![]() ![]() But for a lot of other bands, the bands that aren't a brand name, this, what I'm talking about, is a dream. I'm going to make a living and I got hundreds and hundreds of shows to do this year. Of course, for us, we're going to sell thousands of t-shirts. They'll recoup the money that they gave us to record it. They know what they have to do in order to sell product. They've got a number of different versions of the album coming out and different colors of vinyl. But moreover, there's going to be a lot of vinyl sold, and they're really going all out. These days, like the label that I'm signed to, I would imagine that they're going to do okay because there's going to be a certain amount of CDs sold. Where are you going to get the money from? You can barely generate enough sales. Thank goodness that recording doesn't cost an arm and a leg like it used to. Ultimately, that's where you're making your money from. It's like I said, you're creating music to sort of boost your business for selling merchandise and to get yourself hired to play live. I'm not holding cash, but having said that, it's really tough. I mean, I guess you could say the same thing about this one, but it's a little bit different in the level. It's certainly worked amazing, and, in fact, we were in the black before the album came out, the last couple of albums. We did use Pledge for the last couple of albums, but they went and ripped off a whole bunch of bands and went out of business and ran with the money, so that doesn't seem like such a good idea anymore. Lips: "We're a brand name getting an advance from a label generally how we've been able to do it. On how ANVIL funds the recording of their studio albums: What other reason could you ever have for doing it?" On why ANVIL continues to make full albums: Frequency response is a frequency response and numbers don't lie. It's not based on anything but an opinion rather than facts. So, whatever you want to think and whatever you want to say or whatever your opinion, it's only an opinion. It does not.' That's scientific and that's proof and that's the end of it. Argue with the scientists that figured out how to get 20 to 20,000 Hz perfect, then tell me that vinyl does that and I'd say, 'No. There's a lot of guys who want to argue that fact. They didn't create CD and digital sound for no reason. Then you've got the highest-quality audio, but let's face it: vinyl is not the finest audio quality. To listen to it, you're better off using a CD, making files on your computer, or downloading it. The only physical sales are usually vinyl, and people are buying vinyl more out of collecting it rather than what they're using to listen to it with. What the music has become, it's become your advertising jingle to sell t-shirts. But there is money and to make a living in playing live and selling merchandise. Lips: "You're right - there's no real record business and there is no money in royalties. On what drives ANVIL to write and record new albums when the music business is in decline: It's not like 35, 40 years ago, when IRON MAIDEN started to make it, and JUDAS PRIEST they were filling arenas, and they were in their 20s. Name one band - not one that is in their 20s filling arenas. There's no such thing, and there is no infrastructure to create such a thing again. On whether there will be another wave of metal bands able to ascend to an arena-level status to take the place of METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST upon their retirement: A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). It’s good to see they’re still so tight."The Classic Metal Show" recently conducted an interview with frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL. ![]() The two guys have been playing together since they met in high school in 1973. Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow shreds some serious solo-age on his signature black flying V and Robb Reiner blasts monuymentally from the kit. They are still as chaotic as in their early days. The experience of Anvil live is phenomenal. They’ve been tearing around Canada and the States recently and are just about to kick off the east coast leg of their tour. ![]() They’ve never stooped to a gimmicky low nor sold out, from their early albums on Attic, Hard ‘n’ Heavy, Metal on Metal and Forged in Fire, to their latest, Juggernaut of Justice and Hope in Hell on eclectic Brooklyn label, The End. They’ve put out a whopping 15 albums over three decades and have stayed true to the authentic heavy metal sound. The Ontario trio are said to have sparked the genesis of thrash metal as we know it, chiefly by the four thrash metal pillars they were said to be an early influence on: Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax. Anvil are heavyweights in the metal scene. ![]()
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