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Whitney Houston – R.I.P…….
I woke up, turned on the computer and clicked around. Sharon Osbourne was pissed off at Piers Morgan on Twitter: “THIS POOR WOMAN LEAVES BEHIND A DAUGHTER & FAMILY. STOP WAFFLING ABOUT WHITNEY BEING ON XFACTOR W COWELL & THINK OF HER FAMILY”
And below for a brief sentence about one of the greatest voices ever is dead. Rest in peace Whitney Houston.
I woke up damn fast. It should not be a shock to anyone really. It’s been such a sad sight to see this extremely beautiful, exuberant, energetic and talented woman, turn into a drug addict wreck.
An unbelievable tragedy.
Who didn’t get goose bumps listening to Whitney’s version of “I will always love you” and who hasn’t jumped around to “I wanna dance with somebody.” at some point? I could listen to her first two albums over and over again. Nobody could compete with that voice.
Perhaps I am not surprised by her death, but it is so sad to hear that a woman of 48 is not with us anymore. It shouldn’t have been her time.
She will be missed.
R.I.P Whitney Houston …
Sebastian Bach on Facebook:
This is hitting me hard. I used to sing ALL of Whitney Houstons songs all the time. I absolutely loved her voice. I practiced along to her songs countless times & her music affects me deeply.
I cannot believe how temporary life is. How fragile music is. Everything you know, everything you hold dear can be ripped away at a moments notice & you won’t even see it coming.
I always figured Whitney would record another record that would blow us all away. So sad that was not meant to be. 48 years old? Ugh. It makes me sick. Such a loss RIP Whitney Houston My condolences to my friend Bobby Brown & his children.
Sharon Osbourne on Twitter
Clive Davis Grammy party..not going. Mark Burnett party..not going. Can’t celebrate tonight when one of the greatest voices ever is dead.
Devastated. My heart goes out to Bobbi Christina. Always be proud of your mother, she was magnificent.
Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne) on Twitter
Sad to hear the news of Whitney Houston death. She ruled the 80’s pop scene when I was growing up.
Josie Stevens on Twitter
Shocked and sad to hear Whitney Houston passed away. :(
Live Nation on Twitter
Our hearts and thoughts are with Whitney Houston’s family, friends, and fans. She was an amazing talent that will be missed.
Life on the road – the perfect lifestyle?
Was scrolling through the Twitter-news and found a Tweet that said:
“Children of Bodom frontman on touring: “To me, it’s the perfect lifestyle”.
I can see that he means. Back in 2007 I was welcomed by Jon Oliva’s Pain to join them on their tour bus. I can’t say that it’s in any way an ideal lifestyle in terms of health (forget the sleeping and eating healthy-thing when you’re on tour], but there was something about that whole experience that left me wanting more. I envy those that live the rock’n’roll vagabond life on a regular basis.
If you are a free spirit and open for adventure, it’s a perfect way of life. My first touring experiences was with a female Swedish band, and we toured in a rented VAN. That was in the 90’s. The Oliva-tour and accomodation was quite different. :)
I had the first floor bunk, it’s like sleeping in a coffin – but I’ve never slept better. It’s dark and the movements from the bus just rocks you to sleep, like a baby. Maybe I fell asleep so quickly because I know it so well from my childhood. We used to drive through Europe, dad, mom and me – and I had the back seat all to myself when I was little. I used to love that when I was a kid. So falling asleep in a dark rocking coffin wasn’t too far from what I already knew. I would fall asleep listening to the jokes and the laughs til early in the morning.[The bunks on the bus. Light-tech Hanneke and The Mountain King (hidden behind the latest issue of Sweden Rock Magazine.. ;-) ]
If the show ended around midnight, it would still take a while before the bus would get back on the road. It was the showering (and it’s always war to get to the showers when at least six or more people are standing in line for that ONE shower), the meeting fans and friends, the loading of the bus and everything else, before the bus could get back out on the freeway.
