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» From "Christo answers fan questions!" // August 06, 2010 7:37:13 PM UTC
Yo Danny, we will be back. Not sure when yet but we are talking about some possibilities! :)
Mikey
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The Rolling Stone Interview with Mikey
The Rolling Stone Interview with Mikey
"The Chain" Music Video!
"The Chain" Music Video!
Christo answers fan questions!
Christo answers fan questions!
Nicholas Crowder: Thought I'd ask if on your record do you use the same tuning all the way throughout? Is this tuning Drop down one full step ie low to high DCGFAD, or is it just drop d? Or does the tuning vary from song to song?
Yes sir, we are dropped down one whole step to DGCFAD
Helps make my range more consistent, where as the OLD days everything was so damned high it was a constant struggle to keep up. "There is no dignity quite so impresive and no one independence quite so important as living within your means"-Calvin Coolidge
Kris 'Ace' Mayers: UK HEADLINE TOUR WITH SAINT ROSE SUPPORTING PLEASE?
:'( SOMEDAY! We've all got to help get them a record deal first! Kyle Karich: When will you finally come to Florida? Kyle, we've actually played Florida several times, BUT hopefully we'll be back and someplace close to you. Tom Hawcroft: Is there any chance of a headlining UK Tour anytime? Not yet tom, BUT if you keep getting people to buy that record we'll be able to show the label that we have the figures to justify a headlining gig, SPREAD THE DISEASE! Scott Carey: How did you guys get noticed? Any tips for aspiring guitarists? ;)
We got lucky! The better your band is, the less anyone in the industry will give a shit. Write quirky music and give up hope now so it doesn't crush you later, lol. Seriously though, bust your ass to promote, practice till you're perfect and then practice some more (apparently I skipped this one), and write songs that matter, instead of writing what everyone else is writing. Music rules, but the industry blows. And I hope all you pirates catch skurvy on your privates. Eat my dick, you peg-leg pukes. That sorta reminded me of how Sgt. Slaughter mighta told off these little pissants. How the hell was HE ever the champ? Can you still be out of shape, unathletic, and the WWF (it will never be "E" to ME) Champion of the world? Nichi Dodds: When are you fuckers coming back to montana? Missoula or Kalispell WOULD FUCKING ROCK!
This is going to be a popular answer...or at least a frequently repeated one. WHEN YOU GET EVERYBODY DOWN THERE TO BUY OUR RECORD, REST ASSURED WE SHALL RETURN! We gotta show the label the figures before the logistics come into play. I know, I know...broken fuckin' record, but it's a broken fuckin business and we need every number we can get to motivate these lazy labels! Like anything and it seems EVERYTHING in life, there are only a handful of phenomenals busting their asess while the rest rot on their laurels and let it all spoil. Unfortunately it's the wallflowers you have to convince to come to the party, cuz everyone bleeding on the dance floor ALREADY knows what's hot, that's why they're cuttin' a rug like jitterbugs and the rest are just slugs. What kind of a FUCKED UP retarded answer is that? Give me an inch and my metaphors will take miles. Too bad it doesn't work with my manhood, I'm just stuck with the inch, lol.
Lee Booker: What non metal bands do you guys love?
Well I can't vouch for the rest of the band, BUT I'm a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE Tom Petty fan
Eminem is ALMOST at
a tie with my all time fav Black Sabbath
Sage Francis, Busta Rhymes, Bone Thugs, and Biggie Smallz are some of my other favs in the hip hop arena. I adore SRV's early work. I love Chris Daughtry, I just wish someone would write less trite and more classic material to compliment his unfailing chops. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are relatively unrivaled. As far as country goes I'm pretty savvy on David Allan Coe (the old stuff, not the OTHER stuff, lol) and Mr. Johnny Cash (though, to be honest, I don't think he's particularly any good, I just enjoy his voice and his lyrics). I dig on Elvis, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, and Carl Perkins. Nearly all the old Motown masters, especially The 4 Tops and The Temptations. I like Lil Richard and I LOVE Ray Charles. Wow...there are just SOOOOOOO many, and I'm trying to avoid rock/hard rock bands, otherwise this'll turn into a damned dissertation. I actually really got into the 1st Panic!@thedisco record, very modern Tinpan Alley with an infectious indie twist. But the second album I found...wanting. My Chem is one of my favorite new bands, along with the last Alter Bridge record. But like I said, let's not get me started on the rock realm!
Barney Wain: what does burnt yogurt smell like?
Well, right after I pop, I usually keep thrusting away. So incessant friction usually induces combustion and stream of smoke that often emanates is reminiscent of smores in the seconds prior to oxidation. So something like that or microwaved used condoms.
Simon Tinsley: when is there gonna be another time to learn or flaming drummer
I'll get on some "tutorial" tapes in the very near future. A lot of requests for Take Me, so I think we'll start there and see where it goes
Alan has an exciting assortment of new locations for all his drum vids, so stay tuned here at takingdawn.com!
Kevin Judge: When r u coming back 2 dublin,ireland?! When you have converted the Irish nation into the next legion of the Taken! Just get that word out and make people BUY the record and our label will be forced to look at the figures :)
Cherl Hearon: Boxers,briefs or commando?
Wellllllll, it depends on the day
From briefs as a boy, to boxers as a teen, I'm now a boxer-brief man. I save commando mode for my nastiest of hook-ups
mostly with men lol ...is he kidding?!
James Barber: any idea of an instrumental song or use of the song "force fed up" in the next album?
