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DioN MoliNas
Rage: Please tell me how Nostalgica was picked for your latest release?
Dion Molinas: I know you said how much you enjoyed Here’s to the Heroes
but we wanted to move away and do something completely different. It was
a musical journey going back to songs of the 1920s. Also there were a lot of
songs that have been requested and requested from the fans.
Rage: Is it true that you recently took a six-month leave from the group?
DM: I did. I spent six months of that time on the couch trying to recover from
these guys (laughter). That cost me a lot of money.
Stewart Morris, Boyd Owen and Luke Kennedy
Rage: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
DM: A mounted policeman. (The Ten Tenors explode with laughter and
chides). Seriously, in Australia, they are called mounted policeman, The
found that we had learned so much…not only from John Barry but the people
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
who arranged and conducted it. We learned a whole lot of different aspects on
Rage: What is one of the funniest “crack-up” moments that happened recording
what goes on behind the scenes.”
a song?
Traveling all over the world with this constant togetherness, when the curtain
DM: Actually, it has to be when we did “Swingin’ On a Star.” We had to put in
goes down…do they still stay together as a pack? “Yes, Tenors are pack animals…
a few animal noises. One of us had to make a pig squealing sound. There
we certainly hunt together…don’t we kids?” laughs tenor Graham Foote. “No.
were four of us in the room at the time…just trying to do that and keeping
We really do. We do a lot together. People never, ever believe us. I see this glint of
a straight face. They should have had just that one particular person in the
skepticism in every interviewer’s eye when they ask the inevitable ‘how well do
room doing it. Other than us all sitting around in a room laughing at them, I
you guys get along?’ They never believe us. They can’t believe that ten guys would
think that was half the problem.
get along so well…but we really honestly do. We’ll go out for dinner, we’ll go out
Rage: Finally, since your very first theatre show was The Sound of Music, what are a few
and play golf, go bowling, go out to bars, I can’t remember the last time I had some
of Dion’s favorite things?
time by myself.” I mention that they are like The Beatles times two and a half. Now,
DM: I like chocolate chip ice cream. I love Steel Magnolias, that’s a great movie
it’s hard to keep track of ten tenors with no nametags but one of them chimed in,
and anything with Meryl Streep. I’m in love with her. As far as singers, I’m a bit
“Yeah! (laughter all around) I like that. I like that a lot!”
of a female vocalist fan. I love P!nk. I just went to see her in concert.
november 2009 | RAGE monthly 9
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