Unfortunately, September 27 could not be present at the evening Hello On Earth at Transilvania in Milan because of the usual problems of merchandise at the border between Switzerland and Italy, then, we have decided to publish this interview with Dez Fafara created by Revolver in the period prior to their current European tour.
"Okay," says Dez Fafara welcoming reporters in a luxury hotel in Santa Barbara, with a sincere smile and warm handshake. "Are you ready to go drink some 'of wine with me?"
Devildriver frontman has just returned home after a tour of three weeks in Europe, around the festival, and looks very relaxed. Unlike many rock star, not the type to go to bed at dawn and, indeed, at noon has already led his wife and three children to have breakfast, take your dog out, went for a ride in his shop Favorite record and has already renewed the prescription for your dose of marijuana, officially due to stress. All this is just a warm for the big event of the day: a tour of the Santa Ynez Valley, also known as the valley of wine in Santa Barbara. Today
the aforementioned valley is known primarily for the 2004 movie Sideways , where two middle-aged confront their existential problems and troubles at work, among other a taste of wine.
Actually, Fafara, the movie has never seen, "they all tell me-you must see that film, absolutely! - But I always reply, but I live here!".
Fafara is returning from the European tour around the festival, which culminated in the exhibition at the Download overwhelming, with what has been called the biggest circle pit of history, five weeks is allowed to relax with his family before returning to running and to publish what is perhaps the most convincing and hard album with his band, The Last Kind Words .
"I love this whole area," says the musician and the machine starts between
hills behind Santa Barbara, from which you have a wonderful view of the ocean, "whenever we are back home and we miss about one hour open all the windows of the tour bus so that air enters the ocean and I understand that I'm coming home. "
Being of Italian origin, Fafara has grown with the bottle of wine on the table and over the years has evolved into true lover of grapes.
"After a bit 'of years I realized that beer makes you fat, and only then I switched to wine and I realized after a bit' what was good and I liked it seriously. There is nothing to do them you taste wine, you can not learn their characteristics on the books. "
Originally the tour was to begin in Solvang, a sort of mock Danish town, perfect for tasting because of his proximity to the vineyards, but Fafara decides to change plans and Gainey brings us to the vineyard, "you will like it a lot ... you should see that the vines that have chandeliers in wine shops."
Gainey Vineyard, in fact, has a precise meaning for Fafara: here, he used to take refuge at the time of the recordings the last album with Coal Chamber, Dark Days , with those who would become his partners in Devildriver. The studios were not far from this vineyard and often made a detour these parts: "Today the circle is closed," he laughs the frontman.
Although the lady behind the reception desk of the Enoteca, in all probability, are not often found in front of customers with tattoos on his face, do not bat an eyelid while Dez is presented.
Lady: "What is the name of your band?"
Dez "Devildriver. A metal band."
Lady: "That sounds like fun!"
Mrs. explains that today's tastings include the tasting of seven different wines priced at $ 10 and we are allowed to bring home the tasting glasses. Seems like a good deal and within minutes we are in the tasting room in English style and taste a Sauvignon 2005: "Normally I avoid white wines Dez-says-but this is good. In any case I do not drink a whole glass."
During the tasting it is logical to start from white to red and then go to Dez seems much prefer the red, just like the character of Paul Giamatti in Sideways . "I've never found a Cabernet, which I really liked, and I never liked the Merlot ... I like the Chianti, I agree with the Syrah, but for me the best is the Sangiovese grape the Holy Grail! " Besides being a passionate
Fafara also illustrates the advantages in terms of health of the wine: "I believe that red wine has the highest percentage of antioxidants, which is a good thing for the heart. Some say that the heart should take an aspirin a day ... better drink a few glasses of wine a day and no medicines. Although, if you have heart problems, do not believe me, take your medicine! "Medicines
Perhaps Fafara prefer the taste of Chardonnay in 2005 the estate Gainey, who refuses after just one sip," I remember my mother sitting by the pool who drank white wine mixed with 7UP tetrapack. I know that it is not polite, but the memory is! "
After another Chardonnay 2005, more exclusive, we go to red, beginning with a Syrah: Fafara raises his glass, swirling the wine makes its inside, sniffing, swirling the wine does riannusa again and then drink, in order to perceive the aroma and flavor of wine. "This is the bottle. Unless we find something better, but so far this all the beats. You can feel the fragrance of oak."
