Exciterin alkuperäinen kokoonpano toivoo julkaisevansa uuden levyn 2017

Kanadalaisen speed metal -veteraani Exciterin kitaristi John Ricci on antanut ”Shortlife”-podcastille haastattelun liittyen yhtyeen alkuperäisen kokoonpanon paluuseen vuonna 2014, ja kertoi samalla yhtyeen kaavailevan uutta levyä ensi vuodelle. Hän kommentoi seuraavasti yhteenpaluutaan laulaja-rumpali Dan Beehlerin ja basisti Allan Johnsonin kanssa:

”They approached me. After the previous band broke up, my plan was to just take a year off, put my equipment in storage and just decide what my next move was gonna be. One day, where I work, a music shop in Bells Corners [in Ottawa], in walks Dan Beehler, walks in the store. And as soon as I saw him, I knew exactly why he was there. ’Cause we hadn’t really spoken in about twenty years. Not that we didn’t wanna speak to each other; we had no need to speak to each other. So he came up to me and said, ’Look, we know what’s happened with the other EXCITER. I just wanted to let you know’ that him and Allan are totally supportive of whatever I decide to do, and if I would consider getting back together with them, they’d be more than excited to do so.”

Kysyttäessä miltä hänestä tuntui kuultuaan Beehlerin ja Johnsonin haluavan palata yhteen hänen kanssaan, Ricci vastasi:

”I was shocked, because I had no idea they even felt that way. So I said to Dan, ’Give me about a week, ’cause I’m not really sure. I’ve gotta just make a decision.’ But after about three days, I thought to myself it would be great if the original band was back together. Because when I was touring around the world with the other EXCITER, the fans and other musicians would come up to me and say, ’You know, you guys are really, really good, but we still prefer the original band.’ I heard that over and over and over. And I’d say, ’I’m not with the original band. This is EXCITER the way we are today.’ So it took me about three days to make a decision. So I thought, ’Okay, for sure, let’s just get back together and just pick up where we left off.'”

Ricci kommentoi yhtyeen paluun saamaa vastaanottoa seuraavasti:

”When we made the announcement on the Internet and our web site and on Blabbermouth, my e-mails didn’t stop for, like, 48 hours. I mean, I had managers, agents, the fans, other bands that we know congratulating us on the reunion. And then the show offers started to come in. I mean, we haven’t stopped playing since we reunited; we’ve been to South America, like, three times. We played the Sweden Rock Festival and Bang Your Head!!! festival. We did two nights in Osaka, Japan and so on and so on.”

Lisäksi hän kertoi eroista jäsenten välisessä kommunkaatiossa nykyhetken ja 1980-luvun välillä:

”We’re much older and we don’t… There’s no big disagreements, and we don’t bicker at each other. We would have, like, twenty-five years ago. But we don’t really care about… If someone has a difference of opinion, we’re not gonna hold a grudge; we just talk it out, like most marriages, you know. And then everything is fine. And then we just keep on partying and playing our music. We’re sort of in this comfort zone now.”

Kysyttäessä aikooko yhtye tehdä uutta studioalbumia, Ricci vastasi:

”We are writing songs. Last year, we said we’d have it out this year, which is not gonna happen. But maybe next year we’ll have it out.”

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