After all of that work , the writing , studio , arguments , re-writes , artwork etc . what is it like to hold that finished physical product in your hand ?
DJ : I had never been out of the country . I always lived in California and sometimes with my mother in Nevada . It was a little scary . I met this guy Michael Boyens who owned this club called the Sounds Club in Hamburg and he was in LA club hoping to get ideas for his club . We met by accident . He told me what was going on with Germany ’ s metal scene . This is around the time that Van Halen got signed and we thought everyone was getting signed from LA . It just didn ’ t happen . The clubs were booking new wave and not hard rock . I was always into European rock . I was never into American rock for the exception of Van Halen because we used to play with them a lot . When he said you can come to Germany , I kinda just blew it off , like yeah right , whatever . He said , I have a drum set and amplifiers . You can stay at my house . I know all the club owners and I wound up playing all the same clubs the Beatles played in . People don ’ t realize it but the German clubs are where the Beatles cut their teeth .
I think we can agree that over time there has been a mass devaluation of music . With that being said , could it then follow that in the current state of marketing music that music is never valued again ?
DJ : Yes , because everyone can do it , and even worse , everyone THINKS they can do it . So what you end up with is this horrible problem with quality control . If a band keeps putting out shit , that ’ s what you ’ ll be known for . What I have found out is that some of that stuff is so bad it is spilling over and poisoning the genre .