Conclusion of the interview with Rebecca from Laws Of Gravity.
Q: Could you tell us something about these songs in the podcast.
Rebecca: Tanpura: Mike just felt like writing something really
aggressive at the time, tapping into some of his hardcore roots. I was
drawing from some of my own personal experiences, and wrote lyrics
about that. When we were in the studio doing the final mastering, Mike
had this Indian meditation cd that we thought would be pretty cool as
the intro, and so we ended up adding that in.
Rebecca: Sunday: This was a song that I had written with a friend of
mine in London. It was originally an electronic /ambient track. Mike
had asked me if I might want to make one of my songs heavy, and I gave
him a batch of tunes, including that one to work with. By the next
rehearsal, he had turned it into an awesome Laws Of Gravity tune,
taking the basic theme of the song, plus adding some new parts that
would compliment the original tune.

Rebecca: On Your Knees: Mike was in the mood to write something slow
and dark, and I just fed off of that, and came up with the lyrics. We
are both really inspired by Middle-Eastern music, thanks to our
influences by Led Zeppelin and Soundgarden. Mike especially loves that
style, thanks to all the Indian restaurants he eats in. That helped us
to come up with the idea for the middle section of the tune.

Is their anything I missed you would like to add ?
We really appreciate everyone who has supported us. Thanks to Mark and
A1 Artist Spotlight for digging our music and featuring us on this
podcast. We really enjoy performing live, so if we’re playing in your
area, we’d love for you to come down and check out our live set. You
can also listen to us at our MySpace page

Check out this podcast I just found “Blues In The Night”. One great hour of blues and blues rock each week. I’ve only heard about four shows (4 hours) so far and have not heard one bad song yet. This show is going to be a great resource for me to find us new spotlight artist. James McGee is the host and does a very good job. James does not waste your time with unnecessary talk, his show is about the music and it shows because you get a lot of it. Click here for Blues In The Night website.

I said to Rebecca: You have a nice looking video of “Still Be Down”
How did that come about?
Rebecca: Well, we have a very talented friend that is great with video
work and offered to hook us up with some time. The original idea was
to do something at this sculpture park in Queens. But we stumbled upon
this old factory. Mike, our guitar player peeked inside, and after
realizing it was abandoned… It was a great location thanks to the
burnt-out taxis, piles of car tires, and hundreds of pigeons flying
everywhere. We shot the video on Easter Sunday with one camera, a boom
box, and all natural lighting. It really worked out well.

Q: How does the song writing work out, the songs seem pretty intricate
for just one person?
Rebecca: They usually start with Mike coming up with some ideas on the
guitar, and then he’ll work on incorporating the bass and drums and
getting the basic song structure together. Meanwhile, I’ll be writing
lyrics and melody parts over the music. We all give feedback to each
other and usually we get the songs together in one rehearsal session.

Q: There is a photo of Bruce Willis on you MySpace page, what was the
reason for that?
Rebecca: Well, Mike and Harry were on tour in Europe playing with the
punk/hardcore band Breakdown. On the first day of tour, they were
introducing themselves to the other bands on tour, one being a German
hardcore band called Rykers. The first thing out of the bass player’s
mouth was, “You look like Bruce Willis,” and the name stuck with Harry
for the whole tour, and tours to come. So now we like to torture him by
putting the photo up on our myspace page.

Harry your looking good, Bruce Willis Blues BandTomorrow
and your band is better too.

I’ll have more of the interview with Rebecca.
Till then check out their MySpace page.
See the Video at Laws of Gravity MySpace page

The Recorder Industry Turn Their Backs To Them.
High powered lead guitar creative rhythm section and strong female vocals.
I asked Rebecca Haviland (vocals) from Laws of Gravity, how can a band
with such a great sound and top notch recordings not have a recording
contract?
Rebecca: “Unfortunately New York’s live scene is in shambles right
now, and not really helping new bands to gain fans. Their really isn’t
much showcasing in NYC for new talent in the hard rock scene, nor is
their really a big market for hard rock or metal in New York. We have
more fans in Europe than we do in New York, and we haven’t even played
over there. We’ve been shopping for labels, but thanks to the current
state of the music industry, labels are very reluctant to sign new
bands, and our music hasn’t been able to fall into the right hands
yet.”

Why does the record Industry feel we need another Led Zeppelin
greatest hits (Motherload)? What we need is new creative talents to
carry on the legacy of that music. Laws Of Gravity is one of the bands
that could do that. Their high power updated sound with a Female
vocalist (Rebecca Haviland). Talented and creative song writing makes
them a natural band for the record companies to sign. Sadly they have
not opened their eyes to see the new world we’re in. We want new and
talented bands to continue to blaze a new trail as Jimmy Page did in
his day. Instead they prefer to regeritate the same old music we
already have in a new package. If you are a record producer don’t be
like the man who turned down that new sound of an unknown band called
The Beatles because it was not quite Elvis. Be like Brian Epstein and
find them a record deal. Laws of Gravity deserve a GOOD recording
contract.

Band Members are:
Rebecca Haviland (vocals),
Mike Dijan (guitar),
Harry Kazakos (bass),
Ray Greene (drums)

Songs played on the podcast:
1. Tanpura
2. Dance Song
3. Sunday
4. Take It All
5. Still Be Down
6. On Your Knees

Tomorrow I’ll have more of the interview with Rebecca.
Till then check out Laws Of Gravity MySpace page.

 

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