HADES / NON-FICTION guitarist Dan Lorenzo is featured in a new career-spanning interview with SocialBugg.com. An excerpt is available below.

SB: What inspired you to pick up the guitar and what are some of your musical influences?

DL: "I started playing guitar in 1978. There was this band called KISS. I swear back then they were cool as all hell. I was REALLY into Ace. I also loved Cheap Trick, Aerosmith and a couple years later AC/DC. When I was a senior in Paramus High school in 1980/81, I had my guitar tech Dan Garber paint AC/DC Highway To Hell on the back of my jean jacket. Everybody thought that was my new band. KISS was my first inspiration though."

SB: Hades released Resisting Success in 1987 and If At First You Don’t Succeed in 1988 on Torrid Records. Tell us how Hades was formed and how you got discovered by Torrid Records.

DL: "I started playing out as soon as 1979 as Hades even though I had barely been playing guitar for a year. We were a cover band. In 1982 we played the Soap Factory with Twisted Sister. A couple years later we'd open up for TT Quick at the Stone Pony and The Rising Sun. Johnny Z. from Megaforce hooked us up with TT QUICK and put us on the first Megaforce comp Born To Metalize. Then we broke up. Only T.Coombs my drummer stuck with me. In 1985 Alan Tecchio, Scott LePage and later Jim Schulman joined. I had met Torrid at WRTN and they signed us."

SB: Why did Hades take such a long break after touring for the second record and how did Non-Fiction come about?

DL: "We broke up after our first European tour in the Summer of 1989. I NEVER thought I'd be in a band again...I held out 4 days and started Non-Fiction. I made a recording of a new song I wrote called 'Know You Like A Book' with Chris and John Milnes from MUCKY PUP. Then Dan Nastasi came in on vocals, Mike Cristi on drums and we started playing as Non-Fiction. We'd open for MANOWAR and NUCLEAR ASSAULT. People didn't know what to make of us because we were playing really slow music with no guitar solos."

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