Interview с Jorn : DARKSIDE.ru

Hey!

Hey, we did some filming yesterday and I need to get the stuff from the concert, I’m waiting for all the files from every camera.

Will it be for DVD or what?

Well, probably, you never know, you just film some other festivals too, but Sweden Rock is a special festival, special moments there. I figure it would be cool, but you never know before you check everything, look thru it all to see is this a good quality or not, is it possible to use all pictures from every camera; if you only have couple of cameras, it could look not good, you can’t make a DVD from it, well actually you can, but… Then it’s gonna be some bonus stuff, if it’s good we can make a DVD. It could be a DVD, cause that was a plan, the idea, because this festival was special…and people…

Did you like the audience tonight?

Yeah, there were 25 thousand people; we expected not so many, 10 or 12. I had a lot of things to do yesterday, so time went fast, I was like inside the bubble whole yesterday, when you don’t have too much time to rest, you sometimes go autopilot and in the end you don’t know if it was really great and then you see something on YouTube or somebody shows you and you think, “oh, it was quite good” or “not bad”.

Did you have time to rest after the show or you were partying all night?

I had to do this Swedish national TV thing in the morning, so I was at 9.15 here already. Then I went to the hotel 20 minutes away from here and I slept 4 hours. It’s better to lose one hour of sleep, but sleep in the hotel than sleep one hour more in the bus. It’s nice to stay in the bus, no problem. But it’s raining a lot and it’s kind of raw air, even with the heat on and you feel like you’re cold, you’re freezing.

Yeah, and you’re not even living in the tent!

Yeah, tent is much worse. But you get closer to a tent after couple of days. When the bus is not moving and you don’t have an access to power all the time, so it gets kind of moist, raw; bed linen feels like it’s wet, but it’s not. Well, not a problem, now we are waiting for the files and be ready to go, that’s why our bus is standing near the backstage area entrance already.

Where are you heading now?

We just go back home now, planning to do video for Masterplan.

And that would be for a song “Time to be King”?

I think so, that’s what they talk about. I wanted to do that song from the beginning, but I thought we’d do it before album comes out, but record company never really got to do it. I’ve never heard anything until suddenly record comes out and NOW they wanna do it. So maybe Hamburg next week.

And do you have any idea of the plot of the video?

Probably, there’s not gonna be any storylines.

So, just a cool video with wind blowing a hair?

No, I don’t have enough hair left for that *laughs* So, just a cool video to see the band.

Many people were glad to know that you’re back to Masterplan. Why did you decide to do it

?

Well, Roland asked me several times. Actually, he mentioned couple of years ago, that he’d like to do another one, I said “no” couple of times, not because I didn’t want to, but because I was busy and then he asked me again and he drove a long way just to see me; so, we talked, had a couple of beers and we just decided to look at some songs, planned another record. That’s what basically it. Just like I told him, he had to accept that he had to wait for me, because I was busy with so many other things: I was doing Avantasia tour, I was in the middle of recording “Spirit Black”, we were playing a lot of shows, and we did European tour last year with Jorn band. I was mixing, when he and Axel drove all the way from Germany to Denmark just to be able to work on a couple of songs. When I was there actually mixing the Jorn album in that house that I rent, big house, has some extra bedrooms and everything. So I was mixing in the day time with my mixing studio hero as I call him, Tommy Hansen, great guy. We worked separately and then in the evening from 5, 6 o’clock when I was finished with the studio, we eat some food, we looked at the stuff together for a couple of hours, no stress, arranging some stuff on computer to get some kind of demo. Little by little, slowly we got there.

So your priority is Jorn band?

It’s not bigger priority. It’s just when you do something and you have something that works, you don’t want to drop out and do something new. Why should I go on stage at 4 o’clock with Masterplan, when I can play at 10 o’clock with Jorn in the same festival and conditions are the same, the same fee. Then it’s not worth it to me to spend a lot of time rehearsing, preparing, a lot of work with record company, a lot of work with arranging a tour, details… When you already have the band which works, it’s all there, you know the songs, you know everything. Maybe we can have quick rehearsal for one or two days, if we didn’t play for a couple of months, just to get back into the groove. Why you should jump out of it and work you ass off just to go with Masterplan or something else to tour.

