| Entrevista - WHITE WOLF |
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 É com bastante orgulho que inauguro as entrevistas a bandas internacionais no HeavymetalPT. Apresento-vos os WHITE WOLF, uma banda que regressou ao activo passados 21 anos e que pratica um espetacular Hard Rock de soberba qualidade. Tive o previlégio de falar com Mr. Don Wilk , que é o membro fundador da banda. Deixo-vos ficar com a entrevista. HeavymetalPT: Hello Mr. Don Wilk. First of all, what is the feeling to be back after all these years? White Wolf: Well first of all let me thank you for this interview and to answer your question, “It feels great to be back!” (continua) White Wolf: Well a lot of things happened after White Wolf recorded and released “Endangered Species”. But first of all, after White Wolf officially broke up in 1987 after RCA went through a major shuffle, I decided that a move was in order and left Edmonton for Vancouver Canada.This was in March of 1988.I felt I needed a change and Vancouver seemed to be the best. I formed a band that later became “Point Of Power”, which released a cd in Japan on the Alpha label and also in Canada on the MCA label called “It’s About Time”. I was lucky enough during this time to actually work with the famous Bruce Fairbairn, who had hired me to do background vocals on the “Flesh And Blood” cd recorded by the group “Poison”.
Now in 2006 I reunited with lead guitarist and co-writer Cam MacLeod, and the rest is history for the "White Wolf" release, titled, "Victim Of The Spotlight". We always new what each other was doing musically, but decided that now was the time to get together and bring White Wolf back into the spotlight. HeavymetalPT: How did you come up with the new album title 'Victim of the Spotlight'? White Wolf: Actually Khalil Turk at Escape music came up with the title from one of the main songs on this cd.It seemed appropriate, as many people can become victims of whatever they do. It can be life, drugs, alcohol, music etc. This was the idea of the lyrics.  HeavymetalPT: When did you first start working on this new album? White Wolf: I have dealt with Khalil Turk at Escape Music now for over ten years on a few other projects that I worked on, one being Project X, Blueprint For Xcess, and he was always a White Wolf fan from way back when the band first released “Standing Alone”. I had spoken with him about possibly releasing a basement tapes type cd of some songs that White Wolf had never fully recorded, and when I sent him a sample, he loved a lot of the songs and agreed to have all of the songs we gave him, recorded as a New White Wolf release. We started the process of recording around August-September of 2006 and had everything finished as far as the recording goes sometime in November 2006.This White Wolf cd was truly an International recording! The bed tracks were recorded and produced at JM recording Studios, in Gothenburg Sweden by producer/guitarist Martin Kronlund and a host of musicians from there. The rough tracks were mixed quickly and sent to me here in Vancouver Canada, I did my vocals at Marpole Studios with Engineer/Producer Rob Begg, we then sent a DVD of all the tracks I did to Cam MacLeod in Edmonton Alberta, where he did his guitars and vocals at Titan Studios with David J. Petovar! Once this was done, Cam mailed a DVD back to me, I forwarded them on to Martin in Sweden again, and there he synched the tracks up on the computer and mixed the final product! Technology today is amazing!
HeavymetalPT: What about an European Tour? Would you like to play in Portugal? White Wolf: We definitely don’t want this to be just a studio project.We would love to do some live dates to see our fans again. We have a Great touring band and in fact we have a spot at the “United Forces Of Rock” festival at the Rockfabrik venue in Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart) Germany on September 30th of this year! Very exciting. The musicians are: Don Wolf (Wilk) – Vocals Cam MacLeod – Lead Guitars and Vocals Scott Webb (Freaks By Nature, Don Wolf -“Making Changes”) – Rhythm and Lead Guitars and Back up Vocals Russell Bergquist (Annihilator, Freaks By Nature, Dusk Machine) – Bass Guitar and Back up Vocals Brendan Ostrander (Project X – Blueprint For Xcess, Don Wolf – Making Changes, Daniel Powter) – Drums and Back up Vocals David J. Petovar (White Wolf, Bitter Suite) Keyboards and Back up Vocals It is an awesome band! We are also planning some warm up dates here in Canada and have recently done a White Wolf reunion in Edmonton Alberta where the band originally based out of back in 1984. I have heard rumour that we may come to Europe for a small tour in the new year and we are also looking at some of the festivals in Europe and the UK for next year. Yes I would love to play in Portugal! Let’s do it!  HeavymetalPT: Are you planning a live album? Or a Best Of? White Wolf: Funny you asked that question but we are actually recording the show in Germany at the end of this month, and if all goes well we may release it as a LIVE CD for Japan! I personally may come out with a Best Of………Don Wolf cd with a few NEW Bonus tracks at some point next year, but no plans for a Best Of White Wolf yet.
HeavymetalPT: Do you have another job?(yeah, you know to pay the bills and stuff like that) or you are a musician in full-time? White Wolf: Yes I actually do, it is called raising a family!!! Ha Ha! Seriously though, I do have a job, as we all have to do in order to pay our mortgages and pay the bills etc.It would be nice to be involved in just writing, recording and producing full time, but at the moment, the music scene is not that stable.I enjoy being a “Part Time Rock Star”!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha!!
 HeavymetalPT: What are your main influences? White Wolf: I grew up on early 70’s acts like “Deep Purple”, “Uriah Heep”, “Yes”, “Kansas”, “Black Sabbath”, “Grand Funk Railroad” and so on………… HeavymetalPT: Thank you very much Mr. Don Wilk, please feel free to send some comments to your fans in Portugal. Best Regards. White Wolf: I just want to say to all of the “White Wolf” fans that it is a fantastic feeling to have a new White Wolf release, and the thought of doing shows in Europe and possibly Japan is amazing. We have a lot more to say musically and if the fans want it, we will continue on writing, recording and releasing material for them to listen and Rock to! Thanks for all of your questions and I hope to meet you all at some point soon and possibly even play in Portugal. Hope you like the new cd, White Wolf – “Victim Of The Spotlight”. Site Oficial da banda: http://www.whitewolfworld.com Keep the Flame Burning! Ricardo Santos aka r1ckmaiden
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