DORO PESCH Talks About Health Scare: Audio Available

Mark Carras of Abrasive Rock recently conducted an interview with German singer Doro Pesch (ex-WARLOCK). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Abrasive Rock: Now you and the boxer Regina Halmich have become extremely close friends. Would she ever sing, and would you ever box?

Doro: "I did a show on television, it was kind of like some show fights, and I did it a couple of years ago. Actually, I did it while we were on tour with our 'Fight' record. At first I thought it was just fun. And I tell you it was pretty hard muscled. I thought, 'I hope no one gets hurt,' because I had like fifty concerts in front of me, and it was fun. I was a big fan of boxing, and I used to do Tae boxing. It's like fists and feet and elbows and knees, and it's like great work for getting in shape and fit for a tour. So I did it once. Regina, she actually sang on the last single, she had her ten-year anniversary. She'd been undefeated for ten years, and I thought maybe we should do something special for it. So we did a single, and we remixed 'She's Like Thunder' for a couple of different versions, and I called her up and asked her if she'd like to sing on one version. So we rewrote some lyrics. And now it's 'We're like Thunder' and she sang on the song and it came off so sweet. It sounds very sympathetic, and very charming. So we did some shows together. I read it in a book that she'd always wanted to sing. So we kind of lived each other dreams for a while. It was great. She is a great lady, really, really great girl, really great."

Abrasive Rock: This next question I hope I'm not getting too personal, but last spring you had surgery and fans kind of went crazy about the rumors of what was wrong with our great Doro? Do you mind talking about what happened? Are you okay?

Doro: "Yeah, Mark, yeah. Actually it was a combination of all kinds of things, and now checking into that it is a thing which I heard many women have when they don't have kids, and it's called endometriosis. It's something only women get. I didn't know it would get so bad. I've never had a problem. Then I wanted to go a to a football game actually, and early in the morning I got so much cough and severe pain, and I thought, 'Shit, man', and I was thinking something is not right, and then for like ten hours I was like laying in bed and I thought 'Oh man, it doesn't go away'. It got so bad and I called the ambulance. I hardly could crawl to my telephone. I was taken to the hospital and I got an immediate operation. It was a combination of many things, and actually they found a tumor as well, but it was good, it was not cancer. I tell you, I had a hard couple of days. I was really in shock. I thought, 'This is it now.' Thank god. It was really shocking. I have to go back to the hospital when I finish this new record, which I think we'll finish it in January, and then I have to go back to the hospital and get it checked. They've got to check, they can only do another operation, you can't do it by x-ray. Make sure everything is okay. When I got the operation, and six weeks later we did all the summer fests and everything else okay. It was just like 'POW!' There are things which sometimes are just another shocking moment. I think everything will be fine."

Abrasive Rock: Cool. The most important part is that you're fine.

Doro: "Yeah. Sometimes it's a good life lesson, because I know how quickly it can come and go. One day before I was totally okay, planning the tour and the summer festival, and then one day later everything changed. And I thought, you have to appreciate every day and make the most out of your time."

Full text and audio of this interview is available at AbrasiveRock.com.