Meet Six Secrets!
This was a really entertaining interview with a band that I'm sure everyone will be more familiar with soon.
Guitarists Joe and Logan did a great job answering a few queations from me and I hope everyone will get to learn a little more about the band.
Enjoy...
D-Day: Thanks for speaking with D-Day's Revenge!
Six Secrets: No problem man, it’s a pleasure!
D-Day: How long has the band been together?
Joe: All told the band has been together for around 7 years, 5 with the original line-up which we are back to now!
D-Day: Are you currently working on an album or have something recently released?
Logan: We are as we speak, in the studio recording an ep that is slated to be released in January. We are really excited to get the new tracks out there and let people hear yet even another turn in our progression as a band!
D-Day: How about any shows in the works? Are there any dates that the fans can look for in the near future?
Joe: We have several shows coming up in the near future, mostly local to our hometown including a release party/show for the ep, a benefit show (details will be posted on the myspace page once everything is worked out), and then a handful of warm up shows in preparation for our summer tour! All of this stuff is still very much in the planning stage but again, as the dates get locked up we will be posting them on the myspace.(www. myspace. com/sixsecrets)
D-Day: You've recently won the D-Day & Kimmy Music Promotion Contest which should surely propel you to superstardom. (hehe..) How has that experience been as far as getting some extra interviews and airplay?
Six Secrets: The D-Day & Kimmy Contest has been nothing but a positive experience for us! The radio time, interviews, and even just the contacts of new people have been invaluable! It has allowed us time to chat with some killer people along the way and we will not soon forget it any of it!
D-Day: That brings me to another point.... getting your music out is obviously the main priority. But what about after you get signed (as far as downloading)? How do you feel about music downloading overall? Do you see it as good advertising if fans find entire songs online once you get signed, or do you see it as stealing? What are your thoughts?
Logan: Obviously for an un-signed band, any music that gets downloaded is just looked at as “another person” to a list of desperately needed fans! It is a huge promotional advantage to have songs that can be found online to both get your name out and to reach people you might not get through any of the local channels. With that being said, even a signed band can find ways to make online music and downloading into a positive thing. I can remember being in middle school and grabbing my friends tapes, yes I said tapes! *laughs* And making copies of them for myself at home! Which, would be like “downloading” them from the internet. But, always without fail, having that tape would eventually land me in a record store to actually by the album! I really believe that the internet is still helping even signed bands reach people who may or may not have heard them or their music. Then after someone gets a few songs or even one, that they really like, and reach “fan” status, they will go buy the album, to physically have a copy of it. You real fans will always buy the full cd.
D-Day: Let's try a multiple choice question.
Having a name like Six Secrets must cause many people to ask you about those secrets. Which big secret would you most want to be able to tell everyone from the following list?
a) The Colonel's secret recipe for KFC chicken.
b) The identity of the mystery gunman from the grassy knoll.
c) The contents of Area 51.
d) Former Attorney General Janet Reno has a penis.
Six Secrets: We’re gonna have to go with A! Because, we can take you to the only place in the world that original recipe is posted publicly in about 45 minutes from where we live! *laughs*
D-Day: Speaking of which, what is the origin of your band name?
Joe: We were actually sitting around one night picking through a handful of lyrics and it just became really obvious that we tend to write about everything that affects people or the human condition in general. Nate had made a joke a few days earlier after seeing someone on a television show say, “Everyone has their sick secrets” and we shot it down right from the beginning not wanting at all to use it for a band name, but it was brought back up again that night about picking 6 general ideas like politics and religion, that we write so much about, and that we feel affects people the most and to name the band Six Secrets.
D-Day: What has been one of the craziest experiences that you've had while performing? Any Spinal Tap moments, wardrobe malfunctions, drunken fans, someone shit their pants onstage... you get the idea.
Logan: *Laughs* We actually played a show/party once where the band had like 2 hours of time to just mingle around with everyone before we actually had to perform. This was all fine and good but it also resulted in Joe being completely loaded by the time the show started! *laughs* So he played an entire 45 minute set completely immobile! He leaned himself up on some equipment so he could keep standing and placed his a/b switch under is foot so the only movement at all was from his right foot changing channels on the footswitch! And even being that impaired, he never missed a single note all night long!
D-Day: Who would you consider to be some of your biggest influences?
Joe: Each member of this band has different tastes in music. Which we feel helps us to sound somewhat unique. Our biggest influences come from bands like Tool, System, Killswitch Engage, Dream Theater, Protest the Hero, Lamb of God, Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, Devil Driver, Deftones, Shadowsfall, Trivium, and so on! It is just a really diversified list of people that have helped shape us as individual musicians.
D-Day: What is the main goal for Six Secrets?
Six Secrets: When this band started we were just a group of guys content to play on the weekends and just jam around and have fun. Over the years it has become more serious as people have came to us asking for us, asking for music, and for shows so we have seen that there are people wanting to hear us and see us live. So the main goal for this band, regardless of any outcome, is to be able to continue to play the music that we love to play and to bring it to any place in the world that wishes to hear it!
D-Day: Thank you once again for speaking with us! Any final words for the fans?
Six Secrets: Anytime man! We would just like to mention again that the ep release is slated for Jan.09, and we will have several options for people to get cd’s that want them so just check in on the band page for those updates! Also again, thanks to our new management (http://www. myspace. com/jynxmusicmanagement) we are excited to announce that we have a summer tour in the works which hopefully will bring us at least close to your hometown! If when the dates are posted you do not see one near your hometown, contact “Shannon” on the above myspace or directly at ( jynx_mpg@ymail.com) with a venue you would like to see us at! We would also like to tell everyone who is working for us, pulling for us, and helping to make all this happen, thank you so very much! You guys are so much more than just supporters or fans of the band! Without you guys this would be impossible so take a bow! Much love to all of you and hopefully we will see you this summer on the road!
Joe & Logan Guitarists
-Six Secrets-