[One of the more creative solutions…! :-) If there’s no dryer, you just use whatever you’ve got! ]
I loved waking up, pushing the drapes to the side in the morning, smell the coffee that someone had made, not quite knowing what time it was or what city we were in. The ultimate gypsy-life.
For some people, it’s the only way to live. Living a “normal” life is like locking a bird in a cage.
Life on the road means that you never really know anything for sure. When is food – and what are you gonna get? Some things you remember very clearly – like the catering at Pestpop in Belgium… It looked like dog food or like someone had thrown up on the plate.
Or the catering at The Rock in Copenhagen, the whole band stood there trying to identify what was in that casserole. Light-tech Hanneke and I ended up going out for Chinese take-away instead.
We all went to a restaurant almost everywhere, now that I think about it. But that’s pretty much the only meal you got, if time allowed it. On busy days there was no time for food, which meant that in the middle of the night, someone would want to stop for a break at a gas station to get some kind of junk food and take a leak…
[John Zahner at the Indian restaurant in Gothenburg]
Oh yeah. That’s another interesting aspect of life on a tour bus. Don’t use the bathroom. It’s so small that you can barely fit in an anorectic midget in there. And I was informed about the meaning of the expression “piss-foot” the very first day I got on the bus. I was warned NEVER to go there. I didn’t.
Some everyday tasks took some time for me to figure out. How to change clothes for instance. The first day I tried to change in my bunk. Uh – let’s just say it was nearly impossible to dress or undress in a bunk. Maybe after years of practice but I certainly never got to the point where I could master that.
Either you change outside your bunk or you wait until you get to the venue and the dressing rooms. Or both.
Makeup? Didn’t work. I looked like Alice Cooper, trying to put on decent makeup in a moving bus…
[At Z7, Switzerland. Nah, it’s not the running-order for the show, it’s the running order for the washing machine..! :-P ]
The showers… Yeah, that was always interesting. .)
When you pull up to the venue and open the doors of the bus (or in this case it was 2 buses, the opening acts travelled in a separate bus) you get a shitload of people just welling out, looking for the nearest shower. It’s like a race – who gets there first before it’s time for sound check, catering or unloading the bus?
[The LOVELY shower at the Viper Room in Florence, Italy…]
I accidentally walked in on one of the guys from the opening act cause he hadn’t locked the shower-door and he totally forgot there were women on the Oliva bus. He was so embarrassed he didn’t come out for the longest time, cause he was hoping I wouldn’t be outside when he was done. Like hell I was doing anywhere, I desperately needed a shower! Lol!
[Stuck in traffic on the way to Oslo…]
There were all kinds of little things that are still popping up in my head from that 2007 tour: The toothbrushing using toothpaste and Heineken beer instead of water cause there was no water… Chocolates, leftover potato chips or popcorn that someone left the night before – that would have to do for breakfast ….
…the search for available sockets to charge cellphones, cameras, laptops. It was always a mess there around the two tables in the front of the bus. EVERYBODY needed at LEAST one outlet.
The frustrating internet connections (or the lack thereof) – either none to be found or extremely slow. If there was a good connection people would gather around someone’s laptop to check out the YouTube videos that fans had uploaded from the tour.
There’s a lot to say about the whole touring thing I guess, but most of all, you really bond with people, they become your family.
I’ve never felt so content in my life. I was surrounded by people who were just like me – we all shared the passion for music.
In my everyday life, I meet nice people, but they don’t necessarily “get it”. With a crew and a bus full of musicians, you can start talking about pretty much anything that’s music related, and people will immediately GET it. That’s such a fantastic feeling.
In everyday life you’re always slightly different than “normal” people, whereas HERE, you were normal, because everyone else is the same.
But most of all, it’s the privilege of being surrounded by MUSIC 24-7. Touring is really about living that life to its fullest.
Is it an ideal life? For most people I’m sure it’s not.
