HARD ROCK INTERVIEWS 2014 - VISTA CHINO BRANT BJORK
VISTA CHINO - BRANT BJORK We catch up with Brant to check out how the band is gearing up for the BIG DAY OUT... |
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Everyone by know that Vista Chinbo is the band formerly known as KYUSS LIVES! And everyone knows that last year's debut album 'Peace' was something special. We catch up with Brant now that the dust has settled to discuss what's next and to talk BIG DAY OUT 2014! |
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Mark: You’re right, that’s an interesting point you make, there has been a revisionist history of Kyuss, I remember when I bought “Blues for the Red Sun”, it was a wonderful new album, but no one knew about it or had heard about it, and in the intervening years when the band first split up, there’s the mythology that was built up around the name, and it must have been hard for you in the early days as Kyuss.
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Mark: It’s a great record, and you have touched on it there a little bit. Kyuss, was mainly you and Josh writing, but now that Bruno’s there, you already seem to have created a very fruitful writing partnership, would it be fair to see each partnership was very different, as far as writing goes?
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Mark: It’s a fantastic song. Is Mike Dean, a fully-fledged member of the band now, or do you think Nick will be back at some point?
Brandt: I grew up in a neighbourhood with a lot of kids, and I was the youngest, and my neighbourhood mentor who lived across the street, played drums, and he was obsessed with Peter Criss from Kiss. I looked up to him, and he eventually found his way into a punk band in the early eighties, called “The Swankers”, and I used to go and sit in his house and watch them rehearse when I was a kid, and that’s kind of where it started to happen.
CATCH VISTA CHINO AT THE BIG DAY OUT 2014
Friday January 17th – Western Springs, Auckland
Brant spoke to Mark Diggins January 2014 |
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