Latest / Classic Metal Show / Is Heavy Metal's Queen Finally Planning A Secret Reunion? (2012 Archive)
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- 0:06[music]
- 0:25SPEAKER_02: All right,
- 0:25SPEAKER_02: that is brand new music from the artist,
- 0:28SPEAKER_02: the one and only, the legend, the queen of metal herself, Doro.
- 0:32SPEAKER_02: And on the phone right now, we have Doro Pesh.
- 0:34SPEAKER_02: Doro, how are you?
- 0:36SPEAKER_03: Hey, very good.
- 0:37SPEAKER_03: Thank you for having me, Chris.
- 0:39SPEAKER_03: Oh, it's great.
- 0:41SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
- 0:42SPEAKER_02: Well, Doro, obviously a very busy time for you.
- 0:45SPEAKER_02: One of the busier times.
- 0:46SPEAKER_02: You've actually been very busy for probably the last five to ten years now,
- 0:50SPEAKER_02: but this seems to be one of the biggest,
- 0:53SPEAKER_02: busiest times that you've had in quite a while, huh?
- 0:57SPEAKER_03: Yes, yeah.
- 0:58SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you're right.
- 0:59SPEAKER_03: And, man, doing, yeah, records touring all over the world and playing festivals.
- 1:05SPEAKER_03: And the last DVD, actually, it was, yeah, a couple of years ago.
- 1:09SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, but it feels good.
- 1:12SPEAKER_03: And it feels that metal is coming back in such a huge way.
- 1:15SPEAKER_03: So that's great.
- 1:17SPEAKER_03: And, yeah.
- 1:18SPEAKER_03: And since I love going out on the road, it's like, yeah, I'm really happy right now.
- 1:23SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
- 1:24SPEAKER_02: Sure.
- 1:25SPEAKER_02: Now Dora,
- 1:26SPEAKER_02: you have this brand new record coming out,
- 1:28SPEAKER_02: Raise Your Fist,
- 1:28SPEAKER_02: and to me,
- 1:31SPEAKER_02: in my ears personally,
- 1:32SPEAKER_02: it's a little bit different than what you've been doing the last couple of records.
- 1:35SPEAKER_02: I mean, clearly it is what you do,
- 1:37SPEAKER_02: which is straight up hard power metal,
- 1:40SPEAKER_02: but at the same time,
- 1:41SPEAKER_02: it almost feels like you took a little bit of twists and turns on the record
- 1:45SPEAKER_02: that you haven't shown maybe all the way back to...
- 1:49SPEAKER_02: Wow, I don't know, stuff like True at Heart and Angels Never Die.
- 1:54SPEAKER_02: Were you trying to do some different things,
- 1:55SPEAKER_02: or were you just in a slightly different writing mode when you wrote this music,
- 1:59SPEAKER_02: or what?
- 2:01SPEAKER_03: Actually,
- 2:02SPEAKER_03: next year,
- 2:03SPEAKER_03: my third year anniversary is coming up,
- 2:05SPEAKER_03: and then I thought,
- 2:06SPEAKER_03: I want to do stuff that I can do best,
- 2:09SPEAKER_03: and I know what fans always, like, you know, like, what they were asking for.
- 2:14SPEAKER_03: When we were on tour,
- 2:15SPEAKER_03: and I thought,
- 2:16SPEAKER_03: I definitely want to do a couple of really,
- 2:18SPEAKER_03: really old school metal songs,
- 2:20SPEAKER_03: like Die Hard,
- 2:21SPEAKER_03: Headbangers, almost speed metal, and bring it, you know, into a more modern sound.
- 2:27SPEAKER_03: But I know life that's always like,
- 2:28SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 2:29SPEAKER_03: it was always a highlight when we played Burning the Witches or Arrow the Ruins.
- 2:33SPEAKER_03: So I definitely want to do, you know, stuff that I know fans would love.
- 2:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then the anthems I always love.
- 2:41SPEAKER_03: And I think this album has a lot of anthems like Ways Your Fifth in the Air
- 2:45SPEAKER_03: or Rock Till Death or Victory.
- 2:48SPEAKER_03: And I wanted to, you know, get, of course, some nice ballads because I love singing ballads.
- 2:55SPEAKER_03: Nice melodies and soul and feeling.
