (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!): the human race is devolving (their name literally comes from the band’s term “de-volution”). Something for Everybody is glittery, bombastic, ridiculous, fun and, for lack of a better term, completely Devo. They run with pop-culture references like “fresh,” “step up,” and “don’t tase me” and use them with such ease that would make Lady Gaga jealous. I want to say that the music is seemingly without rhyme or reason, but I’d be lying. Admittedly, there are moments of tackiness (“my door does what I say/I say open and it does!”), but even so, every track is somehow focused, poignant, and driven, as ‘80s synths mix and tangle with drums, bass, and vocals into a ball of sound that is well produced, as it pushes and pulls the listener in random directions that are fun and interesting. From start to finish, Something for Everybody is consistent, and that’s what makes it great. Devo has created a bubble and the music pushes it to the brink of popping. My advice: just go with it. The journey is fun and
outrageous and the engineering is awesome. I can see how new listeners might not enjoy it, but the album has got heart and legs to run on and will take you for a ride if you’re willing. This album will make you want to cruise the town, re-visit your 80s movie collection and dust off your old Super Nintendo. The question on my mind: will their overthe-top tech-pop be celebrated in today’s technologically driven culture or will the plug be pulled on Devo? One thing is for sure: Devo is back and ready to dance. - Andre Estournes
Korn III Remember Who You Are Roadrunner Have you been struck with boredom? Are you mundane? Or do you often feel like slapping your mother? Then you might need more Korn diet. The poster child for built up aggression and “I’m tired of the world” metal is here at your service with their ninth studio album, Korn III: Remember Who You Are. As the title suggests, the metal veterans have stepped back from the madness in an attempt to resurrect the styles, influences, and ideas that are more associated with their earlier releases. To assist with this vision, producer Ross Robinson (produced Korn and Life is Peachy) was called in to guide the machine. After an initial attempt for a concept album concerning the “downfall of man” was ditched, vocalist, Jonathan Davis, decided to approach each track that the band created with a more freestyle approach; not over produced. Each track produces its own emotion, therefore, resulting in different lyrical concepts. The album cover alone should give the everyday Korn fan a warm and toasty feeling inside. That’s if you like creepy of course! It’s no Todd McFarlane illustration, but you get the point. Opening the album’s journey is Uber-Time; a spacey voyage amongst the swamps where only your worst nightmares would lurk. After almost wetting yourself, track two, Oildale (Leave Me Alone), brings back the thumping bass and pounding percussions that all you Kornies (my nickname for Korn fans) have been waiting three precious years for. This track sets itself as the “FU” anthem of the album and will most likely be the supreme single from it. I’m glad to see old musicians refusing the depression of retirement and encouraging the youth of our society to once again, “Go punch something”! Korn, you never cease to amaze me, and you constanly prove the world that good things can come from Bakersfield, California. - Jon Hermison
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THE BIG BAD WOLF GETS THE BLUES
Interview By Itay K.
Co-owner of Comicopolis in Santa Cruz, Johnnie (J.D.) Arnold’s first published work, BB Wolf and the Three LPs was just released this July on Top Shelf. Combining his love of music and comics in one of the most original adaptations of the classic children’s story “The Three Little Pigs” since Green Jello’s classic 90’s hit, the book comes paired with a CD of original music inspired by the book. Photo: Caroline Reid
What inspired BB Wolf? Where did the inspiration for the story come from? Well, the inspiration came from my wife, actually. This was back in 2005, 2006? I had been furiously writing, developing a number of different stories, some for comics, some for film, when one day I hit a wall. Writer’s block had set in. On about the 3rd or 4th day I went to Katie and asked her to give me a writing assignment; something, anything to loosen the blockage. Without missing a beat she said, ‘Why don’t you rewrite a classic fairy tale? How about The Three Little Pigs story?’ Within a couple of hours I had plotted the entire tale. I think I finished the script in under a week. How long of a process was it from concept to the final product? Was it difficult finding the right artist? Yeah, it was 2006 when I wrote it, and here we are at 2010. So, 4 years. Yikes! I’m told it usually doesn’t take that long. Let’s hope. I did sit on the story for about a year before finding the right artist. There were a couple of other guys who did some concept and character sketches, but nothing got off the ground until I found Rich Koslowski. I met Rich at San Diego Comic-Con in 2007. Nothing happened there other than the usual fan boy stuttering (on my part). I bought his books and left. About a month later I screwed up the courage to e-mail him (again, credit here goes to my wife for bugging me until I did it). I asked if I could send him a pitch. He read the pitch and asked to see the script. The rest is history. You’ve included a CD of music with the book...tell me a little about that. Did you write the music? We’re as proud of the CD as we are of the book. Especially considering that we are first and foremost comic creators, not musicians (Though Rich and I do both have music in our pasts. I play flute and sax and sing a bit; Rich sings and plays…trumpet? French Horn? Lute? I don’t know, ask him). Anyway…after finishing the book I began writing text for the website and really started developing this
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rich, alternate history for the world BB lives in. I started playing up the musical aspect of his character, and before long the idea hit us to write and record some blues tunes to accompany the book. I wrote two songs and Rich wrote one. The CD includes the “original vintage recordings” of each, as well as some modern day covers done by bands such as Spiral Trance and Big Wish. We’re very happy with quality of the recordings, both from a musical and technical standpoint. It has really inspired me and I’ve already started thinking about songs for my next book. How did you get hooked up with Top Shelf? Did you have full creative freedom as far as the book’s release was concerned? The Top Shelf deal came from Rich. He has had a couple of books (Three Fingers and The King) published through them and had an established relationship. He took the idea to them and they loved it. I think they signed us without seeing a page of art. As far as creative freedom…in terms of the book’s content, yes, we had complete freedom. I don’t think I really changed anything from the original script, save for a small handful of words here and there and a couple of splash pages added for dramatic effect. The release of the book was all in Top Shelf’s hands. Originally we thought the book would be released in 2009, but unforeseen economic issues delayed us to
this year. There have been some minor hiccups along the way in terms of production, but all in all it has been an amazing experience. Top Shelf is a great bunch of guys, and they have published some of the best and most highly regarded books in the industry. I’d work with them again in a heartbeat. Any advice you could give to aspiring writers? Write. Every day. When you are not writing, read. When not doing those things, watch movies and television. Yeah, that’s right. There are some great stories in movies and TV. But don’t just sit there and mindlessly watch. You’ve got to really understand the story, understand the characters and their motivations, understand the events that propel them and the plot. Hell, even watching bad film can be educational, as long as you can take from it what not to do. Are you working on anything else right now? Always. I have many irons in the fire, as they say. I’ve just finished up the script to a Graphic Novel I am writing with Eisner Award Nominee Jon ‘Bean’ Hastings. We have no firm release date but hope to have it see life sometime in 2011. I’ve also finished scripting three more of my Twisted Fairy Tales, in the vein of BB Wolf, and am just looking for the right artist to bring them to life. Rich and I are thinking about a sequel to BB Wolf, and I am currently in the early stages of scripting two TV series and a movie screenplay.
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By Kevin Madness The music world is fleeting: bands come and go, scenes change, fans are flippant, record stores fold and no one seems to remember the next day. The things that are really special are often momentaneous, having real significance only in the context of their time and place. Not The Melvins. They are everlasting. A pillar of consistency, they’ve been playing longer than I’ve been alive and have constantly released quality material, exemplified on the recent full-length, The Bride Screamed Murder. At the helm is founding member Buzz Osborne (referred to in his royal designation as King Buzzo) who, in our conversation, was curt, sarcastic and avoidant. But in his answers and attitude there is, perhaps, insight into what keeps a band going for 26 years and leaves the members only mildly jaded.
