DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Says His Band Does Not Like To Hide Behind The Monitors
September 8, 2006Tom Lanham of InsideBayArea.com reports:
If you thought professional boxers had a hard time of it in the ring, try joining the ranks of U.K. hyper-metal sensation DRAGONFORCE, invites battered bandleader Herman Li. When the longhaired warhorse of a guitarist steps onstage, he often becomes so pumped full of adrenaline, he can barely recall his exploits afterwards.
"At the end of our show, we'll look at our arms and legs and they're all bruised and you won't know where it's from," says the Hong-Kong-born musician, whose fast, sword'n' sorcery lyrics recall rock's KROKUS/SAXON/IRON MAIDEN golden age of the early '80s.
"Maybe it's from your guitar slamming into your body when you're jumping into the air. Or maybe it's just from the impact of landing."
Quite possibly, the battle scars might result from Li's scampering along his band's teetering stacks of amplifiers, a la vintage Ted Nugent.
On a recent Ozzfest gig, he was balanced so precariously on a 20-foot-high monitor, he says, he almost fell off into the audience: "My head would've slammed against the crash barrier, I would've been knocked unconscious and my guitar would've broken in half. It was like when you're driving and you almost have a car crash — that kind of thing. But DRAGONFORCE does not like to hide behind the monitors."
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