interview with Frankenstein V8
Have any of you played in other bands?
Joe- Yes, we all have played or singed in other bands, as a matter of fact that's the part of the "FRANKENSTEIN" part of the band hehehehe!
Victor- Yes, i played in several small metal bands
Natasha- Yes, i was a singer on an Opera company.
How is it that you started playing music?
Victor- Yes, i played in several small metal bands
Natasha- Yes, i was a singer on an Opera company.
How is it that you started playing music?
Joe- Well, i sing since i could talk... but i started playing intruments since 6 (a small acordion) but was at 15 that i buy my self my first guitar.
Natasha-With the the choir of the nuns school and later on in the concervatory.
Victor- well the give me a bass when i was 16 and i learn my self!
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
Natasha-With the the choir of the nuns school and later on in the concervatory.
Victor- well the give me a bass when i was 16 and i learn my self!
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
Joe- "Joe Silver" /Guitar and Lead Voice/ 40 (41 this year),
Victor- "Victor Venganza"/ i play uprightbass/ 27 years old.
Natasha- "Natasha Von Rose"/Female Voice/ a gentleman never ask, and a lady never tells! (giggles)
Have you had other previous members? Joe- well been the only original member i guess i will answer that... yes, we have had 7 chorus girl singer, 2 uprightbass players, 3 drummers and we used to have one more Frankinette (our dancers)
5)Did you make music even when you were young?
Victor- "Victor Venganza"/ i play uprightbass/ 27 years old.
Natasha- "Natasha Von Rose"/Female Voice/ a gentleman never ask, and a lady never tells! (giggles)
Have you had other previous members? Joe- well been the only original member i guess i will answer that... yes, we have had 7 chorus girl singer, 2 uprightbass players, 3 drummers and we used to have one more Frankinette (our dancers)
5)Did you make music even when you were young?
Joe- well... for me.. yes... i used to sing since i was a kid and start playing in bars at 17 in cover bands.
Victor- I sued to play covers on Bday partys and stuff like that.
Natasha- I always wanted to study music when i was little and i wrote my own songs but never pass that... OH and a band try out on high school
Where are you from? Joe- I'm From Caracas, Venezuela, well i think we all are in the band, right (looking a litle hasitating)...
What year did the band form? Joe- the concept of the band on 2009 but the first time the band got together as a full formed band 2010, we took one full year to put the songs together (our first 12 original songs) and to put out an original never seen before show in Venezuela and on 2011 we hade our 1 show!
What's your style of genre? Victor- we all come from diferent music genre but we all came to love and care about ROckabilly, Psychobilly and Swing that is what we play here on Frankenstein V8 and is part of the name meaning as we said before!
What inspires you?
Natasha- I always wanted to study music when i was little and i wrote my own songs but never pass that... OH and a band try out on high school
Where are you from? Joe- I'm From Caracas, Venezuela, well i think we all are in the band, right (looking a litle hasitating)...
What year did the band form? Joe- the concept of the band on 2009 but the first time the band got together as a full formed band 2010, we took one full year to put the songs together (our first 12 original songs) and to put out an original never seen before show in Venezuela and on 2011 we hade our 1 show!
What's your style of genre? Victor- we all come from diferent music genre but we all came to love and care about ROckabilly, Psychobilly and Swing that is what we play here on Frankenstein V8 and is part of the name meaning as we said before!
What inspires you?
Joe- well for me is custome culture, vintage culture, and scifi and horror movies hehehehe.
Victor-been able to rech further every time with the band, and music and eventualy be able to toru around the world and live out of music
Victor-been able to rech further every time with the band, and music and eventualy be able to toru around the world and live out of music
Natasha- the vive itself that been together, all together as band, as friends as family and that inspires me to keep going
How often and where do you reherse? Natasha- Once a week on the Frankycave (all laugthing)
How have you developed since you started with the music? Joe- i started as a kid doing impersonations, now i got my own voice, but as a guitar players i'm still learning and developing... when i started this band i had to RE TEACH my self to play he guiatar as this is a much more complex stile that i was used to play, and ofcourse i had to learn to play the drumms and double bass too.
Natasha- i started on several choir, from that i pass to lyrical singing and the i did a full rupture and pass to contemporary singing and when i enterd in the band i study alot of comtemporary singing tecnics that are used on the Rockabilly genere.
Victor- i started as a hobby playing with some frineds and i tought that was it, but eventualy i started making it more serious and Frankenstein v8 have teach me how to play double bass, sing back vocals, and about gear and how to set up y gear, and to be a more profecional musician
Do you have other interests of work outside the band?
