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The Obelisk: Wino Talks About Signing To Volcom, Spirit Caravan, New Shrinebuilder, Saint Vitus And Much More
Posted on Friday, February 4th, 2011
JJ Koczan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with Scott “Wino” Weinrich of Saint Vitus and The Obsessed-fame, and it features in-depth questions focusing on signing to volcom, going acoustic, savoy brown, pentagram, spirit caravan, new shrinebuilder, saint vitus and much more.
The Obelisk: Are you signed to Volcom? I know they’re doing the EP release of Adrift.
Wino: We aren’t physically signed yet, but we are going to sign. Maybe as soon as this weekend. We’ve been back and forth between the legal people, and yeah, I think so. I’ve got a couple releases coming out, and I think it’s a pretty cool opportunity.
The Obelisk: How did that all come about?
Wino: Saint Vitus. The music director [at Volcom] does this single thing. The monthly singles club, or however much time it is. He’s gonna do a Saint Vitus single. So you know they’re pretty loose (laughs), if they’re gonna do a Vitus single. Basically, what happened was, David [Chandler, Saint Vitus guitarist]’s personal manager is also our tour manager, this guy Rodney. He’s been working in the industry for a long time, buying merchandise and all that kind of shit.
He knew about Volcom, so he arranged to have the single done and out. David didn’t like the ending to one of the songs, he rejected the music, so then he contacted my friend, sort of my best buddy who travels around and records everything we do. He just happened to have a whole bunch of Vitus stuff, so he put my buddy in touch with Volcom, Volcom found out he was hanging out with me and said, “Oh, we’re big fans, we’d really like to get in touch about doing something,” and the next thing you know, we’re down here working out a record deal. I think it’s pretty cool. I think it’s a great corporation. Everybody’s got a real good vibe, there’s no pressure at all. As long as we sell some records, it’ll be cool.
The Obelisk: What do you have coming out this year?
Wino: They licensed Adrift for a limited edition vinyl and I think they went through them already, so they’re probably going to license another run. Me and Scott Kelly from Neurosis, we do this acoustic thing, so we’re teaming up to do a mini-tour, it’s like eight cities. He’s been doing that for a while now, playing acoustic around, but I just started doing it. We’ve got a single coming out on Volcom, where each of us do one song on each side. That’s coming out. They licensed Adrift. And Premonition, this band I’ve been working with for… Well, I’ve known the one guy for 20 years and we never did anything, finally decided to make a record. And they liked the demos, so they said they’d put it out. We did a single, and we’re right in the process right now of mixing a full-length. Suddenly I’ll have a lot of releases out on Volcom. They give a pretty fair deal.
Listen to Wino – ‘I Don’t Care’ (From Adrift):
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