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We all pretty much know by now, for what ever I do, certain people will always complain about it. It's not that I really care, but to clear out some confusion over my statement last year about me leaving the Hardrock music scene, here is this: I did not mean with it, that I'm not making music or releasing CDs anymore. (Not yet!) (I was in the middle of writing new material when I posted that statement.) But obviously it was all a bit unclear. What I meant was: I am not at all compatible with the Hardrock or Metal scene anymore. It doesn't work! My personal understanding of free art- and my human ideals are pretty much the total opposite to what this scene idealizes most of the time. And as a songwriter I will write no more Hardrock songs in the future. I discovered that I have to do things different now. My own music has got to speak a different language, and it will. But I still have a heart for intelligent Rockmusic sometimes. Place Vendome is, and was offered to me as AOR (Journey, Foreigner-like). I did the vocals to the demos which were not very heavy. Dennis Ward produced some of the songs now with lots of heavy guitar-overdubs. A bit too much for my personal taste, but it's OK. Don't forget: it's not MY record, just a project I did vocals for. So don't expect my own future music to be that heavy. Dennis did a very good job on the Place Vendome production, and its not that I don't like the record or get sleepless nights because of those E-Guitars! But I personally would have done it a lot less heavy to be more AOR. The amount of E-Guitars does matter in terms of how it comes across, and now some songs can easily be called Hardrock. But that's not my fault! It also creates some extra confusion that Frontiers-Records promote this Album now as: Melodic Hardrock. I think it is, and I have been told, it is AOR. - But for what ever it may be, it was fun to do. And as long as it is no soul raping Brain&Heart-Dead-inhumanity-idealizing-Evil-Knievel-Brutal-Metal, I am OK. - And I also will not be involved in any more Metal-Projects in the future! So you can all stop crying about that too! I agreed to do Tribuzy over 3 years ago, so I can't suddenly say, I don't do it. And Edguy (a few weeks ago) was certainly the last project like that. I have a good eMail-relationship with Tobias Sammet, and I especially liked the lyrics of the song he wanted me to do. But don't worry, it won't happen again!
 
Cheers! Michael Kiske
 
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