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ZZTor nAvt uttrconlirmed as headliners ol the lirst night
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previously announced Sunday night bill-toppers lmerson lake
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entertainment at last london's Victoria lark on [uly 24j25.
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lritish tour, High Voltage marks ZZTop's lirst headlining spot
at a ULrock lestival in 25 years. And in what is set to be their sole live
perlormance ol 2010 - and possibly the last showthey will ever play together,
the culmination ol a spectacular career that has seen the trio sell over 30
million albums worldwide, lll are reuniting especially lor High Voltage.
lromtop to bottom, Cicssi. Ro.k is promising something very dillerent.
lerhaps most signilicantly, in response to the many complaints lromour
readers, there is no booking lee lor the tickets, which cost 130 lor the
weekend or 75 lor a single day (see panelj.
ln addition to lll and ZZTop, we are pleased to announce
loreigner as one ol the acts playing the mainstage. Asia, Uriah
Heep, Wishbone Ash, locus, Steve Hackett, The Reasoning and
Touchstone will be playing the lrog stage, while llack label
Society will headline the M:tci Hcmm:r stage, whichwill alsoplay
host to Clutch. lor latest updates go to. highvoltagelestival.com
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tastes, and the way we like to look at it is this - High Voltage is
custom-built l, rock lans jor rock lans. The lacilities will be
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last month's luropeantour lromDio,
Ronnie [ames Diowas diagnosedwiththe
early stages ol stomachcancer. The
67-year-old-lamous lor his workwithlll,
Rainbow, llackSabbathand, most recently,
Heaven&Hell -has completedhis lirst
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promised. Alter he kills this dragon,
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belongs, doing what he loves best,
perlorming lor his lans. long live rockand
roll, long live Ronnie [ames Dio.
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undergone surgery onthe cartilage ol his
right thumb, Diois not the only member
ol Heaven&Hell inrecuperation. Vinny
Appice has alsohadanoperationonhis
right shoulder andis expectedtobe back
behindthe drums inlive months.
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50,000get well soonmessages. Wendy
Diosays that the outpouring ol allection
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spirit up. Newmessages canbe sent care
ol. DiolanClub, Suite 624, 12400 Ventura
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Arno1ocnArntnts claiming he has
lilmol Axl Rose punching himinthe head.
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punches, belore being usheredaway by his
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Pinl lloyd on Kfg F]
K_\ Gfgj in July 97
hus been discovered in
the 88Cvuults. Now
ully restored, it will be
shown by the 8ritish
lilmnstitute on
Junuury 9us purt o its
unnuul Missing
8elieved Wiped event.
8ussist/voculist Clen
Mutlocl, guiturist/
leybourd pluyer
Midge Ure, guiturist
Steve Newund
drummer Pusty Egun
ure to perorm
together uguin us the
I`Z_B`[j during u
'one night only'
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concert ut London's
slington Acudemy on
Junuury 7.
Hl\\ejiZ_\ huve
recruited u cust
including burlesque
und go-go duncers,
drug queens, u uggler,
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trupeze urtist to oin
themor Queensryche
Cuburet, u
perormunce herulded
us "the irst udults-
only rocl show", or
two shows in Seuttle
on lebruury 4und S.
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the 200Crummys.
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this yeur's uwurds,
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J`cm\ijleG`Zblgj.
>lej E Ifj\j, who
tour Cunudu in
Junuury und lebruury,
will pluy more North
Americun dutes
between Murch 0
und April 0.
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1he unsung hero o the Alun Pursons
Proect, Eric Woolson hus lost his
buttle uguinst cuncer. He wus 4.
Woolson worled us u session
piunist, beore u uteul meeting with
Alun Pursons during u session ut
Abbey Poud studios. Ater the
ormution o APP in 97S, he wrote
lyrics und contributed some leud
voculs, including to the bund's best-
lnown song, <p\ @e K_\ Jbp. 1he APP
never pluyed live, which contributed
to the group's unonymity, but the 0
ulbums to which Woolson
contributed, including @ IfYfk (977),
GpiXd`[ ('78) und K_\ Klie F] 8
=i`\e[cp :Xi[ ('80), sold some 4S
million copies.
Eric ulso wrote muteriul or und
munuged other urtists, und wus heuvily
involved with musicul theutre. He wus
hoping to bring Gf\, his musicul tribute
to science-iction uuthor Edgur Allun
Poe, to 8ritish stuges this yeur
ollowing u run in 8erlin.
He guve his inul interviewto :cXjj`Z
IfZb Gi\j\ekj Gif^ or the issue on sule
on Junuury 27.
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Also lnown us Dr Pugtime, 38-yeur-
old Jucl Pose hus suered u utul heurt
uttucl. Pose wus un experimentul
guiturist whose worl, both u solo urtist
und with noise-rocl bund Pelt, used
muny styles. "Anything pre-942, thut's
my uvourite lind o music. Cuun,
country, blues, uzz ull thut stu."
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1he composer o u string o hits or
Elvis Presley, Auron Schroeder hus
died, uged 83, uter u lengthy buttle
with Alzheimer's Diseuse. He wrote
7 songs or Presley, ive o which
(@kj EfnFi E\m\i# 89`^ ?leb FCfm\#
>ff[ ClZb :_Xid# @ >fk Jkle^ und
JklZb Fe Pfl) were No. hits in the
US. Schroeder ulso discovered singer
Cene Pitney.
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8ruce CAllen wus the leud guiturist
with ulternutive rocl bund the Suburbs,
und u the gruphic urtist who designed
the 1win/1one Pecords logo und the
cover urt or the Peplucements' 984
ulbumC\k @k 9\. 1he S4-yeur-old
pussed uwuy uter being tulen o
u lie-support muchine.
As tt CtAsstc Roc's High Voltage
lestival wasn't exciting enough, in terms
ol rock next summer has just become
hotter still, with Iron Maiden and
Rammstein announced as headliners
ol 2010's Sonisphere lestival at
Lnebworth lark on [uly 30j31 and
August 1. Other bands so lar conlirmed
to join Maiden - at their only UL
appearance ol the year - include Motley
Cre, Alice Cooper, Iggy &The Stooges,
Slayer, Anthrax and The Cult, with many
other names to be conlirmed. Weekend
tickets, priced 132.50 (not including
camping campingj are available now,
along with various other deals. lor the
latest details head over to www.
sonispherelestivals.com
Meanwhile, Pearl }amare the lirst act
conlirmed lor this year's Hard Rock
Calling series ol events in london's Hyde
lark on [une 25-27. The 24-hour box
ollice number lor Hard Rock Calling
shows is 0844 847 2502 and you can lind
themonline at www.hardrockcalling.co.
uk. learl [amalso play Dublin 02 Arena
on [une 22 and the lellast Odyssey Arena
the lollowing day.
This year's Download lestival will take
place at its usual home at Donington lark
race track lrom[une 12-14, although at
press time no acts had been conlirmed.
And don't lorget the none-louder
Hammerlest, the three-day metal
jamboree which is the domain ol our
sister magazine, M:tci Hcmm:r. Taking
place on March 11-13 at lontin's in
lrestatyn, the event's volume-charged
delights lor 2010 include Iced Earth,
Devildriver, NapalmDeath, Katatonia
and many, many more. lnlo at www.
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Dtsrt1t S1tvtrTxttn's recent
on-stage appearance with the [oe lerry
lroject in NewYork, alter which the
singer insisted there was no validity in
the rumour that Aerosmith are breaking
up, the rest ol the band - guitarists lerry
and lrad Whitlord, bassist TomHamilton
and drummer [oey Lramer - are resigned
to linding a replacement. lndeed lerry,
who encourages would-be successors to
send CDs andjor videos ol themselves to
the group's management company, has
conlirmed that a shortlist ol candidates
has already been drawn up.
We are talking toa lot ol people, the
guitarist toldCNN. lut l loundthe
singer lor my band[the [ll] onYouTube,
sothere's noreasonwhy Aerosmith
couldn't dothe same.
Unlortunately lenny Lravitz, one ol
the people the group targeted, has already
turned themdown. As much as l'm
llattered that Aerosmith would consider
me, Steven Tyler is a lamily lriend, and no
voice could ever take his place, Lravitz
says, adding. l hope the band stays
together. They are classic.
[ohn Lalodner, the A&Rman who
helped to mastermind Aerosmith's Gellen
Records rebirth, is not optimistic ol the
prospects on either side ol the rilt.
ll you're asking, is there an Aerosmith
without Steven Tyler, my answer is no,
he states. And il Steven Tyler goes solo,
my answer is [also] no.
lut while Whitlord agrees that no one
can lill Steven's shoes, apparently Tyler
has not spoken to the Aerosmith camp
since the on-stage jamwith lerry, and his
bandmates are worried about the
rumours ol a drug relapse.
Steven isolates [himsell] more and
more [lromus] all the time, Lramer told
US trade magazine BiiilocrJ. He's made
some not-so-great choices and he's got
some negative inlluences around
him. l love the guy. l just want to see him
get some help. ;C
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Jkiè^ @e K_\ KX`c hus
been conirmed us the
title o the JZfig`fej'
7th studio ulbum.
Produced by Miluel
'Nord' Andersson und
Murtin Hunsen - the
Swedish puir behind
1he Kusmus - it is
expected to be
releused in the spring.
8:&;:, who ure
consistently rumoured
to be pluying summer
dutes in Europe,
recently shot u live
DVDin Argentinu.
Ater months o
conecture, K_\N_f
huve been conirmed
or the hul-time
entertuinment ut this
yeur's Superbowl
showdown between
Oullund Kuiders und
Dullus Cowboys on
lebruury 7.
Meunwhile singer
If^\i ;Xcki\p is
considering writing
his uutobiogruphy.
"t's probubly time,"
comments the
5S-yeur-old.
West Country roclers
I\\] (pictured) who
huve been out o
uction since 2003, ure
bucl with the originul
line-up o voculist
Cury Stringer, guiturist
Kenwyn House,
bussist Jucl 8essunt
und drummer
Dominic Creensmith,
und huve unnounced
u UKtour in April (or
dutes see p07).
1he clussic line-up
o US hurd roclers
;fbb\e recently
shured u stuge
together or the irst
time in more thun
u decude. Cuiturist
Ceorge Lynch und
bussist Je Pilson
oined current singer
Don Dollen und
drummer Micl 8rown
ut u recent gig in
Culiorniu where they
perormed u two-song
encore o N_\e
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Alter being busy at their Racket Club
studio recording a newalbum, Marillion
emerged recently with I:ss Is Mor:, a
shimmering acoustic set ol radical
reworkings ol songs lromacross the
band's catalogue. Not content to stockpile
the strange and beautilul instruments
they accrued in the process, they're taking
the showon the road, too.
Cicssi. Ro.k caught up with a jovial
Steve Hogarth, who joined the band
as their vocalist in 1988.
We hear that the
nevalbumvas
guitarist Steve
Rothery's idea.
Trust himto take the
credit lor it We were
in this cycle ol write,
record, tour, come oll
the road, write again,
record again, and it's
been circular since l
joined the band 20 years ago.
The lyrics have beengradually
becoming more true and conlessional, and
sol've got toa point nowwhere l leel like
towrite lictionwould be a let-down. At the
same time, l have days whenl think l've
said it all. Soit's not writer's block, it's more
writer's terror. l was going. l need a little
break. That presented a dilemma because
we don't have enoughmoney totake a
break. Sowe needed tomake a record, and
l didn't leel l had enoughtosay. And then
Steve had this great idea.Ha
But most bands are content to have
a strumthrough their greatest hits.
The opportunity totake the songs down
totheir bones and thenmove the bones
about, that was terrilic. We lilled the studio
withxylophones and auto-harpand God-
knows what else. lt was a chance tolorce
ourselves outside the comlort zone.
Hovdid you choose vhich songs
to re-do?
