01- Hello, How are you guys doing? First of all, thank you so much for the interview and I would like to start by knowing how you guys started playing your instruments and the biggest influences?
Hugo Mariutti: I started playing the electric guitar in 1989, because Luis already played bass in that time and when I asked for some bass classes he told me that I had a really small hand so I should play the guitar...lol Actually nowadays I thank him for this, because this way We can play in the same band and not to be competitor. In this same year I started studying with Marcelo Araújo who played in Firebox together with Luis, I had classes for three years and after that I started studying with André Hernandes (Zazá) what lasted for several years. Following I started forming bands, in the beginning I played in a Thrash Metal band, after I formed Henceforth, I started in Shaman and I now I am on this project with André. My biggest influence from Heavy Metal was Randy Rhoads.
Fábio Ribeiro: Actually I started playing by accident, I was in 1975 by the age of six. My parents were musicians, my mother used to play the piano and my father was a classical acoustic guitar teacher, so as soon as I was born my father wanted to fit me somehow in music just depending on me to choose an instrument when I was able to do that. So they ended up giving me a child piano which was also by accident, because actually I wanted a toy piano because I had seen a neighbour of mine got one and they put me in the music school and I didn’t like it very much in the beggining , I used to run away from the classes. I started enjoying when I started playing with band which was in the early 80’s, from I got really excited about studying and I majored in the music school after two or three years and from that moment up to now I have just played in band and I studied the instrument and other stuff such as keyboards and technlogy by myself, I just did this course of classical piano of eleven tears. My influences in rock, are three: Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and John Lord.
Luís Mariutti: I am going to be very simple in my explanation. I started playing by the age of 13 because of Steve Harris and my father gave me a manon blue bass, which is a really expensive store in São Paulo, because of his bass in The Number of the Beast and it was like that, I started this way and he is my biggest influence.
André Hernandes: The Blue Bass was able to fool you...Lol
Luis Mariutti: But look, for a 13 years old boy it was pretty good, wasn’t it? Lol and I screwed up with the whole bass, I tuned it wrong, I took the bridge off, I had to glue using super bond... Lol the beginning was a horror show. Just like that, I kept playing with band until I joing Angra.
André Hernandes: I started by the age of eleven, and in my father’s family everyone plays. They had a choro group.My dad used to sing and to play the tambourine and I had a uncle who used to play seven strings acoustic guitar who gave me my first acoustic guitar. The idea was for me playing brazilian music, but it didn’t work out...lol
By the age of 13 I got my first electric guitar and then I wasn’t in the mood to play the acoustic guitar so I started going into the eletric guitar, I started studying very hard, I have always studied with several teachers, I became teacher by the age of 17 years and I have always played with band. This influence thing is about the period, it is very hard to mention one, two or three guys because in some period of your life you are influenced by the moment guitarist. When I started they were Randy Rhoads, Angus Young and Van Halen and after others come came up, those who played guitar in the late 80’s inevitably were influeced by Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. In the early 90’s, I was introduced to a little more of instrumental american music, Jazz and Fusion, here comes Scott Henderson, Greg Howe and Mike Stern. But, the period I am now, into this project with André Matos, I am going to remember the first one: Randy Rhoads, Van Halen and Brian May was also a great influence.
Eloy Casagrande: I started playing by the age of eight, since I was a little boy I used to pretend I was playing the drums, these children stuff: You are having a meal and you “play” with the fork, spoon and knife. I remember my mother gave me a child drum which was useless, and I had classes with that drums for one year.It didn’t have even a pedal and I still remember the blue parts...Lol After one year, my mother gave me a great drum and I started studying. I remember every single year there was an audition and this was the only thing I studied for. I didn’t use to study the whole year, but one day before this audition I used to study to play in the contest which I had in the school. I started playing seriously by the age of 13, because before that I just wanted to kid, to ride a bike and etc. Not to play the drums. I started studying really serious, when I started my classes with Aquiles and in 2004 I had my first metal band and I won a national contest named Batuca. In 2005, I won a worldwide contest for 18 years category in the Usa and now I’m playing in the band. My biggest influence is Dean Castronovo, because I listen to his whole discography, Tommy Aldrige and Mike Terrana.
