While Savatage has been paused for a certain time period (?) some musical forces couldn't and cannot be stopped (like for example Chris Caffery's awesome solo works). Jon Oliva is a creative force, a musical whirlwind that comes out of your speakers, lifts you up, spins you around and takes you to NeverNever Land! A mastermind's creation though needs more than just the mastermind in order to take form and in this case Jon Oliva shared his Pain with some really skilled gentlemen who to be frank I misjudged by their works with their previous band, Circle II Circle. Sometimes it takes the right man to make the world realize how good you are and the right man was J.O. for Christopher Kinder (drums), John Zahner (keyboard), Kevin Rothney (bass & backing vocals) and Matt Laporte (guitar). The band's debut record, Tage Mahal is indeed a very interesting release so we took the liberty of asking the most friendly Christopher Kinder a few interesting questions about the band, the touring (with the band's first shows being in Greece - one of them will be a special, acoustic show), the future, the past...Read on as this interview might interest you more than you would imagine!
