Rock Nightmare

RN: So how is the tour going? The other night I caught you guys opening for Cinderella in Philadelphia. That was a great show.      

Jacob: It was so much fun. It was slammed. Cinderella is one of my favorite bands. We’ve played a bunch of shows with them and it‘s always fun.      

RN: When did the Tragic City Symphony CD come out.      

Jacob: It’s kind of crazy in August 2008 we released Tragic City Symphony on our own. And the song “Save My Soul “ went to radio and it went to top 5 on the Active Rock Independent Chart. And after that labels started calling and reaching out and wanting to do a deal. We already decided after we got through with our Universal deal that were not going to go with another major. But people started making really good offers and it made sense so we ended up going with Megaforce. The record that you have is the one we put out on our own. The new one has the labels logos on it but it’s the exact same album. And they released it in August 2009 so they came out a year apart.      

RN: Tragic City Symphony sounds like a combination between Life In Reverse and Slave To The Machine was that what you guys where going for?      

Jacob: It’s definitely what we where going for. Slave To The Machine was more like a stripped down rock n roll record. With Tragic City Symphony we wanted it to be real polished. So we got the guy that did Pyromania, Hysteria and all those great Def Leppard records. We got the guy that mixed that. We got Jason Elgin to mix a track. Mike Shipley to mix a track we got Beau Hill the guy that did all the Ratt, Winger and Warrant records to mix a track. We went over board on the production because we decided we wanted something real polished just to do it. Just to make it larger than life sounding. Our next record will be way stripped down again. So we’re having fun with it.      

RN: I love Slave To The Machine it’s a great CD.      

Jacob: That’s Tom Keifer’s favorite out of all of them. That’s what turned him on to us originally. He loved the album and one day our Manager called and said hey Tom Keifer from Cinderella wants you to call him. I called him he said I got your record from when we played dates together on the Poison tour and I have to tell you it the best record I have heard in years and he wanted the guy that mixed the record Jason Elgin to do some stuff for his solo record. That’s how the friendship started.      

RN: When will you be releasing your next CD?      

Jacob: We had a new record written for a while now. But we have not gotten around to recording it because we have been busy touring behind Tragic City Symphony. But this year we will get around to recording.      

RN: Do you have any plans on recording a live CD? Your CDs really don’t do your live shows any justice. Live you guys are a lot heavier. It’s almost like two different bands.      

Jacob: Yes we have talked about doing a live album at some point. It’s just been really hard to coordinate. But we would eventually like to do one for sure.    

RN: What I like about you guys is that you’re not a throw back band. You’re a new version of what I grew up listening to. You can hear where you guys came from but at the same time you’re not trying to redo what’s been done.      

Jacob: I’m glade you said that. Because that’s how we feel too. And the challenge is when you open up for a band like Cinderella or Motley Crue it’s a lot different that opening for God Smack or Hinder or a lot of the newer bands. Because the 15 and 16 year olds that show up to watch Hinder play. You don’t have to be on top of your game because these people haven’t been to a lot of shows. You don’t have to be on top of your game to make them think you did a kick ass show. When your playing for Cinderella fans or Motley Crue fans, people who have been to a million shows, and are very hard core music lovers you better be on you’re A game or they will call you out. Because these fans here are music fans they’ve been to several shows and they know what’s up.      

RN: What do you like most about touring?      

Jacob: The coolest thing to me is meeting people after the show. People that respect the music. People that are fans of what we’re doing and meeting true music fans. That’s the best part of touring for me.      

RN: Tell us how the Ship Rocked Cruise works. You guys are booked to be on that again right ?      

Jacob: We play one or 2 nights. If you’re an artist you have to do meet n greets. That’s our favorite part. Again music is my life and I love meeting people sitting talking music that’s the best thing in the world to me. We play one or 2 nights. The big bands, like last year it was Queensryche, Ratt us and Skid Row. Ratt, Skid Row and Queensryche they only played one night. The newer bands like us we play twice. And you have a few days off in between. Than there’s all kinds of activities on the ship that the artist participate in. Family Feud was one of them we did last time, it was us against another band. Like Rock N Roll Jeopardy stuff like that, it’s a lot of fun. If any one gets the opportunity to go on one of those Ship Rocked Cruises I would definitely recommend it. 
      

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