Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session withthe metal band, Oracle!
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Ray – We all have been fine. Jason and Trey worked on more music for the next album and me (Ray) I planted a veggie garden in my back yard and drank alot of beer cause well I’m non essential.
Have you been working on new music?
Ray – Yes, Jason and Trey are the main song writers and they are hard at it making more music for next album.
5 albums that changed your life
Jason – Metallica (….And Justice For All), Soulfly (prophecy), Machine Head (Burn My Eyes), Slipknot (Iowa), In Flames (Clayman)
Ray – Van Halen’s Fair Warning, Metallica’s Ride the Lightning, Megadeth’s Peace Sells but who’s Buying?, Scorpion’s Blackout, Helmet’s Meantime (and now you can see who the old person in the band is lol.)
Trey – Metallica – And Justice for All, Megadeth – Rust in Peace, Avatar – Black Waltz, Bullet for my Valentine – The Poison, Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
Jason – Max Cavelara, Rob Flynn
Ray – James Hetfield, Scott Ian
Trey – Dave Mustaine
Your 5 favorite live albums
Jason – Flesh alive by Gojira, Vulgar videos by Pantera, Binge and Purge by Metallica, Black Symphony by Within Temptation, Dehumanizing Process by chimaira
Ray – Scorpions – World Wide Live, Bloodbath – The Wacken Carnage, Ted Nugent – Double Live Gonzo, AC/DC – If you want Blood You’ve Got it, Rush – Exit…Stage Left
Trey – Doesn’t listen to live albums
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
Jason – Cheesy potatoes was the main reason we took a specific show at one point.
Announcing I was having a child literally hours after finding out was a great moment.
Opening for Avatar was iconic for us. Falling through a broken down stage.
Being upstairs while a headliner was playing and tripping over a wire that cut power to the entire building.
Ray – Meeting Kirk Windstein from Crowbar while we peeing in the urinals at a show we was opening for them.
Getting way to drunk after opening for Hellyeah and flipping Chad Grey off while standing in a window of a restaurant was embarrassing and now I’m not allowed to drink anymore Jager which I haven’t and it’s been five years I think.
Trey – Pleads the fifth
Your 5 favorite movies
Jason – Shawshank Redemption, Pollock, Seven, Deja Vu, Exorcism of Emily Rose
Ray – Braveheart, Patriot, Tombstone, Highlander, All Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies
Trey – Lord of the rings (Trilogy), Tenacious D – Pick of Destiny, Avengers – End Game
Best and worst advice you ever heard.
Jason – The best was no matter what happens, there is no failure if you keep trying. Learning what not-to-do will reveal what to-do.
The worst isn’t so much advice as much of a philosophical approach that I see so so many make and that is thinking that you have to be bigger, better, faster or compare yourself to other artist.
Ray – Best advice – Never give up never surrender
Worst advice- All women are the same
Trey – Pass
Strangest thing you ever autographed.
Jason – A hand carved wooden birdhouse.
Ray – A shoe after Corpsegrinder from Cannibal Corpse signed it
Trey – The shoe
If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
Jason – King Yeti Oraclize
Ray – Nacho Cheese
Trey – Spaghetti Man
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