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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 1:18:44 GMT -5
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Post by mika on Jun 18, 2009 3:24:58 GMT -5
About Accept peak positions in Finland: Russian Roulette and Kaizoku Ban were both at the places #2. Death Row was 22nd at best.
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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 9:04:39 GMT -5
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Post by John on Jun 18, 2009 10:34:39 GMT -5
wow!!! that's a lot of video's and information!!! i hope you got that out of your system! hahaha
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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 12:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 14:05:43 GMT -5
Interview with FittyWienhold! 3/27-28/00
I've been a loyal die-hard fan for 13 years now, and running this site for 3. I've always wanted to interview a band member, but I was never able to establish good contact with anyone! Recently Fitty agreed to let me ask him some questions...I made a list and sent it to him, and I'm glad he took the time to answer them! Below is the interview. I've combined the mails to make it look like one interview. It is not complete (I've left out some minor stuff that didn't pertain to the interview). Also, I have corrected some of the minor spelling errors.
I have some Russian video interviews where you guys were asked how you and Jurgen got started in the band.....and Udo didn't say too much other than he knew you guys for a while. Had you worked with Udo professionally before?
[Fitty] I I know Udo since.....let me think..... 1980/81. At this time I was playing in a band called Bullet. As we were producing with the same producer, of course you met. Was a great time. Jürgen came to Bullet in 1983. Accept went quick very knowend, Bullet was knowend only for their Partys, Partys .....and all that stuff. But we released some albums. They sold not bad also in the states, but in 1986 we changed the voice! Big mistake. The Band broke up, and a lot of people were very angry.As I could come out of my f.... contract, I had to stop for a while, and were doing other things with another name.
Is there older stuff out there that we can find of yours with other bands?
[Fitty] Yeah, there is......
If you had to pick a favorite Accept/UDO song and a least favorite Accept/UDO song, what would they be?
[Fitty] Haha...Jesus Christ...., this is not easy, there are a lot of songs I like from Accept and UDO to pick a favorite will be difficult. Lets say it this way. All what we are able to play I like.And belive me it´s a lot
How well does the band know the older UDO songs and Accept songs? Or another way to phrase it...could this happen--- you guys finish the setlist, and then Udo asks an audience member to pick any Accept/UDO song that wasn't played....could you guys play it?! Or attempt it I should say!
[Fitty] If you go to a concert, and after the last song the fans are screaming like hell, I´m not sure if we could here transparent what they say. Nobody will come up with a paper were´s written please play....... . Haha..But maybe once we will make a "JUKE-BOX-TOUR". At the entrance fans write down what they like to hear..."AND NOW WE PLAY NO 31!". But serious, we really have to think what´s comming on the setlist. We know the showtime, and we always have problems what comes in and what goes out. But the Main List is very long.....very long...
I have detailed on my site some "bloopers" from past concerts, such as equipment going out or Udo forgetting lyrics or something. When things like this happens to the band, what happens backstage after the show? Are you guys pissed off and kick poop around? Or laugh and joke about it?
[Fitty] We are only pissed, if we don´t get good food. Seroius!! One of the secrets in this band is the Chemie.All of us says, that we never played in such a Harmonie Band, and this is not only a frase! I think after all this years we are staying in the Music Buisiness, we know what we want. Each one has his own character, and thanks God it fits absolutly. Nobody out their can imagine how much fun we have. Even on stage! Somebody droped something? Jesus if you could see how we are laughing our ases off!! I believe, it´s very important to show, that we are normal people. Nobody is perfect, and the one who says about himself: Hey I´m the greatest is nothing else than a poor man. The headline is always: GO out and let´s make a party. And the feedback of the fans is the same. If we have fun,they have fun. And we have always fun.
Does the band ever play in any small clubs, unanounced/unschedualed...and just play for free/fun?
[Fitty] Ya... the first show we made. And it was great. Here we are, here we play here we go. I think 300 people were out there, and they couldn't close their mouth..ha... was great. One day later we played at the Wacken Festival.
On the older Accept albums, Wolf did pretty much all the guitar parts, and Jorg was there basically for touring. How is it with the 2 UDO guitarists? Do both appear on the albums?
