Interview with Billy Howerdel of Ashes Divide

by Kristin Biskup

Billy Howerdel is a trick of all trades in the music industry. He started out as a lighting technician and then turned into a guitar technician. From his time out on the road he became friends with TOOL frontman Maynard Keenan and the two collaborated to make the band A Perfect Circle. Ashes Divide is Howerdel's first solo project. With the release of 'Keep Telling Myself It's All Right' Ashes Divide joined the Projekt Revolution summer tour supporting Linkin Park. I had the chance to talk with Howerdel on the third stop of the tour in New Jersey.

How is Projekt Revolution 2008 going and how is the crowd response?

Tonight will be the third show so we only had two so far. It has been good. The first show in Boston had more people than yesterday's show in Pittsburg which had a pretty thin turnout. There were maybe a hundred people in the pit, a hundred spread out in the seats and the rest were on the lawn. I saw people going for it in the lawn though. At times like yesterday I try to focus all my attention right to the front.

Read the full interview at UnRatedMagazine.com