OPETH's Mikael Åkerfeldt - "When I Go To Bed, I Still Listen To ABBA For Some Reason"
May 17, 2012, 12 years ago
Spin.com's Alyssa Pereira has issued a new interview with OPETH singer Mikael Åkerfeldt. An excerpt follows:
Q: Favorite thing to do on tour between shows:
A: "On tour I go out and get records every day. When I'm (in the US) I'm concentrating on collecting American records; American presses. On this tour I've probably bought 200 vinyls so far and we've been on tour for five weeks. I got a bunch of KISS stuff lately. I bought MOUNTAIN stuff, too, and a few 13TH FLOOR ELEVATOR records from a friend of mine. Generally, I'm just collecting psychedelic progressive-rock from the '60s and '70s. They have to be from the country that they're from. I couldn't live with having a copy of (FREE's) Fire And Water from a Spanish pressing, you know what I mean? It has to be the original. Otherwise I would feel nauseous."
Q: Favorite music to listen to on tour:
A: "When I go to bed, I still listen to ABBA for some reason. It just makes me feel comfortable. It makes me feel at home. But when we're drinking, I'm usually the power DJ. I'm very restless when I've had a couple of glasses of wine, so I play songs really fast, and I never play a whole song. It's like a compilation thing: everything from ABBA to bands like the SCORPIONS and IRON MAIDEN."
Read the complete interview at this location.