[Fitty] Yeah they do, and I think the result is great.Look we are doing nothing else than Accept did. Finally we only have another name. But Accept was Udo and so what? We are playing, all the old songs, and be serious, who cares who´s playing behind Udo? He´s the voice which created this style.So it doesn´t really matter what name the band has. But we are not a solo project. We are a band. And as I said each of us is very lucky, that the Chemie is perfect.Is it not stupied to say. Hey if the name would be Accept, would be much better! Bullpoop! The music is the same, the voice is the same! Anyway, we see a lot of old Accept Fans on our shows, and all of them goin crazy. So I think we are dion the right thing.
(in response to "...who cares who's playing behind Udo?"" We care! You guys all are doing a fantastic job!! Udo has always surrounded himself with outstanding muscicians!!
[Fitty] That´s true. I think we are a very good live band, and we try to give everything each night.
I'm curious how touring is handled! On the message board a lot of fans (like me!) will plead for you to come to certain countries. You guys might see a lot of posts from one country and think, "Hey, maybe we should try to go to that country." Do you tell management what countries you want to tour and they try to set it up? Or do they decide everything and the band really has no say?
[Fitty] Our management, is not like the management you think. I would call it Team.In the past the managements have frigged up a lot of artist. They took money left and right, and the musicans had not enough to live. Now thinks have changed a little bit. We talk a lot were to go. But you can not go for one show to Peking or New York. Who will pay that? So we have to work very closed with all the promotors to decided where to go. The coordination of all this is Frank, and he´s doing a great job. I think alot of "BIG People" in the buisiness could learn more from him, as other way around!
This question has died down a little since the release of HOLY, but it was on a lot of fans mind's. It's OK if you don't tell me who it is.... but why was the drummer on the album kept secret?
[Fitty] Do you know how much I like secrets?
How much? HAHAHA! I didn't want you to break the secret.... I was just trying to find out why the band kept the drummer a secret.
[Fitty] Keep on trying
There are still many questions about the UDO website, even after Udo's interview the other day. Udo said the webmaster doing it has no time to work on it....why not get someone who has time?
[Fitty] I think there is nothing wrong at the moment.We prefer to spend the money in a good show rather than for a profesional guy doing the site. Sometimes there is nothing to tell, and I don´t think it´s intresting to know what we are doing now.But I belive that even this will be changed in a while.
I have so much to say about this I think basically because I am a webmaster of an UDO page myself, so please forgive me! You guys don't have to pay someone, and it doesn't have to be a professional....and THERE IS interesting things to know about the band. For example...the radio interview with Udo. He mentioned you guys were trying to plan a USA tour for the end of May. Is this interesting? Yes! There are 3 people that would offer their services for free to run things (myself, Jerry Nordlund, John Burrey). On the technical side, we are not professional webmasters. I for instance don't know HTML, or any other special tricks. But I will say that my web page has not cost me one single penny to make... it's the oldest Accept page around...I've gotten many positive remarks from fans and friends (even an award!), and it's probably one of my biggest accomplishments as a person, and I take a lot of pride in my website. It may not be the prettiest page, but I keep providing information whenever and however I can. Just like this interview is major news in my opinion, and I can post it within just a few minutes...because when I get news, I post it. I don't just sit around and let the news wait. I know Frank reads the board and he might think the 3 of us are trying to stir up trouble or something (maybe the band feels that way too?) But really we are not! We are just trying to get something going because there is no activity to follow right now...and news of the band is being found in other places and other websites right now.
[Fitty] Hm.........
The band could sell quite a bit of cds and merchandise off the site....why do you think that wasn't set up? Nobody I know ordered from the place the site linked to because is was so d**n confusing! HAHA!
[Fitty] Yeah, this is correct. Even I had problems with that. But please, even New York wasn´t build up in one day.
Udo said the next album was going to be a live album due in January. So I take it there's no plans (at least right now) for another studio album
[Fitty] We are already composing songs, for the next studio album.Of course it will come. We will take some time for that thing, we have to top HOLY.
I don't know how you guys do it?! Just when we think the most killer album comes out, you guys find a way to put out another kick-ass album!
[Fitty] Ha ha.... so long the brain doesn´t stop working, we will always compose.
Frank Trzaskowski of course used to be in charge of the technical aspects of the live shows. Now we notice on HOLY that he is now the band's manager. Is he still in charge of the lives shows too?
[Fitty] As I said, we are a team, but Frank is still doing the shows, we could not think of another person then him behind the desk!
