Vídeo: MEGADETH

🗣️ Transcrição automática de voz para texto.

[Music] [Music] Mr trow what went down in your [Music] head the stars are in the sh [Music] listen to them to them Children of the Night Children of the Night what music [Music] James James [Music] [Music] just like that there you are magic science done it how is everything with you I’m good man I’m feeling a little yellow today how about you I’m feeling a bit blue but it’s fine you you look a little blue yes if we’re talking color temperature that’s exactly where you’re at and that’s what I was talking about anyway are you guys in the Netherlands now tilberg tonight yes yes yes we are just out of our minds excited third week of the tour Crush ing the world one one region at a time and now it’s the Netherlands very good you know I was watching the grass pop stream and um you know it was really nice set list but what I enjoyed the most about that streaming was how loud your base was really yes it was God but loud Goods I appreciate that man I I pride myself on my bass playing and so if you can hear it all the better yeah um I don’t mean to be factious but it’s a it’s a weird thing because when you pile up two loud guitars or more you know it’s kind of hard to make it read so if you actually heard my bass without any of the guitars on it would sound really awful it’s just too much treble and all that but when you put all that other stuff around it all of a sudden it kind of sits in the mix and sounds like it belongs there so I’m glad you noticed you know I enjoy it because you know I’m a big bass fan you know for me you know when I hear a band especially metal or Rock I like to hear the B and I mean it’s just not the B of D I like to see what the bass is playing because it’s such a nice sound such a nice round you know like a lot of body on it that it’s a shame that sometimes I cannot hear anybody on songs you’ve come to the right place my friend because uh I am a bass fan from way back when which is what got me into this mess and um there are I mean I actually have records back that I recorded you know back in the 80s and I can’t even pick out what you know once the producer got his hands on it and mix it I can’t even pick out what the hell I played and it’s funny because I’ll play it for somebody and they’ll go oh that’s very different you know because it’s all in assimilation but um you know it’s it’s it’s all the instruments are important yeah all of them okay the glory instruments of the vocal H you know the guitars obviously you know but to me I mean people like you and me or it’s all about um it’s that wonderful thing that Drew me to playing bass in the first place and that is that you get a sense of controlling the Rhythm you know you can kind of lean against the drums or pull back against the drums and give a feel to it right that’s very rhythmic and you can also choose different notes against the uh the chords and the changes that can indicate more power less power sadness anger all those things you know you have all that at your at your command so I’m a big bass playing fan I’m lucky I picked up the instrument because it’s really been a delight in my life and um in metal it tends to sit in one specific place but I can’t help my DNA so I’m always swinging it you know you know I appreciate that because you know I grew up you know listening to Queen for instance and John Deacon he really had a you know a very personified so to say Bas playing you can really hear the notes that he was playing you know a band like cream the bass was always there in your face as well obviously I’m not going to say m ahead it’s a different it’s a different thing absolutely it’s a different piece or Rush with gy Lee or even Billy Sheen you know all different approaches how to play base but just showing how important and how great a base can be in a band and not just something sitting in the back doing boom boom boom well I I appreciate it two things there’s a there’s a during covid when we were locked down some friends of mine called up and we were all making music together there’s something I did with a small thing called the echo bats okay so look for that online and I actually very because it was a very queen-like song and I went for a very John Deacon sound and style so I appreciate what you’re saying with that um to me I don’t I don’t always need the bass to be like right in everybody’s face at all you know I think if it contributes where it does it makes sense like you you had mentioned lemi I mean I I kind of it’s upfront in the mixes on the records and stuff but I’ve seen that wonderful caca yeah that is mad you know live a few times and I couldn’t tell one instrument from the next because of that you know but that’s the whole you know that’s the whole grind of that band you know and once ly opened his voice it made sense why his guitar s like that cuz that’s exactly the way he sung you know so um yeah I mean you know it’s a funny instrument base because um most people don’t notice it’s missing until it is and then they go this doesn’t feel right you know and especially now when