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00:00I'm going to start.
00:07Okay, you have a tone.
00:11Perfect.
00:14One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:17It's working.
00:19So, Mr. Lasting, in 1951 you came for the first time to Belgium.
00:25And now, more than 14 years later, you come back with the concept,
00:33the last two names.
00:36So, what has been changed between 1971 and now 2013?
00:43Oh, life has changed.
00:45Everything has changed.
00:47You know, it was a traditional way of life for the old people.
00:53It's going up more and more even in the music.
00:57It's changed everything because young people would read everything on the computer
01:01and there's not even more many big orchestras alive.
01:07And studios are not working still anymore.
01:11So, we have to go with it.
01:13But if you'd like to go with the time, you have to go with the time.
01:17And that's a most important thing.
01:20So, when shall we go on?
01:23You have to go on, but the young people have new ideas.
01:28No, I was...
01:30All the time I was writing every music with a pencil,
01:33and now I used it on the computer for 20 years already.
01:36And it's a lot of fun to do it.
01:39The music has changed a lot because you told you are not big orchestras anymore
01:45because you played with a very big orchestra.
01:48Yes, right.
01:49But you can enjoy the modern music, what they create today as well?
01:55Of course, yeah.
01:57I do.
01:58I make the arrangements for our orchestra, and it worked out very good.
02:04So, we should let our program have old stuff like Bach and Mozart,
02:10but also Hans Zimmer.
02:11I don't know.
02:12Everybody knows Hans Zimmer.
02:13He's the composer for most of the American big movies.
02:18And this is not a composition to play maybe on stage,
02:22but I like to show to the people this is going on with the music.
02:25This is changing.
02:27And I like to be with them, go still forwards.
02:32It's not the last, last tour.
02:35You said the name Hans Zimmer, but even you, you were composing music for soundtracks for music.
02:44Sorry?
02:45Yeah, of course.
02:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:47For soundtracks for movies, eh?
02:48Yeah.
02:49That's, most of the time, in Germany, it's been a little bit difficult,
02:54because so many people talk in, and it's a change, a change, a change, a change.
02:59Hans Zimmer is doing the music, that's it.
03:02No answers, no questions.
03:04Hans Zimmer is the man.
03:06Okay.
03:07Can you explain what's the success of James Sloss?
03:10Because everywhere you go, a lot of people are always very happy to see you,
03:17and are always happy when they hear your music.
03:22I'm a lucky man, because I write music arrangements for other composers,
03:27but still, people will say that's the James Sloss sound.
03:32And that's why I do all the arrangements by myself, and that's one line.
03:38I can only kind of write down what I feel for the music.
03:42And then, so we have the special style.
03:49Erkennungswerte, it's very special when everyone knows James Sloss.
03:56And here, this morning here, we are here in this house here,
03:59as a guest, and played music from us, I think for six hours already, you know.
04:04And still, other songs, I can't even remember, but we recorded this 34 days ago.
04:13And now we do the new one.
04:15The first time when I met your music, it was Biscayne,
04:20what was a very, really great song for me to get involved with your music.
04:29And then you were, for my age, because I was at that moment, I was 10 years old,
04:34you was a little bit my music teacher, because thanks to James Sloss,
04:38I discovered some classical music like Bolero or Hungarian dance.
04:43You teached for many years, a lot of generations, several styles of music.
04:49That would be nice, good to hear this.
04:52So, even people come and talk about the concept, they say,
04:57your music keeps us young.
05:00And that's a good thing to do, you know.
05:03But I need a composer from now, from my work to see a work.
05:10I like to write the music down like I do.
05:13But this is very successful.
05:15I don't understand this.
05:18It works in China, it works in Russia, it works in Australia, New Zealand,
05:22even here, anywhere.
05:25Are you still happy to be a composer as well?
05:29Of course, yeah.
05:31But it's fun if you hear some guys in the movies take music from us,
05:39but 30 years ago, like the London Shepard,
05:43I don't know, it's a good story.
05:47But it's a good feeling to hear this.
05:50Tarantino said, I like this kind of music, I need it for my movie.
05:54I said, okay, take it, take it, take it.
05:57I remember the song as well from George Summerfield,
05:59who is playing on the Panthers.
06:01Yeah.
06:02So, when you're on stage, and because now you're 83 years old,
06:07when you go on stage, you have still that feeling that you're a little boy
06:12who is playing and enjoying himself?
06:15I'm the little boy, but I don't even feel an old man.
06:19I feel good with the music that we're doing,
06:22and the tour starts now with a party rock anthem.
06:26It's different.
06:27It's different.
06:28It's just started with power, but it's needed for the second song,
06:32it's in a tom shift to make it a distinct sound.
06:36And I said, ah, yeah, that's it.
06:38So, another guy was saying, you still go on rocking, eh?
06:44So, yeah, of course.
06:45What do you feel when you're on stage?
06:50Yeah, I'm just a translator.
