ADLER's Steven Adler, Lonny Paul Talk Touring, Album, Producer Jeff Pilson And More In New Interview
January 30, 2013, 11 years ago
Legendary Rock Interviews' John Parks has issued an new interview with ADLER guitarist Lonny Paul and drummer/band namesake Steven Adler (ex-GUNS N' ROSES), in which they discuss a number of topics, including their touring schedule, which is set to heat up beginning with a few shows in Vegas and L.A. An excerpt from the interview follows:
Q: How was it working with bassist Jeff Pilson (FOREIGNER, ex-DOKKEN) as a producer?
Lonny: "Steven, Jacob and I have worked with a lot of producers but Jeff to me is a dream producer because he doesn’t make you feel like you’re working. He makes you feel real comfortable and the more comfortable you are the more you can focus on being creative and actually be doing what you’re supposed to be doing which is making a great record. A lot of times with these bigger producers and these bigger studios everybody is so damn nervous that you’re lucky if you get through the song mechanically and sometimes it comes out real stale. Jeff took that problem out of the equation and I think that’s what helped us make a great record."
Q: The album is well sequenced and flows really great, as was Appetite all those years ago.
Steven: "I loved every thing that Lonny or Jacob brought to me. I know this might sound corny but I instantly thought that God brought these guys to me because I felt like they were writing about me, for me. Besides that, they just made everything easy and a lot of fun, the only pressure came after we recorded the record because we wanted the record to come out SO bad, we were SO excited. We were literally going crazy waiting for the record to come out and now that it’s out it feels so much better. The funny thing is, the day the record came out, Lonny and I were in his garage working out and we were in there for like ten minutes before we realized the record came out that day. I looked over at Lonny and I was like, 'Hey, Lonny, you know the record came out today'. Lonny just stops for a minute and goes, 'Oh yeah!!'. (laughs). Before that, we were going crazy and thinking about it every day (laughs)."
Lonny: "Appetite is definitely one of those records where you put it on and each song makes as much sense and fits together with the next one in a way that makes you just not want to take it off the turntable. That is something that we kept in mind. Steven specifically said, 'I wanna make a record not just a bunch of singles, each song needs to sound different but they all need to go together'."
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Adler recently released a lyric video for 'Good To Be Bad', featuring JOHN 5 (ROB ZOMBIE/ex-MARILYN MANSON). The track is featured on Adler's debut full-length, Back From The Dead, released November 26th, 2012 via New Ocean Media.
Back From The Dead was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jeff Pilson and mixed by Jay Ruston (ANTHRAX, STONE SOUR).
The tracklisting:
'Back From The Dead'
'Own Worst Enemy'
'Another Version Of The Truth'
'The One That You Hated'
'Good To Be Bad' (featuring John 5)
'Just Don't Ask' (featuring Slash)
'Blown Away'
'Waterfall'
'Habit'
'Your Diamonds'
'Dead Wrong'
To read BraveWords scribe Aaron Small's review of Back From The Dead, click here.
Adler will celebrate Valentine's Day by playing Las Vegas, NV on February 14th at Vamp'd. The following night, February 15th, they will rock Los Angeles, CA at The Whiskey.
These gigs are in addition to the the quartet's previously announced concerts in Tokyo, Japan at Tokyo Duo on March 7th and 8th.
More on Adler at the band's Facebook page.