- 2:58SPEAKER_03: And I just wanted to try to do the best of the best and learn from previous records.
- 3:05SPEAKER_03: I think now the heavy songs, they sound really balls to the walls, sound more fat, more heavy.
- 3:13SPEAKER_03: And, you know,
- 3:14SPEAKER_03: and we have two great guests,
- 3:15SPEAKER_03: too, like, which is always a great honor to work with fantastic people.
- 3:20SPEAKER_03: And I know the fans,
- 3:20SPEAKER_03: they're always happy when there's something,
- 3:22SPEAKER_03: you know, a surprise or something exciting on the record.
- 3:25SPEAKER_03: So we have two guests.
- 3:26SPEAKER_03: One time is Gus G, the guitar player of Audie Osborne in Firewind.
- 3:30SPEAKER_03: He plays a great solo.
- 3:32SPEAKER_03: And then during the song, It Still Hurts, together with Lemmy of Motorhead.
- 3:36SPEAKER_03: And that's, for me, so special.
- 3:38SPEAKER_03: And it's always great to have Lemmy, like, yeah, singing on...
- 3:43SPEAKER_03: On any song,
- 3:44SPEAKER_03: and this one is a ballad,
- 3:45SPEAKER_03: and I think it's very different,
- 3:47SPEAKER_03: very soulful, and I think very unique, and it's great to have Lemmy and Gus.
- 3:55SPEAKER_02: Sure.
- 3:56SPEAKER_02: Well, Dora,
- 3:56SPEAKER_02: one of the things that's always interesting about your career,
- 3:59SPEAKER_02: and I mean, people, obviously, Burn the Witches came out in, what, 83 or 84?
- 4:04SPEAKER_02: I mean, eons and eons ago.
- 4:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 4:08SPEAKER_02: But it's always interesting with your career that your voice is still
- 4:12SPEAKER_02: as strong today as it was 30 years ago.
- 4:16SPEAKER_02: How is it that you've been able to keep that up when so many of your contemporaries
- 4:22SPEAKER_02: in the world of metal have seen their voice deteriorate?
- 4:25SPEAKER_02: From touring and whatnot,
- 4:27SPEAKER_02: you're always actively touring,
- 4:29SPEAKER_02: you're always on tour,
- 4:30SPEAKER_02: it's not like you go five years in between albums or anything,
- 4:33SPEAKER_02: so how have you been able to keep your voice so fresh throughout the entire history
- 4:38SPEAKER_02: of your band?
- 4:42SPEAKER_03: That's probably the secret, being on the road a lot.
- 4:45SPEAKER_03: Like, I guess,
- 4:46SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 4:47SPEAKER_03: voice can be like a muscle and,
- 4:49SPEAKER_03: you know, when you always use it, I think it gets stronger and stronger.
- 4:53SPEAKER_03: Like when you work out a lot and then when you're not working out and, you know, stuff goes.
- 4:58SPEAKER_03: But I think it's, yeah,
- 4:59SPEAKER_03: from touring and,
- 5:00SPEAKER_03: you know, when I see the fans, then I can always, you know, I can always sing.
- 5:05SPEAKER_03: Ten times better than if I would be alone just in the studio with an engineer.
- 5:10SPEAKER_03: When I see the fans,
- 5:12SPEAKER_03: when I have the fans in the back of my mind,
- 5:14SPEAKER_03: because in the studio sometimes it is lonely,
- 5:16SPEAKER_03: but somehow I feel the energy of the fans.
- 5:20SPEAKER_03: Oh, I know I want to sing this song for this kind of person or for this kind of fan base.
- 5:27SPEAKER_03: It always keeps me highly motivated, highly inspired.
- 5:33SPEAKER_03: My only and true secret is probably the fans and the fan base and everything else just flows.
- 5:42SPEAKER_03: Of course, I love to sing.
- 5:44SPEAKER_03: I love metal.
- 5:47SPEAKER_03: I'm always the happiest when I can perform live or when I can sing.
- 5:53SPEAKER_03: And I must say, like, when I started in the 80s, it was great.
- 5:57SPEAKER_03: Metal was huge.