02 –Some of you guys have already talked about this, but please. who did you guys study with? (College, teachers and etc).
Fábio Ribeiro: I didn’t have time for this.
Luis Mariutti: I studied for the first three years with Márcio Vitúlli, who were a bassist here in São Paulo who played, After I studied on year and a half at ULM. Six months with Roberto Sion and with Zazá.
André Hernandes: I had tons of neighbourhood teachers who didn’t do make much difference, my first great teacher was Michel who played with Luis in Firebox, which in that time used to be called Jaguar...
Luís Mariutti: Michel Perie, he still teaches... He was one of the first guitarists to do the whole course at GIT.
André Hernandes: He was my first great teacher. He is French and he came from Los Angeles, he was at least the first one at least in São Paulo who got here with a nice stuff to teach from outside Brazil. He taught me the first concepts of harmony, improvisation, modes, sweep which was something new that time, because We used to hear malmsteen albums and We didn’t get how to do that and Michel had this information already because he brought this from outside Brazil. After I studied with Mozart Mello which was a master, I did this for 5 year and on this period I had o choose between doing the college or not and I decided to not doing the college, because I had some students who did college in that time and they couldn’t study their instruments because college took a huge time of their lives. I decided to be a instrumentalist.
really know this history...Lol
So I went for my instrument, I think college is great and I wanted to do because of the extra knowledge, you are not going to be just a guitar player, but I had to make a decision and I decided the guitar .
03 - I Think all the fans want to know about this question, you guys have been through several bands and Luis Mariutti has been playing with Andre Matos for 15 years, what’s the main difference in this new band which is Andre Matos solo career?
Luis Mariutti: The biggest difference is the friendship. It is the best mood we ever had. In the beginning of Angra we had a nice mood, but Angra was also a perturbed band since the beginning. Shaman also had a time when the bad mood has come and this is the first band we can see we have a really great mood. At the time of writing new songs, rehearsal, a ideal mood band to just think about music.
Hugo Mariutti:I think the main different ,if we compare this band to Shaman, is the idea of having two guitars added to mood which Luis’ve mentioned, everyone is calm just to work and thing about music.
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04 - How the Idea of using two guitars came up? André, how is to play in a heavy metal band if you come from the fusion? |
André Hernandes: The idea of using two guitars came from Hugo and André...
Hugo Mariutti: When the project started, actually we wondered about the whole Andre’s career, each song , and how we would do this live. Shaman was another proposal, so I suggested him to call another guitar play and the first name which came up was André Hernandes...
Luis Mariutti: Rs Since it is Andre’s career, he decided to call André...Lol
Who knows if he is not going to trade us for more Andres during the years...Lol
Hugo Mariutti: There will be just André! Lol “Andrés Matos”... Lol
Luis Mariutti: He started by the guitar, it does not mean that we are not going to be replaced by several André...Lol
Hugo Mariutti: When Andre came up with his project, we thought about picking up another guitar player, because it helps in the time of writing new stuff, putting ideas together. Andre and Me did a lot of wondering about each part, different arrangments for two guitars and these are the sort of thing you can’t do with just one guitar and for me was also a new experience because this the very first time I play with two guitars. Henceforth has one, Shaman had one , so this is the first time.
André Hernandes: The difference between playing Fusion and Heavy Metal is really huge, but I started playing Fusion because you got deeper in the study of any instrument you got to listen to other styles. So inevitably you study, at the beginning I used to study Jazz just because I thought it was important, not for enjoying. I started enjoying as soon as I developed, but I’ve never stopped playing rock/metal even because the biggest part of my students comes from that style. So if I wasn’t playing this with a band, I was playing in class, learning songs for students. I’ll always enjoyed playing, I think Heavy Metal is similar in this aspect, it is really good to play. Sometimes you are not in the mood of listening to, but you are in the mood for playing which is much cooler...
Hugo Mariutti: Actually, It is a challenge to play, that ‘s not easy as many people think it is.
