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really a lot happened in the week or 10 days we were there. We fleshed out some ideas but not a lot. We went home and I went on this writing frenzy and started writing tunes like crazy, I wrote like 11 or 12 songs within a two or three week period. I was just spitting songs out for some reason. I was really inspired, and those ended up being most of the ones on the record and really only a couple of things from the planned rehearsal sessions ended up on the record. That just goes to show you that creative stuff just kind of comes when it comes. Feast or famine. You have to capitalize on it when it’ s there.
Mosh: With your first solo album, 1986’ s Mind’ s Eye; I remember thumbing through the bins at a record store at that time and the artwork initially caught my eye. You had just signed to Shrapnel. What was that experience like? Vinnie Moore: It was awesome. But at the same time going through it, it was stressful. I flew out from the East coast to the West coast to do this record. Tommy Aldridge( drums) and I rehearsed for like four days, he had my demos in advance. And then we just went in and started tracking. We only had like six days to track the whole record. So I was under a lot of pressure. I always thought we didn’ t have enough time to make that record, but it is what it is. It was just a great time in my life actually. I never really expected much would come out of it, but it ended up starting my whole career and turned it into a magical thing. Many people still mention that record today as one of their favorite early influences.
Mosh: You’ ve been with UFO for 14 years now and no matter what lineup is on stage, UFO always seems like a family. Vinnie Moore: Yeah, we hang together and we have a really good time. It’ s a friendship when we’ re on the road enjoying ourselves. Of course the best part of the day is being on stage playing in front of the fans. But we like being around one another and hanging out together, too. So that makes it very enjoyable.
Appearing 3 / 25 and 3 / 26 at Arcada Theater, St Charles.
MOSH-WORTHY NEW RELEASES: Havok Conformicide( Century Media), Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished( Napalm Records), Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day( Inside Out Music). MOSH-WORTHY LIVE: Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Goatwhore, Allegaeon( House of Blues, 03 / 04), Dope, Combichrist, September Mourning, Davey Suicide( H. O. M. E. Bar, 03 / 15), Despised Icon, Carnifex, Fallujah, Rings Of Saturn, Lorna Shore( Bottom Lounge, 03 / 22). MENTION-WORTHY NEWS: Southern bluesrockers Blacktop Mojo have generated quite abuzz with its debut release, Burn The Ships( released March 10, on Cuhmon Records). This new band is perfect for fans of Shinedown, Black Stone Cherry and Art of Anarchy. On Kill The Precedent’ s seven-track EP, Some Version Of The Truth, the seven-piece band from San Diego play a lethal combo of everything from raging rock, to rap metal and crossover thrash, with a lot of other eclectic styles thrown in for good measure.
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