The new record has some crazy moments. What were you listening to when you were making it? I was listening to the vacuum cleaner… also I was listening to the Meat Puppets, Napalm Death and Kenny Rogers. Were you pissed that The Bride Screamed Murder got leaked on the Internet before it’s release date? What can you do? I guess I could get upset, but that’s been going on for a while now. It affects record sales, it hits you in your pocketbook, but there is not much you can do about it. Have you ever illegally downloaded music? Never. What’s the last CD you bought? I buy a lot, the last one was a Willie Nelson live CD. Can you tell us about the box-set you have coming out? I’m so glad you know about that. It’s a letterpress box-set with 13 CDs including the Electroretard record and most of the stuff we did on Ipecac. Everything is handmade top to bottom, every aspect of it. It’s like a little art project that was a massive undertaking. What was your job before the Melvins? I cooked pizzas. That was the last job I had. I didn’t like it, but when you don’t have any money it’s good to work in a restaurant because you can eat twice a day.
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Do the Melvins do something different to prepare for a big festival show? We don’t do anything different. Big shows like that are usually a pain in the ass because you don’t get a sound check and it’s rushed. Generally speaking, those festivals are about everything except for music. Music seems to be the last thing they worry about. What’s the best Melvins record? The best one? I could maybe say five: The Bride Screamed Murder, Colossus of Destiny, Nude with Boots, Eggnog and Honky. There. That’s five. Who’s an artist you like that your fans wouldn’t expect? Doris Day. Nobody expects that. But is it true? No. How has your vision for the Melvins changed since the beginning? When we started the band all we wanted to accomplish was playing a show. I achieved that relatively quickly and it’s been downhill ever since. Was the first show good? No. It was fun to play it, but our aspirations as a band weren’t very high. Do you have more fun now? We’re doing better now, as far as that’s concerned. It changes on a daily basis depending on how a show goes. We’re pretty happy campers.
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By Itay K. Currently on tour with Rob Zombie on the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, John 5 is a veritable guitar legend for our generation. His newest album, The Art of Malice, is one of his best to date, seamlessly transitioning from hard hitting speedmetal to flamenco to honky tonk - all while staying true to his signature sound. Tell me a little about your new album. What’s the significance of the title? Well, The Art of Malice…I think that the title means kill them with kindness; it’s kind of that way, you know? Just to be super nice but to be conniving and the other way. I guess the best description is to kill them with kindness. How does that translate into the music? Well, it’s kind of how I’ve always been. It’s kind of like my whole life is this album. Like, in the beginning, what inspired me to play guitar was songs with style, but I’ve always been such a nice person and they’re like “Oh, he’s such a nice guy,” and things like that, but those are the ones you’ve got to watch out for. But, like “Fractured Mirror” (the Ace Frehley cover), that is one of the first songs I heard that really made me want to play guitar and I was really inspired by him, Ace, of course, but that song, ‘cause it’s just all guitar and I loved it, that’s why I put it on the record. And a lot of the song titles, like “J.W.”; W is my middle initial (John William) and my dad used to call me J.W. and “The S-lot” is a place in my high school where I used to sneak away and play guitar, and “Wayne County Killer,” that’s a serial killer that was around when I was a kid in Michigan and I remember we weren’t allowed to go outside and stuff like that. You know, there’s a lot of songs in there that have a lot to do with my upbringing and stuff. “Ya Dig” sounds like Van Halen and Van Halen’s such a big inspiration. I know David 24 Lee Roth really well and when you talk to
Dave, instead of saying “You know what I’m talking about?”, Dave says “Ya dig?” He’s like, “Hey, you wanna go grab a burger? They got really good burgers. They use a special kind of bun, ya dig?” He always says “Ya dig?”, so that’s why I called it that. Seeing as you play most of the instruments on your solo releases, what’s the writing process like for you? Sometimes I go off of a riff, if something sounds really good, I’ll just slowly, slowly build it into a song, you know, try and piece everything together and make it sound like a song and not a bunch of crazy solos. I try to put good, hooky choruses that aren’t too crazy; nice melodic choruses and little riffs and hooky stuff like that. I just try to build it into as much of a song as possible, which is hard to do with instrumental music. Do you think there’s a style out there that you haven’t conquered yet? Yeah, there’s tons. I’m listening to a lot of Spanish guitar right now, a lot of Flamenco and Gypsy style. Do you still feel challenged at all when picking up a new style? Oh, absolutely. But I love to practice, so I don’t feel frustrated or anything. I just love to practice, so I’ll learn something and just keep on playing it and playing it and playing it… and just keep playing and playing. So, it’s
fun for me, it’s not frustrating for me or anything like that. How often do you practice? About 4 or 5 hours a day, I guess. It’s broken up. An hour here and an hour there type of thing. You’ve collaborated with quite a lot of people in the past and on your releases, is there someone that you hope to collaborate with in the future? I’d say Paul McCartney or Ringo, or Rod Stewart or Prince. What’s this I hear about you playing on the new Skynard album? Yeah, I wrote six songs on that record and then also played a little guitar on it, too…which was one of the greatest things I’ve ever done. It was so much fun. What’s it like working with such legends? Oh, great. It’s an honor, an honor. Because, I mean, what they’ve done and what they’ve produced... I’m just glad to be a part of Skynard history.
What kind of music do you listen to on the road? Well, right now I’ve got my iPod on shuffle and I’ve got Van Halen on and I just heard Rod Stewart on a minute ago, and Neil Young and Slipknot, so it’s a wide range of stuff, a very wide range of music. I love it. I’m just such a huge fan of music in general. So you play on tons of guitars. What are a couple of your favorites? Well, I have a main guitar that I’ve used forever; it’s my main John 5 Telecaster, and it’s the one I take pictures with all the time, but that one was starting to get beat up quite a bit, so I just got a new main guitar and it’s gold and it’s got gold hardware. You can see that online, pictures of it and stuff, that’s what I’ve been playing with lately. It’s awesome…it’s great. But I have tons and tons of Teles, which is my passion, just collecting and appreciating these fine, fine instruments. What would you say would be the prize guitar in your collection? A 1950 Broadcaster. It’s definitely the jewel of the bunch; I love it so much.
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He’s known as the “Metal God” for good reason. Judas Priest fronted by Rob Halford pretty much created the heavy metal tone with songs like “Electric Eye” and Beavis and Butthead anthem “Breaking the Law.” This year marks the 30th Anniversary of “British Steel,” the CD released April 14th 1980 that made metal a world-wide calling. In May 1992, Rob Halford parted ways with Judas Priest, for all the sordid details see the movie “Rock Star” with Mark Walberg. In 1992, he formed the band Fight with mostly American musicians. The band recorded two successful albums and toured extensively. In 2000, the Metal God returned to his roots with a solo project called Halford. In 2004, Rob Halford reunited with Judas Priest and headlined Ozzfest to mass critical acclaim. Playing with Priest and then Halford in his spare time this “Metal God” is only gaining speed. Your Music Magazine is helping Rob Halford find the best metal band in the Bay, and I got a chance to talk to him about his upcoming ventures.
By Mike Lyon All the talk is about you choosing an unsigned band to open for you at The Regency Ballroom July 17th. What are you looking for in the band? I’m slowly going through my PowerBook this weekend listening to all the bands; it’s going to be really difficult making a choice. I don’t know really what I’m looking for. I’ll just go on instinct; I listen to a lot of music, so I suppose I’ll know it when I hear it. The tough thing for me is that a lot of these bands are coming from different sorts of metal. Some of it’s extreme, some of its classic. It’s going to be quite a chore to figure out what’s what. But that’s the fun of music--there’s always such a tremendous display of new talent. It’s exciting to think that there are all these great new bands on the horizon that could be the next big thing. Would this band that you are going to pick be considered for a deal with Metal God Records? They might be. As you know we are launching what’s left of the previous releases like “Crucible,” which has just been sent through the car wash and, more importantly to me, the “Live In Anaheim” DVD and the new audio CD that goes with that. You may have noticed on Halford. 26 26 com about an hour ago we put up a new 26
song called “The Mower.” What I’ve tried to do over the last year or so is let people in the metal community know that we are a functioning record label and we make a good product. I think you can see that when you check out the Halford collection we are distributing. I’ll be wading through all these bands this weekend and yes, there is every possibility that one of them could end up on the Metal God label. Any special reason you are starting your tour in San Francisco? I love the city. I love the Bay Area. It’s convenient as far as the location of the band; we are spread out all over the place. We rehearse in L.A. and put together the crew. “It’s good to run back to the store if you break a string” as they say. The Bay Area means a lot to me. I have good memories of the Regency the last time I played there a few years ago. I love to check out the sites in a kind of touristy way. It’s a wonderful city as far as all the culture. There’s always something to do and check out, whether it’s live music or the art galleries and museums. There is a very special vibe about the whole place that’s unique to San Francisco; it’s like no other place in the world. I feel comfortable there.
