Little Caesar for me were one of the very best bands to emerge from the resurgence of rock into the mainstream at the end of the eighties before it was all washed away by the wave of Grunge that came largely off the back of Nirvana’s recycling of an iconic Boston riff. They were different though and whilst ‘hair’ got higher and make-up and hairspray ruled the Sunset Strip I like to think that Little Caesar concentrated on the music. It was hard rock made by a band who looked like Motorhead, but who produced some of the most soulful sounds you’ll hear.
In 2018 Little Caesar might just be about to release the album of their career preceded by the single “Time Enough For That”. They are also just about to embark on another European Tour. It had been a few years since we caught up with vocalist Ron Young so we gave him a call to find out all about ‘Eight’ which gets a release through Australia’s Golden Robot Records on March 16.
Hold onto your hats and grab a coffee this interview’s an epic…
Ron: Hi Mark how are you?
Mark: I’m great thanks Ron, good to talk to you again, the lines’ clear this end how’s it yours?
Ron: Considering we’re on cellphones and it’s half way around the world it’s pretty good.
Mark: Let’s get started then! As soon as heard the new album ‘Eight’ I had to talk to you. I’m a big fan of the band from way back, as you know, and I always look forward to a new release but when the new label gave me this one to listen to I was taken aback, it’s astoundingly good.
Ron: Well thank you, you’re the first one to ear it and the first outside of our little circle to give us feedback and I certainly respect your opinion so it was so nice to hear that response. When you make a record man you’re so in the middle of it and you have no idea if your sensibilities are right about the songs, the recordings or the performances and you’re kind of flying a little blind. It’s a leap of faith, you know, so to get that response man it makes me feel great. It’s like “OK, good, somebody gets the joke” (laughs)
Mark: (laughs) As well as the album, which we’ll get to in a minute, there’s also a UK Tour in February/March.
Ron: Yeah we’ve got a tour of the UK and then another European Tour coming up in May and then I’m hoping as we’re with Golden Robot (Records) who are based in Australia that we might get some traction down there and we could get to Australia.
Mark: It’s been a long time coming, let’s hope the new label can get it to happen!
Ron: I hope so too, if we can get down to that neck of the woods and get people pumped and excited enough so that we can at least cover our costs, you now. we don’t do this for the money, I just hope that we can build enough of a profile to get down there, these days music’s all about being back to selling shit door-to-door you know, and that’s just the nature of the music business now.
Mark: It’s certainly changed a lot. Last time we spoke in person was back in 2010…
Ron: Right! That was right when we resurrected this whole thing! And we’re still wheeling along here you know!
Mark: We saw you at The Brixton out in Redondo Beach, which sadly I think has closed it’s door now.
Ron: Yeah, that’s closed. The live music scene in L.A. is really dead,it really is. It turned into dance music and the venues here really didn’t do themselves any favours the way that they treated the bands or in the way they approached business. The Sunset Strip is dead, the Clubs are gone, the House of Blues is gone,a place that was such a bastion of great Rock and Roll – gone.
Mark: It’s changing way too fast for me every time I’m in L.A. another icon has gone, and it’s so rapid. The last time we spoke we talked about illegal downloading and what that was doing to music sales and here we are 8 years later and it for me at least that now pales into insignificance compares to the rip off of ‘steaming’ and there are bands out there rushing out to sign up for “the exposure”!
Ron: There’s streaming, but there’s no revenue with streaming. And there’s no allegiance to bands, there’s allegiance to songs, and it’s all very shallow and very transient and it doesn’t have the cultural significance, other than just a quick ‘hit’. It’s like open up your fridge and grab a little piece of chocolate and then close the door. there’s no roots and no connections anymore between listener and artist because it is such a disposable transient medium. Now that’s great for the occasional music listener who just wants to hit a button on Spotify and play a song, and the artists gets what 0.002c? But it’s not going to sustain an artist to continue making the music to put it back up on Spotify. The law of diminishing returns comes to play in that medium and its unfortunate.