you listen to stuff on the on the phone or you know even the headphones normally they’re not as you know balanced or or anything and sometimes I really have difficulty I have to pull the base up like where is the fre base it’s all so you know it’s all very high and I need that warm sound in my face are you are you going to tell me you’re going to disappoint me now and tell me you’re a xylophone player no I don’t I don’t play you’re just a fan I’m just a fan I used I actually used to play but guitar but in the last few I know seven eight years I become to appreciate the bass sound much more and I was I’m just fascinated because I want I want you to understand what is the function of the Bas you know compared to the drums and to the rest of the music and listening to you know different bands the Bas had different function and I like when the Bas has his own life you know you know what it can be lyrical you’re right it can be a lyrical you know melodic kind of instrument trying to think of somebody who’s like that but it can both um some of my favorite most inspirational like growing up and listening to the bass and trying to learn how to play it real good and figuring out how to put it into music and songs if you listen to um the late great D Murray who played on El John’s records yeah um El wrote all that that was the best blend of of melodic and rhythmic um that I think I’ve ever heard my life it was so inspirational to me because as great a Pianist um as Elton John is and was as great a drummer as Nigel Olson was and great guitar player I forgot the um the guitar player’s name I’m sorry about that but um as great as they all were he really drove a lot of those songs which is unusual for pop music yeah you know so that’s one you know that’s that’s to me that’s like one voice that the instrument can have and I I understand where you’re going with this because there is there are so many nuances that that different bass players add to different bands and different songs like listen to the guy from tul for God’s sake you he kind of leads that band in in a way you know that’s you know in odd timing you know that’s really interesting stuff so it’s almost Limitless when I started learning how to play bass it was the 70s like really and that was like the bass was the Superstar instrument because um it was you know we they hadn’t discovered like Eddie Van Halen hadn’t quite come along yet and so they didn’t have to make the drums bigger you know they didn’t have to do all that so a lot of producers relied on especially on pop music uh the bass guitar to to do something interesting to move the music along in certain ways and that’s I was so blessed to to discover the instrument at that time and have so much influence that was there at that time you and you know the mtown they were really experts in using the base you know I they didn’t mean to they didn’t mean to I mean if you actually study all that stuff I mean they were just they were all jazz players right yeah so the funny part is they were like James Jamerson was dumbing it down like he was trying to make it stupider but he was such a genius that you know he tripped over himself because he couldn’t help but play great you yeah and you know let’s go Circle back to Meades obviously um when it comes to the set list normally it’s a lot of festivals that you’re doing this summer and on this run um do you have like a locked set list like songs that have to be there on the set and then you guys changed a bit because I I saw that on grass pop you guys played um put a new song on the on the set list compared to the other shows how’s how does that work with mega death at this stage we’ve been we’ve been making a conscious effort to try and and and uh try and flip the set list around as much as possible because there’s there’s fans from all age groups and all times of this band like this band’s been around for quite some time um I can’t show you but that’s that’s 32 Songs so we’re trying to shuffle in 32 Songs now we we decide on certain there’s certain ways that we do it if we if we’ve been to a place within a year or so or two years even we try to make sure we don’t repeat that set list which it could be easy to do because there’s I would say On Any Given night there’s probably five songs we have to play yeah you know like people put down the money and they want to hear Sweating Bullets you know they want to hear Hangar so that’s already a lot of Real Estate in the in the set list you know so it’s it’s really a trick to try and find something a little unique and maybe pull something out that people wouldn’t expect and that’s what we’ve been working on right now since since TAMU came into the band um he’s a really fast study like he learns quick yeah and so he’s you know it’s it’s exciting to all of us because we can really jump on stuff that you know we talk about playing but could actually sit this is actually a rehearsal space back here for for the day let’s see yeah cool see there’s bars and all that stuff right and so we’ll come back here and we’ll go okay let’s pull this one off of the list