Today is the birthday of one of the loveliest men we’ve ever had the pleasure to meet and hang with on a venue staircase.
Back in February when Dead By Sunrise passed through town we had had the chance to spend some time with guitarist Ryan Shuck, we spoke about performing on the main stage at Sonisphere last summer, about his transition from hairdresser to Rockstar and how much he loves women!
See some snippets from our chat with Ryan backstage at the HMV Forum in London below, we promise to do a follow up with the full interview and more photos very soon.
Becoming a Rockstar:
I never really thought ‘I wanna be a rockstar’ I never really understood that you could do that. I was in band with Jon before he joined Korn, and they played a few of my songs, they got really big and I got a cheque and then I realised “Oh shit! You can do this for a living”.
Musical influences:
I love Lady Gaga
Dead by Sunrise:
I think the nineties was one of the best times for music.
A lot of the music right now is still trying to get out of the nineties, but we wanted to go back in and revisit it. Sort of like we did in Orgy, we drew from the eighties, without ripping it off we took the cool elements we liked.
I liked Nine Inch Nails the first time I heard it, I was “that’s like fucking good” – ‘Head like a hole, black as your soul’ – you don’t get that?! You don’t get that?! If you don’t get that then Fuck you!
Sonisphere:
People get very protective over Linkin Park… we wanted people to know that Chester wasn’t leaving Linkin Park.
Linkin Park’s new album:
I heard it and I was like “Cool – this will be my favourite record!” It’s awesome. It’s like Christmas presents for me. It’s fucking awesome.
Female fans:
But in this band there are more wives and stuff involved and we try to keep it more under control. But in Julien-K or especially in Orgy we liked having girls around, period, because they make things more fun and better…we just like girls around because we like girls – girls are cool!
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Happy Birthday Ryan, we hope you have a great day!