- 5:59SPEAKER_03: And then in the 90s,
- 6:00SPEAKER_03: when suddenly metal wasn't so big anymore,
- 6:02SPEAKER_03: when grunge was,
- 6:03SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 6:04SPEAKER_03: much bigger,
- 6:04SPEAKER_03: then I thought,
- 6:05SPEAKER_03: oh, God, if it ever will come back, then I will, you know, never let it go anymore.
- 6:11SPEAKER_03: And now I think I can appreciate it much more than in the 80s.
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- 6:48SPEAKER_02: And so now, Doro,
- 6:49SPEAKER_02: obviously you travel and tour the world,
- 6:53SPEAKER_02: and your career is not solely based in the United States like
- 6:57SPEAKER_02: so many American artists to where you have pockets all over the world
- 7:01SPEAKER_02: where you're successful.
- 7:03SPEAKER_02: Now, obviously, the political climate all over the world is crazy, for lack of a better term.
- 7:09SPEAKER_02: When you go to different countries now,
- 7:11SPEAKER_02: do you see really,
- 7:14SPEAKER_02: really widely different attitudes of people as you go because of the differences
- 7:19SPEAKER_02: in political structure that everybody's going through across the world?
- 7:26SPEAKER_03: Yes, you can definitely feel it.
- 7:27SPEAKER_03: The surroundings are much different.
- 7:29SPEAKER_03: The fans, I think when they are metal fans, they are pretty much all over the world the same.
- 7:34SPEAKER_03: Great, good-hearted people, intense, honest, energetic, passionate.
- 7:40SPEAKER_03: I think the fans are worldwide pretty much the same.
- 7:43SPEAKER_03: I mean, here and there, some little mentality differences, but not much.
- 7:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the surroundings, like,
- 7:49SPEAKER_03: they're always dependent on the political situation,
- 7:53SPEAKER_03: if you even can play and, you know, what to play.
- 7:55SPEAKER_03: For example,
- 7:56SPEAKER_03: when I wanted to tour in China,
- 7:58SPEAKER_03: then I had to,
- 8:00SPEAKER_03: at first, like,
- 8:01SPEAKER_03: send in all the songs,
- 8:02SPEAKER_03: all the lyrics,
- 8:04SPEAKER_03: and there was, like,
- 8:04SPEAKER_03: actually,
- 8:05SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 8:05SPEAKER_03: they were,
- 8:06SPEAKER_03: you know, yeah,
- 8:07SPEAKER_03: thinking of,
- 8:08SPEAKER_03: like, doing censorship, and then I thought, oh, okay, but I want to play.
- 8:12SPEAKER_03: So I said, okay,
- 8:13SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 8:13SPEAKER_03: I will do,
- 8:14SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 8:15SPEAKER_03: I will play by the rules,
- 8:16SPEAKER_03: but then when we went Into China, and then I played everything.
- 8:21SPEAKER_03: Even my, you know, my favorite tune of breaking, of those trees was breaking the law.
- 8:27SPEAKER_03: And I thought, yeah, let's do it.
- 8:29SPEAKER_03: But getting into certain countries, that's very difficult.
- 8:33SPEAKER_03: But I must say, the people, they are all over the world, you know, the same.
- 8:38SPEAKER_03: Everybody wants the same.
- 8:39SPEAKER_03: They want, you know, they want to be loved.
- 8:41SPEAKER_03: They want to hear great music.
- 8:46SPEAKER_03: But the political situation, sometimes it dictates what you can do or where to play.
- 8:51SPEAKER_03: And we always try to sometimes make a compromise to go into the country to play.
- 8:58SPEAKER_03: But sometimes you feel not so safe either.
- 9:03SPEAKER_03: You never know what can happen.
- 9:06SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
- 9:07SPEAKER_02: Now, Dora, another thing that we've been hearing is that there's going to be a warlock reunion.
- 9:11SPEAKER_02: Is that correct?
- 9:14SPEAKER_03: Oh, actually, I didn't hear that yet.
- 9:19SPEAKER_03: I don't know,
- 9:19SPEAKER_03: there's always some rumors,
- 9:21SPEAKER_03: and I got the rights to the name back,
- 9:24SPEAKER_03: so actually now it's not anymore so difficult,
- 9:30SPEAKER_03: because we couldn't perform under the name Warlock for many years,
- 9:34SPEAKER_03: but I got the rights to the name back,
- 9:35SPEAKER_03: so actually it could be possible,
- 9:38SPEAKER_03: but there are no plans right now, but But maybe in the future.
