S
till touring to support the
June 2013 release of their new
album “The Sun Comes Out
Tonight”, Filter frontman
Richard Patrick took some much
needed R&R time to sit down the with
the Metal Exiles team...as if that wasn’t enough, we at CV WorldWide present, in addition to an excellent interview with the Jeffrey Easton of Metal Exiles, Filter in concert, done by
none other than our Vegas photographer, Sherry Keith of Mystic Photography, along with a review by Miranda Trenholm.
Nothing else need be said but “enjoy”...
An Interview with Richard Patrick
by Jeffrey Easton
Metal Exiles: To start off with, I
know that “The Sun Comes Out Tonight” was supposed to be a selfreleased album. What made you
decide to go through Wind Up instead?
Richard Patrick: They offered us a
deal and with their huge amount of
resources we could not say no. We
are on our second video and the
budget for it is bigger than any I
have had in the last five years. They
are completely behind us so it’s a no
brainer. They told us to deliver the
goods and when we turned the record in they were very happy with it
and so far it has been a rewarding
experience. I would not trade any
record company for them.
Metal Exiles: Why did you want to
do it independently in the first
place?
Richard: The original thinking is
that we have enough fans, you make
100% of the money when they buy
the record and then the next thing
you know you really miss the resources and power that record companies have so we made that change
and moved on.
has a lethal punch. Did some of
this come from Jonathan Radtke
or were you pushing Filter’s
boundaries again?
Richard: Johnny and I made a decision that we were not going to have
an adversarial conversation with
our label and the word hit single
cropped up in our conversations.
When the record company signs
you they tell you they want something that will make it to radio, we
need something that’s going to connect and I understand that. I have
been listening to the Rolling Stones
since I was a little kid, I know what
a hook is so Bob (Marlette –
Producer) and I said ok let’s go do
that. Johnny said we cannot have
record companies telling us what to
do but I explained to him that record companies are here to benefit
us and we are going to work in the
confines of our creativity. Once you
have the Filter creativity in there
and it’s in the realm of something
they want then everybody is happy.
You have to think of something
catchy like ‘Hey Man Nice Shot’.
Every time I sing that song the
crowd sings it right back to me.
heavy. ‘Self-Inflicted’ was written
like that, it has that same catchiness
to it. There are ways to work with
the people around you whether it’s
the record company, producer or
guitar player, as long as it is truly
what you feel your music is about. I
think Johnny was apprehensive because he was pushed up against the
wall with Kill Hannah (his former
band) but for me it was easy. We
wrote ‘Surprise’ in 15 minutes,
which he thought was great and I
told him that’s a hit single. We’re
just here to have fun and make music, not fuck ourselves out of opportunities. I wrote ‘Take A Picture’
from the most personal time of my
life, I am trying to apologize to my
parents through music on the radio
thinking maybe they will hear this
and understand what I am going
through. It’s relevant to me but
when people hear acoustic guitars
in a Filter song they say “Filter is
just trying to get on the radio” but
we have always been on the radio. I
am just trying to get across how I
feel and if you are a real Filter fan
you will understand it.
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