SL - Hi Tony, Can you tell our readers how
you became involved with music. Any life-changing event or album that inspired
you to become a musician?
Hey guys, thank you for taking the time to
come up with these great questions. I would have to say that my parents were a
big influence on my love of music. Music around the house ranged from Motown to
Sabbath and god bless those K-Tel records :). The first album I heard that had
a major impact on me was KISS Alive! I heard
a cassette of from my older cousin. It had no cover so I didn't even see what
the band looked like at first. Then when I saw pics of the band I was
completely hooked. They looked really cool to a 9 year old.
Artwork by Adam Burke. |
Our new label, Listenable Records, has
licensed a few of their releases to a Japanese label. Hopefully that will
happen with Electric Mountain Majesty. The Japanese releases always have bonus
tracks so we are ready if it happens.
SL - You have just finished recording your
new album. Can you tell us what people can expect from it?
As with most bands, we are always trying to
expand our sound. On Electric Mountain Majesty we actually went back to a more
raw and live sound. A few of the songs are actually demos that we thought
turned out good enough to use on the album. After the positive feedback we got
from the "In Concert" album last year we wanted to try and harness
the live energy on a studio record. On some songs I think it really worked.
There are a few songs that were studio creations and probably won't be played
live. It's weird to try and explain this but I think it's our most uptempo and
our most downtempo album at the same time. "Nomads" was a very
mid-tempo album. Electric Mountain Majesty moves to each side of that a bit
more.
PH - I hear you actually went over to
Denmark to record the ‘Wingmakers’ album with the guys in Doublestone. Is that something you do often, travelling
far and wide to record bands? And what
was the experience like?
Actually I am on a flight back from
Australia right now where I worked on the new SEEDY JEEZUS album. We recorded
in a legendary Melbourne club called The Tote. I set them up just like they
were on stage and let em blast out their brand of high energy hard rock. I like
to make the bands as comfortable as possible. Setting up like they are on stage
and just cranking up with using headphones seems to be very effective. I have
been to Denmark twice to work with Doublestone and the band and me were both
very happy with the results of that technic. I have done other traveling as
well but I also do a lot of mixing for bands that have recorded at a studio
that is close to them and then they send me the files to mix.
SL - Can you tell our readers how Mos
Generator became about? No doubt, you have been asked this question a million times
before ...
The three of us have been playing music
together since 1990. We had a band together through the first half of the 90s
then we all joined other bands that were touring and making records. After
those bands faded, we found our way back to each other and formed Mos Generator
in the fall of 2000. We are certainly musical brothers and because all of the
music we have made, crap we have been through and time we have spent together
we might as well be blood brothers too.
PH -Last I heard Mos Generator was planning
to head over to Europe to tour around their Freak Valley Festival
appearance. Is there anything to report
on that front?
Right now the details are being worked out.
We will probably do May 15th - 30th through Europe. No UK gigs on this tour.
PH - And just to continue along tour lines, is there anything developing stateside?
We have limited time to be able to tour so we generally stay pretty regional in the states and then use what touring time we have to go overseas.
SL - 2013 was a great year for Mos
Generator. Though I seen you live in action with Mos Generator supporting Saint
Vitus on their European Tour. That tour was a great success for the band. Some
people said you were better than Vitus themselves. Were you surprised the
reaction you got you played on tour as you received a load of rave reviews
including from myself as well?
It was an honor to be able to tour with
Vitus and it was so good to play for a larger audience than we would be if we
were out on our own. We definitely had a challenge every night but I feel like
we would usually win the crowd after a few songs (and a few shots of jäger). It
was a challenge we were happy to accept.
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Part 2 of the tag team interview continues on The Sludgelord blog right here.
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