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motor sister by Brett tully
Conceived as a 50th birthday gift for Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, Motor Sister has taken on a life of
its own. Consisting of Armored Saint’s Joey Vera, White Zombie’s John Tempesta, Scott’s wife Pearl
Aday and her bandmate and frontman of the band Motor Sister pays tribute to, Mother Superior,
Jim Wilson. What was a one night jam session has turned into an album of Mother Superior covers
built by the passion they all share for this 90’s rock band. Motor Sister’s album Ride will be released
March 10th via Metal Blade Records.
Could you tell us how Motor Sister came together? From attention to unless you were like me or other likeminded
what I understand it started off as a 50th birthday present to people that actually like good music. They were playing
you Scott, is that correct? rock n’ roll when nobody was listening to rock n’ roll. Henry
Scott Ian: Yeah, I had this idea to, in a sense, resurrect Rollins was and they became the Rollins Band and they
Mother Superior. They had been gone at that point about made a bunch of records with Henry and that’s how I found
seven years. They are one of my favorite bands and I thought out about them initially.
what if we put a band together with Jim Wilson, the singer,
songwriter, guitar player (for Mother Superior) and jam a Pearl you’ve been involved with Jim Wilson for quite some
bunch of songs in the jam room at our house, that was just time, correct? Was that through an introduction from Scott
kind of the idea I had and then Pearl basically took that idea (Ian)?
and turned it into a reality. Pearl: Yes. I met Jim through Scott, I think it was one of my
birthday parties Scott surprised me. I became a huge fan of
Can you tell us a little bit about Mother Superior, for those theirs and Scott surprised me by inviting Mother Superior to
who may not be familiar with them and what drew you to my birthday party and I was such a big fan girl and I totally
them. dorked out. I got a chance to talk to them and I asked them
Pearl Aday: Scott you introduced me to them. And you that night what they would think of maybe working with a
found them because of (Henry) Rollins right? chick singer? And Jim stopped for a second, I was like oh
god what did I just say? Then he goes, ok yeah let’s try it out,
Scott Ian: Yeah, the easy answer for me would be is that we let’s do it. Ever since then I’ve been making music with Jim.
just like good music (laughs). They were a rock band that We’ve written two albums and we are almost finished with
was playing music in the 90’s that nobody was really paying another album. It just keeps going on and on we just mesh
Conceived as a 50th birthday gift for Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, Motor Sister has taken on a life of
its own. Consisting of Armored Saint’s Joey Vera, White Zombie’s John Tempesta, Scott’s wife Pearl
Aday and her bandmate and frontman of the band Motor Sister pays tribute to, Mother Superior,
Jim Wilson. What was a one night jam session has turned into an album of Mother Superior covers
built by the passion they all share for this 90’s rock band. Motor Sister’s album Ride will be released
March 10th via Metal Blade Records.
Could you tell us how Motor Sister came together? From attention to unless you were like me or other likeminded
what I understand it started off as a 50th birthday present to people that actually like good music. They were playing
you Scott, is that correct? rock n’ roll when nobody was listening to rock n’ roll. Henry
Scott Ian: Yeah, I had this idea to, in a sense, resurrect Rollins was and they became the Rollins Band and they
Mother Superior. They had been gone at that point about made a bunch of records with Henry and that’s how I found
seven years. They are one of my favorite bands and I thought out about them initially.
what if we put a band together with Jim Wilson, the singer,
songwriter, guitar player (for Mother Superior) and jam a Pearl you’ve been involved with Jim Wilson for quite some
bunch of songs in the jam room at our house, that was just time, correct? Was that through an introduction from Scott
kind of the idea I had and then Pearl basically took that idea (Ian)?
and turned it into a reality. Pearl: Yes. I met Jim through Scott, I think it was one of my
birthday parties Scott surprised me. I became a huge fan of
Can you tell us a little bit about Mother Superior, for those theirs and Scott surprised me by inviting Mother Superior to
who may not be familiar with them and what drew you to my birthday party and I was such a big fan girl and I totally
them. dorked out. I got a chance to talk to them and I asked them
Pearl Aday: Scott you introduced me to them. And you that night what they would think of maybe working with a
found them because of (Henry) Rollins right? chick singer? And Jim stopped for a second, I was like oh
god what did I just say? Then he goes, ok yeah let’s try it out,
Scott Ian: Yeah, the easy answer for me would be is that we let’s do it. Ever since then I’ve been making music with Jim.
just like good music (laughs). They were a rock band that We’ve written two albums and we are almost finished with
was playing music in the 90’s that nobody was really paying another album. It just keeps going on and on we just mesh
