New Interview With QUEENSRŸCHE Guitarist Michael Wilton Available
October 3, 2009, 15 years ago
Joe Matera from Ultimate-guitar.com spoke with QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
Ultimate-guitar.com: What else would you like to achieve musically in your career?
Wilton: "I want to do a couple of solo records for sure, and I want to stretch out on some other recordings with other people. I’ve already done one with Tim “Ripper” Owens and I just did another one with RONNY MUNROE from METAL CHURCH, where I played a couple solos on his album. And I’m getting a number of other people interested too so that is what I want. I want to collaborate, a little bit more. And of course I want to keep banging them out with Queensrÿche."
Ultimate-guitar.com: Is there any defining album that influenced your guitar playing the most?
Wilton: "Yeah it was the first VAN HALEN record. I remember there was a time when I was in high school, and I saw them live opening up for BLACK SABBATH in Seattle and when Eddie went into ‘Eruption’, I was like, ‘Holy cow!’ Then we all got copies of the album and we would sit in our cars listening to that album and it would always just get me going."
Ultimate-guitar.com: Looking back to when the band first started, did you ever expect the band to still have its longevity as it has today?
Wilton: "It does amaze me. But we are just a process that keeps evolving. But when I take a step back and think about it, it is pretty amazing. But for me it is all about, ‘come on man, let’s get to work and let’s give the people what they want’…"
Read the entire interview here.