For restless souls and people who live for rock’n’roll – I can’t think of a better way to indulge in the rock’n’roll lifestyle!
Hell YES!!!
Oh, wow wow wow….! I’m REALLY excited right now! I was asked to review an album by Swedish band DYNAZTY (“Sultans Of Sin” set to be released on February 29.).
I’ll admit that most of the time, the records I have to review bore me more than anything. It’s not that I’m a music snob, but when you consume as much music as people like me do, it gets harder to impress me. It just needs to have all the bits and pieces just right – and most of all, it just has to move me, make me feel something!
I had no expectations, but MY GOD – this album kicks ass! It’s produced by Peter Tatgren of Pain and Hypocrisy, which gives the album that irresistable HEAVY sound, while it still presents some damn great melodies sung by a very talented singer.
I’m knocked out, I love it when I get something like that, something that’s actually worth BUYING. You know how it is nowadays – people are spoiled, nobody buys music anymore. This, I would easily buy, knowing I’m getting value for the money.
If you love strong melodies, great singers and fantastic production and mix, get “Sultans Of Sin” when it’s out in the stores!
This is from Dynazty’s performance in the Swedish music festival “Melodifestivalen” (they will be participating this year as well):
And in case you haven’t heard their producer, Peter Tatgren and his project PAIN – don’t leave this page until you’ve listened to this awesome mix between modern dance sound and pure metal:
And LOOK what I found. :-) Earcandy!
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“The guitar sleeps with me in the bed” (Steve Stevens)
Picture a cold and dusty backstage-area, no furniture – looks like an abandoned restaurant kitchen. A few steps behind us though, is the real dressing room, that in this particular moment has Sebastian Bach entertaining his guests from the band Nightranger, and some other people.
Steve Stevens has just finished his second set at the jazz club Iridium on Broadway, New York, and is ready to talk to me. I pull out an old, scruffy office-chair that looks a bit dusty, and Steve finds another one for himself. At least there’s nobody bugging us. I decide to make this short so he can go relax and hang with his band.
The whole idea of you and Sebastian was really interesting. Can you paint a picture of when and where this came about?
– Sure, yeah. I play with an All Star band in Los Angeles, called Camp Freddy.
Camp Freddy is Matt Sorum on drums, Dave Navarro is usually on guitar, but Dave’s been busy last year with Jane’s Addiction, and their new record, so I ended up playing the whole show, Billy Morrison on second guitar, who’s also in Billy Idol’s band now, and Chris Chaney, the bassplayer who’s also from Jane’s Addiction.
So the whole Camp Freddy thing is that we have guest singers. On any given night, we’ll have Corey Taylor from Slipknot, Billy Idol, and the last year Sebastian has been guesting us. So every time we were doing Camp Freddy I was going “We should do something together“, because we have SO many mutual friends and a lot of our fans are the same – we came through the same era, you know.
I came over to the Iridium last year to do the Les Paul night, which is on a Monday night, it’s a totally different thing. It’s the Les Paul Trio – we do traditional stuff. So they asked me to come back and do three nights of my own, and I said that’s great but I don’t sing and I’d like to bring a singer. They said: “Got anybody in mind?” And I said: “Yeeaaah, well it just so HAPPENS that I know this Sebastian Bach guy – he’ll sing ANYTHING!”
Which is true, the guy can sing absolutely anything.
So I called him up, asked if he wanted to go to New York to this Iridium club and now we’re talking about continuing on doing something else and taking it a bit further…
Oh, you’re gonna do more together? Live or recording?
– Yeah, a little bit of both actually. I met him when his most recent record was just coming out. So I said; “Look, in the future, I’ve got this little studio, if you wanna write, or if you’re out in LA and you just wanna hang, let’s get together”.
So you guys met just recently?
– Yeah, within the last year.
Did you ever listen to Skid Row back in the day?