People ask me to do that project I did with Russell Allen, but both of us are busy with other things and same thing it’d be a lot of work and a lot of afford to do it or to go on tour. Of course, it’s great to do it for the fans, maybe some people would be very happy with it, but I don’t think it’s more people than…well, it’s maybe different types of people, that prefer different type of music, and Masterplan is more that appeals to them and then it’s opposite with people who likes more classic hard rock or metal, they prefer Jorn band. As long as nothing moves in the market in a way that makes it worthwhile… If it was similar to what I’ve done with Avantasia, big gigs, that was really great and it was worth it: it was good credibility for everyone, it was good conditions business wise for everyone to work, everything was a professional, nice people, big stages, and whole thing was on the level which made it worthwhile. Same thing with Masterplan, if the album does well, then maybe we’ll be touring, but that was not the purpose, it was a purpose to write music and record the album. Now we think it’s a great album, but if the record company or

people around the band, if they are not able to get the album to move in the market, it’s gonna be another Masterplan album with me; maybe seeing as a good album by many, but it’s not gonna be revolution, it’s not gonna be big demand all over the world that get us back to the road. That’s how I see it.
So right now there’s no plan for tour with Masterplan, but we’ll see, what’s gonna be with record company and people involved, it’s all about the booking agency or management.

How many songs did you write for this Masterplan?

I wrote every melody and all the lyrics.

What inspires you for writing music and lyrics?

I just like music and I like to perform and I want the message to be honest and real, something that people can identify. I don’t want to construct something to be politically correct just to suit the record company or be smart with the market, “okay, this is new time, so let’s combine this extreme metal with old style” and some other shit just to be original or create something new. That’s not my style at all, I just do what I like to do, when I was a kid, when I grew up, I started to do music, cause I like it - classic rock. Back then it was all about quality, being the real thing, I usually say Elvis quality factor, Elvis never wrote any song himself in his life, he sang other people songs, but he was biggest one ever lived. And today people say, “Oh, they are not original, they don’t write their own songs”; especially in metal and rock scene people do that. But biggest stars ever lived never wrote a song. That’s not because of writing or thinking, it’s just being a great performer, having a great talent, regardless of what you play, any instrument, you have it or you don’t have it. You can do it without having it with house of technology. Most bands that make records today, most of them wouldn’t even get a record deal at 1980, if you turn back time, because it’s simply not good enough as artists, they are good enough today, because they construct their concept and their image thru the computer. You can orchestrate and arrange, use technology as a substitute for a lack of talent. That’s why you can’t find a complete band anymore, almost like with one guitar hero, one drum hero, one bass hero, like in the old days what do people talk about, when they look back, they talked about individuals like Keith Richards, Jimmy Page or John Bonham, Cozy Powell, Randy Rhoads, all kinds of legends, it’s just because the bands were complete, they had deeper quality, all individual musicians were strong characters, that were recognized and noticed. So, you were not just a fan of the band, but of individual people. That’s what changed. So, today most of the guys, like I said, wouldn’t get a record deal 20-30 years ago, cause back then you had to have a talent like Freddy Mercury or Brian May, you hear him play and you know it’s him, and how many of new guitarist you can recognize if don’t know the song, if you can’t see the artist, just by hearing the instrumental part, probably no one. That’s the problem, or maybe it’s not a problem, maybe it’s just a development and we have to accept.

So, there are no new bands that you like?

No, not really. I mean I lik

e sections. I noticed that people nowadays are talking about pieces, “oh, have you heard that part?” they just referred to the sections of the song, but it’s not that one completely song is great, it’s like, “oh, I like this strong mood here, intro and the verse is great”, but then there are pieces which are not really fantastic. But it’s very rare to find complete piece of music that you can say, “Wow, it’s so great, everything is perfect” and that’s what separates the old bands from new ones. Maybe it’s because people don’t have to work physically to become an artist, they’re sitting watching TV, DVDs or playing games, copying what other people doing. You channel your music thru what you experienced and many new bands… they never experienced a lot, they just experienced technology.

Maybe they don’t… while they’re still young, but while they’re growing older; they are getting more and more experience.

