KING'S X Guitarist Ty Tabor - "I Like A Larger Percentage Of This Record Than I Have In A Very Long Time"
June 2, 2008, 16 years ago
According to Greg Prato from Billboard.com, after a 12-year absence, veteran rock act KING'S X returned to The Billboard 200 last week with "XV" (InsideOut/SPV), debuting at No. 145.
"The first few records, we all wrote a lot of music on our own and reworked it as a band," King's X guitarist Ty Tabor tells Billboard.com. "We went through a period where we were writing everything in the studio, because it was much more spontaneous. But if we do anything for too long, we have to switch it up to keep ourselves interested. So we decided this time to do some writing ahead of time again, and see how that worked."The end result is something the guitarist is quite happy with. "I like a larger percentage of this record than I have in a very long time. There are a few that I think are undeniably some of the best stuff Doug [Pinnick] has come up with," he says.
Also recently released was a vintage King's X live release via Molkenmusic.com, Live And Live Some More. The project was recorded during a stop in Dallas on the group's 1994 tour in support of its popular Dogman album.
"We put out another live album a few years back that was based on some board tapes with some real iffy gear," Tabor says. "[This new] live album should have been the one we released before."Read more here.
