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Yogi - 29.06.2008, 11:40Alles über Michael Kiske - Fettes Interview
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I don’t think anyone expected to hear Michael Kiske singing Helloween songs again...
Yeah. That was Serafino’s idea. He’s the owner of Frontiers Records. My first reaction was that I didn’t want to do it but then after a while I couldn’t find any reason for not doing it actually. There’s absolutely no need for rejecting my own music. I’m not even rejecting the Helloween years. After a while I just thought it’s a cool idea to do that and now that it’s finally done I’m very happy that I did. Even though it wasn’t easy to do. Emotionally I’m very very glad that I did it because for me it is very interesting to see when you take out all the songs that I have written for Helloween and put it on one record. It makes sense, they fit. I always had my kind of own style and it fits me still lyrically and from the feel. That was very nice to see.
Was your basic idea to go through the songs and strip them down to an acoustic version?
The basic idea was to make acoustic songs, that was the offer Serafino had. So I just took an acoustic guitar and found out the chords again, which I obviously had forgotten ages ago, and wrote everything down. It just very naturally came together. It wasn’t really difficult to produce this and to find out the right way of doing it because somehow they work as acoustic songs very nice.
What was the biggest challenge that you faced during the making of this album?
For me it was interesting to see that there was something about my songwriting when I was very young. All the songs that I actually gave to Helloween for Keeper 1 and 2 I had already written before I even joined Helloween. I had these songs in my previous own school band. It was very interesting to see that how my songwriting was. It was pure and pretty unconventional in a certain way. I like this sort of uplifting spirit that they have. I don’t wanna say heroic but they have some sort of a glorious feel, which is really nice.
Are there any songs that you weren’t satisfied with on the Helloween records but you like them now as an acoustic version?
I like the new versions better because I’m just a different person and I think they’re more mature now. But I wouldn’t really compare them. It’s a different thing when you record them with a band that has a lot of electric guitars. Doing that 20 years later just with an acoustic guitar is completely different. I mean obviously people will always compare the two albums, at least in the beginning. It’s a different approach. I was just trying to leave out everything that blows the music. I just wanted to make it very simply and bring it down to the basics and I think that worked pretty well. Most songs were very easy. There are songs that I like more and there are others I like less. I was never mad about In The Night for instance or When The Sinner in the old days but I think they work even better now. In The Night is some kind of a rock ‘n’ roll, jam song and to record it like this unplugged version it makes it more convincing I think.
I really enjoy the new version of You Always Walk Alone. Did you use real violin in there?
Yeah, that’s real violin. It’s a very interesting feel came up doing this. I will not copy myself, but I’m going to take something with me into the next record. I learned something from my younger self. This unconventional songwriting, the more epic feel is something I still like pretty much. I’m not going to copy anything of that but that was something I really liked about this record.
What is your favourite own song from the Helloween days?
I think my favourite songs from those days are the first six songs on Past In Different Ways. Maybe Longing is the one I like the most.
And what would be your pick of Helloween songs that were written by the other guys?
There are a couple. I always felt that Eagles Fly Free was a killer song with a strong melody. Maybe it’s the best song that Mr Weikath has ever written. That was one I really liked. The live situation gave sort of a different feel to the songs too. There are some songs that I liked on the record more and other songs were more fun live. Future World was always fun live, even just the starting riff got a big response from the audience. Rise And Fall was always very funny because it’s a very unconventional song. We had a couple of those songs, we had a strong sense of humour in it with songs like Dr Stein. That was something I always really liked.
Do you still listen to those old Helloween albums from time to time?
I don’t do that. I don’t even listen to my own records after I finish them. But I had to listen to some of the stuff again to find out the chords for the songs. But I usually don’t even listen to anything I’ve done before. You listen to these songs so often when you produce a record. By the time you finish the mixing it’s probably a thousand times you heard the songs. I don’t count it but you listen to it a couple of times when you write it, then when you record it and when you mix it. You listen to it over and over again and you just don’t wanna hear that anymore when you’re done with the record.
There are a couple of songs on Pink Bubbles Go Ape that you wrote lyrics for but not the music. Didn’t you consider reworking any of those?
