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Writer Greg Prato recently conducted interview with Brian Tatler, Diamond Head guitarist about new DVD "To the Devil His Due" coming out on November 21 via MVD Visual.
About the reason of releasing DVD now:
"Well, it is the first-ever DIAMOND HEAD DVD. It's a shame we never did one before, but the band had either stopped or was going through some problems and so when the opportunity came up we grabbed it. As DIAMOND HEAD never toured America, it is a chance for anyone who likes the band to see us live for the first time. It has all the classics on there — 'Am I Evil?' , 'The Prince' , etc. All four songs covered by METALLICA are on there, obviously."
His favorite songs from the performance:
"I like the start — 'Am I Evil?' (intro) going into 'It's Electric' . That was Dave Mustaine 's [ MEGADETH ] idea. And it's nice to hear 'Streets of Gold' again; we had not played that live since 1981. Also the new songs stand up well to the older ones."
About his plays on DVD:
"I had prepared for the gig by going through all the songs at home for a couple of weeks before. I wanted to not have to worry about any tricky bits and concentrate on performing. It pays to be prepared,. I always do warm-up exercises, even if i am going to practice. I think it really helps, and it probably avoids any damage you could do to your hand. I like to work out solos for a record and then I try to play the solos
the same as the record, usually. I am not one for improvising solos. I have played some terrible gigs where I could not hear myself or the monitors only had distorted bass guitar in them. I have slipped over onstage and fractured my elbow and even had amps blow up, so you never know what is going to happen on the night."
About his memories of shooting the DVD:
"It was very nice to finally get some copies through the post. It was almost a year from filming it November 2005 'till I got copies in July 2006. The studio footage looks OK. We did that at Great Linford Manor in September 2004 when we were recording the album 'All Will Be Revealed' . Little did we know at that time that we would be out on tour with MEGADETH the following February. That tour was amazing — Dave and the crew were so helpful to us, we were spoiled. We got to play 22 sold-out shows. Awesome, dude!"
Diamond Head is currently working on their new album "What's In Your Head?" More details is here
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