Mark: It is and I don’t think anyone’s come up with the answer yet but there has to be some way of directly connection fans to artists again and cutting out the middlemen that seem to take not just all the cream but also most of the rest of the bottle!
Ron: You know I really believe that, and this is the sad part, that music in general, but especially the kind of music that we have a passion and affinity for, has lost its cultural significance and that’s not gonna come back any time soon. The people who make it are gonna have to approach it the way a fine dancer or a painter or a sculptor or a pot maker has to, they’re gonna eke out a living, and if you’re successful at it you’ll eke out a living that will get you away from starvation. If you have true artistic integrity and passion you’ll stick at it but you’re never going to have the mega sales that music had from the late sixties through the arena period. And that’s gonna have to be good enough, and the ones that are good at working in that realm that can do things sufficiently cheaply and honestly will have a better shot at making a good enough living to keep doing it. And if they can be sustained enough to keep reaching more and more people they might wind up having what we used to call a career, you know. And we’re in that period now where we’re watching the Bon Jovi’s and the U2’s or the Rod Stewart’s and The Rolling Stones, whoever is left who can still do this Arena type situation and people go out to kind of see them before they go away permanently, people who have a good disposable income, but it’s not youth-driven or culture-driven anymore it’s more like “Let’s go out and relive our youth” you now “Let’s go see Bon Jovi at the Enormodome.” They’re still making a great living and hanging on but tell me any new arena rock bands in the last 15 years?
Mark: That’s right. I think to an extent that the promoters have realised where the money is and that money is in nostalgia and that money is with the older crowd who have that disposable income, so in their clamor to squeeze the dollars out of that situation they’ve forgotten that these bands won’t be here forever and that there’s no new ones on the conveyer-belt.It’s the short of short term thinking that you see everywhere – it’s all about the quick buck now and forget the fallout? Getting back to your point though about the disposable income and the older audience that’s where the Rock Cruise idea came from I guess?
Ron: Yeah it’s like, let’s sit around and not worry about getting pinched for drunk driving, forget about the baby sitter, we’re on a cruise we can just float from room to room and we’re all locked on a boat with a whole bunch of other people who are very badly dressed and relive the excitement of our youths with 35 bands of which there’s maybe one or two original members and a bunch of 25 year olds who dress up like Nikki Sixx did in 1988. It’s a fun weekend, you know, but you can’t sustain anything on that you know. It’s strange because I know so many bands that, you know they’re in the middle of that. Bands that came out of Los Angeles in the late 80’s and early 90’s… Even the really successful ones, and I’m not gonna name any names, they’re out there with at best two or three original guys and they’re in a van across the United States and they’re diluted and their performances are weak and they’re just beating it to death because they have nothing else to live off. And some nights are good and some nights are shit, and they bring in a coupe of fill in guys and by four or five nights into the tour they find that three of the five are relatively sober tonight so its a better show, and they’re playing to these pockets of people throughout the United States and if they’re lucky other places around the world. And this is what’s left of that middle ground of Rock and Roll and it’s really not good. And I understand it.
Mark: It’s a grim picture I know but there are some shining lights still flickering out there. I mean especially when you hit the UK and Europe you’ll find that there are some Rock bands that are breaking through and people are listening and trying to reconnect again. Young kids are wearing Led Zeppelin T-Shirts and not just because it looks cool but because the youth of Europe is listening to guitar music again.
Ron: And that to me is why we keep going back to the UK and predominantly Europe because they don’t like mp3’s, they don’t like downloads, they don’t don’t even really care for CD’s because they miss the liner notes, they miss the artwork, they miss the whole package. To them the social engagement that music brings is very much part of the culture there. It’s funny the guy that we work with the Company is called teenage Head Music and he’s very much into Bluesy and Americana based kinda Rock stuff and he’s got a bunch of bands nationally and a bunch of bands from Australia, that kind of Black Crowsey, Lynyrd Skynyrdy kinda thing. Most of the guys in the bands are in their late twenties, early thirties and they’re really writing good songs, making good records and they’re going out to these crowds that don’t really know the but this guy has developed a brand for his company so when he brings these bands in they know what to expect. There’s so many people who go out to pubs together and go to shows together and that thread is still there its still a big social thing in Europe and the UK , way more so than here in the United States.
