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Jeffrey Perrin Dennis Pearne Gideon King & City Blog Eric Kilburn •Our 35th Year Proudly Promoting All Things Music• FREE! July 2020 Dennis Pearne Eric Kilburn Jeffrey Perrin Gideon King & City Blog Reboot: King’s X - January 2006 Due to the unpredictability of the think itʼs going well. making records with Ogre Tones. It feels more love with each other and said, “Man, weʼve Coronavirus, we are temporarily halting METRONOME: Your new album is called like Kingʼs X to me. We had Michael Wagener got to make a record together.” So we figured our club and concert listings. They will Ogre Tones. How did you come up with producing which was a wonderful thing. out how we could do it, we did it, and now continue when things begin to stabilize. In the that name? METRONOME: How did you guys meet we have Ogre Tones. meantime, we’re bringing back old interviews We just jumped around with different Michael? METRONOME: I wanted to talk to you that you may be interested in. If you like what things and that word came up because of the Some how he was at one of our national about your album Manic Moonligh. Was you’re reading, say thank you to Greg Frediani tones we were using, it sounded like “Ogre.” shows a couple of years ago. He was on it hard to translate the songs on Manic of The Vinyl Vault in Littleton, MA. He’s the Then we came up with Ogre Tones and finally the bus hanging with us and he was telling Moonlight in the live arena? guy that suggested it. Enjoy. landed on that one. us about this workshop that he does where I donʼt know if it was necessarily hard or if they came across, but we just did Kingʼs X recently inked a deal it. When we record records, we know with the German based InsideOut that weʼre not going to be able to do America and have released their everything that we do on a record. newest offering,Ogre Tones. I had an For live we just reinvent the songs, opportunity to catch up with Kingʼs X and thatʼs what we did for Manic drummer Jerry Gaskill as they started Moonlight. We had to reinvent certain a new tour in support of the album... things because we didnʼt have the loops with us. We didnʼt prepare or METRONOME: Where are you? make that happen. Weʼre in Baltimore, Maryland. We METRONOME: So you didnʼt bring just arrived. any machines with you for that METRONOME: How long have you tour? been on the road? No, no machines. It was still Since October 19th. That was the just the three of us playing our first show. Weʼre in the first week of instruments. the tour. METRONOME: You guys have METRONOME: Are you touring the always had great album jackets in country? the past and this one in particular is Yeah, weʼre doing coast to coast. really aggressive and psychedelic. METRONOME: Will you be making Do you guys get to sit down with a trip to Europe? the people that do the artwork for Not this year. The plan is to go over your albums? at the beginning of next year. Mainly, theyʼll hear the record and METRONOME: Kingʼs X has a new come back with an idea and at that record label, InsideOut Music. How point we decide what we do like and did you develop that relationship? METRONOME: I noticed on Ogre Tones people come to the studio and watch him what we donʼt like and we work together to Actually, weʼve had a relationship with that you moved away from alot of the loops work. A hands on kind of thing, asking come up with the final product. them for quite some time. Ty has been that you recorded for Manic Moonlight. questions, and seeing how itʼs all done by METRONOME: So they actually get to releasing records on that label for a while. Was that intentional? Michael. So he asked if we would like to be hear the tracks before the artwork is I also did my solo record on that label, so We did Manic Moonlight just for something the band that he recorded for that. We said, done, right? weʼve had a relationship with them for quite different. It was experimental and we tried hey, what the heck, this is Michael Wagener, Right, we want them to hear the music a few years. Everything fell in place for us to new things and we thought, this is cool for why not! We did four songs the first time we so they get an idea of the feel of it and they put this record out together, we have, and I now, but we did go back to our old way of were there. It took us ten days. We just fell in can hopefully be inspired to come up with You Break... We MISC WE’RE OPEN! Fix! Thousands of LPs, We repair: Guitars, Amps, Keyboards, Effects, Stereos, VCR/DVD players, D.J. 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METRONOME: What is the monologue all money and weʼve been trying to figure out Birch. Iʼve been playing them since 1993. METRONOME: I always dug the song about at the end of the song, “Bam” and how to continue on what weʼre doing in a METRONOME: What are you using for “Goldilox” off your albumOut of The Silent whoʼs voice is that? way where we can live. That just seemed to cymbals? Planet. Why did you resurrect that song Well, I always like to keep things be part of the scheme at the time. Iʼm using all Paiste. For live Iʼm using for Ogre Tones? mysterious and whatever it means to you, let METRONOME: Is Kingʼs X doing okay at 2002s. Recently they just sent me this Thin It was a song that throughout the years it be that. If you listen closely, you can figure this point? Rude that I absolutely love, so Iʼm using a weʼve heard alot of people say, that should out what it is. Yeah, weʼre doing okay. Weʼre able to combination of the 2002s, the Thin Rudes have been the single, that would have been It was a silly thing that we did because continue to do this. and the Signature Series. a hit. Even our soundman and tour manager we do a lot of silly things. Actually, the chord METRONOME: Talking to Doug the last METRONOME: What do you use for who is a part of the band thought it would that starts “Bam,” we were jokingly thinking time, he said that hooking up with Metal sticks? be a good idea. He just wanted to hear it we should end the song “Honesty,” this nice, Blade really freed you guys up. You got Vater 5B, nylon tips. I was using resurrected, so we thought, what the heck, pretty, mellow song, with this big, massive to buy homes and build studios and that ProMark sticks for many years but for we can do this again. So we did it. chord. Once we did it we said, no, we canʼt things were really looking up for you. As he some environmental reason, the lacquer METRONOME: Whatʼs your soundmanʼs do that. So we decided letʼs just make it a put it, there was a dark time there where they were using on the stick, they werenʼt name? song, so we made a song and Tyʼs on the the three of you were sitting in a room allowed to use that lacquer any more. Once Jay Phebus. feedback and all of that and then at one point going, do we want to do this anymore? that changed, I donʼt know why or how, the METRONOME: Has he been with you for we said, you know, we should have some Oh, yeah, we got to those points, sticks they sent me started tearing my hands a long time? voices in there. We should have somebody absolutely. up. They were literally bleeding and that Weʼve been together for 25 years and talking as it fades out and that might make METRONOME: But you havenʼt been had never happened before. They sent me heʼs probably been with us for twenty-three it into something a little more interesting, so feeling like that for a while, right? everything they had, but without that lacquer, of them. we did. Right now, things feel really fresh and really nothing worked. METRONOME: Where did you record Ogre METRONOME: Can you tell me whose new. We decided we have to do something METRONOME: What is Ty playing for Tones? voice it is? Is it one of you guys or was it for real again.
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