André Hernandes:So is the technical aspect, because I got to get used to lots of things. Bring back, to remember tons of exercises that I just used to do in class for students, but it wasn’t in my daily schedule. The string gauge, I remember in the first rehearsals Hugo came up with 0.12 strings and aked me to put in my guitar, in other words, shock treatment. I was used to 0.10, and suddenly 0.12. The tone part, but I was relly good oriented by everyone in the band and on the recording we had Roy Z who also was there giving great advices. Pretty much different, but it was fun.
Greg Howe himself has a rock side.
Exactly! His big influence is Van Halen.
05 - What was the writing process for this álbum Like? Was there any material that you guys had already written for a third Shaman’s or was everything written only for this album?
Hugo Mariutti: The ideas came up in several ways: There were songs which Fábio had already one initial Idea and got together with André to finish, I had some ideas, some idea came up from jams which Luis and Me did in the rehearsal. If I am not wrong, there was a song which André, Luis and me were writing for Shaman which is on the album and this song is called Rescue, it was exactly when the band broke up. After there was a song with Roy Z, André , André Matos and me. There was also Pit who did a song with André and other with us. So the ideas come from several different ways with no rule, it was a team effort and It is something which André also wanted to be clear, he wanted it worked as a band. He didn’t write all the songs by himself and said: “Just play it!”
06 - The track “A new moonlight” is a version for the original “Moonlight” from the Viper’s time using the same excerpt from Beethoven. How did this idea came up since we have really nice new arrangements?
Fábio Ribeiro: It was the first song André wrote for a band.
Hugo Mariutti: It was the first song he wrote for his career.
André Hernandes: Today I got aware by coincidence which Viper’s album sold more than Van Halen that same year in Japan. I don’t know whar Van Halen album was released in the same year...
Hugo Mariutti: It was probably Van Halen III...Lol
Actually, we were doing some versions for some songs of Andre’s career and this was a song we could do something modern.
Luís Mariutti: Roy also enjoyed , he wanted to put it in a Queen’s style.
Fábio Ribeiro: He left us free to work on the arrangement too.
Luís Mariutti: And it is a beatiful song from his career....
André Hernandes: Since it was his first song, this I’ve heard from him. The first oficial song of his career, He thought would be cool to start again with this song.
Talking about his career, have you guys ever wondered about recording again one song from Angra and Shaman?
Luís Mariutti: For the time being , no.
Hugo Mariutti: We have never talked about this before.
Luís Mariutti: It is cool to play live, now with two guitars is totally different from Shaman’s times. Songs such as “Carry On” which we are doing again and we didn’t play in last Shaman tour. It is more for doing live, because to record again with no big reason it is better to leave it the way it was.
Hugo Mariutti: Ao vivo sempre vai ter! Mas nós nunca sabemos, quem sabe em um EP de repente. Mas nunca conversamos sobre isto.
Sometimes the time goes by, and a new Idea comes up.
Hugo Mariutti: Exactly! The same way which happened to the Viper song.
07 - Going ahead and still talking about classical music, we can notice a huge influence during all the album. I would like to know if any of you guys, except for André Matos, are also fans and study this deeply?
Hugo Mariutti: I think Fábio is the best one to talk about it!
Fábio Ribeiro: I don’t need even talk, I was “tortured” by the classical music for years. Lol
Hugo Mariutti: Luis is a guy who listen to classical music a lot.
Luís Mariutti: Actually I’ve learned some songs now for something that I have to do , but actually I never stopped to really listen to.
Fábio Ribeiro: Actually, I had much more contact with classical music that time...
Luís Mariutti: In the classical time...Lol
Fábio Ribeiro: But I have never stopped studying and thinking for this side too.
Hugo Mariutti: I think tons of things that we listen to, adapations for guitar and etc, make us to end up listening to.
André Hernandes: It was two year , from 11 to 13, but I didn’t bring much from that. I like listening to classical music, I think it is a beatiful music and how we also lived in this generation Van Halen after Malmsteen, inevitably we ended up having some classical influence whice came indirectly from Yngwie Malmsteen and Randy Rhoads. So I think it is inside in each one here, because for those who live in the 80’s and 90’s, thee’s no way to run.
Hugo Mariutti: Maybe you are not in the root of the thing, but you know.Band such as Yes and Rainbow.
