TRIPCHORD
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TRIPCHORD
IS A VERY FAMOUS METAL BAND IN THEIR COUNTRY, CANADA, BUT THE SUCCESS IN
THEIR COUNTRY ISN'T ENOUGH FOR THEM. TRIPCHORD WANT TO MAKE AN INTERNATIONAL
CARRER AND THIS INTERVIEW IS THE FIRST THAT THEY GIVE IN THE INTERNATIONAL
PRESS. WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IT WAS A HONOUR FOR US AN A PRIVILEGE
TO MAKE THIS INTERVIEW AND WE HOPE TO BRING THEM GOOD FORTUNE...
1.HELLO! FIRST OF ALL GIVE US IN A
FEW WORDS THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF THE BAND'S HISTORY. WHICH IS THE
CURRENT LINE UP AND WHO ARE THE FOUNDING MEMBERS?
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The Most important moments in the band's
history are: Headlining the Legendary Hard Rock Cafe in Toronto, Winning
Second Place in a battle of the bands on our first show ever, and the first
time TRIPCHORD generated a wicked moshpit. The current line-up consists
of: Colin Ward-Lead / Rythm Guitar, Tommy Geraldes-Frontman,Vocals, Ron
"TAZ" Middleton-Drums, Kelly Pink - Bass & Backing Vocals. The Founding
members of TRIPCHORD are,Colin Ward, Ron "Taz" Middleton, Kelly Pink..Tommy
Geraldes joined the band in Early 2001 to complete the line-up.
2.TRIPCHORD: HOW DID YOU CHOOSE THIS
NAME FOR THE BAND AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? DO YOU BELIEVE THAT A BAND NAME
SHOULD GIVE INFORMATION REGARDING THE BAND'S MUSICAL STYLE OR JUST MAKE
THE LISTENERS CURIOUS?
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The Name TRIPCHORD was chosen to compliment
the bands musical style of intense grooves, Heavy Notes/Chords, powerful
and focussed speed with songs exploding from Beginning to end, and a unique
sound which has people stand up and take notice of TRIPCHORD. A band's
name should definately be reflective of their style or their genre of music,
as the people buying our
albums know what to expect when they see the TRIPCHORD name.
3.WHICH THEMES DO YOU LIKE TO "HURT"
THROUGH YOUR LYRICS? DO YOU PREFER TALKING FOR FANTASY OR REAL LIFE SITUATIONS?
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We don't use any particular themes
in our music, all our lyrics are based on Real Life, feelings and emotions,
we prefer to talk about what's on our minds and the real things that we
go through everyday, and the things we have been through personally, we
hope to reach our listeners with this fact.
4.TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH AFTER READING
YOUR BIO I DIDN'T HAVE A CRYSTAL CLEAR IDEA ABOUT WHAT KIND OF METAL YOU
PLAY. SO, SINCE I HAVEN'T LISTENED TO YOUR ALBUM YET AND HAVE AN IDEA OF
MY OWN, COULD YOU GIVE ME YOUR DESRCITPION FOR YOUR MUSIC?
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An Accurate Despription of TRIPCHORD
would be to take all the genres of Heavy music fom Melodic to extreme,
heavy infectuous grooves, intense speed, a hardcore stage presence where
no one stands still, No one song is the same, all of our songs are different
and offer something for all listeners of heavy music.
5.HOW MANY RELEASES DO YOU HAVE TILL
NOW? NAME THEM ONE BY ONE AND WHICH ARE THE DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES
AMONG THEM?
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Tripchord has 3 recent releases, the
songs are: Surly, Capability, Love & Peace. All of our songs are different
as we try to acheive a diverse range of quality material for the listeners.
6.WHICH ARE THE BAND'S INFLUENCES?
NAME SOME OF YOUR MOST BELOVED BANDS.
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Tripchord's influences would be: Slayer,
Sepultura, Pantera, System of a down, Slipknot, Alice in Chains, Elvis,
Chuck Berry, Megadeth, Metallica, Neil Peart drummer of Rush, Alex Webster
Bassist for cannibal Corpse, Malevolent Creation, DRI, Soulfly, Korn, Static-X,old
school metal, Extreme metal, Groove metal, new metal,
Hardcore, Hard Rock.
7.HOW ARE YOU PLANNING TO PROMOTE YOUR
WORK? HAVE YOU SENT YOUR PROMOT O ANY LABELS? ARE YOU SATISFIED FROM THE
FEEDBACK?
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We are currently promoting our songs/bios/live
events on over 10 websites, in which we have received a great response
and we are now in the process of sending our CD package out to Labels,Management,Radio,
Internet radio stations, magazines and reveiwers on an international level.
The feedback has been more than positive and we look forward to progressing
and
working with each contact.