I would think being a manager alone would carry a lot of responsibilities. The man is either a workaholic or Superman.....I don't know? HAHAHA!
[Fitty] For sure he is a workaholic, but in a very positive way, our whole crew is great. You know, we call ourself a big family
>From Rickard Persson: Any chance of a UDO multimedia cd-rom?
[Fitty] There are always chances....
>From Rickard- Any plans of returning to North Sweden?
[Fitty] For sure we are comming back......
Thanks so much!!!
[Fitty] Hasa l avista
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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 14:08:03 GMT -5
Interview with Frank Trzaskowski 4/13/00
I compiled a list of questions and sent them to Frank on 4/3/00, and he responded on 4/13 with some of the questions answered. He is busy right now (probably with setting up the rest of the UDO tour!). That plus the fact that he has given very detailed answers, makes answering as many questions that I sent take a while. For those that don't know, Frank is basically Mr. Everything for U.D.O., as their manager and the head technician for the touring. He also handled the Accept touring from '93-96. I'm very thankful that he's taken the time to answer these questions that have been on our minds. The cool thing about the interviews that I've done is that the questions are comming from fans. This isn't some interview from a radio station or magazine or something. These questions are comming from U.D.O. fans FOR U.D.O. fans!!
Part 1
Joe.: Have you ever been on the technical side of music, or were you once a musician yourself
Frank: As many people in this business I have been a musician once (drummer), which today is a great help for me to understand what an artist expects from a sound engineer. As I know how you feel on a stage I can work out things much better for the musicians in circumstances of their sounds, monitoring and general production needs. And they know that they can rely on that.
Joe: How did you hook up with ACCEPT?
Frank: I heard that they were constantly changing sound engineers in the past as they were very picky and doing an audition to find someone new.(The reason for that in my opinion is the fact that especially Wolf and Stefan are absolute perfectionists and "control freaks" in a positive way to deliver the best to their fans.) So I called the management office and asked to take part. They came out to listen to a show I did and left with "don`t call us, we call you" - and really, to my suprise two weeks later I got the job.
Joe: What other bands have you worked with?
Frank: I earn my living as a full time sound enginneer since 1985, and I have worked with all kinds of artists. Rock, Pop, Metal, Classics, theatre - I`m open minded as much as possible. Some harder Rock Acts you might know are AXXIS, PINK CREAM 69 or GOTTHARD, at http:/members.aol.com/lttgermany/trzaskowski.html (3-14-03- this appears to be a dead link now) you can find many, many more if you are interested. I have to mark the point though, that ACCEPT was the most professional act I have ever worked with. Especially their great discipline, precise performance and strong will to deliver (never canceled a show, even if someone was ill or had an accident/if you see the legendary Brooklyn 93 video with Peter coming on stage on crutchets you know what I´m talking about) was a impressing experience. Personally I have experienced a big loyality from their side and if one of them calls me today, I will be there to do the job. Consequently I´m working with Udo and Stefan now, but still keep a close familiar relation to Wolf, too.
Joe: We have seen you as tour technician, tour manager, manager... any chance of us seeing Frank the co-songwriter for U.D.O. songs?
Frank: Songwriting? Haha, do you think people like this need help? No! -Well, I started as a sound engineer, taking care of production later on and finally ended up as a tour manager with ACCEPT on their last part of the 96 farewell tour (still doing FOH sound though) - so it was logical for Udo and Stefan to continue that way, when they came up with U.D.O. again. But in the process of making a new album I leave them on their own. I don`t even listen to their pre-production - I have the full trust that an artist can do this better than anyone else after recording so many albums. For me, it is one of the sadest things in the music business that so many people from the management, record company (who have mostly no musical clue at all) think, that they have to tell a band how to play. This is only up to the band and the producer.
Joe: I've always been curious about a couple shows in particular.... Stockholm 1985. Udo threatened the crowd that if they didn't settle down, the show would be stopped. Has a show you`ve done been stopped because of a violent crowd?
Frank: No.The "ACCEPT" or "U.D.O." fans might look agressive to somebody from the outside, but I found out, that they just want o sing along and have a good party most of the time. But I remember, that we had to interrupt a show in Sofia/Bulgaria in `93, because soldiers were hitting people in the audience heavily.
Joe: Buenos Aires 93 had one of the coolest moments ever during "Too high to get it right", when Wolf's equipment went out for like 2 minutes or something. What actually happened? And how did you guys fix it?