No, I don’t think so. It’s not that you can develop. I think when they start to discover what they should have done and if they discover, maybe it’s not too late, but it’s late for their career. They won’t be able to harvest the fruits of a long legacy, because they already did many things that didn’t have that quality and time is running you live and you die, you have limited time on this earth. They say nothing is too late to start something new and that’s true, but in this kind of music we are doing, it’s a long hard way and later you discover what you should do, the worse or more difficult it gets to achieve your goals. I discovered things quite late myself. I knew what I wanted to do when I was young but I didn’t do it. I experimented with many things, maybe it was natural for me to do it, but sometimes when I look back, I think, “yeah, I ended up on some direction I’m comfortable now”, but sometimes I think if I already did that in 1983 or 1989, if I had this understanding or vision already back then!!! Think of the catalogue I’d had have right now with Jorn. The level we are now, we could have been in 1995. Maybe, you’ll never know. But my point is that today people discover they identity, where their heart belongs later.
I think we are more mislead now than before, we all led by development, maybe which is natural. At the same time if people had more time to discover themselves, when they are young instead of being manipulated by media; they demands so much from you: to be politically correct, how to behave, how to think; it’s more problematic with kids now, cause they cannot deal with the problems, like I would probably see as a small problem, for them it would be like almost resign, “I can’t handle this “ This means people lose respect and they freak out more easily. It just they never experienced things except their computers; nobody has to be physical, socialize, communicate. It’s done thru messages. Back when I was young: we agreed to meet at the phone booth, 5 kilometers down the road and you’d stick to your appointment, you’d be there and you had respect for other people.

Yeah, now you can just call and say that you’re not coming or you’re late.

Or send SMS when you are like, “shit he’s waiting for me now, fuck, I just tell him I’m busy, I couldn’t make it, we have to do it some other

day”. You know, people don’t have the same moral anymore and that’s what I don’t like today. But I think time is going circles, younger generation now look back and they demand to feel important, to feel that they matter. Society wants people naked, they want people to be the same, they want people to be productive and good citizens. Yeah, we all wanna be good people, but if we can’t express ourselves and feel important, then individual character is not that important anymore, originality is gone from almost every city very soon. The guy who was respected before, because he was kind of different, he is a freak now, he is strange. Maybe I’m just old fashioned. It’s just philosophic way I’m thinking about where we are now, we just wanna live our lives, make the best out of it, for me it is doing music, my chance to be my own boss, to complete my dream, which I had since I was 5.

Who’d you be if you couldn’t be a musician?

Strange to think about that, cause I like so many things. I’m not sure who’d I be. Maybe I’d still be the guy who’d work with something artistic. I think, I’d be quite good producer of the movies, or director, not necessarily an actor, well, I could be an actor as well; but I think I’d be very good with directing movies and stuff.

What kind of movies do you prefer?

Probably, all kinds of movies. It’s a link between music we do and movies we like. I like “Blade Runner” (Бегущий по лезвию) with Harrison Ford, I like science fiction, when it’s really well done, also like old historic movies like the one with Russell Crowe “Gladiator”, “Master and Commander”, the one with Russell Crowe. (Хозяин морей: на краю Земли) I think I’d be into that kind of thing… “Robin Hood” another with Russell Crowe, I love Russell Crowe, he’s fantastic actor, what I like especially about him is that he has everything in one guy, it’s like Mel Gibson was kind of sleek as well, when he was younger, he was great actor, still is. Kevin Costner doing some great stuff, I like him too, but what I like about Russell Crowe - he’s Man! When you look back on his history, he was always a real man, all the roles he played, macho.

Maybe he reminds you of yourself in some way, that’s why you like him.

I don’t know. Probably, I’d try to live up to similar if I acted. Maybe I‘d want to see myself in the same way, maybe I’d work towards that.

And what was the last movie you saw?

It was actually “Robin Hood” in the theater.

I guess you don’t have much time for watching movies or reading books and stuff.

I don’t read much books, hard to read books, maybe I should read more now when I get older. I have books I like to read, I actually like to read Bible again, for example; I used to read a lot Bible when I was young. My background kind of Christians, my family on mother side used to live on the farm, small town where my father grew up. At weekends I used to be on the farm far away from that town again, only spread out land… I used to go on Sunday school before these new times; there were still dirt roads, horse and carriage that would bring the milk. I remember this still been in No

rway in mid 70th, in Russia probably in mid 80th *laughs*

Have you visited some historical places in Russia?

No, I hadn’t time, I didn’t go to the Red Square either, I was so tired when I was there last time, and we flew from Moscow to Japan. I wish I could come back and do it again; and then my drummer –Willy got those problems. He’s got meat stuck in his throat and he couldn’t breathe and they put pipes with scissors in his throat to cut up the meat and another pipe with a camera. He was like aggghh… It was scary, though now it’s funny. The hospital looked like asylum from 1940th, but it was a hospital, it looked really old, nothing on the bed: no bed linen, no pillows, one table and chairs, so his memories of Russia aren’t really good, but nice people, nice town…
So, we had a nice time at the gig and at night at the restaurant.