Mark: It is and you can definitely feel it over there. A few years back I was traveling to the US for Festivals like Rocklahoma and things like that, I think you played a Texas Festival around the same time that just had one roll of the dice, but things have changed and the line-ups ten years after I started coming over have become so standard and so homogenized and all a bit too Metal really. Now I look to Europe and the UK and their Festival bills are more varied and not afraid to inject a bit of classic hard rock.
Ron: It’s true.
Mark: Getting around to your band. I think that the first EP and the first album are still two of my favourite releases from the end of the 80’s. I loved them and I loved Influence, when we last spoke ‘Redemption’ had just been released and then ‘American Dream’ came after that – they’re all great records…
Ron: They’re just straight ahead rock records where we try to put an emphasis on a decent song and delivery, you know. You’d think it’s not rocket science but not many bands seem to do that, I don’t know why. As I always tell people this band was never about breaking new ground. It’s just our passion and doing what we love, a little bit of AC/DC, a little Bad Company, a little Skynyrd, Check Berry, Zeppelin, a little Black Sabbath, now to us that’s all just great music it’s all Rock and Roll. Basically we’re just guys who are playing tribute to Blues and Rhythm and Blues, and Country and Soul and we sit down and just try to be true and honest to that and try to make the most real and listenable record possible that hearkens back to great music. And you need to have an affinity and a talent for it, and it’s funny because even on our first record we had huge fights over the sound and I wish it was a more honest organic sounding record, but we had been making a Bob Rock kind of processed record. And the second record was a little edgier and a little more polished on the production side of things but some of my contemporaries and peers that I do shows with or are friends with are still trying to live down an 80’s production value. We were dated in 1990! We we like an out of date Classic Rock band in 1990, 91 and 92 and people kinda looked at us like we were weird! I didn’t understand that, there was some Rhythm and Blues and some Country, just a basic guitar sound and some harmonies and melody, it’s as straight ahead as it comes, why were they scratching their heads? Because we weren’t copying ‘She’s My Cherry Pie?’ or putting out Motley Crue cover records? I mean that just ‘s not our thing you know. That’s why we got signed and we just tried to keep making records like that and fortunately that allows us to keep making that straight ahead music. It’s timeless, it’s Classic Rock, and that’s one good thing about being eternally dated you know! (laughs)
Mark: (laughs) That may be so but even a stopped clock is right twice a day!
Ron: Exactly right.
Mark: ‘8’ though is one helluva good album, can you take us inside the making of the album a little. The last release ‘American Dream’ was out in 2012 so it’s been six years since then…
Ron: Yeah it’s amazing how quick the time goes, you know.
Mark: Are these songs ones that have been written over that time, or did you purposely sit down to write ‘8’?
Ron: No we purposely sat down, we’ve been through some guitar personnel changes, we’ve been through three of four guitar players over the past four or five years, we just couldn’t find the right person, they all worked perfectly well but it was things like finding guys that had the same time schedule, guys who had the ability to take off and go on tour a couple of times a year, all those kind of things. I made a promise to myself that we wouldn’t do another record until we got the core of the band back together. This band is five guys contributing, five guys all pushing in the same direction and quite honestly its tough to just go on tour a couple of times a year which is what we really love to do, we make records so that we’ve got something to play live, it’s a reason to get people out to hear the new songs and buy our new record, that’s the point, for us it’s all about the live show. But the reality is that the amount of work it takes to, you know, sit down in a room and write and be self scrutinizing so that you get a good batch of 10, 11 songs, and then to pre-produce them and then record them next thing you know the years just fly by. You go out on the road, by the time you come home and then you recuperate for 6, 8 weeks solid, you’ve lost two months, it’s just one of those things. With the ‘Live’ record we put out someone just handed us a flash drive of 16 channels of the whole show and we thought as we’d never done a live record let’s put that out while we start writing the next record, and even then it takes a couple of years so it’s kind of a long process because we do really want to make sure that the songs are good and that they’re put together for the right reasons and recorded in the right way. So we eventually finally got that done this year.
