Conducted By: Rabishu (Bogues) Xul Rabishu: Where were you at on the morning of 9-11-01? Can you tell our readers perhaps about the morning of 9/11 and what were you doing when you first got news of the attacks on WTC? What was it like for you on this morning? Great Kat: On the morning on 9/11, The Great Kat, who lives in New York City and Long Island, NY, was in my recording studio on Long Island, composing and recording music for my new CD - which ended up being called "Wagner's War" CD. When I saw the images of the World Trade Center being attacked and being destroyed I was FURIOUS, OUTRAGED and HORRIFIED!!!!!! I IMMEDIATELY thought it was a TERRORIST ATTACK and the WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF AMERICANS THINK THEY ARE SAFE TODAY, they are SADLY MISTAKEN. IT'S time TO WAKE UP AND GET OUT THERE AND PROTECT OURSELVES from the SICK, CRAZY BASTARDS, who ARE HIJACKING THE ENTIRE WORLD WITH THEIR MURDEROUS ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW LISTEN to the Great Kat's CD: "WAGNER'S WAR"!!!! "Wagner's War" is a REVOLUTIONARY CD, which came DIRECTLY from the EVENTS of 9/11!!!! The Great Kat's "RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES" (from Wagner's Opera Cycle "The Ring"--"Die Walkure") is the "BATTLE CRY" to WAR!!!!! On "WAGNER'S WAR" CD, the song "WAR" was written out of SEVERE RAGE and the song "TERROR" was written in HORROR out of the TERRORIST ATTACK on THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND MY CITY-NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "WAGNER'S WAR" Features: ACT I: WAR 1. Wagner's "The Ride Of The Valkyries" (from the Opera "Die Walkure"). This music is THE DEFINITIVE "BATTLE CRY" to WAR, featuring OPERA SINGERS, THE GREAT KAT'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND SHRED BAND! 2. "War" – HEAVY and BRUTAL ODE to WAR! 3. "Terror" – "TERROR! HORROR! MURDER!" ACT II: REVENGE 4. "Punishment" – PUNISHMENT TO TRAITORS! 5. "Humiliation" – HUMILIATION and REVENGE RIPS through this GUITAR SHREDFEST! ACT III: VICTORY 6. Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2" – The SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and SHRED BAND join together in this INSANE version of this famous rhapsody! 7. Sarasate's "Zapateado" – THE GREAT KAT'S LIGHTNING-FAST GUITAR TECHNIQUE and DEMONIC VIOLIN VIRTUOSITY SHINE on this INCREDIBLE VIRTUOSIC SHOWSTOPPER! Download a MUSIC SAMPLE of "Wagner's War" CD at The Kat Web Site at www.greatkat.com Download PHOTOS from "Wagner's War" CD at www.greatkat.com/02/wagnerphotos.html Rabishu: What is the story behind your name? How did you come to call yourself The Great Kat? I mean is there a story behind the day you said "The Great Kat" that's the name im going under? Of course I see where Kat came from your name. But is there more to it? Did somebody call you The Great Kat first or did you come up with the name yourself? Great Kat: "KAT" is short for my name, "KATHERINE," and "THE GREAT" comes from the GREATNESS of being the NEW BEETHOVEN of the 21st CENTURY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rabishu: When you record your ideas what do you use to compile the riffage, you got a old 4track or your got a digital pocket studio? I mean, the building up of ideas and all the arranging of musick, when you are doing all this, do you lock yourself in a room for hours at a time and just go at it? Or you travel to a rehearsal space? I'm curious to know how all this madness come together so well on cd and live in concert. There must be plenty of time spent working on ideas and practicing as a band? I mean is there a story behind the day you said "The Great Kat" that's the name im going under? Of course I see where Kat came from your name. But is there more to it? Did somebody call you The Great Kat first or did you come up with the name yourself? Great Kat: The Great Kat composes on a Windows PC program for Composition and Notation. All Classical Scores are entered and are NOTE-FOR-NOTE exact instrumentation extracted from the original scores. I record LIVE and MIDI instruments using Pro-Tools in a professional recording studio. Rabishu: How often do you yourself practice on any one given day? Same question also about your band as a whole, how often do you all get together in any one given week to practice? Great Kat: The Great Kat practices guitar, violin and composes 8-10 hours a day. The band rehearses right before any CD recordings or tours. Rabishu: Have you in the past or perhaps maybe still teach upcoming musicians. I mean do you do like a lot of solo artists and do clinics or have students in your local area who you bestow upon them some of your knowledge? Great Kat: The Great Kat is NOT a teacher. I am the NEW BEETHOVEN of the 21st CENTURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rabishu: When do you think the world will truly wake up and join the Kat Slave Army? Or will there only be few chosen upon the face of the earth who can truly comprehend what your are doing? Great Kat: THE GREAT KAT IS MANIACALLY SPREADING the WORD of SHRED/CLASSICAL to the PATHETIC, LETHARGIC MORON MASSES, who would rather sit on their LAZY ASSES and BE LOSERS, rather than KICK ASS and BECOME GENIUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW