HELLOWEEN Guitarist Sascha Gerstner Thinks There Are Too Many Heavy Metal Bands; New Interview Online
January 17, 2011, 13 years ago
In a recent interview conducted by Radio Metal, HELLOWEEN guitarist Sascha Gerstner rants about the profusion of heavy metal bands:
"I think there are just too many heavy metal bands, everybody thinks he is a guitar player, everybody thinks he is a producer, everybody thinks he is a rock star.Since the whole myspace and social networks stuff, everybody thinks he is a rock star and that’s bulshit. First of all it is about art and music, it is not about being cool. You just create art if you get something created in a creative way. In my opinion that’s the success for any band.
That’s why there is no second IRON MAIDEN, that’s why there is no second METALLICA. Those bands created something that no one else was able to create because of their characters and their creativity. Basically there are too many bands around and most of them maybe copy themselves.
That’s what I was saying before: they do things on purpose they say: 'Oh, lets do a heavy metal band that sounds like Helloween! Okay ha ha ha. We need a drummer who can play really fast bass drums! Okay I found one! Great! Now we need two guitarists and they have to play two voice guitar solos. Yeah! Great! Ha ha that sounds much more like Helloween! Oh the singer sucks! We need someone that can sound very high! Aaaaaah!'.
And then you have a band that sounds like Helloween but that is not how you do music! Come on! That’s not the way to do music!"
Check out the full interview at this location.