– Absolutely! The funny thing is… and this is a pretty funny story: When I left Billy Idol back in 1988, I did my own record for Warner Brothers, Atomic Playboys, and we were looking for a singer. He was in a band called Madam X, and I got this photo, he looked amazing, and then I heard the tracks, he’s really, really good. Really good singer. I had known the guitarplayer in that band, Maxine, and I said: “Heey, I’m doing a record, what’s your singer doing?”
She never gave him the message.
So potentially, we could have worked back in 1988. But it all worked out for the best cause right after that, I think it was literally 6 months later, he left and joined Skid Row.
Very interesting, because of all singers you could have worked with, this seems like an unusual choice…
– Yeah but at the same time, I like a lot of classic rock, and we’re talking about doing Zeppelin-stuff and some other stuff where the singer’s vocal range has got to be really good. So, I’m like a kid in a candy-store, cause he can sing anything. Most singers, if you say “do you wanna do “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, most singers are gonna say “no fucking way, I can’t sing that!“. And he’s up to the challenge, it’s great.
The concept of doing two sets a night…?
– That’s the club’s thing. They always do that here, yeah.
How does that feel for you, as you’re used playing the world stages…?
– It’s a whole different headspace. It’s great, because your audience is…I think this place only holds like 200 people, so people are right there, you know they can hear every note that you play. But the two sets a night is a little strange, yeah. Cause you’ve gotta pace yourself. During the first set you’re thinking “Do I give it everything or will I be wasted for the next set?”
You’ve worked with many charismatic singers with strong personalities. And it’s often said that in order to be a good frontman, you need to have a big ego. What kind of personality do you need to have in order to be a guitarist playing with these big egos?
– Um, it’s funny cause from the time I was a little kid and I picked up the guitar, I naturally gravitated towards the guy behind the singer. Even seeing old footage of Elvis or something you know – I was like… who’s that guy?! And then obviously with Led Zeppelin, I identified with Jimmy Page because he was more quiet.He had the mystery thing.
You once said that you’ve got great respect for singers because they’re standing there, “naked” without an instrument to hide behind. Are there any singers in particular that you feel are like that…?
– I think ANY singer. It’s tough, it’s a lot of pressure. And obviously, the longer that you do it, if you’re really a ROCK-singer, it can take its toll on your voice. But Billy Idol takes care of his voice – we might have abused everything else but the voice is sacred.
You’ve been around for a long time and you seem to be curious to explore different areas all the time. Is that something that you do actively or you just happen to stumble upon stuff?
– I do actively look for new music. Yeah. And I’m fortunate enough to have friends that are…. There’s a band I work with that are called The Juno Reactor and it’s techno-music, right? They have six African percussionists and I’ve gone and toured with them in Japan and done shows with them in Los Angeles, and it’s cool for me because…
It’s a challenge, I mean, I’ve had a 30 year career now, and if I can’t challenge myself as a musician and just sit back and play the stuff that I already know, I’m gonna get stale as a musician.
So by working with Juno Reactor, it enabled me to learn how to do progamming and work on programs, get into the whole computer world and listen to things that I ordinarily wouldn’t be exposed to.
You’ve been in the business for such a long time… Do you still get your kicks or is it more “another day at the office”…?
– It’s never… I mean, if I felt like that, I’d really start to worry. I still love playing guitar, one of the first things I do in the morning is pick up a guitar. I have my coffee, answer my e-mail, put the guitar on and I’m still fascinated by the instrument. I don’t know why that is, but it’s still…
I’ve gotten things like… a new car or something, and I have no excitement about it. But getting a new guitar for me is like – I can’t wait to open the box, and the case and you know – the guitar sleeps with me in the bed.
It’s something about that instrument that I just think I was born to be with. It’s a part of me now. It’s never betrayed me. Playing guitar has never done anything but helped me out and enriched my life.
If you look back on Steve Stevens in 1984 and Steve Stevens 2012 – what differences would you say there were?