and work on it and you see how cheek I’m being because I’m not going to let you over place I want surprise people that’s and that’s that’s a wonderful mandate and it’s it’s an enviable it’s an enviable thing for a band to have to have that many songs that might you know because it’s funny because sometimes we’ll pull one out we’ll go they’re going to love this one and then like 20 people in the audience going I can’t believe they’re playing it and then you look at everybody else going I know this but most times most times it’s the eruption of oh my God I can’t I haven’t heard this like in in 10 years or 15 years is there any any song You Don’t Have To to say the name obviously but is there any song that you like particularly from the Meade death catalog that you haven’t played in a while and that you would like to play um or uh we were actually just talking about because we I haven’t played that forever we were talking about liar which is a very fast song but it’s a really thrashy quick song and you know it’s quick one to pick up so that might that might make an appearance soon but that’s one that I really enjoy playing because it just kind of keeps coming at you and you can feel the eyebrows down and you know shoulder forward all thing I mean that’s one I like the new stuff you know one of my favorite songs to to play when we do do it we’ve actually stopped playing it very much because it’s been played so many years is um In My Darkest Hour yeah which is one of the songs that oddly enough really brought me to Mega Death back in the day and um the funny thing about that is I used to go to a to a rock club by my house in Brooklyn New York called LaMore which used to be a disco or actually used to be a strip club first and they started doing rock and all the big bands would come through this part of Brooklyn and play in there like the Iron Maiden guys would hang out you know anybody that you could think of like mm anybody back in that ‘ 80s Raven you know all those bands even Meade would come through there and um when I joined Megadeth all those years later 15 20 years back from now um I started going through the list and I surprisingly knew very little because i’ had been in other bands and playing other music and hadn’t really you know gotten the catalog down so as I’m listening to them all of a sudden I hear in my darkest hour and I think what a great wait a minute I know this they used to play at this club LaMore before the main band would go on whoever that would be let’s say if it’s inve malmstein just to let you know the DJ Alex would always play In My Darkest Hour like as like this is because it had this very thematic broad kind of INF then right and that’s like I know this song oh that’s the LA more song sure and I enjoy bling it because I I think it I think it holds all the key elements that make Mega Death great it’s got thrash Parts it’s got a big broad Crescendo you know it’s got It’s got Dave’s Beautiful lyrics and emotional lyrics and Universal lyrics people can always understand that feeling of of loss and Pathos and all that and I think that’s you know I think it really it’s a good representation if you had to say what does Meade death sound like I said well you know here’s a good one yeah for me it’s it’s one of the best mega Death songs ever I think that intro like when you hear it it gives you goosebumps you know there’s something special happening when when they start playing and for me it’s it’s one of those songs that when it starts you know you see the start going up I still I still get it on stage sometimes I really get it it’s awesome and uh you know you guys are coming back to Portugal it’s be the last show of the tour um mentions probably some surprises or not not but there going to be any surprises since it’s the last show of the tour of course but you got to go to see it yeah I’m going to be there and so is everyone and you know you mention it’s your second stin in Mega Death you know you’ve been in out you’re back again when you first came to Mega Death Sean drover was a drummer now you got dark I’ve been you know playing these two different beasts as drummers as well um how is it to play with I was to play with Sean and I used to play with dark since he’s like an animal really I you know what sea was a wonderful drummer you know and um if I go back and look at some of the videos we did he was really really great um Derk is a whole another thing like you say he’s you know it’s so funny because he’s so skiny you know I don’t know where he gets it from but Derk is like my he’s my faor metal drummer of all time and the best um musician who’s ever played Mr bright side yeah that I’ve ever it’s looking we walk through airports now and um you know I can’t get shot but they see him and they oh it’s Mr bright side there he is and you know the last record has been released a couple years ago um is there any talks about new music yet uh what are you saying if you guys have been talking about new music the last record has been yeah no no no we’re we’re actually we actively working on music right now um it’s it’s