JACK FROST
SAVATAGE - SEVEN WITCHES
After,
we had the chance to enjoy Savatage for the second time (the first one
was in Rockwave festival, last summer), who I must say give theirselves
each time and offer great pleasure to the fans, I can't think of anyone
who left dissapointed... We also had the chance to meet all of them and
talk with them. They are very simple, funny, clever people, very easy to
approach and with no rock star attitude at all. It was a real pleasure.
The fans waiting for an autograph were plenty, though, so we only had the
chance to "grab" Jack Frost and talk a little longer with him. He is a
very nice guy. The flame of heavy metal burns in him!
1.FIRST OF ALL WHICH ARE YOUR FEELINGS
FOR TODAY’S SHOW?
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What I say to all the world and
I mean this is that there’s no better place playing than Greece. The fans
are the best, the places are great, seriously. I played Japan, Germany,
everywhere and there’s never the feeling as it is when we play in Greece.
2.NOT EVEN BRAZIL?
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No! Brazil is great, don’t get
me wrong but this is the best.
3.HOW WAS IT YESTERDAY WHEN YOU PLAYED
IN ATHENS?
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Amazing! Both shows were sold
out. I like today’s show, I guess, a little better, in the way it was closer
to the fans, yesterday we played in a big place and it is hard being close
to each other. So, I liked it today a little bit better.
4.YOU PLAY WITH SEVEN WITCHES AS WELL.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY WITH THEM HERE FOR THE GREEK AUDIENCE?
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Yes! I would love to! I would
love to come here! My new record comes out next month and it looks like
we got 6/7 in the Greek Metal Hammer and it might be the record of the
month, so we might get a chance to come over here.
5.RUMORS SAY THAT JON OLIVA ALSO PARTICIPATED
IN YOUR NEW ALBUM. IS IT TRUE?
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Yes! He is singing a song in
the record.
6.YOU ARE ALSO PREPARING A SOLO ALBUM.
IS THAT RIGHT?
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Is more of a friend thing. I
got a bantch of singers from the bands of mine, it’s more of a fun thing
than a solo record kind of thing.
7.FROM YOUR WHOLE CAREER WHICH SONG
OF YOURS DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST IDEAL TO REPRESENT YOU?
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I would say a song from my new
record, it’s called “Metal Tyranny”. I pretty much feel like that’s my
whole life, basting my ass since I was 15 years old and I never gave up
in heavy metal, I never cut my hair, I never forget it, I have always believed
in my music, so…
8.I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU YOUR OPINION
ABOUT MANOWAR, CAUSE YOU HAVE MADE A COVER SONG…
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Fucking great man!!!! Joey De
Maio is one of the coolest guys. Awesome! Big big big friends, big fan.
Yeah!
9.WHAT DO YOU LIKE THE MOST AND WHAT
DO YOU HATE IN MUSIC INDUSTRY?
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What I like the most is how much
people are getting along lately. Heavy metal was not the biggest thing
in the market. If you are not the Backstreet Boys or Sting or something,
you are not “MTV”, all the same.. I like that heavy metal has started
being more of a family again, what I don’t like is that you have to write
what they want you to write, so why can’t there be room for Savatage? Why
can’t there be room for Manowar? Why can’t MTV play that kind of
stuff? Why must there always be Lenny Kravitz and Britney Spears? I don’t
understand it!
10.HOW IS NOW HEAVY METAL IN THE U.S.A.?
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It’s getting a lot better. It
will never be how it was in the 80’s. It will never be as it was, but it
has its area. It’s getting better!
11.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN’T
ABLE TO COMPOSE MUSIC?
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I’d probably just sleep…!!! Well
I don’t know!
12.IF THERE WAS LIFE WITHOUT MUSIC
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
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Ohhh!!! Life without music? I’d
play football maybe!
13.IF YOUR MUSIC WAS AN EMOTION, WHAT
WOULD IT BE?
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Happiness. It’s nothing like
it. I am saying like today, where you look the fans and you don’t believe
it…This is happiness, there are feelings inside.
14.BUT SAVATAGE LYRICS ARE OFTEN SAD
AND GONE GET A LOT OF MEANINGS.
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Yeah! The get a lot of meanings,
but my personal thing, how I write is I like the happiness of it all!
15.WHICH LYRICS OF YOURS DO YOU THINK
REPRESENT YOU?
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The lyrics from my new song “Metal
Tyranny”.
16.HOW MANY SONGS WILL THERE BE IN
THE NEW SEVEN WITCHES ALBUM? WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?
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There’s 10 songs in the record
and they are all talking about life as it is today, fighting for heavy
metal and all the people I met through the years…
17.WHICH IS YOUR MOST BELOVED SAVATAGE
SONG?
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Wow!!! Hmmm…Probably “Strange”.
18.DO YOU LIKE READING BOOKS?
19.WHICH BOOK WOULD YOU SELECT TO MAKE
A MOVIE FOR AND COMPOSE THE SOUNDTRACK AS WELL?
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Hmmm….That’s a really tough one!!!…There’s
a book named “The Tower” by Clive Barker, really cool! I like that dungeons
and dragons. It’s great!
20.HAVE YOU SEEN THE LORD OF THE RINGS
MOVIE? DID YOU LIKE IT?
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Yes!I loved it!!! Can’t wait
for another year.
21.SOMETHING SAD NOW. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION
ABOUT THOSE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE U.S.A.?
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Well, I live in New Jersey so
I live maybe half an hour from the city and I think it’s terrible. It was
the saddest thing in the world, but there’s a really positive thing out
of this. It united us and all of the world has started getting together,
group together. You know I hate to say this, but things happen and it was
one of the worst things we have ever seen in our lives. We should never
take anything in life for granded!
22.WHAT MADE YOU DESPITE BEING FAN
OF METAL MUSIC, TRY ALSO TO COMPOSE YOUR OWN?
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I heard Lez Zeppelin and I heard
Kansas and I said “This is cool!”, so I wanted to play the guitar. It was
really cool.
23. THANK YOU!LEAVE YOUR MESSAGE…WHAT
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY?
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I’d just say to any bands out
there, to any fans that if you want to come to a real place and see a real
show, you have to come to Greece, you guys are the best in the world! You
guys blow the American fans, you just blow them away! They are so boring,
they just sit there, but you guys love the music. For me I just want to
thank you guys for giving me the best two nights of my life. I’ll never
forget these two shows!