No, I just wanted to take the ones that were fully written by me.
How did these things work back then? I mean there aren’t many songs that were done by two persons…
No, there weren’t many, that’s true. It was always like that when the songwriter had a song it was on a tape and pretty much done 100%. Kai, Weikath and me, we always had the songs pretty much done. Of course the band made their own stamp on it and we fooled around with them to gave them a band feel. But we were never that sort of a band that wrote songs together in the rehearsal room. And about the songs you mentioned… as far as I remember on some of the songs I just had guitar riffs and I made the vocal melodies and there were other songs where there was a vocal line with nonsense lyrics and I just did the real lyrics. It depends on the songs.
The song Heavy Metal Hamsters has a very thoughtful lyrics. (Laughs)
(Laughs) That was a song that wasn’t even meant to go on the album. It was just supposed to be a funny song for a B-side but during that production we actually didn’t take the right producer. It wasn’t a good choice to produce with Chris Tsangarides, we should have stayed with Tommy Hansen. A lot of the songs we actually wanted to put on the record didn’t really work out with the way he worked. And then in the end we just didn’t have enough songs and that’s what made that song go on the album. Did I do something for that song???
It says that you co-wrote the lyrics with Weikath…
Okay. I didn’t even remember. That was a weird song. Weiki sometimes had these kind of things.
How did you decide back then about how many songs could a person bring in for a record?
If everybody liked a song, that made it on the record no matter who wrote it. We always had a few songs that we carried to the rehearsal room on a tape and in the end whatever worked well with the band ended up on the record.
Did you have any ideas or songs written for Helloween that you never used on albums? Or maybe you used them on your first solo album Instant Clarity?
No, not really. Everything is usually fresh. I don’t have songs lying around. If I like a song I do it if I don’t like it I just kill it. Oh, actually, yes, for Instant Clarity there were a few tunes that I wrote for Helloween. The idea for the song So Sick is something I had in my mind for Helloween. And probably there are one or two others but I can’t really remember.
Of course these are your songs as you wrote them all but how about the legal rights? Are they with you or the previous label and you had to ask for permission?
You don’t have to ask permission to do that. Anyone could record them anyway. If you have a band you can actually record any song of anyone if you want. That’s just the way it is. It’s just that the royalties go to the musicians but you don’t have to ask. I don’t think I make anything with it because I think the rights to these songs I think are owned by Sanctuary now. I think we gave it to them, so I don’t even make any money with it.
There's one new song on the album too. Was this the idea of Frontiers?
Yeah, that was the deal with Frontiers. They think it makes the album more interesting if there’s an extra song on it. On the last weekend that I had available, I wrote that song and it turned out pretty nice. It turned out to be almost like an Irish folk song. I think it fits the album well. Maybe not after When The Sinner. Maybe they should have placed somewhere earlier.
Tell me about the musicians that were backing you up on this album.
The same guys that are on the last record. Actually the drummer is the same person that used to play the songs that I did for Keeper 1 and Keeper 2. He used to play in my schoolband before I joined Helloween. It’s a funny thing that he plays these songs again. I’m satisfied with these guys. So far I wouldn’t really think of anyone else. They are very good people and very good musicians. If there’s ever going to be some live playing I’m sure these guys would do that as well.
It’s known that you had a troubled past with Helloween. Do you think making this album helped putting the past behind?
Yeah. I think it’s necessary for me to make my peace with it completely. Whatever I’m doing in the future I will always be connected with this band somehow and that’s okay. I think it is part of making peace with it by taking the songs back and making them my own again. That was very necessary.
Do you also care making peace with the old members of Helloween?
Well, I have made peace with everyone apart from Mr Weikath but that’s a different story. I even met Markus last year and he told me about his project that he’s up to which is a record with only bass guitars. There was absolutely no tension between us. It was very nice and friendly and easy going. I have met Kai Hansen and Roland three times in the last 18 months. We sat together and there was no problem there either. There wasn’t ever a problem between me and Kai anyway, we always got along pretty well.
