{"id":2250,"date":"2009-07-18T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:44:42","slug":"rth-exclusive-andrew-lloyd-weber-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-exclusive-andrew-lloyd-weber-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Exclusive &#8212; Andrew Lloyd Weber Admits:  I Wrote All That Dragonforce Shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmU2R9lTivY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>July 17 &#8212; London, England &#8212;<\/strong> Longtime Broadway musical composer <strong>Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber<\/strong> admitted today that he was the &#8220;mastermind&#8221; behind numerous faux-metal hits purportedly written by melody-speed metal band <strong>Dragonforce<\/strong>.  In interviews conducted at Weber&#8217;s Chelsea residence, the composer of numerous hit musicals confessed:  &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s the brandy talking, or maybe I&#8217;m just missing Elton like <em>crazy<\/em>, but&#8230; for goodness sake &#8212; couldn&#8217;t the music-listening world spot a late-20th-century &#8216;Lion King&#8217; melody when they hear one?  I mean, <em>seriously<\/em>&#8230; just listen to that song &#8216;Through the Fire and the Flames.&#8217;  It&#8217;s like &#8216;Cats&#8217; or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weber went on to point out that though he had hired &#8220;pretty boys&#8221; to play the astonishingly fast guitar solos that undergird the band&#8217;s repertoire, &#8220;I want the whole world to know, those two really can play that fast.  I truly think today&#8217;s youth could learn a thing or two about discipline, determination, and &#8212; yes &#8212; <em>athleticism<\/em> from those two youngsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the evening&#8217;s most telling moment unfolded when a representative of online music blog <em>Rock Town Hall<\/em> asked Weber why he had bothered writing music for the speed-metal band.  After spilling his brandy alexander, Weber confessed that he &#8220;relished a challenge,&#8221; and added that he wanted to &#8220;do his part to finally and fully break down the conceptual walls between what is considered musical theatre and what is considered &#8216;heavy metal,'&#8221; adding, &#8220;I mean, really:  that fine line between <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> and &#8216;Les Miserables&#8217; was just <em>begging<\/em> to be smudged, wasn&#8217;t it?&#8221;  He then mumbled something that couldn&#8217;t be deciphered about the tastes of 15-year-old boys and the Broadway musical genre, and fell abruptly under the table.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 5 minutes later, the songwriter excused himself, saying he was overdue for a foot massage, and directed all follow-up questions to his personal chef, Jacques.  Jacques immediately left the room, and the briefing was brought to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17 &#8212; London, England &#8212; Longtime Broadway musical composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber admitted today that he was the &#8220;mastermind&#8221; behind numerous faux-metal hits purportedly written by melody-speed metal band Dragonforce. In interviews conducted at Weber&#8217;s Chelsea residence, the composer of numerous hit musicals confessed: &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s the brandy talking, or maybe I&#8217;m just <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-exclusive-andrew-lloyd-weber-admits\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}