There you ate some kind of meat with bear claws? I saw it on some pictures, you put those bear claws in your mouth.

Okay, now I remember, yeah, I did, I sometimes do that. *laughs* We had a lot of fun. The thing is that we had so many great moments; especially when you travel a lot, and you’d like to remember it all, but sometimes I forget, but people like you remind me. And now I remember that moment.

Probably, you should write it down in some blog and share it with people.

Maybe, I should.

The song “Kisses from you” sounds a little bit like Queen?

Yeah, that was the idea or partly the idea.

So, you had the idea that you wanted to write the song that sounded like Queen?

No, I had this song from before, I wrote this song before Masterplan already many years ago, I just never used that, it didn’t have all the lyrics, I had a melody… I already mentioned this idea to Roland five years ago or so, that I have this song “Kisses From You” and it would be funny thing to record, like mixture between Queen and The Kings, The Beatles kind of style and then, of course, his guitars on it automatically started doing Brian May influence. I guess it’s just different song; we just wanted to do it for fun, actually. In a way, it’s kind of obvious, it’s a kind of Queen-ish, same time it’s a kind of tribute to Queen, to tell people we listened to Queen, when we were children and we respect what they did, we love their songs. Same time we get to show our different quality, to show that we have other qualities too, we want to do something different, we are not stuck in the limit of one thing, and we easily can make music like this if we want to. To enjoy, to honor the people we were inspired by. And we still play those albums sometimes, you know. We discover every time how great the songs were and by writing this song, putting the same vibe, because it’s in your blood since 70th. That’s what people don’t understand sometimes, when they wanna criticize bands for sounding sometimes similar, I think sometimes it’s more serious. It’s serious, but we’ve done it so naturally that it’s not difficult; people think it’s complicated; you spend a lot of efforts analyzing all those things, trying to be smart. It’s just a song I did; it was quickly done, i

t’s not trying to be smart with everything. It’s obvious, we are not stupid, we know it sounds like Queen; then all of those people in the internet start making comments, “oh, you are trying to be…” we don’t have to, because we have our own thing, but we can do a lot of things and nobody can tell you what to do. Life is more than one thing and you should be person who tries different things, try not to be serious with everything you do. So, sometimes try different things, I think, is great. We might be dark inside with many things, but other things we’re not. Everything has its time when you are home and you are private, you’re just a normal guy.

So what’s your favorite song from “Time to be King”?

I think it’s “Time to be King”, there’s a lot of good songs there, I like “The Dark Road”, but I think “Time to be King” is a song that more represents me.

So you feel like a king?

I think it’s time now to make a statement who we are and what we do, we are not young kids anymore.

Not princes *laughs*

Yeah, times are changing as well, new era we’re moving into that makes us the oldest ones now. Very soon we are the older generation of metal or hard rock scene. So it’s the right time to make a statement like this, it’s time to be king.

Just came into my mind another word that describes you, Viking, given by Amanda.

Oh yeah, yeah Amanda Somerville, ah, she’s a great woman, I love her, she’s funny, very nice, very positive woman, we had a lot of fun when we toured with Avantasia.

I bet you have a lot of funny stories.

Well. Andre tried to drink some whiskey with me and fell asleep on the backstage, so we got to wake him up and take him to the stage; he has that funny suit like Jack Sparrow, that high boots.
He was so drunk that couldn’t catch the microphone, I think there was video on YouTube, though it was removed some days later, as I tried to find later, it wasn’t there.

Yeah, I saw it, very funny.

Yeah, very funny, though I don’t think Andre thinks it’s funny, I think he’s a little bit embarrassed. But you can easily have it removed if you don’t like it; it’s not problem, if you contact YouTube. I have a lot of things on YouTube I don’t like, there’s something I like. Many artists I grew up on… I saw there stuff which is hilarious, some stuff so funny just because it represents different time. Someone got dark, and then you see some jazz band from 1983, something they did before. Everyone has its past and nobody’s perfect either, we all have childhood where we grew up like normal kids and nobody’s the prince of darkness from the moment you are born. Then destiny takes you to the directions, you don’t know where you gonna be, you could be like Las Vegas glamorous singer, you could be an artist which totally different from what you’ve been in 20-25, maybe you were pop singer and when you’re 40, you start working with different people, who are in metal. It’s like with Goth bands and all bands with female who sings opera, most of that women have the past, where they probably sang in the theatre, they have

some classical background, so you can see them singing in churches and nothing is heavy at all. And now they are playing in heavy band.