We were emailing each other. My little
boy has got a toy that plays Ic Ca.crc.oc,
and it's an inlectious rhythm, and l
thought maybe we could do Ccnnilci Sarj
Bcl: in that style. We tried to re-work
Fcntcsti. Pic.: in three-lour time, and it
sounded really, really moody and soullul
lor about a verse and a hall, and then it
began to leel like it had gone on lor a
week. Anything that didn't work we
threwin the bin.
Har As Iovc is almost a revrite, too.
Did you vorry about hovMarillion
fans might react?
The original is angry,
almost nasty. That's
why l used to dress up
and put the pigtails in
tosing it. lt was really
important that the
audience understood
it was being sung by
a girl, because il you
assume it's sung by a
bloke it's quite a nasty song. l came upwith
pianochords lor the newverse, sad chords,
and suddenly the whole song takes ona
sort ol sadness that it never had.
lut no, as soon as you become
conscious ol what lans or the market
want and start to try to lullil that, then
l think you become a parody ol yoursell.
And people seemto like it?
Well, l was buying a pair ol trousers in
a shop in Germany, and this Dutch guy
came up to me and said. Hello. l've come
all the way lromHolland to see you
tonight and just wanted to say hi. l really
don't like your newalbum. lor me, less
is delinitely not more. l guess he lelt was
doing me a lavour, putting me straight.
Apart lromhimwe've had a great
reaction. Ioos: EnJs on Radio lour called
us up and asked il we'd come in and do
a song. Now, l don't think we could have
got in there at the point ol a gun with the
electric stull. A?
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proggers ended up putting u spin on some old ones.
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music on this ulbum
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bused bund 1he
Chost wus ulreudy
yesterduy's news.
Elements o West
Coust-inspired
psychedeliu reign over the muority o its
more rocling trucls, while the rest o the
ulbumdispluys more oll-rocl leunings.
Despite its ruther duted sound und
guruge-lile production vulues, N_\e
Pfli\ ;\X[ Fe\ J\Zfe[ hus enough
cool moments to mule it worthy o
investigution. t's nowconsidered u cult
ulbum, thut stutus helped by strong
elements o mysticismboth visuully, with
its gothic sleeve imugery, und lyricully,
with its centrul themes o witchcrut und
the supernuturul.
Crude use o orgun udds u trippy edge,
especiully notuble on the more up-beut
numbers such us Pfli\ ;\X[ und n
?\Xm\e. Kff CXk\ Kf :ip und the hiluriously
inectious E`^_k F] K_\ NXicfZb, ure
where things reully clicl here, the ormer
showcusing some greut uzz guitur.
Led by Shirley Kent's ormiduble
voculs, trucls such us K_\ Jkfidhint ut
whut might huve been, hud the bund
been given time to develop. When voculs
und hurmonies ure shured with orgunist
1erry Cuy, it occusionully worls,
especiully on the uorementioned E`^_k
F] K_\ NXicfZb, plus Kff CXk\ Kf :ip, but it
ulso suggest thut voculs might huve been
better let solely to Kent. Her two sel-
penned songs, K`d\ @j Dp <e\dp und
?\Xikj =cfn\ij# worl purticulurly well,
despite being somewhut ut odds with the
rest o the ulbum. C;
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Snt1onuUs1. All or nothing. Give upor die trying. lt's the classic
dilemma lacedby every club-circuit rocker ol a certainage. Andwhenhis
bandderailedin2005, Matt Drenikbecame the latest. lverything was on
the table lor us, sighs the 30-year-oldsinger. lverything was going our
way. Thena couple ol the guys llippedout. Some people think
they want it more thanthey do. They start toget it, they lreakout,
worry about their wives.Well, l don't have a wile. l'malready in
it towinit sol might as well keepgoing.
Without missing a beat, Drenikassembledlions intime to
honour his lormer band's support slots, andlusedhis anger over
the split intocoming upwithnewmaterial inlormedmore by 90s
hardrockthanthe spectre ol ZZTopthat hangs over his native
Austin, Texas. l thinkil you're downhere, you're beatenover the
headwiththat stull, sosubconsciously it sinks in, he considers.
lut what was happening whenl was a kidwas that whole
movement ol rockbands like Nirvana, Alice lnChains,
Soundgarden, Mudhoney.
long-hairedandloose-lipped, lions seemlike a good-time
band. lut we delinitely donot come lromthe school ol bands
like Motley Crue, counters Drenik. l get super-insultedwhen
l readtheir books andl see howdegrading they are towomen. Although,
l mean, we were always crashing onpeople's lloors, sool course that'd
always turninto, 'Hey, youguys wanna party?'
Thirty is a lunny age inrock. lt means that lions' workethic is lromthe
oldschool -l grewupwiththe attitude that youget inthe vananddoit -
but alsothat Drenikgrudgingly concedes the power ol technology. The
band's big breakcame whena SXSWset ledtothe inclusionol M:tci H:cr,
IcJ, onCaitcr H:ro III, andthey've alsobenelitedlromthe blogosphere.
l lought it lor a long time, Drenikadmits. l remember when
the blog thing started, l didn't get it. l didn't get howsomeone
couldsay a bandrules, thena thousandpeople wouldgotoa
show. l always assumedyouhadtomake it intoSjin magazine or
something. lut there's all kinds ol outlets lor bands now. And
people are hungry lor music.
Hardwork, plus rawtalent, plus a growing cyberspace buzz
have ledtolions' debut ll, I:t No On: Fcii. Whichjust might be
the last great rockrelease ol the decade. lut, make nomistake,
you'll be seeing themonthe other side. This bandbrings out your
lighting spirit, concludes Drenik. We're a blue-collar band,
lighting lor the losers andthe unsung heroes, man. There's no
llanllor us. ?P
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ribs, "puinul internul
dumuge" und u lower-
leg inury when the
bund's tour bus
slidded on ice during
u North Americun
tour. All immediute
gigs were cuncelled.
K_\=XZ\j huve
stepped up pluns or
u reunion tour. "We've
been wuiting und
wuiting or Kod
[Stewurt to suy yes,
nowhe's inully suid
no. So we're gonnu
do it [without him,"
leybourd pluyer un
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Meunwhile, luces/
Kolling Stones guiturist
Konnie Wood wus
releused on buil uter
being urrested
recently on suspicion
o ussuulting his
20-yeur-old girlriend,
Eluterinu vunovu.
L), K_\Ifccè^
Jkfe\j und Dlj\
(pictured) ure strongly
rumoured to be
umong the leuding
uttructions o this
yeur's Clustonbury
lestivul. Duvid 8owie
(seemingly rumoured
every yeur) hus ruled
himsel out o the
running. 1he 40-yeur-
old estivul, which
tules pluce on the lust
weelend o June, is
ulreudy sold out.
Jfle[M`j`fe,
Cuncer Keseurch UK's
unnuul music herituge
event, euturing u rocl
photogruphy
exhibition, uuction
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beengoing lor 40 years. They've released
15 studioalbums, hit the topol the US
charts with1980's Hi InjiJ:iit,, had 14 Top
40 hits over there and three Top20 singles
inthe UL. And as 2009 closed they
released a Christmas album.
Sowhat canthe luture hold lor vocalist
LevinCronin, guitarists Dave Amato,
bassist lruce Hall, keyboard player Neal
Doughty and drummer lryanHitt now?
As always, Croninis upbeat about
everything inthe Speedwagoncamp.
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delends the idea ol
their Christmas
release. Ho, ho, ho
Okay, let's get it out
of the vay: vhy did
you do a Christmas
album?
When we linished up
our last album[2007's
FinJ oar Own wc, Hom:], it
had been such an enjoyable experience
working with producer [oe Vannelli that
we started to think ol ways ol doing
something else. lryan had just become
a lather, l have young kids and so does
lruce, so it seemed logical lor the RlO
daddies to do a Christmas album.
You must be avare that most rock
fans are horrified vhen their
favourite bands do this sort of thing.
Alter all these years and success, we've
earned the right totry dillerent things.
As a band, youalways want tostretch
yoursell, and this was a way ol challenging
whowe are. lor the lirst time, l have tosing
other people's songs. And the reaction
lromthe lans has beenreally positive.
lt's not as il we've done RaJoijo 1o: R:J
Nos:J R:inJ::r And it was luntodo.
What next for REO?
We're lucky in that we can still tour a lot
and always drawvery big crowds. lut we
don't want to rest on our back catalogue.
l'malways writing newsongs. l have a
guitar with me on the road, and also a
miniature recording studio in my ilhone,
so there are always lots ol lresh ideas
cropping up. Right nowl don't know
when we'll record.
It vill soon be the 30th anniversary of
the band's biggest album, H InjcIty.
Have you planned any celebrations?
We are gonna put out a deluxe edition
ol the album which will include all the
demos. Our manager recently came
across these and
listening back to
them. l'mamazed at
how much heavier
they are than the linal
album. ln many ways
l preler them. ll all
goes to plan, we'll put
this out in [anuary
2011, on exactly the
same day as it
originally came out in 1980.
What about doing a tour shovcasing
the vhole album?
We did a radiospecial recently doing
exactly that. And it was tough. l'd
lorgottenhowvocally intense it all is.
l was struggling a little by the end ol the
broadcast. We hadn't thought about taking
it lurther, but il l canget intoshape thenit
would be interesting todosome dates
playing the whole albuminsequence.
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the highest accolade you can pay us. Art
Alexakis ol lverclear, Clint llack,
ldwin McCain [US alternative singer-
songwriter], they're all lans ol ours.
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noise. Aged just 17 she joined The
Runaways as lead guitarist in the mid-70s,
and went on to record solo hits in the 80s.
Her biggest was 1988's Cios: M, E,:s
For:r:r, a duet with Ozzy Osbourne. ln the
90s she suddenly retired lromthe music
business and went to live on a remote
Caribbean island to raise a lamily with
[imGillette, the lormer singer with lA
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surreal in some
ways. We did
some shows in
Germany, ltaly,
Greece and
Spain, then
some lestivals in
the US. lt's a whole
dillerent animal.
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albumabout?
lt's about lamily lile, our
love lile, our hate, our pain,
our pleasure. lt's very
personal. [imsays it's
written lromthe heart.
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as a means to spice up
people's love life?
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one. He has a wonderlul way ol
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what was coming out was what we do in
our bedroom. So we talked about it and
said. Should we even be putting this out
there? We were a little hesitant, but then
decided to do it. The idea is that maybe
more people will then open up in their
relationships. lecause
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think other people
should do. leople tend
to be embarrassed or
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lantasies to
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message is talk about
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to lita.]
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in l010, vith Scout Taylor-Compton
playing you. Did the makers of the
filmapproach you about it?
lt wasn't something l personally wanted
to get involved with. l pretty much lelt it
up to the people doing the lilm. l'msure
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much about it.
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The Runavays?
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withcertainpeople. Some ol theml get
along great with, but there are a lewpeople
whowere not inThe Runaways whoare
causing some problems lor me. [lord has
claimed that [oan[ett's manager ollered to
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landOl Skulls lrontmanrecalls ol the potentially latelul day. We had
Motorhead's A.: Oj SjcJ:s inthe cassette player, andwe basically started
swerving the car tothe rhythm, until we lost control andspunoll
the roadintoone ol those places where oldpeople stoptolookat
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sandwiches andcollee. Whenever l hear that song nowl'm
transportedbacktothose happy times.
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October 30, 2009. Metal
giants Metallica are among
the heavyweights celebrating
the 25thanniversary ol the Rock And Roll
Hall Ol lame. Ozzy joins inlor a banging
versionol Iron Mcn and PcrcnoiJ, while lou
Reed is onhand lor Sw::t jcn:. Then[ames
Hetlield steps uptothe mic: We got
completely schooled onearly rill-rock by
this manand his band - The Links. lnter
Ray Davies lor a bracing assault withhis
two1960s trailblazers: oa R:cii, Cot M:
and Aii Dc, AnJ Aii Oj 1o: Nigot.
