RC: Yes indeed, Rock Circus is breaking it's cherry
here at the Hard Rock Cafe, we're with Mr. Marc
Copely. RCA recording artist, this is his new CD
Limited Lifetime Guarentee, which I've been
digging. The title couldn't be more true. You had an
incident with a moose in Maine, left him devestated,
broken arms and stuff. I'm sure he's told the story
so much, I'm just giving a brief summation of it.
After the accident, was this a point in your life
when you realized you didn't have any focus on where
the direction and style of your music was going, and
this allowed for that?
Marc: Yeah, it gave me time to actually sit around and
think about stuff. And to think about what I wanted
to do with my life, as far as a musician. I've
always written songs and I've always played guitar
for people.
RC: James Thompson I was reading, king of the blues.
Marc: Yeah, yeah, James Thompson. I played with some
great blues guys, as well as alternative artists,
stuff like that. It just kind of made me think, and
I thought, writing is the way to go for me. So I
just started writing a lot, and it kind of led to
this record.
RC: Now are these the lyrics of your lifetime or just,
in the analogy of your lifetime?
Marc: Lifetime, mmmhhh... I think everybody's lyrics are
all part of their lifetime. Depending on how they
view things, and writers think about stuff. Yeah,
you know, some of it's break up stuff, some of it's
getting pissed off, some of it's being happy, you
know, it's all about life.
RC: Now you had Dave Warner come in, and he helped co-
produce it, and he helped write some songs. How much
input did he have as far as writing with you, was
he easy to work with?
Marc: Yeah, David's really smart. He was once an artist,
so he understands how an artist thinks, and how it
tends to work for me, because I have to sing the
thing. So in writing it, if it just didn't sing
well, or I wasn't comfortable, we would abandon it
and keep going.
RC: Did you have any prior demo releases, anything you
worked on, on a 4 track or 8 track.
Marc: Yeah, I always did that stuff. I was just to shy
to release it. I was always like, it sucks, I don't
want to do it.
RC: How did you break out if that shell of shyness.
Marc: (pointing down at the CD and laughing) I had no
choice.
RC: Yeah, they kind of forced you in to it. Now you
have some proficient players on this album. Josh
Freese, he's from A Perfect Circle, on drums...
Marc: He's amazing.
RC: And Dave Hall playing bass, good sh**. Are they out
on the road with you now?
Marc: No, those two guys are playing with their own
bands as usual, so I got my own guys here.
(symphonic elevator music in background grows louder)
RC: Is it me or did that just get louder.
Marc: This is absolutely horrific. I don't really know
what the hell is going on man. (laughing)
RC: Obviously they do everything except hard rock at
the Hard Rock Cafe.
Marc: This is not hard rock man, this is soft f***ing
sh**.
RC: So how long in the studio did you spend? Did you
have a lot of material before you went in?
Marc: Oh yeah, I always had a lot of material with
David. We write a lot and we enjoy it, so it's easy
to keep working. We had probably 25 songs going in
to the record. We recorded 14 of them, and 11 made
the record.
RC: What did you do with the other 3? Are you going to
save them for the next album, or would you release
them on like a B side single?
Marc: A couple of them are going to be B sides on
singles. A couple of them maybe the next record,
we'll see what happens.
RC: They tell me you're doing real well on college
radio. What seems to be your strongest markets, as
far as college radio?
Marc: Yeah, college radio was the thing that I listened
to a lot when I was a kid, ya know, in college.
It means a lot to me that college radio is picking
up on it. I think college kids are really using
their heads and they want to hear something
different, something sophisticated, that will maybe
challenge them.
RC: Not something repetitive, like you're being spanked
with a rubber hose, literally, all day long.
Marc: Right man, I don't think college kids are in to
boy bands and Britney Spears, thank God.
RC: Even a lot of the hard rock radio stations I find to
be repetitive. They need to broaden their playlists.
You go to NY, you don't hear a song repeated in 8
hours on some of their rock stations, ya know?
Marc: Yeah, the same with Boston. I went to school and
grew up in Boston, it's the same thing there. We
could listen to WERS, it was like a college radio
thing, it was great because they'ld have different
shows all the time. A ragae show, a jazz show, a
blues show, so it was great to be exposed.
RC: It's that eclectic, where you can help out a lot of
artist's. I've found that as the world's population
grows you've got more artists coming out of it, with
limited time for the major networks to play it.
That's just the way it is, so college is a great way
to bust out.
Marc: Pittsburgh's a good radio town, in general. The X
has been good to me. I listen to it all day here and
you can hear different things happening. David being
from Pittsburgh, this is like my second home. I
wrote most of the album here with David. So
Pittsburgh's like the home base of the ablum too.
RC: Oh, wow, that's unique. Now where in this town would
you whole up to write?
Marc: David's place, I stayed at his joint. We'ld wake
up in the morning and make coffee, his girlfriend
would split and go to work. We'ld be like, all
right, let's go, start playing.
RC: Start getting in to it, the motivations there.
Marc: Oh yeah, so this is great.
RC: Now on the video shoot you did for "Surprise," you
being a little shy, was that a difficult process to
get in front of the camera?
Marc: No man, I loved it. I mean, there was a beautiful
girl involved, she was hot. She comes walking in,
the director gets her all dressed up and all slinky.
He puts her in front of me and he's like, "what do
you think, is she going to work for you?" And I just
sat there going, "I f***ing love rock-n-roll, this
is great!"
RC: Is this gonna work for you, are you serious?
Marc: Bring in 10 or 12 more of them and let's decide,
it was great.
RC: Bring in the whole casting agency. I'ld like to wish
you the best of luck. It was a pleasure to meet you
and to come to the Hard Rock and listen to some
symphonic music. We'll be looking forward to the
show tonight, we'll be rocking out a little more.
Right now, here's "Surprise" on Rock Circus.
For More Info Go To www.marccopely.com
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