Mark: There’s some great songs on there and I think everything that a Little Caesar fan, or just a fan of great soulful rock and roll, would want to hear. There’s rockers of course, but at the moment I think its that great ballad ‘Time Enough For That’ that’s really standing out for me.
Ron: Yeah you know the old really soulful ballad always comes really easy to us, to write, to record, everything. It’s funny it’s just so in our blood to be able to write a decent Soul kind of ballad. It’s always been harder for us to write rock songs that don’t sound really stupid (laughs) you know riff type rock songs. But I think we have a good balance, you know, there’s some Southern rock stuff, we’ve got the Country cover- the Merle Haggard cover; a lot of people think that’s a Grateful Dead song but the original was Merle Haggard. I men you’re not going to hear Warrant do a Country song so we do that kind of thing to let people know we have a pretty broad taste.There’s no rules for us, there’s a kind of Punk Rock approach to it (the song). We have a lot of fans that are turning their kids onto good music, they try to be good parents and they try to turn them on to Zeppelin and The Who and AC/DC , Guns ‘n’ Roses, even Country music and Soul so we do try and do stuff that can translate to people of all ages and w just have an affinity for good music, you know. Then we’ve also got some good riff-rockers, and altogether I think we were real happy that we had a good “Little Caesar” record.
Mark: It’s one of those rare albums you can put on and listen to from start to finish without skipping a track. Another of my favourites is that final track, well I guess the final track proper, I’ve got a couple of bonus tracks on the version I have here…
Ron: That’s another thing I don’t understand what are ‘bonus tracks’? When did that start? What does that mean? It’s twelve songs you know so when the business people start explaining it to me it’s like ‘whatever, just tell me how many songs you want and I’ll send them to you’? (laughs)
Mark: But my album still has two bonus tracks, not twelve, it’s ten plus two – it’s a bit like the Spinal Tap ‘this one goes to 11’ I guess?
Ron: (laughs)
Mark: So the final ‘normal’ track is ‘That’s Alright’ which to me has a real early Aerosmith groove to it…
Ron: Yes, I’m glad you got that, that one certainly does harken back to early Aerosmith where they did that sort of dissonant harmony melody, and then the kind of hokey chorus, the time signature changes, the ‘Train kept a rolling’ section in there, I’m glad that translates.
Mark: I think it was that driving bass that did it for me, it reminded me so much of the sort of bass-line Tom used to lay down back in the day. Then the bonus tracks we have start with ‘Mixed Signs’ is a great song and then there’s a reworking of your own song ‘Slow Ride’ – why did you revisit that track in particular?
Ron: You know it’s funny because we were kind of looking for a new guitar player and a couple of people asked us to do some tracks for submissions for some soundtracks and when we did ‘Slow Ride’ the first time it kind of ended up this this weird over produced thing with (Earl) Slick having this sort of sonic mish-mashed solo and I thought ‘why don’t we just re-cut that song?’ So we did it in a kind of ZZ Top, broken down, honest kind of way. Maybe it won’t make it into that movie sound track but at least it would be a fun thing to re-cut. So we did that and it was just basically siting in the vault. So when we signed with Golden Robot they said they wanted some bonus tracks so we said well this might be a good one we can give back to our original fans and show a little different approach to the song, strip it back to a straight ahead Blues song. We did that in a day. And ‘Mixed Signs’ was our kind of ZZ Top-vibey thing that we’d had sitting around for a while, and as far as it being the second bonus track, we couldn’t think of anything else to come off the record.