Withits thumping power chords and
shredding solo, Aii Dc, AnJ Aii Oj 1o: Nigot
-recordedinSeptember 1964-is olten
citedas the jump-oll point lor punkand
hardrock. llackSabbath, The Clash,
Thunder andThe Whoare among those
whohave acknowledgedtheir debt toit.
Davies is routinely paintedas the
consummate lnglishsongwriter, the
wistlul composer ol wct:rioo Sans:t, and
avidpreservationist ol the local village
green. lut early Links were a bandlorged
by Americanrock'n'blues.
Their thirdsingle, Yoa R:cii, Cot M:,
whichborrowedheavilylromThe
Lingsmen's Ioai: Ioai:, made No.1inthe
ULin1964. The distortedguitar rill by
Ray's brother Dave was a revelation. lut it
was the lollow-upthat reallycreatedthe
metaljpunkblueprint. The one that started
it was Aii Dc, AnJ Aii Oj 1o: Nigot, Ray
Davies explains toCicssi. Ro.k. The sounds
onthat one, il theywere made today, would
soundlike GreenDayor a metal band.
The secret toThe Links' early guitar
soundwas Dave Davies's brainwave ol
slashing his speaker cones ol his ampwith
a razor. As it vibratedit produceda
distortedandjaggedroar, he commented
later. lt was a soundthey patentedinthe
theatre halls ol lritainthroughout the
early part ol 1964. lt alsobrought them
intoconllict withtheir lirst producer,
23-year-oldAmericanShel Talmy.
lnitially we dideverything he askedus
todo, as regards the lirst couple ol singles
- Iong 1cii Scii, andoa Stiii wcnt M:, says
Ray Davies. lut we loundthat we were
developing a certainlive soundandwanted
toreplicate that inthe studio. He had
recordedYoa R:cii, Cot M: once, maybe
twice, but it wasn't the way we sounded.
lasically, he was smart inthat he accepted
our point ol view. Smart producers get
what the bandwant.
Davies beganwriting Aii Dc, AnJ Aii Oj
1o: Nigot inmy music publisher's ollice.
Thenwe went ona little tour, sol wrote
part ol it inthe car. lt was writtenover
a periodol about three or lour days.
lt was certainly a stepuplromtheir
previous hit. Dave's sliding power chords
andRay's throaty vocals are somehow
more urgent thanbelore, while the lyrics
tapintoa more aggressive strainol teen
angst: 'I'mnot .ont:nt to l: wito ,oa in to:
Jc,tim:jCiri I wcnt to l: wito ,oa cii oj to: tim:.'
RayDavies agrees: lt's more demanding.
Maybe that was because we'djust come oll
a success witha number one single. Soit
was a bit cocky.
lrother Dave adds:
l crankedupmy guitar
more thanonoa R:cii,
Cot M:. Whenwe went
intothe studio,
everybody knewwhat
they were doing. There
was a new-lound
conlidence. l thinkwe
didit inthree takes.
The song was actually recorded, Ray
Davies reveals, at 10am. We came down
tolondonespecially torecordit, as we'd
playedlirminghamthe night belore. The
lirst time the bandheardit was whenl ran
throughit withthemat the soundcheck.
Alterwards we drove backdownto
london, got upinthe morning and
linishedthe song by midday.
There was still time lor some dispute
though, involving sessiondrummer lobby
Graham, a relative veteranbrought inby
Talmy belore MickAvory became an
integral part ol the band.
lelore verse twoandintoverse three,
explains Davies, l wanteda 'bop-bop-bop'
lill, but lobby was a bit reluctant todoit.
He saidl was getting a bit cocky, telling
himwhat todo. lut it endeduponthe
record. l wantedit there because l'dheardit
onluddy Holly's It's So Ecs, andl'dalways
wantedit tobe onone ol my records. We
hada big argument over it, but inthe end
he tookit onboard.
Recordlabel lye, however, weren't too
enamouredwithThe Links' latest sound,
andinitially rejectedthe song lor being
tooworking class. l thinkthey hada
problemwithThe Links because the lirst
twosongs that Shel producedwere kindol
Merseybeat-sounding andAmerican-
polished, he reasons. lut The Links were
a rough-and-ready unit. Certainly the
whole leeling ol Aii Dc, AnJ Aii Oj 1o:
Nigot is working class, without parochially
trying tosoundworking class.
Whatever its social standing, Aii Dc, AnJ
Aii Oj 1o: Nigot was a lerocious blast ol
rock'n'roll. lt gave The Links their second
major hit andcementedtheminthe USas
one ol the keybands ol the lritishlnvasion.
Shel Talmy, whotodayremembers Davies
as complex, conllicted, unsure, angry,
resentlul, mistrusting, untrustworthy as
well as a verytalentedsongwriter, still
believes guitarist Dave is owedhis dues.
Dave is one ol the more underrated
guitarists inrock, he asserts. He's always
beenoverlookedlor noreasonl can
determine, except that he never got the
lRhe shouldhave.
Ray Davies, meanwhile, has been
quotedas calling Aii Dc, AnJ Aii Oj 1o:
Nigot neurotic, youthlul, obsessive and
sexually possessive. He's keentoset this
straight: lurt lacharachactually calledit
'neurotic'. He reviewedit lor some music
magazine. lut that's what it was, l was a
neurotic 19-year-oldat the time. l'dsay
l was a sweetheart, but l'msure others say
l was appalling toworkwith.
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tephenStills is enjoying a timely renaissance at 64. Old
CaptainManyhands has recently releaseda Manassas out-
takes compilationanda live albumrecordedat Shepherd's
lushin2008. He alsoleatures onthe acclaimedCrosby,
Stills &Nashset D:mos, archivedby GrahamNash, whois
working ona box set lor Stills that will range lromthe Au
Go-Go's andlullaloSpringlieldtothe present day. Alter a spell ol
badhealth, Stills is alsoinvolvedina new'covers' albumwithhis
compadres (overseenby RickRubinj andis waiting lor clearance on
a jamset he recordedwith[imi Hendrix inthe late 60s.
Stills soundedrenewedwhenhe spoke toCicssi. Ro.k about some
oldtimes, goodtimes. like he says. l don't want tobe complacent
andrest onmy laurels any more, because they'll turnout tobe cacti.
Your nevManassas albumPcccs, gems fromthe archive, is
goingdovna storminthese parts. Youmust be delighted.
Chulledtobits, squire. l spent enoughtime withyoubunchto
beware ol llattery. lt couldget me ina peckol trouble. lt couldbe
a loadol oldbollocks. lt was great togobackandremix some old
tunes lromthe vaults, toremove the unnecessary echo, tidy upthe
dull lyrics. Alsotolistenagaintothose players like Chris 'Curly'
Hillman, [oe lala andAl lerkins. We were the lirst country-rock-
bluegrass-steel-latinband. Andwe were darnedgood.
WhenManassas playedthe RainbovinIondonin197lyou
vere livinginEngland.
lart-time. l'dbought RingoStarr's lrooklields mansionlor
100,000-he bought it lromleter Sellers -andl hadthe most
rock'n'roll lunever living inlritain, instockbroker llstead, Surrey.
l lovedit all, the lreshmowngrass andthe spring air. l playedcricket,
l evenknowthe rules. lnlact l still watchthe big matches onSky.
l lovedlritain. l coulddrive roundinmy lentley or my Roller when
your roads were empty. Sonowyouthinkl'ma lucking Tory
l relaxedat [londonhangouts] the lag O' Nails andRonnie
Scott's. l was a happy man, andmy workshowedthat. leople say l'm
a taskmaster andl was onmy gig. l lockedthe gates ol the mansion,
hada cookcome inandl rehearsedthose guys todeath. l usedtobe
aninsomniac, sol'dwake theminthe middle ol the night andmake
themplay. lut thenchances are they were awake already.
You've saidyouput Manassas together because youvere tired
of the vhole CSN&Yexperience. That didn't take long!
The Crosby, Stills &Nashthing became iconic. That was crushing to
me as anindividual. l wantedtotry other things. David[Crosby] was
enjoying being lamous, he workedhardat that. Whenthat band
came tolnglandandplayedat the Royal Albert Hall l soonrealised
everyone is inlinitely more lamous thanme. leing less celebrated
gave me breathing space.
Youbecame a regular Surrey-basedsuperstar.
l'dworkedona Doris Troy albumlor Apple. Andl was hanging out
withGeorge Harrison, Ringoandlric Clapton, among others when
l made my lirst soloalbum, St:jo:n Stiiis. lric was coming by the
house lor a tickle, anda lot ol workgot done inbetweena two-year
party at Ronnie Wood's place. Not that Ronnie ever invitedme.
Going toApple while the leatles were breaking upwas heavy lor
a kidlromllorida. l'mina studiowiththe lucking leatles? Huh?
lt was very allirming whenthey toldme. Goaheadanddoyour
thing. lut thenthey'dsay. lut don't get toosuccesslul. This is
a small island, there's not enoughroomat the toplor everyone.
Onyour first soloalbum(1970) youpulledoff a coupgetting
Claptonand)imHendrixtoplayonGo BackHomc andOI
Tmcs, Goo Tmcs respectively.
lnCalilornia we hadthat jazz theme where everyone couldbe on
anyone else's record. Not exactly piggybacking by me, because my
other groups hadalready soldapace. l bumpedintolric one evening,
andhe came by andthe night degeneratedintoanendless jamol the
Champs' 1:aiic. Thenwe didthe albumtrackinthe studio. His solo
was one take andhe got a labulous sound. His greatest solo? lt
inspiredme. lorty years later l might just have the chops toemulate
him. Hendrix was a god. l sawhimplay close up, andl sawhimwith
a bandmany times. lt was always a startling experience. Oddly,
l don't thinkhe ever quite got that magic l sawdownonhis records.
After the goldenstreakof BuffaloSpringfield, CSN&Y, your
earlysoloalbums andManassas, things vent avryfor you.
Ah, the '[urassic Age'. l hadtoomuchlundoing what everybody else
was doing. leople toldme l was one ol the great rockstars, andthen
l became a little inept. Things got a little crackers inManassas. We
overdideverything. We'dbe line withthe music but we'dlorget
about the words, making upridiculous lyrics. Andthey weren't
exactly Mont, P,toon. Alterwards inAmerica l got drawnbacktothe
darker lorces andthe years therealter became a blur. We didn't care
about the consequences. Money was llowing, goodies were available.
Sowhenmanagement stole money we didn't care because we didn't
evenmiss it. l made some very baddecisions. And, as the lritishare
always reminding me, Neil Young came along andstole my thunder.
lut whowants totalkabout him?
Well.
l guessedyouwould. Obviously l love Neil. l sawhimrecently inthe
linest car builders shopinthe worldinSouthSanlrancisco. He's
beenworking onanelectricjhybridengine whichhe's put intothis
19-loot-long 1959lincolnContinental. He's got it running on
practically nothing. lt's lunny seeing it next toall these gorgeous,
gas-guzzling hot rods. YouknowNeil, once he gets his teethinto
something.As a guitarist l lovedhis weirdness. lronically, in
lullaloSpringlieldhe'dbe the one whostoodstill andplayedwhile
l was the madman. Nowhe's got all the goddamnenergy andl got
toomany cuts andbruises lromlile. l was a lot more athletic back
thenandl'mpaying the price. lut l still love it whenhe andl get
unleashedoccasionally. We've always beena goodteam.
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greasing his wheels as Motorcycle lddie inthe stage
andlilmversionol 1o: Ro.k, Horror Soow, inthe late
60s MichaeljMarvinlee Aday, aka Meat loal, was
busting his chops onthe tortuous gig circuit witha
bandcalledMeatloal Soul. The bandwent through
a series ol name changes witheachnewline-up. lut it was as
lloating Circus that they truly arrived, witha series ol gigs at the
Grande lallroom-a legendary Detroit venue -opening uplor an
eclectic range ol acts including Dr [ohn, SunRa, The lugs, [imi Hendrix
and [anis [oplin.
