lunedì 13 gennaio 2014

Evil Dead Fans: an interview with John Dowding !

Evil Dead is not only a movie, Evil Dead means even a lot of fans around the world that make the trilogy lives through the years. There are many kind of fan, starting from the collectors (here I am !!!), passing to the ones who know by heart every single gag, arriving to ones who documentate themselves in order to know more about their passion.

Today I would like to have a talk with John Dowding, a guys nearly 30years old who lives in London   and works in retail (no not S-MART :D LOL).  John has been an Evil Dead fan since his Uncle leant him the Army of Darkness directors cut bootleg VHS 20yrs ago but he was a BIG fan when he got The Evil Dead on dvd in 2002. 


John, who loves music, decides to research all music related about the Evil Dead Trilogy! So, here it is John! 

ME: What idea give you inspiration for this work ?

JOHN: I love music and searching for new tracks and artists and I am always making play lists and albums inspired by my geeky interests, especially comic books and horror.
When I heard about the Evil Dead remake I wanted to make an album up to celebrate its release as its my favourite movie franchise just to listen to with mates, but didn’t think there would be a lot of music for it other than the soundtrack scores and the musical soundtrack which I already had. So started digging around and found hell of a lot more than I thought I would.

ME: Where do you search tracks? and do you have any particular source?

JOHN: My main place to download music is iTunes. I will always look there first. They have a great catalogue of music especially unknown self released artists. Other than iTunes I used YouTube, Myspace and Google, searching every word, name, catchphrase, quote, character and actor associated with the Evil Dead movies. Looked for months, listening to hundreds of songs from, based on and/or inspired by Evil Dead. Checked loads of band sites, Horror inspired bands albums and then posted on Deaditesonline.com, Within the Wood: The Evil Dead appreciation site, The Ultimate Evil Dead Fan Club on facebook and various other Evil Dead pages and groups on facebook asking other fans if they knew of any songs.

ME: How do you choose the track order in the cd?

JOHN: I like to keep a good flow of pace with any album I make. I upload it on my iPod and listen to it over and over and re-arrange until I am happy with the flow of the album. I like to add in intro's, film excerpts and outro's to my albums as well. Really geek it up and make it more interesting and fun to listen to.

ME: Can you give us some example of track list?

JOHN: Here is the full track list's for each album so other fans can find these great songs.
Note: There was a couple songs that I found that I couldn’t find out the name of the artist so I put them down as 'Fake Shemp'

DISC 1

1. INTRO - Joseph LoDuca
2. BOOK OF THE DEAD - Prowler
3. HAIL TO THE KING - Holy Light Of Demons
4. "GROOVY" - Evil Dead 2
5. BEHEMOTH - Joseph LoDuca
6. CABIN IN THE WOODS - Evil Dead: The Musical Cast
7. A THING CALLED EVIL - Dead By 28
8. WITHIN THE WOODS - Killer Buddah
9. PROLOGUE - Joseph LoDuca
10. ARMY OF DARKNESS (GROOVY REMIX) - Fake Shemp
11. NECRONOMICON - Fake Shemp
12. CHOP OFF MY HAND - Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13
13. DEAD BY DAWN - Rezurex
14. EVIL DEAD - Esham ft. Daniel Jordan
15. MARCH OF THE DEAD - Danny Elfman
16. SWALLOW YOUR SOUL - Sorry For Nothing
17. EVIL DEAD - Liers In Wait
18. DRY HUMP (EVIL DEAD 2013 TRAILER MUSIC) - Randroid Music
19. WHO'S LAUGHING NOW - Skinny Puppy
20. LAUGHING SCENE - Evil Dead 2
21. THE MFF VS THE EVIL DEAD - The MFF
22. DO THE NECRONOMICON - Evil Dead: The Musical Cast
23. ASH HOUSEWARES GETS SAND IN HIS BOOMSTICK - Fake Shemp
24. DO THE BRUCE CAMPBELL - MC Lars & YTCracker
25. THE DIXIELAND RAG - Fake Shemp

DISC 2

1. NECRONOMICON INCANTATION - Evil Dead 2
2. I'LL RIP YOUR SOUL OUT - Roque Baños
3. BOOK OF THE DEAD - Genisis
4. EVIL DEAD - Stellar Corpses
5. RAPE OF THE VINES - Joseph LoDuca
6. DEAD BY DAWN - The Distorted
7. SAD BUT TRUE (AOD TRAILER MUSIC) - Metallica
8. DAWN/INCANTATION - Joseph LoDuca
9. JOIN US - Evil Dead: The Musical Cast
10. THE EVIL DEAD (REMIX) - The Vision
11. THE BOOK OF EVIL - Joseph LoDuca
12. THE EVIL DEAD - The Adorkables
13. THE BALLAD OF JAKE AND BOBBY JOE - Tim-O and Danny Hicks
14. THE FOREST OF THE DEAD/GRAVEYARD - Joseph LoDuca
15. EVIL DEAD 2:  DEAD BY DAWN - Guru Mediator
16. THINGS THAT WERE AND SHALL BE AGAIN (PREVIEW) - Exmortis
17. EVIL DEAD - The Spooky
18. I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL - Evil Dead 2
19. LOVE? - Strapping Young Lad
20. JUST LIKE BRUCE CAMPBELL DID - Joe Hero
21. EVIL DEAD REVIEW SONG - JoBlo
22. HAIL THE.../END TITLE - Joseph LoDuca
23. EVIL DEAD 2013 END TITLE (WITH DIALOGUE)

