TAZ TAYLOR im Talk German/English Version |
Here We Go! Iceman: "Hi Taz! Please introduce yourself to our readers!! Taz Taylor: "Taz Taylor: "Hi Iceman and a big Hello to the readers of HEAVY METAL HEAVEN, I'm Taz Taylor and we are here in Berlin at the spring tour, we are here to promote "Welcome to America", the Album is out now since late 2006, we do a last Promotion tour before we record a new Album, this summer! Iceman: "How did you get together with Graham Bonnet?? Taz Taylor: "Well, I did an instrumental CD, "Caffiene Racer" and when we were promoting that, I thought "On the next Album I want to have Vocals this time!" and Graham was always my favourite Singer, you know? I just started and worked down my list, I went to his website, I sent him an email and there must be something on that what I said because he wrote back, with his phone-number, 2 days later! So we talked about, at the phone for the first time, for most an hour, the chemistry was great, so we started working! I think, we are some English guys, living in Southern California that was the initial! Iceman: "What are your musical idols? I see a HENDRIX Shirt? Taz Taylor: "Jimi Hendrix is not my favourite guitar player, NO disrespect to him, but my favourite guitar player is Michael Schenker! And Gary Moore, Randy Rhoads, I like the early Van Halen stuff! Iceman: "What do you think? In the earlier years, we called it METAL, or ROCK, but today, we got "Blackmetal" "Speedmetal", "Trashmetal", "Progmetal", "Mathmetal" or however this stuff is called! What do you think about these categories? Taz Taylor: " Taz Taylor: "I don't know! It's all music! There are only two types of music - good or bad music! I think when the band is good; I don't care what they call it! For my personal taste, I'm kind of really old-school, some of the modern waves of Heavy Metal Bands; it doesn't do anything to me! You know, the down-tuned, really, really distorted stuff, it doesn't move me! I think It's easier to be different, than it is to be good! It's another way to getting noticed, you know? Everybody thinks that he has to be completely different, more extreme, more aggressive, more distorted, more down tuned, they think It's the only way to stand out! In classical music, they people don't spend time to make a violin sound more weird, they keep writing new music! That's the way I look at it, I want a guitar to sound like a guitar! No one needs to do something more extreme, even when it doesn't sounds good, just to make it different! Iceman: "What do you think, about the modern days, the internet? Because for example, people will read this interview, will read the review from "Welcome to America" and get the CD from the internet, for free! What do you think? Taz Taylor: " This bothers me! I don't like the attitude from the people who think "Oh, its just music, it should be free!" You know? Not only that we spent thousands of dollars for making the record, we also spent a lot of long nights! I don't want to sound like that I'm making music just for the money, but it would be nice to get some money back! The people say "Oh, I just downloaded it for myself" But for me It's the same if I would take your car, I don't sell it, just keep it for myself! I don't know how many times it has been stolen, you know? You can sell 15.000 copies, but another 10.000 people just stole it! It's no difference to the artist if one person takes it and sells it to 10.000 people or 10.000 people gets a download "for themselves!" - They just stole it from me! Iceman: "What do you think about the "exploding" ticket prizes? Taz Taylor: "Taz Taylor: "I think it's ridiculous! I don't understand, like The Rolling Stones - 400 (!!!) Dollars!! It should be 50-60 Dollars! Iceman: "Kiss will come to Germany and the prize is about 109 Euros! Taz Taylor: "Yeah, this is ridiculous! I think, if you want to make more money from touring - play more dates! Play two days in every city, sell the venue out twice! I think this is absolutely greedy! "The Rolling Stones are coming into town, so this is 400 Bucks!" This is ridiculous! They should play three nights in a row, so they can earn more money! The most money I spent to go to a show was 65 $! Joe Satriani, Kings X and John Petrucci! Iceman: "What do you think about bands, who are just standing on stage, like they've been "nailed to the floor", just playing their instruments, no stage-acting, just to show how good they are? Trying to make their sound more and more complex and difficult? Taz Taylor: "Well, I think this is a personal performance, it is their art and when people like it - that's fine! And when people like to see someone like Eddie Van Halen, jumping up and down, its ok! I don't want to diss someone for do what they want to do, you know? But I don't like arrogant Musicians, you know? To play a guitar is a talent, some got it, some got it less, but that don't mean that that I can think that I'm a better person than anybody! Iceman: "What is the plan for the next future?? Taz Taylor: "We will record a new Album and we will continue to tour, everything is fine at the moment, Graham worked with us, we've been to Berlin, Prag, and Vienna and all those other stations on tour and I would like to think that we continue!"t! Iceman: "Ok, final question: Is there anything left you want to tell our readers?t? Taz Taylor: "Taz Taylor: "Thanks very much for your listening, thanks for checking the album and hopefully you buy our Album and give it a try! If you don't like it - you can sell it on Ebay!" ;-) Greez Taz Taylor TAZ TAYLOR BAND MYSPACE |
19.04.2008, 23:03 by Iceman |
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