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In the April issue of Germany's Rock Hard magazine (#227 - Christina Scabbia cover shot), editor-in-chief and admitted die-hard MANOWAR fan Götz Kühnemund interviews bassist/founder Joey DeMaio, taking him to task for the band's controversial "performance" at last year's Earthshaker Festival. Kühnemund confronts DeMaio on a number of issues, including Manowar's mid-set soundcheck and using a playback orchestra for part of the show. Following are a series of excerpts from the interview, translated from German: Götz: After the Earthshaker Festival we received a lot of mail from fans saying they don't believe a word you guys say anymore. The thing with the orchestra... Joey. "What about the orchestra? I don't understand." Götz: The fans feel betrayed. Joey: "Really? That's the biggest production we've ever done!" Götz: With a playback orchestra. Everybody knows it. Joey: "Really? I brought in 200 musicians from the Czech Republic for a playback show? Are people really dumb enough to believe that?" Götz: That's what people believe. Joey: 'Then I'm sorry, I find that silly. Ask my mother: I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm not so stupid as to bring in 200 orchestra musicians from another country to sit on their asses and pretend to play. That's ridiculous." Götz: There are technicians that worked at the Earthshaker Festival that say it was all fake. Joey: "I don't care what people say. The important thing is that the orchestra played. That's the truth. It makes no difference if people believe something else." Götz: It's silly when you do a ten minute drum soudcheck in the middle of your set, like at the Earthshaker. Joey: "I know, but when our fans pay good money..." Götz: ...to hear songs, not a soundcheck! Joey: "...and I can't hear what I'm playing on stage and give the fans the best possible performance, I owe it to them to fix the problem. I'm a professional." Götz: But the sound wasn't any better afterwards! You wasted valuable time. Joey: "No, I didn't. I did my best to solve the problem. Okay?" Götz: I believe you wanted to show that you had absolute control over everything. Joey: "No, I wanted to show the fans that they're more important to me than my own life. And if I have to do a soundcheck to prove it, that's what I'll do. I don't play with instruments that are out of tune, I don't play with bad equipment and I don't play with bad sound. I did soundcheck on stage for two hours just so we could play one song perfectly. If people don't like it that's not my fucking problem." "I believe in the fans, I believe in metal more than anybody you've ever met. And you've known me a long time. I've never pissed on you even though you constantly do it to me. And I don't stab the fan in the back. And another thing, Götz: I'm prepared to die for metal. Are you?" Götz: Well... Joey: "Are you prepared to die for metal? Have you ever thought about that? Are you prepared to die for metal?" Götz: No. I prefer living. Joey: "But I'm ready! I'm ready to die!" Götz: Great. Joey: "Do you want me to prove it?" Götz: And how would you do that? Joey: "Do you want to come on stage in Dortmund and shoot me?" Götz: I wouldn't go that far. Joey: "Why not?" Götz: Because I'd prefer it of you'd just play good music. Joey. "I make good music. I write the best music that I can write and I play the best music I can play. Okay?" Götz: Okay. Joey: "I'm preprared to die, remember that. And when you're ready let me know. Write that! Write that I'm ready to die for metal and you're not!"

white2 je najbolji omot ikad.

ko iz anatheme bleja na temi?

znaci moram gothicarke i na exitu da gledam sad. cuo sam da ce The Roots doci, do ce biti cool. Za toliko para koliko kapiram da HIM kosta, mogli su nesto iskusnije da izmuvaju...ali znas kako to vec ide, Srbija, svi maksimalno neupuceni koliko kod da se tripuju da jesu. www.roskilde-festival.dk

I'd hit it.

od plastike gadniji ne moze biti! i Lexone, nije se on umusio, nego se prepusio. jebi ga, kad u bloku moze samo Albanka da se pazari.

mogao bi neki Dark Symphonies da se razigra

ako dodje QR bicemo mi stari prog kvlt vukovi u prvom redu sa flasama rakije u ruci i oci punih suza.

citao sam neki novi interview gde je tate maltene priznao da je ovaj producent skoro ceo album napisao. ne znam sta se vi raspravljate..bend je mrtav, pokusavaju jos malo para da zarade pre penzije i to je to. ja OM2 necu ni preslusati. (old)

ima sam ja vesti o prog kvltovima poput och vostok i prototype ali nisa hteo evil spirta da izbedacim. pijan sam.

hahahahah

izgleda kao da ga je oldschool iskenjao

mislim da je Sheed ustvari

@ sliku edit: nasta lici yakuzetina?

ah...pa dobro...evolucija i tako to...

jebi ga...dok nas ne zovu mogwai ili isis da sviramo kao pregrupa, nastavicemo da razbijamo koncepcije.

ima neko novu Yakuzu?

deftones i guns n roses potvrdjeni za roskilde.

Chale: Lalicu, kakva je to piraterija?

to je zato sto su jeli seven days krofne i slusali 10,000 Maniacs dok su snimali.

In 2006 Primus main man/bass legend Les Claypool will be revealing his multi media talents as he releases a new solo studio album in the spring (first since 2002), publishes his first novel and releases an independent feature film that he wrote, directed and stars in. He will be doing a US tour with stops at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester TN (June 16-18th) where he will be playing with his solo band, and the band Oysterhead featuring Trey Anastacio and Stuart Copeland. The Claypool train will also be stopping at Wakarusa festival in Lawrence Kansas in June. Les will also be releasing his first novel “SOUTH OF THE PUMPHOUSE”. A dark, clever tale of two brothers, a fishing trip, misconceptions, drugs and murder, South of the Pumphouse skillfully combines classic motifs of epic struggle and intelligent layers of imagery, reminiscent of The Old Man and the Sea, and the raw, tweaked perspective and hallucinogenic tutorial of a Hunter Thompson novel. Les' movie debut “Electric Apricot” a mockumentry on the Jam Band scene that is not only enlightening, but also hysterical at the same time. (http://www.electricapricot.com) Electric Apricot will be screened at The Tiburon Film Festival on March 15th and Portland Lonbaugh Film Festival April 6th. It features cameos by actor Seth Green, South Park co-creator Matt Stone, and such jam band legends as Bob Weir, Mike Gordon and Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes and Matt Abst.

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TOOL Drummer: 'We Have The Most Retarded President We've Ever Had' Britain's Kerrang! magazine (web site) was granted an exclusive listening session to the just-completed, as yet-untitled fourth TOOL album, which is due out May, and has revealed that anyone expecting the Californian quartet to have gone soft with age willl be sorely disappointed. True to form, TOOL's upcoming opus is a 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the bands trademark, eerie interludes. It's also arguably their heaviest, most punishing material since their 1993 breakthrough album "Undertow", according to Kerrang! "We've all been listening to a lot of MESHUGGAH," admitted guitarist Adam Jones. "I see a lot of them in us and us in them, and they really have a very experimental prog side to them. I don't think it was like, 'Okay, right here were going to play like MESHUGGAH,' but more, 'Oh my God, that's come out a MESHUGGAH moment.'"

meshuggah je idalje najbolji bend na svetu.