{"id":13585,"date":"2014-09-19T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2014-09-19T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:28:33","slug":"content-needed-blowin-wind-with-loneros-bill-lonero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13585","title":{"rendered":"Blowin’ Wind with LoNero’s Bill Lonero: “Just because people have the ability to record a song doesn\u2019t mean that they should.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10509555_10152206986591179_7077679389331459008_n\"I first heard LoNero in 2011 just after the release of their awesome album J.F.L. After one listen I was a huge fan. LoNero\u2019s sound was such a great one and it was not your typical instrumental band. With songs full of melody, great changes, and a lot of personality, LoNero was totally creating a whole new mold in a time where the shredding and note racing of the instrumental world can get to be just a bit much. As corny as it sounds, LoNero really was, and still is a breath of fresh air.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe that it\u2019s been 3 years since our last interview so I couldn\u2019t wait to talk to leader\/songwriter Bill Lonero. LoNero is hard at work on a brand new album called The Defiant Machine and they are about to embark on a lengthy US tour with guitar legend Tony Macalpine. In this interview Bill and I talked about what he\u2019s been up to, why AC\/DC\u2019s Back In Black is so fucking awesome and he even offered up some clarity on the ill faded and cancelled Paul DiAnno tour that was supposed to happen this year. Enjoy y\u2019all!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Lonero! Are you awake?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waking up? Isn\u2019t it like 2:00 over there [laughs]. Actually, I\u2019ve been up since 9am and watching Sanford and Son so I\u2019m good [laughs].<\/p>\n

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Man, thanks so much for taking the time out to do this interview. It\u2019s been too long! Actually, since 2011\u2019s release of JFL!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for doing this brother. Wow, it has been a while [laughs].<\/p>\n

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Last time we spoke LoNero had just put out one of my favorite albums of 2011, JFL. What was a personal highlight of yours after releasing that album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honestly, probably going on tour with Pat Travers. We did two weeks with those guys and it was a lot of fun. It was so painless. There was nothing that went wrong that that tour. We did 13 shows in 14 days so it was like a show every night. Everyone showed up on time, the gear was always on time, and the crowds were fantastic. It was really just a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

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Did you get much time to hang out with Travers and if so what did you take away from getting some time with him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We hung out with him backstage a good bit and his band was just awesome. Pat is very chill and he sometimes would just show up at the show right before it was time to go on. He\u2019s not a big headed guy. He\u2019s definitely humble and that was really cool. I didn\u2019t really get anything from him musically because we\u2019re such different styles of playing. I don\u2019t know honestly if our audience would be into his stuff but his audience was definitely into us and that was cool.<\/p>\n

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Since we last talked LoNero has had a lineup change and has a new album on the way. Fill me in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brandon left and he was sad to leave and we were sad to see him go. He\u2019d been in the band for almost four years and he\u2019s a great player. He just wanted to go and do his own thing and I totally respect that. James, the new guy, is a totally different player. He\u2019s Slash influenced and he loves that kind of style. He\u2019s got more chops than Slash [laughs]. He\u2019s also really contributed already to the new album. He\u2019s got two songs that he was the nucleus to starting. To me, that\u2019s important because if you\u2019re going to be in the band, you\u2019ve got to contribute and not just show up and play what you\u2019re told to play. (Since this interview, LoNero added 3rd guitarist guitarist Nasser \u201cNas\u201d Abdalla to the band.)<\/p>\n

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J.F.L was such a great album and it was the album that really made me a fan. I loved the versatility of the songs and the overall production. What can we expect for the follow up album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks, Don. It\u2019s going to be way heavier than J.F.L. A lot of the songs are in Drop C so they have a very thick tone to them. It\u2019s just going to be a more involved album. I don\u2019t want to say \u201cprogressive\u201d but what we\u2019re doing is taking elements of progressive music and injecting them into a rock environment and just melding everything together. You won\u2019t be able to listen to one song and say, \u201cOh, this is what the album is going to sound like.\u201d To me, that is very important. I really want our albums to be like a menu. You look at a menu and there are all these different types of food on there. To me, that\u2019s what an album should be like. It should be different styles of music so that it\u2019s just not the same song over and over and over again. I say this but at the same time AC\/DC is my all time favorite band [laughs]. It\u2019s just not what I want to do.<\/p>\n