Interview: AGAINST ALL WILL

Hello Against All Will, it`s nice to have you here for an intreview. I hope all is good
and here`s my questions for you:

1. Please introduce AAW to us first. When did your band history start?

AAW: Against All Will is: Jeff Current - Singer; Jimmy Allen - Guitarist; Cello Dias - Bass Guitar; Steve Wilson - Drums. The band was formed in Los Angeles in the spring of 2009.

2. When did you guys meet and when did you decide to create this allstar band?

AAW: Against All Will started with Jimmy a few years after he left his band Puddle of Mudd. He spent a few years writing with other bands like Buckcherry and Bif Naked, and starting some other music projects. Jimmy wasn't satisfied with just writing with other people, and decided to start his own band Against All Will. Jimmy first had "Mizzy" Pacheco singing and "Moke" Bistany drumming in the band, but things didn't workout for them. Jimmy and I (Jeff) first came together in the late months of 2008 in Los Angeles. Jimmy and I had never met before, but we had a mutual friend in "Bigg Dave" Threlkeld, so that's how I knew about him. I contacted Jimmy through Myspace to say hello and see what he was up to. Jimmy told me about this project he was putting together to start the band Against All Will, and that he was looking for the right singer. I flew to LA from Dallas to audition, and got the job. Jimmy and I spent the next few months writing and auditioning bass players and drummers, and came across drummer Steve Wilson from Tatu and Dead Kennedys. The three of us had a rehearsal space next door to Roy Mayorga, drummer of Stone Sour. We were telling Roy we were in search of a bass player, and Roy told us that he had just the guy for us. He recommended his good friend and old band mate Cello Dias from their former band Soulfly, the Brazilian Metal Band.

3. In 2009 you released your first CD. So what are your plans for 2011? Are you focusing on writing new material or are you focusing on touring? Or both maybe? So what are you doin at the moment?

AAW: Yes, both...We have plans of more touring in 2011, and we are also writing quite a bit to get the material for another record. We have released two radio singles "All About You" and "The Drug I Need" from the EP "A Rhyme & Reason" in the past year, and getting ready for more. This is a band very much focused on the craft of songwriting, and creating something that has a kind of raw familiarity drawn through our influences of bands like Foo Fighters, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, and Nirvana, but with our own distinctive style. We take what's programmed inside us from our childhoods listening to all of our hero bands, and put our personal touch on it. I personally love when I hear a new song from a band that makes me go "Hmmm, there's something about that song...it's brand new, and I can't really put my finger on why it sounds so familiar to me, but at the same time it also sounds like nothing else I've heard."

4. Now that some years have passed.... has something of your musical style changed through the last years? I have to say that I love your musical style very much.

AAW: Yes, most definitely. Now that this band has been together for a couple of years our time together has created a chemistry that has developed it's own style. The new stuff is a little heavier and edgier, and really relates to what's going on right now in our country economically and our world with terrorism and natural disaster. It's tough out there on everyone, the band included, and we have a lot to say about it.

5. Who is the co songwriter in AAW? And have you got a special ritual when you are writing songs?

AAW: Songwriting started mostly with Jimmy in the very beginning, but as time has gone by and we have developed a chemistry, and songs come about in different ways. Jimmy and I both write lyrics, and have song ideas that we collaborate on together. We will sit down with some acoustic guitars and hash out a rough idea of a song, and then bring it to the whole band to polish up. Sometimes songs come from just jamming in practice on a guitar riff, a bass riff, or a drum beat, and it just takes on a life of it's own. Those are really fun.

6. Which equipments are you using when you are on stage and which equipment when you do your rehearsals?

AAW: If we are getting ready for a full production show then we will use our full stage gear setup. If we are just writing and jamming on ideas then a lot of time we will use a much simpler, stripped down version of our setup.

7. With which bands do you like to tour the world?

AAW: Oh so many! We talk a lot about how cool it would be to play with some of the bands that make us weak in the knees like previously mentioned the Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, and some of the newer bands we dig like Seether, Three Days Grace, and Stone Sour.

8.Which are your personal fave bands?

AAW: Not to sound redundant, but definitely Metallica, Nirvana, Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Ozzy, and the list could go on and on and on...

9. Please leave a final message for all your fans:

AAW: We've had so much support from so many great people/fans across the country and the planet for that matter, and we just can't say Thank You enough. We are a band that is very much in tune with the fans, and love talking and interacting with them. We hope to meet every single one of you someday and have a beer!

Thank you very much for talking to me. I wish your band all the best for the future and many success. Keep it rocking, SUSI

Please visit Against all Will @ www.againstallwill.com

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Interview: AGAINST ALL WILL