After tasting a Merlot and Riesling, none of which appears to satisfy the palate of Fafara, we sit outside at a picnic table in the sun with a bottle of Syrah. There are miles and miles of vineyards that stretch before our eyes and their shining green sparkling in the sunshine of California, "is incredible! Today is the typical time-of California-Fafara says happy I'm back from Europe 48 hours and I should be upset time zone, but this time it helps you, and how! "
Sitting under the sun, Fafara says the secret of the success of his band, since 2003, we sweat every day through constant touring and increasingly looking to distance from nu-metal band Coal Chamber.
"If you do leave as zero and the deck, people appreciate it. They are everywhere we turn five years and only now we are preparing to leave for our first headlining tour. "
Basically with the two previous albums Fafara has tightened the sound making it more compact and had to battle the skeptics that eventually they changed their minds, just as the album goes even further on the accelerator and sees his bandmates take a defined their personalities.
"We knew it was time to do something different. To go beyond not to write more songs with catchy tunes to get some radio airplay. We had to take the risk and break away from what makes the majority of mainstream bands metal. We will not be the fastest or the most powerful band, but I'm sure The Last Kind Words will be appreciated. "
On the other hand, prefers not to speak in public Fafara texts: "I'm still trying to understand them in the first-person ride-I would say that many of the texts speak of the irresponsibility of people and my opposition to organized religion." I was raised Catholic, but my grandparents and my mother belonged to Christian Science and my father was a Lutheran and I went to a Baptist school ... I ended up being a pagan. It was the logical consequence and then I discovered that a lot of Catholicism and Christianity are being stolen from paganism. "
Many of the night on tour, Dez you can find it in the back of the bus while reading a book about ancient civilizations with a good glass of wine. "As soon as I can I read a book on the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, to understand the origin of cults and understand that most of them revolving around the earth and the worship of natural elements."
"Today, as Today I believe in karma. I try not to step on anyone's feet to them to me unless the other tramp. "Many people see the band as a satanic Devildriver, Fafara but the reality is much more complex:" if you want there is an aspect of Satanism in our music, see the law of retaliation. I believe in the desire, the desire to succeed, to make certain things happen, but I do not like people who think they can control things because you feel Satanist or a Christian, I believe there should a more open, allowing people to wonder about things. "
said that our bottle of Syrah is over and we move to Solvang for lunch, then head to the wineries Rusack. The tasting room is less opulent than that of Gainey, but the deal is even better asseggi-seven, six dollars-and the welcome is even better. Dan, the man behind the bench, turns out to be kind, helpful and educated, started to use a Sauvignon 2006 and then a Chardonnay Gran Reserva 2005, but both do not seem of great satisfaction for Dez. Here is a rose, and Dan tells us that there is some fruit on it, to give a sweet taste, but it is very dry. "
" Absolutely true-Dez says with shining eyes after a couple of sips, really good, I could drink a whole bottle, but I am ready for a Pinot. In the film Sideways
, Paul Giamatti is the Pinot Noir as Slash is the Jack Daniel's.
"Really excellent! This bottle there to drink with a little 'of brie, roast chicken and potatoes with garlic. One of the best wines of today. "
But even better is the 2005 Syrah is enhanced by Fafara as the best wine of the day. There remains only the Sangiovese that Dez asked impatiently. According to Dan is the best in the area.
Dez repeats the ritual have seen, raises his glass, tilted it, smell the wine and does the same thing and then drink a sip and almost began to dance in the middle of the room for joy: "This win! Beats them all and takes home the jackpot! "
We sit under an old oak tree to drink the best wine of the day under the sun of the afternoon and give us a toast.
"Salute! Everything we were served today pales against this Sangiovese. If I had glasses on purpose we swim in this wine." Raising his glass to the sky, Fafara seems more comfortable in this environment and on stage. Possible clue to its future activities?
