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Biography: Did you know?
: Full Name: Paulo Xisto Pinto Junior: Birth date: 30.Apr.1969
: Birthplace: Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil
: DO YOU HAVE ANY PET?
1 dog, a Chow-chow, Adam
: DO YOU HAVE ANY COLLECTION?
Instruments, SEPULTURA Stuff (interviews, pictures, these things...), every shit that is collectible I'm collecting
: WHAT'S YOUR HOBBY?
Jiu-jitsu, I used to do miniature motor-planes, I have some planes and a car-racing track too, but it's been a long time I don't play with my toys
: ARE YOU A RELIGIOUS PERSON?
Always
: WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO HANG OUT?
Any nice place with friends
: ANY OTHER JOB? SOLO PROJECT? PLAY IN ANOTHER BAND?
No. No. Napa's band.
: FAVORITE
Sport: Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Team: Atlético Mineiro
Drink/Beverage: Beer and water. Beer to get high and water to clean by the day after
Food: No doubt Brazilian and Japanese food
Movie: The Lord of The Rings
Comics/Cartoons: Warner bros.
Book: Right now I'm reading The lord of The Rings
Place to be: Belo Horizonte
Band: There's a lot. But one of them is Rush, and Iron Maiden. But I'm listening to everything lately
Song: It's impossible to say, there isn't just one
Music video: Still to come
Album: Still to come
Sepultura song/album: Playing it, it's difficult to say, each album have something special. But nowadays my favorite SEPULTURA record is AGAINST, cause after all the changes the band gone trough we stayed up, doing what we've always done, and testing some different things. The thing we've done with KODO was great. The thing we've done with the Xavantes, it's all connected.
: FIRST
Instrument you played: only the bass
Album you bought: Kiss - Destroyer
Concert you've been: I think it was Overdose. But the first big concert I don't remember
Sepultura concert you played: Was at the Ideal Clube, in Santa Teresa, BH. If I'm not wrong it was 30.Mar.1985. Sepultura international concert: It was in Vienna, Austria, 1989. It was a very nice concert. Everyone was a little afraid and nervous. We were worried about playing on a daily basis, cause we had never done that, but after a week playing every day we discovered that is better then playing just in the weekends or when there's an opportunity. It was very nice, and it was unforgettable cause was the first show of the career outside Brazil, and we were very excited about playing outside Brazil for the first time.
: BEST
Sepultura Concert: It's hard to answer, the major part of the concerts were good. But something special was this first concert outside Brazil, other one was in 1992 with Black Sabbath in the Sabbath reunion, Rock in Rio, Hollywood Rock. But at this moment, the Brazilian Tour. Finally it's happening!!
Tour: All of them was cool, it's hard to pick one. The first one was good cause we were outside Brazil for the first time, and all the mess. Although the bad relation with Max in the end of 1996, this last Roots tour was very important, cause we were playing more songs and was pretty cool. The tour with Pantera was cool, the tour with Ozzy was very cool, the tour with Ministry was cool, a lot of them were nice.
Bands you toured with: We played with a lot of people, Pantera, Biohazard, everyone was cool. The Ozzy people, Helmet, so many people I can't remember now, Clutch, Sick of it All, Napalm Death, Sacred Reich. The major part of the bands the guys are very cool, we always had a good relation with all bands.
: WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO TOUR WITH?
With my idols.
: WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK IN STUDIO WITH?
I don't know. I'm very satisfied with what we've done with Howard Benson for Against. I think with all we had a great experience, each record were different a phase, different ideas, each one was very unique. Probably the next record will be with somebody else, who knows. It was very nice what we've done with Jason Newsted in his place in San Francisco. There's much more to come.
: WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST EMOTION YOU HAD IN THE WHOLE CAREER?
Too many things. It's important to remember the day we signed with a world-wide record company. The day we did the first gig outside Brazil. The day we played with Sabbath, which was their first reunion with the original line up after so long time. The free concert at the Charles Muller Square with almost 40.000 people is important too. Musicians that you've always love since 13, 14 years old comes to you nowadays and talks same level with you and respect what you do, and compliment your work, that's also part of the career.
: WHAT OCCASION SHOULD ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED?
There's a lot too. The thing we've done with Xavantes we'll always remember cause was very different. The thing we've done with KODO now will be marked cause was very different. What we done with Jason we'll be marked too, he wanted to do something with us for a long time cause he always liked the band, and there's lot of things
: INFLUENCES IN EACH ALBUM:
In the beginning it was more Death Metal, Venom, and each record the thing was getting big. Nowadays, even Falcão is acceptable as an influence. The thing is more open. But it's logical that a few years ago things were more Metal, but we were always listening other music styles and learning, and being influenced by other things too.
: HOW DO YOU CREATE THE SONGS?
Usually the musical part happens at rehearse, jamming, the ideas start appearing, we record in some tape, listen to it, change a bit. What is usable we use it, what is not we throw away. There's no secret, it's just jam. In the Against album we recorded lots of things in rehearsals, we changed a lot, done lots of demos to test all the options we had by that time to get to the conclusions we had. But it's all jamming.
: HOW DID YOU MEET AND JOIN THE BAND?
It was around, if I'm not wrong, 17.Aug.1984. Max and Igor, in Santa Teresa near my house, used to happen a hippie fair/ flea market in a square where people used to meet, to hang out. We had a common friend, and with this friend we started to hang out together and later I joined the band.
Contributed by: Tomek Urbanczyk
Contributor e-mail: tomek-urbanczyk@wp.pl
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