in a way well it is it’s a new band at this point it’s a new version of Meade death as if nobody expected that coming so um so um we’re we’re talk of Dave every day Dave really wants to do another uh record and just get something fresh out there um the last one I thought was great when I had just joined the band they just finished recording it I begged I pleaded I said I know I know I know but could I please play Basse on this because you know this few things I had heard were so great and they were like we’ve been doing this for two years we just have to get on the road it’s done you I was like all right but uh Steve de Georgio did a did an amazing job I really I really love the way he played on this and and I enjoy um I enjoy playing his his style yeah you know the but Steve geu is a finger picking based player you are a pick player so I’m not I’m not I’m I’m as much um as finger and all that as everybody else yeah it’s easy play Pick go ahead is it easier you know to play with a pick or with the fingers you know for you it seems to be indifferent you can play balls anyway but yeah I I enjoy playing with my with my fingers it’s more tactile and and and the um the structure of the note the fundamental comes out a lot more clearly and the way way I do that is you know I I strike the Frets as if like a drummer hits the rim like a rim shot so everything has an attack to it but I have to tell you when I first joined the band The First Time Dave was like if you wish to play with your fingers you may you don’t have to you know be respectful to whatever and I tried it for for a while and I was going it does not sound like Dave hellison it doesn’t sound like Mega Death you know yeah and so I just I you know I had played a lot of in in a lot of bands and a lot of Studio sessions with a pick and learning like I was saying back in the 70s some of my favorite bass players play with a pick so I couldn’t help but learn that style as well and like Paul McCartney and Chris guire and those guys you know and on the other side of the coin jao Pistorius and Stanley Clark and um I could think of a billion others um you know they both played those different styles so I I kind of tried to do it all you know know and it it it helped me because when I got here it wasn’t like you know I wasn’t a stranger to doing that and I knew why it would I knew why the music sounds the way it does so I I think it’s kind of wise not to you know walk in and go well I’m going to do a better version of Mega Death I mean it you know Mega Death is what it is so I respect that I that’s the way any musicians should approach it very good and you mentioned Teemo in the new guitar player being a fast learner um I know Dave has been very complimentary about him you know saying that you know comparing him to Marty fredman as that’s like a biggest compliment probably anyone can get but how is to work with with teimo he seems to be a very nice guy and he plays you know badass guitar player he’s good he’s young he’s you know he’s younger than the rest of us so you know he keeps us on our our toes but um he’s really helpful because you know he’s got he’s got a you know we’ve already walked this journey for a while you know da and I and and so um to have that kind of fresh blood that’s really he’s very focused and um that’s it’s not contagious because I don’t do that right but it’s good to have somebody there to kind of Corral us old guys into the corner and go okay let’s you know I’ve worked on this are we ready to go it’s like oh we should work on this now okay let’s go so he has that um he really helped us out because he came to us at a crucial time where you know Kiko who I door could not stay with us you know due to his family stuff and that’s the most respectful thing I think you can think of is we all have a life and sometimes you know sometimes it’s better to have a life and and and do your stuff the way you’re supposed to you know do life right yeah you know I’ve been in and out of bands my whole life and let me tell you man you leave stuff at home it’s there it’s always there you know so um when T came along he was the exact right guy we needed we need somebody who could just kind of step up and get right in and he was so crazily rep uh prepared and uh to this day I mean him and I were just working on some music uh before we started so um it’s great sitting down with him and breaking down the things and he’s he showed me some new technology that really helps me move things ahead that I wasn’t aware of he’s really he’s on top of all that stuff and speaking of Technology obviously you know a lot of bands these days use digital you know amps you know the camper stuff whatever ever um how is your setup life you still prefer to have the amps in the back getting that wall of sound going through your body do you need that or uh I had this discussion with with Billy sh who I respect immensely and um and he said he go doesn’t you know what we embraced new stuff you know 30 years ago you know new stuff was you know um transistorized Distortion as opposed to tube dist Distortion Like got off