RC: We're chillin', literally with the guys
from Los Angeles, kind of chilly out, on
the tour bus. This is 3rd Strike , debut
CD Lost Angel on Hollywood Records,
if I'm not mistaken.
Jim (lead vocalist): That's it.
RC: Now we just played the single "No Light", that's a pretty intense
video. Where did you guys shoot that, was it just a place where
you like to chill?
Jim: Yeah, we live down there in the harbor area of LA, it's just a
place where people like to go and party. I got busted there a
couple of times.
RC: Oh really!
Jim: Yeah, it was 2 diferent days one was in Tomecula at the Metal
Malicous Compound and one day at a place called Sunken City
from the 30s, it fell down into water, there's a lot of concrete
and broken stuff...
RC: Yeah I saw the ruins of artwork. This is Jim lead vocalist, we
just saw them, these guys were eminating cynergy off the stage.
The crowd really seemed to be digin' yah. They were gettin' down
out there, is that a rush for you?
Jim: That's my new rush.
RC: Have you been in any bands before this?
Jim: The other guitarist Todd and I started a band in 88 called
Dime Store Hoods. We came up with Downset and
Rage, Manhole and Deftones, back then we played with
Korn and Deftones a long time ago on they're one tour.
This band has been together about 2 years. We found the right
guys and it's really clicken, it's workin.
RC: Where did you pick Eric up at?
Jim: I'll let him answer that.
Eric(guitarist): Rehab.
RC: Rehab?
Eric: Yeah, I was living up in San Fransisco and getting into a lot of
trouble up there. I moved back down to LA and went into sober
living in St. Peter and that's kind of where we're all from and
that's kind of where I met up with these guys through friends of
friends, it's kind of like that.
RC: Stayin' sober?
Eric: Yeah, I do my best, we don't really party too much on the road.
When I get home I like to party a little bit but we're really not
home that much so I keep it tight on the road so there's no
problems, yah know?
RC: How did Hollywood Records catch word of you guys?
Eric: We recorded a demo at a place called Skull 2 owned by the guys from
Pennywise and Fletcher remembered Todd and I from the old band
that we were in and liked the music and said he was gonna help us
out and the next day the manager came through and we worked a
deal with him and then like a month later we were signed. They had
this big showcase for labels, 5 or 6 diferent labels. Then 2 weeks
later Hollywood came to our practice and pretty much said what we
wanted to hear, that they needed a band like us to break and help
they're label. They kept thier word and they're doin' a really
good job.
RC: The video promotions department really wants to work it. Where as a
lot of labels have so many acts they just throw stuff at you.
Jim: Thats the thing we could have gotten lost in the mix but for the
rock end of Hollywood Records we're it, pretty much, so we knew
we'ld be pushed really big. And if Hollywood is Disney it's
Disney's money, it's pretty good to throw around, it's workin'.
RC: Plans for a new video?
Jim: We definately have plans for a new video we just don't know the
second single yet. It all depends on how this one does and how
the record does. There's a couple things they're talkin' about
cuz we definately have a couple singles on the record I think.
So we'll see, if it's a heavier one or a mellow one I don't know.
RC: Now you're doing a remake of "Paranoid"?
Jim: We originally did it for a soundtrack. The movie Ultimate X the X
games movie,it was supposed to be called paranoid and we were
supposed to do the title track for it.We went in to the studio
to record it and brought DJ Mugs in from Cypress Hill. He
came in and cut on the song and changed up a little rhyme in
the middle, added to it. They ended up not calling it that and
using the original "Paranoid" in the movie. They still use ours
a little. It came out really good and we were really positive
about it and using it on our record as a kind of tribute to
Sabath done in a new metal style. We get a lot of old metal
people trip on that but whatever.
RC: I listen to commercial radio and if I heard the original version
of "Paranoid" AGAIN, I don't know, it's like the 1st guitar rif
I learned, what about you Eric?
Eric: Well we were kind of skeptical , but it came out so good and we
think we did it justice so why not throw it on the record and see
what people think about it.
RC: Yeah, right.
Jim: It goes over well live.
RC: Your on Ozzfest this year aren't you?
Jim: Yeah, at least half.
RC: Comin' through Pittsburgh?
Jim: Yeah comin' back, hope it won't be raining then.
RC: No tarentual downpours like X-Fest.
Eric: It's not that bad.
RC: I know you like the weather warmer, but I wish you the best of
luck with the new CD Lost Angel. Does it have any meaning? Where
you kind of feeling lost in LA?
Jim: Yeah, it's a reference to LA. Growing up where I grew up I ran
with a gang for about 7 years. The things I saw... people say
oh your from LA, Baywatch and all that, well that wasn't a
reality for me.
RC: They haven't seen the miles of ghetto.
Jim: Yeah, to put that out, LA is a "Lost Angel" to me.
RC: How do you break away from gangs? From what I understand it's
like the mofia once your in you can't get out.
Jim: I'm pretty much affiliated til I die. I'm not active any more.
I got the respect from a lot of high up dudes, they pretty much
told me to make them proud and do this music thing for real.
Most of my partners were locked up, doin' life or getting
killed and I was next, I knew I was next.
RC: That's smart to know when your #s are up.
Jim: Hell yeah, theres no future in it, it's a bad life.
RC: Congrats on getting away, I've known people fall into it. You're
out here doin' something positive and if it takes negative
experiences to get to that... yah know.
Jim: I have a lot to write about, a lot of singers don`t have that
experience.
RC: Not even the ones that pretend, and there's a lot out there.
Well we're gonna cut to the video check these guys out they
rock, they rage, and they're a hell of a bunch of musicians.
Thanks guys.
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