Pete Loran Talks To Fanbase Music Magazine About His Lastest single ‘Around again”, Lyric Video, And Looks Back On Days In Trixter
Intro
They say never meet your idols, but in this case, I am glad this next musician came across my email box. back in the late 80s and early 90’s a cool band by the name of Trixter was dominating the airwaves and touring with some of the biggest bands, on vocals at the time was Mr. Pete Loran and I was a huge fan of the band, fast forward a few years, Pete is now an awesome singer and songwriter releasing great music as a solo musician, we catch up with Pete to talk about his latest track and lyric video ‘Around Again’ and we also look back on Trixter days and see what he has in the stall next
Interview
Hi Pete and welcome to Fanbase Music Magazine, it’s pretty awesome to be featuring you, most people might remember you from your earlier band Trixter, what are some of your fondest memories when you look back to those days?
Hello and thanks for having me. Some great memories from back then were of course the us against the world mentality and finally succeeding, having our first single, forgive it to me good go gold very quickly. Touring with the scorpions and Kiss, traveling the world, being all over MTV and magazines it was very surreal.
Can you tell us where you are from now what got you into music and what is your earliest memory of wanting to do music?
I live in Arizona, I’ve been out here since 1998 moved from New Jersey zero regrets about that. I never set out to be in a band. It happened by accident, got a phone call from my future band member, Steve, and the next thing you know I was at his house I was listening to him playing guitar and then we started a band.
How would you describe your solo career genre and sound?
I would have to say it’s definitely influenced by rock music, I am not narrow-minded, I listen to all types of music so there’s a bit of other stuff going on in there’s classic rock, maybe some country overtones here and there. I draw from a lot of things. I definitely do not want to be stereotyped.
Back in Trixter, it seemed like that type of music was geared toward a specific audience, and although the influence is still there is quite different from your solo stuff, do you feel it is easier doing it solo as you have more creative power on the kind of music you putting out there?
Trixter stuff was written for that genre of music, guitar riffs etc. Although I contributed to some of the writing in that band, it was minimal and it wasn’t what I would ever write for myself. I do like to collaborate, I did on Around Again, but ultimately I wanted it to sound a particular way and that’s what I got.
Let’s talk about the new single now, ‘Around Again’, the track was co-written with James Rooser Olsen, what is the song about and what were you feeling at the time when you both wrote it?
Around Again was just an idea I’ve had for many years, basically a verse and a chorus, melody, wise and musically. I got together with Rooster and sent him what I had, just a recording of me playing and singing into my phone. He sent me back the parts that were missing, the bridge the pre-chorus intro, guitar solo, and put it into a start-to-finish demo. From there we fine-tuned it, I finished the lyrics and melodies, and then we recorded it. Lyrically I had words that jumped out from my scratch idea. I typically try to keep those because I feel like they came out for a reason. I built around that and drew from some relationships of mine. Initially, I did not want to keep the song and wanted a known artist to cut it. That’s not an easy task so I decided to release it with zero expectations.
Where was the track recorded and what was the process like, did you get any other producers to work on the track?
All the music was tracked and recorded at Roosters’ place, all the vocals were done at my place. Just the two of us produced this particular track.
What is your hope for the people who listen to the track?
Just for them to see the other side of who I am musically, hopefully, they enjoy it and want to hear more.
‘Around Again’, has a cool lyric music video, with interesting visuals, and a road or driving on a highway comes up now and again, can you tell us the significance of driving on the road and did you get someone to help out it together and is so who worked on it?
What are your plans next in terms of new music, will you be releasing an album soon or do you prefer to release singles?
well like I said, I had no expectations going into releasing this song, but I was pleasantly surprised by the reactions from people and encouraged me to release some more music. I have another song that’s already finished. It’s more of a rocker. It’ll probably come out in late summer, along with a real video featuring my girlfriend.
What is your wildest crazy live experience either from Trixter days or as a solo musician?
I’ve had a few, we played a venue on our own was sold out. Fans were going crazy, I was walking towards the side of the stage to go down the stairs, and a fan jumped on the front of the stage ran over, jumped on my back, and we both fell down the flight of stairs. Trixter played at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, it was the last show of the season there and it was in October. At that time we were in the habit of wearing shorts on stage for some reason, by the time we got on stage, it was 40° out and I remember running towards the side of the stage and I fell and hitting my shin on a corner of metal. I remember looking down at it and seeing a lump develop I was bleeding and I was in front of 10,000 screaming people. The wildest might be when we were on tour with the scorpions we were playing in Southern California, San Diego the arena there. I went out motorcycle riding with two motocross stars and ended up breaking my leg hours before the show. I went to go see the San Diego Chargers doctor he drained the fluid out of my knee and put me in a soft cast, I got to the arena with probably 20 minutes to spare and went on stage that night.
Thank you for doing this interview, do you have any last messages for our readers?
Thank you guys for the interview. Yes if you enjoyed my song, Around Again, there will be more to come, stay tuned to my social media pages and my YouTube channel. Stay tuned because I’m going to be uploading more to my YouTube channel much more often.
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Listen To An Interview With Pete Loran On The Anything Goes Podcast HERE
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