Here Mr loal recounts his experiences withother Grande regulars
including the eviscerating MC5, the schizophrenic lggy lopand a then
unknownband lromWest londoncalled The Who. He alsoexplains,
ina tale involving Grand lunk Railroad, why youshouldn't gotohim
lor career advice, and talks about the rise and lall ol his lavourite singer,
[oe Cocker. All that and a smarty-pants ld Nortonol Figot Cial too.
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l sawlggy play his lirst showat the Grande lallroom. His band
consistedol the MC5's roadcrew, none ol whocouldplay an
instrument. The whole set was one song inthe key ol l. Alter an
instrumental intro, inthe key ol l, lggy came on, immediately took
oll his T-shirt andthenstartedmaiming himsell by sticking needles
throughhis lingertips andinhis chest. He thensomehowgot holdol
a creampie, jumpedoll stage andstartedmaking out withthis poor
guy's girllriend. Sothis guy's lreaking out, andlggy just laughs and
slams the pie inthis poor kid's lace andstarts rubbing the creamall
over himsell. Andthenhe jumps backonstage anddisappears. That
was the whole show. lucking hilarious lt was over insix minutes.
We played withThe Stooges many times, and oll stage lggy was the
quietest, most solt-spokenpersonyoucould ever meet. He used topull
me upand say. Hey Meat, man. We've just learnt another chord
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were. Roger came out ina suede tassledjacket whichl thought was
hilarious. LeithMoonwas unbelievable, youcouldn't take your eyes
oll the guy. They usedtoannounce 1o: S::k:r by saying. This is a
newsong that we've never playedbelore. Andl thought. Yeah,
right. l bet that's what they say every night. Andthey did. l also
remember that Daltrey stoodat the side ol the stage whenwe were
on, watching intently.
l met himmany years later at a music award ceremony. l was inthe
bathroomtaking a piss and he came upbehind me and said. You're
Meat loal, aren't you? l remember seeing youwitha band inDetroit
years ago. Youwere brilliant. l couldn't believe that he remembered
me. Years later he sang onone ol my albums.
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l knewthe Grandlunkboys since they were ina bandcalledThe
lack. They were originally calledTerry Lnight &The lack. Terry
went ontobecome Grandlunk's manager andwas a really sharp
guy. Once he met youhe never lorgot your name. [ust like [immy
lovine. The lackwere anamazing band. Donlrewer was a
phenomenal drummer andlarner hada soullul voice -he played
bass inthose days. lut they didn't have muchsuccess.
l remember a story they toldme about the time they supported
Gary luckett &The UnionGap. The UnionGapwas a bubblegum
act whohadluckedout witha couple ol hits lrontedby Gary luckett
whowas a vile egomaniac. WhenThe lacksupportedthem, luckett
wouldn't let the banduse his backline andthey hadtoset uponthe
lloor inlront ol the stage. lt was sohumiliating, anddelinitely
contributedtothe bandsplitting up. Hearing that story hada huge
impact onme andl always made sure our support bands were taken
care ol andlent out equipment toanyone whoneededit.
WhenThe lack split up, Mark and Dondecided they were going to
lorma heavy rock triointhe style ol Creamand Hendrix, and were
initially alter my bass player, Rick lozzo, tocomplete the line-up. They
approached him, and Rick came tome lor advice. At the time, my band
were beginning tomake headway, while Mark and Donhad just started
rehearsing at the llint, MichiganYMCA. They were sobroke that they
paid lor their rehearsal time by sweeping upalterwards. Sol convinced
Rick tostay withus. Ol course, Mel Schacher joined and Grand lunk
Railroad became one ol the biggest rock bands inUS history.
l remember one day we were driving somewhere inHollywood and
suddenly there was this huge billboard withMark, Donand Mel's laces
plastered across it. Rick just looked up, sighed and said. That could've
beenMark, Donand Rick.
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Undoubtedly one ol the best live bands ever. The Grande lallroom
playedhost toall the visiting superstars like Cream, Hendrix, [anis
[oplin, but the local superstars were MC5. They were brilliant. Along
with[oe Cocker andlullaloSpringlield, MC5are the bandl sawthe
most times live.
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l knewthe guys really well andthey were always
great luntowatch. They mixedpolitics with
theatrics. Their manager, [ohnSinclair, was a
member ol the White lanthers andlacing a heavy
raplor possessionol dope. The stage wouldbe
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a cross betweenthe [ames lrownrevue andThe
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out howit they pulledit oll. lnthe middle ol the
song, the soundcuts out, like there's some kind
ol electrical mallunction, but the bandjust keep
playing, making all the moves andmouthing the
vocals. Thensuddenly the soundcomes backon
andthey're all totally insync withthe music. lor
a minute youthinkyou've gone crazy, andthe
audience, whoare already pretty wasted, are
staring at eachother indisbeliel. lt's dillicult to
describe without youbeing there. lut one thing's
lor sure. Viv Stanshall was delinitely the king ol
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headlinedonce at the Grande. The support acts
includedthe MC5, lobSeger andus -all high-
energy. [erry Garcia andhis crewcame onand
startedplaying this song andit seemedtolast lor
weeks Alter about 20minutes hall the audience
hadgone .The problemwas that we couldn't leave.
lecause ol weather problems the Dead's
equipment hadn't arrivedandwe hadlent them
our backline. l didn't knowanything about the
bandat the time anddidn't realise that their sets
went onlor days [laughs] - well that's what it lelt
like. We were stuckthere all night.
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We were doing a lestival withTedNugent, MC5
andthe usual Detroit crewandthe headliners were
this lritishact calledThe Grease land, whol'd
never heardol. While our bandwas setting up, this
real scrully guy withgreasy hair anddressedlike
a hobocame uptome andaskedil he could
borrowour organbecause theirs hadpackedup.
We hada HammondC3, whichwas a monster, like
a churchorgan. Most bands hada l3whichwas
portable incomparison. l was pretty big at the time
andhadnoproblemmoving it.
The lirst thing this 'roadie' says tome is. l bet
it isn't easy moving that weight around.
Yeah, it canbe hard, l replied, thinking that
he's talking about the organ. Whenwe make
some more money we'll get a l3.
''No, l'mtalking about ,oa, pal, he replies.
l used tobe your size. lt ain't muchlun.
Canyoubelieve it? This lucking roadie was
making lunol my weight. Anyway, he did
compliment our set sol helped himset up, and
thenl went round the lront ol the stage tocheck
out this newlimey outlit. The band comes onand
plays aninstrumental and thenthe 'roadie' come
on, starts singing and blows me away. lt was [oe
Cocker. And lromthat day onwards he became
my lavourite vocalist ol all time.
l once sawhiminthe 70s whenhe was battling
withdrug and alcohol problems, and that was
depressing. He looked a real mess whenhe
stumbled ontothe stage, and threwupalter the
second song. l had toleave alter that, l couldn't
watchany more. lut evennowhe's still my
lavourite singer.
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a doubt one ol the most intelligent people l have
ever met. His whole lamily are really talented.
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andknowledge.
l remember l was hanging out withhimand
LevinSpacey at one ol the lilmscreenings ol Figot
Cial. ldwardis going onabout something or other,
his lace is all serious andlocused. Suddenly, inthe
middle ol this diatribe, LevinSpacey blurts out.
ldward, what the luckare youtalking about?
ld looks upand. without missing a beat. just carries
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cceptedUlOwisdomsays the
bandwere at their peakwith
Michael Schenker inthe line-up. lut
althoughthe records were good, on
the roadthe guitarist was
notoriously erratic. Alter going
AWOlin1977 onthe eve ol a major
US tour
supporting
Rush, and
walking out lor
goodin
November
1978, the band
recruitedold
buddy laul
Chapman
(leading tothe demise ol lone Starj.
Hugely talentedandreliable, the
Welshmanwas exactly what UlO
neededandwithhimeverything
went toanother level. Alter a year ol
touring, Chapmanandthe band
were revitalisedandready tomake
No Pic.: 1o Ran - whichhit the
streets in[anuary 1980.
The cover shows the band,
photographed by Hipgnosis at
night beside a set ol petrol pumps
lor noobvious reason, resplendent
inturn-ol-the-decade rock duds -
'smart' jackets, stretchjeans and
white high-tops. The cover was
available ina variety ol sleeves,
eachwiththe shot tintedin
a dillerent colour.
As Chapman's broody
instrumental opener Aijoc C:ntcari
gave way tothe lull-bloodedrocker
I:ttin' Co, it was immediately clear
this was UlOat the height ol their
powers. lt alsomarkeda huge step
uplor theminthe USA.
As Chapmanrecalls. No Pic.: 1o
Ran was the tour where everything
changedaround-we started
headlining inAmerica andit was
one ol the highest-charting albums
the band hadhadover there. There
was a real buzz aroundit. lots ol
people today tell me it's their
lavourite periodol the band.
The albumwas given a big
budget witherstwhile leatles
producer George Martinhiredby
the band's long-time label Chrysalis
toproduce a hit single -but trying
toget UlOintothat mindset was
like nailing jelly tothe ceiling. lar
lromhis comlort zone witha hell-
raising rockband, Martin's best
ellort, oang BiooJ, just scrapedinto
the ULTop40chart.
lut the albumrose above
all this andtoday is at least
as goodas Ols:ssion -
Schenker's last studioellort
withthe band. lndeed,
tracks suchas 1ois Fir: Barns
1onigot, Con: In 1o: Nigot or
the (probablyj Springsteen-
inspiredtitle-trackare
strong enoughtohave beenon
Iigots Oat.
Chapman, recalls how, alongside
great success, No Pic.: 1o Ran
brought lrustration, too.
We were sobusy touring. Our
schedule was solull-on. We were
trying tosqueeze 15months out ol
every year.
We weren't getting rich. There
are some horror stories - but we JiJ
spendtoomuchmoney enjoying
ourselves. We were our ownworst
enemies. lut at the time youdon't
thinkabout 20years downthe road.
ll youcouldyou'dbe rich-but
boring as shit EA
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whichsealedit lor lete [Willis, guitarist]. lackthen, lete was toleppardwhat
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wasn't. During recording l got intoa listlight withlete because he knelt on
three ol my Subbuteoplayers onpurpose lut lete was adamant about getting
TomAllom, andtobe honest Tomwas a great guy.
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ol himwithrosy cheeks popping another cork. lut we workedlast. We didall
the backing tracks ina day. Thenwe spent three weeks completely ruining that
recordwithunnecessary overdubs.
lnhindsight, it shouldn't have beena boys' ownholiday where analbum
came out ol it at the end(whichis what happenedj -it shouldhave beenlike
boot camp. lut it's a great recordlor what it was. Ro.k BrigcJ:'s kinda cool, il
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going. That couldhave beenonP,romcnic. lut whenwe recordedit, the
cowbell didn't soundlike a cowbell, sowe tookthe kettle out ol the kitchen
andusedthat. We put a big dent init, andwhenRuth, the cook, sawit the
next morning she went ballistic. Ohwell - needs must
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sold out Shellield City Hall. lt went Top20 inthe UL. lut it got okay
reviews - and l agree withthem. We were still a work inprogress.
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Halenalbum, it's Wycombe Wanderers totheir Chelsea.
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happened. llackSabbathliredOzzy Osbourne. Ozzy hadbeen
out ol the bandbelore, quitting inNovember 1977belore rejoining
twomonths later. lut this time there was nogoing back-not, at
least, until the original llackSabbathreunitedin1997.
Ozzy reactedtothe split inthe only way he knewhow, holing
upinanlAhotel room, getting trashed, barely seeing daylight,
belore SharonArdenbecame his newmanager andrescuedhim
lromoblivion. Meanwhile, the three remaining members ol llack
Sabbath-guitarist Tony lommi, bassist Geezer lutler and
drummer lill Ward-actedswiltly tolinda replacement lor Ozzy.
There was only one candidate. lormer Rainbowsinger Ronnie
[ames Dio.
