For Immediate Release
Date: August 2, 2007
From: psychologist/writer Dr Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT
Head to Heart: What to expect from my interview with Brian “Head” Welch:
My interview with sanctified rock-star-now-top-book-selling former member of the supergroup, Korn, Brian “Head” Welch will make its debut this month at Phantom Tollbooth, a popular, internationally respected entertainment ezine that examines entertainment from a Christian perspective.
http://www.tollbooth.org
It won’t be the first, and I’m sure it won’t be the last interview you’ll encounter from this guitar “god” who put his life in God’s hands (that’s God with a capital G). But you’ll get something extra special with this one.
Here’s what you’ll get from my interview with Welch that you may not find in the otherwise outstanding interviews he’s done for the mainstream press:
1. My questions are mostly coming from a Christ-centered, psychological point of view. This extends to you, the reader, a unique perspective, and tends to foster an interview environment leading to a more personal and more intimate level of self-disclosure.
2. You’ll gain insights into the psychological impact of modern music, and, in particular, the nu metal movement that Brian helped to usher in as a founding member of Korn.
3. Since we talk, not only as interviewer to interviewee, but, as brothers in Christ, and the Bible says “Where two or more of you are in the midst, there I am,” you, the reader, will have an opportunity to meet Christ in the process. No matter how clumbsy I can get as an interviewer, he is made strong through my weakness, and through Brian’s admitted weaknesses as well. So, even if I end up leading Brian down a dark tunnel of confusion, you’ll be able to see a glimpse of glorious light at the end of it.
4. The interview will be presented in the context of a unique, locally-based story, marked by a series of “coincidences” that seem to point to the distinct prospect that more was at work in the securing and manifestation of this interview than luck or chance. Will my presentation of these “coincidences” represent wishful thinking at work, or divine intervention? God only knows, but, I’ll let you be the judge of that.
5. You’ll either get the benefit of links to original songs of mine that have been inspired by Brian’s encounter with Christ, or, if my music sounds more like hell than heaven to you, you will share in the suffering of Christ as you embark upon my less-than-perfect, often off-key, out-of-time musical reaction to Brian’s spiritual journey.
