Archive for February 28th, 2009
Waking Up Dead — Interviews From 2005 With SAIGON KICK Drummer Phil Varone And Emmy Award Winning Director Fabio Jafet
by carl on Feb.28, 2009, under The Interviews
Back in 2005 former Saigon Kick / Skid Row drummer Phil Varone released a DVD entitled Waking Up Dead, which documents his rise to fame and eventual fall from grace due to substance abuse. Filmed by Emmy Award winning journalist and film maker Fabio Jafet over a four year period, it offers a brutal look at the realties of the music business, and I highly recommend it to anyone who’s ever had the whole fame and fortune dream (view a clip here). Thanks to Matt Kramer, the vocalist of Saigon Kick, I was able to set up interviews with both Varone and Jafet to discuss the project, and both pieces were published by BW&BK in 2005. I watched the movie again today and decided to resurrect the interviews now that I have this page to do my bidding.
The first interview features my discussion with Jafet. Remember, this is was back in 2005 so the timelines might be a tad off…
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