The next stop on your tour is in Montreal, Canada, for a Metal Fest? Yes, this is the second of this type called Heavy MTL 2010. It’s a two-day event July 24th and 25th. It’s going to be great to see all my friends that I know so well like Alice, Mustaine, Kerry and everybody from Slayer and Jonathan from Korn. It’s going to be a great line-up: Testament, Mastodon, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold and about 20 more. Then we come back and do some stuff with Ozzy, which takes us through August. Ozzfest should be exciting, it hasn’t been out for a couple years; it’s a good year for metal. I don’t think I’ve played with Motley Crue since U.S. Festival but I do know Nikki and Vince and Tommy and everybody like you do in the business. Speaking of friends in the business; any words on Ronnie James Dio’s passing? He was a lovely man; he was a good friend of mine. We spent as much time together as you could on the Heaven and Hell tour with Priest just a while back. It’s tough to talk about someone and they’re not there in the flesh but their music lives forever. It’s important to try and get through the sadness with a celebration of the music. Ronnie’s voice will always be with us. I hear him all the time on the radio, which is wonderful. I see him all the time on VH1 Classic or Metal Mania. I think he will continue to be an inspiration for singers because he was one of the top singers of his genre. Along with your label you are also introducing a clothing line, Metal God Apparel. Yeah, that’s kicking along nicely, its been about two years now and were getting established, slowly making headway. It’s pretty much a web-based distribution but we’re looking for retail, which would be wonderful. The artist that does the design is Mark Sasso, he’s an old friend of mine based out of New York. He is a well know illustrator if you go to www.marcsasso. com you can see some of his work. He knows my music and has a very fertile mind; he comes up with these crazy images. You are quite the businessman can we expect to see you on the next season of the Apprentice?
You never know? I like that show, it’s fun to watch. It is the real deal from what I’ve been told. You never know what types of things can crop up; it’s an interesting thought. I’ve kind of grown into accepting the value of so-called reality TV. I kind of shrugged it off initially but it seems to have taken an enormous hold of peoples psyche and it’s not exclusive to American TV. Every country I go to there is reality TV, so it’s not unique to the USA. On your web site robhalford.com you released a new single called “The Mower”. I haven’t had a chance to listen, what’s it about? Well…I sound very, very pissed off. It seems to go well with the entire world (or it seems like) being pissed off. These are difficult times for a lot of people and I’m kind of dwelling on that and getting the angst out, that’s why it’s called “The Mower”, I’m able to vent a bit more in my solo project. People say the movie “Rock Star” with Mark Walberg is based on Judas Priest. Is that true? It’s true or the essence is true. The story as I understand it is George Cloony or someone from his production company read the piece Ripper Owens gave to the New York Times. They said it would be good for a movie, that’s all these things need is a seed and it grows into a really strong story you make into a flick. You’ve been back working with Judas Priest for a while anything coming in the future? Yes, that’s why I’m cramming these Halford dates this year because Judas Priest is a big metal monster that eats everything up in its path. That’s what I’ll be doing for all of 2011 and bumping over into 2012. What’s something people don’t know about you? I think it’s all been said, I have no surprises left. I’m pretty open with my private life, I do normal stuff. I’m getting ready to go to Ralphs and do my shopping. I love my IPhone, it’s like I’m cracking out. It’s pinging constantly with text and email, I have a million apps. I like to play “The Price is Right” or If I have any brain cells left “Who wants to be a millionaire”. There’s something. 277
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It’s been quite the interesting month, with some major announcements being made (some of which are detailed below) and some personal events that kept life from being 100% fun (which will not be detailed below). New bands have popped up, old friends have returned, and a lot of buzz has been created all around as music continues to thrive and certain regions continue to build momentum. Summer is always an exciting time around these parts, and I’ve got lots to tell you about in this installment of the NorCal Metal Report. By Dave Pirtle The lineup for Tidal Wave 12 has been completed, with the previously announced Amber Asylum filling the Day 2 headlining slot (originally slated for the legendary Prong, who had to drop out). Several other bands have been added, including a reformed version of Blind Illusion replacing OR3O, who have disbanded. The lineups for both days are as follows:
lineup of the band have returned: guitarist/ vocalist Matt Harvey, bassist/vocalist Leon Del Muerte (Phobia/Murder Construct), guitarist Wes Caley (Uphill Battle), and drummer Danny Walker (Intronaut/Uphill Battle/Murder Construct). They are currently writing for the band’s fourth album, which will be recorded
HIGH ON FIRE
photo: Alan Ralph
July 24th (Day 1) - Raven, Anvil Chorus, Giant Squid, Stone Vengeance, Abysmal Dawn, Desecrater, Near Life July 25th (Day 2) - Amber Asylum, Elk, Vastum, Witchaven, Blind Illusion, My Victim, Go Like This The event will be held once again at San Francisco’s McLaren Park and is all ages and free as always, so bring the kids and a picnic lunch and enjoy an amazing weekend of metal in the great outdoors.
EXHUMED
After weeks of nothing but bad (personal) news, I finally got something to cheer me up: Exhumed have reformed after a five year 300 hiatus. All members from the last known
this Fall for a Spring 2011 release. It will reportedly combine the “directness” of 2000’s Slaughtercult, and the “intricacy” of 2003’s Anatomy Is Destiny. Meanwhile, their first North American appearance is currently scheduled to be as part of Maryland Deathfest 2011. We’ll keep you updated on further developments, but those into instant gratification may wish to keep an eye on MySpace, Facebook, and their newly established blog at http:// gorefuckingmetal.blogspot.com. Although High on Fire’s Matt Pike is still riding high (no pun intended) on the success of Snakes For The Divine, he’s bringing back doom metal gods Sleep for some live dates this Fall, marking the first time the band has performed together since their two sets at last year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in England, and the first time they have done more than one date since disbanding in 1995.
The band plans to perform their seminal album Holy Mountain in its entirety as well as selections from Dopesmoker and more. Joining Pike (vocals/guitars) on the trek will be original bassist Al Cisneros (currently with Om) and drummer Jason Roeder (Neurosis), the latter filling the seat normally held by Chris Hakius. The Church of Sleep convenes at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on September 12th. Flametal has released their new album Heavy Mellow, via their own label Flametal Records. This actually just marks the physical release of the album, as it has been available through digital distributors (iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby) for a couple of months now. Heavy Mellow is an instrumental album comprised of their signature flamenco-meetsmetal (well, mostly flamenco) interpretations of songs from some of the most legendary bands in the history of hard rock and heavy metal, including Iron Maiden (“Aces High”), Ozzy Osbourne (“Bark at the Moon”), Megadeth (“In My Darkest Hour”), and Rainbow (“Gates of Babylon”). Also included is the original track “Cursed,” featuring a guest appearance by Steve Stevens, which serves as a raw preview of what the next original Flametal album will be, as their are many great guest artists to be featured. Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of Fleshwrought, the experimental death metal band founded by ex-Animosity (and current Animals as Leaders) drummer Navene Koperweis. He performs all instruments on the debut album Dementia/Dyslexia, which he also tracked, mixed, and edited himself, with Jonny Davy (Job For a Cowboy) handling vocal duties. The album is scheduled for release on August 3rd, and continues a relationship that began with Metal Blade releasing two Animosity albums through their partnership with Blackmarket Activities. Severed Fifth is the latest musical endeavor by accomplished musician Jono Bacon. Formed in 2008, it has long been a project comprised solely of him handling all songwriting, recording, production, etc., which he will continue to do in the studio. He is set to start recording the second Severed Fifth album in August, a process which will be streamed online. In addition, Bacon has taken steps in putting together a live band, recently recruiting drummer Ben Gibbs and Defiance guitarist Jim Adams into the fold. To learn more, check out their incredibly
robust website at http://www.severedfifth. com. For a less intensive experience, there is always http://www.myspace.com/ severedfifth. Alright, that’s all I’ve got this time out. Don’t forget that you can send your news, questions, and feedback to norcalmetal@ ksjs.org. You can also find me on the MyBook and FaceSpace. Although you may find those experiences slightly less exciting than this monthly collection of images and words, they are much, much shinier. Just don’t stare too long.
