#d-roc the executioner

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Body Count - Born Dead (1994)

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D-Roc the Executioner / Dennis Miles

1959-2004

One of the founding members and guitarists of Body Count 

Rest in Peace

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Body Count

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D-Roc the Executioner (1990–2004; died 2004)

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You wanna get high as the sky You're kissin' your life goodbye You think it's game that you play But the winners lose it all someday.

Body Count  -  The Winner Loses

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Question: So what attracted you to doing MetalFest? Are you looking to get your name back out there? Ernie C: We’ve played MetalFest over the years, since back in the early-90s. I don’t know if we’re metal – I don’t know what Body Count is. I’ve produced a Black Sabbath album, so that makes me the king of metal, actually! [laughs] I don’t think we’re a metal band, I don’t know if we’re a punk band, because we’ve played with The Ramones; we’ve played with everyone from L.A. Guns to Public Enemy. We’ve played at rap shows. I don’t know where Body Count actually fits. We go to the MetalFest years ago, and they love us! I don’t know if we’re that kind of band, but they invited us to play and we figured it’d be a great thing to play because we al love metal. So it all works out fine. I mean, Ice is a rapper; people there may listen to rap, but if here was there rapping it wouldn’t be the same. So I don’t know where Body Count fits anymore. Question: So are any of those concerns on the new album? Ernie C: I know we want to concentrate on the music. People think we sold, like, 50 million records off the controversy [over “Cop Killer”], but that wasn’t the case. Before all that, we sold maybe 300, 400k. After the fact, maybe a million and a half, so we never sold as much as people think we did. And now it’s a case of, you know, did people make it too late? Are they looking for another song like that? We don’t know. But the new album, you know, we’ve got people like Kid Rock wanting to be on it and all and we’re just looking to make some good music. It probably will be a little heavier and a little darker; we want to do things like work with the B-tuned guitars and the sludgy sound. We want to make it a little grindy. I know something I want to do, personally, is put some more guitar solos in there. That’s something that’s missing from a lot of hard rock and metal nowadays. You have some great players, but a lot of them do just rhythm, and they’re great at it, but no one really does solos anymore. People don’t understand that that’s how a guitar player expresses himself. Those are his emotions coming out of that, and it’s been missing. So I think I want to bring the old feeling of guitar playing back and combine it with the newer, heavier style. [Read More]