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Spider's And Milestones With SCOOTER WARD From COLD · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Scooter Award from Cold. We're on tour right now in the States with
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  Orgy. They're doing candy As Anniversary tour and we're about eight shows. It's
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  going really well. All right, good mate, thanks for joining us today.
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  Thank you. Oh So Cold will be touring Australia for the first time
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  ever this October, starting in Melbourne or October twenty fifth, and then hitting
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  Sydney and Brisbane over consecutive nights. Mate. Like you guys have been around
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  since ninety to eighty six, and this is your first visit to Australia,
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  So why have you neglected us for so long? Ah? Honestly, it's
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  been kind of hard to get over there. We were switched around on different
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  labels and we'd always wanted to come. However, you know, the Powers
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  of Be wants you to play in designated areas, so we had always wanted
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  to be there, however it just never turned around. Now we're more free
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  to do what we wanted to do, and yeah, we had the opportunity,
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  so we took it. Oh and you're going to be celebrating twenty years
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  of your album Year of the Spider, So does that mean that you're going
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  to be playing the album in four or just a lot of shock of it.
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  We're still going through that. I know we were going to talk to
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  the Orgy guys about it. You know. The thing about it is we
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  we never played there before, and we have all this catalog music that people
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  love from other records as well. So the hopes would be to do Year
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  of the Spider in its entirety and then do some extra songs as well for
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  people. So that's that's the goal. We'll see how that works out,
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  right, if you do decant to do that album, Mincing Chartie mate like,
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  it's how difficult is it to replicate a whole album live? You know,
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  like when you first write it, I could to imagine you ever thought
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  you'd be playing the whole thing one day. So there are there been some
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  pieces that are hard to reproduce, not really, I mean we you know,
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  throughout the years of touring, we've replicated those songs many times in different
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  tours in different settings. U And you know, initially when the record was
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  put out, we did a Year of the Spider tour played all the songs
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  in its entirety. So yeah, we're familiar. The band's familiar with all
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  the songs, and you know, we had just did a year of the
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  Spider Tour here in the States, so we did fifty eight shows. So
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  yeah, we're very in tune with that record right now. Wow, and
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  being your first time, I reallymine, Like I couldn't imagine there'd be many
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  places in the world you haven't been there before. So when you come in
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  something like this for the first time, like, do you do research,
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  do you ask people what to expect or what to do, what not to
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  do? What do you just come in cold? I mean, we did
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  have some friends from Saliva that had played over there once and you know,
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  we were there's little things that are different without tour buses and flying from show
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  to show and things like that, just basically the production parts of it all
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  that we were unfamiliar with that we're kind of excited about because that's kind of
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  nice, you know, and cramming everything well, I mean, we're doing
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  three shows and basically it's a five day trip, so it's a long weekend.
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  We do three those fly from place to place and bust it out.
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  You know, a little different for sure. The clip song of that mate
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  is Isstralian fans right now? What do we expect from me? Why?
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  So it run us through like a typical Cold live show. Even if there
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  is any such thing, I can't, you know, Cold show is definitely
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  it's like an emotional journey for people. We take them to a place when
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  I wrote those songs, I was going through a hard time and they're all
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  very honest songs. So I transport myself back into that place when I wrote
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  that songs, and it translates to people that are watching the show and it
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  brings them. I try to bring them back to those moments when they needed
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  that song to help them go through whatever they went through, and if the
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  song helped them out, sometimes it becomes an over emotional thing and the whole
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  crowd sings all the songs with us, and there's a lot of tears and
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  a lot of joy. It's just it's a it's an experience when you come
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  to a Cold show, for sure. Yeah, and you mentioned that you're
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  coming out with fellow legends Orgy Made, who was celebrating twenty five years of
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  their album Candio. So you guys have done a few shows together over there
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  already. Now, Like, how how's the dynamics between the three bands?
