Trans-Siberian Orchestra / Savatage – Interview at Wacken Open Air 2015
You can’t make Lord of the Rings on your iPhone. I mean you can, but it’ll stink.
Is it Headlin V5 Transan, Orchestra, and Savatage hello guys tonight we will play a double feature with Savatage and Transan Orchestra on two stages.
At the same time, which is quite a big project, I can imagine how long it took to prepare yourself for that in practice we’ve been rehearsing for over 2 weeks.
You know in Arena in Florida, but it’s.
It was kind of weird because most of the gear was on sea containers on the way to Germany.
Normally we rehearse everything for four weeks in an arena.
Then we go on tour this time.
We worked it all out on paper and it works on paper works in the computers, but then we just packed it into the shipping containers and sent it over.
We set it up, we set it up last night and the first real test will be tonight at the show it’s kind of, like you know, going to the Moon without doing any test Rockets or anything else.
It’s like okay, get in this capsule go to the Moon, come back, but it’s going to be worth it because you know sabotage broke out of Europe. Transan Orchestra, the music is so eurocentric between.
You know the influences of you know who Beethoven Mozart all that other stuff, and we wanted to do something special.
You know for Europe.
Bakan has become like the cathedral in the world.
It’s, like you know, for heavy metal.
So when you know, hoger said that we could have the first night both stages, we’re, just like it’s, an opportunity we couldn’t pass up, so we decided we would take the risk and just you know, fly over 20 times more equipment Than it has been over here, you know an insane amount of pyro insane amount of new special effects.
With the trend to be Orchestra, you are used to playing in front of a huge amount of people like in Berlin or New Year’s Eve, for example, in front of 2 million.
But still, are you nervous tonight um? Actually, yes, because it’s.
The first time that we’ve ever played without rehearsing on the gear that we’re going to play on.’s like practicing in front of 880880,000ople on the new record.
You have Jeff Scott on the one-hand, side, and some brand new talent, I mean. How did you get discovered? I grew up playing clubs back home in Texas.
I started a blues band and um.
I ended up playing this pretty big festival at home and it was filmed and we put it on YouTube and Chrissy Gorman from the West Coast, one of our singers um.
She discovered my video, I was 7 years old and they flew me down and they really didn’t know what to do with me at the time they didn’t know what direction you know.
I was going to what I could bring to the table and then they tried me on another way.
You could die and um that’s when John Aliva and Paul O’Neil looked at each other and they were like okay.
I think I know where we can go with this girl.
We hired her 17 and every year she gets better and better and better, and you know she’s on the next TS.
You know the new TSO album and she’s scary great now, and she’s so young.
I’m, just scared of how good she’s going to be in 5 years. You know it’s, just like I’m, like okay.
It’s, time for me to quit, and go to the old folks home.
You’re going to bring back sabotage after haters of 10 years.
What’s the reason for this reunion, the V offered John and I have been asked this a billion times, but we never wanted to do it unless we could do it right.
You know we didn’t want to just come over here.
You know make a run, you know we wanted to do it only if we could have you know the big production have the sound.
We want the audience to walk away, saying you know that was a great sabotage show or saying you know we got our money.’s worth and because we have you know, transan, Orchestra and sabotage together we were able to just pour a ton of money into the production and hopefully you know give the fans something where they’ll, just like wow.
Do you remember the last shows here in Baking with Sabotage, I guess 98 and 22, but yeah 2002 was the last one we did at Walkin Yeah.
The really exciting thing about this is going in the studio with Paul for our records like Wake melMellanets and Madman, and Dead we are dead.
We were doing material on that record that had large orchestras and huge vocal pieces in it that you know you could recreate live as a six-piece, but you could never make it sound like the records live and now with this we’re, have the two Bands going and we’re going to be able to have 16 vocalists doing all these vocal tracks that we had on record. You’d never be able to do it, and you have the keyboards and the strings doing all this instrumentation.
So we’re being able to play sabotage like we never imagined we’d be able to do it, you know being a six-piece band and that’s is what’s going to be.
One of the craziest things about tonight is being able to go on stage and play that material and be like wow.
This is so awesome there are a lot of bands.
I’ve seen over the years where they have these big corals that when they play they either leave them out or they go to a tape.
But you know both transit Orchestra and sabotage.
There are, no tapes, no lip-syncing, it’s.
It’s all life it’s exciting, to watch someone on a tightrope w beneath them.
It’s even more exciting to watch someone on a tightrope with no net beneath them, and Pro Tools is great, but you can’t make it. it
Lord of the Rings on your iPhone, I mean you can, but it’ll stink. You know you need a real, you know Movie Studio and to make you know these big, Majestic sounding albums.
You need SSL boards, you know real rooms where you can fit whole orchestras in especially for sabotage cuz.
The first album I did with them was Hall the Mountain King.
We were so far over budget, but I just finished doing an album with AOS Smith and one of the guys said we have like 115,000 worth of blank tape.
Do you want it and they gave it to the band and so that helps us? You know make that album better.
I mean talking about John.
How is he doing? He lost some weight, right? Oh yeah, he’s, you know getting his health together.
His voice has never sounded better and it’s just so good to have the Mountain King back on the stage when John left sabotaging ‘9292.
I think he didn’t just find Z.
He helped train Zach and make Zach the great singer that he became um and so many singers that come into TSO John, you know carefully, you know, helps to develop Al. As I always say like we find these young guitar players.
I give Al Young guitar players.
Al hands me back rock stars: everybody is curious.
Would there be a future of Safortage? One thing we learned a long time ago, is never say anything.
Whenever we promise a label, we’re going to turn an album in we don’t.
We turn it in.
Like four years later, and with sabotage there’s so much great material, you know we want to put it out, but it always has to be.
We always want it to be right: Music, Music, .
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