– Hopefully I’m a better musician now, I’ve been doing what I do this long…
But have you changed your attitude…?
– I’m more humble. Back in 84 I think that Billy and I really felt like there was a lot of stale music around. When I first joined Billy Idol he had released “Dancing With Myself” and they wouldn’t put them on the cover because because radio stations wouldn’t play artists with spiky hair.
It’s crazy to think now, but anybody affiliated with punk rock or anything like that, couldn’t get on mainstream rock radio. And now, you hear Billy Idol next to Journey or Styx or any of those bands on Classic Rock or something. But when we started it certainly wasn’t like that.
I think we had this attitude like we were gonna do something different, we were utilizing … we were doing things like dance-remixes and used drum machines and technology and all this… So I think when we did “Rebel Yell” we were pretty militant about “we are the new rock heroes” or whatever.
But you’re not into the whole limousine glitter LA sort of lifestyle…?
– I don’t really care about that stuff. I was always uncomfortable about that kind of stuff. I was never that kind of guy… I’m from New York so it’s a bit different, I live in LA now but we were never really part of the scene, whereas the LA bands – the hairmetal bands that came out of LA all got kind of crazy with eachother, tried to top eachother.
“You wanna see how much coke I can snort?!” and all that. We were from New York so the musicians that we hung out with were the guys from Suicide, Alan Vega, you know…
I remember Duran Duran – Andy and John Taylor came to town to do that Power Station record, so we hung with a lot of those guys. I think because Billy and our producer Keith Forsey are English, I got to hang a lot more with the English musicians.
I noticed that you played Van Halen tonight. Are you gonna see them on this tour?
– Yeah, actually we just got invited to a friends and family rehearsal. I’ve known Eddie for years, and Pete Thorn, our other guitarplayer tonight, he’s friends with Eddie. So of course we’ll go and see Van Halen.
I got this interview through your wife Josie. When I spoke to Ozzy many years ago he said that he felt it was confusing because he never knew if Sharon was talking to him as his wife or manager. Do you feel the same way?
– It’s just naturally gravitated that she’s… You know, she’s really diligent with her internet stuff. She’s on Twitter all the time and Facebook and all that. She’s always on my case. “You gotta update your thing…” I’m okay if I just check my e-mails and move on, you know.
So, more and more people have been contacting her for business stuff, and she’s really good at it. I said, “look, if you’re comfortable doing it, by all means, go for it“. It’s been great, it’s been really cool. We enjoy working together.
She comes on tour with me, and I think from the time we did that TV-show, Married To Rock, it became stronger, the work thing. We’ve been together for 10 years, so we liked working together on that show. We have a good, natural chemistry. You know, it works.
People always say that you gotta give eachother space, be away from eachother and do other things. You never felt that way then?
– No, she’s a rocker. You know. She packed up her bags and moved to Los Angeles when she was 16 years old, she’s been on more tours than a lot of musicians that I know. She’s always been a rock chick. She loves it and she knows a lot about rock’n’roll. And I value her opinion. She’s got really good instincts.
You once said that you’re never 100% satisfied with any record that you’ve done. Does that go for live performances as well? Have you ever gotten to a point where you’ve said to yourself that “this was so fucking cool“?
– Yeah, I mean… You know when something is good. When we did “Rebel yell” it was no mystery to us. As the songs were taking shape, and as we started to record it, and got closer to completing them, we were like… “Wait a minute, this is really cool, this is not just another record. This is a really big step for all of us“.
So you know when something is good. I know when I’ve played a good show. But I’m really hard to please. I’m a picky fucker.
You’re involved in so many different projects – could you give a quick summary of what you’ve been doing in 2011 and what your plans are for 2012?
– On the Billy Idol front it was a little bit quiet in 2011, because Billy is writing his autobiography. So we only did a brief tour in November. I kept busy with my Camp Freddy stuff – with those guys it’s a CRAZY schedule. Because you don’t exactly know who the guest singer is, so two days before you find out “oh it’s gonna be Ozzy” or whoever. So that kept me on my toes.