Lol, is my voice THAT bad? Just ruins it for ya, hun? HAHAHAHAHa! Actually, James, I kicked around several
instrumental ideas, but they always end up with words. I still have so much material that I'm torn between rocking with no vox or injecting with an epic hook. It's a fine line, but I'm still dandling the ideas. No Force Fed Up just yet, but I do enjoy some passages from that song, and they may surface in future material :)
Rocky Petty: Favorite Video game growing up as a kid? and not just you chris, the whole band for this one =) Hmmmmmmmm...Abe's Oddysey & Resident Evil (PS1), Wrestlemania 2000 (N64), and Counterstrike (PC) Andrew-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (NES) Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) Mike-Mike Tyson's Punch-out (NES) Deuce-Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis)
Alex Easey How many cats can you stick in your arse?
17 1/2...now KITTENS are another story ;)
Help us get nominated for Classic Rocks "Best new band"
Hey Everyone. We are trying to get nominated for the "Best new Band" category in CLASSIC ROCK Magazine. All you have to do is go to the page and put our name down. It takes about 2 seconds
Thanks everyone. We love you!
-Mikey
15 Days!!!
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Hey everyone. We have 15 days until our album is released all over the world! We need ur help to spread the word! Start blowing that shit up on the myspaces, facebooks, and twitters! We need to get an army of you sexy motherfuckers jammin this shit down peoples throats! They need to know we are cumming.
The album is gonna kick ur fuckin asses and we are so excited for you to hear it!![]()
Thank you soo much for all the help you have done so far! We would still be playing in shitty vegas bars to only our parents and (few) friends if it wasn't for you!
See u fuckers on the road! :)
Get ready for the panty parties... they will happen every night.
The Rolling Stone Interview with Mikey
Check it out. This is serious shit.
Chris Babbit's Avenged Sevenfold "Nightmare" Review
A word on critics:
"Of course, this is just their opinion. But there it is, showcased next to real news...there it's given the same sized type. Somebody's gripe...As if their opinion is an Act of God. A negative guarantee. The opposite of an advertisement. To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe. Not Journalism. Not objective. Not reporting, but judging...That kind of negative endorsement, it's the opposite of an advertisement...what critics do with their snide reviews, printed only to show how clever and bitter they've become...We all want to be the one standing furthest back. The one who gets to say what's good or bad. Right or wrong." -Chuck Palahniuk "Within consciousness rages two warring impulses, the first, to build, and the second, to destroy...these impulses are not separate but unified" -Daniel Way "Those who don't build must burn" -Ray Bradbury "A man can be defined by the things he hates" -Terry Pratchett
Being bereft of blood and brethren on the barren byways abounding, I can bore only YOU poor bastards with my babbling. I want more than anything to be having these conversations with the friends & family I miss back home...because they know what sort of incessant asshole I am and put up with me anyway. But now it's just YOU and me. So fuck Pandora, and let's bust her little box right open ;)
AVENGED SEVENFOLD: NIGHTMARE My take on the new record, track by track! So read straight through or choose your own adventure, but you'll miss the running jokes if you skip around. And I ABSOLUTELY understand the mournful mitigating circumstances surrounding the recording of this album. Please don't misconstrue any of the bite in my poor attempts at wit to be espoused as spite, but rather as the most sincere surmising of a genuine admirer. This is the shit I'd spit with fellow fans in a parking lot somewhere.
Nightmare- Kickin' it off right! Classic A7x
Every bit as compelling as it is accessible. Straightforward riffing that digs in without getting too far up it's own ass trying to be technical (like some sheepish shitheads who shall remain nameless). KILLER arrangement and development. These motherfuckers are overdoing it on thebells a bit, but I'm only bothering to point that out because I WANNA OVER-DO THE BELLS! Shit, save some production value for the rest of us! Six savory minutes walking the line on that silver blade of shred and simplicity that captivates at every turn. This is the evil THESE men do that will live on and on! Avenged just topped Testament's "Nightmare (Comin' Back to You)" for my favorite "nightmare" song. Honorable mentions include Maiden "Nightmares", Iced Earth "Nightmares" (NOT a cover, lol metal is as metal does, I mean how do you not cite a song that lives up to it's title like none other; chorus-"Night, Nightmares...in the NIIIIGHT!" hahahaha), Arsis "We Are the Nightmare", Kanye & Weezy "See You in My Knightmares"(
How to change the World. By Alan Doucette
My friends, it should come as no surprise to you that the economic status of the world is far from ideal. The music industry in particular is feeling some of the most powerful swells of this black tide and Taking Dawn is no exception. I don't mean to undermine the monumental cornerstones that we have marked thanks to you, the fans. From getting signed to Roadrunner to our arena tour with KISS and the most recent culmination of everyone's hard work; playing the main stage at Download Festival. But there is still much work to be done. I know we ask much of our fans but its only because we as that much if not more of ourselves. Right now is probably the most difficult time to be in rock 'n roll. We know this and despite the gargantuan sometimes hideous obstacles we gladly carry on because this is what we know and love. So before we ask you once again to spread the word in every way you can know that we too are pledging to do everything in our power to keep creating and performing music that inspires in all corners of the globe. So if you STILL don't own "Time To Burn." What are you waiting for?! Go buy it! Already own it? But it again! I myself have purchased dozens of copies with what little money I have! Don't have the money? Who cares! Do something! Write blogs, make flyers, call everyone in your phone book, mass texts, bulletins, tweets, yell out of your car window whilst driving down a busy street. The important thing is to do something! Every little bit helps! I know you have already done so much but now is the the time to do more! Ourselves included! So thanks again for being the best fans in the world and I'm confident that thanks to you we'll be propelling Taking Dawn to the next level!
Yours TRULY
Alan Doucette




