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\n<\/a>Back in 1990 the band Nelson came blaring through our speakers and onto our TV screens, with the bands two front men Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, with long blonde hair and colourful attire delivering a positive message of hope, fun and perfect harmonies to the world of music that not many bands were doing at that time.\u00a0 Their debut album\u00a0\u2018After The Rain\u2019went on to sell over 3 million copies brandishing the number 1 worldwide hit \u2018(Can\u2019t Live Without Your) Love and Affection\u2019 and 3 other top 10 singles.<\/p>\n

The Nelson family legacy is one stretching over 3 generations and Matthew and Gunnar have continued to make music, having had numerous releases some 20 years on from their debut.\u00a0 Not just confined to their own releases, Matthew and Gunnar have also kept busy with numerous other projects, including the supergroup of sorts \u201cScrap Metal\u201d.\u00a0 Only just this year, Gunnar Nelson recently recorded and sang with Yusuf (Cat Stevens) and Paul McCartney on Yusuf\u2019s \u201cRoadsinger\u201d album. Gunnar recorded several tracks for “Roadsinger” in Nashville at Blackbird Studios and also performed side-by-side singing and playing acoustic guitars with Yusuf (Cat Stevens) in his first U.S. TV appearance promoting the album on \u201cThe Chris Isaak Show\u201d.\u00a0 No strangers to TV, the brothers in recent years have expanded their TV hosting with VH1 and E! channels and Gunnar has just recorded a solo single, \u201cBand in a Van\u201d which is out now on Disney Records which is part of the follow up soundtrack to CARS.<\/p>\n

Having just been signed to Frontiers Records, later this year Nelson are due to release a studio album of all new material, their 7th studio album titled\u00a0\u2018Lightning Strikes Twice\u2019,\u00a0the follow up to their million selling debut album\u00a0\u2018After the Rain\u2019\u00a0\u00a0that never happened back in the day.<\/p>\n

Gunnar took some time out from his busy schedule to have a quick chat and fill us in on the new record and just how good Australians are at playing the guitar!<\/p>\n

Your upcoming album \u2018Lightning Strikes Twice\u2019 on Frontiers Records is being coined as a sequel to \u2018After the Rain\u2019. What can we expect from this sequel close to some 20 years later? \u00a0Why was now the right time to record it?\u00a0\u00a0Is the album being produced by yourself and Matt?<\/strong>
\nWell, you know, Matthew and I have gone on and done 10 records since the first album and as Mario and Serafino from Frontiers so lovingly point out to us, we\u2019ve done a lot of experimenting and they were huge fans of that first record and of course Matthew and I were, not because of the first album we made but because of the times we were in and if you cast your mind back as a couple of guys that were putting together a trip back in 1990 we\u2019d already been playing clubs for 10 years trying to get our record deal at that point and spent a lot of time and a lot of love putting that whole first album cycle together.\u00a0 We thought we were going to get the benefit of gosh I don\u2019t know, 10 records with that band. Nobody could anticipate the shift that was about to happen.\u00a0 No one saw the whole grunge thing coming at all.\u00a0 We were there, we were out on tour, we were enjoying a lot of success and then we come home after playing 203 shows and the entire world was wearing flannel.\u00a0 It had seemed like MTV had changed its agenda, the record company we were on changed what they were doing too, they actually signed Nirvana on our label.\u00a0 So say if we had of released that record 4 or so years earlier things would\u2019ve been completely different.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead we pretty much went from guys who thought we were going to have another 4, 5, 6 records on that particular line of thought……to guys who were pretty much shelved because it would\u2019ve been embarrassing for a record company to let us go to some other label perhaps, who hadn\u2019t changed their musical agenda.\u00a0 So they just put us on a shelf and just kept us going back into the studio 5,6,7 times.\u00a0 By the time we had released our second record our fans had moved on the world had moved on.\u00a0 I think Matthew and I felt a little deflated because we were constantly being second guessed by the label we were on, rather than being supported.\u00a0 It was a case of, \u2018oh no you cant play that\u2019 or \u2018you cant do that kind of music\u2019.<\/p>\n