Mark: My only concern of course is for those people who don’t get the bonus tracks on their copy! Though I expect as you do that just might be a cunning marketing ploy!
Ron: (laughs)
Mark: So as well as the music industry falling further into a heap since we last spoke, at least now the GFC is over and you’re in safe hands politically with Mr. Trump and his hair making American great again?
Ron: Oh yes. By the minute it’s becoming fabulous again (laughs)
Mark: With his great self proclaimed powers of revival I wonder if he could do anything for Rock and Roll?
Ron: Well I think he’s pissing off enough people that have that more left-leaning sensibility to write some songs, so we might get more productivity there. It’s funny because when we did ‘American Dream’ we’d always stayed away from the political stuff, but as I’d just become an adult so I decided to write a more observant politically-based song and I don’t think it had a message as such but that song and that video seemed to piss as many Democrats off as it did Republicans, which tells me that my job was well done.
Mark: (laughs)
Ron: And it’s funny because when we wrote ‘Morning’ which is kind of that Southern Rock ballad that song is written about what’s happened to America politically amongst its people- how many people lie and spread propaganda through social media and generate so much anger and hate to win at all costs. I talk to people and it’s like there’s an America and a stereotypical America and the two are kind of becoming interwoven now. there’s so many people that have these opinions about other people’s government, like social democracies, what other countries and governments do. People here are so driven by either a very conservative, approach, very pro-America, very we’ve got to protect ourselves, we’ve got to look after Corporations so the money trickles back out..But whether you agree with that or don’t agree you’ve got this guy that is running the show who’s just a cluster-fuck, I mean the guy’s a clown…And that has nothing to do at all with if you hold more conservative views or more liberal views, it’s just become a circus. Ad some people think that’s great, some people think it’s the worst think ever but a lot of people just have these opinions that are unshakable and they don’t even know what they are talking about. And they keep sharing these stories with no regard or idea as to if they’re true. They bag on other countries without ever having stepped out of the country and I’m thinking “You should go to Switzerland and just look at what the trains look like in Switzerland, and then come back and tell me if America is as great of a nation as you think it is?” You have America is number one the greatest country in the world drilled into you, but our education system, our health care system, our infrastructure – none of that is true any more but there’s still this arrogance that comes from a big chunk of our people and it’s really getting to be pathetically comical at this point. Now I don’t know what’s gonna change that, and I don’t now when we’re going to get back to civil debate because for me it’s not even about which way you lean politically, it’s just all become so dysfunctional as far as communication goes, so dysfunctional in the way the whole system works and most people just don’t see a problem with it, they think we’re cruising along just great and that’s really disturbing.
Mark: I think that’s the crux of it, people with no grasp of the facts of the situation just resort to arguing because they couldn’t have a meaningful discussion, and we’re just starting to accept those kind of barrages and attacks rather than calling the out. we’re rapidly losing the ability to have a reasoned discussion.
Ron: Yeah, intelligent respectful debate. I try to use a lot of humour on Facebook to try and pint out how absurd it’s becoming, and I make my point but I don’t throw people off my page because they believe passionately this, that or the other. Let this guy start screaming at this guy, go right ahead, but it gets so personal and it gets so nasty and I don’t understand why that happens. If you can’t at least use facts to make your point and do it in a respectful humane way then how is this ever going to get sorted out? I don’t have the answers but I do know that just being respectful to my fellow citizen or showing some humanity, that can’t be lost and we’re fucked up at the minute you know.
Mark: I know 90% f Social media these days is either advertising or adversarial but pages like yours really do start a real discussion about important subjects and surely that’s what social media should be about. Sadly we always seem to end up with far less than we should expect. It should be all about having a meaningful discussion whichever opinion you hold and god forbid that maybe one day someone may even be persuaded to chance their rock hard stance on a subject through persuasion rather than anger.
