WARRANT's Erik Turner: "JANI LANE Wrote Everything And Really Didn't Take Our Ideas Or Suggestions"
July 16, 2007, 16 years ago
Rockeyez.com has issued an interview with WARRANT's Erik Turner, conducted by David Dillon. The following is an excerpt from the chat:
Q: This was your first studio album since Jani Lane departed and your first in almost a decade. What was it like going back into the studio again after such a long hiatus and without your long-time front man?
A: "Oh, it was wonderful. It was a great experience. On the first few of records, Jani wrote everything and really didn’t take our ideas or suggestions. Since it wasn’t broke, we didn’t want to fix it and he was kind of controlling and didn’t want to share stuff in the song writing process. He was really good at it, so we just went along with it. But he quit the band back in ’93 and Jerry, especially, and I started writing songs. That’s when we stared writing a record called Ultraphobic in ’94 and I think I had one or two writing credits on that one and Jerry had a bunch of them and another guitar player in the band at the time had one too. Then, Belly To Belly we wrote as a band… which was our last studio album before this new one. We’ve just been writing songs since then. So it was great to go back onto the studio as a band and make a record with all 5 guys participating."
Read the full interview at this location.