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  Does it does it work well? Yeah, that's great. I mean,
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  you know, me and Jay we had toured with Orgy back in the day,
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  back in the early two thousands, back when both bands were doing very
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  well, and we've been friends for a long time. So we had took
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  Colderman touring again since twenty eighteen, pretty you know a lot, and so
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  Orgy had just started back kind of. They did some smaller tours, but
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  they're getting back into it and we joined up together to do this col Now,
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  going back in time, a bit mate like you formed Cold Back in
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  nineteen eighty six in Jacksonville. Friday me, So, what was some musical
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  climate like that gave birth to the band and where did you fit in initially?
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  I don't think we fit in at all back in Jacksonville at that time.
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  I mean we were kids in eighty six was when we started. The
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  band was called Grundig at that point, and uh, we were like the
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  slow grungey type of thing, you know. The music was very slow and
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  uh just heavy. We were like, we're trying to be like the Southern
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  Black Sabbath kind of thing. More sound Garden. Actually, when sound we
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  first heard sound Garden, we connected with that band because we were like,
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  oh, oh, they're doing it on the other side of the country,
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  and so there was. And also in Jacksonville there was not really one type
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  of music scene like there was in Seattle, where everybody was kind of a
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  grunge band, and in Jacksonville we had it was very diverse. We had
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  Limp Biscuit, Uh, Shine Down Cold, how Puddle the Mud. A
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  lot of the guys came from there. You know. It was the very
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  diverse different kinds of sounds coming out of that place. Every band's a little
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  different, so it was a really a genre based area and they very self
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  taught. An album sold Polyamade, which was more to do with the label
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  closing down to the music. But at that early stage of your career,
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  like, was it difficult for you guys to press on after that initial photo?
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  The record label didn't close down. Basically, Flip got folded into A
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  and M Records, so we had moved over to A and M Records.
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  It was either it was either try to continue writing that record and back then
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  you got to figure we were a brand new band that never really put anything
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  out, So we just did a lot of roadwork and toured a lot to
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  build our audience for the Thirteen Ways of Bleed on Stage records. So Flipp
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  didn't fold up, Flip didn't close down. They moved over to A and
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  M and we went with Jordan shr who was the president of Flipped and he
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  had became the president of A and M Records and then Geffen, and we
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  kind of just journeyed around to the different labels with Jordan and you know,
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  built our you know, built our community. The next two albums after that,
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  Thirteen Ways to Bleed and Year Despider, are the two albums that actually
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  solidified to you guys, Like you got a lot of fans and stuff from
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  that, but personally, which one of those two albums was your favorite?
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  That's a hard one, man. It goes over time, It changes with
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  me and different songs from different records and different emotions come up. But I'm
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  hearing those songs. They're both the pleasure to play now, so they're both
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  kind of intertwined with each other in a way. Yeah, both special records
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  to us, right, And then only a fourth album, A different kind
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  of Pain. Like a lot of critics and people said that that album was
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  more somber and downbeat than anything can put out before, Like, did you
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  feel that personally? Yeah, we got a lot of slack when that record
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  first came out. That that was the first time I ever wrote a very
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  The narrative of that album was very personal. It was literally things that were
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  happening with my sister and going on with my relationship. And it was definitely
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  a somber record and at the time I knew it was different than the other
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  records. That's the other thing about Cold. Every album that we make,
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  I don't try to make the same record. At the end of my life.
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  I want my catalog to be filled with a bunch of different styles of
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  production, the sounds, all the things, because I just don't. There's
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  a lot of bands that just keep making the same record over and over again,
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  and that's a successful way to do a band. However, I'm going
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  the opposite of that. I'm going to write whatever we want, whatever time
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  we feel, what we need to write. Oh yeah, brother, all
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  right, may well, thanks very much for your time. Did I's been
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  a pleasure speaking with you. Cold and Orgy are both in Australia for the
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  first time ever this October, so get your tickets now because I have a
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  feel and they probably might last. I don't think so. Man, it's
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  gonna sell out. Everybody, get your tickets. Come on, brother,
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  do you age the rest of your hot I appreciate you