five or ten years. Bands like Coldplay, My Morning Jacket and Arcade Fire. Rather than going back to what we love about Zeppelin, The Clash or the Who style. We are getting great response from our fans about the record it’s just that we keep hearing it’s hard to find it.
to a main stream rock format (WRIF). I mean I love the wrif and I love Doug Podell but the reality is they dont sell records for us anymore. I mean look at what bands like “Muse” are doing .. their ticket sales are un-f*cking-believeable .. and they’re not on rock radio.
DC: Really why is that?
DC: If you were 24 years old in 2013 and had to do it over again do you think Candlebox would have the same success?
Kevin Martin: Well it all goes back to issues we continue to have with our label. I mean it’s due to poor decisions on the part of the label management and staff . I’ll tell you I’m never signing to another label .. I won’t do it!.
Kevin Martin: Laughs… long pause……. Sigh…I don’t know . I don’t think Candlebox would have the same success now. To be honest with you I think that if bands like Led Zeppelin were to release DC: When new last spoke you were have a record now, no one would listen. I can label issues before .. with Maverick right? tell you this. I would hate to be a 24 year old trying to make it in this market. That being said if I could go back and do it all Kevin Martin: yeh, it’s because no one over again I’d make completely different knows what do to with us. I mean I sat decisions. down with the management and told them they are making a huge mistake DC: So are you going to start your own right now. label? DC: By doing what? Kevin Martin: In all honesty what we’ll Kevin Martin: Well they picked “Believe probably do is just release a couple new songs on our website every month and In It ” in it as our first Single. The record Came out in April we should have bypass the label altogether. come out with the song “Summertime”. Especially when we are going after a bit a DC: You re-recorded Far Behind, You and Cover Me … Why? different market..more of an alternative / hot AC market (Doug FM) as opposed
Kevin Martin: We were asked to do Far Behind and You for a new Guitar Hero Game, but it never ended coming out. Also, if we wanted to use those songs we had to pay the original label. None of that stuff came out in Asia and South America so we figured if were going to approach those markets of the next few years its best to use new recordings rather than pay those guys to use our own art. DC: I know you had money issues with Maverick records for along time. Last time you spoke you said you still hadn’t gotten payment for a lot of the old Candlebox stuff. Are you all good now? Kevin Martin: Yes, finally as of last April were all square. Oh, and it wasn’t our idea to put the re-recorded versions on the new album. We just wanted an 8 song album. But again the label prevailed and they ended up on it. DC: How was it re-recording those songs? Kevin Martin: Man, it was hard as hell to go back and recapture that sound. So much has changed in 20 years. We don’t have the same guitars , amps or even style. I mean I don’t event sing like that any more. When I was young I didn’t know how to sing and I trashed my voice a lot. For me to now try and go back into the studio and try and sing like that again was Cont on 21
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