Ron: That’s what it should be about and that’s why I try to make my points using humour and absurdity. I try to open the door so that people feel comfortable enough to have a discussion with other people who are informed at least even if they don;t share all their views. To me that’s the best that Social Media could give but its not being used fr that its being used for propaganda purposes so I just try each day to sow some seeds on that fertile ground so that some of that stays alive. People can also have a good laugh, and I just try to stay humble and open-minded and balanced. And if everyone could try and so that I think the world would be a little better place.
Mark: One question I always wanted to ask you as someone who has some very interesting, entertaining and open opinions and also a great way with words is had you ever thought of writing, whether a fiction or even an autobiography?
Ron: You know I get that all the time and I’ve got to tell you Mark I’ve had a very interesting life and for some reason I’ve floated into the most bizarre and wonderful story. You know this guy grows up in New York and you know, he winds up in scene in a big movie, and he ends up being in a band that just shows up and gets an opening slot with guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan when he wasn’t even signed yet. All these bizzaro things that the trajectory of my life has taken me through, and I meet so many people that when they hear some of these stories they say “Oh man you’ve got to write a book”. But to be honest to a guy like myself it seems very self-indulgent and I don’t know if I could do such a thing and make it interesting enough. I appreciate that people might think I’m clever enough with words to keep a persons interest but then there’s a part of me that thinks “Who wants to hear this fucking guy’s story?” (laughs)
Mark: (laughs)
Ron: I don’t know maybe one day I’ll do it, some people say I should, others say I should just do a Blog.Maybe I should.
Mark: I think the book’s the way to go. I read so many Rock and Roll memoirs and so many people who have had not that long or interesting a career have managed to put pen to paper without having your stories or your talent for telling a great tale and being more than entertaining in doing so. But more than that I think there’s a tale in the fact that in my opinion you’ve also just made your biggest musical statement with ‘8’ 30 years after it all began.
Ron: Thank you man I really really appreciate that from you. You know recording a piece of music especially nowadays is so different, in the old days you had the label, plenty of people in the room,people trying to nurture your creativity and everyone wasn’t working a day job so you could just focus on the music. Now you wait till everyone gets off work and you get them in a room and all the other things involved in making time, it’s really, really difficult. So when you say from an objective stand point that you’ve listened to that body of work and you say it’s our best, that really really makes me feel good. Thank you.
Mark: And that was hard for me to bring myself to say that and to be honest I never thought I would because with your first few albums, I’ve now lived with them most of my life and like anything you cherish when you’re young that music gets tied in with all those memories so it takes on an extra dimension that’s hard to best. So when you get an album like ‘8’ it becomes my job to tell people about that experience, to tell them to get out and buy the album, get out and see a show. It’s so hard these days to find the really important music and I see it as the mission of our website to do that or at least shine a light on it.
Ron: I really appreciate that, I do. Not just the kind words but listen man, what you do is a labour of love too and it’s your creativity allows you to encapsulate and condense and describe something so that someone will go and listen to it and that’s a difficult thing to do. You know the only thing worse than trying to make music that’s dying is trying to write about music that’s dying! (laughs)
Mark: (laughs)
Ron: At the end of the day I’m fortunate to be in a band with a group of guys who I really care about. We’ve all turned into really good adults and we’re responsible enough to do this in the right way. There are guys who I know who are musicians and they’re musicians for a reason because they really don’t have their act together in life in general, but that’s the life they chose and why they chose it. But I get to make music with a really good group of adults who are committed to the music and treat everyone around them with gratitude and appreciation. So I’m just grateful that I still get to do it, and when I do do it, that someone like yourself with some perspective tells me I’m doing good is a great confirmation we were on the right track.
Mark: And I’m grateful to you guys for making the album, it’s made my year already. I appreciate how much of your time you’ve given us today but if I can I’ll leave you with a number and an anecdote. I met Earl Slick a few years back when he was playing with the New York Dolls and we were chatting away before the show hanging out the back of the Theatre and he said to me “You know you’re the first person to ever come up to me and want to know all about Little Caesar and have me sign their ‘Influence’ album, most people want stories about Bowie or John Lennon”. And I thought about that for a while and realised that was what music is all about.