How often and where do you reherse? Natasha- Once a week on the Frankycave (all laugthing)
How have you developed since you started with the music? Joe- i started as a kid doing impersonations, now i got my own voice, but as a guitar players i'm still learning and developing... when i started this band i had to RE TEACH my self to play he guiatar as this is a much more complex stile that i was used to play, and ofcourse i had to learn to play the drumms and double bass too.
Natasha- i started on several choir, from that i pass to lyrical singing and the i did a full rupture and pass to contemporary singing and when i enterd in the band i study alot of comtemporary singing tecnics that are used on the Rockabilly genere.
Victor- i started as a hobby playing with some frineds and i tought that was it, but eventualy i started making it more serious and Frankenstein v8 have teach me how to play double bass, sing back vocals, and about gear and how to set up y gear, and to be a more profecional musician
Do you have other interests of work outside the band?
Joe- Music is my main work, but i also build props for cosplays!
Victor- i do some translator work, and i used to work as an english teacher.
Natasha- i'm a social comunicator(journalist) and i actualy work as a video editor!
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Joe- if it come fine.. if not, fine too... i hade experienced 2 times working with managers and... well... we have none now.
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Joe- it would be great... (looking at the imaginary camera) "Rockabilly record labels from all over the world... here is the 1 rockabilly band from Venezuela, and we have all original songs, rockabilly, Psychobilly, Swing.... come get us!" (all laughting)
What made you decide to make this music? Joe- a friend told me he wanted to make a rockabilly band but he just bail out... but i was already stung by the Rockabilly bug so i said to my self "SELF (hehehehe) LET'S ROCK!"
What are your songs about?
Victor- i do some translator work, and i used to work as an english teacher.
Natasha- i'm a social comunicator(journalist) and i actualy work as a video editor!
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Joe- if it come fine.. if not, fine too... i hade experienced 2 times working with managers and... well... we have none now.
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Joe- it would be great... (looking at the imaginary camera) "Rockabilly record labels from all over the world... here is the 1 rockabilly band from Venezuela, and we have all original songs, rockabilly, Psychobilly, Swing.... come get us!" (all laughting)
What made you decide to make this music? Joe- a friend told me he wanted to make a rockabilly band but he just bail out... but i was already stung by the Rockabilly bug so i said to my self "SELF (hehehehe) LET'S ROCK!"
What are your songs about?
Victor- Most of them are like "fun" stories, fun horror stories, scifi and stuf, and a couple of songs about the golden age
Natasha - BUT.. but we also have love songs (we all look at each other and laught) well.. they are kind of love songs aren't they?
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Joe- Well so far all the composing (lyrics and music) is done by me
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Joe- Music, most of the time...
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Joe- , i just get alone with my guitar in the music room, a huge ice cold glass os coca cola and playing untill magic happens
Have you done any covers live? Victor- well, we usualy don't but there was this one time on a gig for the pre opening of a biker bar and the aniversary of a Motorcicle Club that they ask us to play a few songs and well... the heat of the moment man...
What language do you sing in? Natasha- Mostly English and spanish.... BUT we are not close to sing in other languages.
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? Joe- least.... well that would have to be that one time on "Discovery Bar" that was a last minute show, no promo was made, the other band cancel at last minute and only 12 or 15 people came to the gig, and the most... well one of our "Rockabilly Party's" (and event that a local bar let us do every 6 month is the only Rockabilly venue in the country and we are producing it hand by hand with the "Mouline Rounge Bar" here in Caracas Venezuela) got a full... more than 100 persons just to see our show BUT one time we played on the "Gatorade Caracas Rock" a 10K Matathon here in Caracas were the bands play all along the trail of the Marathon and there was more than 15.000 runners watching and dancing.. it was incredible! (plus the many festivals we have play were hundreds of people from all the generas were rocking and dancing to our songs... a little crazy seen long hair head bangers dancing rockabilly hehehehe)
What ages are most of your concert attendants? Victor- from all ages (it depends of the venue) but all ages, from teens to adults!(even kids some times)
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? Victor- we vary
Do you have a regular place you play live often? Natasha- a little french coffe restaurant called "Cafe Noisette", they always have live music and always great bands(and the food is great) and our regular "ROCKABILLY PARTY" on the Mouline ROuge bar
What was your first gig like? Joe- INSANE hehehehe the first Frankenstein V8 show was on "Discovery Bar" and they told me we hade to play with "Los Magestic" a band that play covers of rockabilly, rock & roll and surf, it turns out it was a band of a good friend of mine Juan Olmedillo (lead singer and guitar of Los Mentas) and it was soo crazy and magical, i will never forgeth that first show (also they pay us, wich was weird because it was our first show and it supposed to be a try out, guess they were happy with the show)
What was your latest gig? Natasha- a few week ago on "Cafe Noisette" (we play there every 15 days)
Have you had to cancel a gig? Joe- Not from our side... we as band have NEVER canceled a show, even if we are sick or one of us i sick we still play and give the best show ever... then we die (all laught)
Where have you played live this year? so far this year? Joe- so far "Cafe Noisette" (the courrent political situation of the cuntry have made difficult to book gigs...