- 9:43SPEAKER_03: But so far we haven't talked.
- 9:45SPEAKER_03: I didn't talk to all the other guys in the band.
- 9:48SPEAKER_03: And some band members, they gave up music.
- 9:50SPEAKER_03: So if we would do something, it would be probably not the original lineup.
- 9:56SPEAKER_03: But so far, no plans yet.
- 10:00SPEAKER_02: Well, and in reality, I mean,
- 10:02SPEAKER_02: when you listen to the Warlock records and then you listen to the solo records,
- 10:06SPEAKER_02: there's really not that much difference in style anyway, right?
- 10:09SPEAKER_02: It's not like you would have to go back and relearn to write Warlock songs.
- 10:16SPEAKER_02: I mean, All We Are is pretty similar to everything that you've done, you know?
- 10:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, Chris, it's all the same to me.
- 10:24SPEAKER_03: Like, you know, and when I wrote like, oh, yeah, I will ruin or headbound, it was all the same.
- 10:31SPEAKER_03: And since I wrote many of the songs or most of them,
- 10:35SPEAKER_03: and actually I never planned on doing a solo career.
- 10:38SPEAKER_03: It was just because we lost the name right.
- 10:42SPEAKER_03: And there was actually then the next best thing,
- 10:45SPEAKER_03: the record company said, hey, why don't you call it Doro?
- 10:47SPEAKER_03: And then I thought, okay, we call it Doro for one record.
- 10:50SPEAKER_03: Now we go back to the name Warlock, but it never got to that.
- 10:53SPEAKER_03: So it took like 20 years to get the rights back.
- 10:57SPEAKER_03: But yeah, to me, that's one of the same, of course.
- 11:00SPEAKER_03: And I always play all the old Warlock too, of course.
- 11:04Sure.
- 11:04SPEAKER_02: Sure.
- 11:05SPEAKER_03: Chris, do you hear a strange echo?
- 11:08SPEAKER_03: I hear myself two or three times.
- 11:10SPEAKER_03: I hope you guys don't.
- 11:12SPEAKER_02: No, I don't.
- 11:13SPEAKER_02: Actually, I haven't heard of it.
- 11:14SPEAKER_03: No, good, good.
- 11:15SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 11:16SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 11:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm back overseas,
- 11:17SPEAKER_03: so sometimes technology is like, you know, doing their own thing, but that's good.
- 11:22SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 11:23SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 11:26SPEAKER_02: Well, Dora, one of the things that I'm always interested in with musicians is their equipment.
- 11:32SPEAKER_02: And it's interesting with a singer versus a guitar player,
- 11:35SPEAKER_02: because guitar players,
- 11:37SPEAKER_02: it's obvious they get endorsements for their strings and their pickups and
- 11:40SPEAKER_02: the actual guitars that they play and whatnot.
- 11:42SPEAKER_02: And certainly singers get endorsements for their microphones and whatnot.
- 11:51SPEAKER_02: For an artist like you that's been out there so long,
- 11:53SPEAKER_02: do you get maybe the Striggle company coming up to you and asking you
- 11:59SPEAKER_02: to try out their microphone or the astronomy amplifier companies coming up
- 12:06SPEAKER_02: and asking you to maybe switch from Marshalls to Striggles or whatever?
- 12:11SPEAKER_02: Do you get that kind of thing happening a lot to you?
- 12:15SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but I actually, I must say, I always take care of my band.
- 12:19SPEAKER_03: The band is always first, like the guitar players or, you know, the bass player.
- 12:24SPEAKER_03: So, you know, when they have, like, you know, like a new company, like, that's cool.
- 12:30SPEAKER_03: But to me, I can sing over anything.
- 12:32SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter.
- 12:33SPEAKER_03: I, you know, I'm not picky.
- 12:34SPEAKER_03: I just, you know, I just bear it out.
- 12:37SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter.
- 12:39SPEAKER_03: And actually, I love more the Yeah, the good old down-dirty rock and roll stuff.
- 12:45SPEAKER_03: So I just, even the cable microphone, I don't care.
- 12:48SPEAKER_03: You know, as long as the fans are there, you know, I just give it my all.
- 12:52SPEAKER_03: But in the studio, I'm, of course, more picky.