Frank: For me it`s always a suprise how many details the fans know. In that particular case, Wolf`s amp went down and also Udo`s wireless mic frigged up nearly the same time, so Stefan and Peter had to play for a while until or backliners had replaced some of the equipment. Now after a while, I think it was quite funny - Peter and Stefan did not know if things could get repaired or not - they simply trusted the crew, that the show will go on.
Joe: Have technical problems ever been so bad a show had to be stopped.
Frank: Rule No.1 I learned with ACCEPT: The show must go on! Even if the PA breaks on the very first song (93 Charlotte, South Carolina) or a extremly heavy thunderstorm hits the stage (Memmingen, 94), we always found a way to finish the show. Most other bands would have canceled shows, where a local production i.e. turned out to be something completly different as asked for - but ACCEPT knew, there would be dissapointed people who possibly have traveld from far away, and that it wasn`t their fault. With U.D.O. we keep that tradition: I.e.on the "Holy" tour this year we carried our own production except in Italy. When we arrived in Milano, we found out that the sound system was broken completly possibly the night before with another act. The promoter was not able to replace it in time and we were close of canceling the show. Then we decided to take everything apart and check it one by one. With one and a half hour delay on doors open we finally managed to have a mono system working and let the crowd in - U.D.O. played without any chance of soundchecking, but luckily everything turned out o.k., the show was killer great and the fans were fantastic!
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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 14:11:55 GMT -5
Facts: Peter Szigeti (the rythym guitarist listed on "Animal House") may not have played with the band at all. That is if Mathias did all the guitar parts on that album. He did all guitar work on the last two albums for sure. I'm not sure about the first two. Peter was not on the AH tour. "U.D.O." was not supposed to stand for the singer's name. This is a little ironic because I don't think they ever did have the initials stand for anything. One time ( I assume jokingly) they said it stood for "United Dipstick Organization."
Shortly after U.D.O., Mathias played in a band called "Ape." I bought their first album, "Human Greed," for $30 and got a kick out of selling it for $1 to get rid of it. I still think Mathias is an outstanding guitar player!
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Post by killingjoke on Jun 18, 2009 14:16:59 GMT -5
Interview with Udo Dirkschneider apr 19 2007 At the beginning of Mastercutor, during the intro, who's speaking? yourself?
No, not me, he's a guy from England and we are working together from a long time. I'm German and it's good to have somebody speaking perfectly so he's the guy who introduces the whole album.
Where took place the recording of the album?
We do the recording since 10 years in the same studio; Stefan Kaufmann has his own studio. This is perfect for me and for the rest of the band. We don't have any pressure and have time.
How long did it take?
We started the recording at the end of October last year and it was finished, everything, mastering at the beginning of March this year. But we had a break during Christmas so I would say 4 months and everything was done.
What is the "Mastercutor"?
What is the "Mastercutor" (lol)? The word is coming from master executor and the "Mastercutor" is a show master. He is directing the whole album. At the beginning we just had the song "Mastercutor" and the lyrics are against all those stupid game shows, reality shows or whatever on TV and then, one day, I was with my son and he had wallpaper on his PC and it was a scary face on (lol). Then came the whole idea, we had also the cover album and we started developing and creating something with the "Mastercutor" as a show master directing the whole album, he starts to introduce it, it's like a beginning of a TV show. Everything was developing during the recording.
Is that a real concept album?
I would say concept album is a litlle bit too much but it's the red line in a way, the "Mastercutor" is directing the whole album. A lot of people are playing games and everything is a game in a way in the reality. And he is closing also the album saying "Thank you very much for listening and see you next time".
Who composed the album?
The most of the songs have been written by Stefan Kaufmann and me but the bass player came up with 3 songs and the guitar player Igor Gianola worked on the song writing. I mean this is not a solo project, now we are together from 9 years, the same line up except Francesco who's from 3 years already in the band, it's a band's work. I think that when you're listening to the album, you can hear this is a real band's work.
I think there will be a special limited digibook version with 2 bonus tracks?
Yes, so first is coming out a EP with 2 versions of "The wrong side of midnight", the single version and the album track and 2 non album tracks, "Streets of sin" and "Man a king ruler". Then there is another song from the last album "Mission n° X", "Cry soldier cry" and I sing this song completely in Russian and it's was only planned as a bonus for "Mastercutor" in Russia. On the 18 of may we have the normal one album and then the limited edition which has also a bonus track called "Borderline" and we recorded another track "Screaming eagles" and you have the video clip for "The wrong side of midnight".