WithDio, Sabbathcreatedone ol the greatest heavy metal
albums ol all time. H:cr:n AnJ H:ii, releasedinApril 1980(live
months belore Ozzy's solocomebackBii..crJ Oj O..), markeda
spectacular returnlor a bandthat many consideredlinished. Here,
inthe band's ownwords, is the story ol howllackSabbathwere
bornagainwithRonnie [ames Dio. howthe bandsurvivedjail,
sniper lire andthe bizarre disappearance ol their drummer to
prove there was lile alter Ozzy.
Geezer Butler: lt hadn't beenworking withOzzy lor ages. Ozzy
neededtogoaway andget himsell together. He'dalready lelt a
couple ol years belore that anyway. lt was a bandjust dying.
TonyIommi: We managedtoscrape together the last album
withOzzy, N:r:r Sc, Di:. That was the end. lt was desperate. The
songs were all over the place.
Geezer Butler: Ozzy just wasn't interestedindoing anything.
Tony andme andlill were working onstull. We hadto. The record
company was paying lor everything, sowe just carriedon.
TonyIommi: All that time, it was me going tothe record
company -'cause nobody else wouldgo -andthey'dsay, 'How's
the albumcoming along?' 'Oh, all right.' lt was getting really
desperate, but the recordcompany didn't understandwhy we
wouldsplit withOzzy. 'Why breakup? Why not just continue
andmake money?' They didn't see it lromour side -the musical
side ol it.
Geezer Butler: Whenwe linally made the decisionabout
Ozzy, Tony saidhe'dbeentalking tothis great singer. Ronnie came
over, we playedCoiiJr:n Oj 1o: S:c, this blues song we were doing,
andwe thought, 'lloody hell' We'dbeensitting there lor six
months withabsolutely nothing, andRonnie comes inandjust
nails it straight away.
TonyIommi: lt was a newlease ol lile.
Ronnie )ames Dio: CoiiJr:n Oj 1o: S:c was the lirst thing that l
was presentedwith. l don't audition-l'mconlident enoughin
mysell. lut it was somewhat ol anaudition, lor all ol us -l
auditionedthem, they auditionedme. l knewwe couldbe great
together. lut l'ma dillerent animal toOzzy, ol course. l thinkin
dillerent musical terms, soit ledus ina newdirection. We were
creating this albumtogether, andit was important that it be that
way. l didn't want tobe replacing something that Ozzy woulddo,
but luckily, he hadn't beendoing anything, soit wasn't a problem.
TonyIommi: l'dheardthe Rainbowstull, sol knewwhat
Ronnie coulddo.
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[llackmore], but inRainbowit was sometimes very dillicult.
Ritchie andl wrote some great songs, some really wonderlul
things, but Ritchie is a genius andhe has a very single-minded
attitude. WithRitchie, youkindol have tosing over what he
wantedtogive you. l learneda very dillicult process ol singing over
his rills most ol the time -he just kept onplaying them Tony is a
genius inhis ownright, but he andGeezer gave me somuchmore
latitude, somuchmore space lor expression. lt was just wonderlul
lor me. That was really the big dillerence. llus, personally, it was
great. l might not be lritish, but it didn't make any dillerence. l
came lroma working class lamily the same as they do. Sowe were
able torelate onthose terms -it was all about the music.
TonyIommi: During the recording we movedlromthe studio
[Criteria inMiami] toa house inlel Air. We convertedthe garage
toa studio, but it was sobloody hot inthere we hadthe gear set up
inthe house Andthat's where we wrote the song H:cr:n AnJ H:ii,
sitting inthe lounge, jamming. lt was one ol those songs that just
built upas we went along.
lor me, it lelt like there was more roomtoplay onthat album,
andthat song is a goodexample ol that.
Ronnie )ames Dio: We hadall ol these great songs -H:cr:n.,
CoiiJr:n Oj 1o: S:c, Ion:i, Is 1o: worJ, Di: oang -but we neededone
more tocomplete the album. Geezer andTony andl went to[ersey
but unlortunately lill's daddiedat the time, solill stayedin
lritain. Andit was in[ersey that we wrote N:on Lnigots.
We knewwhat we wantedtodo. lt hadtocome uptothe
standardol those other great songs. We recordedit inlaris ina
studio[Studiolerber] where nobody spoke lnglish. Martinlirch,
our producer, barely spoke lnglish-andthe rest ol us weren't very
prolicient at the time either We went inandknockedit out and
there it was -N:on Lnigots Our leeling was, 'lhew, thankGodit's
over' lt tookus a long time tomake that album, andwe met a lot
ol resistance along the way lroma recordcompany that probably,
at that point, didn't believe inthe band. lill
was wonderlul at that time. He wouldalways
gotothe bankwithhis little brielcase andhe
made lriends withthe womanwhowas
trying tohelpus out.
TonyIommi: lill turnedintoa
businessman. Well, he thought he did
anyway Tobe honest, at that time, all ties had
beenseveredwithmanagement. We were on
our own.
Ronnie )ames Dio: The albumitsell was
a success baseduponwhat we did, andnot somuchwitha record
company giving it its lull shove behindit. lt was a wordol mouth
thing. Andthen, ol course, alter the albumstartedselling, the
recordcompany discoveredus The hardworkwas done by us.
lut inthe middle ol the tour, lill lelt the band. We were inDenver,
having a meal. There was a showthe next day at a stadiumthere
-the tour was massive at that point. Andwe got a call, andl don't
knowwhy he askedlor me, but it was lill, andhe said, 'l'mleaving.
l'mgoing home. l can't take it anymore. l don't wanna be onthe
road.' 'lut youcan't, lill -we have a showtodotomorrow' lut he
just said, 'l'mgoing home, l'monmy way right now.' Andhe lelt.
Sowe hadtosneakout ol townandhadtomake upthat showat
another point. We went backtolos Angeles, andthat's whenTony
calledme andsaidhe hadthis albumby a bandcalledAxis andthe
drummer was Vinny Appice.
VinnyAppice: l met everybody andthenwe playedandl tried
todomy best. l guess it was good, because everybody else went to
the bar
TonyIommi: Andthat's while he was playing
VinnyAppice: l kept playing andtwohours later they all
came back
Ronnie)ames Dio: We thought, 'Great, this is our guy'. l was
sohappy andgot soloadedthat l got arrestedthat night. l drove
home andgot arrested. Spent the night injail inthe Sanlernando
Valley, Calilornia. l was ina cell andmost ol the people inthere
were Mexican. They were all sitting onthis
benchandthis one giant Mexicanguy got up
andsaidtoanother guy, 'Gimme a cigarette'
The guy went, 'l don't smoke.' Andboom, the
big Mexicanpunchedhimout Thenhe went
tothe next guy. 'Gimme a cigarette' Same
reply. 'l don't smoke.' loom Soit's coming
aroundtome, andl didn't smoke either. lut
whenhe got tome he said, 'l knowyou.'
l thought, 'llease let himknowme' luckily,
we'dplayedat the los Angeles Coliseumon
that tour, 100,000people, andthis Mexicanguy he was inthe
crowd. He said, 'You're inllackSabbath' Thenhe turnedtothe
guy next tome andsaid, 'Give hima cigarette' The guy gave me a
cigarette -andl smokedit
TonyIommi: We hadthree or lour days torehearse with
Vinny belore we went toHawaii toanother stadium.
Geezer Butler: The crowdinHawaii were mental. There was a
big lire inthe stands. Somebody set a mortar oll that landed
backstage. Andapparently there was a sniper outside the stadium,
shooting at people as they were leaving
VinnyAppice: Toget me throughthat lirst show, l hada book
withinstructions -like, 'verse two, speedup.' Andhallway
throughthe showit startedraining, andit went onthe book l'm
like, 'luck' l hadnoclue howtoget throughthe songs. The
endings were a little long.
TonyIommi: That gigwas nerve-wracking lut we got through
the tour andthe albumdidreally well lor us. l love H:cr:n AnJ H:ii.
Alot ol musicians out there got intoSabbaththroughthat album.
Ronnie )ames Dio: Dave Grohl is a great guy, sogenuine, and
he always says the same thing whenwe meet. 'Oh, H:cr:n AnJ H:ii,
it's wonderlul'
lt's analbumthat we're all very proudol. We wrote great songs
andwe presentedthemvery well. lt was not llackSabbathwith
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was the inspirationlor Britiso St::i. Andwe shouldall be
proudthat lritishmusicians are responsible lor this lorce in
music calledheavy metal. llackSabbathand[udas lriest
inventedheavy metal -true heavy metal music. Britiso St::i is classic lriest
metal. intense, angry andlierce.
Withevery lriest albumyouknowyou're going toget intensity, but we
always triedtodosomething new. Andwhat l love about Britiso St::i is that
it's sospontaneous, solreshandsoimmediate. The soundis just remarkable,
very pure andorganic.
We put the albumtogether in14weeks. We'djust got backlromthe US.
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stepbacklromit all.
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mythologythat spreadaroundour
school about that cover, the blacked
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another versionol that existedwith
the words on.everytime youwent
ina recordshopyoualways hadto
looklor it, it was the HolyGrail.
lor Geddy lee andAlex lilesonit
was one ol the real surprises when
they went backandstudiedtheir
catalogue pre-tour. Geddy. l was
really surprisedby P:rmcn:nt wcr:s,
songs like jc.ol's IcJJ:r andEntr:
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those songs again, toexperiment
withit, agrees lileson. l knowGed
was knockedout whenhe went
backto.wcr:s, we bothwere.
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albumwhose parts are
almost impossible toplay.
leart. There was a lritish
bandCatherine Wheel who
diddida really goodversion
ol Sjirit., mixedit upa bit.
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lelt out were the ones we
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Matthias [abs has come in, and
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rills andpriapic lyrics. lt's what we
are, explainedrhythmguitarist
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metal band, andmost ol our
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thinking about girls
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songs here, though. IcJ, Stcriigot
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previous record, while 1o: Zoo was
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big ballads like IcJ, Stcriigot.
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something dillerent, addedthen
drummer HermanRarebell. lt's got
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always wantedus backout onthe road, sowe'dbarely linishanalbumand
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we were using lromour original demos. 1ck: oar woisk:, Hom:, l always
lovedthat song, andthat was writtenevenbelore l was inthe band-that's
howlar backthat song goes. In ASimji: Ro,m:, Foois -those were songs lrom
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commercial lorce. This is more than
the bandthemselves haddared
hope toachieve. What we're trying
todois capture
our live energy
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Harris
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a couple ol
months earlier.
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songs are good
enough. lut being inthe studiois
a learning experience as muchas
anything else.
We're not eventhinking about
becomingrockstars, addedvocalist
laul Di'Anno. Our dreamwas
always tobe able tomake analbum.
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Iron MciJ:n has become aniconic
inspirationlorsucceedinggenerations,
lut in1980, it was all about the
young leaders ol NWOlHMliving
uptothe expectations ol the lans
andthe media.
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the recordenteredthe charts. l can
allordtobuy a roundol drinks
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Maiden's status lromrising young
hopeluls tobig time contenders,
Harris wasn't happy withthe
production. l don't like the way our
debut sounds, headmits. [lroducer]
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all about. l wishl couldgobackand
doit all over again.
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albumwas the loundationlor
everything else that's
happenedinmetal over the
succeeding three decades. lt
set the tone, the standard
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gauntlet. l've got
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wiii Ro.k.all ol a suddenkeyboards enteredthe mix, but it didn't soundlike
a keyboardbecause lddie playedthis cheaplittle Wurlitzer just blazing
throughMarshalls. lt wasn't like he was trying tomake any kindol a keyboard
sound, but growing upas a keyboardplayer he was always messing around
withthem. We heardit andsaid. 'Wow, this was something dillerent' lut we
never wrote withsingles inmind. We consideredourselves analbumband.
lt wasn't until jamj that we hada goldsingle.
