In a brand new interview with Rock Laborious With Phil And Tish, DROWNING POOL and SOIL frontman Ryan McCombs opened up about how music distribution has modified through the years, and what it actually means for artists’ livelihoods. He stated partly (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): ”Simply on a enterprise sense, yeah, I’d love to return to the times of the exhausting, tangible album in hand, ‘trigger that is nonetheless what I like. The business was more healthy then.
“Individuals generally, they do not take the time to grasp there is a cause why there is not as many bands right now as there was again within the day, and that has loads to do with the truth that there is not the variety of labels anymore that there was once,” he continued.
“I used to be speaking to anyone — that is, like, 20 years in the past, I am speaking to a fan on-line; truly, it was longer than that ‘trigger it was throughout the entire Napster factor — and so they had been complaining in regards to the METALLICA stance on it. And I stated, ‘Properly, okay, for one second,’ I stated, ‘What does your dad do?’ And this particular person occurred to be — it was good — he occurred to be from Michigan, and his dad was an auto employee, which is not a lot there anymore. So you possibly can positively most likely relate these days. I stated, ‘Now, tomorrow, if everyone, not simply in your city, but when everyone on the earth, can go to your dad’s plant and drive off the lot with a automobile and never pay for it, how lengthy is your dad going to be employed?’ As a result of the auto plant has to make cash from the gross sales of the automobile with a view to make use of the worker who’s making the automobile. I stated, ‘Identical to the label has to make cash from the gross sales of the music with a view to make use of the musician. It is the identical factor.’ And it wasn’t till I broke it down like that, that the man was, like, ‘Oh, yeah.’ The black and white was too proper there in your face to the place you by no means actually sat down and thought in regards to the massive image of it. On the finish of the day, it is only a enterprise. And if the employer is not making his cash, then he is not gonna be capable of make use of the staff. And that is what the label and band relationship is and was. So, when that went away, when individuals began having the ability to go to the automobile lot and drive off the lot with a free automobile, that meant bands weren’t sticking round anymore. The labels did not have the identical stick-to-itiveness with bands as a result of they simply could not afford to.”
Ryan added: “I do not wanna come throughout like I am crying, ‘trigger I am not. I am appreciative to nonetheless be allowed to do that and I am appreciative that we’re nonetheless right here. We have been capable of climate that storm so far. However it’s evening and day to the business that I grew up getting an opportunity to bounce in at first.”
Reflecting on the times when listening to an album was an occasion, a devoted expertise that demanded a listener’s full consideration, Ryan stated: “It was the perfect. I imply, generally you did not even drive away from the music retailer. You sat in your automobile and also you needed to pull out the inlay and also you not solely had been going by the lyrics as you are listening to the cassette or the CD in your automobile, however I liked studying the thanks listing and all the things about it. That was a part of all of it. And I remorse that there is been many, many generations already that may by no means expertise that facet of it.”
DROWNING POOL‘s newest single, “Revolution (The Closing Amen)”, was launched on September 20 by way of SBG Data.
“Revolution (The Closing Amen)” marks the primary piece of music guitarist C.J. Pierce, bassist Stevie Benton and drummer Mike Luce have accomplished with McCombs in 13 years.
The “Revolution (The Closing Amen)” video was filmed at El Paso, Texas’s Talking Rock Leisure Heart.
McCombs performed his first exhibits again with DROWNING POOL in March 2023 at Membership L.A. in Destin, Florida and on the inaugural Throwdown At The Campground pageant in Fruitland Park, Florida.
The longtime SOIL frontman, who has lived in Swindon, England since 2018, initially joined DROWNING POOL in 2005 and appeared on two of the band’s studio albums, “Full Circle” (2007) and “Drowning Pool” (2010),in addition to a stay album, 2009’s “Loudest Frequent Denominator”. He rejoined SOIL after exiting DROWNING POOL in 2011.
McCombs is continuous to entrance SOIL and can keep it up recording and performing with each bands.
DROWNING POOL‘s debut album, “Sinner”, was licensed platinum inside six weeks of its launch in 2001, whereas the CD’s first single, “Our bodies”, was some of the continuously aired movies on MTV by a brand new band. DROWNING POOL reached out to an ever-greater viewers with dynamic performances at Wrestlemania XVIII and Ozzfest through the summers of 2001 and 2002. Sadly, their streak of success was to not final. Shortly after rousing the group at Ozzfest in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 3, 2002, vocalist Dave “Stage” Williams was discovered useless of pure causes on the tour bus.