Top 10 Playlist for period:
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1. Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition 2. Montra – S/T 3. Early Graves – Goner 4. Unconventional Thought Process – Birthday Cancelled 5. Vengince – A Turn for the Worst 6. Imagika – Portrait of a Hanged Man 7. Laceration – Realms of the Unconscious 8. A Thousand Kingdoms – Demo 2010 9. Sympathy Ends – TBD 10. A Band Called Pain – Beautiful Gun QUICK BITS: Looks like Embryonic Devourment has returned to Deepsend Records, who will release their new album Vivid Interpretations of the Void on July 27th . . . The Venting Machine has added bassist Louis Barillas to their ranks, and wrapping up work on a new EP to boot . . . All Shall Perish recently parted ways with drummer Matt Kuykendall, and recruited Adam Pierce to sit behind the kit . . . speaking of which, ex-ASP guitarist Chris Storey has a new project that goes by the name of Smashface and is taking credit for creating a new sound dubbed “shredcore” . . . Apothesary have completed work on their debut album A Harsh Reality. . . cult black metal act Von, who recently performed for the first time in almost 20 years at the Armageddon Festival in London, have a bunch of stuff going on, both band related and not, which you can read about in what is only their second interview ever, at http://massmurder-666. blogspot.com.
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YMM: So, how long have you guys been together? David: We have been together since January 1st, 2010, and that was our first show at The Blue Rock Shoot. I remember the name and the date! YMM: You have ambition! How would you guys categorize your style? David: I would categorize it as fast-paced folk. YMM: So, who would you say your musical influences are? David: I would say our influences are Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins and Rilo Kiley. Oliver: I didn’t listen to a lot of folk music until I got with these guys. My influences would be heavier, like Led Zeppelin. I like that type of stuff and mixing them together. YMM: Do you feel like it drives the music ahead, gives it a melodic edge? Oliver: Yeah, it makes it a little more upbeat, so it’s not so soft-sounding. It’s more of a release of tension. Vincent: My style is more punk, so I listen to Dead Kennedys and Black Flag. YMM: This is an interesting blender mix! Vincent: Yeah, we all play different styles. I also like to keep it uptempo, and when David gives us a song, it’s usually slower-paced at first. So what we want to do is keep it more uptempo so we can keep the audience involved. David: We’re working on a full-length with Kenny Schick. The way all of our songs work is that I write most of the songs, then I introduce them to these guys. Vincent speeds it up to a nice pace and always adds a shredding lead, and Aria is solid on the bass. Arya : My favorite bands are like more classic rock, like the Beatles or Led Zeppelin that’s my favorite bassist. YMM: And you guys are from where? David: I’m from the Saratoga and Santa Clara area. Oliver: We’re all basically from the Campbell/Saratoga/Santa Clara area we all went to the same high school together, so that’s how we met.
YMM: This is Matt Young from Your Music Magazine, and I’m here with Le Verita at Starving Musician, one of our sponsors. How are you guys doing today? Le Verita - Harrison Russell: Good! Star Quach: Excellent! YMM: How did you guys get together? HR: Well, we’ve kind of known each other since high school. We’ve always had similar music interests. I’ve been in a few different bands that didn’t really work out, where people were flaky. Then in late 2008, we decided to try forming a band together. We started writing songs and in late 2009 we started playing live shows. YMM: You guys are a two-piece, so what are the logistical challenges for trying to coordinate things with just two people? SQ: Not having a drummer! (laughs) HR: Yeah, logistically, the sound is going to be different live than when you’ve got a drummer with a nice booming sound, but we make it work. We mix and write on keyboard so the music sounds alright. YMM: So you guys program your own percussion then? HR: We write and program it ourselves. YMM: What are your influences as far as writing and programming drums? Smashing Pumpkins did that in the 90’s after Jimmy Chamberlain left - they did drum machine loops and samples and stuff like that. How do you guys pull that off? SQ: (to Harrison) You listen to a lot of hip-hop… YMM: You got a little drum-‘n’-bass going on? HR: A little bit, yeah! I’m influenced by- it’s funny to say - by Dr. Dre’s stuff from the early ‘90s, but also by tribal music, so we incorporate a lot of styles into it. YMM: You guys are going to be playing for the Your Music Olympicks event, so what do you have set up for that? HR: The five or six songs of ours that are the strongest, and hopefully we’ll entertain the audience. Hopefully people will enjoy it when they hear it. YMM: Where can we hear your music? HR: We’ve got some shows coming up: We’ll be playing at Nickel City Arcade, and then we have a show coming up on August 21st with Audrey Sessions, Picture Atlantic, and EPK, that’s going to be at Homestead Lanes. So, between arcades and bowling alleys, we kind of do it all! But we’ve played spots like The Blank Club, and we’ll be playing a few spots in Oakland as well. YMM: And where can we find your music online? HR: You can go to our main page, which is www.leveritamusic.com - it’s got links to MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Elijah Sariñana - Vocals Rolando Gomez Jr- Guitar Angel Lopez - Drums Doug - Bass
YMM: Today is Friday, June 5th, and I am here at Showcase Guitars in San Jose with Powder Train. Could you give us an update since last year’s 2009 San Jose Your Music Olympicks? What have you been up to as a band? Angel: We did a bit of a West Coast tour last summer, and we have been busy with writing and recording—plus playing gigs around here in the San Jose area and greater Bay Area. Elijah: It’s true. YMM: Where did the tour take you guys, and was there anyone else on it with you? Elijah: We booked the tour ourselves: [We went to] Reno, Vegas, L.A., Santa Monica, Chico…we just jumped in the van and headed out on our own. Angel: One of the more memorable gigs for me was up in Chico with a band called Cows On Strings, who were a great band to play with. A couple shows we played solo, like down in Santa Barbara. YMM: Are there any plans for another tour any time soon? Elijah: Maybe towards the end of summer and [hopefully we’ll be] trying to go as far as Denver. It’s a little further this time, but we really found out that it is what we enjoy doing—being on the road. And when Angel gets to drive. Angel: Normally at night, when no one else can see either. YMM: So is that your big plan for 2010, to get back out there on the road? Elijah: Since last year, we have a whole new set, five new songs on the EP, new covers and [we’re] just trying to move forward. And make it fun for us. YMM: You said that you have a new EP out. Tell me about it and where can people get it? Elijah: We released it in March and it is called The Colors of Karma. It is a five song EP available on iTunes, MySpace Music and all the other ones. Angel: But not at Walmart. Elijah: But Angel does stand out in front sometimes to sell them.
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YMM: So how long have you guys been together? Edgar: We’ve been together almost two years. Me and Kevin have been jamming for like eight years. Nate came on around four years ago, and Leo completed the band, so as a complete band, almost two years. YMM: So you guys gonna make people’s ears bleed tonight (in a good way)? Edgar: We’re gonna try not to. We’re aiming for the eargasm! Nate: The genitals! YMM: How would you guys categorize your music? Nate: Chinese pop? (laughs) Leo: Progressive rock. Edgar: Progressive rock- experimental/ artsy-fartsy. YMM: Who would you say are your biggest influences? Edgar: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Dredg, Mars Volta… YMM: This is your first time doing Your Music Olympicks? Edgar: This is our first time. Kevin: We’re excited! YMM: Do you guys have any recordings done yet? Edgar: We actually do. Kevin: Our album will be coming out soon. We’re aiming for July. We’ll receive our CDs very soon. Leo: We worked at a private studio. We got David Schiffman to mix half our album. He’s worked with The Mars Volta, Weezer, Rage Against the Machine, the Red Hot Chili Peppers…he liked us very much and took us in. Edgar: And we got Howie Weinberg to master our CD. YMM: So where can we find your music? Edgar: iTunes, Rhapsody, CD Baby, the usual digital distribution sites. And also at our shows - come to our shows! All: COME TO OUR SHOWS! Kevin: It’s the real rawness there! Our website is just...