GET OUT OF MY WAY and LET ME GET TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THOSE WHO HAVE WOKEN UP TO THE GENIUS OF THE GREAT KAT: The Great Kat Wins Guitar One Magazine's "TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME" Award Chris O'Byrne, Guitar One Magazine SPIN MAGAZINE DECLARES THE GREAT KAT "THE SPEEDIEST, SCARIEST FEMALE SHREDDER OF ALL TIME " Caryn Ganz, Spin Magazine (July 2003) "The Great Kat can totally shred. In fact, she's so scary fast on guitar and violin, that once you retrieve your ego from the gutter, you almost have to laugh." Michael Molenda, Guitar Player Magazine "Inspired by the events of Sept. 11, Kat renders some of music's most famous, aggressive, battle-inspired pieces in shredding-speed metal arrangements that hiss and spit." Dan Aquilante, NY POST "The wave of the future might well be heavy-metal Beethoven by way of Juilliard." John Rockwell, NY Times "The Great Kat is a Juilliard graduate violin virtuoso who applies those classical disciplines with equal conviction to her outrageous metal guitar style." Paul Salter, Guitar Buyer Magazine "Blistering guitar/violins. Merging insanely fast guitar to equally high velocity violin." Paul Stenning, Powerplay Magazine "Recently unleashing her latest opus, 'Wagner's War', she's yet again poised to take over heavy metal as we know it by blending blindingly fast guitar shredding with grindcore and yes, classical music." Keith Carman, ChartAttack-Chart Magazine Rabishu: Have you ever been confronted by other guitarists who seem to think they can play faster or better and more accurate than you? I mean like a Crossroads kinda situation, like Steve Vai and that Karate Kid dude, ever had anyone challenge you to a shred contest? Great Kat: WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!! THE GREAT KAT IS A JUILLIARD GRADUATE VIOLIN VIRTUOSO AND GUITAR GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DARE ANYONE IN THE WORLD TO ATTEMPT THAT FEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rabishu: Is there a device which can measure notes played per second (I'm sure there is) and if so have you ever been clocked on how many notes you can shred forth per second? If so what was the count? Great Kat: The Great Kat would DARE ANYONE to ATTEMPT to PLAY "ZAPATEADO" at the SPEEDS The Great Kat CAN SHRED on BOTH violin and guitar. GO AHEAD!!!!! Now check out the NEW "Guitar Shredder From Hell" Music Video!!!!! This video Features 5 Kat Music Videos: 1. "TORTURE CHAMBER" – Welcome to The Great Kat's Dungeon. Meet the Kat Slaves and the Tortured and Abused Victims. Step into her torture devices! 2. "CASTRATION" - The Great Kat's Mini-Opera in 4 Acts: Geisha, Salome, Black Widow, and Operating Room! The ULTIMATE in Kat Humiliation! 3. "THE GREAT KAT LIVE IN CHICAGO!" - The Great Kat's Phenomenal Guitar Shredding Live In Concert in Chicago! Kat-Possessed Slaves on stage bow and worship their Goddess Kat!!! 4. "DOMINATRIX" - Kat Reigns Supreme in this abusive and dominating frenzy! 5. "WAR" - Concentration Camp Atrocities! 9/11 Attack and WTC Collapse! Never Forget! Check out clips of the "GUITAR SHREDDER FROM HELL" Music Video at http://www.greatkat.com/12/shredder.html Rabishu: I have never read anywhere yet if you are married or have been married. I know obviously you are not the typical female human being. And do not require a man. You are strong and independent. But I am wondering at anytime in the past or even now have you been hitched up with some mortal male human being? Great Kat: WAKE UP AND GET INTO THE 21st CENTURY!!!!!!!!!!! "MARRIAGE" IS ARCHAIC and IS ONLY FOR TRADITIONAL LOSERS!!!!!!!! THE GREAT KAT IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON YOUR KNEES, PEONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rabishu: How many guitars does The Great Kat own? Or have you lost complete count? And Your absolute favorite guitars that you own are which ones? Got any total favorites you couldn't live without? Although im sure you can shred like a demon on almost any guitar. Great Kat: The Great Kat shreds on a variety of guitars and acoustic violins. Check them out on the Kat web site at www.greatkat.com Rabishu: I'd love to just watch you shred on a video but without any switching of the camera. I mean, the videos I seen on the tape you sent were great, but I couldn't watch you up close enough. I wanted to know if there are other videos you have that perhaps just show you shredding and no alternate camera angles, and if so perhaps not so much switching of the camera. That was the only thing about your videos that threw me off was I couldn't watch you good enough. Is there bootleg concerts out there somewhere I can see from only one camera angle? Or do you have any for sale or in your personal collection? Great Kat: The NEW "ZAPATEADO" Music Video, out in July, will FEATURE the GUITAR SHREDDING of The High Priestess of Guitar Shred Kat and for the FIRST time, the INCREDIBLE VIOLIN SHREDDING of the Queen of Speed!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW GO TO THE GREAT KAT WEB SITE at www.greatkat.com The Great Kat at greatkat@greatkat.com Hotline: 1-800-KAT-9199 or 631-549-7575 "WAGNER'S WAR" CD REVIEW in METALWHORE!
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