06:52You know, I write music down for the musicians,
06:55because I know everybody.
06:56I can write it for them, everybody to feel good,
06:59and do good when we go on stage, and start to play,
07:03and you hear the band playing behind myself,
07:06and look into the audience, you see the faces are happy,
07:10and happy, and it's good to be there, yeah.
07:14My life is good.
07:16Okay.
07:17I find at home a disc where your first name,
07:21your real name is Hans, and it is Hans Last.
07:24The real disc is still with the name Hans Last.
07:28When did you change the name in James?
07:30I didn't change it.
07:31It was the heck of the company.
07:33They didn't even ask me.
07:35They changed it because they were named
07:38but the music is more international,
07:42and Hans is probably from Jihadists,
07:45like James is also Jihadists,
07:48and so they changed it to James.
07:51But the funny story is, I told it later on in the audience
07:54to the people in England,
07:56I said, the company changed my name to James,
08:01but Freud still called me Hansi,
08:03so though I bought it and said,
08:05Hi Hansi, how are you?
08:07But it brought you a lot of success
08:09when you changed the name,
08:10it was direct international.
08:12Yeah, I understand it now, yeah.
08:14But the first one, they said,
08:15yeah, I agree, changed the name.
08:17And I think it was successful, yeah.
08:21Now you're going to play in Hasselt
08:23in the month of April.
08:25What can people expect?
08:28You're going to do something special for the last time?
08:35Maybe not the last time.
08:38Nothing special happened.
08:41From the last tour, we never was in Hasselt.
08:44Everything was new for the people there.
08:46That's the music of today for me.
08:54We play there.
08:56In every great song that people directly can say,
09:00this is James' last...
09:02I hope so, I hope so.
09:04They would say, oh, that's her.
09:07It's difficult, but do you have a favorite song of your own
09:10that you say that it's a song that I've had always to play
09:14when I'm on stage?
09:16Or I change it all the time.
09:19It's just...
09:21Every song is very important.
09:24I play all these songs on stage, but I like myself.
09:27Otherwise, it's not earnest enough to do it.
09:32I cannot play music or something that I don't like.
09:37Then people will feel this.
09:39And now they realize that the work or what we do on stage
09:45is honest, really honest.
09:48You still play instruments?
09:50Because in the 60s you started as a solo artist.
09:55No, no.
09:58I play on the computer.
10:00On the computer?
10:02You create songs on the computer?
10:04Yeah.
10:06And you enjoy doing that?
10:08Of course.
10:10People will say that it's not music,
10:14but they are all...
10:15You can do it.
10:16But that takes time on the computer to do it.
10:20And you can create as well even beautiful songs
10:23than a real orchestra?
10:24Yeah.
10:25Yeah, yeah.
10:26I think for the whole tour, I do the arrangements at home
10:30and record it on the sound things.
10:37And you can send the whole music, the whole tour
10:40to all the musicians and print the music out.
10:43And they can play at home eight weeks before the tour starts
10:47by the playback, what we can hear.
10:50And we still work at all.
10:52Even my wife is picking the notes, picking everything,
10:56things together.
10:57It's just...
10:58Yeah.
10:59A little company.
11:00People.
11:01What makes you happy?
11:03Because you seem like a guy who is very happy.
11:08Life is good.
11:10You have to enjoy it as hell.
11:12We are born to live and not to always...
11:18One way it's good for me.
11:21I feel I can live in this part,
11:25whatever my changes have to do and use that,
11:30not to say, I like to do this, I like to do this.
11:33Just this is good enough for me and to smile.
11:37And music is forever?
11:39What?
11:40And music is forever?
11:41Of course.
11:42I hope forever.
11:46Because if you hear the songs now on the radio,
11:49they'd be recorded 70, 40 years ago.
11:52How old are you?
11:53I'm 33 at the moment.
11:55I see.
11:56I was even born then.
11:58That was recorded then.
11:59And still you can hear it on the radio.
12:01That's true.
12:02Last question.
12:03Why do people have to come to Hasselt
12:05and to come in to see your show?
12:10Why?
12:11Yes.
12:12Because the music lovers,
12:13they have to go to Hasselt.
12:15I don't know Hasselt.
12:16I never was there before.
12:18So there's organizing things to come into the hall.
12:21I don't know what kind of hall it is.
12:23But if you like the music,
12:25come on, have fun, enjoy your life.
12:28Okay.
12:29The last, last, last thing.
12:30It's still far away,
12:31but New Year Christmas,
12:33but we have now the opportunity to ask you
12:36to say something to our audience
12:38and to say a Happy New Year or Merry Christmas.
12:40It's a little bit strange in the month of March,
12:42but then we can use it in the end of the year.
12:46Okay, people.
12:47This is James Lars.
12:48I only wish you a Happy Christmas.
12:52Happy New Year.
12:53Be friendly.
12:54Stay with your friends together
12:57and have a smile on our life.
13:01Show it up to God.
13:02Smile.