QUESTIONS TO JIMI,RICK AND TOBIAS

Hi! FORUM FRIENDS, SPYZMANIACS, HMSLOVERS AND EVERYONE OUT THERE
If you want to make a question to the band members this is the place.

I´m only want to say that we are lucky cause Jimi always talk, gives his opinion and laugh with us sharing his time with us too. Not all artist do this, and this time we can make questions to Rick and Tobias.THANKS



(Thank you Pierre but you do this things better)

I agree with you, my friend. I feel so good when I can hear and talk with my favourite musicians... And Jimi-Rick-Tobias are very nice and humble when they talk to their fans in the forum. You know Kike, there is a lot of artists who never hear the words of her fans (we are the only people who listen again and again and again... and again that marvelous albums) and some kind of that must learn that we are the 50% of the band. We support them. So, I hope that 24-7 Spyz and our, the fans, never change because... ¡24-7 Spyz are all!

Andros · HMS4L

PD: Sorry about my fast english xD

Thanks Kike, PetrucciStyle and Brother Pierre! So who has the first question and who is it for?

That´s why you and Rick explain the Spyz history pretty well in the dvd

I have some questions:

To Rick
How do you feel recording after ten years with this album, what´s the diffference with the other ones for you?

To Tobias
Who are your most important influences playing drums?

To Jimi
In your period before the reunite with you brother Rick.
What did you think? Start with other musicians, a band with another name ........?
Who are your all times favorites singers?
THANKS

COME ON SPYZMATES, MORE QUESTIONS?

[quote="Kike Gimeno"]
I have some questions:
To Jimi:
In your period before the reunite with you brother Rick.
What did you think? Start with other musicians, a band with another name ........?
Who are your all times favorites singers?


Hi Kike! During the period before Rick & I hooked up, I stopped playing because I was irritated and pissed about everything and everybody related to the music biz. I eventually came out of my "blue period" after watching the Band of Gypsies dvd. I cried like a baby because it made me remember why I wanted to play and make music to begin with. It had nothing to do with the biz, my motives were pure. Once I picked up the guitar again, I began writing songs and returned to playing for the love of playing. The songs I wrote would eventually become my solo disc and I put a band together with Tony Lewis & AJ Creswell. We played a handful of shows and the band eventually turned into Spyz, with Rick & Tony Lewis!

My favorite singers? Oh man! Too many to name! But if I had to pick the ones that left the biggest mark on me, they would be:

Donny Hathaway
Stevie Wonder
Leslie Wilson of the New Birth
George Duke
Johnny Hartman
Harry Ray of the Moments
Al Green
William Hart of the Delfonics
Sam "Little Sonny" Brown of the Intruders
Minnie Riperton
Aretha Franklin
Dionne Warwick

That my list! Part one, that is!

Jimi or Rick,

On the back cover of Harder Than You, next to each band member's name there are trades (Jimi Hazel CARPENTER, Rick Skatore TV REPAIRMAN). I remember my friend and I thinking that's probably what you guys did for day jobs at the time. Was that right?

Thanks,

Mike