{"id":2313,"date":"2013-04-25T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2013-04-25T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:43:22","slug":"interview-with-udo-dirkschneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/04\/25\/interview-with-udo-dirkschneider\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Udo Dirkschneider (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/UD_RR-P11-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2314\" title=\"UD_RR-P11 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/UD_RR-P11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/UD_RR-P11-copy.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/UD_RR-P11-copy-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Legendary German heavy metal singer Udo Dirkschneider brought his band U.D.O.&#8217;s short North American tour to a close at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood last night (April 23rd 2013). A few hours before the show, the band did their soundcheck. Having never seen Udo perform on stage before, I was quite blown away by the quality of his voice, even at the age of 61. I knew the show was going to be great, but what I was immediately looking forward to at that point was my interview with Udo. After the soundcheck, I sat down with him for a brief chat. Check out the audio of our conversation along with a slideshow of images in the YouTube clipbelow, read my review of the show <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2013\/04\/24\/u-d-o-brings-north-american-tour-to-a-fitting-end-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and a full gallery of live photos <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/pictures\/2013\/04\/25\/u-d-o-the-whisky-hollywood-ca-042313\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Make sure to\u00a0check out U.D.O.&#8217;s new album Steelhammer when it comes out next month!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewf4kSwRJKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/udo-online.com\" target=\"_blank\">udo-online.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/udoonline\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/udoonline<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/udoonline\">twitter.com\/udoonline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0[Dressing room shot of Udo and me taken by Ronnie Lyon]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Legendary German heavy metal singer Udo Dirkschneider brought his band U.D.O.&#8217;s short North American tour to a close at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood last night (April 23rd 2013). A few hours before the show, the band did their soundcheck. Having never seen Udo perform on stage before, I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/04\/25\/interview-with-udo-dirkschneider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview With Udo Dirkschneider (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}