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Dark Avenger a écrit :Faut être un romantique avec des legères tendances fascistes pour vraiment apprécier Type O... et faut aimer le sexe aussi...du coup, ça exclut pas mal de monde.

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Dark Avenger a écrit :Faut être un romantique avec des legères tendances fascistes pour vraiment apprécier Type O... et faut aimer le sexe aussi...du coup, ça exclut pas mal de monde.

Malgré ce genre de provoc', Peter Steele s'est toujours défendu de ces allégations généralisées à cause de certains titres de Carnivore, qui étaient eux aussi pour le moins provocateurs pour ne pas dire de mauvais goût. Type O en avaient fait les frais sur leur première tournée.
Mais dans ses interviews je dénote juste un mec simple au sens très aiguisé de l'humour noir, décalé et burlesque au 2ème degré, ainsi que le goût de semer le doute sur ce qu'il pense réellement. Mais je n'ai jamais vu dans Type O, groupe incluant slave et juif, une quelconque approche politique, a fortiori radicale, même si je suis loin de le connaître par cœur. D'autres confirmeront peut-être.
De ce que j'ai pu lire et voir de lui, Peter Steele exprimait parfois des opinions disons courantes aux USA (sans vouloir généraliser), mais ça n'en fait pas un fasciste pour autant, pas plus que sa musique à mon sens.

How did you eventually get to know Peter Steele?

I was hanging out with Louie Beato from Carnivore, because when I was a kid I took drum lessons from Louie, he lived up the block from me. He was my idol when I was 14 and he used to take me to the Carnivore rehearsals and that’s where I first met Peter – in his basement, because that’s where they were rehearsing. I was like the little brother for them, they took me with them – it was cool. So I used to hang out with Carnivore, going to the shows, helping out … I was exposed to these guys from a very young age.

And how did you end up in Type O Negative after Carnivore disbanded?

When Carnivore broke up I asked Peter if he wanted to hang out and jam – and then it became this whole fucking craziness! We had like four different band names and then finally it was Type O Negative. The other options were New Minority, Subzero and Repulsion.

What do you remember about recording (Type O’s first album) Slow, Deep and Hard?

It was crazy. It was good. I was just happy to be playing with Pete, with a musician like him – that I was good enough to play with him. I was an angry kid too, I had a lot of issues at school and stuff, and so all that angry music and playing really hard and heavy and slow and fast it really was like therapy. It was nuts though – noone got it at first. At the live shows the audience was like „What the fuck?“ All this keyboard shit, jackhammers, chains and all the other shit. It was cool I learned a lot. We got together every week and rehearsed and did local shows … and when Roadrunner picked up our first record we did a tour with Biohazard and Exploited. That was just fucking chaos. My first fucking tour and I was like „Holy shit, this is nuts!“

Your first European tour with „Slow, Deep and Hard“ was not a pleasant one …

When we came to Europe more than half the tour was cancelled by the time we landed in Europe because everybody was afraid – venues were getting bomb threats from the left wing extremists because they didn’t get Peter’s sarcastic lyrics and thought we were racists. In Berlin it was the worst – there were flyers with Peter’s picture saying „If you see him, kill him“ … also the press was accusing us of being nazis. In one interview Josh said „But I’m Jewish“, but the interviewer was like „but there’s jewish nazis also!“ It was really absurd – I was like „Don’t you get it? It’s just music! It’s just a crazy idea from a crazy guy in Brooklyn!“

It got better with your second album, the all-time classic Bloody Kisses!

That was one of the best albums I ever played on! That was a big record. I had no idea that I’d be on an album that is almost considered Pink Floyd status in the metal world. It’s just such a fucking crazy record. During the recordings I had a feeling that as a musician I knew that it was really, really good. All the weird timing changes, the melodies and the sweet notes that were going on. We knew we were making a really good record – we didn’t know that it would bet hat big.

Nevertheless you left Type O negative after the release of „Bloody Kisses“. How did that come along?

From the time we started Type O Negative until the release of „Bloody Kisses“ – that’s about four years – we did two little stupid tours. „Slow, Deep and Hard“ didn’t sell well and it just looked like it wasn’t gonna go anywhere maybe. At the time of the release of „Bloody Kisses“ nobody knew what was gonna happen. And as I told you before, Peter didn’t want to give up his day job and we had many fights … What I regret about it is that we were immature, me and Peter. Both too proud to give in. Peter was very bossy and very demanding – he would want to dictate every little fucking thing and I had to fight it. On „Bloody Kisses“ I did all the drums on my own, I was doing what I felt. I was like „You are writing the music but I wanna do the beats that I feel complemented the music best“. We used to fight about lots of stupid stuff. When you’re young, in your twenties, and you’re doing an album, you don’t know what you’re doing. You got a big mouth, you fucking talk a lot of shit …

Did you ever regret leaving Type O Negative?

Yeah, sure! There were some times after I left that I thought „Ah man, now they decide to do all these big tours …“ The Type O albums after „Bloody Kisses“ started to sound a little bit the same, but that’s just how Peter wrote. He did what he did as an artist. But for me, „Bloody Kisses“ was the pinnacle. It had a lot to do with the chemistry at the moment, it became what it became.

Did you at any point notice that Peter had a drug problem?

Pete wasn’t doing drugs when I was in the band. That shit didn’t start until after I was gone. And I think if I was in the band, I wouldn’t have allowed it to get to him like it did. He used to be straight! All the time! He just used to drink a little bit. He used to criticise the rest of the band for smoking weed! He used to call us „hippie drug addicts“! When I heard about all that kind of crap (Peter’s drug problem) I couldn’t believe it!

When did you last see Peter?

I saw him in person in october when he did a show with Type O Negative. In February we were talking on the phone, because he wanted to do another version of Carnivore. And he had asked me to play the drums in that version of Carnivore. He wanted to play some shows in Europe now, in the summertime … so we were talking about that. Then I had to go to Europe for a couple of weeks with Life Of Agony. When I came home I got this phonecall … that he passed away. I was at the wake every day and I went to the ceremony because I knew his sisters for a very long time. The funeral procession … being at the grave, everything. The last time I actually saw him was when I touched his shoulder when he was laying there in the funeral home.

Did you think that Peter knew he could be facing death due to his previous drug abuse?

I don’t think he did expect to die. There was things going on with him but I think death did surprise him at that very moment. He was nine months sober and he was clean and he wasn’t drinking and he was really working hard to get back on his feet and back on top with Type O, Carnivore and everything … nine months really working hard and that’s when he died. That’s from all the years of abuse, things that went wrong. He had some things going on inside his head which people didn’t know. His mind was restless.

Several TYPE O NEGATIVE fans launched a Facebook group called "Peter's Tree" dedicated to planting a tree at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York in honor of the the band's late frontman Peter Steele. And this past Monday (November 21), the oak tree dedicated to Steele was planted.

Steele, who died last year, was a nature lover. In fact, the towering frontman actually worked for the Parks Department as a supervisor before TYPE O NEGATIVE's touring and recording commitments forced him to quit the day job in order to pursue a career as a full-time musician.

Commented TYPE O NEGATIVE drummer Johnny Kelly: "[The oak tree planting is] something that's been a long time in the making. A lot of fans took it upon themselves to do something special for Peter. It is something that is in the true spirit of what Peter was about and who he was. This Peter truly would've appreciated."

Steele passed away on April 14, 2010 from heart failure. He was 48 years old.