"Borderline" is not a new track, right?
No, this is a track we only released on the Japonese version of "Mission n° X" I think, so much tracks... (lol).
Could speak a little bit about the video clip?
On this video you see in a way the birth of the "Mastercutor". In the beginning he's a normal guy and then people do a lot of experimental things with his brain. You can see on the video his face changing and he's really mad, crazy and he's looking for stages where he can perform his madness like crazy games shows, reality shows. Then he become a show Master and he can do it on TV in front of million of people. This is the story but to explain the video... you have to see it (lol). I never saw a video like this, it's a new style of filming, a crazy thing you know, it's very fast.
What about your relationship with the bats?
So, the story was that we shoot the video in Stuttgart in a tunnel system from the 2nd world war and we were looking for new locations in the tunnel, everything was dark, we had some hand lamps and we switched them on and then some bats came, they looked like they would attack.
Are they on the video clip?
No, but the girl who was directing the video said it was a perfect theme for the video and you can see on many pictures the idea because the "Mastercutor" has some bats behind.
How did you choose "The wrong side of midnight" as the single?
It was not only us. At the beginning we thought to do "Mastercutot" and then we started talking with the record company and some other people and the said do "The wrong side of midnight" but so far I think we did the right thing.
At the beginning of May, you will play show with Mago de Oz in Mexico, is that the first time you are going there?
No, we've been already last year in Mexico for one show in Monterrey, it was for a festival with Blind Guardian, Edguy and we are happy to come back in Mexico for 4 shows at the beginning of May. Then we come back to Europe and we will do some summer festivals and the tour will start at the end of September or beginning of October and we will be back in South America, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, then we will play in Russia and then after Christmas and the new year we will tour in North America including Canada after a long time and Asia.
How did this happen with Mago de Oz, did you know the band before?
No, I was thinking it was a Mexican band but I've heard it was a Spanish band but I never heard anything. I've heard they were very popular in Mexico, playing in front of 20000 or 30000 people and I said ok (lol). I thing it's good, it's a good step for us but I think also that it was the show we did last year and some people wanted to have U.D.O again. Everything is so far, what can I say. The reactions on the album are very very good. I was a little bit nervous at the beginning and we changed a little bit the sound of the new album bringing the all sound in a modern day in our days now. The music is of course still the same but we changed a lot of things, guitar sound, drums sound and there are also some different arranging like on "Master of disaster" or "Dead man's eye" which are not typical U.D.O songs. We tried to change some things and I think at the end of the day everybody agreed to say it was one of the best U.D.O album.
How can you explain that you are so popular in Russia?
I don't know, when people asked people in Russia why U.D.O is so popular in Russia, they said we've got a Russian soul in our music, so maybe something but I don't know so far, it's crazy in Russia, unbelievable. For the next tour we have some offers for shows in China and I think there will be the next market, China is opened up, 1 or 2 years and then here we go. It's interesting. More countries are opened up for this kind of music, it's good.
You didn't play in France during the last 2 tours, could we expect UDO again this time?
hopefully, we'll try to do some shows in France. We came in France during "Man and machine" tour in 2001 but no promoter was interested to book us here in France, it's a hard market for metal music but we'll try to do our best and I think we will do Paris and maybe Montpellier and a couple of towns. During "Man and machine", Paris, Lyon, Montpellier and Strasbourg were ok, but the rest...but I think that for this album we will definitively come in France for shows. I think we will play in a festival in France this summer but I don't know the name of this festival.
What is your intention for the track list in this tour because during "Mission n° X" tour you played mainly U.D.O songs, will you do the same or play more Accept songs?
We have now 11 U.D.O albums and of course we have to play some Accept songs but I don't wanna play more than 2 or 3. Definitely we'll do "Balls to the wall", "Metal heart", maybe we'll do "Princess of the dawn". A lot of people come up and say "you can not play too much Accept songs, you have enough U.D.O songs and if you play 2 or 3 Accept songs, that's enough". We do a little bit different when we do some festivals we play a little bit more Accept songs. The whole atmosphere is like a party and people wanna have the classic stuff and maybe we will play 4 or 5 songs from Accept. But when we'll do the headliner tour 2 or 3 Accept songs are enough. Only 2 songs of each album of U.D.O are already 22 tracks. It's not easy, people say I wanna hear this song, this song, it's not possible. What we try is always to change a little bit the setlist, it's interesting also for us.