DISC 3

1. ARMY OF DARKNESS INTRO
2. EVIL DEAD: HAIL TO THE KING TITLE SCREEN
3. EVIL DEAD - Demoni
4. WITHIN THE WOODS - Far From Alone
5. "GROOVY" - Army Of Darkness
6. BUILDING THE DEATHCOASTER - Joseph LoDuca
7. ARMY OF DARKNESS - Eddie Rotten Tnd The Zombies
8. DEAD BY DAWN - Dirty Wee Middens
9. HUSH LIL' BABY/PEE WEE HEAD - Joseph LoDuca
10. EVIL DEAD - Death
11. DR FEELGOOD (AOD TRAILER MUSIC) - Mötley Crüe
12. HAIL TO THE KING - Dead Trooper
13. "I'M A MAN..." - Evil Dead 2
14. HOUSEWARES EMPLOYEE - Evil Dead:The Musical Cast
15. "THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!" - Army Of Darkness
16. BOOMSTICK - Professor Fresh
17. SHOP SMART, SHOP S-MART - To Kill A Monster
18. THE EVIL DEAD MAIN THEME - Roque Baños
19. NATUROM DEMONTO - EsDwa
20. LITTLE ASHES - Joseph LoDuca
21. "Get An Axe" - Army Of Darkness
22. IT'S A TRICK, GET AN AXE! - Archer Avenue
23. ASH'S DREAM/DANCING GAME/DANCE OF THE DEAD - Joseph LoDuca
24. EVIL DEAD 2 - Hard Rock Zombie
25. BRUCE CAMPBELL - Fighting Evil Is Cool!
26. "I'M THE GUY WITH THE GUN" - Army Of Darkness
27. BLEW THAT BITCH AWAY - Evil Dead: The Musical Cast
28. ARMY OF DARKNESS END TITLES - Joseph LoDuca
29. "HAIL TO THE KING BABY" - Army Of Darkness

DISC 4

1. WITHIN THE WOODS OPENING CREDITS
2. CREATION (INTRO) - Exmortis
3. BOOK OF THE DEAD (HEAVY HITTAZ REMIX) - DJ Vengeance
4. EVIL DEAD - Roadside Affair
5. DEAD BY DAWN - Showbread
6. FOUL THING - Joseph LoDuca
7. BRUCE CAMPBELL VS THE ARMY OF DARKNESS - Buzz 7
8. SCOTTIE - Subnation
9. "THE WOODS THEMSELVES" - The Evil Dead
10. ABOMINATIONS RISING - Roque Baños
11. BLOOD RED SANDMAN - Lordi
12. NECRONOMICON - The Rigormorticians
13. ALL THE MEN IN MY LIFE... - Evil Dead: The Musical Cast
14. BLUES CAMPBELL - The Great Luke Ski
15. EVIL DEAD - EvilDead (BRA)
16. EYE GAMES/CHARM - Joseph LoDuca
17. "WHY ARE YOU TORTURING ME LIKE THIS?" - The Evil Dead
18. BOOK OF THE DEAD - Certified Sickness
19. HE'S COMING - Roque Baños
20. THE DEADITE GIRLS GONE WILD - Lordi
21. MANLY MEN - Joseph LoDuca
22. "YO SHE-BITCH, LET'S GO" - Army Of Darkness
23. WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT - Evil Dead: The Musical Cast
24. THE BRUCE CAMPBELL SONG - Hulk's Pony
25. SEARCH (WITHIN THE WOODS END CREDITS) - Tangerine Dream
26. "GROOVY" – Ash

ME: How do you realize covers for your cds?

JOHN:  That was easy, as a huge Evil Dead fan I LOVE the Necronomicon (Book Of The Dead) and love Tom Sullivan's artwork in the book so wanted to do something similar to the Book Of The Dead DVD/BLU RAY releases but for a CD album. I couldn’t get it professionally printed due to copyright. Even though these are fan made albums and not for sale or distribution, the printing company would still be breaking the law because they are making money replicating copyrighted material so I had to make something myself at home.
I found these latex Necronomicon covers online with 4 different designs, so used those images and cropped them to fit a make it yourself card CD case and wrapped it around it as you would with the book cover. As no Necronomicon would be complete without the pages and artwork by the great Tom Sullivan, I used my favourite images from the first Book of the Dead to use as the inlay and then to finish it off I used a screen capture of the new Book of the Dead from the remake to use the stitches design for the discs so it was incorporated in a little way.




ME: Well done John! Are you planning something Evil Dead related in the next times ?

JOHN: Well I am hoping to build a replica of the Evil Dead clock this year. Found a clock that is similar in shape and size so going to have a go :)  I'm also hoping to make a short film this year which is an original idea, but going to hide a few Evil Dead references in there.

So here it is Jonn and his Evil Dead passion ! Hope this will be the first of a long series of fan interview, Stay tuned !!!

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