Back to Avantasia, you were collaborating with Tobi already many times; tell me how it is to working with him?

He’s a hard working guy, he always works, very creative, very productive guy, nothing is stopping him, he’s very enthusiastic, very positive, very determined about the way he wants to go, he never gives up, if he tried to work with somebody, if one solution doesn’t work, he tries another and in the end something really good comes out of it. That song they did together with Klaus and a video, it was a good opportunity for Tobias to do some Edguy shows with Scorpions. I think it’s important for Tobi to try to get more recognized in Germany, to get more out of his career. So, to play like a special guest for a band like Scorpions which has so many people, probably not 10 % will be on Edguy concert, but he can do it in front of a lot of people and get a lot of new fans by doing a tour like this. He’s working in a style and direction which is not mine, really, my style is what I’m doing with Jorn band, it’s when I feel most comfortable and natural. I can do my style but on somebody else’s music, but with Jorn everything is my style: guitars, arrangement, band sound, song writing, everything fits together. It’s a classic powerful recipe or a formula, which I grew up with, that’s where my heart is closest, where I feel good, I like other bands and I like to work with other people, but I couldn’t write anything like that myself, because I wouldn’t inspired too much to do that. The thing is when Tobi writes something, he knows my style, he can make the music he wants, but he can think about vocal or style which would fit to the music, usually perfect for me, because he knows my voice. It wouldn’t be the same if I wrote for him, like if I wrote the song like “ Below” or “Road of the Cross”, he would probably not sing it well, cause it’s not his style, but if I’d do something which would be similar to what he’s doing with Avantasia and Edguy, singing wise, cause you can always put the melody and the vocal together with music, doesn’t have to be classic rock vocal like I do , could be something different and it would probably work, if you make some adjustments. I think he’s clever with that, he thinks about it and he knows what people he would like to ask and he has the ideas. Like the song he did with Alice Cooper , sounds like it was written by Alice Cooper, best Cooper’s song in 20 years, you know, *laughs* but it’s not. It’s Tobias who wrote it for Alice Cooper and he was lucky to get Alice to sing it, dragging him out of the farm or whatever into the studio.

If you’re writing a song and suddenly have in mind that it would fit somebody else’s vocal…

I sometimes have the ideas, that it could be sung by a woman, then I would probably not record the song or do it as a duet or save it for later, maybe one day somebody can do it, or it doesn’t fit the context we’re working at. It’d fit what I want it to fit, cause you can fit anything, it’s up to you. On the earlier albums I did that even with the Jorn band, there were always one or two songs sticks out, which sounded very di

fferent. For example, if you look at the earlier albums like “Out To Every Nation”, there’s a song “Behind The Clown”, which is totally different from the rest of the album, also the end track, there’s a lot of keyboard there - “When Angel Wings Were White”; songs that people almost forget, the reason for that, those songs could have been the pop tracks, it could have been on Genesis, Marillion type of band, it could have been something different, but I put some heavy guitars on it and it was arranged to become part of hard rock or heavy metal oriented album.

And I think I stopped thinking like this more thru the last albums I did: "The Duke", "Lonely Are the Brave" and "Spirit Black"; more pure, more classic to the point. You can make it slightly more interesting by moving a little bit here a little there into different musical landscapes, but the core is there, you know what you get from the whole albums, some stuff are divers, but it always comes back like red thread thru the whole album, makes it more solid and less experimental, makes your identity stronger, because people know what to expect, “oh, yeah, that’s Jorn”!

Yeah, well, but they can say it because you can’t confuse your voice with somebody else’s.

Yeah, I know, but on the last three albums I think it’s more than that, it’s also the band credit.
Just like Willy, the drummer, he went to bed now, because he’s not young anymore, so he needs a nap to have energy for playing tonight. He’s been with me for many years and you can’t replace him, because he has such a big identity and the last three albums sound like that, not only because of my vocals, but also because you have the drummer that really hits the drums and play with fantastic groove.

