“I basically didn’t touch it very hard, but I felt it wobbling,” he said. He said they wanted to round it out at 50 and go back out gain.ĭuring the song “Dancing in the Fire,” he said he saw the truss and his inner rock star urged him to climb the truss. They had done 49 shows and were asked to do one more show. Steelheart was finishing the first leg of their tour with Slaughter. The band’s sophomore effort, “Tangled In Reins,” saw more success again in Japan.īut in 1993, an accident during a show in Denver changed Matijevic’s life to which he calls “the beginning of the end and also the beginning of a whole other journey.” Billboard charts and was MTV’s second-most requested video that year. International charts blew up with “She’s Gone.” The band’s second single, “I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes),” reached No. They found immediate success in Japan selling 33,000 albums on its first day. In 1990, the band released its self-titled album. Within his first week of being in California, Matijevic managed to make a connection to get his demo in front in a new manager. “I told him, ‘Well, I’m leaving for Los Angeles Friday to become a star.’ That’s what I said it to him. They also learned the hard way about the business side of music when they realized the contract they were signed to with one of their managers basically would have left the group with nothing.īut Matijevic decided that in order for the band to survive, they needed to go to California.įirst, he and Chris Risola on guitars went into Matijevic’s bedroom and recorded a demo of four songs, which included “Angel Eyes.”īefore he left, he stopped at his parents’ house and his dad asked what he was doing. In Steelheart’s early years, the band had its ups and downs, Matijevic said. That’s not what I do.’ I took the books - swear I’ll be struck by lightening from where I sit - I just threw the books out the window. “I said ‘Yeah, I’ll be down.’ I sat there and thought, ‘Really? I’m going to be stuck behind a desk drawing.
In the meantime, Matijevic decided to toe the line with his father and went to college to study mechanical engineering.īut one night while he was drafting in his third-story room, his friends said they were going to rehearsals and asked if he wanted to come. The band, which at first was named Red Alert and eventually be renamed Steelheart, would play together for 13 years. He said he went in, the band did a few Zeppelin songs. After the show, a guy approached Matijevic about fronting another band. He was just 15 and playing a show at The Night Owl. He first started with a pop-punk band called The Mission.
But his dad had gotten to the barber first with a little bribery money and Matijevic left the shop with a buzz cut. He was about 12 when Matijevic said he went to his favorite barber to get a hip haircut. “It got to the point where my dad literally paid off the barber,” he said. Matijevic said he started to grow his hair long and got into the music scene. “That’s when everything went downhill with the relationship with my father.” I just found this amazing connection with the side,” he said. But it was when he was exposed to Led Zeppelin, that’s when Matijevic found the music that spoke to him.
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