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Why haven’t you used him before?
It’s still somewhat new to him. He wanted to make sure
that he had gotten a good number of videos under his
belt before he took us on, because it’s also his band.
It’s the same thing as if I had started doing my own
recordings. When it comes to my band, I would rather
spend the money on an experienced music producer. I
enjoyed that he had the foresight to think about it. He
wanted to wait until he was ready to take on our band
and make it as good as it could be.
Tell me a little bit more about your background in
music. When did you heed the calling to pick up the
ax? Tell me about your gear. What do you use in studio
There are several rock musicians in my family. My dad versus touring?
plays bass and guitar, and so does my brother. My uncle Right now it’s pretty similar. For a lot of the old
is Frank Marino, a relatively popular rock and blues albums we used all kinds of different things, and kept
guitarist. It was always just around me. I wasn’t into it changing, but now we finally found our sound that
when I was younger. I always thought I wanted to do suits us the most. What we use in studio (and live) are
something different. When I was 14 years old though I Ibanez guitars with EVH amps. That’s basically the
picked up my dad’s bass and just started playing around sound of the album. Actually there is a difference: for
with it and thought, “this is kind of fun.” A couple of live shows I’m using Maxon Overdrive pedals. It’s not
months later I picked up the guitar and thought, “this a very overcomplicated set up. We don’t have a bunch
is WAY more fun!” As soon as I started to learn chords, of rack mount gear, compressors, and all that. It’s pretty
I was hooked. I’m not a shredder. A lot of times if there old-school standard.
are guitar solos in our band, usually the faster metal
solos are Paco, and I’m doing more of the rock feeling A lot of modern bands have crossed over into the digital
solos, because that’s my background. I’ve always been world, and it’s really not for me. I haven’t been sold on
into songwriting first and foremost; the chords and it yet. It’s getting better, but it’s still not the same.
finding interesting chord progressions.
When can we expect to see while out of the road?
We start at the end of February, right around the album
release. We’re going to do four shows in Canada, and
then we fly straight out to Europe from there. We will
do four months in Europe, and then we are coming
back and playing a good month and a half, or more, in
the states.
Video by Chris Kells of Front to Back Video Production
Why haven’t you used him before?
It’s still somewhat new to him. He wanted to make sure
that he had gotten a good number of videos under his
belt before he took us on, because it’s also his band.
It’s the same thing as if I had started doing my own
recordings. When it comes to my band, I would rather
spend the money on an experienced music producer. I
enjoyed that he had the foresight to think about it. He
wanted to wait until he was ready to take on our band
and make it as good as it could be.
Tell me a little bit more about your background in
music. When did you heed the calling to pick up the
ax? Tell me about your gear. What do you use in studio
There are several rock musicians in my family. My dad versus touring?
plays bass and guitar, and so does my brother. My uncle Right now it’s pretty similar. For a lot of the old
is Frank Marino, a relatively popular rock and blues albums we used all kinds of different things, and kept
guitarist. It was always just around me. I wasn’t into it changing, but now we finally found our sound that
when I was younger. I always thought I wanted to do suits us the most. What we use in studio (and live) are
something different. When I was 14 years old though I Ibanez guitars with EVH amps. That’s basically the
picked up my dad’s bass and just started playing around sound of the album. Actually there is a difference: for
with it and thought, “this is kind of fun.” A couple of live shows I’m using Maxon Overdrive pedals. It’s not
months later I picked up the guitar and thought, “this a very overcomplicated set up. We don’t have a bunch
is WAY more fun!” As soon as I started to learn chords, of rack mount gear, compressors, and all that. It’s pretty
I was hooked. I’m not a shredder. A lot of times if there old-school standard.
are guitar solos in our band, usually the faster metal
solos are Paco, and I’m doing more of the rock feeling A lot of modern bands have crossed over into the digital
solos, because that’s my background. I’ve always been world, and it’s really not for me. I haven’t been sold on
into songwriting first and foremost; the chords and it yet. It’s getting better, but it’s still not the same.
finding interesting chord progressions.
When can we expect to see while out of the road?
We start at the end of February, right around the album
release. We’re going to do four shows in Canada, and
then we fly straight out to Europe from there. We will
do four months in Europe, and then we are coming
back and playing a good month and a half, or more, in
the states.
Video by Chris Kells of Front to Back Video Production