As you may know Gamma Ray and Helloween toured together last year and Kai joined in on a couple of songs. A special even with you joining them on stage would be nice too but I doubt that you would ever do that…
That’s not possible just from the human side. If Mr Weikath wouldn’t have played his silly games on me, if he wouldn’t have made such a dirty game. Afterwards when I was no longer in the band he tried to make me look like an idiot in the eyes of the Helloween fans. If everything would have gone down with a little more style you could do anything just for fun or just for making fans happy. But ask yourself, if you in your own life would meet a person and that person would treat you very bad and would talk bullshit about you everywhere, would you still be friend with that person? No, you would not and that’s the thing. It’s just a normal human thing that you don’t wanna be on a stage with someone that you found out not being a friend of yours. He’s not a friend of mine and he’s not the kind of person that I’m looking for as friend. And just for money being on a stage with someone you don’t really like sucks. That would make me sick.
You told me many times over the years that you don’t want to sing heavy metal ever again. But there’s a new album from Timo Tolkki and you’re singing metal there.
Yeah, I know. I didn’t really mean singing. Singing something more rocking is still fun to do. What I basically meant was about my own music, my own songwriting. I don’t think this is every gonna be metal again. I don’t even think Past In Different Ways is metal. It’s not really possible without electric guitars. I have huge problems with the heavy metal scene but I can still enjoy a good rocking song if it’s not a negative vibe. There’s a difference between guitar energy and brutality. Not every guitar band is bad. I found out that it could still be fun to do some rocking song. If it’s not too heavy I can still enjoy that. And the stuff I did for Timo are quite easy songs anyway. Easy in terms of heaviness. I did basically the ballads and even the heavier songs are cool somehow. The title track has a Led Zeppelin feel to it and it was interesting to do. It’s still fun doing rocking music occasionally but I don’t think that I personally would do heavy music myself anymore. Rock music yes, and on the next album there’ll also be electric guitars but I don’t think it’ll ever be heavy metal.
Were you surprised that Timo asked you again to participate on his record after that you worked together on his solo album in 2002?
No, he was always sending me emails (laughs) in between checking me out. He seemed to have something in his mind for quite a while. This time as far as I know he had problems with his previous lead singer so it was like an urgent situation.
Have you met Timo many times?
No, he wanted to meet me but I’m always difficult to meet. (Laughs) He was trying to get me to a U2 concert over here in Germany a while ago but I could go as I was busy. I’m always doing my own things and I’m always pretty busy.
You mentioned that your upcoming solo album would have electric guitars. What else can we know about that?
I have to write it this summer. I don’t want to wait too much. Past In Different Ways to me was just a cool thing to do, something nobody expected, a nice thing for the fans, but actually I’m ready to do a real solo album. I’m full of creativity and I feel that I can write a great record. I think it will be a little more epic. It’s hard to tell. Let’s see what happens.
Are you going to release it under the name of Kiske?
It’ll be just Kiske. Even if it turns out to be a band. It’s an easy to remember name.
How about SupaRed? Is it dead and buried?
It was basically the same thing with the same people, only the drummer was different. I was just trying to make a band but you can’t make bands. It’s just something I had to give up. Bands happen but you can even make it. You can have five people on a stage playing music together and of course it’s a band but not in the sense that I experienced in the first three years with Helloween for instance. We had a certain type of chemistry. A real band is something that makes every individual better together with the other people. That makes a band when you have a song and someone else add something to it and it just gets better. Whatever you do if you play it with these other people it just gets a lot better. With my own stuff it’s always me that has to come up with the good ideas. They are good musicians playing-wise but creatively and in terms of writing something together it works the best when I’m doing it on my own. I’m not even trying to make this a real band. If it happens one day it happens but I doubt it. It’s very difficult to create bands.
You also had another Frontiers project called Place Vendome. Second album?
Yes, this summer. It’s not done yet but they are working on it and the songs that they’re sending me as MP3s are all very nice. They are very AOR and I really love doing that. I wouldn’t write some of those songs in that direction and that makes it interesting. When I did something other than my own music for the first time it was Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia thing in the 90s I was very very careful with it and I didn’t want my name to be mentioned with it and all this nonsense. Now I really enjoy it because it’s very exciting to make a song of someone else your own somehow and try to give it your interpretation. I learn a lot by doing it because other people write songs differently than I would do. It’s so exciting. And you never know how long you could do singing and how many offers you’ll have in the future so I’m trying to take with me whatever I can. You never know how long you will be in the business anyway.