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the least amount ol workol it as we could. Our producer TedTemplemanwas
dating a girl calledNicolette larson, she was a back-upsinger, andshe was
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time lor Thinlizzy. leader lhil
lynott got married, hada second
childandrecordedhis lirst sololl,
Soio In Sooo (albeit one that included
bandmates lrianDowney andScott
Gorhamj. lut the biggest change
was the bedding-inol newguitarist
Snowy White alter the mighty
Gary Moore suddenly quit
during the Bic.k Ros: tour.
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andit got tothe point where
l couldn't lace evenone more gig,
Moore recalls. l lelt inthe middle
ol a tour andstayedinlAlor a year.
Moore hadbecome exasperatedby
the increasing drug use ol lynott.
Snowy, meanwhile, has a lot ol
allectionlor the lirst six months or
so, whenwe were working onthe
album. lut eventhenthere were
glimmers ol what was tocome.
Somuchstudiotime wasted.
Subsequently, toomuchol
Coinctown, their tenthalbum, lacked
real spark. Side One carriedthe best
stull, lromthe dynamic w: wiii B:
Strong tococaine anthemSagcr Bia:s
andhit singles Coinctown andLiii:r
On 1o: Ioos:. The latter proved
controversial, a pertinent
commentary onthe exploits ol the
Yorkshire Ripper, thenvery much
still at large.
lnterviewedonUS TVby Robert
Llein, whopointedout that the song
doesn't glorily him, but it's almost
joylul, lynottcountered. Chinatown
isaseedypart ol londonlateat night.
l wasthere
recording,
sol got to
meet many
characters.
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hookerswere
veryparanoid
about the
killerwhowas
ontheloose. l wantedtowrite a
warning song andthe way l thought
it couldbe most lrightening was to
become the part ol the Ripper inthe
vocal.Obviously l don't condone
the rape ol women. I?
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As the singer withglam-rockbandGeordie he
was Newcastle's answer toNoddyHolder,
a working-class herowitha [ackThe ladcharm
anda voice like the loghornonthe Tyne lerry.
Geordie hadenjoyeda decent run: theywere signed
tolMl andhada Top10ULhit in1973withthe
loot-stompinganthemAii B:.cas: Oj oa. lut, unlike
Holder andSlade, Geordie were never reallycut out
lor the bigleague. The hits driedup, the bandlost
their recorddeal and, alter some leanyears playing
workingmen's clubs inthe Northlast, theysplit up.
Whenl lelt Geordie, [ohnsonrecalls, l was
completely broke. l hadnothing. Andl hadtwo
kids anda mortgage topay. l was driving a VW
leetle that was 14years old. l was luckin' skint.
lnthe late 70s [ohnsonhadscrapedtogether just
enoughcashtostart uphis ownbusiness, lixing
windshields andlitting vinyl rools onlancy sports
cars. lt just about paidthe bills, andwas partly
a labour ol love: [ohnsonhadbeennuts about
cars since he was a kid. He was alsomaking a little
money onthe side -just beer money -witha new
versionol the oldband, christenedGeordie ll. Only
this time there were nodelusions ol grandeur.
lt was a cracking little band, [ohnsonsays, but
we were never gonna make it as a recording act.
lrian[ohnsonwas nolool. He knewthere were
lewsecondchances inrock'n'roll, andsohe treated
Geordie ll as merelya bit ol lun. The band's live
showhada touchol cabaret about it -We dida lot
ol comedyinthere, cos the boys were verylunny -
but theycouldrocktoo. Andthere was one song
that was always guaranteedtoget their audiences
jumping-a songbyanAustralianrockbandcalled
ACjDCthat was makinga bignoise inthe late 70s.
l didn't knowtoomuchabout ACjDC, [ohnson
admits. Theywere this cult band. lut everybody
was talkingabout them-l mean:r:r,loJ,. We used
toplaywooi: Iottc Rosi:. Andwe'dalways save it lor
last, cos the place wouldgocrazy
lrianlovedsinging that song. He still lovedbeing
upona stage. lut he wasn't kidding himsell. l was
old. Shit, l was 32, l'dpassedmy sell-by date.
Thencame the phone call that wouldchange
everything. Awomanwitha Germanaccent told
lrianthat a bandwas auditioning lor a newsinger,
that he hadbeenrecommended, andthat auditions
were being heldinlondon. lrianaskedlor the
name ol the band. He wasn't going totravel all the
way tolondonwithout knowing whohe was
auditioning lor. Whenshe saidshe wasn't
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permittedtotell him, he suggestedshe gave him
the initials ol the band's name. There was a pause.
Okay.it's A, CandD, C.
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ntil the morningol lebruary20, 1980
ACjDChadseemedunstoppable. ln
the sevenyears since the bandwere
lormedinMelbourne, theyhadbuilt
a huge lollowingthroughout the world. ledby
guitar-playingbrothers MalcolmandAngus Young,
andlrontedbyboozy, charismatic singer lonScott,
theywere widelyacknowledgedas the most
electrilyingrock'n'roll bandonthe planet.
At the turnol the 80s, ACjDCwere ona roll.
Their albumHigowc, 1o H:ii was certiliedgoldin
the US withsales ol hall-a-millioncopies, andin
the lirst weekol lebruary the single 1oa.o 1oo Ma.o
became their lirst ULTop30hit.
Thenonlebruary 20, alter a night out with
lriends inCamden, northlondon, lonScott was
lounddead, later declareddeathby misadventure
by coroners. He was just 33. lon's deathdevastated
his bandmates. Angus rellected. Whenyou're
young youalways leel immortal. lut alter londied
l lelt horribly grownup.
lt was at lon's luneral (onlebruary 29, in
lremantle, the suburbol lerthwhere he had
grownupj that the surviving members ol ACjDC
decidedtheir luture. lon's lather Chicktook
MalcolmYoung toone side tooller some words
ol encouragement andtogive his blessing lor the
bandtocarry onwithout his son. lt gave themthe
lilt they needed. lonwouldhave done the same,
Angus said. We lelt we hadhis blessing too.
Alter the luneral, Angus, Malcolm, bassist Clill
Williams anddrummer lhil Ruddllewbackto
london, where they livedapart insmall rented
llats. lor a couple ol weeks they remainedin
mourning. We were still real low, Malcolmsaid.
We weren't snapping out ol it. Then, at Malcolm's
insistence, he andAngus beganwriting again.
lt was the twool us, Malcolmrecalled. lickup
the guitars, just lor therapy. Maybe that's the way
toget throughthis. At the very least, they wanted
tolinishwhat they hadstartedwithlon.
Acouple ol newsongs hadbeenwrittenjust
belore lon's death. One was basedona stop-start
rill that Malcolmhadwrittenduringa soundcheck
onthe last tour. The other was recordedas a rough
take withlonondrums, lonhadn't linishedany
lyrics. lut as soonas the newsongs startedcoming
together, inmid-March, MalcolmandAngus lelt it
was time tolinda newsinger.
lt wasn't going tobe easy -lor the bandor lor
the singers whowouldbe trying out. lonwas
a one-oll, a huge personality andthe epitome ol
rock'n'roll cool. ToMalcolm, lonwas a talismanic
ligure. He pulledus all together. He hadthat real
stick-it-to-'emattitude. lonwas the single biggest
inlluence onthe band.
HowwouldACjDCreplace a manconsidered
bymanytobe irreplaceable? ToAngus, the answer
was simple. lonwas a unique character, Angus
toldSoanJs magazine inMarch1980, as auditions
lor a newsinger began, andwe wouldn't like to
have someone whowas a lonimitator. We're
lookinglor somethingthat little bit dillerent.
Angus alsoacknowledgedthe problems lacing
potential candidates. lt's dillicult lor anyguyto
walkinknowingthat lon's just died, andprobably
thinkingthat we're all goingtobe a bit lunnyabout
a newguysinginghis songs. That's addedpressure.
lut, as Angus indicated, there was a change ol
moodinthe ACjDCcamp. Withstrong new
material written, andwithauditions under way,
ACjDCwere looking lorward, not back. We'll
certainly doour best toput out a great album,
Angus said. Andil someone walkedintomorrow
andclicked, we'dgostraight inandrecordit, cos
we've basically got all the ideas andsongs. lt just
needs that one missing ingredient.
lrian[ohnsondidn't knowit at the time, but
he was always the lavourite lor the job. My name
was onthe list uplront, but they just couldn't
lindme, he explains. l'dlallenoll the endol
the world, nobody knewwhere l was.
lt was lonwholirst toldthe other guys in
ACjDCabout lrian, having seena Geordie
gig inthe Northlast ol lngland. He later told
Angus that the singer inGeordie haddone the
best little Richardimpersonationhe'dever
seen- he was rolling aroundonthe stage,
screaming his headoll. lt was rare that lon
ever ravedabout anything, Angus said. What lon
didn't knowwas that alter that show, lrianwas
rushedtohospital withappendicitis. He'dbeen
screaming because he was inagony.
lollowing lon's death, anACjDClancontacted
the band's management torecommendlrian. lt
was a guy lromCleveland, lrianrecalls. He sent
a Geordie albumtothemwitha letter saying.
'You've gotta listentothis guy.' And, as lrianlater
discovered, the producer ol Higowc, 1o H:ii, Robert
[ohn'Mutt' lange, was alsoaware ol lrian. Mutt
hadsaidtothe guys. 'listen, there's one guy you
shouldreally listento.' Andl thinkit was Mal who
said. 'That's twice his name's come up.'
ACjDC's management were instructedtotrace
lrian. lut whenthey made the call, he remained
hesitant. He admits. l'dbeenbittenonce by the
music industry, andl didn't want it tohappen
again. lnthe end, he only agreedtoauditionlor
ACjDCwhenanother jobinlondon, lor a jingle,
lell intohis lap. l wasn't gonna doit, he shrugs,
but a lriendol mine, Andre, phonedus andsaid.
'lrian, l have anadvert l thinkwouldsuit youline.
lt's 350.' That was a big lumpol money. lt was
a proper job, lor Hoover. Andl thought, hang on,
l couldprobably godownanddothe ACjDCthing
onthe same day. l just thought, l hope l get this ad
thing. lecause Andre didtell us. 'There's this big,
blacksoul woman, it's going tobe youor her that
gets it.' l went. 'OhChrist'
The daylriantravelledtolondon, the omens
were not good. learingthat his clapped-out leetle
wouldn't make the trip, he borroweda lriend's car,
a Toyota Crown. [ust a lewmiles outside Newcastle
he got a puncture. l just went. 'Oh, luck' lut the
strengthyouhadthen. He workedlike a maniac
tolixthe llat tyre, thenllooredthe Toyota downthe
M1, arrivingjust intime tomeet Andre at the studio
inNorthlondon. lriansangthe jingle -'1o: n:w
oigo-jow:r:J mor:r jromHoor:r, it's c iitti: groor:r!' -
andthe 350was inthe bag.
lut whenhe got backinthe car andheaded
across londonlor his appointment withACjDC
at Vanilla Studios inlimlico, his conlidence
evaporated. l was sitting inthis little cale just
across lromthe studios and, God, it was miserable.
l wantedtogohome. l was toonervous togo
over there. l just thought l hadn't got a chance ol
getting the gig, because they don't knowme, really.
l thought, gosh, they'll be looking lor somebody
withthe long hair, it's not gonna work. llus they're
a young band. l remember getting this pie and
a cupol tea, andl couldn't eat the pie cos the
luckin' crust was toohard l was starving. And
l just went. 'Oh, bollocks, better make a move.'
l got upandwalkedacross the street. Andthat was
it. That was me changedalter that.
l just remember the lads hadbeenwaiting there
lor quite a while lor us, they'dbeeninthat studio
a long time, auditioning singers. They were just
great. l'dnever met sucha bunchol non-prats
They were just regular guys. As soonas l walked
inl just lelt comlortable. Malcolmcame over and
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said. 'There yougo, mate' -andgave me a bottle ol
brownale. He said. 'Youmust be thirsty.' l went.
