BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's Nick Catanese Forms New Band With QUEENSRŸCHE Guitarist Mike Stone
August 28, 2007, 17 years ago
Live-Metal.net has issued an interview with BLACK LABEL SOCIETY guitarist Nick Catanese, conducted by Greg Maki at the recent OZZFest show in Camden, NJ. The following is an excerpt from the interview:
Q: That’s one of the things the Black Label fans are always asking about: When are we are going to hear some of your music?
A: "Very, very soon. Things are happening quicker than I thought."
Q: What kind of music is it? How would you describe it?
A: "You know what? Everybody’ll like it. There’s heavier stuff, but there’s stuff like, we wrote a song that sounds like if you put THE BEATLES and PINK FLOYD in a blender, and it came out. It’s me and Mike Stone from QUEENSRŸCHE. He’s playing bass and singing. And a drummer named Mike Froedge. He played for a band called DOUBLEDRIVE. And it’s just a three-piece, so just me, Mike Stone and Mike Froedge. So we’re just writing away, and that’s pretty much what I’m doing with my off time now."
Q: Does the band have a name yet?
A: "Yeah, we’re just right now in the midst of copyrighting it. It’ll be out soon. We found out that there’s not one of them out there, so we’re safe. It was crazy. This is a little hint, but we changed it a bit. We were gonna call the band Speed - Speed wasn’t taken - because I’m into NASCAR, I’m into NHRA - anything fast, I love it. And we found out in like 1996 there was a Japanese band called Speed. So anybody that had that name, you know, you get big, they could be jerks and sue you. So we found a way to get around it. So it has “Speed” in it. It’s cool. It’s cool."
Read the full interview at Live-Metal.net.
