I loved the weather up in the valley but it was zero humidity. So I had humidifiers everywhere and my room was like the Everglades! It was interesting to live there. A couple of times the gated community (supposed to be safe) was sealed off with SWAT teams looking for escaped convicts, with helicopters and all that stuff around. Eventually our rowdy and totally crazy neighbours had a suspicious death, across the lawn. I woke up by a woman’s terrifying scream and once again we could not leave and nobody could get in, since the police was all over the place investigating.
Some months later, summer 2010 I put out a 6 song Demo called Battle for the Mind. I streamed it online and got more radio plays and great reviews. People loved the songs but I hated the production. Eventually that s.c. “producer” claimed my very first guitar was stolen from his car, during his 10 minute drive from our home to his home. Funny enough, he did not say anything about that until he realized I was gonna work with the Pantera producer…
2011 was a GREAT year for me. First, I got to know that I was gonna work with Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Hatebreed, Hellyeah). The first thing he said about me was that he was
totally blown off his feet and that he had never heard or seen anything like me. I thought that was a good beginning... lol
Then I got the Ibanez endorsement. It was very special for me, since I never had a lot of gear. I definitely got my endorsement when I needed it. And all of a sudden I had a unique prototype 7 string guitar that there is only one of in the world. That was BIG!
After that I got a lot of other endorsemets as well.
Then we went back to London ,which was cool since I knew the place. Before releasing my crazy „Paranoid sounding“ version of Paranoid by Black Sabbath, we decided it was time to hire a PR agency. And Hell, did we hire one... there was no end to how much they were gonna do for me. Come day one, all they wanted was money. Lots of money. And after a couple of weeks with no results they wanted more money. We had already paid them for 2 months and they had done nothing but asking my manager for HER contact list.
Long story short, we paid them in total for 4 months and they did NOTHING. My manager fired them when she found out they were really
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