theed svts and got on the preamps that had um they weren’t emulations but they were FS that would distort like tubes and I remember I did that myself um and so he’s going it’s all valid if you can get your sound out yeah you know so all that’s great um I’m still using all the ashtown gear I’ve been using for over 20 years because it served me well it sounds great it always works and it’s got you know it’s got shoulders man you know it pushes air and that on these big stages that’s exactly what I need so I’ve still got the 8×10 you know that I’ve been using forever um I upgraded some new amplifiers that have an extra 100 watts and they have those wonderful pramps that I that I work with and then I’m I’m always adding a little you know oh let me try this compressor or let me try this EQ or let me try something I’ll always add a little something to see if I can improve things and um having said that I have used um I’ve used line six’s Helix which is great I’ve used the uh neural um quad cortex yeah and they’re fabulous and I might incorporate some of that into my rig as well because there’s there’s a lot of benefits to having that instant switching and having some things on board you know so um I’m you know I’m I’m not a stoic when it comes to you know it has to be you know the old school stuff it doesn’t it just has to work yeah no for me you know I ask that because one one difference is when you play obviously like a festival you have a big stage you probably need to have the sound there but for me what annoys me sometimes it’s on Club sh when bands just use digital stuff you got if you’re in the front row you can hear jack [ __ ] I think it’s I think I think that’s Dreadful the first time I experienced that was on Gigantor about 12 years ago and I’m not going to name the band because they’re very good friends of mine they’re wonderful people but they did that and um I just like it’s just like it’s a drum rehearsal you know you can’t everybody’s on in here you can’t even hear the vocal so it’s kind of like okay well I suppose this is all right you’re right unless you’re you know those those poor people in the first five rows aren’t getting the show you know we use I mean the band uses um I I know that um I know that Dave and um and timu are both using quad cortexes and they sound great they really do but they’ve got them plugged into amplifiers into 412 boxes and they’re behind us there’s all our amps are blowing man sometimes a little louder than this [ __ ] and then we have side fills just to reinforce all that so the stage is as live as can possibly be yeah so anybody who gets those you know those first 10 rows you know they’re actually going to hear a better representation of what we’re doing up there than you know then after it gets mixed and sanitized for your protection you know and you know you you you said you you’ve been playing you know for a long time and you played with a lot of musicians you played with Zack wild you played with you know ex number of artists and bands uh one of those bands for me that’s took the most is white lion you did three records with them um what Memories you have from because white lion were at the peak when those three records that you record with them they were like like top [ __ ] Farm amazing songs um how was that time with you uh with with the guys of white lion that was um that was a that was a for me it was a weirdly magical and strange time because I never in my Wildest Dreams thought that I would have that I would be part of a band that was on Atlantic Records let Zeppelin’s label by the way you know and um that we’d be touring the world in buses and opening up for ACDC and kiss and Aerosmith and all that um the guys in the band we were all going for the same goal and it was interesting because I the other night as szy purple that we played a show with them and um I got to watch them and and before white line before all that for me like one of the consummate bands was Deep Purple yeah because they were like they were they they jammed they had songs you know they were each every one of them was an amazing player singer the whole nine yards right so that was inspirational when I joined white lion it was really funny because I had to learn how to become part of the late 7s 80s musical movement which meant a lot more fashion than music oddly enough though because we had so much talent in veto and Mike and and um it it did become more about the music we were actually lauded more for our musicianship than for our style which seemed kind of you know silly you know so um anyway that my memories of it was it was like being on a a freight train really fast and you know the three or four maybe five years that we were together um it it went like that it really did you know we went from traveling in buses staying at hotels back then we had the rabbit ears you know on the on the on the phone on the TV you know and if he had a cable on you know we could see something we had no idea we were becoming famous because it was all MTV stuff back then yeah so I’d call up home and you know my parents would be