8.HOW WAS IT, HOW DID YOU FEEL THE
THE FIRST TIME YOU GOT ON STAGE? YOU SAY THAT YOU BRING ONE OF THE MOST
ENTERTAINING LIVE PERFORMANCES IN THE WORLD. THIS DOESN'T SOUND VERY MODEST,
BUT ALSO MAKES ME CURIOUS. CAN YOU DESCRIBE IN A FEW WORDS A TYPICAL TRIPCHORD
LIVE SHOW?
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The first time on stage was amazing,
in realizing the separation from being a fan to actually being able to
play to the fans and have them enjoy our music and applaud the band, That
is the best feeling. There is no Typical TRIPCHORD show, every show is
different depending on how many people are at the concert, the location
of the venue, the bands playing on the bill, mainly we get into every song,energetic,Intensity
headbanging, the whole band thrashing around on stage, never a dull moment
and completely interactive with the audience,we just like to flow with
what we play and give the audience what they came to see, and that's
TRIPCHORD giving 150% at every show.
9.YOUR SONGS ARE PLAYED IN VARIUS UNIVERISTIES
IN CANADA AND SOME ARE IN THE TOP LIST. HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL? KNOWNG
THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE AMONG THE 30 MOST POPULAR ALBUMS THERE?
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Our cd is played at the University
of waterloo and we are adding more stations to the list, it makes us feel
appreciated and that our music is good enough quality to be played on the
radio, but we still have a long way to go as we are in the process of distributing
our cd packages to the radio stations internationally and we look forward
to be able to turn on the radio and hear TRIPCHORD being played.
10.TELL US A FEW THINGS REGARDING YOUR
VIDEO CLIP "SURLY" AND YOUR COOPERATION WITH JULIAN GRANT (PRODUCER OF
ROBOCOP FAME).
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The Video Clip for "Surly" was shot
as a LIVE video at a location in Toronto, Canada at one of our concerts,
Julian Grant is a business acqaintance of TRIPCHORD drummer Ron "TAZ" Middleton,
as both are in the film industry, and Julian Grant will be working with
TRIPCHORD on more video projects to be released after the new year.
11.I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH
MANY METAL BANDS FROM CANADA AND THEY'VE TOLD ME THAT THINGS ARE NOT THAT
GOOD FOR METAL MUSIC THERE. ON THE OTHER HAND YOU'VE GIVEN SO MANY LIVE
SHOWS AND MADE A GREAT NAME THERE AS YOU SAY, SO HOW ARE THINGS REALLY
THERE?
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The scene for metal music in Toronto
is growing, and TRIPCHORD has had success by putting together the best
live bands for their TRIPCHORD ENTERTAINMENT showcase series, Promoting
all shows 100% by flyers, internet & radio & magazine interviews,
through websites, e-mail newsletters, and we have amazing support from
our fans here. The only way to be successful is to fully promote all of
our shows and this gets new people out to the shows to see what the band
is all about.
12.ALTHOUGH CANADA DOESN'T HAVE A BIG
METAL SCENE LIKE OTHER COUTNRIES, ALMOST ALL BANDS FROM THERE MANAGE TO
CREATE A PERSONAL UNIQUE SOUND. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS?
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Every person is different in their
own way, it depends on your environment, the people you play with, the
circumstances you are dealt with in life, personal music preferences, they
all play a large part of what bands want to sound like. There are also
different sections of canada that have a
more developed taste for a particular musical style, Toronto being a huge
mix as a lot of signed and unsigned acts play and tour here.
13.TELL ME WHICH DREAMS DO YOU WANT
TO ACHIEVE AS A BAND AND YOU PERSONALLY.
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We would like to be successfull at
having people enjoy our music, and we would like to be able to travel the
world and play tours through Europe, The Usa, Canada, Brazil, Australia,
Asia, and all other international music venues,festivals & concerts.
14.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T
ABLE TO INVOLVE WITH MUSIC?
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Graphic Designer, Webmaster, Artist,
Computer Animation, Film Editing, radio broadcaster, these are the fields
we are currently in and we are talented in other areas but we can honestly
say that we can only see ourselves playing music and bringing our music
to people for the rest of our lives.
15.WHAT TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW
TO HAVE?
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We would like this interview to be
called: An interview with TRIPCHORD, Friday the 13th of December, 2002.
16.THANK YOU! HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK
YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?
upcoming shows of 2003:
1-Saturday January 11-The Rivoli-Toronto, Canada, Emergenza festival,
Huge
international festival.
2-Friday January 31st-The Dungeon-Oshawa, canada-show sponsored by
Canada's
largest skateboard / snowboard company-WEST 49 courtesy of band-RPO
3-March 21-23-TRIPCHORD ENTERTAINMENT associated with One World
Beat-Global
Aid organization-all heavy music showcase-3rd floor reilly's-Toronto,
Canada
4-TRIPCHORD ENTERTAINMENT associated with Pavement / Crash music metal
Gods
from California-BRICK BATH-Friday May 2-Third floor reilly's-Toronto
Canada
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More shows are coming around these
dates be sure to check out the websites to keep posted as to when TRIPCHORD
will be playing near you.
NIKOS "William_Kidd"
PARASTATIDIS