08 –How do you guys see a style with such as stereotype created by the press like the melodic metal?
Fábio Ribeiro: I don’t know who is the biggest responsible for this limitation and for not changing the style. Since the Bands which have power to do that, don’t do that.
Hugo Mariutti: I think the main thing is the influence of what you are listening to when you are writing. I think tons of bands in Heavy Metal, like us, end up being influenced by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, but we look for listening to other things out of Heavy Metal and it makes you find differente ways. To get all these influences into Heavy Metal.
There is the usage of several tones in the beginning of tracks such as “Rio”, “Rescue”, would be this one way?
Hugo Mariutti: Exactly! This is something we have always had for listening to other things.
Fábio Ribeiro: Even in Shaman, we used to do to uptade a little bit.
Hugo Mariutti: To go beyond! I believe repetition happens due to the fact of people listening to the same on, same on.
Fábio Ribeiro: There is this problem, they want to listen to the same thing,
Hugo Mariutti: Exactly!
Fábio Ribeiro: Eles podem reclamar quando você aparece com uma novidade. Because sometimes you try to do something differente and people think it is weird. People who is more inside that style and are not open to other styles, or a restricted musical taste. They can complain when you came up with something new.
I remember when I heard Turn away for the first time at Rock the Planet, I thought :” Ow, this is not Shaman!”
Lol (Everyone)
Hugo Mariutti: O Reason foi um disco que chocou um pouco. Para mim são as influências que fazem com que coloquemos elementos diferentes. Reason was a álbum which shocked people a little bit.
André Hernandes: There is something also :” Show Business!” there are bands which have found a formula and this sells records and the guy don’t go for another one. In Europe there are tons of melodic metal band which keep doing the same thing, the artist itself sometimes is not into taking the risk and want to keep his/her place. I think this differential which André has been doing since Viper and Angra times, mainly the innovation of Angra from Holy Land was the differential whick broke up that idea of “ How a band from samba country is going to be successful in metal in land?”, how would be a japanese pagode band for us? We wouldn’t care, but if suddenly they brought something differnente, new and cool we maybe could enoy. Then this differential which you can notice on Andre’s career and now on Time to Be Free is our influence and it is our way to stand out in a such competitive marketing as the european being here so far.
Since we are talking about Holy Land, pointing the question to Luis who is the only one who is here and left from this time. What was the response for the album in the releasing time like?
Luis Mariutti:. It didn’t make as good as Angels Cry did in Japan, but it did make. Talking about Europe it was what put Angra in the Top, which was what gave us support to do a huge euroupean tour for Fireworks. In France, the concerts were totally sold out, Italy, Greece, Spain, Germain. Holy Land was the responsible for all of this.
Hugo Mariutti: Here in Brazil, before you are successful outside Brazil tons of people do not care. But after you are successful outside Brazil, it becomes another thing.
Luis Mariutti: Yeah, lots of people! Angels cry was much more successful! Nowadays, the most of people who come to talk to me about Angra’s times say that this is the best album. It did well, only in japan it the sells went down a little bit, but it was sucessful...
Hugo Mariutti: Oh it really went down...
Luis Mariutti: If compared to Angels Cry which got a gold record and etc, but in the rest of the world.
09 -The production featured Roy z who already worked with several famous artists in the rock world such as Bruce Dickinson, Sebastian Bach among others and Sascha Paeth. The consequence is an amazing sound result, what was that work like?
Fábio Ribeiro: Roy Z is very much a“Vintage” person, he is american and has another vision. Actually, what was really cool was the mix of two producers. All this “Vintage” side of Roy Z from 70’s and 80’s at the recording time when it was important to get a really nice guitar and drummer sound and also his flexibility with us, the kind of treatmente at time of recording , always really opened. It mixed with the german side of Sascha who was so careful for the mixing. A really cool combination.
Hugo Mariutti: Roy Z taught us a lot, mainly for me and André Hernandes since we are guitar players. We’ve learned a lot about gear, how to get a nice sound and everything.
Luis Mariutti: Besides recording, he plays...
Hugo Mariutti: He is not a top producer, he is a top guitar player! He is really a great player into heavy metal. He is on the top! For us it was a huge lesson.