And then Josie launched a clothing line this year so that gave me an opportunity to plan a clothing line launch party. Billy Idol played, all the Camp Freddy guys…
And in 2012 – Billy and I have tourdates planned, we’ll be in Europe in July, and then November and December we’ll be in South America.
And we’re writing material for a new a new record. We’ll be out this year cause they want to hold the record until the autobiography comes out. We’re not just writing songs, we’re writing songs that are gonna coexist with the autobiography. So it’s a whole different thing.
At this point it’s time to wrap up the interview, as Sebastian is getting louder in the background :-). The Iridium-cat has been strutting around during the whole interview, trying to get some attention, so photographer Beatrice asks Steve if he would mind being photographed with the cat.
I just loved his response, delivered with a smile:
– I’m not taking a picture with the cat…! I can just just imagine the comments: “Oh, look at the pussy! And the cat!”
Bizarre backstage night at the Iridium
A few minutes before the show ended, the waitor brought us the check. We didn’t have time to wait to pay with our credit cards, so we just dug deep into our wallets for the last cash. Then, after the last song, we grabbed all our stuff and went straight to the door on the left side of the stage where Josie (Stevens, Steve’s wife) had said she would pick us up to escort us backstage.
Funny enough, before she showed up, another guy came over and asked “You’re here for the interview – right?”
“THE Interview”? It wasn’t “You’re here for an interview, right?” So, apparently, people knew we were coming. That’s nice, makes things a lot more easier than when you have to deal with people who are trying to throw you out because they think you’re some fan sniffing around the backstage door.
Anyway. Josie came out to pick us up, just like she had said. She had already warned me that it would be a small dressing room, but when I saw it, I still couldn’t believe how super-mini-small it actually was…! You walked through a short hallway, then right in front was this tiny little area with a table and two chairs, most guests had to stand up. The hall/corridor continued to the left and around the “dressing room” then out to something that looked like a restaurant kitchen.
– It’s a little crowded, friends and family is here. He’ll be with you guys in a few minutes, ok? said Josie and walked off.
Man, it was really packed back there, to say the least. The family and friends-meet-and-greet didn’t take long, probably because there were fans waiting outside for the “official” meet and greet where Steve was to sign stuff and have his picture taken with people.
One of the guests backstage was an older gentleman with grey hair that might have been Steve’s father or some other close relative, they had very similar features. Who knows. I didn’t ask. :-)
When there’s friends and family, I’d rather stay out of the way until the timing is better. I just feel that when musicians get to meet their closest friends and family members, the last thing they want to have around in that particular moment, is some reporter wanting to do an interview. :-)
Sebastian’s cousin was there, she was talking with Beatrice, I just overheard the conversation being something about museums, but don’t ask me what, I didn’t pry. :)
Sebastian was talking somewhere in there, you can never miss Baz, he’s not exactly the quiet type. :) He looked happy to see me. “Daniela! You’re fucking WILD! I knew that if anybody was gonna sing Youth Gone Wild with me, it’d be you!”
Well – me and the other big fan from Jersey who had been freezing his ass off outside the Iridium since 4 in the afternoon. :)
He was complaining about his hair being messed up and asked Josie if she had a dryer, but she only had a flattening iron – so he went for that. He plugged it in, and then had to go get something, so he gave the iron to Beatrice, to hold til he got back.
You’d have to smile a little at the absurd situation. Backstage in a jazz club on Broadway, with Steve Stevens and Sebastian Bach – and the photographer ends up holding a flattening iron for no apparent reason. When the guitarplayer, Pete, walked in, he found her standing there with the iron and no Sebastian was in sight.
– You need to fix your hair? he asked her.
– Oh well you know… After all that headbanging and all, I felt I had to straighten it out…! she joked.
