Creatively speaking in regards
to writing music, how is it
different now as opposed to
Warning, Rage when it came to
writing songs?
MICHAEL: Well obviously I am older now. Back
then, I was in my early twenties. But now I am
seasoned. I can hear things, feel things, and see
things more clearly and instantaneously. With
technology, I can get it into the computer faster
before it disappears. I never feel like I’ve made it
or I perfected what I had done. I am always figur-
ing out and learning something new so I think that
keeps me going because I can’t master it.
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Do you feel that the vibe is still
there like it used to be when
you punched a button and hit
a track whereas today we have
all of this technology?
MICHAEL: Well again, with all the technology,
it’s changed. The artists now don’t have to spend
huge amounts of money to rent studios now. Al-
though, people still use them. A lot of bands, like
us, tour a lot. When you tour on the weekends, it’s
kind of hard to open up six weeks of time to record
so a lot of it is fragmented. So you can do differ-
ent portions of the recording, go tour, come back
and do more recording, and then come back and
finish it. We’ve found that a lot of bands are start-
ing to do that now. All of a sudden your recording
time is during the time when you just got added
to the M3 Festival or something that you can’t
turn down. So producers are more flexible now.
They’re mobile and I think they have to be to con-
stantly have work and you have to be flexible as well.
When it’s work time, you’ve got to get in that zone and
shut everything off.
How’s Scott doing? How’s the
new addition doing? Have you
talked to Scott?
MICHAEL: Yeah. He’s loving it. He’s kind of at
that point where he has given so much to music and
Queensryche and everything, he just wants a little
time to see his kid grow. He wants to be there when he
takes the first step because he missed that with all his
other kids. He’s doing good. My daughter had a baby
boy so now I’m a grandfather.
The circle of life it just keeps going on. But yeah,
we’re all doing good. The kids are all healthy and it’s
an amazing thing.
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