RNW: Aside from this tour,
what’s up next for Slaughter? I know you guys are from Vegas, right?
What’s that music scene like?
Blas: I don’t think there’s
much of an original music scene in Vegas. For us, we are self contained.
We recorded our own music and we’re self produced, so we didn’t have to
be in a city necessarily, where there were a lot of producers and studios
cause we did it ourselves but, its not like there’s this great original
music scene there. Mark is in Nashville now, so its probably more
of a music scene than Vegas.
RNW: Oh yeah. Everybody
in Nashville is into music.
Mark: Right, yeah. Really,
the butcher and the guy who bags your groceries, basically.
RNW: They all write songs.
Mark: More so than anything,
we’re from Vegas and I think "Up All Night" was about that. Its really
a bond we’ll always share.
Blas: We have a new record coming
out soon - as soon as we get a break. Its funny, everybody kind of,
for a while was writing this kind of music off, but we haven’t had any
time off at all because of touring schedules and recording schedules.
We haven’t had barely any time for ourselves, so I guess that’s a good
sign, you know? But as soon as we get a chance, we’ll be putting
another record out.
I have a movie that I was just involved
with, it was also about the eighties era music that will be put out next
year.
RNW: Which one is that?
Blas: Its called "Metal
God," that’s the working title. They tell me to say that now.
I just talked to the director and they still don’t know exactly what its
going to be. Some of the people want it to be called "So You Want
To Be A Rock Star," but the director wants "Metal God."
RNW: Is this the Jennifer
Aniston movie?
Blas: Jennifer Aniston, Mark
Wahlberg, somewhat loosely based on the story of Ripper Owens (Judas Priest),
but not really.
RNW: I bet that was fun though!
Blas: Yeah, I had a whole lot of
fun making it and I was real proud to be involved in something that was
- it was a movie that took that music seriously and they spent a lot of
money and the director and everyone else put a lot of sincere effort into
it. It wasn’t just a joke, you know? And I thought that was
pretty cool.
RNW: Well I’ll look forward
to seeing you in it. You guys have "slaughterweb.com" and
that’s a good way to keep track with your fans, keep them close to you.
Do any of you actually work on the web site?
Mark: Blas does.
Blas: Yeah, I do the web site.
RNW: There’s always one in
the band who’s the computer freak, right?
Mark: Right!
Blas:
Its hard from the road right now to keep things updated, trying to find
phone lines, you know? But we’ve started a mailing list and we’ll
have our first newsletter coming out real soon.
RNW: Phone lines? You
don’t have a cell modem? I mean, you are on the bus with the cell
modem, right?
Blas: I’ve used a cell modem,
and its okay to download mail, but if you are uploading web pages and graphics,
and the best you can connect at is 9600, its not stable enough to do something
like that really.
Mark: When we’re traveling,
we have so many drop offs on the phones. We don’t hardly talk long
on the road because between the towers you just lose the signal.
RNW: So what are we in for
tonight? What kind of a show are we going to see tonight?
Mark: Very organic, straight ahead
rock and roll. That’s the best way to . . .
Blas: Probably as stripped
down as you can get, but all the energy.
Mark: All the energy and more.
Blas: Lots of songs from our
early records, they’re the ones you recognize, and hopefully a couple from
our new record, our latest record. We kind of change it up every
night though, you never know.
RNW: I’m looking forward to
it and on behalf of all the fans at Rock N World, its about time you guys
got here, we’ve been waiting for you!
Stick It To Ya
1990 Stick It Live
1990 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991 The Wild Life
1992 Fear No Evil
1995 Mass Slaughter (Greatest Hits)
1995 Hard Times Revolution
1997 Eternal Live
1998 Back To Reality
1999
Posted by April:
12/29/04
I really love Slaughter and I hate to see people talking sh*t about one of the best bands ever. Mark is the best. I love all of them.
Posted by Roxie:
I agree! You can't get preggies by sucking off someone's left nut! Hmmm... Maybe you need to take sex ed courses to find out how you DO get pregnant! Just my opinion!!
Posted by MICHELLE:
MARK,DANA,BLANDO,BLAS I'VE BEEN A FAN DAY 1 AND WILL BE A FAN FOREVER.KEEP ROCKIN AND NEVER STOP.A FAITHFUL FAN.
Posted by JENN:
TO MARK,JEFF(BLANDO),DANA,AND BLAS THANKS FOR THE MUSIC.SLAUGHTER ALWAYS WILL BE NO#1 IN MY LIFE . A FAN 4 EVER :)
Posted by angela:
SLAUGHTER IS THE BEST!MARK'S VOICE MAKES ME QUIVER.HA.WELL,I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IN 1996 I WAS WITH YOU ALL FOR 3 DAYS.DO YOU REMEMBER?
Posted by Claudia Barclay:
Slaughter is the best band I've ever seen. They're dedicated, they can actually play.. they care about their fans... their music is timeless.. I hope they tour the bay area again really soon!
Posted by Blas:
Michelle sucked off my left nut and got me off. The sons not mine for you cant get pregant by swallowing you bytch
Posted by Vee:
"Father of my son..." Like you didn't enjoy banging the guy, he wasn't such a worthless prick then, was he? SLUT!!!
Posted by Vee Vintage:
I've always been and always be a true follower of these guys. No matter what "other people" say, I love them to detah, and hope to God they keep on doing what they do best: ROCK!!! (And I also hope Blas keeps working out, cuz he looks f*****n' great!!!) Oh, and Michelle, if Blas really is the dad, he wasn't such a "worthless prick" when you banged him, was he? Slut! If ya can't take the heat, don't go near the fire, baby.
Posted by Candi:
Michelle,
Stop saying lies about Blas.
Posted by Michele:
Blas is the father of my son, and the worthless prick won't own up to his responsibilities.
Posted by Lori: I saw them on the Power To The People
tour last year also and they kicked ass! 80's rock is the only way to go!
Thanks for the pick, Mark!
Josh
I never left the 80's, and Slaughter brings
me back to that day and age when music had a meledy and a voice and a meaning.
Shua
Slaughter is the reason I got into the
whole Hair band era. If it wasn't for them and there music to help me through
the bad times, I don't know where I would be now.
Shua
Slaughter is the reason I got into the
whole Hair band era. If it wasn't for them and there music to help me through
the bad times, I don't know where I would be know.
Shau
Slaughter is the reason I got into the
Hair band era. If it wasn't for them I don't know where I would be know.
candi
your 2000 tour was awesome!
candi
your 2000 tour was awesome!
Tammy
I have met and seen the guys of Slaughter
live on numerous occassions and they still ROCK! Tim Kelly was the sweetest
person I think I have ever met..I will miss him forever, as I am sure the
guys of Slaughter will too! I love you guys!
Tricia
I also saw the PTTP tour in San Diego
at the Coors Amp. and was very glad to FINALLY see SLAUGHTER live in concert.
However, I thought they should have played longer than that. It was cool
to see one of my favorite drummers live!!!! :):):):)
Cinthia
BLAS PLEASE HAVE MY CHILDREN I LOVE YOU!
Ruby
I saw Slaughter in The Power to the people
tour, in L.A. They were great! I'm sorry to say this but I feel that they
outplayed all of the bands on tour with them. You guys rock!
brenda
I love slaughter ever since my sister
gave me her mass slaughter cd a few years ago
80'sHardRocker
no one better dare call this band glam
they were never glam just a great hard rock band 1 of the only real bands
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