'Youknowwhat? l couldjust kill this right now'
Andl did-boy, didl
Once the lormalities were out ol the way, the
bandaskedlrianwhat song he'dlike tosing lirst.
lriansuggestedNatlaso Cit, Iimits, the early-70s
rockjsoul classic by lke AndTina Turner. lt was
brilliant he says. Alter we didit l was smiling,
andthey said. 'That was a breathol lreshair, mate'
lverybody that hadcome inbelore me hadgone.
'Smok: On 1o: wct:r?' Andthe boys were like. 'No,
not again' Thencame the real test, the clincher.
They triedwooi: Iottc Rosi:. l got tingles singing
.Rosi:, lriansays. l hada lucky day, youknow?
lhil Ruddwouldlater state that alter that lirst
auditionthey were sure they'dgot their man. lut
lrianreturnedtoNewcastle none the wiser. lven
whenhe was summonedbacktolondonlor
a secondtime he was still uncertain. They asked
us downagainandl said. 'Guys, l cannae be doing
this. l got a shoplull ol cars uphere.' Andl did
lut l went downinthe end. The secondaudition
passedsmoothly, but againthe bandremained
tight-lipped. l stayedat a hotel overnight with
Leithlvans, one ol their roadies, lrianrecalls.
Leithwas going. 'l thinkyou've got it, mate.' l said.
'Nah, l thinkthey're just making their mindup.'
lt was a lewdays later that lrianreceiveda call
lromMalcolmYoung. l'll never lorget it, lrian
smiles. lt was my lather's birthday andl'dbeen
playing pool at The Crownpub. l went backhome
but there was nobody inthe house, mumandpop
hadgone out somewhere. Andthe phone rang and
it was Mal. He said. 'We got analbumtodo, we
gotta leave ina couple ol weeks, so.il you're set
lor it.' l said. 'Are youtelling me l've got the job?'
Andhe went, 'Ohyeah.' l said. 'l tell youwhat,
mate, l'mgonna put the phone down. Couldyou
ring againin10minutes just sol'msure that it's
not somebody takin' the piss?' Andhe went. 'Yeah,
sure.' Andhe phonedback, onthe dot, andsays.
'So, are youcomin'?' He still wouldn't say it Mal's
not like that. 'Well, are youcomin' or what?' And
l'mlike. 'Shit, yeah' l put the phone down-l didn't
want himtohear this -andl went. 'Whoah luck'
l'dbought me popa bottle ol whisky lor his
birthday present andl just openedit upandtook
a big swig ol it. l was soexcited, but l didn't know
whototell. There wasn't anybody to tell
F
nApril 1, 1980 - six weeks alter lon
Scott's death- ACjDCannounced
lrian[ohnsonas their newsinger.
lrianhad beenitching totell his
younger brother, but whenhe did his brother just
laughed. He thought it was anApril lool's joke.
The worst thing was totell the bandl was in,
lrianadmits. Alter l got backlromthe lirst
audition, we were doing a showone night and
l toldtheml went downtolondonandl hada sing
-that's what l calledit, 'a sing' -withACjDC. They
went. 'Didyou?' l said. 'Aye, they were inthe studio
andthey're auditioning downthere andl went and
hada sing.' Andthey went. 'Oh, right. Anyway,
what are we doing lirst tonight?' They never
thought anything ol it. Solater, whenl knewl'dgot
the job, we were playing just west ol Newcastle in
a working men's club, andalterwards l said. 'Guys,
l've got some news. l hope you're happy lor us, but
l've beenolleredthis gig withACjDC.'
lrian's lirst press interviewas ACjDCsinger was
withSoanJs. He spoke candidly about his hopes
andlears. l still don't knowquite where l am, he
conlessed. All l knowis there's a stackol workto
doandthe rest ol the bandhave still got tolindout
about me. l'mstill scaredshitless, really
lrianwasn't the only one leeling the pressure.
As he explains. The bandweren't inthe best
linancial state at the time, cos the albumbelore,
Higowc, 1o H:ii, hadcost somuchmoney.
lnlondon, the new-lookACjDCworkedquickly
tolinishwritingthe newalbum. Whenl went in,
the guys hadsome titles lor songs but nolyrics,
lriansays. Acouple ol titles came lromthe lyrics
l wrote later on. lut it's hardtoremember, because
it was a blur. Theydidn't evenknowwhat mylyrics
were gonna be like. literally, theysaid. 'Canyou
write some lyrics lor us?' l said. 'l'll give it a shot'
lnlate April, withnine tracks completed, the
bandandproducer Mutt lange llewtothe island
ol Nassauinthe lahamas torecordthe newalbum
at Compass loint studios. As engineer Tony llatt
explained, living andworking ona remote island
helpedtobring everyone together.
The lirst song recordedset the tone lor the
album. The lunky rill that Malcolmhadbeen
playing aroundwithonthe Higowc, 1o H:ii tour
hadbeenlashionedintoa crunching anthem
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invincibility anda salute tolon. Bc.k In Bic.k, said
Malcolm, was ACjDCremembering the good
times they'dhadwithlon. lt was a theme they
pickeduponagainwithHcr: ADrink On M:, the
song they'dcut as a demowithlonondrums.
The lyrics ('woisk,, gin cnJ lrcnJ,jwito c gicss I'm
jr:tt, ocnJ,'j were a drunkentoast lromlrianto
his predecessor. Andlrianalsoprovedthat, like
lon, he hada way witha double-entendre. onoa
Soook M: Aii Nigot Iong he joked. 'So: toiJ m: to .om:
lat I wcs cir:cJ, to:r:.' He says now. l thought l'd
gone toolar withthat, l must admit, but nobody
seemedtomind. There's a lot ol lovely ways you
candothings.
There were times, however, whenlrian
struggledwithlyrics, notably onH:iis B:iis,
the mighty epic that endedupas the lirst
trackonthe album. The rill -dubbed
ominous by Malcolmandmystical by
Angus -calledlor a heavy opening
statement, but lrianjust couldn't lindthe
words until he experiencedsomething
akintodivine inspiration.
l was just sitting onmy bedone night,
lrianrecalls, andthese bedrooms were
just breeze-blockcells witha bedanda
table witha light onit anda toilet. That was
it. l was sittingthere wonderinghowgood
it hadbeen. Cos we were doingit soquick, Mutt
wouldnever let me listentowhat l'ddone because
we hadtoget the guys instraight away. There was
noluxuryol sittingaroundthinking, nothinglike
that. ThenMutt came inandsaid. 'Are youall right?'
He was a wonderlul man, he knewthe pressure
l was leeling. l thought. 'lhew' l'dalreadywritten
three songs andit was dayalter day. l'mgoing.
'l'mluckingrunningout ol ideas here.'
Mutt says. 'Tonight we'regonnadoH:iis B:iis,
lrian.' l'mthinking. Hmm.H:iis B:iis, right. l'd
just doneBc.kInBic.k, sol thought. 'Canit get any
moodier?' Andthen, right at that moment, therewas
atropical thunderstormthelikes ol whichl'dnever
seenbelore. Mutt said. 'listen.thunder' Andl said.
'That's rollingthunder, that's what theycall it in
lngland.' Hesays. 'Rollingthunder -writethat
down.' Andthis is true-it went 'boom' Thelucking
raincamedownintorrents, youcouldn't hear
yoursell. Andl just went. 'lourin' rain' Andthewind
whippedup-'l'mcomin' onlikeahurricane' l was
gone. Thesongwas readythat night. l hadn't even
heardthetrackcos theywerebusydoingit. lt was
whackeddowninthegreatest haste.
At the endol their lilthweekthe bandhadnine
tracks were inthe can. Theyneededone more to
linishthe album. MalcolmandAngus wrote it in
15minutes.
l thought it was just gonna be a boozy chuck-
away, lrianadmits. Mal came upwiththe title,
saying. ''lre, [onno, we'll call it Ro.k AnJ Roii Ain't
Nois: Poiiation.' l thought. 'lh?' There's a great one
tolucking rhyme with
l'll never lorget the start ol it. l went intothe
recording booth, the introstarts andl hear. 'lrian,
it's Mutt. Couldyousay something over that? [ust
talk.' l was smoking a tabat the time andyoucan
hear it. l was going. 'Yeah, all youmiddle men.'
l just didthis southernpreacher thing. Honestly,
it was one take. l never ever thought that it was
gonna be onthe record.
Withrecording completed, MalcolmYoung
travelledtoNewYorkwithMutt lange andTony
llatt tomix the albumwhile the rest ol the band
headedbacktolondon. l never heardthe linished
album'til twomonths later, lriansays. lut when
l didl was knockedout. l couldn't believe it was
that good.Awonderlul album, lull ol surprises.
Most surprising ol all was the lirst soundonthe
album, addedat theeleventhhour. theportentous
tollingbell lor H:iis B:iis. Theideahadcometo
Malcolmwhenhe'dnippedout lor apiss during
mixingat NewYork's llectricladystudios. Tony
llatt dashedacross theAtlantictorecordabell at
achurchinloughborough. lut thebell tower was
hometodozens ol pigeons that llewnoisilylrom
their roost eachtimethebell was struck, thus
ruiningllatt's recording. Thinkingonhis leet, llatt
commissionedacustom-made bell lromaspecialist
loundryinleicestershire andrecordedthat.
lut the endresult was worththe trouble. The
slowtolling ol the bell -spookily, it strikes 13times
-addedtothe dramatic ellect. lnaddition, the
album's all-blackcover designlittedthe moodol
a bandthat was emerging lromthe darkest times.
lnsome quarters at ACjDC's recordlabel, Atlantic
Records, there was resistance tothe blackcover,
but the bandwouldn't yield. The cover was
a memorial tolon. Andthat was that.
Bc.k In Bic.k was released on[uly 21, 1980, live
months and one day alter lonScott had died.
Withintwoweeks it topped the ULchart. And in
the US, alter a slowstart, the albumwas certilied
platinuminOctober, whenit begananincredible
13-monthresidency inthe BiiilocrJ Top10.
Bc.k In Bic.k not only resurrectedACjDC, it took
themtoa newlevel, elevating the bandtosuperstar
status andtranslorming lrian[ohnsonlromhas-
beentohero.
lor lrian, the greatest tribute came when
ACjDCreturnedtoAustralia at the endol the Bc.k
In Bic.k tour inlebruary 1981. Alter their gig in
Sydney, lonScott's mother, lsa, toldhim. Our
lonwouldhave beenproudol you, son. And
whenhe got home toNewcastle there was another
moment tosavour. Alter years ol driving old
bangers, he linally got himsell a llashy motor.
l treatedmysell toaChevyllazer, helaughs.
lt was anSUV-lour-wheel drive. lt was black-
and-white-l was inNewcastle, alter all. l'll never
lorget, mynext door neighbour, healways used
tosmirkat what l did, hegot anewCortinaevery
lour years. AndmyChevywas gorgeous
l remember himgoing. 'That's abig, dalt, stupid
bloodything, isn't it?' l went. 'Youjealous, mate?'
l was deadpleased. lt was abig, dalt, stupid
thing, but l didn't care. l knewl'dmadeit.
Thirtyyears on, Bc.k InBic.k is thebiggest-
sellingrockalbumol all time, withworldwide
sales nowat astaggering49million. lts success is all
themoreamazinggiventhecircumstances inwhich
it was made. lut as MalcolmYoungsaid. Wemeant
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lt's lunny, lriansays. My daughter phoned
me the other day andsaid. 'Dad, l just wantedto
say l'msoproudol you.' l said. 'What?' She said.
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never beenanACjDClan, she's just a regular good
girl andall that. lut she said. 'l just didn't realise
howbrilliant this albumis' She saidher new
lavourite songs are Sooot 1o 1oriii andI:t M: Pat M,
Ior: Into oa. l said. 'l'mpleasedyoulinally got it
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greatest comebackalbumol all time, it's also
arguably the greatest rockalbumever made.