Ron: That is funny, you know Slick was in the band when we were going through a really rough period and he was having his own rough period wondering what the hell was happening to his career. And we were wondering why he’d want to join our band “It’s just more misery for you dude!” (laughs) It was a kind of weird time for all. But he’s a hugely talented guy.
Mark: And the number I’m going to leave you with is, and I don’t know what this means exactly but 18,898 people have read the review I wrote of ‘8’. I know I got it in advance of a lot of other people, but that’s a lot of interest.
Ron: Wow! Holy shit dude that’s great. I guess nowadays there are no indicators and I know when we’ve been around people have said you know we’d book more shows if your numbers were higher and I think you know what I could download an app and have thousands of fans in a week, but those aren’t real fans and all I want is honest interaction on social media, not to generate more traffic and that might have shot us in the foot. A lot of it is we’re busy and some of it is I don’t understand it,how to make something go viral or search engine optimize it! So when I hear that that many people in a short period of time have clicked on something that’s great man, and right off the bat I’m seeing a buzz about this, and I know part of that is Chris at Golden Robot and you saying good things, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed but these are good signs.
Ron: I look at it like this in 1990 we came out and we were around for like 8 seconds, there was all this excitement and everything as really good. Then everything behind the scenes fell apart and we got sucked into the vortex between egos and power struggles and business, all this kind of crap. And the people at Geffen always tried to frame it that it was the band that was deficient, it wasn’t the label that was deficient. It took me years to get over that bullshit and realise that was just what they said to make their business look good. But I’ve always thought that out there there’s millions of AC/DC fans, millions of Bad Company fans, millions of ZZ Top fans and if we can just tap into 1% of those people who have never heard about us we can actually have a really good, not a career, but we can keep this going and get out on the road more or get on a plane and just go play for the weekend. All I want is to be able to do what I love to do with four people I love to play with for people who want to hear it, and it doesn’t matter if its in an arena or wherever I’m just trying to keep it reasonable, but its great to hear that so many people have shown an interest in reading about the music in such a short space of time.
Mark: It’s just five days and about twenty more have read it since we got on the phone. Let’s just say people are interested and I hope that some of them will be interested enough to come to a show and to buy the record.
Ron: Hey Mark, you stick with us baby and we’ll make you a star! (laughs)
Mark: (laughs) well thank you so much for your time Ron, I think we did this last time, we don’t speak for a while and then next thing you know an hour’s gone by!
Ron: Yeah we just start bullshitting and we don’t know when to stop! Great to speak to you Mark, its great to reconnect.
Mark: Before you go can you tell us about any videos or singles from the album in the lead up to the release?
Ron: Yeah with this release we were really under the gun, we really wanted to get the record out before we went to the UK but all we can do is get a single out but the full record will be out before we go to Europe later in the year. It’s not easy to get the planets aligned these days as it used to be. So we’re quickly trying to get a video together for ‘Time Enough For That’ and thinking about the kind of visuals you can create for a ballad type thing. I don’t know dude we’re too old to make us the focus and it’s not like its a performance video, and of course these things have to be done o a budget so there’s no great expensive production values. So you need to be a little clever to do something like that and we’re trying to do that at the moment. Part of me wanted a rock track but in reality the most downloaded songs of ours are tracks like ‘I Wish It Would Rain’ and ‘In Your Arms’ – it’s the ballads so it made perfect sense. People liked all kinds of other tracks but that was the one everybody seemed to like.
Mark: It’s a great song and hopefully it will have everyone delving into the album. Thank you so much for your time Ron, great to talk to you again and thanks again for ‘8’ which is already looking like album of the year.
Ron: Thank you Mark it was nice to catch up with you again. Hopefully we can do this in person somewhere down the road. Take care.
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