Is it easy putting your heart and soul into someone else’s music?
It is quite easy. It will never be the same thing as if you write your own songs. To me the truest music is when musicians express themselves. If you have something on your mind, something on your heart you express it freely in a song, that’s pure music. That’s true art to me. But obviously you have people with good voices that don’t write songs. Should they not make records at all? Of course they can make records. It’s just a different quality but it works. When I sing a song as long as I like the song I sort of make it my own. But I’m just responsible for my singing then and that’ll always be authentic as long as I can sing the song.
Kai Hansen told me some time ago that you, Roland (Roland Grapow) and him were talking about doing something together one day…
Yeah, that’s true but so far that was just talking and nothing really happening. The first time we met was like two years ago and there’s still nothing there. I haven’t got a clue. I just told them that I wouldn’t wanna do a Keeper Part 10,000 or whatever. I don’t know if they got it but I made that very clear that I’m not interested in these kind of projects just to do business records. I told them that I would only be interested if make an artistic and moral victory. That means doing something nobody expects. I’m not expecting Kai Hansen to not be himself anymore. If he writes his material he would always have a certain style probably. It’s the same thing when I sing a song, you’ll always notice that it’s me. It’s not about trying to sound like someone else but I wouldn’t want it to be trying to fake sounds of the past. It would be very necessarily to do something different. I could imagine it would be a bit Queenish like very musical and lots of stuff in there. Queen is the band where Kai and I still meet. We have very different musical taste. He doesn’t think The Beatles are very good. I think The Beatles was the best band in the world, I can’t help it. If I listen to some of the songs I just get goosebumps. When John Lennon sings that’s just magic to me. I really think that this band is actually as good as the myth around the band. They invented so many different styles and with every record they did they sort of reinvented themselves. You can always hear it’s The Beatles but they never really repeated themselves. I thought that they were just enormously creative. That was a different time, totally different from our times. Our time is not about being creative, it’s just about not confusing the audiences and making it sure that they get exactly the same soup as they liked before so that they buy it again. That’s all what really matters and creative is almost like a crime. By doing something that people don’t expect you easily get slaughtered and that’s totally wrong. The Beatles was the opposite to that and that’s what I love about them. Kai thinks they are very overrated. There are some other modern bands that I like, like Travis for instance, their vocalist is a really good songwriter. Kai said that’s nice, but he doesn’t have the same feel as I have for music. But Queen is that’s where we meet. That’s something we both like. It would be totally silly to fake that band if we do something together. We wouldn’t try to copy Queen but I could imagine going into this direction. But I have my doubts that it’ll ever happen to be honest with you. In think it was just talking.
There’s gonna be an Avantasia festival tour this summer. Are you taking part?
He actually offered me a hell of a lot of money for doing that, money that I actually need, but I had to turn down. Not because I don’t like him or not because I don’t like the music. I do like him and I do like the stuff that he does it’s just that I don’t think it would be good for my soul to be on a heavy metal stage after 15 years. I think I have to take that very easy somehow. They should be more open stages, stages where various groups play, those sort of festivals would be a good thing for me to do. I wasn’t on any stage for such a long time now and I think I have to do that first with my own stuff, maybe next year. It’s gonna be necessary. You don’t gain new grounds, you don’t reach new audiences these days without playing live. Frontiers is a label that does certain things in terms of promotion but they don’t overdo it. They don’t really break a band. I don’t think they are the type of label that would actually break new grounds for me. And if I ever want to reach new audiences I think I have to go back on stage again.
Re: Alles über Michael Kiske - Fettes Interview
metalfly - 02.07.2008, 09:32
Danke, das ist ja wirklich ein tolles Interview......der Kiske eben...
Aber was ich letzhin gelesen habe, hat mich wirklich von den Socken gehauen.....und zwar in einem Forum....