You can’t compare such a great drummers such as Vinny Appice played with DIO and Black Sabbath and Simon Wright play with AC/DC, Cozy Powell who died, used to play with Rainbow and Whitesnake. These drummers have this punch and attitude and only a few left now. Seems like modern drummers, they are all technical, they play thrrrr fast, sounds like rattle snakes, very thin sounding, it’s more technique than groove and punch . They use their wrists and ankles so they play fast on the bass drums, but there’s no power behind each hit. You can ask yourself why these old drummers still play great hard rock and heavy metal, what separate them from new death metal bands or Goth metal bands or whatever. It’s that the old ones really play the drums. I prefer people who know how to play drums with power. I don’t like people who play like just drummer and have guitarist or somebody growling, the sound is so heavy and there’s nothing, nothing behind it. I’m not affected by this playing, no movement not behind every hit, there’s no any passion in the play, it’s just mathematical technical play. I mean they are good technically, that’s great, but I don’t like. I like some progressive bands, some jazz bands.

Like what?

Well, if we talk about drummers, when you hear guys like, for example, Simon Philips, he’s so good… Steve Smith. These guys you, probably, don’t know about, Jeff Porcaro who died, he played with Toto the old days, such a fantastic blues.
I can except to like those

technical drummer, if you say like a drummer in Rush, fantastic way of playing, he can do both, he’s kind of technical, but at the same time he knows how to hit the drums. In general, in all instruments I like the expression; I like people who are not afraid to be physical with their instruments.

That’s why Zakk Wylde become a guitar legend with Ozzy, because he has a tone, he can play one tone and the other guys can play really fast and then, when he goes on stage next to them, he can plug in, he can play one tone and people would say, “wow, what a sound!” That’s the same with all great legends, with all great heroes, they don’t have to play fast, they can use just one tone and you gonna know them, it’s the tone and attitude, that they put behind and how do you transcend it, it’s not something you were born automatically, you have to have a talent and gift or a freedom inside to open up, transfer this expression to the people, not being scared, being self confident about yourself, when you love something so much, you just want people to feel it, same with singing, that’s why Dio was so fantastic and unique, because he wanted to share his feelings and thoughts about life and living and his frustrations, he wanted to share this with people and he knew that, if he felt like he did and performed, other people would feel it too, so he had no boundaries or barricades for that . That’s why the people start to love his performance, that’s why he became so legendary in the end.

What did you feel when you’re recording a song for him?

Oh, it’s very personal song to me, he always gets thru the barricades, when the rest of the world changes little by little throughout the 80th and 90th, he always stood there, was always there doing the same thing like a solid rock. When everyone tried … Some came out from 70th and they played totally different style and then they played suddenly this 80th melodic stuff and changed, they used to paint their faces and used to be kind of crazy and had this more experimental image in musical direction, then they suddenly came so decent in black suits and the music was also different like product of capitalism, or be speculative about the market to put the right recipe, to put the right ingredients together to sell more. That’ s where Ronnie always stood on his own, out of this, they tried to be politically correct, he just did what he wanted to do, that’s what I enjoy so much, that’s why he became a symbol for me. I could achieve my dream, if I work hard and never give up, so when people say to me, “Ah, you have to stop doing this, and think a lit bit different direction”. I almost fail sometimes, I thought, “okay, maybe you are right”, but then I looked to Ronnie and he was always so full of magic all the time and he showed me that it was possible. So, he became kind of mentor to me, I had tour with him ten years ago and his kindness… I met so many people in the music business, both old legends and new musicians that came along in the last few years, there were always a lot of arrogant, a lot of egotism people, nobody wants to be compared with anything from before, they all want to reinvent the wheel, they always lie about that things. When it’s obvious that they listen to Dimebag or Ritchie Blackmore or Randy Rhoads or someone famous from the past they say, “No, no, no, I used to listen to this fantastic jazz player from 50th,” they talked about someone strange to make it special, but it’s just bullshit, I think. Maybe some has such strange influence. That’s why I wanna bow down and honor to him and show people that you shouldn’t be afraid to tell the world, that this guy meant so much to you, even if you have your own career… that maybe you wouldn’t have become the artist you are today if not him. So, I did the opposite from what people do today, they don’t wanna be associated with anyone else, cause they are afraid to be a copy, I just wanted to tell the whole world that this guy was fucking unbelievable, you can’t replace him and without him I wouldn’t become the singer I am today. And he deserved the recognition for what he has done. Long-Live Rock and Roll!!

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