Olga from Toy Dolls
Хы-хы. Я написал письмо Ольге из Toy Dolls, и он честно на него ответил:
Hello, Olga! How are you? I'm Alex, a fan of Toy Dolls for about 5 years (I'm 21 now) from Moscow, Russia. I was at your show here in Apelsin club 2 years ago it was soooooo great, best concert in my life. I've seen many of great groups live such as Judas Priest, Rolling Stones, Misfits, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, but Toy Dolls' performance was the greatest! So thank you very much for coming in our country and making my dream come true and hope to see you in Russia again! Also I'd like to say a HUGE THANK YOU for your great music, it's so awesome, that I can't find proper words to describe it! Without Toy Dolls World would be much worse. And very special thanks for the way you treat with your fans, answering our questions directly and coming out after shows - not so many famous groups behave themselves the same way! And (I hope you are not getting boring with my gratitude) thank you for your great guitar lessons they are excellent! So, I have a suggestion for it, may be you could do a lesson not dedicated to one particular song, but where you show some basic exercises for guitar players, may be some licks you used to play when you just started guitar, or what you play now to keep fit :) And I have a request - could you please do Pot Belly Bill in your lessons, it's my favorite of your songs, and main riff is one of the greatest rock riffs I've ever heard! Now, to the point. I have a great deal of questions to you. I honestly read all ASK OLGA sections and I didn't find resembling questions, so I pluck up my spirits to ask them.
1) So, here is my first question: Steve Vai (have you heard of him? ha-ha) said recently that he didn't have an album which shows all his guitar skills yet and he is going to record it sooner or later while he still can play, so the question is do you think that you realized all your potential as guitarist in previous Toy Dolls' albums, or we may expect something amazing in the future? I separate guitar technique and composer art, you can be a good guitarist but bad composer and vice versa, so I'm asking only about guitar technique, not about quality of songs as a whole. By the way, I think you are one of the greatest guitar players on earth, your style is unique, and speed is incredible!
Answer: Hi Alex, Thank you for your mail, and cheers for coming to the Apelsin in Moscow, glad you enjoyed it, we had a wild time there, great stuff, thank you!Steve Vai is an incredible guitar player, though my friend Paul Gilbert is even better! Check him out! I am really a rhythm guitar player myself, I dont like long solos so much, I think the solo should compliment the song melody. In answer to your question, I have never been 100% happy with any album, or guitar playing! And I guess I feel the same as Steve, though his playing is light years ahead of me!
2) So here's another question: do you think you are able to exceed your best albums in the future, and write something better than Dig That Groove and Absurd Ditties?
Answer: I would like to think so, I am trying! I am 90% happy with those two albums however! Fingers crossed the next one will be as good! I am working 10 hours a day on it at the moment, got 3 songs done so far, too early to tell how they are though!
3) In ASK OLGA section you said somewhere, that you could make a list of the worst Toy Dolls' songs, so could you please do it? 5 bad songs would be enough! (I think, many of your songs are very fucking great, all other are better than average (well, may be I haven't heard all of them) In fact the only Toy Dolls' song I can't listen to is Turtle Crazy)
Answer: Turtle Crazy is one of the worst for sure!! Some otheres include Nowt can compare to Sunderlands Fine Fare, Dorkamania, Greifsville, Pot Luck Percy…..etc etc! Far too many bad songs to mention!
4) As I know it takes you a lot of time to write an album, and judging by your comments on the albums you are very self-exacting. May be that's why your music is so unique and stunning. But many groups sometimes spend very little time composing songs and recording albums and sometimes they have outstanding results. As far as I know The Stooges wrote their first album in a couple of days and it's a good one. So the question is: is it possible for you to write a good album in a short time? Or can you compose a song in one day? And which Toy Dolls' songs took you more time to write and which took less? (Yeah I know there are three questions but they are similar :))
Answer: Yes, it is possible to write some great stuff in a day! But for me, rarely! Though Glenda and the Test Tube baby only took a day, and Dig that groove baby album only took 3 days to record, so it is possible for sure. Some bad songs I have written took months to write! Barry the roofer took quite a few weeks to write, but I am very happy with it. Some nice songs come quickly, some nice songs take ages to write. Some crap songs are wriiten quickly, and some crap songs even can take ages to write also!! Believe me! I know!
5) When you became famous you probably met some of your idols or heroes - people, whose music inspired you. For example you said that you've met Glen Matlock. You know there is an opinion, that meeting your heroes is not always a good thing, because they may disappoint you and it could turn out that they don't correspond to their image in your head. Whom did you meet from your idols? What were your feelings from meeting these people? Who disappointed you? And who made a great impression on you?
Answer: Ha! Famous eh! I will let you know if it happens! Met quite a few idols over the past 30 years, wont tell you about the few bad ones, but ones who made an impression are: Knox from Vibrators, Charlie Harper, the guys from Sham 69, No Doubt, Chris Spedding, Brian Johnson from ACDC, and a whole load more! Not always people in the music business.
6) During your long music career have your ever had a period when you was sick of touring, of playing? Did you want to marry, to have kids?
Well I am kinda human! So from time to time touring can get you down, but not very often to be honest. I am itching to get back on the road now, and I am never sick of playing, sometimes long rehearsals can get you down a bit, but they have to be done! But other than that I love travelling, being in the van, soundchecks, recording, playing live…. All wonderful! And I cant believe I am so lucky to still be doing it! I am married to me Telecaster! And I would NEVER have kids! That's for sure!
Well, that's all what I wanted to ask! Hope you will answer me, but if not I wouldn't take offence! Sorry for such a long letter, but I couldn't make it shorter, than it is! And also sorry for my bad English, I think there are plenty of mistakes here, though I can't find them! I wish you and Toy Dolls long years of rocking, say hi to Duncan and Tommy and other crew members, you guys are amazing! And also very special thanks to Ciaron, the site is excellent! Hope to see Toy Dolls somewhere sometime again! Gooood bye!!!!!!!!
Answer: Hey, thank you, interesting reading! Will pass your regards on to Tommy and Duncan, the crew and Ciaron. Cheers! Hope to see you in Moscow next time!. Take care Olga
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