(antiMusic) Morley writes in the intro to his latest MorleyView, "Take all the best elements of Coverdale, Dio and Rodgers and you have one amazing voice. That voice belongs to former Masterplan vocalist Jorn Lande and what a voice it is." Morley's amazing new interview with Jorn has just posted and we wanted to give you a little taste. In this passage Jorn discusses the live DVD that has been in the works for a while and why it has been delayed. antiMusic: You also have a live record that was released last fall in Europe. I assume it will be over here in the not too distant future. Is it from one show and what can you tell us about that show that made you want to put it on tape? Jorn: Yes, the whole show is actually from [the ProgPower] festival [in Atlanta, Georgia]. I had headlined the gig in 2006. And you know it was just accidental really because all the bands at the festival were offered to have their show recorded since the promoter of the festival would normally have a professional team anyway to both film and record it. And I was thinking, "wow, lets record the show and if it's a potential record or DVD then we'll use it for something." And I think it came out quite good. And we actually played another 45 minutes, almost an hour, longer than what's on the live CD.
antiMusic: Excellent. Can we look forward to DVD release? Jorn: Yeah, well, it's there on the hard disk and I've looked thorough the material already and it looks cool. The footage is good and the band looks half young. (laughs) and it's definitely a great testament, or some kind of biography in a way to have. I would like to release it it's just that we did some covers there as well. You have, there's a Whitesnake medley at the end of the show. And we did a Purple song. And we did a couple of other songs as well. What has been the delay with the DVD so far has been the rights to use those songs. because you see rights to release it as a double cd wasn't really a big problem. But you have something called synchronization rights between sound and picture, which is totally different story. So, the second you
the same show is filmed and the second you want to have it, to put it out on DVD then you get in trouble unless you get the right approval. And what happened there was, I had a little trouble getting those rights for some of those songs, and to make a choice: either delay the whole DVD or take out the covers, or some of the covers, and release it with less material. Or put in some more of the other songs that I had removed to make it a full length DVD. I just felt this was the wrong thing to do. Either we release it as is, same as the double cd, it should be the same concert. If anything should be done it should be added to it instead, not removed. And I think the whole thing for me as an artist, the important thing, especially if you look at America, and Canada and other parts of the world, it's definitely important to me to show the diversity and to show me doing these songs. I think for my career as well, it's important for me as well to have some of those covers there as well. So I decided just to delay everything, and postpone the whole DVD. So what's going to happen right now, I don't know. Maybe it's going to be released by the end of this year. If not, if I can't find a solution to it, then I'll probably wait, and write a new Jorn album because I already have one coming out in May or June.
- Lots of great stuff in this interview, do yourself a favor and click here to read it all.
