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Capra Q&A
Capra recently checked in with fans on their blog at MySpace, answering questions about influences, touring, goals, their breakout single ‘Low Day’, and more. Their response on how they started the band:
Paul and Jeff are brothers that took a liking in playing music together. Jeff and Shelby met at work, consequently the three of them took a liking in creating music together. They met Kelly because the Bros. father works with Kelly’s mother, and Kelly happened to have a similar taste in music; thus, deciding to write some tunes together. Kelly had met Michael through a friend, they had a mutual dedication to the power of music, so Kelly brought Michael into jam. The conception of CAPRA.
Idols Live Tour A Vindicating Experience For David Cook
Aidin Vaziri of the San Francisco Chronicle caught up with David Cook in a Q&A, asking the singer the best thing so far about winning the seventh season of ‘American Idol’. “Getting to go home and to play in front of a packed house was one of the coolest things so far,” Cook said. “We had two nights in Kansas City and both nights were either sold out or within a thousand of being sold out. To walk on that stage and see people you grew up with and a few detractors who told you you were never going to make it – it’s vindicating on a lot of levels.” Read more.
The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie Sells On Opening For Bon Jovi
The Feeling frontman Dan Gillespie Sells did a Q&A for the British pop rock group’s official web site, where he talked about his excitement opening for Bon Jovi. “Really excited, yeah. I always look forward to doing our thing in front of a crowd that hasn’t paid specifically to see us,” he said. “It’s nice to get the chance to prove yourself to a different audience. It’ll be a great warm-up for Glastonbury too, which we’re all looking forward to enormously.”
Dan said the group won’t be playing their cover of Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ at the shows. “No, I don’t think that would go down too well with them,” he admitted. As for whether the group might instead do a cover of Europe’s hit ‘The Final Countdown’ instead, Dan responded, “Yes! In fact, perhaps we could do a series of hits from that period. I bet that would go down really badly. But I’d love to do a set of all songs by people like Def Leppard and Whitesnake. I’d be able to get my spandex out and everything. Now, that would be fun.” Read more.
Sebastian Bach Talks MySpace & Skid Row
Rock Monthly caught up with Sebastian Bach for a Q&A, asking the former Skid Row frontman for his take on MySpace. “It’s OK, but the whole ironic thing to me is I have over 80,000 ‘friends’ on MySpace but I have not sold 80,000 records; if you’re my ‘friend’, could you go fu**in’ buy the motherfu**er,” Bach asked, laughing. “Who cares if I have 80,000 ‘friends’?! I mean, who gives a sh**! I want to sell 80,000 records! If every one of my ‘friends’ bought my record, it would be great! Whatever! Some friend!”
The rocker also said he has no contact with his former Skid Row bandmates, or just about no contact. “Just maybe Rob [Affuso], the drummer,” Bach said. “When you see the band Skid Row now, there are only two out of the five original members left in the band. Snake’s not even in the band! Snake manages Down now, he’s not even in Skid Row. So at what point does it become ridiculous? I mean, two out of five guys?” Read more.
Slash Goes Green
In a Q&A with LiveDaily.com, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash discussed his move to living a greener lifestyle. “You try and do your best, especially if it’s something within your grasp,” Slash told Christina Fuoco-Karasinski. “There’s not as much information out there as there should be. Al Gore put out the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and that was a really, really good piece of information, but there’s not enough of it, for as dire straits as this planet is in. You pick up what you can, about what you should or shouldn’t be doing. It’s the most basic stuff. Everyone should look at the amount of water they use, the amount of heat and electricity they use, the amount that you drive. It’s just really basic sh**. But it has an impact. The recycling thing was around forever. No one appreciates how important it is, really, because it’s not engraved on everybody’s conscious thinking. Basically, I just try to do my part — like selling my Hummer. I don’t let the water keep running when I’m brushing my teeth. I’m a real stickler for recycling. There’s a lot of little things. I’m not waving a flag or anything. But I’m just trying to do what I can.” Read more.