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Bob - Guitar, Tony - Guitar/ Vocals, Dave - Greg - Guitar Bass, Ronny - Drums, Mzao - Vocals Rich - Drums Pete - Guitar/ Vocals I met up with the band Mukagee near their Mark - Bass practice space in Fremont to talk to them about the 2010 Your Music Olympicks. YMM: I am here in San Jose with the band Zed.
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YMM: I wanted to ask what has been up with the group since your second place finish in 2009? Dave: We have spent the last year recording. We are about to release an EP at the end of summer. We have been keeping ourselves busy playing scattered dates, nothing real big. We’ve really been trying to get some stuff recorded to get it to the fans out there. YMM: How has the recording process been going for you guys? In Studio? Dave: We are at Madhouse recording studios over in Sunnyvale - he’s a friend of the band. We have been diligently trying to get some product out. YMM: How has the process been recording? Any issues in the studio? Dave: Going good, but the donation levels aren’t quite good enough so it is taking us a little while to get this recorded. It has been a great experience reconnecting with these guys in the studio. It has been a great year of working real close together towards our goals. We have a new web site that will be launched soon along with the EP. We have songs up on Itunes. YMM: You guys are participating in the 2010 Your Music Olympicks on July 15th at the Avalon. Are there any big plans for that show? Dave: Hopefully to kick everyone’s ass. Mzao: (Gives a finger gesture of number one.) YMM: We have a number one over here. Ronny: Redemption. Dave: We hope to come back strong this year. There are a lot of really good bands in the event this year, so it is going to be a bit tougher. YMM: Yeah, there are some new bands and fresh faces in the event this year...any change in the South Bay scene? Dave: We have dabbled our toes in it, but there hasn’t really been any change in the South Bay. Wish there were more venues, and participation from Downtown San Jose.
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They participated in the Your Music Olympicks on June 12, 2010 at the Venuez in Santa Clara, but before we get into that can I get someone in the group to give me a little history of Zed? Pete: I have known Mark and Rich through different incarnations and projects for about ten years now. Zed started out in late 2006, when I was still in Santa Cruz with Rich. It was going to be more of a jam project, more of a metal project. We started jamming around Santa Cruz, but that line up wasn’t really jelling until we meet Greg over there. And we needed a bassist, so we knew Mark from back in the day. But the sound really didn’t find itself, what would you say...? Pete: I would say it took us a year and half to solidity the sound and song writing process, where his sound compared to his sound to my way of playing drumming, to really solidify. But once we were together, we started writing songs really fast. Greg: I think we all had different ideas of what we wanted it to sound like in our heads, and it took a while for that collective sound to manifest itself. YMM: Well you said that Zed started as a metal jam project - where is the sound of Zed now? Greg: I put a lot of blues into it, Mark contributes some funk. Rich: I bring a really heavy Rage Against the Machine funk from me, and then Pete brings in his metal sound. Mark has a good mix of funk and blues bass lines. Mark: But not funk in the (slapping hand gestures) slap. Rich: Like the 70’s grooving style and sounds. Mark: I describe it as a heavy-heavy Zeppelin meets Clutch or Rage, but without the rapping. Pete: I really feel that the blues pulls it all together; really simply it and play heavy big riffs. Mark: And not being afraid to play those big riffs.
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Bigeye is a band dedicated to bringing their audience a wide spectrum of alternative rock favorites YMM: I am here in San Jose with the band from the nineties. Bigeye is also the backing band Tolteca Extra. The band participated in the for the Your Music Olympicks “Vocal Solo Event.”
June 12th Your Music Olympicks, but first can I get an introduction to the group? Matt: Steve and I have been playing for about five years now. Steve: I would say so. Matt: In various bands and stuff. Then Gus and I have been playing since we were like sixteen, and (he) had moved back into town so we decided to start playing. Gus came up with Tolteca Extra, the name, and we ran with it. We converted our old band which was Caldrons into Tolteca Extra. YMM: How would you describe the sound of Tolteca Extra? Matt: All sorts of shit. Steven: We are definitely loud; spontaneous at times. Gus: Very rhythm drawn. Matt: I guess it is more about the rhythms than the riffs. The flow of it. YMM: You guys are an instrumental group right? Band: Yeah. YMM: Do you guys find it hard to be an instrumental act here in the San Jose scene? Matt: I don’t know if would be any easier with a singer. Steve: I think it sets us a little apart from most of the bands that do play here, where 99% of them have singers. Gus: I personally like it, and it has gotten us to where we are. Matt: No room for vocals. YMM: Do you guys keep it speedy uptight? Matt: That seems like what we have been doing mostly since we have gotten together, but there is a lot of stuff that we have that hasn’t been turn into songs that is a lot different than we currently do. YMM: What is the song writing process like then for the group? Matt: Mainly it is me and Gus just writing rifts back and forth. I’ll write something or Gus will write something. Then he will bring it to me and I will add some rifts, but that all really comes together with the band.
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YMM: You guys have pulled a lot of the best ‘90s alternative rock songs for your live set. What is it like putting that together in one big ball of wax? MaryRuth: It’s hard for me; there were no female rock bands in the ‘90s! YMM: If there was one band you guys had to pick to cover, who would it be? Luke: It’s gonna be a different answer from everybody. John: We’re a cover band, not a tribute band! Rex: The rhythm section loves the Red Hot Chili Peppers and No Doubt. Luke: Kings of Leon. YMM: What kind of impact do you guys think that you had tonight [at the Your Music Olympicks 6.17.10]? Jamie: It was good. Our set is kind of unique, right? A lot of people say they don’t hear [the songs in] our set a lot, and they love it. Everyone knows the songs, and it’s pretty rockin’. YMM: Do you guys do any originals? BE: Yeah, we’re doing some originals. Next year we’re going to be half-and-half, at least. YMM: What do you guys think of the San Jose rock scene? Do you think it needs a shot in the arm? Luke: The whole Bay Area does, actually. It’s not like it used to be. YMM: Where do you guys feel you’ve had your strongest pull? Jamie: We’ve had a lot of success doing gigs on the Peninsula. It’s been pretty well received. I think people are getting pretty tired of classic rock cover bands. YMM: I could hear the musicianship coming from everybody tonight, and that was really great. What is your vocal approach? Luke: Whiskey. MaryRuth: [Points at chest] It’s all about right here, baby! Rex: It’s actually rare to get two good vocalists together. They’re both so versatile. The problem is, it’s about having the alternative rock style with a female vocalist when we’re doing covers. [She’s] singing male songs, too, so that’s a challenge. It’s rare to have two good singers, that’s for sure. YMM: So what can we expect from you guys in the next year? BE: Lots of gigging! We’re at the Quarternote, the Venuez…we’ve got a lot of shows coming up. We’re on MySpace, Facebook. Just look for Big Eye, bigeyerocks.com.
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YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE BAND OLYMPICKS “Guitar Solo Event” brought to you by Lyon Entertainment: Thursday, July 8th at The Avalon in Santa Clara. The YMO “Guitar Solo Event” is always a crowd pleaser and last Thursday July 8th was no different; check out videos on our web site! Lyon Ent. used a house amp provided by Guitar Showcase that each soloist used to perform a 3 minute shredding solo for our judges. These guitar players are the cream of the crop the best players in your area. They compete in pairs between the “Live Performance Event” bands which included CRUSHDOWN, BOMB & SCARY, MONTRA, and THE 5 FINGERS OF DEATH! The winner of the “Guitar Solo Event” receives a brand new Epiphone Guitar!