Fábio Ribeiro: I work with studio, so for me that was the best course I could have ever done!
Hugo Mariutti: Two months of classes!
I also believe that for André which was a great experience.
Hugo Mariutti: André told us that it was.
Luis Mariutti: He helped André in the lyrics and melodies! At the time of signing, the way to let him more comfortable and etc.
Hugo Mariutti: He can make the artist feel confident to do the best, he can get the best from the artists. Before recording and pre-production, he searched the internet to get to know the work of each one on the Internet and when he got here, he already knew how each one used to play and how each one was, from this he could make us to do our best.
André Hernandes: He has “latin side” of playing using the heart, less thinking and much more emotion. I think it was cool, at least for me in the solos he could get something from me that even I didn’t know I had. It was emotion, making it simpler to make it cooler, more beatiful. He gave us total freedom to play, I used to record the takes, he used to hear, and he used to choose and etc. The advices were about to save the rational side and to use much more the emotional side, so we got to a balance of technique and emotion that I wouldn’t have got without his advices.
10 - Which gear were used on the recording process?
Hugo Mariutti: Talking about the guitar gear. When it comes to Amplifiers we used a Marshall JCM 800, anniversary edition that red one, a Marshall JCM900. A mesa boogie Dual Rectifier and the Paul Gilbert’s laney model this were all amp heads. Talking about cabinets we used two Marshalls and one Mesa Boogie, a Vox AC-30 and a Fender Twin Reverb to record two clean sounds and this kind of thing. We also used to microphones Shure- Sm 57 and Mic named Heil which Roy inclusively brought for us. We used tons of different pedal, we coun on Nig and Digitech’s support. We also try to use strings of Elixir with a heavy gauge to record the harmony, to always keep a great tunning.
When it comes to guitars , we used two Gibson (Explorer and Flying), I used a Fender, and I also used a jazzmaster of Zagannin. Zazá used the Di Castelli’s.
André Hernandes: The recording process worked in the following way, we always recorded two times each one of us, in other words, I recorded it twice so did him. I recorded with the Gibson explorer at JCM 900 and after in JCM 800, Hugo always used the Flying V at JCM 900 and after Mesa Boogie. So we had four recording for the same things with different setups, and there always were overdrives together with these distortions. Ts 8. Ts 9, Tube Screamer of Ibanez, Tone Drive of Digitech, and Dual Drive of NIG.
Hugo Mariutti:We were trying what worked better for each one. Pedals, Cabines and etc.
André Hernandes: In short words: He used a Flying V, a Jazzmaster of Zagannin , and I used the Gibson explorer and the Di Castelli’s 01.
Hugo Mariutti: I also used a Sg by music, and a Fender Jaguar which was there built in 1967. Out the additional effects like the whammy and etc.
Fábio Ribeiro: For the first time , we didn’t used a microphoned grand piano, actually we looked for it in the beggining. We had not received from NORD in the beginning of the production, company which I am sponsored by (Actually Clavia, Swede company), the Nord Stafe which was an instrument based on acoustic piano and this kind of stuff. But, when the time to start recording the keyboards in the middle of the production we received and it was a huge surprise, because the sonority blew us aways. So we used it on the Demo and we sent it to Sascha to know his opinion and actually he didn’t notice it was electronic and that was the approval, so we used this for piano. We used lots of Keyboards, always keeping the idea of one unique instrument is not going to fill all your needs. So we looked the best of each area, kind of searching: “We need a really good tone of Organ Harmmond, so let’s check the better ones” In this case the NORD electro, For synths were used Nord Lead, Nor Lead 3, Korg Triton with two unities, Korg Ns 2000b. Too many to mention.
Talking about softwares there are a lot from Reason in the álbum which is a great software, very versatile, really cool. We used it a lot, but with customized samples, in other words we did them.
Hugo Mariutti: Zazá mentioned Dx-7, but there is on the album...Lol
Fábio Ribeiro: We used Dx – 7 and D 50, keyboards from the 80’s. A little older...
