Jeff Loomis: komodorock interview

News:
10-08-2008:
Komodo Rock interviewed Jeff Loomis in great detail about his up coming CD Zero Order Phase which is due for release on 25th August via Century Media in the UK. Here's a snippet.

When asked "What was it that motivated you to do a solo album?", Jeff Loomis replies:

Actually I've been a fan of instrumental music for ever. When I was sixteen or seventeen I was very into a lot of the Shrapnel (LA label headed up by Mike Varney) guitar players like Jason Becker and Marty Friedman, also Yngwie Malmsteen and people like that, so I'm really a huge fan of instrumental music, and I've wanted to do something like this for a very long time. I've always been preoccupied with Nevermore on the road, though, and then as soon as there would be time to do something, I'd have to do another Nevermore record. Also, I had to sign a separate contract to do a solo record, so that took time as well. So there are little things like this that eat up the whole timing situation, but by May I got the new contract in place, and Nevermore wasn't doing anything, so I said, hey, let's get some musicians together and complete this project, so here I am.

check out the full and detailed interview