{"id":2748,"date":"2013-09-03T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2013-09-11T04:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:26:54","slug":"audio-interview-with-bjorn-englen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/09\/03\/audio-interview-with-bjorn-englen\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Interview With Bjorn Englen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bjorn2-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"bjorn2 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bjorn2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bjorn2-copy.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bjorn2-copy-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Currently playing bass for Dio Disciples, Tony MacAlpine and Soul Sign, Bjorn Englen has been a prolific musician over the years, also having played bass for Yngwie Malmsteen from 2007 to 2012 and before that with Robin McAuley, Uli Jon Roth, Quiet Riot and a few others. Working with this variety of musicians and touring worldwide has made him a versatile bassist and performer. Last Saturday on August 31st 2013, he held a bass clinic at the Carvin store in the heart of Hollywood, during which he performed some Yngwie and Soul Sign material and did a Q&amp;A with the small but enthusiastic audience to talk about bass playing, gear, and his experiences with the various bands he&#8217;s been with, among other things. After this very successful clinic, I had a chance to speak to him for an interview, where we discussed just about everything he is and has been involved in. Listen to the 13-minute chat below and LA folks make sure you catch his band Soul Sign at the Joint on September 26th.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQoXsUWfMlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/BjornEnglen.com\" target=\"_blank\">BjornEnglen.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/BjornEnglen\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/BjornEnglen<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BjornEnglen\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/BjornEnglen<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Currently playing bass for Dio Disciples, Tony MacAlpine and Soul Sign, Bjorn Englen has been a prolific musician over the years, also having played bass for Yngwie Malmsteen from 2007 to 2012 and before that with Robin McAuley, Uli Jon Roth, Quiet Riot and a few others. Working with this variety of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/09\/03\/audio-interview-with-bjorn-englen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Audio Interview With Bjorn Englen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2749,"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\/2748"}],"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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}