MY RUIN guitarist Mick Murphy is featured in a new interview with Morley Seaver at antiMusic.com. An excerpt is available below:

antiMusic: As a virtuoso player, do you feel it restricting to cruise within the basic (relatively-speaking) framework or rather refreshing to be able to just feel the groove?

Mick: "I think a strong over-all groove is important. In my younger days, it was a challenge for me to keep things simple but as I've grown as a player and songwriter over the years, I have come to appreciate the importance of the straight ahead vibe as well. I like to try and find the balance between direct and complex that works for us.

antiMusic: Assuming all the songs were written in LA, can you point to any local influences that possibly seeped into the recording in Knoxville?

Mick: "Being in Knoxville when we made the record influenced the finished product. In our experience, it always does. You can feel the southern vibe on both the records we made at Soundtrack Black. A Southern Revelation has the cold Tennessee winter thing going on and The Sacred Mood embodies the southern summer."

antiMusic: Along with My Ruin, you've been busy of late as part of CHEVY METAL. Tell us how you came to be part of this "group" and what the future holds in store for you as part of it.

Mick: "Another longtime friend from Tennessee, John Lousteau, got me an audition for Chevy Metal. He engineers at (Dave) Grohl's Studio 606 and he's the soundman for Chevy Metal. As far as the future, I'm just riding the wave and showing up to whatever gigs pop up. It's a lot of fun playing classic VAN HALEN, ROLLING STONES and BLACK SABBATH with Wiley and Taylor."

Click here for more. Check out some video clips of Chevy Metal in action below:

Chevy Metal with Perry from C3 Presents on Vimeo.

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