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? Victor- it will be a dream come true for us to play out side Venezuela,Europe, Sweeden (wink), USA, Japan, Festival bookers from all over the world... here we are!(doing jazz hands)
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? Victor- 2016 that will be, we launch band Stickers and Patches
Where can people buy your merchandise? Natasha- directly from our facebook page or instagram
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? Joe- There is place for eveything... donwload helps to reach more people, yeah... BUT i know that as i do there is alot of people who love to have the actual record on the hands, put the cd or the Vinyl on the player and enjoy the full experience, read the booklet and see the artworks of the albums.
How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Victor- sales on the cd's have fall, that's a fact, but on the other their artist are able to reach more and more listeners...
What do you think of my work? Joe- there should be more people like you interested on the music scene from all over the world.... there is alot of bands and artist out there with ALOT to say but most of the people are focused only on mainstream artist or popular one... it's a shame...
How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? Joe- puting our story and band out to the world, we have years doing the job, making the rockabilly scene here in the country with the band, and our social media and even with my web radio show, promoting the genere on the country, maybe a record label can put their eyes on us and contact us
Do you have any role models or idols? ALL- Jim Heat, Jimbo Walace, Kim Nekroman, Brian setzer, Darrel Higham, Al Dual, Devil DOll, Hillbilly Moon Explosion, THe coffing Shakers and the 69 cats
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today?
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Joe- Well so far all the composing (lyrics and music) is done by me
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Joe- Music, most of the time...
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Joe- , i just get alone with my guitar in the music room, a huge ice cold glass os coca cola and playing untill magic happens
Have you done any covers live? Victor- well, we usualy don't but there was this one time on a gig for the pre opening of a biker bar and the aniversary of a Motorcicle Club that they ask us to play a few songs and well... the heat of the moment man...
What language do you sing in? Natasha- Mostly English and spanish.... BUT we are not close to sing in other languages.
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? Joe- least.... well that would have to be that one time on "Discovery Bar" that was a last minute show, no promo was made, the other band cancel at last minute and only 12 or 15 people came to the gig, and the most... well one of our "Rockabilly Party's" (and event that a local bar let us do every 6 month is the only Rockabilly venue in the country and we are producing it hand by hand with the "Mouline Rounge Bar" here in Caracas Venezuela) got a full... more than 100 persons just to see our show BUT one time we played on the "Gatorade Caracas Rock" a 10K Matathon here in Caracas were the bands play all along the trail of the Marathon and there was more than 15.000 runners watching and dancing.. it was incredible! (plus the many festivals we have play were hundreds of people from all the generas were rocking and dancing to our songs... a little crazy seen long hair head bangers dancing rockabilly hehehehe)
What ages are most of your concert attendants? Victor- from all ages (it depends of the venue) but all ages, from teens to adults!(even kids some times)
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? Victor- we vary
Do you have a regular place you play live often? Natasha- a little french coffe restaurant called "Cafe Noisette", they always have live music and always great bands(and the food is great) and our regular "ROCKABILLY PARTY" on the Mouline ROuge bar
What was your first gig like? Joe- INSANE hehehehe the first Frankenstein V8 show was on "Discovery Bar" and they told me we hade to play with "Los Magestic" a band that play covers of rockabilly, rock & roll and surf, it turns out it was a band of a good friend of mine Juan Olmedillo (lead singer and guitar of Los Mentas) and it was soo crazy and magical, i will never forgeth that first show (also they pay us, wich was weird because it was our first show and it supposed to be a try out, guess they were happy with the show)
What was your latest gig? Natasha- a few week ago on "Cafe Noisette" (we play there every 15 days)
Have you had to cancel a gig? Joe- Not from our side... we as band have NEVER canceled a show, even if we are sick or one of us i sick we still play and give the best show ever... then we die (all laught)
Where have you played live this year? so far this year? Joe- so far "Cafe Noisette" (the courrent political situation of the cuntry have made difficult to book gigs...
