BW&BK Exclusive: JON OLIVA'S PAIN - New Album Featuring CRISS OLIVA: "Actual Pieces Of Songs And Full Songs That We Never Finished Or Never Recorded With SAVATAGE"
February 25, 2008, 16 years ago
In a recent interview with BW&BK; about the new JON OLIVA'S PAIN album, Global Warning, frontman/SAVATAGE founder Jon Oliva discussed his continued use of old demo tapes featuring musical ideas and compositions from his brother Criss to shape the record. Jon first began using the tapes for the previous JOP album, Maniacal Renderings:
Oliva: “I had material from Criss that was more substantial, and on the last album it was mainly riffs and stuff. This time it actual pieces of songs and full songs that we never finished or never recorded with Savatage. I’d work with those pieces and turn them into songs. Criss’ contributions on Global Warning are much more prevalent and more important. They’re full ideas, some of them we worked on when we were kids. Like the second song in, ‘Look At The World’, that’s a song that Criss and I wrote in 1979. All I did was change the solo section and added a couple note changes here and there, but musically the basic song is the same as it was when we wrote it. It was my first attempt at writing something that I thought was in a Queen style. I found it on one of those tapes, with me at my grandma’s house on a old Hammond organ she used to have in the living room and Criss on acoustic guitar (sings the melody, reminiscent of 'Killer Queen'). I heard it and thought, ‘What the fuck…why not?'"
Watch for the full story in BW&BK; #110.
Go to this location to hear audio samples from Global Warning. The album is slated for a March 21st release in Europe via AFM Records.
