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I love when I get an invite to listen to music from a new band, I love it even more when the music's rockin, and as a writer I'm in pure heaven when you add a powerful story connected together through music that each and everyone of us can identify with, in this case, the choices we make in our life. The band is Nextpage the cd is called "Delicate Pain" and the new video they have out is "Roulette" The band from Knoxville Tennessee is James Kirtley-vocals, Tim Jones-lead guitar, Jeremy Powers- rhythm guitar, Scott Glover- Bass, Chris Miracle-drums. On a recent hot day in Hollywood I met up with Tim Jones and Nextpage Street team leader Marcie at the Sunset Strip Tattoo parlor where Marcie was getting her first tattoo. As Marcie got prepared, Tim and I talked about the band, the cd and the video and from Tennessee James shared his thoughts on the band and their music.

MUEN: How did you guys get together?

Tim: Around October 2006 we got together, we didn't know each other whatsoever, we're from east Tennessee all of us. Most of us met through the internet, bandmix.com, that was how me and James met. He had already interviewed numerous guitarist, he had next page developed 7 yrs ago, I came into the band 2 years ago, Jeremy, James and I were the crux of the band, Scott and Chris came later on. Me James and Jeremy wrote most of the music together,.

James: The concept of the Band and delicate pain kinda walked hand in hand. I really needed to get some stuff out of me. I found I was able to see and feel everything in a different way through music. I didn't know why or how much until I started doing it.

MUEN: Were you in any other band before this?

Tim: I'm a nurse practitioner, been doing that for the past 10 years, but I've always wanted to do music as my main profession, music is my life. I have been preparing for this the whole time. we got together in Oct and I don't think ant of us realized what we had going into the project but it was almost divine, all three of us came together, we had similar interest and goals and musical interest despite the fact our ages range from 19 to in our 30s. We started writing the 17 songs that came out as delicate pain.
We had numerous songs, around 30 that we had written together and brought into the studio, 17 songs that came out on the cd.

James: When I first met Tim and Jeremy it really solidified what I was doing. The things they had experienced in life and how they felt about music gave us a connection I never felt before.

MUEN: So, is it the three of you James Jeremy and yourself that do the writing and how does that work

Tim: James, Jeremy and I wrote most of the songs on the cd. Jeremy is the major rift writer, James comes up with the lyrics and most of the melody lines, we have the musical theory and background along with combined 20 +years of musical experience. Jeremy will come with a basic rift or rhythm and it will be very crude but a tremendous piece, and me and James tend to take it from there and compose it to something to the next level.

James: I feel we were able to take the album further with our combined experiences and outlook on the material. Even though I had really set the foundation for what I wanted for "Delicate Pain" The real writing for the album did not take place until I met these guys. Then hell and carnage began…

MUEN: What are you musical influences?

Tim: For me its mainly Metallica ACDC, Randy Rhodes Ozzy Osbourne. Growing up I got the music books for ACDC, Randy Rhodes and Metallica. I knew all there songs and I really studied how they composed things together, Scott our bass player, he started out as a guitar player, but he ended up with bass for numerous years but his main influence is Led Zeppelin which I grew up on as well, my brother introduced me to Kiss, ACDC and Led Zeppelin. With ACDC being the main influence in my life I would have to say ACDC is the main influence period in my life.

MUEN: Your music caught my attention right away, I always like to see a band live, unfortunately I haven't seen you play live YET. So What kind of a rapport am I going to see with you guys on stage?

Tim: We each have had our own individual time in the past on stage but together we are new. Today before I came here I was listening to some videos, some cheap camcorder video of us playing at our last show and we're really hooking up, Jeremy, he's got a tremendous sense of rhythm which I don't have. I'm lead guitar player, but rhythm is for him he's got the rhythm sense that I just don't have, I could play lead, all lead you want and visa versa, but we're really hooking up so I feel very comfortable with these guys on stage. I think it's very unique what we got, its kinda interesting, we came together from just miles apart in Tennessee I lived on one side of town, the rhythm guitarist lived on the opposite side of town, the lead singer lived in the middle and we came together through just the grace of God I guess. We have something that's very special and unique that will have a long life.

MUEN: How would you describe the music coming from this band?

Tim: Melodic hard rockin rift driven, guitar driven great melody line, its got a great classic sense to it, its got great roots to it. Its got great metal roots to it. We all grew up on what is music, what is metal music today, and I really do think that we got it, a good sense, a good strong hold on what is rock music today.

MUEN: Now with this digital generation, do you see a big change with the major labels…Bands can now have there music downloaded from their myspace page or their web page and some bands are refusing to sign because they do not want to give up control or sell out.

Tim: Its very interesting the times, who knows what the future hold. I hear all kind of interesting stats like 80 percent of the moneys your gonna get are gonna come from digital weather its from downloads or itunes or whatever so what that leaves 20%, 30 % for cd sales its kinda scary you know, like you I grew up in the 80s generation and everything comes from cd sales (laughs) so you think in those terms and that type of frame of mind to think of this new generation that every ones downloading something from the internet and digital sales and movies through video, how do you make money from that…. its all a very new and interesting way of doing things, its like you could become one of the biggest names in the industry but are you making money from it or not.

MUEN: Your video "Roulette" is awesome, who produced and directed it?

Tim: It was Directed by Ramon Bautviseth from StudioRB Filmshttp://www. myspace. com/studiorbfilms The Hollywood team on the Video was : Melanie Thompson, Krystle Seiden, director of photography Ryan Fink, Sourita & Cristy, ..Kaden Studios. Jimmy and Tracy at Midtown Rehersals provided the Knoxville facility for the video.

James: Roulette was the last song written for the album. It's placement and lead into my final breath is as important as how it was written. I was inspired by some things Tim was going through at the time. It made me really stop and reflect how many of us struggle so many times in life to over come seemingly impossible challenges The song has meant a tremendous amount to all of us.

MUEN: So your gonna start your tour at the Whisky in Sept.?

Tim: Well on the way to the Whiskey were gonna do some shows.

MUEN: So have you lined up dates yet?

Tim: We're working on that right now. We should have it put together by next month. We are doing all this on our own without any label, or any management company. American Nightmare is the company we started, so that is our management company and our label if you will. Its part of our dream with the band Nextpage and the management company American Nightmare that we will become a major player in the industry. What will become of it we'll have to see but that is our dream.

The phone rings and Marcie is on the other end calling Tim back into the tattoo shop to take the pictures of this "first time" moment. On my way home I pop the cd in the player and as I listen to the music I am now more than certain that Nextpage is most definitely on the right page . To check out this band, hear their music, check out tour dates and to purchase this cd go to www.nextpagerock.com .