"I have not quite finished with the music. I think I'll stop when I'm about 60 years. But then if I had to devote to this activity would not be so bad."
Devildriver frontman has just returned home after a tour of three weeks in Europe, around the festival, and looks very relaxed. Unlike many rock star, not the type to go to bed at dawn and, indeed, at noon has already led his wife and three children to have breakfast, take your dog out, went for a ride in his shop Favorite record and has already renewed the prescription for your dose of marijuana, officially due to stress. All this is just a warm for the big event of the day: a tour of the Santa Ynez Valley, also known as the valley of wine in Santa Barbara. Today
the aforementioned valley is known primarily for the 2004 movie Sideways , where two middle-aged confront their existential problems and troubles at work, among other a taste of wine.
Actually, Fafara, the movie has never seen, "they all tell me-you must see that film, absolutely! - But I always reply, but I live here!".
Fafara is returning from the European tour around the festival, which culminated in the exhibition at the Download overwhelming, with what has been called the biggest circle pit of history, five weeks is allowed to relax with his family before returning to running and to publish what is perhaps the most convincing and hard album with his band, The Last Kind Words .
"I love this whole area," says the musician and the machine starts between
hills behind Santa Barbara, from which you have a wonderful view of the ocean, "whenever we are back home and we miss about one hour open all the windows of the tour bus so that air enters the ocean and I understand that I'm coming home. " Being of Italian origin, Fafara has grown with the bottle of wine on the table and over the years has evolved into true lover of grapes.
"After a bit 'of years I realized that beer makes you fat, and only then I switched to wine and I realized after a bit' what was good and I liked it seriously. There is nothing to do them you taste wine, you can not learn their characteristics on the books. "
Originally the tour was to begin in Solvang, a sort of mock Danish town, perfect for tasting because of his proximity to the vineyards, but Fafara decides to change plans and Gainey brings us to the vineyard, "you will like it a lot ... you should see that the vines that have chandeliers in wine shops."
Gainey Vineyard, in fact, has a precise meaning for Fafara: here, he used to take refuge at the time of the recordings the last album with Coal Chamber, Dark Days , with those who would become his partners in Devildriver. The studios were not far from this vineyard and often made a detour these parts: "Today the circle is closed," he laughs the frontman.
Although the lady behind the reception desk of the Enoteca, in all probability, are not often found in front of customers with tattoos on his face, do not bat an eyelid while Dez is presented.
Lady: "What is the name of your band?"
Dez "Devildriver. A metal band."
Lady: "That sounds like fun!"
Mrs. explains that today's tastings include the tasting of seven different wines priced at $ 10 and we are allowed to bring home the tasting glasses. Seems like a good deal and within minutes we are in the tasting room in English style and taste a Sauvignon 2005: "Normally I avoid white wines Dez-says-but this is good. In any case I do not drink a whole glass."
During the tasting it is logical to start from white to red and then go to Dez seems much prefer the red, just like the character of Paul Giamatti in Sideways . "I've never found a Cabernet, which I really liked, and I never liked the Merlot ... I like the Chianti, I agree with the Syrah, but for me the best is the Sangiovese grape the Holy Grail! " Besides being a passionate
Fafara also illustrates the advantages in terms of health of the wine: "I believe that red wine has the highest percentage of antioxidants, which is a good thing for the heart. Some say that the heart should take an aspirin a day ... better drink a few glasses of wine a day and no medicines. Although, if you have heart problems, do not believe me, take your medicine! "Medicines
Perhaps Fafara prefer the taste of Chardonnay in 2005 the estate Gainey, who refuses after just one sip," I remember my mother sitting by the pool who drank white wine mixed with 7UP tetrapack. I know that it is not polite, but the memory is! "
After another Chardonnay 2005, more exclusive, we go to red, beginning with a Syrah: Fafara raises his glass, swirling the wine makes its inside, sniffing, swirling the wine does riannusa again and then drink, in order to perceive the aroma and flavor of wine. "This is the bottle. Unless we find something better, but so far this all the beats. You can feel the fragrance of oak."