For the first time, these guys at Frontiers came to us and said \u201chey, we\u2019d love to do a record with you guys, huge fans of the band from back in the day, we love that record, but we only want to do a record with you if you can pretend the whole grunge thing never happened, that it was back in the day when the record company still supported what it was you guys did, when you were at your best and if you can make a follow up to the \u2018After The Rain\u2019 record that everybody really wanted to hear\u201d.\u00a0 So that\u2019s what we have been doing.\u00a0 What started out to be honest with you, was kind of like this little experiment that felt kinda cute to do and this is gonna be fun and let\u2019s just put it together quickly and see what happens…\u00a0\u00a0 It has instead turned into something that is so much more than that.\u00a0 This record is really, really good, I mean really good. Its got the same sort of attitude and fun factor of that first album, starting off with the 2 brothers singing together and the pop songwriting with the guitar attitude wrapped around it.\u00a0 However we have now had the benefit of having played for 20 years since, so the musicianship is better.\u00a0 We really stripped it down to what it is, when it\u2019s at its best, it\u2019s all about the songs.\u00a0 The songs are always so strong and back in the day we always felt there were so many people that released albums that really had no business releasing albums.\u00a0 I suppose towards that whole movement of confidence rock and the 80\u2019s, going into the 90\u2019s you know of course there were a lot of people that were kind of phony.\u00a0 There was no way back in the day for people to get instant feedback from friends. There was no internet, there was no way for them to go into a record store and listen to the entire album.\u00a0 All they heard was the single they heard on the radio so there were a lot of artists that were going down there and just putting that 1 single on the record and 9 other songs that were crap.\u00a0 I think kids felt ripped off. I know I did when I went down to buy a record.\u00a0 So when we made that first album our attitude was, I want at least 10 songs on this record that are single quality. I don\u2019t want any filler, I don\u2019t want the fans to feel ripped off.\u00a0 I suppose that\u2019s become a standard, especially for the larger releases that are out there.\u00a0 That\u2019s really the way that Matthew and I have approached things and finally with Frontiers we\u2019ve got a whole organisation full of people that who are not like Geffen was when things didn\u2019t work out.\u00a0 These are people that are fans of the music.\u00a0 They like me and Matthew personally and its the first time to be honest with you, I know it sounds trite, but the first time we\u2019ve really felt supported in all those 20 years.\u00a0 That\u2019s why its time to put out this record.<\/p>\n

I know incredibly long answer to a very simple question! But psychologically speaking, I know there is a lot going on and unfairly so, you know, shit happened back in the day and we kind of felt attacked.\u00a0 We felt beaten up and not just by the press that had supported us, even by our own label and we didn\u2019t do anything wrong, you know.\u00a0 So I think its taken all this time to come full circle where being a creature of the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s so to speak is not a thing to be ashamed of.\u00a0 It\u2019s something that people really dig and its not just because they grew up with the music.\u00a0 I think people are really appreciating that style a whole lot more.\u00a0 They\u2019re appreciating the musicianship and the craft and that it wasn\u2019t something that other people put together.\u00a0 Its not like some Ashlee Simpson thing.\u00a0 Its real music put together by real bands who really played and wrote and toured and I think there\u2019s a new found respect for that now.<\/p>\n

What are the origins of the songs that will make up “Lightning Strikes Twice”, are they songs that have recently been written specifically for the album, or songs that have been with you for a while now which have finally found their home?<\/strong>
\nNo they were written specifically for this album.<\/p>\n

The new Nelson line-up consists of your original drummer, the legendary Bobby Rock, international guitar virtuoso Neil Zaza, and former Aerosmith keyboardist Gary Corbett.\u00a0 How did this line-up come about?<\/strong>
\nWell pretty organically to be honest.\u00a0 I mean of course Bobby was with us on the first go around and like Matthew and I he felt somewhat slighted.\u00a0 He felt like there was so much more left to be said on that trip that got cut short for no reason and by no fault of our own.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, he heard that Matthew and I were going out with another band that we have called Scrap Metal.\u00a0 He had heard that we were doing shows and also that the reception of the shows was excellent.\u00a0 People were really digging them and as a result he called me up a couple of years back and said \u201chey what do you think, the timing is right now to put the band back together and see how people dig it?\u201d\u00a0 When he called me a couple of years ago, I said well we can test the waters.<\/p>\n

