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really a lot happened in the week or 10 days we were there . We fleshed out some ideas but not a lot . We went home and I went on this writing frenzy and started writing tunes like crazy , I wrote like 11 or 12 songs within a two or three week period . I was just spitting songs out for some reason . I was really inspired , and those ended up being most of the ones on the record and really only a couple of things from the planned rehearsal sessions ended up on the record . That just goes to show you that creative stuff just kind of comes when it comes . Feast or famine . You have to capitalize on it when it ’ s there .
Mosh : With your first solo album , 1986 ’ s Mind ’ s Eye ; I remember thumbing through the bins at a record store at that time and the artwork initially caught my eye . You had just signed to Shrapnel . What was that experience like ? Vinnie Moore : It was awesome . But at the same time going through it , it was stressful . I flew out from the East coast to the West coast to do this record . Tommy Aldridge ( drums ) and I rehearsed for like four days , he had my demos in advance . And then we just went in and started tracking . We only had like six days to track the whole record . So I was under a lot of pressure . I always thought we didn ’ t have enough time to make that record , but it is what it is . It was just a great time in my life actually . I never really expected much would come out of it , but it ended up starting my whole career and turned it into a magical thing . Many people still mention that record today as one of their favorite early influences .
Mosh : You ’ ve been with UFO for 14 years now and no matter what lineup is on stage , UFO always seems like a family . Vinnie Moore : Yeah , we hang together and we have a really good time . It ’ s a friendship when we ’ re on the road enjoying ourselves . Of course the best part of the day is being on stage playing in front of the fans . But we like being around one another and hanging out together , too . So that makes it very enjoyable .
Appearing 3 / 25 and 3 / 26 at Arcada Theater , St Charles .
MOSH-WORTHY NEW RELEASES : Havok Conformicide ( Century Media ), Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished ( Napalm Records ), Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day ( Inside Out Music ). MOSH-WORTHY LIVE : Whitechapel , Cattle Decapitation , Goatwhore , Allegaeon ( House of Blues , 03 / 04 ), Dope , Combichrist , September Mourning , Davey Suicide ( H . O . M . E . Bar , 03 / 15 ), Despised Icon , Carnifex , Fallujah , Rings Of Saturn , Lorna Shore ( Bottom Lounge , 03 / 22 ). MENTION-WORTHY NEWS : Southern bluesrockers Blacktop Mojo have generated quite abuzz with its debut release , Burn The Ships ( released March 10 , on Cuhmon Records ). This new band is perfect for fans of Shinedown , Black Stone Cherry and Art of Anarchy . On Kill The Precedent ’ s seven-track EP , Some Version Of The Truth , the seven-piece band from San Diego play a lethal combo of everything from raging rock , to rap metal and crossover thrash , with a lot of other eclectic styles thrown in for good measure .
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