HADES guitarist Dan Lorenzo has started a weekly blog that can be read here. An entry from his first blog reads as follows:

"I recently came across the cassette I used to interview Pete Steele (TYPE O NEGATIVE) and I realized I had left some good stuff out of the interview that ran in Steppin' Out. Listening to my interview with Pete for the first time in years was interesting to me. I could totally relate with him on the topic of loving to write and record music, but having a tough time with the touring aspect of it. I'm always more interested in what an artist is like when at home. What he thinks of his family, what he was like when he was young. I never really cared about amp selection, guitar strings or picking technique.

Below is part of my interview with Pete Steele from the time Type O's After Dark DVD came out.

Steppin' Out: Does your family like Type O's new DVD? Do you even show it to them?

Steele: "They seem to not really quite understand it. They think I'm rich and famous, anything that I come up with they think is great because they always throw my name around."

Steppin' Out: So they're pretty proud of you?

Steele: "Yeah, they're proud. I mean I'm not rich or famous, but I guess in their eyes I am."

Steppin' Out: Well you are well known if nothing else-is it as bad as you make it out to be as far as, you're not hurting for cash-can you afford to buy a house?

Steele: "No I can't. That's the problem. We get huge checks, you know, advance checks, but we don't ever know what the next check is going to bring. I'm not going to go out and buy a $500,000 house just to find out that I can't make the payments, so I pretty much just have a really small apartment and I'm holding on to my money until I see what's going to happen with the band."

Steppin' Out: So how real is the possibility of you returning to the Parks Department-is that just a threat to the record label or do you really think about that at times?

Steele: "It's not a threat. If this next album doesn't do well, whoever is at fault, or causes this album not to do well, the parks are once again looking really good to me just because I don't like this kind of lifestyle. I like to write music, I like to record music, but I sincerely dislike touring. I don't think the label is being fair with us. They should have probably released us three years ago, so what they have done ultimately is, it's like someone who gets a pet and keeps the pet in a cage, and as the pet gets larger they don't change the cage. I think it's pretty cruel that they haven't let us out of our cage.

Read the rest of the interview here.