CVNW February 2013

CVNW: When you hang ‘em up, what do you want people to say about you and the band?

“Hey, that was a great band, and I’m glad that I got to know that band, and I knew Markus, and he was different than everyone else, he was unique”. I feel like I’ve spoken to every single fan I have, and that makes me different and separates me from a lot of people, I don’t consider myself better than anyone else, I don’t consider myself a person with an ego, but I have confidence in what I do and my abilities, but also I busted my ass to get this good, and if I’m not as good as the people who influenced me then I shouldn’t be doing this, and I chose to do it because I knew I could do it and could do it well. When you live for hard rock, your demeanor becomes that of the fans who support you, those people understand who you are and what the music means to them. I will always be on top of my game, and I will not do another M!SS CRAZY if it can’t be as good as my prior albums, if I can’t give 100% then I’ll just hang ‘em up.

CVNW: You haven’t played live since 2008 with M!SS CRAZY, what have you been doing?

I did Freakshow with Jeff LaBar, Frankie Banali, Tony Franklin; we tried to hook up a tour, had a lot of things going on, but also had a lot of things go bad, and it never materialized. I respect that experience and those people, and Freakshow gave me a ton of notoriety in the industry, but that put a bitter taste in my mouth and made me move to Canada for a couple of years and made me question my career and what I was capable of. But now I realize that I have to be true to who I am, and that’s why there’s a new M!SS CRAZY album out now, and there will be another album coming out soon, because I love rock and I love what I do.

CVNW: What’s up for M!SS CRAZY in 2013?

Push GR!P to the masses, because it’s damn good music and it shows we’re back. But we’re going to get another album done, we’re going back in the studio to prove that we can do it, and do another kick ass album. I want to keep supplying those hard rockers with awesome music, I don’t want to take 4 years to make another album.