Not sure if he believed that though. :) Sebastian came back and started fixing his hair, when I suddenly spotted a black CAT! I guess it wasn’t weird enough already. Let’s throw a cat into the equation as well. The kittie was very friendly, wanted to be petted so I didn’t mind things were taking a while.
[Black cat in the dressing room at the Iridium – checking out the gear..! :-)]
Beatrice pointed out that it was already 10.20 PM,
20 minutes past the start of the second gig actually. It didn’t look like the interview was going to happen right there and then. So when Josie and Steve came back, I suggested we’d give it a try after the second set.
– Yeah, I think that would be a lot better, I’ll be more relaxed, said Steve.
Josie took off to see how she could arrange for us to stay and see the second set too. It took her five minutes tops, and she got back to show us to our seats. She apologised that we “had to” see the second show as well. I for one couldn’t be happier because I LOVED the concept and the show, this was a bonus and a treat. Never mind the table was right next to the ladies room, and people kept running back and forth all the time. Apart from that – perfect seats! In only a few minutes…!
Once again a waitor approached us and went: “You were here for the interview, right?” There we go again – “THE interview”…… We didn’t have to spend another 10 bucks which was the minimum, so that was a relief at least.
Second show was even better than the first. Relaxed, yet energetic, fun and inspiring. Loved it.
After the second set, we went to the stage door again. Sebastian was entertaining in the “dressing room” again and Josie pointed at Steve who was way in the back, in that “kitchen” talking to somebody. I figured we’d wait until he was done.
There were some old, dusty chairs back there, no table, no nothing, very humble to say the least. This is the kind of place that any local band knows only too well. It’s cool to see that Steve doesnt have a problem with this stuff, no snobby attitude whatsoever.
The cat was purring during the interview, buffing and puffing, wanting more attention. Steve was superduper-nice, very down to earth, very easy to talk to. Very likeable person. He seemed to be enjoying the interview, cause when I said I was done – when I heard Baz yelling in the background, probably getting the party started – I didn’t want to keep Steve from joinig them.
But Steve was comfortable with the situation. “Noo, no it’s no problem, keep going!”
I knew there would be very little time so I had picked only the most important questions, I was done. In the meantime, Josie came in to let Steve know there was a LONG line of people outside waiting for him. He asked what my plans were for my New York stay. I said that I was leaving next morning, I was only here to see this gig.
He stopped, put his hand on his chest and with a small little bow he went: “I’m honored….”
Another nice gesture. No bigshot attitude to be found anywhere. Just a humble and nice guy. Same thing with Josie, she looks like this glamour girl you would expect to be stuck up and full of herself. She definitely wasn’t. Some people you just automatically like – and I spontaneously liked Steve and Josie. They left and Sebastian was out there talking to the guys of Nightranger who had dropped by.
– Hey Daniela! I sang for you! Did you hear it!? Fuck I can’t remember which song, but did you hear it? he asked.
I honestly hadn’t. I thought he meant that he sang it “for me”, as in dedicating to by looking or something like that. But Beatrice explained to me later that he had changed the lyrics in one of the songs to contain “Daniela”. I never heard that.
When we had packed our stuff, I just stuck my nose through the crowd to say bye to Sebastian.
– Bye Baz – see you at Sweden Rock!
It wasn’t easy plowing through the crowd outside. Josie wasn’t exaggerating when she said there were a LOT of people waiting for Steve. They were both posing with fans, so they were busy to say the least when we left. I just said thank you and waved to them as we left the building.
I feel that this was one of those evenings I’ll never forget. It was just so unique, had a great vibe on- and offstage, cool people everywhere, great show – unusual venue…. I loved everything about it.
And I got a great interview too. It was a pleasure talking to Steve – planning on having the interview done this weekend. :)
But just as a little “teaser” – here’s Steve telling the story about how Sebastian and him COULD, potentially, have been working together already back in 1988……!
IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR 