Legendary Rock Interviews has issued a new interview with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES guitarist Dean Pleasants, conducted by John Parks. An excerpt follows:

Q: Let’s start with this latest album, 13, which was long-awaited to say the least. Back when I reviewed it I was just so blown away by how much it sounded like classic ST. Given the amount of time you guys spent making it I guess it’s a good thing it turned out so well. Is it also translating good live in your opinion?

A: (laughs) "Yeah, I would say so. We’ve had our ups and down and trials to go through, like everything in life and this album did take a while you’re right. We took our time and really put it through the microscope, as it should be, our fans expect a level of quality from us and with the way the industry is now with CDs and the lack of album sales we wanted to put something out that we felt really had our name all over it and really represented us. The new stuff is definitely working out great live."

Q: Including the artwork which is killer!

A: "Yes, big shoutout to our friend from Norway Alan Pirie who works very hard for us. He did a great job with the artwork for 13 and takes great pride in his work. We always like what he comes up with and he always likes working with us, he’s a part of this family for sure."

Q: Is that a big deal to you? To me, I think it should be a big deal for all bands to really put some thought into packaging, especially with sales the way they are. But then I’m a vinyl freak, pushing 40 and am from that era where physical product meant something (laughs).

A: "That’s cool, that’s really cool and I totally dig that because I grew up that way too. I think it’s great that now there’s a resurgence in vinyl, especially in Europe. Europeans LOVE vinyl so we’ve seen that first hand. It goes back to, like you were saying, being younger and I think about how I used to know all the names of all the producers and studios before I was even in California. I knew the names of the places like Burbank Studios and Record Plant and all that and it sounds like the weirdest thing to say but that meant something to me, knowing who did what. I don’t know if kids today obsess over the details of the music they listen to as much because everything’s online and so much of their collection’s a digital file but all that stuff meant a lot to me."

Read the full interview at this location.