More softwares there is Pro 53, The Arturia, Arturtia Modular moog, Mini Moog, cs 80 , arp 600, it is about 20 different instruments. That idea , if you need a x tone, let’s see the best instrument for that and the result is a huge list.
Luís Mariutti:Now I am endorsed by Warrick, but in the álbum I used my Music Man. The SWR amplificadores. Three pedals, a Mxr for distortion, a sansamp and a chorus of Digitech.
Hugo Mariutti: It was used a SAEMA drummer... LOL.
I don’t remember exactly, I think it is a TAMA Star Class. Since it was recorded by Rafael Rosa and not for Eloy , I am a little doubtful about it. A Tama Star Class using cymbals of Zildjian,Sabian and etc.
11 - There is also na excellent cover for Journey which I believe is one of the biggest bands ever. Why did you guys choose that band?
Hugo Mariutti: It is on the japanese version of the CD! Actually, the idea for this journey cover came from Roy because he believes andre’s voice reminds the lead singer’s voice.
André Hernandes: Journey did a huge success in Japan.
Hugo Mariutti: Roy Z thought that doing a cover for this song would be something really cool. Actually,I am not that fan, but I really enjoyed the version because it got different, it got heavier and etc. Who really loves is Luis...Lol
Luís Mariutti: I am fan, I have always been a fan... Lol So I suggested this to Roy and he suggested to the Band... Tons of laughts
André Hernandes: It is a funny history, because when the Idea of doing a cover came up everyone started: “Great! Sabbath! Queen!”, when he brought Journey, it scared us.
Hugo Mariutti: We do respect the band, but except for Eloy no one here is a fan.
Eloy: I am.
Hugo Mariutti: So, the Idea came from Eloy...Lol
Luís Mariutti: There is also this thing, for example: The Idea of doing cover, you really have to do something which is different if compared to the original version. If you take a heavy metal cover, like we did Painikiller in Angra, we tried to play like the original, but Painkiller is not going to be overcome. Obviously we do not overcome Journey or something like that, but it is different. It is another comparsion.
Fábio Ribeiro: In this case metal cover, like it is in the same style , you don’t have how to improve and change.
André Hernandes: If Journey were like the result, I would like it.
For example the Journey song starts with a keyboard, and in the version of the band it starts with a open string guitar riff, in Iron Maiden Style.
Luís Mariutti: Exactly! It is to put some metal elements in Journey.
And the electric guitar, because I can’t hear the electric Guitar in Journey ‘s song.
Hugo Mariutti: 80’s was a time which the songs were focused on the keyboard, so we created some guitar riffs to make this our own way.
Fábio Ribeiro: It was totally focused on the keyboard! Here is the freedom, we had how to make this into our style.
Hugo Mariutti: And it turned ou to be cool, after we told Roy , you insisted so much that it turned out to be cool.
Luis Mariutti: This one and that by Menudos... I can’t remember the name... Lol
Eloy: Não se reprima...Lol
Luis Mariutti: If you weren’t here...Lol
I wouldn’t wait for a cover of Journey...
Hugo Mariutti: Neither would we.
André Hernandes: It is because Journey is a band from a time we listened to Metal, and in that time if you used to listen to metal or you were “falsing metal”. Lol
You were burned down in public square, at the “praça da bandeira”. Lol
And other bands such as Kansas...
André Hernandes: You could enjoy, but you were not brave enough to admit.You were not crazy to tell your friends you enjoyed a band like this,
Bon Jovi?
André Hernandes: I think... I prefer Kansas!
Luís Mariutti: Bon Jovi, you crossed the line!Lol
I enjoy all these bands. And how about, Mr. Big?
Luis Mariutti: For those who played Bass it was cool because of Billy Sheehan. When I had the chance to listen to it I used to pay attention to the bass line.
André Hernandes: When I heard Mr.Big for the first time, it was Addicted to that Rush and I thought it was awesome, dream band. So I bought the album and I listened to the whole album, it is so irregular, it is a band of extremes.They have an amaizng song, and the rest is a little down of this song. All the albums of the band, I mean there are two wonderful songs and the rest seems that they did just to end the record. It seems what Kiss has been doing since Animalize.
Luis Mariutti: I prefer Billy Sheehan on Talas.
