For the meantime I am going to anonymously publish them, though I have been keeping it a secret for a long time since I was confided not to share. Anyway, let's read the transcript of my conversation with Ben Moody that dates back to 2004 through an Email, exactly one year after he was dismissed from Evanescence. (I posed as a magazine interviewer to extract some information from Ben Moody):
It all goes back to the moment I struck conversation in the summer camp and the friendship that was then fueled by our collaboration to write songs in the genre we both put our hearts into. We spent like 5 years (1995-2000) writing songs for our unofficial debut album called Evanescence EP and later on decided to add extra songs to our record and entitled it 'sound asleep' then shortly after, edited some materials that ended up in 'the origin' album once more.
Majority of Ev fans assume that 'The Origin' was a demo containing 3 songs, but that's not true. It never did contain the 3 songs you know of (Whisper, Imaginary, My immortal), it has actually had consisted more songs than you'd probably imagined. For instance the song 'You' which was too personal to be released or at least was kind of considered to be an alienating type of song akin to our music label, had to be removed for our debut album over personal issues this song might have raised. Regardless of how badly our label wanted it not to go public and as bad as I wanted to, I published it on the internet shortly after I got laid off from Evanescence since I related to that!
Anyways...
During this time (1995-2000) we were playing local gigs, playing at local bars, restaurants for ridiculous pay we'd earn but were quite happy we got to play the music we both put our faiths into, as it wasn't our sole ambitions to just play the gigs for money, it was more about 'promotion' we were like every musician in the dire need of.
Amy's dad (John Lee), who used to work in the radio station called 'Cool95' and 'K-love' also really, truly helped us through the promotion process back in the day airing our songs in a couple of radio stations. He would be doing anything in his power to promote us locally to a capacity that literally let us the station's sound gears to record our early demos.
Speaking of the direction of Evanescence songs, they were something we'd really had honed our talents to and loved; classical rock, electronic and little less heavy that took a slight turn when Linkin park's debut (Hybrid Theory) was put out in 2000, that somehow changed our directions to add a more heavy theme to our music.
During 2000-2002 we were just basically sending too many requests to labels to get signed. In short, we had all the talents it took for a breakthrough but had no money at all. So there was a time we desperately sought for investors to put our records into the music scene. In order to do that, we had to take our amateurish recorded songs to another level and also had to make it to Memphis & Nashville, Tennessee to get this thing done professionally...
It all goes back to the moment I struck conversation in the summer camp and the friendship that was then fueled by our collaboration to write songs in the genre we both put our hearts into. We spent like 5 years (1995-2000) writing songs for our unofficial debut album called Evanescence EP and later on decided to add extra songs to our record and entitled it 'sound asleep' then shortly after, edited some materials that ended up in 'the origin' album once more.
Majority of Ev fans assume that 'The Origin' was a demo containing 3 songs, but that's not true. It never did contain the 3 songs you know of (Whisper, Imaginary, My immortal), it has actually had consisted more songs than you'd probably imagined. For instance the song 'You' which was too personal to be released or at least was kind of considered to be an alienating type of song akin to our music label, had to be removed for our debut album over personal issues this song might have raised. Regardless of how badly our label wanted it not to go public and as bad as I wanted to, I published it on the internet shortly after I got laid off from Evanescence since I related to that!
Anyways...
During this time (1995-2000) we were playing local gigs, playing at local bars, restaurants for ridiculous pay we'd earn but were quite happy we got to play the music we both put our faiths into, as it wasn't our sole ambitions to just play the gigs for money, it was more about 'promotion' we were like every musician in the dire need of.
Amy's dad (John Lee), who used to work in the radio station called 'Cool95' and 'K-love' also really, truly helped us through the promotion process back in the day airing our songs in a couple of radio stations. He would be doing anything in his power to promote us locally to a capacity that literally let us the station's sound gears to record our early demos.
Speaking of the direction of Evanescence songs, they were something we'd really had honed our talents to and loved; classical rock, electronic and little less heavy that took a slight turn when Linkin park's debut (Hybrid Theory) was put out in 2000, that somehow changed our directions to add a more heavy theme to our music.
During 2000-2002 we were just basically sending too many requests to labels to get signed. In short, we had all the talents it took for a breakthrough but had no money at all. So there was a time we desperately sought for investors to put our records into the music scene. In order to do that, we had to take our amateurish recorded songs to another level and also had to make it to Memphis & Nashville, Tennessee to get this thing done professionally...
So we drove up to Memphis, where in 8 months we pulled off the process of recording for the album called The Fallen which was supposed to be more edited to professional levels from "the origin" and "sound asleep". An album that was meant to live up to our expectations while keeping the basic principles of an electronic, heavy album of early 2000's vibes that could've potentially challenged the other releases of back then.
I remember the time when we had taken with ourselves so much as a $500 to cover our bills for 8 months! While indeed with first two weeks of living there, we ran out of money and filled for Food Stamps to freeload on.
Back in the Fall of 2003, while maintaining a long time relationship with me, I decided to leave.
I remember the time when we had taken with ourselves so much as a $500 to cover our bills for 8 months! While indeed with first two weeks of living there, we ran out of money and filled for Food Stamps to freeload on.
We were pushing it so hard to release a smashing record by any means, be it altering Amy's real voice into an unbelievable female
vocal range that was meant to move everyone or even butchering old classical songs and turning them into an undetectable brand new pieces of Rock music....
(By Butchering he means altering the riffs, choruses, rhythms, key,...)
Apart from budget issues, which was disheartening, my relationship with Amy seemed to have stepped up and headed for engagement as we'd shut out the money obstacle by our album sales. But soon enough it turned out that I was kind of being manipulated while she was sticking to a vicious plan of her own, maybe coordinated with her sneaky new boyfriend she called a colleague, Shaun Morgan.
vocal range that was meant to move everyone or even butchering old classical songs and turning them into an undetectable brand new pieces of Rock music....
(By Butchering he means altering the riffs, choruses, rhythms, key,...)
Apart from budget issues, which was disheartening, my relationship with Amy seemed to have stepped up and headed for engagement as we'd shut out the money obstacle by our album sales. But soon enough it turned out that I was kind of being manipulated while she was sticking to a vicious plan of her own, maybe coordinated with her sneaky new boyfriend she called a colleague, Shaun Morgan.
It was not until The Fallen album came out and took up the music charts that she started to show her true color. She'd literally outgrown anything and anyone since she was bigger than she should've been. Her standards were suddenly different and the boys she would meet were also different. That's when she announced her relationship with Shaun Morgan.
Back in the Fall of 2003, while maintaining a long time relationship with me, I decided to leave.
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