I mean I love playing of course, lets see what we can put together.\u00a0 Of course we couldn\u2019t get Brett because he\u2019s down there with you guys in Australia.\u00a0 He\u2019s busy on tour with John Farnham and he was doing your guys version of Dancing with the Stars and he was doing pretty well.\u00a0 So Bobby was doing a lot of gigs with Neil Zaza who has the same sort of mastery of the guitar.\u00a0 Of course Neil is absolutely a musician on the guitar and back in that day if you cast your mind back, it seemed that everyone had a guitar player that could beat up on the other guys guitar player.\u00a0 You know these guys were really, really good.\u00a0 So that was a super important ingredient and I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better person to step in for Brett than Neil because he\u2019s so so good and such a great guy and so melodic in his playing.\u00a0 It\u2019s like no one is ever going to beat the Aussie genius that is Brett Garsed, nobody could ever be that guy.\u00a0\u00a0 He is, I mean, I say this lovingly, he\u2019s a freak!\u00a0 This is a guy, he\u2019s like a savant, he grew up and he was born to play guitar, and no one in the United States plays like Brett.\u00a0 You know he\u2019s just really really really good, but fortunately after I spent all these years listening to him I could hear through where he was going and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve got on this record too.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of great guitar work on this, but again, a lot of music really takes a back seat I suppose to the musicianship.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re a band that prides itself on the songwriting and that\u2019s really been the corner stone of what Nelson has always done.\u00a0 We had to make sure that the songs were strong enough to actually do us justice.\u00a0 I know a lot of people with some of these melodic hard rock releases lately, some people have a different theory and they\u2019ll just send in their demos and call it a record.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what we\u2019ve done here, this was done with the same reverence that the\u00a0\u2018After The Rain\u2019\u00a0record was made. I mean it was done in real studios with real budgets with real players and the songs were not an after thought so I think people are going to get something that they have been waiting for.<\/p>\n

Now you talk about Brett with the Down Under connection and you have always seemed to have a strong association with Australia, with an Australian management, yet you never came here. Are you planning extensive touring to promote the release of this album and what are the chances of Nelson one day heading Down Under?<\/strong>
\nYou know what? There is nothing I would love more than to come play some shows in Australia.\u00a0 That Australian manager is still in our lives he\u2019s still a very good friend and he actually switched over to sports management.\u00a0 He does a lot of work with a football team and it was funny, he heard about this Frontiers release and I got an email from him a couple of weeks ago and he said \u2018so what do you guys think about coming down to Australia FINALLY and playing some shows.?\u00a0 Man there is nothing I would like more and like I said remember how this project started off being a little one off release that we were gonna put out with Mario and Serafino there and how its grown into so much more.<\/p>\n

I plan on getting top level management together for this record and touring extensively in Europe in Australia and the United States is actually going to be the last stop with this. Its kind of on auto pilot and because its so good it deserves to be heard.\u00a0 It really does and were gonna make sure we put together a killer show. I have to say man, if we come down there and tour in Australia, Brett\u2019s gonna have to join us.\u00a0 He wont have the excuse anymore.<\/p>\n

Lastly, when is the album due out, do you have a release date for this?<\/strong>
\nWell unfortunately it\u2019s been pushed a couple of times and that\u2019s my fault.\u00a0 We have been touring a lot, my brother and I, because it\u2019s summer and all you know.\u00a0 When we first got approached to do the record I think I was too positive in how quickly I could get it done around the tour dates.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking of having this to the guys at Frontiers within 3 weeks, mixed and mastered and it will definitely be out before Christmas time.\u00a0 We are going to have it sped up and stuff to be released before Christmas and that\u2019s about as much of a date that I can give you right now.\u00a0 This is only because right now I still have a little bit of background work to do.\u00a0 I\u2019m waiting for the concert master because we\u2019re going to have real strings on this thing and I had to wait for the concert master to get off tour with Solomon so he\u2019s available in 3 days.\u00a0 So its that kind of thing, like lets say I could\u2019ve done fake strings on a keyboard and have been done with this 2 weeks ago.\u00a0 But I wanted to put a real string quartet on the ballad I co wrote with Mark Slaughter.\u00a0 It\u2019s a song that really deserves that, so that\u2019s the kind of thing.<\/p>\n

So be patient, definitely by Christmas.<\/p>\n

Well there are a lot of fans out there waiting to hear it and we\u2019re one of them, so we can\u2019t wait.\u00a0 Hopefully we can talk again when the album comes out.<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019ll definitely talk again as soon as the album\u2019s out. Rock on!<\/p>\n

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