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adelitas way
Interview with Rick Anthony DeJesus founder and lead vocalist of the hard rock band, Adelitas Way at
the Scout Bar, Houston, when the band came through on their Bad Reputation Tour and played there
on January 21st with special guests Failure Anthem, Through The Fire, and Eye on Attention.
Let us just plunge into this interview
and talk about your new single, “Bad
Reputation”
As everyone knows in this business, I
always say, “You are only one song away
from people – not exactly forgetting
about you – but getting into the back of
people’s minds, like even the old legacy
acts that have been around since 2001
when MTV made them a household
name. We got caught in a gap – a Napster
gap - and in 2007, it was just really hard
to be in a band and sell records.
Yes, and you guys are at the ten year
mark.
Yes, we are right in that middle. I know
when we put out something that feels
right and is connecting, and we put out
“Bad Reputation” and across the board
from sales, to radio, to streams, it is
blowing up. People are asking about the
record, our phones are ringing off the
hooks, and tours are calling. We felt that
maybe before this song, this business was
trying to put the lid on us and be done.
We went from being the young cool kids
to the old dogs pretty quick.
Interview and Photos by Caros Rox
I would say that at the ten-year mark of
a band, it either folds or grows. I was
pretty excited about the new single.
We realized that we were at that point
and were going to go down or up,
and you make that call, that choice.
Everything has its peaks and valleys,
and what I have told all bands in my
career is to face that – be one song away
from changing your life or reinventing
yourself. “Bad Reputation” is doing
that for us right now.
It is very catchy – like an anthem.
Yes, it is catchy, and people are responding
to it. It feels amazing that this business is
still unpredictable. We are number 29 on
the radio chart one week after debuting
the song, and it is flying up the charts.
Who thought that Adelitas Way would
come out with a song that did this?
No one. When there is a response,
you cannot deny it. Radio stations
are playing it, people are buying the
song – the facts are the facts. They are
listening to it and spreading the news
about it, so it is really setting the tone
for our new album Getaway, coming
out on February 26th.
I was trying to work out who you are
with label wise.
We are doing it ourselves. We were
with Virgin Records for seven years.
We came up in the trenches of the
music business, and I met some really
great people that have helped my