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YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE BAND OLYMPICKS “Vocal Solo Event” brought to you by Lyon Entertainment: Thursday, July 1st at MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S SALOON. The Your Music Olympicks South Bay “Vocal Solo Event” (with Bigeye as the supporting band) was Thursday July 1st at Mountain Charley’s Saloon in Los Gatos. Once again another big night of local musicians going out of their way to blow your mind with their mutant abilities. Judges consisted of Mike Lyon -publisher “Your Music Magazine”, Beau Dowling - entertainment writer for the San Jose “Metro”, and Craig Hyatt - instrument specialist from “Guitar Showcase” (also past Your Music Olympicks finalist) awarded points to their favorites! Check out a very dark video @ YourMusicmagazine.com, unfortunately missing Nichole because she went on too early. The event went pretty smooth except for three vocalists chose the same song, “Plush”, by Stone Temple Pilots. I was not aware of this in advance and from now on only two vocalists can sing the same song. It did make it easy to judge those 3 vocalists (because they sang the same song) but was not great for entertainment value.
Your Music Olympicks “Vocal Solo Event” winners: GOLD = Todd- Dimidium SILVER = Nichole- Cadent BRONZE = Luke- Bigeye
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By Brian Crabtree I am here with Mike Beard owner and operator of ManDown Productions. We are at the Avalon in Santa Clara. Tonight is the fifth night of the Your Music Olympicks, and I wanted to take a minute and chat with Mike about being a promoter in the South Bay area. So, for those who don’t know you, can I get you to introduce yourself? First off, thank you Brian and thank you Your Music Magazine for the opportunity to come and speak. And it has never been about me or ManDown Productions; it has always been about the bands, the shows, the venues, and the scene. I am kind of like Charlie from Charlie’s Angels; you hear the voice, you see the emails, FaceBook, and Myspace messages, but you really don’t know me, and that is okay, for my job is to get people to the shows. I have been doing this for fourteen years. When Your Music Magazine started in the early 2000’s, they were one of those start-up magazines that I noticed and have worked with for many shows over the years. I have booked all over the West Coast. I can’t count the number of shows I have done. I am really here for the fans; this is a hobby of mine that has turned into work. I do this because I love music. There’s no real money in the business. If I were a promoter trying to make money I would book shows with DJs or hip hop; whatever is really popular… Well our history goes back a little bit now since I covered the Metal Blade/ManDown Productions Baptized In Beer Tour a little over a year ago, and have been kind of a regular to your shows ever since. How long have you been around the South Bay scene and how is the scene doing here in the South Bay? First, everyone keeps telling me the scene is dead, but if the scene was dead then Your Music Magazine wouldn’t be here, Guitar Center wouldn’t be here. All the promoters wouldn’t be here. I believe the scene is dead only if you believe the scene is dead. And I don’t believe it is dead…
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Interview with Justin Crellin - Talent & Publicity Coordinator For ROTR - by Numerous How did Reggae On The River get started? The first ROTR was in 1984. It was started as a benefit to rebuild the Mateel Community Center after our original Fireman’s Hall location in Garberville was burned by an arsonist’s fire. What can someone who has never been to ROTR expect? Though the festival today is much smaller in form than the mega festival of recent memory, this gives out of town attendees a better opportunity to experience our unique Southern Humboldt community vibe. First time attendees can expect world class talent, a picturesque natural setting among towering redwood trees on the banks of the Eel river, more than 60 vending booths, and a weekend full of great family vibes and fun in the sun. What is new and different this year? New for this year is the festival is returning to a 2-day event after a forced cancellation in 2007 (due to venue/ legal issues) and two years as a single day fest in 2008 and 2009. Thanks to the overwhelming success of these events and a huge outpouring of support from longtime ROTR fans, our move back to a multi-day show is a major step towards reclaiming the great ROTR tradition. With the recent announcement about the cancellation of Reggae Rising’s Humboldt County permit, we are also now back to being Humboldt County’s one and only summer reggae festival. How would describe the vibes of the festival? See above about a little more info about the vibes of the festival. Our unique Humboldt community vibe is one of the things that made ROTR such an iconic destination for reggae fans (both in the early days and today). Also, with the festival’s smaller size (3000 tickets) it is a much more family friendly environment than it used to be, complete with a kid zone and lots of activities/ fun for families/ children. READ THE FULL STORY ONLINE @
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HOLDUP California’s roots-rock scene is blowing up right now and The Holdup are definitely a band to watch! Their crowd at BFD was one the densest all day on the Local Band stage. With ganja smoke blowing in the air, their fans, which mostly consist of teenage girls and their jealous boyfriends are some of the most die-hard out there... and I’m pretty sure a pair of panties even ended up on stage at one point... How’d you guys get on B.F.D.? Clev: It’s been a long process, I mean getting our music to Live 105 about a year ago and they played us on Soundcheck, Aaron Axelsen’s show; he’s a big supporter of local music. Amazing, he just covers a lot of talent locally, and he spun us one time and people started requesting it, and it kind of went from there. Live 105 is super supportive of everything we’re doing, and they gave us this opportunity. We were actually in the finals for their winter production that they do (we were in the top five local bands with that) and then from there we kind of got the opportunity to do this, which is super sick. Is this the biggest show you guys have played thus far, in terms of the crowd? Mike: Yeah, yeah. Definitely. I mean, in terms of opportunities, widely known festivals like this one are big for us. Clev: We played with a lot of other artists, but the fact that there was a diverse crowd here was what made it good because we’re not just getting the reggae fans which is usually what happens. We’re going on tour with Yellowman and all the reggae artists that he has and what-not and we get that kind of crowd, but when we’re here, we’re seeing hip-hop, we’re seeing indie fans. Mike: That’s a really big market for us is what’s going on in the mainstream, because we obviously have a poppy sound, you know? We definitely fit well in that category, so it’s good. Clev: As far as big shows, I think it’s a little different. There’s a lot of artists that we do play with where obviously it’s good because we look up to those artists, but as far as capacity-wise, just you know the vibe, I think this is probably... Mike: Yeah, we can’t really put our albums down in any one genre, or even a few, so how widespread this whole festival is, that’s, like, perfect for us, to get all those fans, and they can all find something, hopefully.
know what it was, I think it was just...I mean we came up with this logo after Clev started managing us. After Clev did, and at that point obviously we loved the music, but we just became super success-driven, and just we wanted something that resembled what we were after. Clev: It means hella work. It means hope. Mike: That’s our logo, and then this one (holding out his other forearm) is the record label. This is Dubby; this is the label for Dub Rock Records, and that’s a big deal, just because we’re all part of it, you know? It’s not just a label and then we’re the band trying to help ourselves and trying to do it all ourselves, you know? So you guys have a new album coming out soon. When’s that drop? What’s it called? Clev: Probably mid-July. Mike: We’re shooting for late July. It’s gonna be called Confidence. We’re shooting for mid-to-late July. Clev: For all the fans out there who are harassing us about dropping it since we’ve been saying we were gonna release it since March, it’s not really our problem because we could take the time to not do shows and record the album, but the fact that we’re still out doing shows, like we don’t want to stop doing the shows. Well, what’s next after this then? Mike: Sleep. Hopefully get to sleep for a week and then back to not sleeping. Clev: After this actually, we’re doing another festival in a couple of weeks, June 19th. Then we’re playing The Catalyst June 25th, so that’s what’s coming up. Mike: Tons of shows man, the rest of the next three months. Clev: Work work work work... we’re playing with Albarosie at The Roxy coming up. We just booked Warren G, that regulator, playing with Warren G. You’re playing with Warren G? Clev: Yeah. Regulators! Mike: We played with Afroman. We got the hip-hop thing going. Clev: Yeah, so we’ll be doing Warren G, and then X Fest. We’re playing X Fest this year, so that’s happening in August. They’re announcing the lineup tomorrow, so we don’t know who the headliners are. What’s this X Fest? Clev: X Fest, it’s like the Central Valley’s biggest concert series, basically they shut down nine blocks of Downtown Modesto, and headliners, they have five, ten headliners and it’s just a huge party in the streets. They’ve been doing it for about seven years now, they have about fifteen to twenty thousand people. Pepper’s played there, The Expendables, I think The Killers played there.
