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Rocknation: Hello Steve and wel- For more information on Hinder
please visit: www.hindermusic.com
come to Rocknation, and congrats the booklet of Invisible. The band
on your new release “Invisible” bands you have played with in pics were shot the summer before,
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on Ice Warrior/Rock It Up Records. in fact in those pics I had beard. about Perpetual Fire and my mu-
Please fill us in on the recording Europe. Beyond the two RR24, I have also sic and give the opportunity to all
Steve: As a professional musi-
our fans to know a little bit more
a Jackson SLAT-7 strings guitar
process and songwriting. After selling millions of albums with Extreme Behavior and Take It To The Limit,
about us. I hope after this inter-
cian I had the chance to share the that I’m using now for the demos
Steve: Hello Rocknation! Thank touring the world for five years and living large, the rowdy Oklahoma boys in
stage with Deep Purple, ZZ Top,
you very much for the opportunity of the new songs. This power axe view people will be curious to find
Hinder faced the reality of a subdued life at home. They had a new album to finish
to speak about Perpetual Fire. I Gamma Ray, Extreme, Twisted Sis- mounts EMG pickups, a different out more about Perpetual Fire and
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and also needed to adjust to a civilian existence after an endless party. It was more
ter, The Clash, Finntrolls, Tankard, groovy and dark sound for
wrote those songs between 2005 visit our website:
Cannibal Corpe, Quire Boys and
www.perpetualfire.net. Keep the
Perpetual Fire’s third album.
and 2007. Usually I start play- of a startling transition than they expected, but it also gave them some time to
others. It’s always great to play in Rocknation: Please tell us about
fire perpetual!
ing my guitar and magically a contemplate their lives and what the future may hold. The result of all that soul
riff comes out or an interesting those summer festivals and see the guitar clinics you do. For more info:
searching comes in the form of their latest hard rock gem, All American Nightmare.
the attitude of these big artists.
chords sequence hits me and ● Steve: Well, I made few clinics, www.myspace.com/perpetualfire
The most striking reflection of their situation is the song “What Ya Gonna Do,”
inspires me. After that, everything We learn something every time it’s not really my deal staying on a www.myspace.com/stevevolta
and I feel I play better on those big stage all alone, just to show how
is easy and natural. I remember which asks the question without providing a clear-cut answer. “It’s not about an
stages before a big crowd.
fast I am. I don’t mean it’s wrong
that I worked all night long on answer, it’s about how everybody interprets it,” explains singer Austin Winkler.
Rocknation: Who are your influ-
but I prefer joining with the band,
the song Invisible. In that case “That song is really personal and hits home with me because we are out on the
ences?
composing songs and good melo-
the song started with the piano road [a lot], and partying eventually does get old. You grow up and have to deal
Steve: When I was 16 I started
melody that you can hear in the ● dies. Anyway one of my targets
with reality. Whenever you step on a tour bus it’s a fantasy world. That song came
intro and that is the main theme. playing guitar, I was listening to for the future is an instrumental
Yngwie Malmsteen, Mick Mars,
from touring nonstop for five years and then taking eight months off and adjusting
After I create a demo of each song album, so maybe after I will plan
and then I work on vocal melodies Richie Sambora and other vir- some other clinics.
to life in general. This isn’t going to last forever, and how are we going to adjust all
tuoso guitarists. Then I studied
with our singer Roby Beccalli and Rocknation: What plans do you
of the damage that we’ve put our bodies through? I ran my liver into the ground.”
rehearse with the band. We started the style of Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, have for 2011.
Joe Satriani and Michael Angelo.
“We’re not stupid, we know this ride will end eventually,” concurs drummer Cody
recording the album on july 2007 ● Steve: First of all I have to finish
Yes, I liked playing fast! But after
this long tour with the singer I told
and fixed the master on december Hanson, who co-produced the album with Kevin Churko. “Whenever we
2008. I made everything and it was some years I understood that I had you before, after I want to record
submitted the song to our A&R guy, he always loved it but wanted the answer. We
to play music and not only fast
the third album with Perpetual Fire
a hard job! Believe me! tried to come up with ideas for it, but that isn’t the point of the song. It’s an open
scales.
Rocknation: What can someone and make
Rocknation: I see you are
gigs with them. Anyway I
expect at a PERPETUAL FIRE question that we don’t know the answer to. It is a real and personal song to us, so
endorsed by Jackson guitars tell
always have a lot of ideas, so it
show? we didn’t really feel that we should change it.” The Hinder gang -- Winker, Hanson,
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bassist Mike Rodden and guitarists Joe Garvey and Mike King -- is facing a time
Steve: Unfortunately we played us about that. can be you’ll hear of me for other
Steve: Yeah, one year ago I started projects.
few gigs because I’m a profes- of transition. Now in their late twenties, they are on the cusp of growing up, so to
a tour with a famous singer here
Rocknation: Thank you for tak-
sional musician and I have to speak, and wondering how that growth spurt will change them. But they haven’t
in Italy and simply I asked for en-
work with many situations. Any- ing time for this interview and last
way in 2009 we have had some gotten all serious and somber. All American Nightmare is still ripe with the bluesy,
dorsement to a couple of distribu- words to the fans.
tion company. The day after I had Steve: Thank you Tom, always
live shows. It was great to play gritty hard rock that they have made their name on -- in fact, it features some of
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my two Jackson RR24. The guitars a pleasure to spend time talking
with my band! I noticed that the their heaviest music yet -- from the snarling title track and the incensed
are amazing and powerful with
audience listened to us carefully,
“Striptease” to the melodic ballad “Everybody’s Wrong” and the flippant closing
Management: Chief Music Management
caught by the power of our melo- floyd rose, 24 frets, EMG 81 site by shockstream
pickup. Everything you need to
dies, so what they can expect is number “Bad Mother F#cker,” a drunken song that sends up male machismo
rock hard and speed! I also made
great music, great voice and guitar with a satirical razor’s edge that will undoubtedly offend many people.
solos!! ahah a photo shooting with my new
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Rocknation: Please name some Jackson’s and I put one of them in
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