like oh my God we see you on TV all the time it’s like how is that possible it’s only the MTV thing you know we didn’t know we got back and it’s like here’s your gold record you sold 500,000 copies it was a different time yeah you know and you mentioned the purple I cannot stress how good they are they are still a great Band live but for me made in Japan after all these years I mean it sounds so amazing it’s unbelievable how good the guys were you know that night or those nights whatever you know I’m it’s I mean it’s one of my favorite records ever and such great memories from Deep Purple yeah but you know what what’s great like a great live record like that like made in Japan you get a real sense just by listening to it of what it was like to be there you really do I mean it’s so rare to like you know it’s funny because the kiss the big kiss live record that everybody jumped on yeah you know was like kind of really young when they jumped on that but if they realized like most of that crowd was like overdubbed in later on you know maybe it wasn’t as exciting to be there as it but it didn’t you know they had a great career so God bless but um in in the case of like um you know deep purple and even Cheap Trick later on you know it was the same thing you know they had a thing chap trick didn’t have the same thing but they had a very cool thing yeah but um yeah I mean yeah you know they played Smoke on the Water yeah at the show the other night and I I’m embarrassed to say but I must say that I kind of got goosebumps and you know that’s the song I hear in every music store every time you walk in there the kids playing you know the two notes on Smoke on the Water and stuff like that but it reminded me of being so young and so impressionable and loving that band so much and I remember the big test was you know can we get the drummer just to play the high hat at the right time and come in and hit the snare at the right time and you know do do the additional musician thing that you know that that intro does so um yeah man that was formidable stuff and you know what it’s it’s interesting because there’s probably a whole generation who just doesn’t is not aware of this band and I think that’s fine you know things move on yeah but uh but you and I and you mentioned Kiss Alive when I found out that the the crowd was piped in that they did a lot of wber Dubs you know it was the end for me not the end I still love kiss you know I still love kiss but I was so disappointed when I read that and when you listen to you know made in Japan and you realize it’s a really live band everything is live there you you appreciate that more you know it’s just the way it is but yeah I was disappointed with Kiss Alive when I realized it was well you know the funny thing about that is um so one of my first bands when I was 11 or 12 years old we used to practice in my basement my parents were kind enough to let let us do that and so I had all the neighborhood kids and we were playing what was on the radio there was Black Sabbath was new it wasn’t on the radio but it was new and so we were doing whatever we could manage you know being limited and Grand Funk Railroad like so these were all like jam bands you know and they were all great bands um and I guess we did Smoke on the wire but that was way before and then one day my two guitar players one was Steve ojiri who um ended up singing in Journey all those years he’s still doing his thing right other guy’s name was Angela Mancini they brought me the kiss record like the first one and you know there they are on the cover the makeup and all that stuff and so they start playing like you know in the Bas we should do we should do this let’s do black diamond or something like that and I’m listening to it go yeah it’s cool I mean it’s not it’s not like deep purple cool but it’s cool you know yeah it seems easy we’ll do it and so I’m going it’s really cool that they put makeup on for the cover of their record and they go no no no they wear it all the time right and I remember thinking well that’s dumb why would they dress like clowns but you know it he made their lives you know the best possible life anyway so dude I love him I still love him James but that was my impression as a kid listening to all that complex music very good James thank you very much for your time you know all the best for the rest of the shows I’ll see you in Lisbon on Sunday uh at EV Life Festival it’s going to be fun I’m looking forward to see you guys again and hopefully you guys will be back soon after that so um fingers crossed everybody get your tickets for Lisbon because it’s our final show of this tour so we’ll either be so exhausted that it’ll be amazing or it’ll be so exhausted that it’ll be the coolest thing that we’ve ever seen so James thank you very much have a great day and I’ll see you in Lisbon all right thank you was a pleasure thank you thank you bye bye girl [Music] [Music] kobal [Music] Mountain King [Music] [Music] [Music] Children of the Night he will live through the centuries to come as I have left good night good night [Music]