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Rocknation: You live in Thessaloniki, Greece. What is the
music scene like there?
W.A.N.T.E.D.: You would probably be surprised by the action
around here these days. There are so many young kids form-
ing bands and playing different kinds of music with a lot of
skill I might say. Of course Thessaloniki has always been a
city of inspiration and a big influence for artists of the Medi-
terranean sea. If we talk about Thessaloniki’s music scene
in general, we would end up that the greek oriental folk-pop
prevails , but talking about rock more specifically there is
an interesting movement of both cover bands and bands
that perform their originals. The sad thing is that there is not
much of support in this genre other than the bands and the
musicians themselves. The rock audience is limited and the
venues that can host these kinds of gigs are not many either.
Rocknation: Please name some bands you have appeared
with in Greece.
W.A.N.T.E.D.: Steven Adler’s Appetite, Paul Di’Anno, Dokken,
Star Star, Firewind, Bonfire, White Lion and Whitesnake.
Rocknation: Please name of influences of other bands that
help create your music.
W.A.N.T.E.D.: Music is a long journey and we are still travel-
ing on after 12 years. We’ve been influenced by lots of differ-
ent bands and artists from many different styles and genres.
We could name a few that really live in the DNA of our band
such as the classics Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Whitesnake,
Aerosmith, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns ‘n Roses, Kiss,
and more recent era Gotthard, Nickelback, Buckcherry,
Rammstein and Marilyn Manson.
Rocknation: Your band took part in the tribute album “No
More Tears: A Millennium Tribute To Ozzy Osbourne” cover-
ing Ozzy’s “Center Of Eternity”. Please tell us about how that
came about and what response you have seen from fans.
W.A.N.T.E.D.: We would be composing the songs for the al-
bum by that time when we read an announcement on the web
about that new tribute album and as big fans of the Prince of
Darkness we rushed in to see what was this all about. After
sending some demo tapes to the record label we got a very
enthusiastic answer and so we were in. We chose to cover
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‘Center Of Eternity’ because it
was a song we all liked since
we were kids and it fitted best
with our sound. The response
of the fans was overwhelming,
we got hundreds of mails from
fans all over the world telling
that they liked our cover and
would love to see us perform-
ing live at their town.
Rocknation: Any funny stories
or encounters you had before
or after performing at shows
you can tell us about?
W.A.N.T.E.D.: It was one of
our first gigs back in 2002. We
were on a D.I.Y. production of
a show in a small theater on a
very old building. The venue
was on the first floor and even
if everybody else thought it
would be a quiet show we
loaded the stage with tons of
backline and thousands of
watts. People started com-
ing pretty early and the owner
of the theater was more than
happy to see the place getting filled, until the time that it
was getting out of control. The small place was now fully
packed and the owner was running back n forth trying to
stop us from letting anyone else get in. With the first notes
heard from the P.A. the crowd went crazy and the floor
started shaking. He panicked even more and he ran to our
manager screaming to do something to calm the crowd.
But the manager was already drunk and he didn’t give
us any kind of notice. This kept going on until the encore
song which happened to be Van Halen’s “Jump”. You can
imagine the poor guy’s face when everybody was jumping
at the same time on that old and weak piece of structure
under their feet. He finally climbed the stage and ran into
our faces screaming in agony, but we on the other hand
thought he was excited with the song and wanted to jump
with us, so we grabbed and raised him jumping until the
end of the show when he fainted. Poor guy…
Rocknation: What is some of the music you listen to now?
W.A.N.T.E.D.: Well, we’ve been listening to a web radio sta-
tion this whole time this interview is taking place and it’s
been pretty awesome!
Rocknation: What plans do you have for 2013?
W.A.N.T.E.D.: For the rest of 2013 our main goal is to
present and promote our new album to the audience. We
already have a pretty full schedule with lots of interviews,
radio shows, TV appearances and gigs followed by sev-
eral video clip shootings. We are gonna be touring around
Greece and the near countries this winter and a European
tour is being planned as we speak for the spring of 2014.
So as you see we’ve got a lot to do.
Rocknation: Thank you for taking time for this interview
and last words to the fans?
W.A.N.T.E.D.: Thank you very much too! As for the fans…
This is our brand-new and most smashing piece of work of
all time, from the moment we sat down to make these ba-
bies we knew it would be a blast and now that the time has
come we are more than excited to share this rock ‘n roll
madness with you. Take some time to feel what the ‘Meat
‘N Greed’ is all about…