What’s the deal with your diamond tattoos? Mike: This is actually the band logo, the diamond. I don’t
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SILVERSUN PICKUPS It’s no secret that Silversun Pickups score the soundtrack for the cacophony and quiet of the urban environment. Their songs curl like a sleeping dragon around the foothills, soar between the skyscrapers, and slouch in the shadows of forbidden offramps and skid row. The Silversun Pickups sound is a city itself and on their newest album, Swoon, we tag along on a schizophrenic taxi ride to the dark side. After all, the City of Silversun is a landscape populated with contradictions: the clamor of traffic and the solace of the garden; fashionistas lined up at taco trucks after hours; moonlight bike rides and holdups at knifepoint.
The acoustic set backstage was excellent. Brian: Oh, thanks. It was the first time we’d played in a month because we’ve been gone for a little while, so I guess it was good to do a little acoustic thing. It was really fun to do ‘cause after awhile you forget how to do it and can’t really remember ever doing it before, but once it starts you get excited. So these acoustic things are fun because you can feed off the crowd a little more than when your band gets a little bigger because it’s harder to sorta get involved with everybody. It’s nice ‘cause there’s individual people yelling out songs and you can just play them, you know? What do you attribute to your short rise to success? Brian: Don’t ask me. Let me know what it is and I’ll tell everybody. I think that the biggest thing I always tell everybody is that for a lot of bands it’s luck. We consider ourselves really, really lucky, but you have to work your ass off and be prepared when nothing comes, ‘cause it might not come, but if does come, if you’re not prepared it’s gonna go away. And we were almost over-prepared. We played a lot…it was very important to us to try and be a very good live band, to try and find our sonic identity and we would play a lot live and we didn’t talk to labels or any of that stuff because we didn’t think it was necessary. We just wanted to try and become a good band. And it took a couple of years and I think at the end of the day it’s really helped us overall. Sometimes we’ll see bands that are really good but they haven’t really played and they’ve got technical situations at festivals with the monitors not working and they won’t know what to do. We’re so used to everything not working that doesn’t phase us. How do you guys go through the process of writing? What’s it like? Brian: I come up with some song ideas and things like that, and rough sketches of things, and come into the space and play all these ideas to everybody and everybody chisels away on them. Sort of like a tumbleweed. Joe: We all stare at each other for hours on end until someone gets an idea. Brian: Sometimes I come in with songs just because we don’t want to jam on a riff. We have to have a couple of changes. That doesn’t mean that’s how the song will 52 go, but we have to have those options
so we don’t become repetitive. Jamming is only fun for the people doing not, not for the people listening. But then again, I guess we are doing it and it’s not fun for us, either. We’re the kind of band that is so easily entertained and easily bored. Your albums tend to embrace art as part of the package. A lot of bands don’t really do that... Brian: Seems to be important for us that visually symbolize our band and have a linkage to the music and the art. We’ve been working with this guy, Darren Waterston, and he’s fantastic. Swoon…we had the name before we started writing it and we had…halfway through the album we had the artwork. We had a lot of Darren’s paintings all over the studio and in some ways they started inspiring the music. It’s really insane and really rare. Joe: With the first record, Carnavas, we waited until the very last minute, and then we started looking for some and no one could decide and I think it took as long as it did to do the fucking record. Brian: I mean, it went from…we could not find anything to work and we were so miserable ‘cause we had worked so hard on Carnavas and, like we said, it’s really important to us and everything just seemed the same. Everybody seemed generic and didn’t seem like us and there were a lot of things that seemed like album covers but we weren’t interested in that. We just couldn’t find it and then all of a sudden we found this guy and luckily he never did anything like this before and was really excited to work with us. We got along really well and suddenly there was this thing and out of nowhere we had 50 album covers, just so many different things. It was the opposite of what we were going through and we’ve been so lucky. We actually finally met him…one of our first Carnavas shows here at San Francisco at a place called The Rickshaw Stop. Are you guys into social networking as a band? Brian: We do Twitter because we put photos up. I think Twitter is good for us because we got so lazy keeping up with them and we’d wait and wait and wait and then we’d never do it. But Twitter happened and we just say our little thing and snap our picture. It’s a really fun thing to just give to people, you know?
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Photos and Review by Caroline Reid
If you missed out on the current 2010 Tool tour, you are bummed! I had the privilege of attending the SF show at Bill Graham Civic. This highly under publicized tour was for the die hard fans! The visual effects, orchestrated to the music with smoke machines, lasers and all, were equally as mesmerizing as the classic Tool songs themselves. The set-list was a veritable compilation of greatest hits throughout the years. I found myself breathless countless times throughout the night. (This is a very hard thing to accomplish. I even had to thank the production crew when it was over) Maynard’s vocals still have the same passion and conviction pouring out as they did when he originally wrote and recorded these songs. Tons more photos from the show online at: WWW.YOURMUSICMAGAZINE.COM
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Interview by Itay K. Live photos by Brian Crabtree What’s the deal with your nickname, ‘The Devil.’ How did it come about? Well, The Devil…see, I was a really little kid. I actually had hormone therapy and shit to help me grow, and I got picked on a lot (had a smart mouth) and I would also become viciously and unbelievably venomously angry when people picked on me, so I couldn’t get vengeance in conventional ways, like fighting, so I had to come up with interesting ways. On one occasion, one of the ways that I came up with to get back at somebody caused my best friend, Joshua Homme, to go “You’re the fucking Devil.” And that stuck. Tell me a little about your relationship with Josh. I notice he’s not in the live band... Well, we suck each other’s dicks as hard as we can every chance we get. Just for shits and giggles. Not in a gay way - we don’t kiss or make out or anything, but we do go head-to-head, like, double-header style. No, I’m just kidding. Honestly he’s been my best friend since I was about 12 years old. Why not take him on tour then? I’m not going to share the stage and the glory with him. Are you out of your mind? Hell no! So what’s it like on tour? Does the band share the same kind of dynamic as on the album? Well, you know, everything recorded is an entirely different animal than when it’s alive. And the recording process is this magic animal; it’s like a clubhouse of rock that Joshua and I get into and then kind of like he’s like the head of our gang and I have my own ship; it’s called the Eagles of Death Metal. That’s the best way to describe it. So, I sure as shit ain’t going to share the glory with him ‘cause I’m a vain son of a bitch. But as much as he can play, he does; it’s just he’s got his hands full, you know? Is there a new album in the works? There’re actually two new albums in the works. Yeah, there’s my solo album; I think I’m going to call it Honky Kong with a picture of me in a rad Speedo going like this [shows off arm muscles] with two hot chicks dressed as Mario and Luigi in hot-pants over-all jumpsuits with mustaches jumping over barrels. And then as soon as we’re done with that we’re going to record a new Eagles album tentatively titled Ladies Only, which will have a picture of Josh and I sucking each other’s dicks as hard as we can.
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Eagles of Death Metal bassist Brian O’Connor has been diagnosed with cancer, and is undergoing treatment in Los Angeles. Visit: www.brianeodm.org to find out what you can do to help!
