DORO PESCH Says 'The Love Of Doing It For The Fans And For The Music' Is What Kept Her Going

Colonel Angus of Wormwood Chronicles webzine recently conducted an interview with German metal queen Doro Pesch. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Wormwood Chronicles: You came out with a new DVD called "20 Years: A Warrior Soul". Has this been in the works for a while?

Doro Pesch: Actually, it took a long time because we had to get all the rights cleared with all the record companies and their artists. We thought we would have something special on the DVD and not just the concert. We took somebody on the road for the "Warrior Soul" tour; we did this tour movie from "Warrior Soul". It took a long time to do. We were trying to mix it in between gigs and festivals and doing the record. Then we had to talk to the record company about when would be a good time to release it. They don't want to release it when the new release would come out, so this was actually perfect timing. In America, it came out much later than in Europe because we said we would love to have it come out when we are on tour.

Wormwood Chronicles: You have Chris Caffery from SAVATAGE on guitar for this tour. How did that come about?

Doro Pesch: We have been friends for a long time.We worked together for a long time and he did some guest appearances on the DVD and some festivals in Europe. Our guitar player, who was still in the band, Joe [Taylor]; he left because of some personal problems. This tour, the finances are low money, so everybody had to see how to survive. And then Chris is opening up. He has a new record out so he's happy and he plays in our band. His soundman Paul, he's the keyboardist in Chris' band and he's our soundman. It worked out really good.

Wormwood Chronicles: You look and sound like you did in WARLOCK. How do you continue sounding as good as you did 20 years ago and do you have any special vocal techniques?

Doro Pesch: The love of doing it for the fans and for the music. It's all that it takes. No special tricks. I appreciate it more now than I did in the '80s because it was so huge. Metal was big and I thought it would keep going like that. When it fizzled out, you really had to rethink the whole thing; [decide to] continue if you really wanted to do it. I always thought, "I definitely want to do it." Now that metal is getting more attention, in the last couple of years it's gotten better and better, so now I really, really appreciate it much more.

Check out the rest of the interview at Wormwood Chronicles.