After tasting a Merlot and Riesling, none of which appears to satisfy the palate of Fafara, we sit outside at a picnic table in the sun with a bottle of Syrah. There are miles and miles of vineyards that stretch before our eyes and their shining green sparkling in the sunshine of California, "is incredible! Today is the typical time-of California-Fafara says happy I'm back from Europe 48 hours and I should be upset time zone, but this time it helps you, and how! "
Sitting under the sun, Fafara says the secret of the success of his band, since 2003, we sweat every day through constant touring and increasingly looking to distance from nu-metal band Coal Chamber.
"If you do leave as zero and the deck, people appreciate it. They are everywhere we turn five years and only now we are preparing to leave for our first headlining tour. "
Basically with the two previous albums Fafara has tightened the sound making it more compact and had to battle the skeptics that eventually they changed their minds, just as the album goes even further on the accelerator and sees his bandmates take a defined their personalities.
"We knew it was time to do something different. To go beyond not to write more songs with catchy tunes to get some radio airplay. We had to take the risk and break away from what makes the majority of mainstream bands metal. We will not be the fastest or the most powerful band, but I'm sure The Last Kind Words will be appreciated. "
On the other hand, prefers not to speak in public Fafara texts: "I'm still trying to understand them in the first-person ride-I would say that many of the texts speak of the irresponsibility of people and my opposition to organized religion." I was raised Catholic, but my grandparents and my mother belonged to Christian Science and my father was a Lutheran and I went to a Baptist school ... I ended up being a pagan. It was the logical consequence and then I discovered that a lot of Catholicism and Christianity are being stolen from paganism. "Many of the night on tour, Dez you can find it in the back of the bus while reading a book about ancient civilizations with a good glass of wine. "As soon as I can I read a book on the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, to understand the origin of cults and understand that most of them revolving around the earth and the worship of natural elements."
"Today, as Today I believe in karma. I try not to step on anyone's feet to them to me unless the other tramp. "Many people see the band as a satanic Devildriver, Fafara but the reality is much more complex:" if you want there is an aspect of Satanism in our music, see the law of retaliation. I believe in the desire, the desire to succeed, to make certain things happen, but I do not like people who think they can control things because you feel Satanist or a Christian, I believe there should a more open, allowing people to wonder about things. "
said that our bottle of Syrah is over and we move to Solvang for lunch, then head to the wineries Rusack. The tasting room is less opulent than that of Gainey, but the deal is even better asseggi-seven, six dollars-and the welcome is even better. Dan, the man behind the bench, turns out to be kind, helpful and educated, started to use a Sauvignon 2006 and then a Chardonnay Gran Reserva 2005, but both do not seem of great satisfaction for Dez. Here is a rose, and Dan tells us that there is some fruit on it, to give a sweet taste, but it is very dry. "
" Absolutely true-Dez says with shining eyes after a couple of sips, really good, I could drink a whole bottle, but I am ready for a Pinot. In the film Sideways
, Paul Giamatti is the Pinot Noir as Slash is the Jack Daniel's.
"Really excellent! This bottle there to drink with a little 'of brie, roast chicken and potatoes with garlic. One of the best wines of today. "
But even better is the 2005 Syrah is enhanced by Fafara as the best wine of the day. There remains only the Sangiovese that Dez asked impatiently. According to Dan is the best in the area.
Dez repeats the ritual have seen, raises his glass, tilted it, smell the wine and does the same thing and then drink a sip and almost began to dance in the middle of the room for joy: "This win! Beats them all and takes home the jackpot! "
We sit under an old oak tree to drink the best wine of the day under the sun of the afternoon and give us a toast.
"Salute! Everything we were served today pales against this Sangiovese. If I had glasses on purpose we swim in this wine." Raising his glass to the sky, Fafara seems more comfortable in this environment and on stage. Possible clue to its future activities?
"I have not quite finished with the music. I think I'll stop when I'm about 60 years. But then if I had to devote to this activity would not be so bad."
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