I asked Rumaldo would you tell us about your solo blues project.

Rumaldo: Certainly! After all the problems associated with personalities / attitudes etc, of the various musicians I’ve worked with, I thought I’d just get back to my ‘roots’ so to speak and start working on my true love - blues. When I first took up guitar, that was what I was into, but no one else was, so the first band I joined was a cover band and they played whatever was popular at the time, but I always wanted to do my own thing and create my own music. I never wanted to be a cover band musician. I wanted to be one of those musicians that others were covering! In other words I wanted to be a true artist and record my own musical creations.

Q: If there is anything I missed and you want the listeners to know about PLEASE add it. Rumaldo: Just that I may surprise them with some previously unreleased Angel Edge era melodic rock / metal tunes in the future, and of course I hope to have a blues CD out by this summer. I’m concentrating on finishing up the blues project before any thoughts of getting a band together to promote my music live, but that’s definitely in the plans for the future!

Incidentally, my blues instrumental”‘Won’t Ever Be The Same” (track 2 in podcast) won Best Blues at the New Mexico Music Awards in 1996 and “Broken Hearts & Shattered Dreams” (last track in podcast) won Best Song - Rock / Metal in 1990. I take pride in those accomplishments since I’m a self taught guitarist / musician who’s never had a single guitar or music lesson in my life! I couldn’t tell a G from an A from a whole in the ground, but I can manage to write and perform award winning music! Something to be said about that I think! Well I guess I can tell a G or A from a whole in the ground, but that’s about it!

Check out Rumaldo Ortiz website and Angel Edge MySpace page.The Angel Edge Revisited cd is available at Rumaldo Ortiz website.