RS: So then back from porn going back to music, how did you decide to make dance music?
Colton: Well I never really left music, in between my deals I've always been creating music and trying to move forward musically. It happened around July 2002, both Blake and I were kind of burnt out and we were going to take a break and I got introduced to a gentleman by the name of Chris Long, who at the time was with Miramax Films. He had heard my music and had a lot of contacts with the music business and wanted to help get me out there. Then shortly after that the documentary film came about, which captured the process for eight - nine months, writing and recording a single and getting it out. I always felt that the dance music genre was a viable arena for any artist who didn't fit the mold that the major labels want you to fit when you're looking at top forty. It's a lot more forgiving and encompasses all kinds of musical stylings and all kinds of diversity in terms of the artists. Also, my community, the gay community, is a huge supporter of dance music, so it seemed a natural fit for me.
RS: Going back to the documentary Naked Fame, who came up with that idea?
Colton: Chris Long. He started his own production company, Hard Sell Productions, and left Miramax. It came out of our coming together for my music, After he got to know myself and my partner a little bit, he thought that the story was compelling enough to capture on film. About a month later I got a call and he said why don't we capture this whole experience for a documentary? I thought, what the hell, it's more promotional opportunity in that so why not? So within a month and a half of my meeting him, we had a documentary film crew following us around.
RS: Do you think having a film crew helped you or hurt you to get people involved in your project?
Colton: It probably did a little bit of both. There were certain labels that didn't want to be captured on film but they still met with us and there were other people that met with us and were glad to have it captured on film. I don't think in the bigger picture that it hurt us, I think that it's just another vehicle to reach people and to market ultimately what I'm trying to do musically. That's how I look at it when we started and how I still look at it today. It gets the word out a little bit more on what it is that I'm doing, further beyond what people know of me in the adult film world and it's another avenue to promote that.
RS: What happened to the "Everything" song?
Colton: The song was on a Nervous Records compilation and that was the extent of it. The song is also in a movie called Hell Bent that is coming out now on the film festival scene. We all agreed after the Nervous records release that we were not going to pursue this any further because we had a little cancer in our group. I won't have anything to do with him or anything to do with anything that came from that particular union, it just was not a healthy, productive association.
RS: I was going to ask you about Kyle, the obnoxious control queen in the movie. So I take it you're still not at peace with him, you have nothing to do with him?