Will you ask to the fans?
We did it for "Mission n° X" tour on our homepage with all U.D.O albums. That was quite interesting, which songs they wanted to hear and now we know which songs they wanna hear, we could also ask to the fan which songs from the new album. So in a way, we will have a direction. We can't satisfy everybody but definitively we will play 3 or 4 songs from the new album. It's not easy, this is a hard part.
Have you been surprised by the choice of the fans?
Yeah, there were some songs I didn't expect like "Trip to nowhere" from the "Faceless world" album. I knew that they always wanna hear "Heart of gold" but "Trip to nowhere" was a surprise. They came up also with crazy stuff from "Mean machine" album. So we could have a look back on this and maybe we will change some songs we didn't play on the "Mission n° X" tour. But the set is always almost 2 hours, I think it's long enough.
What about a U.D.O DVD?
We tried to do a DVD on the "Thunderball" tour, we tried to do a DVD on the "Mission n° X" tour but there was a lot of thing happening, owner things, there was a lot of change so it didn't work out. But for the next tour definitely. The only thing that we are looking for is a company but we already have one in mind. I think we will shoot it in South America. Not in Russia because we did "Live from Russia", I did so many things in Russian so I don't wanna do a DVD also in Russia. Maybe we will film some stuff in Russia, like the song on the EP "Cry soldier cry" that I sing in Russian or "Trainride in Russia". Maybe let's have these 2 songs as bonus stuff but the whole thing, we will film it in South America. Maybe we will change I don't know but we are thinking on it at the moment.
Do you know if an Accept DVD from the reunion tour will finally be released?
No, it was filmed on the Wacken show but... it was not up to me but if you wanna do something like this I mean you can not go one day before and say OK, come on, film it. You have to be prepared in a way, to get all the people prepared. The sound was a nightmare and also the material, the film was not so good. It's a shame but what can I say?
You've just recorded a special piano version of "Balls to the wall" for a compilation in America, who's did play piano?
The piano was playing by our live sound engineer, he's very good piano player. He's also playing piano on "Tears of a clown" on the new album. I've been asked to do an acoustic version of "Balls to the wall" and I said ok but how can we do an acoustic version of "Balls to the wall"? Then we tried a couple of things but I think that when you know exactly the meaning of the lyrics, they are very sad lyrics about the human rights and then it fits together with the piano. Some people said we can not do this, but we played this song in this version to a lot of people and asked "can we do this?", they said "yes, why not". But you know it's a metal stuff and some people said this completely poop, this a nightmare or whatever and some people said this good, so, I never know.
Is there some bands or artist you are listening to at that time?
I don't listen to special things, when I'm at home, I'm not listening to heavy metal, I mean most of the time I put the radio on, some interesting stuff, I'm listening to Anastacia, Phil Collins or Joe wanger, stuff like that. Of course I'm listening to heavy metal when something new is coming up like oldies, oldest bands, you have to know what is going on. At home, my son is 13, he's very much into this kind of music, so I always hear some new stuff out of his room and sometime I say "who was it?. At the moment, I like very much Billy Talent, I went to see him live, it was good, not heavy metal, modern, I don't how to call this kind of music but that's interesting. I also like the music of Children of Bodom but the rest of the bands, I don't know by names, sometimes very strange names and I can't remember (lol). Some music of new bands are very interesting but when I'm asked if I'm inspired by new bands, I say "no, they were inspired by us" (lol). If I would be inspired by these new bands, the U.D.O album would not be an U.D.O album anymore. But it was interesting to put our sound into a nowadays sound even if the music is still classic heavy metal stuff and I don't wanna change this.
Have you got some hobbies beside the music?
Let's say hobby is my family, at that time it's the most important thing so I spend as much time as I can with my family.
You're son is your first fan, right?
Yeah (lol). I mean he's very much into music, he's playing drums now from 5 or 6 years, playing guitar from 2 years and he's very good. He has his own band now.
He's not singing?
No, so far not, hopefully not (lol). It's interesting to see, I've also a daughter, she's 19 and she's more into Reggae music, completely different, she's not in this kind of music.
Thank you very much
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