EDGUY – Guitarist Jens Ludwig  February 23rd, 2012 by Marko
Syrjala    Interview and pics by Marko Syrjala and Arto Lehtinen
With the latest Edguy album AGE OF THE JOKER, tell us, what’s
the basic meaning behind the name of the album?  AGE OF THE
JOKER, is it just about the sense of humor, or is there anything
about it?   Well, before we had the title, of course we started
writing songs and making music.  The joker has been a kind of
mascot of the band for many years.  We had it on the MANDRAKE
album cover.  We did ROCKET RIDE on several merchandise stuff
but we didn’t have any joker on the TINNITYS SANCTUS album.  But
during the songwriting process we were in the rehearsing room
and playing the song, before we had the album title we had the
feeling like “Okay, the joker has to return in some way on the
cover artwork or the title or anything” because it just felt
like going a bit back, musically, and we then easily came up the
name AGE OF THE JOKER because we really produced this album
with, just, all the E