J-What led to the break up of the band?
S-I think a general lack of communication and the fact that each of us was
growing
and moving into different directions, then the ego landed and it all got ugly.
J-Do you talk to any of the other members…? Or know where they are?
S-Yeah, I talk to Gregory more than anyone else, he's still involved in music
with a band called Deep Audio, very cool. I just had dinner with Mike Marcus
the other night; he also has a band together called Hal Lovejoy about to record
their second record. Rob has his band Superfine together and Johnny I haven't
spoken to for about 6 years or more, I know he's still doing his art and
painting drums. I wish all the guys the very best.
J-When the band broke up..what did you do next? Take time off? Or work w/some
new bands?
S-I continued writing with different people in New York and back in Minneapolis
working up material but my heart just wasn't into it. It was like being on
autopilot, my body was programmed to keep working but my mind was elsewhere. I
eventually parted with RCA and took some time off from music to study acting for
a couple of years which is where I met Stevo the bass player for Revel 8.
J-Tell us about the possiblility of joining Motley Crue when Vince left back in
94'…I heard your name thrown around a lot…did you ever go try out?
S-Talk about a dream come true. It was actually '93 when Nikki called me up and
said that Vince had just left his house and that he was out of the band. He
then asked me if I wanted to come down and audition and obviously I said yes. I
mean I grew up to the Crue, use to play a lot of their stuff in cover bands back
in the day so this was definitely an honor to be considered. It came down to
myself and John Corabi, I didn't get the gig but I'll never forget the
experience, it was a once in a lifetimer just to jam with those guys!! wow!!!
J-Now..your in your new band Revel8…how did you guys hook up?
S-Like I said earlier, Stevo the bass player and I met in acting school around
'97 when we started throwing around the idea of putting a band together. I was
later introduced to Mike Gans the guitar player who's from Washington D.C. and
had been kicking around the LA scene in several different bands for a couple of
years. We immediately hit it off; he just had the right Zen quality to him that
I was looking for in a guitar player. Next came the drummer position which was
not an easy spot to fill, we finally came upon Paris Cronin through some friends
and he completed the line-up that became Revel 8 at around the beginning of the
year 2000.
