![]() Tom: "What people choose to like or not like is out of anyone's control, or what their expectations are. On whether he thinks it's possible to please longtime CINDERELLA fans with music that he finds "viable" to him as a solo artist: I think it comes from my influences, I guess, is what I'm saying. Yeah, I think that structure is in there that you're talking about, or that formula, but it's not something I do intentionally for success or because a record company told us we had to. It's like that, I guess 'pop' song structure, but they're hard rock songs. There was a formula to the writing where it was verse-pre chorus-chorus, verse-pre-chorus-chorus. A lot of it has that formula that you're talking about, but I get that from probably listening to, I grew up on Rod Stewart, I grew up on THE ROLLING STONES. I don't know…I feel like an answer to your question, I've always created music that was in my heart and that felt real. It was pretty broken-down, intimate, Robert Johnson kind of thing and the title track itself was a straight-up heavy blues song. ![]() I would say in terms of experimental, I think that's actually starting with 'Long Cold Winter', I think a lot of things came in that were pretty different for the time, like the 'National Steel' intro on 'Bad Seamstress Blues' starting the record, which was not very '80s. It's like the verse, pre-chorus, chorus, and most of the songs that I've written or been involved in writing. I think maybe what you're referring to is that there's kind of a classic structure to the songwriting. We basically create them on our own and give them to the label. Actually, the label gave us complete creative freedom back with CINDERELLA and obviously we still control that with the solo records. Tom: "I got to be honest, we've never, or I've never, CINDERELLA never did and I certainly don't now, have been dictated by a label. On whether he feels like more of a "musician" today versus in CINDERELLA's heyday: ![]() A lot of that stuff like on 'Rise' was us around one mic, the out-section of 'Rise', just singing very much what we do live on 'Shelter Me' or when we do ' A Little Help From My Friends', we have that big, gothic gospel blend between all the singers in our band. Even some of the big vocal stacks, obviously, there's some overdubs going on there, but we have six amazing singers in the band. Obviously, everybody's playing basically what we did in the studio. It's very much a live record and I think that was what we were trying to capture because we've been doing that for six years. We were going for performances, and when I say 'performances,' literally, some of these songs from the drums up to my lead vocals are right from the tracking session. Tom: "Going in and going for the performances and letting everybody just feel their way around on their parts and all until it feels like a track certainly lends itself more to having to overdub less. That's probably the continuity or the focus comes from that as well." There's not as much overdubbing on this record as records I've done in the past. We purposely took over and locked out a small, tight studio room, and we set up in the room together and really cut these tracks for the most part live. It was more of an overdubbed kind of vibe, and this was really the band jumping off of six years of touring and going straight into the studio. It was very easy to find that… We have a groove and a chemistry together now whereas 'The Way Life Goes' was created with session players. I think, also, what helps with it is the fact that it's recorded with a band that's been touring together for six years. I would say that I think 'more focused' is a good way to put it. It's a little bit broader in some ways, but this one certainly has that variety as well. The fact 'The Way Life Goes' had 14 tracks, there's just a little more variety on that one. We consciously decided to make this one have less songs and kind of a more concise, compact package. I think probably what makes that one feel slightly unfocused is that there's 14 songs on it. ![]() We actually kind of said that we set out to do it. Tom: "I think 'focus" is a good word for it. On whether he has "found his groove" with his second solo album, "Rise": A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). I hear them calling, calling.Chris Akin from "The Classic Metal Show" recently conducted an interview with CINDERELLA frontman Tom Keifer. Men: Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella Oh, we'll make a lovely dress for Cinderelly! Mice: And we'll make a lovely dress for Cinderelly In the lovely dress we'll make for Cinderelly You know what? Cinderelly not go to the ball." Jaq: She go around in circles till she very, very dizzy Girl Mice: And the sweeping and the dusting! Every time she find a minute, that's the time when they begin it! Cinderelly! Cinderelly!" ![]()
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