Robert Sweet Interview

know, I feel personally that behind all the arts, whether it's painting, whether it's acting, whether it's music, whether it's writing, whether it's poetry, a book. This is something that is coming out of the inner man that's in you. That's how I believe. I don't think it's a brain thing, I think it's a soul thing. In ev

Dano: OK, and they are putting out your new CD "Love Trash"?

Robert: Yes

Dano: All right, well tell me a little bit about the CD Robert. Is it out yet?

Robert: All the recording is done. What I did is... I went in and I only had a week to record. I played all the...A lot of people just view me pretty much as a drummer...I'm just as much of a song writer as I am a drummer. Most people never really knew that. On this record I wrote it all, I produced it, I played all the guitars, all the bass, all the drums, and I brought in a singer to sing the stuff. I was going to try to sing it myself, but I found myself in an impossible situation of way too much to do. If you can imagine doing in one week 8 drum tracks, 8 bass tracks, and 48 guitar tracks.

Dano: Wow...

Robert: You know while working with two engineers and producing it. I got the idea for "Love Trash"...a lot of people have heard that and thought what in the world does that mean? They thought that with almost every Stryper record also. I named all the Stryper records, so there is definitely a meaning behind it.

Dano: And the meaning is...

Robert: A long time ago somebody said to me that the love that we represented, referring to Jesus was trash. And that always stuck in my mind. And so I coupled the two words together and ya know I've seen so many of the Hollywood marriages fall apart, ya know, like you see in the Enquirer, ya see people who one minute they're all in love, then three months or four months later they're getting a divorce, at one minute it's love then the next minute it's like trash, something you threw away. So even though I took lyrically a more light handed approach at it. That was the

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