SKID ROW Bassist: 'We Still Have The Spirit In Us'

October 6, 2006

antiMUSIC's Morley Seaver recently conducted an interview with SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

antiMUSIC: It's been a few years since the last record. What's been going on since the end of the "Thickskin" tour?

Rachel: Well, we've been doing a lot over the past couple of years. A couple of circumstances came up like Snake's mom passing away and Snake's carpal tunnel. That kind of delayed us putting the record out. Everything happens for a reason so here we are in 2006 we have a new record that we're all really proud of and goes off in a bunch of different directions which we love. That was the whole idea.

antiMUSIC: What can you tell us about your new record?

Rachel: Well it's not your mama's SKID ROW record that's for damn sure. (laughs) The title "Revolutions per Minute" speaks loudly. It just a...there's no ballads. And anything we wrote...if it was quality, it went on the record. And we go in a bunch of different directions. It's cool man. It's not what you would expect out of us. I mean it's us. It's still got the SKID ROW stamp on it and there's stuff that's traditionally SKID ROW. We have a few songs that sound like, you know, a skinhead would put it on, and pump his fists to and yell: "oi." And then we have stuff that you know maybe a guy riding a horse with a punk rock chick on the back of his saddle would listen to. (laughs) Once you hear it, you'll understand exactly what I'm talking about.

antiMUSIC: It's still got that same SKID ROW spirit.

Rachel: Absolutely. We had a lot of fun doing it and all the interviews I've been doing, people that have heard it, were saying it sounds like a very young, young record, which is really cool. God knows we're not that young anymore but we still have the spirit in us.

Read the entire interview at this location.

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