BLOODSIMPLE Frontman Talks Videos, Upcoming DVD

Greg Maki of Live-Metal.net recently interviewed BLOODSIMPLE/VISION OF DISORDER vocalist Tim Williams. Excerpts follow.

Live-Metal.net: Are you going to make a video for this album [BLOODSIMPLE's "Red Harvest"]?

Tim Williams: Yeah. We already shot one, but honestly we weren't happy with the way it came out at all. Kind of got thrown together really quickly and we had some bullshit go down during the video — nothing bad, but it just didn't come out the way we wanted it to. So we shot some live footage in Dallas at one of the shows. We already started kind of doing our own video that we were just gonna use for MySpace before the record was even done. So we're gonna use both of these and slice them together, and I think it's gonna be really cool. It's gonna be two versions, too, ‘cause one version will not be allowed to be played on TV. So that's awesome. I'm excited for that. That's in the works right now. So we'll see what comes out of that.

Live-Metal.net: Is that gonna be "Out to Get You"?

Tim Williams: No, "Out to Get You" is on the radio, so we're leaving that. This is gonna be "Dark Helmet" or "Red Harvest". "Dark Helmet"'s the one the band's doing. We tried to do this for a year. Things get in the way, people get busy. But now, we've got the footage, we've got the Internet footage that we want. There's an editor in-house in our management that might take a stab at "Red Harvest". "Dark Helmet", to me, is an interesting song on the record and it's got a message, which is important, and you can really do a lot with a video and the words in that song. That's another song we've been playing live. About six or seven months ago, we played here, with HELLYEAH, and I think we did "Dark Helmet" and it was getting mixed reactions. I don't know if it was because the record wasn't out yet or whatever. Then we did it a couple times in Europe and it went over pretty well. Then we did it a couple times in the beginning of this tour and we felt like it wasn't going good, so we stopped playing it. Then we were like, "Fuck it, let's play it. I'm bored of playing the same shit," and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but people are really starting to trip on it. So that's good. It think it's an excellent video for "Headbanger's Ball", which is obviously where we're gonna bring it, and there's this whole other Internet side to it that's so fuckin' violent it just won't be played on TV, which is cool. So hopefully it'll all come together. It has to be done quick, so hopefully by some point in January it'll be done.

Live-Metal.net: A while ago, there was talk of a BLOODSIMPLE DVD. What happened to that?

Tim Williams: Waiting on Warner Bros., a couple things going on, on their side of the camp. They want to just release web episodes for now, which is fine, whatever. But they paid us. We edited it ourselves. We got all this footage, we did all this fuckin' work, got the cover done — we just handed them a fuckin' package. It was supposed to be released with the record. They were like, "We don't know if we want to do this at this point in time." They paid us, so we got the money. Whenever they want to release it, I guess they can.

Live-Metal.net: Is anything happening on the V.O.D. front?

Tim Williams: Yeah, I think we just closed the deal, finally, for the DVD/live CD. That's exciting 'cause I love my boys in V.O.D. It's at a point where it's just basically fun now. There ain't no business involved in it. Sure, money exchanges hands, which it should be, and we get paid to do what we do. We have a great time playing the shows, but there ain't gonna be no tours or anything like that. We might do Japan, like two shows over there. We might do a couple shows in New York CitY, maybe a little weekend Northeast tour. I know there's a certain amount of demand for us in California. That'll probably be it, just do some fly dates, don't beat it to death, have a good time. I wouldn't say I wouldn't do another V.O.D. record, but I don't know if it would ever happen. I would do it just to do it 'cause I know it would be good. But V.O.D. was a great band and I'd kind of like to leave to leave it the way it was. I don't want to become a comeback band. Yeah, we'll do the live DVD shit for fun and I think there's a demand for it, so we'll do it. But I don't know. We'll see. Still very close with all those guys, talk to them all the time, so we'll see what happens with that.

Read the entire interview at Live-Metal.net.