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? Victor- it will be a dream come true for us to play out side Venezuela,Europe, Sweeden (wink), USA, Japan, Festival bookers from all over the world... here we are!(doing jazz hands)
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? Victor- 2016 that will be, we launch band Stickers and Patches
Where can people buy your merchandise? Natasha- directly from our facebook page or instagram
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? Joe- There is place for eveything... donwload helps to reach more people, yeah... BUT i know that as i do there is alot of people who love to have the actual record on the hands, put the cd or the Vinyl on the player and enjoy the full experience, read the booklet and see the artworks of the albums.
How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Victor- sales on the cd's have fall, that's a fact, but on the other their artist are able to reach more and more listeners...
What do you think of my work? Joe- there should be more people like you interested on the music scene from all over the world.... there is alot of bands and artist out there with ALOT to say but most of the people are focused only on mainstream artist or popular one... it's a shame...
How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? Joe- puting our story and band out to the world, we have years doing the job, making the rockabilly scene here in the country with the band, and our social media and even with my web radio show, promoting the genere on the country, maybe a record label can put their eyes on us and contact us
Do you have any role models or idols? ALL- Jim Heat, Jimbo Walace, Kim Nekroman, Brian setzer, Darrel Higham, Al Dual, Devil DOll, Hillbilly Moon Explosion, THe coffing Shakers and the 69 cats
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today?
Joe- for me... a little bit of the two....
Natasha- i don't know... i would have to say a little more the modern side but the two.
Victor- a little bit of the two but i love 60's, 70's and 80's
What have been your biggest obstacles? Joe- the country situation....
What advice would you give other bands or artists? Joe- TAKE THE RISK.. go out side and DO WHAT YOU DO.... stop copying just to get gigs... BE YOUR SELFS... PLAY YOUR SONGS... DARE TO BE REAL! and never EVER stop doing what you love if you are good at it, learn to take advices and critics!
How do you get psyched for a gig? Victor- we get together on circle put our hands together and we shout or battle motto... "V8, V8, V8,V8"
Do you have any new material? Victor-Yes we do. -Natasha- we are actualy recording our first full lenght CD!
What are your web sites?
What have been your biggest obstacles? Joe- the country situation....
What advice would you give other bands or artists? Joe- TAKE THE RISK.. go out side and DO WHAT YOU DO.... stop copying just to get gigs... BE YOUR SELFS... PLAY YOUR SONGS... DARE TO BE REAL! and never EVER stop doing what you love if you are good at it, learn to take advices and critics!
How do you get psyched for a gig? Victor- we get together on circle put our hands together and we shout or battle motto... "V8, V8, V8,V8"
Do you have any new material? Victor-Yes we do. -Natasha- we are actualy recording our first full lenght CD!
What are your web sites?
https://twitter.com/FrankensteinV8
https://frankensteinv8.bandcamp.com/album/your-order-is-ready
https://www.reverbnation.com/thefrankensteinv8
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNtnjoun8PBmRaAC90CQIw?disable_polymer=true
How can people reach? Natasha- Instagram, Facebook, Email, or Phone Call...
What are your plans for the future? ALL- PLAY!!! GIG! TOUR, VIDEO, RECORD ANOTHER CD, A VIDEO (all laught)
Do you have something to add? Joe- yeah.. to festival owners from all over the world.... TAKE CHANCES ON NEW ARTIST... and ehemm ehemmm... we are poor so we can not afort plane tickets... if you wanna book us out... see the political and economical situation of our country and understand that we don't have the chances that bands on other country's have.... PLEASE if you want us to play in your festival we wil be MORE THAN GLAD but... plane tickets please... PLEASE!
https://frankensteinv8.bandcamp.com/album/your-order-is-ready
https://www.reverbnation.com/thefrankensteinv8
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNtnjoun8PBmRaAC90CQIw?disable_polymer=true
How can people reach? Natasha- Instagram, Facebook, Email, or Phone Call...
What are your plans for the future? ALL- PLAY!!! GIG! TOUR, VIDEO, RECORD ANOTHER CD, A VIDEO (all laught)
Do you have something to add? Joe- yeah.. to festival owners from all over the world.... TAKE CHANCES ON NEW ARTIST... and ehemm ehemmm... we are poor so we can not afort plane tickets... if you wanna book us out... see the political and economical situation of our country and understand that we don't have the chances that bands on other country's have.... PLEASE if you want us to play in your festival we wil be MORE THAN GLAD but... plane tickets please... PLEASE!