Funeral For A Friend Take Fightstar Under Their Wing
Charlie Simpson spoke with inthenews.co.uk in a Q&A, where the Fightstar frontman talked about how important it was to hook up with Funeral For A Friend on tour earlier this year as they worked on their second album ‘One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours’. “Those guys have been so amazing,” the 22-year-old said. “We toured with them this year for two months in the US, and we’d had a bit of trouble mixing our album, because we were on the road while mixing it, which turned out to be a pretty stupid thing to do. So every day we’d be getting new mixes through and if we weren’t happy with them, we’d have to send them back and it turned out to be a pretty tricky thing to do. But we were sharing a bus with Funeral and they really helped out, they’d listen to all the tunes and give their advice. They kind of took us under the wing.” Read more.
Maynard James Keenan Q&A With Spinner
AOL Music’s Spinner caught up with Maynard James Keenan for a Q&A, where the Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer frontman talked about whether people have the same love for music today as previous generations of kids have had. “One thing that’s not going to change is people like music,” the 43-year-old said. “They’re really inspired by music and even now with the digital downloading it’s actually made it a lot more accessible to people who might not have heard stuff before because you had to buy the CD with this mysterious cover, you don’t know what it’s about. Well, now a lot of people are just passing around MP3s. ‘Check this world music out, check out this country song, check out this Gipsy Kings’ – stuff you wouldn’t normally have been exposed to because radio stations have pigeonholed themselves. They’re not going to be diverse in what they’re playing on their format. They’re just going to play this. And some people are going to spend that $14.99 on a CD.” Check out the entire transcript here.
Liam Gallagher Q&A
Jolie Lash of Spinner caught up with Liam Gallagher of Oasis for a Q&A, recalling a prior interview she had with Tom Meighan from Kasabian, who talked about touring with Liam and crew and that Tom and Liam got along in a crazy way and had their own language, even claiming if he was a woman, he’d be having Liam’s babies. “Well, that’s — fu**ing hell, that’s a bit of a mad [one] then, that’s considering he’d be a fu**ing good looking woman,” Gallagher responded. Asked what he thought of Tom when he first met the singer, Liam responded, “I met him at a gig. They were supporting [Oasis' former rhythm guitarist] Bonehead’s band — some fu**ing sh** band Bonehead was in at the Death Disco, [former Creation Records boss] Alan Mcgee’s [club]. I’d never heard of him. I walked past and they were cool. We just got a drink. I wasn’t there long and that was it — that was all I remember. And then I obviously started seeing the fu**ing band — he’s fu**ing great. He’s got good energy. I like people like that.” Read more.
Paul Stanley Discusses Move Into Painting
Liza Grant Smith of Palm Beach Illustrated caught up with KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley for a Q&A, focused on the rocker’s new career as a painter. Asked what led him into painting, Stanley responded, “Divorce will jolt you in ways you may not expect. My best friend told me that I needed to paint. He seemed to feel I needed a release—and he was right. I went out and bought canvases and brushes and basically started on an emotional journey, a way to discover in myself things that were going on and put them on canvas. Kind of like stream-of-consciousness, but instead of words, using color and texture.” Stanley will be appearing at the Wentworth Gallery in Palm Beach Gardens on Friday (November 30) from 6-9 p.m. and at the Wentworth Gallery in Boca Raton on Saturday (December 1) from 6-9 p.m. Read more.
Tom DeLonge Still Hasn’t Spoken To blink-182 Bandmates Since Split
Tom DeLonge of Angels & Airwaves spoke with the MTV Buzzworthy Blog in a Q&A, where the singer was asked about whether he has spoken to his former blink-182 bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker since their split in 2005. “No, I haven’t talked to them,” DeLonge confessed. “Isn’t that weird? It’s one of those things. You have to give it time. We had 10 years under our belt.” As for what makes AVA’s sophomore album ‘I-Empire’ special, DeLonge said, “If people are gonna give this record a chance, I ask that they find a hill that’s nearby, park their car, open the car doors, lay on the hood, blast the music at night and pretend that the city below is theirs.” Read more.