- 12:56SPEAKER_03: But, you know, whatever feels good.
- 12:57SPEAKER_03: So I'm not, yeah, actually, I'm, yeah, I just, yeah.
- 13:03SPEAKER_03: Like one time, you know, I remember Gene Simmons, he said something great to my bass player.
- 13:09SPEAKER_03: Because we were doing this one record together,
- 13:12SPEAKER_03: and she was writing many songs and producing it.
- 13:15SPEAKER_03: And for me,
- 13:15SPEAKER_03: it was a dream come true,
- 13:16SPEAKER_03: being a big kids fan, to even have the chance to work with Gene Simmons.
- 13:21SPEAKER_03: That was awesome.
- 13:22SPEAKER_03: So one time my bass player,
- 13:24SPEAKER_03: he said, hey, so Gene, what kind of strings do you use and what kind of bass?
- 13:28SPEAKER_03: And I wanted to talk tech talk.
- 13:31SPEAKER_03: And then Gene said, you know what?
- 13:33SPEAKER_03: Give me a piece of wood and I can write you a hit song.
- 13:36SPEAKER_03: And that's how I see it, too.
- 13:38SPEAKER_03: And I think it doesn't really matter.
- 13:41SPEAKER_03: Of course, when stuff is good, that's great.
- 13:43SPEAKER_03: And I always, you know, try to have the best stuff for my band.
- 13:47SPEAKER_03: But for myself, I just think, yeah, give me a good old microphone.
- 13:51SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
- 13:52SPEAKER_03: And, yeah.
- 13:53SPEAKER_03: And usually, sometimes I use the Shure.
- 13:55SPEAKER_03: And wireless is good.
- 13:57SPEAKER_03: But if there's a cable, I'm, yeah, I'm cool.
- 13:59SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 14:00SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
- 14:00SPEAKER_02: Probably
- 14:01SPEAKER_03: old school.
- 14:02SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 14:04SPEAKER_02: Well, Doro, obviously there's a lot going on in the Doro camp.
- 14:07SPEAKER_02: Where can people go online to keep up with what you're doing and tour dates and whatnot?
- 14:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah, actually, there are so many websites.
- 14:18SPEAKER_03: Doro.de, that's one website that's always pretty much updated.
- 14:23SPEAKER_03: Then Johnny D., our drummer, he's doing the Facebook.
- 14:26SPEAKER_03: It is Doro Band.
- 14:28SPEAKER_03: And actually, a great guy, Tony, he's doing our American website.
- 14:34SPEAKER_03: Dororocks.net.
- 14:35SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then I guess all over.
- 14:37SPEAKER_03: And, you know, we're going on tour in the States in February.
- 14:40SPEAKER_03: I'm so excited.
- 14:41SPEAKER_03: I'm so looking forward.
- 14:42SPEAKER_03: And we do the 70,000 tons of metal before the tour.
- 14:46SPEAKER_03: So January, February is all like, yeah.
- 14:48SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, playing all over.
- 14:52SPEAKER_02: Sure.
- 14:53SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
- 14:54SPEAKER_02: Well, Dora, we're going to end the interview with a new song off of Raise Your Fist.
- 14:59SPEAKER_02: Why don't you go ahead and pick it and maybe tell us a little story about the song.
- 15:04SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah,
- 15:05SPEAKER_03: actually,
- 15:06SPEAKER_03: I want to take the song,
- 15:08SPEAKER_03: actually, the duet with Lemmy, because Lemmy means the world to me.
- 15:12SPEAKER_03: I love him so much.
- 15:13SPEAKER_03: It was such a great honor to have Lemmy sing on this song, on this record.
- 15:17SPEAKER_03: And we're friends for a long, long time.
- 15:19SPEAKER_03: And so here it is.
- 15:21SPEAKER_03: It's a ballad.
- 15:21SPEAKER_03: Check it out.
- 15:22SPEAKER_03: I think it's very special.
- 15:23SPEAKER_03: And oh, you know, I'm melting away when I hear Lemmy sing.
- 15:27SPEAKER_03: It's called It Still Hurts.
- 15:29SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
- 15:29SPEAKER_02: Well, check it out right now.
- 15:30SPEAKER_02: This is Doro with the one and only Lemmy right here.
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