André Hernandes: I prefer on the David Lee Roth, together with Steve Vai.
Actually, If we look at Mr. Big in the end of the career with Kotzen, it was much more a Pop/Rock Band. I Love this kind of sound.
Luis Mariutti: In the middle of these pop stuff there were some rocks we enjoyed.
Hugo Mariutti: It is what André Hernandes mentioned, when we heard the whole cd it was too Pop.
12 - Even talking about a solo career, do you believe the tittle of the albums means the freedom from now own? Or there was this already in the past?
Hugo Mariutti:Oh Yes! It is that Idea of our friendship, the good mood. There’s no stress here to know who is going to put more songs in the album,. No one goes for :” I want my song in!”, what it is the best for the album we are going to use. What is bad, we are going to talk to. There’s no fight, no one wanst to take advantage of anyone. I think the tittle of the albums says by itself.
13 - What was the response for the promo tour and album like?
André Hernandes: It was my first tour of this kind of thing, but André Matos told me this was the most intense he has ever done. To make you aware of the numbers, in seven days: nine international flights, a trip by high speed trains and two by car, two of these nine flights taking 11 hours. To you see how it was. It was a average of twelve interviews by day, there was one day in France which we did autograph, interview and concert in two different cities. We woke up in Paris, we took the high speed train to Lison, we did the soundcheck, an interview, we took the car and we went to Clermont Ferrand, we did the concert, we did the interview, we did the autograph, back to Lion, we did the concert, interview and autopgraph. We went to bed by 03:00 a.m. , we woke up at 05:00 a.m. to go to the airport and to take a flight to Greece. It was a average of two flights a day, because in Europe you can’t take a flight straight to Greece, you first have to go to germany and after Greece. It was really hard, for me stayed awake for 48 hours, when we got in italy we did a concert in the afternoon and I slept during this, I don’t knwo how I could play, I played trying to not fall asleep. But it thought it was prettuy good, because is much better to go there full of things to do, to be awake and etc than to go there and don’t do anything. It was a really positive result, to see that we have a really strong marketing over there and André has a lot of prestige over there.
I saw in the Diary about the japan promo tour the pictures of the signing session.
André Hernandes: This was last year.
Hugo Mariutti: Last year André did this promo tour in Japan, and in the following we were invited to play in the biggest festival over there named Loud Park. We played together with Black Sabbath, Marylin Manson, Machine Head, Lacuna Coil, Saco,in other words to 20,30 thousands people. So outside things are doing well and so are things here.
14 - Thank you so much for the interview, please a message to the viewers of Guitar Clinic.
Hugo Mariutti: I thank for the interview and our fans who already showed are voting for us in the elections about the “The better ones in 2007” and thank for all the patience with Shaman’s stuff. Now we are here again and we are waiting to see everyone in tour as soon as it is possible.
Luis Mariutti: That’s it! I Would like to say that Adriano is playing good again...Lol He did two goals! Lol
Eloy: One off-side! Lol
Luis Mariutti: So that is it, we are starved to start the tour! We were patient too, because we are really looking forwar to playing, so we want to see everyone in the tour. Do not forget to listen to Rafael who is an amazing player (talking about the interviewer).
Thank you so much for the compliment Luis!
Fábio Ribeiro: Thank you so much for the patience!
André Hernandes: I also would like to thank for the opportunity of the interview, talking about there a lot of people asking when it starts and etc. Now the year really started in Brazil, after Carnival, so the things are starting to be booked. So we are looking forward to going on tour as soon as we can, and to thank all the fans for the patience and kindness.
Hugo Mariutti: I also would like to thank all our sponsors who support us like the Nig pedals, Luis with Warrick, Luis and me for the Elixir strings, o Castelli and Rockstage because of Zaza, Paiste due to Eloy, Lp Evans, Pro Mark, Ale Bags which I know since Japan! Lol
Korg, Clavia, Akg which inclusively is the microphone used to do this interview and the one who sponsors André, monster cable and everyone who support us!
Mambo Supermakets! Lol
Eloy: I also would like to thank everyone for the patience, I am so happy for playing in the band, and we hope to play in everywhere to break the walls down!
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