Thanks a lot for the post, Steve! You rule dude! Did you like the music?
To everybody else, thanks a lot for checking it out, whether or not you ended up liking it. It's just awesome to know that you guys actually took the time to listen to it! You can't imagine how thankful I am, as this is the first time in my life I'm actually promoting MY OWN band.
I saw the whole "Bill Hudson can't stick to a band" thing coming. At face value, that's really true. I also think the main reason that happens is because most of the bands I ever play with are at least halfway known. Most musicians go through many bands, but since nobody hears about most of them, they don't get the fame, hahaha. A lot of the bands people consider I was "in", really were just session jobs I did. It just so happens that in the rock/metal world, people actually wanna know who's playing, as opposed to other styles. I doubt anybody is calling Steve Lukather or Greg Howe bandwhores... Trust me, I do a lot more than it gets talked about on the press. I'm a full time musician and I hate the idea of having a job, so there
That said, I really did work with a lot of people. However, I hope DEFENDER is the definite band and I don't have to do any others. I believe that being in so many different situations, working with so many different musicians from different parts of the world helped me shape the vision of what I actually want out of my main musical project.
What I mean by that, is that throughout my career, I've had to "settle" for many things. You know when a situation is ALMOST perfect but you try to overlook the one aspect you dislike about it thinking it's not a big deal? Then it comes and bites you right in the ass and that's the very reason you end up leaving it? Well, I can tell you that it's ALWAYS been the case with me, and DEFENDER is certainly not.
Someone mentioned that we sound like Three Days Grace. On our bio, we actually mention TDG as one of our influences. Like I said, DEFENDER is exactly what we've always wanted to do, without any compromise whatsoever. Everybody in the band is a big fan of modern American rock, and we just decided to fuse that with the metal stuff we also listen to. Despite the fact that the person didn't like the result, it shows that we accomplished what we attempted to do. Gotta give us credit for that, come on
As for the person who mentioned AQUARIA, I'm really surprised and glad to hear it. I was actually IN the band back in 2005 when I still lived in Brazil (there, yet ANOTHER band to be added to the list
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). This is how me and Bruno became friends and realized we HAD to work together. Which also happened with mr. Gremio. Back in the CELLADOR days we had huge issues, it even became personal at one point. The fact, though...is that we never found in any other musicians the chemistry we had. After him, I worked with just about every "melodic" singer in America, and some from Europe. Not one of them worked as well with me, and he'll tell you the same about me. I quit CELLADOR in January 2008, which was 3 years ago. We were super young and inexperienced, and this time apart has helped us grow and realize what we had to do. The situation is VERY similar with Bruno as well. Our relationship after AQUARIA wasn't the best. We didn't hate each other or anything, but we barely talked.
My last project was very similar to DEFENDER, in fact, some of the music I had was actually used for these recordings. The problem is, again, I had to overlook certain aspects related to the way the band looked and acted in order to be in it. Those ended up being the reasons I gave up on it (and music altogether), going back to Brazil and not wanting to see a guitar for 8 months. Until one day I was having a talk with my parents about how I was getting close to be 30 years old and my life had no direction, since I spent over half of it doing music, before giving up.
My dad has always been a big supporter, but not very talkative. He always wanted to see RESULTS, and anytime I had SOME results to show, I'd give up... but this ONE day he told me:
"You can't give up yet. You were born to do this. You just haven't found YOUR band yet." And that was true. Ever since I quit my first band (at 13, mind you) my dad told me "you can't work for anybody. You need your own band". Took me another 10+ years to realize he was right... so I came back and put DEFENDER together with the people I consider to be the perfect matches for what I want to do.
So yeah...give me this last chance to prove to you guys I'm not a bandwhore haha. Don't expect the band to fail, but rather hope for it not to
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If you can, listen to it a couple more times, maybe your opinion will change
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Oh, and of course...time to plug the band haha:
ADD US:
http://www.facebook.com/defenderofficial
http://www.youtube.com/defenderww3
http://www.twitter.com/defenderww3
http://www.myspace.com/officialdefender (not ready yet)
Thanks for reading guys (I know this was long and boring haha).
Take care,
Bill Hudson
Bandwhore