Inspiring words from Brian O’Connor: In regards to my current health situation, with the remarkable support and love from my amazing friends and family, I am receiving the best medical and moral attention one could ask for. I cannot thank everyone enough for their continued support and involvement. I am excited for my full recovery and look forward to getting back to what I love most: melting face with my bass. I’m feeling great. After all, I am half unicorn. Keep ya posted. Love and gratitude, BOC
Way to make things awkward! So, one of the first times I heard you guys was on Guitar Hero. I played “Wanna Be In LA” over and over and over ‘cause I wanted to get the special bonus. How do you feel about your music being in video games, etc? That’s fucking rad, dude, I’m sorry, but I think that’s fucking cool because the new radio is Guitar Hero, the new radio is songs in movies, the new radio is songs in commercials. Do you embrace some of this new socialnetworking technology? The Twitters and the Facebooks and the whatnots? You know I used to do a lot of drugs and when I was high all the time, definitely; Craigslist, Facebook, and Myspace were useful tools in getting laid, for sure. But I like actually talking to a girl with my mouth, so I’ve been getting into that lately. I read that you list Little Richard as one
of your biggest influences. Why so…how so? And is that true? That’s absolutely true. I mean, the way I look at rock ‘n’ roll is clearly obvious through the fact that our band is called The Eagles of Death Metal. The way I see it, real death metal, scary shit, isn’t dudes dressed in Kabuki makeup singing like the Cookie Monster, dude. Real fucking death metal is a dude like Little Richard showing up in a limegreen silk suit and scaring the fuck out of the world so bad that they would hold rallies to burn his records. I mean, Elvis is the king of rock ‘n’ roll, but he’s the king of rock ‘n’ roll because the fact that the first half of his first record is Little Richard covers. I mean, who else can sing about a transvestite blowjob in the middle of an alleyway and hiding from your boyfriend? A bald-headed Sally? He saw Aunt Mary coming? Uncle John? It’s about a “John” getting his dick sucked by a bald-headed Sally and doesn’t want his “Aunt Mary,” his boyfriend, to come find him. Nobody gives a fuck about that because he was that scary, dude. That’s rock ‘n’ roll, man. I mean, even Bill Haley and the Comets. “I’m like a one-eyed cat peepin’ in the seafood store.” What the fuck you think he’s talking about? Pussy, bro, he ain’t talking about an actual tuna sandwich. I heard today that Brian O’Connor, your bass player is not doing too good... Brian is in the fight of his life, he’s stricken with cancer, you know? I can tell you right now that the sort of cancer that is curable and he just had a successful surgery to remove a giant tumor out of his intestine…gone. This is the kind of cancer that normally hits people when they’re, like, 80. So, it’s really rare and in the past month he’s already gained 10 pounds. Like, his head is so positive. We talked to him on the phone yesterday, hours after surgery, you know what I mean? If anyone can and will lick it, it is Brian. I mean, we’re a really tight gang; we’re a family and we love each other very much and we’re all going through this with him and we’re gonna beat it. And in the meantime…’cause Eagles of Death Metal is kind of like the Special Forces of rock ‘n’ roll: when we have a man down we surround him and then we call someone else to come in and kind of, you know, “do their duty” because, really basically, if you know The Ramones’ “Beat on the Brat” and “Brown Sugar” you know every fucking song I’ve ever written, completely. Probably words and all. Any last words? Just remember that every night with Eagles of Death Metal is ladies night and I look forward to seeing you on the streets. We can talk about politics.. So, I encourage you to get down with it. And, also, I encourage you to support our troops.
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Cow Palace
08/31 Slayer / Megadeth Testament
The Fillmore
07/22 The Go-Go’s 07/23 Toad the Wet Sproket 07/28 Morcheeba 07/29 Big Head Todd & the Monsters 08/01 Squeeze & the English Beat 08/04 Blondie 08/12 Rev. Horton Heat 08/17 Billy Idol 08/19 Steel Pulse
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Sleep Train Pavilion (Concord)
08/01 Scorpions/Cinderella 08/25 Dave Matthews Band 08/26 The Goo Goo Dolls
The Warfield
07/21 Barenaked Ladies 07/22 The Dead Weather 07/23 Adam Lambert 08/01 As I Lay Dying/Between the Buried and Me/Underoath/ Bless the Fall/The Acacia Strain/ Cancer Bats 08/10 Weird Al Yankovic 08/11 Porcupine Tree 08/20 Ghostland Observatory 08/23 Crowded House 08/24 Something Corporate 08/29 Slash
Regency Ballroom
07/17 Rob Halford / Cylinder 07/21 Barenaked Ladies 07/25 Queensryche -Cabaret 07/30 Level 42 08/03 Matisyahu 08/10 Seu Jorge and ALMAZ 09/12 Sleep
Bottom Of The Hill
07/24 The Sore Thumbs 07/25 Toadies 07/26 The Dangerous Summer 07/27 Night Marchers 07/28 Phosphorescent 07/29 Negative Trend 07/30 Mad Caddies 07/31 Dave Rude Band 08/04 Samvega 08/05 My First Earthquake 60
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Slim’s
07/20 Strange Noize Tour(HED)P.E./Kutt Calhoun/ Big B/Johnny Richter 07/21 Andre Nickatina 07/22 Sick of it All 07/24 Fishbear 07/25 The Memorials 07/27 Bang the Gong TourNeon Trees/Civil Twilight/ Paper Tongues 07/28 The Black Seeds 07/30 Soilwork 07/31 Swingin’ Utters 08/06 Scraping for Change 08/07 We Are Scientists 08/10 Devildriver 08/13 Aratic 08/14 Carolyn Wonderland The Mother Truckers
Berkeley
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Santa Cruz
The Catalyst
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Cypress Lounge 07/17 DJ Dirty Beatz 07/26 DJ Kikoman
08/03 Step It Up 08/14 Lil’ John
Coasters
07/16 The Peelers 07/18 Island Breeze 07/23 Nightlife 07/30 Departure (tribute to Journey)
07/18 Silverstein 07/27 The Dangerous Summer 07/30 Amber Pacific 08/07 The Atari’s 08/12 Black Veil Brides
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Britannia Arms (Aptos)
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South Bay
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07/17 Isadora’s Scarf 07/24 Blame it on Kelly 07/31 Shadow Beat Ritual 08/21 Urban Animals
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07/31 Dokken 08/07 Kool Katz and Hitmen 08/13 Instant Karma 08/14 Instant Karma 08/15 Micheal Schenker Group 09/12 Exodus
Mountain Charley’s (Los Gatos)
07/16 Dynamite Truck (CD release) 07/24 The Carla Blackwell Group
Barb Rocks!
08/07 @ X Sports Bar + Music Lounge (Homestead Lanes) Sympathy Ends (CD release)
The Music Tree (Morgan Hill) 07/16 The Hot Rods 07/23 The Shanks 07/30 Chubby’s All-Stars 08/06 Usual Suspects 08/13 Severe Pleasure 08/20 The Dadz
Sacramento
The Boardwalk
07/21 6SikVI6 Battle Cry 07/22 The Devil Wears Prada 07/23 The Devil Wears Prada 07/24 Drop Dead Gorgeous 07/28 Tomorrows Bad Seeds 07/29 Serious 07/30 Otep 07/31 (HED) P.E. 08/06 A Skylit Drive 08/07 A Skylit Drive 08/11 Black Veil Brides 08/17 Michael Schenker Group 8/19 YOUR MUSIC OLYMPICKS 9/02 YOUR MUSIC OLYMPICKS
Old Ironsides
8/27 YOUR MUSIC OLYMPICKS 9/10 YOUR MUSIC OLYMPICKS
Club Retro
07/16 Arsonists Get All the Girls
Chico Sierra Nevada Big Room
Monterey
Blue Fin
07/16 Human Toys 07/17 Damon and the Heathens 07/24 Militia of Love 08/07 The Next Blues Band
The Whammy Bar
08/07 Cave Country Walter Rose/Mark Roth
West Hollywood
The Whisky
07/21 Four Letter Lie 07/23 The Black Saints 07/24 Pudunda 07/25 So Low 07/28 Yeti 07/30 H Cage 07/31 Black Brew (CD release) 08/06 F.I.L.T.H.E.E. 08/07 Willie’s Nerve Clinic 08/12 Deceased 08/13 The Atari’s 08/14 Shifty and the Big Shots 08/15 Black Veil Brides 08/18 Jungle Rot
Key Club
07/16 Lil’ Kim 07/17 Club Vodka’s 8 Year Anniversary Party- Lynch Mob/ Hardrock All-stars/Femme Fatale/Tuff 07/20 Spacehog 07/22 Vitimas Del Dr. Cerebro 07/23 Sick of it All 07/24 Tha Ritzz 07/25 The Spazmatics 07/26 Steel Panther 07/27 Ryan Cabrera 07/30 Three 6 Mafia 07/31 The Dreaming/Vicious Licks/High Risk 08/01 The Spazmatics 08/02 Steel Panther 08/06 Pharcyde 08/07 Wildside 08/08 The Spazmatics 08/09 Steel Panther 08/13 The Chop Tops 08/14 RZA 08/15 The Spazmatics
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