Für mich das tragische Leben eines Spitzensängers. Er war Ende der 80er neben Ralf Schepers der talentierteste und Bester Newcomer aus Deutschland
an den Vocals, und stieg mit 17 Jahren bei Helloween ein. Für mich ist er sogar nocht besser als Ralf Schepers, da er nicht so arrogant rübergekam und immer wirkte wie der Junge von nebenan.
Er sollte sogar Anfang der 90er der neue Maiden Sänger werden, aber Steve Harris lehnte es schließlich ab, er wollte einen Sänger mit englischen Pass in seiner Band.
Mitte der 90er begann dann sein Abstieg. Er wurde unsanft von Helloween wegen Lapalien entlassen und startete eine Solo Karriere, bei dem ihm 1996 sogar Adrian Smith und Kai Hansen half. Trotzdem floppte sein Projekt und Kiske hat die Schnauze voll vom Metal und wurde Alkoholiker und Drogensüchtiger. Ende 2001 raffte er sich wieder auf und hat nun eine Rock/Soul/Hip Hop Gruppe namens SupaRed. Mit dem Heavy Metal will er aber nichts mehr zu tun haben!
Auch seine Helloween Kollegen hatten Mitleid und spendeten ihm Geld, um seine Therapie zu finazieren.
Kiske 2001 vom Alcohol gezeichnet, hier ist er 32 Jahre alt! :
Kiske 1990 in seiner besten Zeit, mit 20 Jahren:
Für mich fast einer der traurigsten Geschichten des deutschen Metals. Was meint ihr dazu:
Leider sind die Bilder dazu nicht mehr on....aber ist da was dran? Ich war immer der Meinung, der liebe Kiske lebt wie ein Mönch....kein Rauchen, Alkohol....kein Fleisch....
:? :? :?
Re: Alles über Michael Kiske - Fettes Interview
Major - 02.07.2008, 21:19
Kenne ich, das ist vollkommener Bullshit würde ich mal sagen, die fehlenden Bilder sind übrigens die Promopics zur RTS wo er erstmal sich der Öffentlichkeit mit kurzen Haaren gezeigt hat , ich denke mal das haben ein paar Kiske-Hasser ins Inet gestellt um ihn fertig zu machen....
Wenn man die Interviews mit ihm liesst sagt er das er nie Alk getrunken hat weil sein Vater schwerer Alkoholiker war....übrigens mit den Kollegen zu der Zeit als er die angebliche Alk-krise hatte war er längst raus aus Helloween und war schlimmer zerstritten mit ihnen als heute!!! Das war bei Ingo Schwchtenberg (Drums,ExHelloween,gestorben 1994) seinen Drogenproblemen so da haben sie ihn alle unterstützt auch, finanziell aber das war ne andere Geschichte....
Re: Alles über Michael Kiske - Fettes Interview
Wanda - 03.07.2008, 22:14
Naja, ich weiß nicht, ich glaub das eigentl. auch nicht ... mir kommt das auch eher vor wie etwas, das sich da einer zusammengereimt hat, wie er zum ersten Mal nach längerer Zeit wieder Bilder vom Kiske gesehen hat. In so Foren wird ja viel geredet & gemutmaßt (das beste Beispiel ist wohl eh unser Forum da ;) ) , und ich nehme mal an, irgendwer hat diese Fotos gesehen & gefunden, der Kiske schaut drauf versoffen aus ... und das gleich als gegebene Tatsache weitergegeben. Dazu kommt noch die "Unterstützung" von den Resthelloweenern, die viell. wirkl. mit der Schichtenberg-Geschichte verwechselt wurde - und fertig sind die Gerüchte :shock: !
Wie sehr da so Halbwahrheiten als Fakten verkauft werden, sieht man m.E. auch an der wiederum zitierten Maiden-Geschichte: der Kiske sollte meines Wissens nach nie "der neue Maiden-Sänger" werden, der Steve Harris meinte nur mal (sinngemäß), er wäre einer der wenigen, die stimmlich das Zeug dazu hätten.
Aber, trotzdem: interessant ist es schon, wie solche Gerüchte & Gedanken ein Eigenleben bekommen ...
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