Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 1 - The Rods
Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 1 - The Rods
Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 1 - The Rods
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tour. I heard things like if Blackmoore doesn’t like<br />
the Guitar Player he’ll throw the opening band off the<br />
tour......anyways because I’m such a huge Ritchie<br />
Blackmoore fan I wanted to meet the guy so one night<br />
I go up to a Deep Purple crew member and I ask “Hey<br />
where’s Ritchie’s dressing room?” <strong>The</strong>y said “Over<br />
there, why though? you can’t bother him...anyways<br />
I walked over to Ritchie’s dressing room, introduced<br />
myself and I then asked him who was his favorite Guitar<br />
Player? he replied “Jeff Beck” I then said to him that’s<br />
great because Beck is my favorite guitarist too and then<br />
you’re my second favorite Guitarist...He laughed and<br />
was very friendly with me so that was my experience<br />
meeting Ritchie Blackmoore.<br />
JROCk: since the band has gotten back together are<br />
you discovering that there is more of a demand for the<br />
band and that maybe you are discovering that you have<br />
fans half way around the world in places where the band<br />
has never even performed before?<br />
DF: - I think it’s a little bit of both....I mean like I said<br />
back in the day <strong>The</strong> Management wasn’t really telling us<br />
how popular we were...It wasn’t until the band reformed<br />
with the Internet that we started getting all these e-mails<br />
from all around the world telling us how much they<br />
loved us, wanting us to come and play live in their City,<br />
and in some cases countries where we’ve never even<br />
played.<br />
JROCk: so I know that the band has been working on a<br />
new CD that you’re planning to release in the spring of<br />
2010 .......Have you guys signed with a label or what?<br />
DF: - Right now we’re not with a label and as a matter<br />
of fact since the band has been back together we’ve<br />
been booking all our own shows and managing the band<br />
ourselves.<br />
JROCk: It’s just amazes me how the music industry<br />
has changed...I mean today you have all these band on<br />
MysPaCe and the internet releasing their own music<br />
and marketing themselves these days.<br />
DF: - yeah it wasn’t like that when <strong>The</strong> <strong>Rods</strong> was starting<br />
out...I happen to think it’s just great the way bands<br />
have been able to cut out the middle man being the<br />
record labels and pretty much do things on their own.<br />
JROCk: In regards to the new <strong>Rods</strong> CD I understand<br />
that Ronnie James Dio appears on two tracks.<br />
DF: - Ronnie did sing on two tracks but it’s not for<br />
sure those songs are going to make the album....It really<br />
depends on what kind of deal we get worked out<br />
for the new album.<br />
JROCk: so once the new album gets released I<br />
imagine that the band will begin do a little more of an<br />
extensive tour?<br />
DF: - That would be nice, that is the goal, but it really<br />
depends on the success of the album. <strong>The</strong> new album<br />
will sound like tradional <strong>Rods</strong> music from the 80’s.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are a few songs that sound a little different but if<br />
you’ve liked the albums we’ve done in the past you’ll<br />
like this new album we have coming out.<br />
JROCK: I was listening to the first <strong>Rods</strong> album just<br />
last night and I was really impressed with the fact<br />
that you guys were a band from the 80’s and yet you<br />
sounded like this great, classic rock band out of the<br />
70’s. what really impressed me about the band on<br />
that first album is the way both your vocals and guitar<br />
playing really stand out.<br />
DF: - I think that shows the band’s power as a trio...I<br />
mean when there’s just Bass, drums, and one guitar<br />
every, single note really stands out...I mean as a Guitar<br />
Player I’m playing both the rhythm and the lead parts<br />
and if I make mistake and play a bad note believe me<br />
it’ll be heard.<br />
JROCk: you guys also toured with both Iron Maiden<br />
and Juda Priest early on in your career....what memories<br />
do you have from touring with both those bands?<br />
DF: - yes we toured with both those bands...we toured<br />
with Priest in the states which was just great...Rob<br />
Halford has always been one of my favorite singers<br />
so I really enjoyed touring with them...and then in regards<br />
to Iron Maiden we toured with them in the u.k.<br />
and I just remember how welcoming they were to us.<br />
JROCk: Back in 2004 you released a solo album....<br />
what was the biggest difference for you between that<br />
album and the other albums you’v recorded w/<strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Rods</strong>?<br />
DF: - well on my solo album I concentrated on my<br />
6 <strong>Issue</strong> 9 - January 07, 2010 Copyright 2009. <strong>Chaotic</strong> <strong>Riffs</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> - www.chaoticriffsmagazine.com
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