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lon's lile, lriansays. The boys hadlost a great
lriendanda great singer -a pal. They'dgone
throughall their shit together. He wasn't just
a singer inthe band, lon, he was their best pal.
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times whenlrianlelt lon's spirit withhim. l leel
solt saying it, he admits, but l was worried. like,
whoaml totry tolollowinthe lootsteps ol this
great poet? Cos lonreally was a kindol poet. And
something happenedtome -a goodthing.
What lrian[ohnsonand ACjDCachieved with
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this most unassuming ol rock stars concludes.
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those particular lour boys. ll it had beenlour other
gentlemenl don't think it could've happened. This
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The lormer got toNo.5inthe chart, the latter toNo.11. They
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singer lill lylordallirms. lverything was just right, doyouknowwhat l
mean? There was a massive groundswell anda lot ol young lans were getting
intometal. We hit at the right time withsome great tracks.
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allectedme as a lad. l thinkwe were breaking newground, writing about
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stories withquite poignant lyrics.
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ligell lrontmanlaughs ol a recent meet-and-greet. We were meant tobe
signing some posters, andwe didn't evenget past the door belore we got
surroundedby 200people. l've never experiencedthat many lans at once, all
clamouring lor the tophat. Very cool, but kinda scary.
He loves it really. The incident -a highlight ol the 2009lrogressive Nation
tour headlinedby DreamTheater -is testament toa wider phenomenon. that
prog has never beenhipper, younger or sexier. lt's something ol animage
makeover lor the genre lormerly dismissedas brainmusic lor anoraks, and
while lox isn't convincedligell are a perlect lit inthe pigeonhole - one ol the
big debates ol the tour was whether or not we're progressive. -he isn't
about tojumpoll the bandwagonnow.
l guess l'mthe Robert lripp, he says ol his status as sole survivor ol
ligell's 1991 line-up. This band was my embryo. What's important
lluctuates lor other members, and they want tomove on, not live the dream.
lut lor me, it's always beenabout rock'n'roll. l can't give up, especially when
we're this close.
Certainly, there is something inthe air. This year, the top-hatted lox says,
will be the one. The early years were pretty tough, but you're doing it lor the
sheer love. The last 10 have beenpretty good. lut l have highhopes lor the
next decade. ligell is linally connecting.there's a pulse out there. The
DreamTheater and Opethlans were obviously the biggest make-upol the
crowd on the lrogressive Nation tour, but just as a routine, l would ask
every night, 'does anybody knowol ligell'? And there was a pretty good
reaction. And thenol course, l'd joke that they'd just looked onYouTube
24 hours earlier.
Withlast year's Co:ct 1o: Cciiows still slow-burning, there will be nonew
ligell recordreleasedonthe lowerage label in2010(but l've got all the seeds
ready togoj. lnstead, lox hopes tobuildmomentumwitha masochistic tour
schedule. At his age, he says, this will be hardwork. lor us, it is very good
news indeed.
At a time whenmost bands slope on, play, slope oll, ligell shows are manic
allairs, withlox playing ringmaster lromhis paddock ol vintage synths.
And this is just the beginning, he adds. [ust wait until we're headlining big
theatres. ll people thinkwe're over-the-topnow, that comes purely lromthe
music andthe bandmentality, because there's nosmoke, nolights. We're not
eveninvolving theatrics yet. ln2010, people cananticipate a more intimate
experience, whichis always optimum. Rock'n'roll is best ina club.
Alter twodecades ol slog, couldligell truly inliltrate the public
consciousness? lox doesn't see it as sucha llight ol lancy. l thinkligell
couldbe mainstream, he insists. lnmy mind, we've always beena
mainstreamconcept. l don't thinkl ever set out tomake prog rock. l just set
out tomake goodmusic. Ol course, prog rockis real hipright now, andthe
concept ol 'being' prog, andMellotrons, andhaving 10-minute songs.but
lor me, it was just tobe a goodband.
The delinitionol 'mainstream' is the problem, he adds. Mainstream
these days means lritney Spears, Nickelback, Miley Cyrus. Mainstream
tome, inthe older sense, wouldbe Queen. lt's not bubblegum. l mean, il
SystemOl ADownor Rage Against The Machine are mainstream, thenyes
-that's what ligell could be. Or maybe we're toobizarre. lut l don't have
boundaries. Some bands are happy intheir little sub-genre world-l don't
care lor any ol that.
We'll see howit works out. What's beyonddoubt is that lox andligell are
stealthily climbing another career ladder. l'mworking my way upthe ranks
inthe tophat club, he grins. l guess the headol the clubusedtobe Alice
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shouldbe. lt's takenus a while, we got lost andtorn
apart, but maybe that was meant tohappen.
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Dolan-have already caught the attentionol Gun
lrontmanToby [epson, whowas impressedenough
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manager sawus andtoldhimabout the band, says
Ally. lt's beengreat having someone like himguiding
us. AndMike lraser, who's workedwithsomany big
names, has mixedthe record. Their conlidence inus
three kids is encouraging.
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Ro.k, llS usedanonline lacility calledSellaband.
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12months couldbe evenbetter.
Guitaristjvocalist lete 'Spider' Spiby elaborates. We
want torecordour albumright at the start ol the year,
andget it all sortedlor release as soonas we can. lt's just
a case ol getting everything sorted.
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it opening lor The Answer, the bandare delinitely ona
roll. Now, Spiby, guitarists Ozzy 'Owl' lister andMark
'DarkShark' Thomas, bassist Adam'lox' lrwinand
drummer 'Tiger Si' Atkinsonare aiming toget the
momentumintoa higher gear.
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Southly SouthWest lestival inTexas, whichis very
prestigious, enthuses Spiby. We're alsouptosupport
bands ona couple ol major lritishtours. So, already it
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lronting [ourney belore being controversially
ousted. The response has beensoincredible.
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lrom[ourney. lt does have that Steve lerry-era
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Dragonsjcurrent Quireboys drummer lhil Martini.
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albumwhichwill be recordedin[anuary, witha
viewtoa release inMarch. lut don't expect
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lut l'll be honest withyou-l lovedthe last
decade. l know. there was terrorismandwar and
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lut you've gotta live. The last decade was a quarter
ol my lile -l got married, hadkids andcame to
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pretty good, il youaskme. lvenil none ol them
made a classic album, anamazing A-Zol hot new
rockers andreturning heroes appearedmonth
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ol tracks torenewyour laithinrock'n'roll.
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Cicssi. Ro.k magazine was bornat the endol
1998, but it'dbe a biiiiiig stretchtosay that the last
decade has beenoar decade. The movers and
shakers ol Classic Rock's decade rarely troubledthe
gossipcolumnists or made the lront pages. The
heroes andvillains ol the lopCulture lantomime
that was the 00s were Dame Doherty, 'Widow
Twanky' Winehouse and(lookl:oinJ youj wicked
oldAbanazar himsell, SimonCowell -witha
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Monkeys andlady Gaga.
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about. The greatest rock'n'roll has oltenbeen
createdoutside the mainstream, alter all. Alter
being ignoredlor the 90s, it was as thoughrock,
metal, prog andblues musicians steeled
themselves, a newconlidence appearedand-even
il recordcompanies weren't signing them, radio
wasn't playing themandTVwas just plain
ignoring them-the internet meant that bands
coulddistribute their ownrecords, andshowcase
tunes via MySpace andYouTube. Suddenly il you
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that there was anexplosionol great newbands and
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lrontman[esse Hughes claimedthat his bandwere
involvedin'the QuentinTarantino-izing ol classic
rock' andjust as Tarantino's lilms sawoldgenres
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best-selling guitar magazine, 1otci Caitcr. The
magazine hadbuilt its success by riding on
lritpop's coat tails. ly the time l joinedtheir
traditional cover artists - Oasis, llur, The Verve etc
-weren't selling andneither were dependable
veteranartists like The leatles. lt was time lor
something newand, taking L:rrcng!'s lead(instead
ol the NME'sj, we hada runol success covering nu
metal (linkinlark, lapa Roach, Slipknot, Marilyn
Mansonj alongside nupunk(llink182, The
Ollspring, GreenDay, Sum41j, exciting 'new'
guitar heroes ([ohn5, ZakkWylde, laul Gilbertj,
anda healthy dose ol classic rock(Hendrix,
the Stones, Claptonetcj andmetal (Maiden,
Metallica, Sabbathj.
ly the mid00s, though, the lizz hadgone out ol
the punkrevival, numetal seemedludicrous, anda
whole generationol 90s rockers (Chili leppers,
Manics, leeder, Stereophonicsj hadgone a bit, well,
licnJ. We neededsomething newagain. The NME
discoveredThe Strokes aroundthen, setting the
ball rolling lor years ol kids inskinny-lit t-shirts
andcords ripping oll Television, the Velvets, [oy
DivisionandGang Ol lour. (Andanoutrageous
double standard. somehowit was alright torip-oll
toos: ancient oldbands, but radioplaylisters would
tell The Answer that their music didn't lit because it
was retroj
One night, driving somewhere or other,
l punchedonthe radioandheardthe music ol my
dreams. crunching rills, wailing guitars, vocals
beamedinlromthe 70s -a dirty, bluesy groove
whippedintoshape by lashes ol wah-wah. lt
soundedlike Hendrix il he'dnever come to
londonbut hadstayedlockedinhis basement in
Seattle lor 30 years, inviting members ol
SoundgardenandAlice lnChains roundlor
endless jams.
lt was (what else?j the [ohnleel showandthe
band, that much-missedScouse accent toldme,
was Nebula. Stoner Rockhadarrivedsome years
belore andnowit was, inthe words ol N:w1im:s'
Tomlowker slowly seeping intothe
consciousness ol aging punkrockers andbored
metalheads. lt was, youcouldsay, the start ol a
newclassicism. the periodwhenall 'that oldrock
shit' lromthe 70s begantomake sense tothe
generationthat hadmissedit lirst time around.
(l joinedCicssi. Ro.k not long alterwards.j
Rock's time hadcome again, but the industry
hadchanged. A&Rmenandradioplaylist
committee members were all intheir 20s. They
wanteda returntothe music ol their youthand
that meant a lritpoprevival. The bands they
signedandpromotedwere sucha collective bag ol
shit that eventhe NME beganrolling its eyes at
what became termed'landlill indie'. laceless,
talentless andeverywhere. Soa newwave ol hard
rockbands didnot stormthe charts. Well, all
except one. lor a short while The Darkness were
unstoppable. They hadthe soundandthe songs
andanoldschool charmthat seducedeventhe
tabloids. lt didn't last, ol course. [ustinHawkin's
voice, llamboyance andhis love allair withthe
ridiculous side ol rockpushedthe rockaudience to
its limits (just as relationships withhis brother and,
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Prog used to be the dirtiest our-letter
word since, well.dirt. 8ut in the 00s
the genre inully cume o uge. t
entered the muinstreumwhile ulso
remuining determinedly let-ield. t
wus the best o both worlds. (1hose
worlds being Eurth, o course, und the
plunet Zixxoninthesystemo Nebulos.)
1he duys o prog being the sole
province o pretentious behemoths ure
long gone. lor decudes the uncient
wizurds o prog were the butt o
critics' oles. 8ut no longer. So, whut
huppened? Howdid this most blouted
und pompous o genres become
ulmost.trendy?
You cun, perhups, blume us rocl
ournulists who ure so euger to put
bunds into u convenient pigeonholes.
8ut when IX[`f_\X[ releused their
hyper-chullenging ulbumB`[ 8in
October 2000, we got conused. And
when Dlj\ went nucleur ive yeurs
luter with 9cXZb ?fc\j 8e[ I\m\cXk`fej
we sturted scrutching our heuds lile u
monley uttucling its scrotum.
lrunlly, we were buled. 8ecuuse
:f_\\[ 8e[ :XdYi`X# K_\ DXij
MfckX# D\n# FZ\Xej`q\# GfiZlgè\
Ki\\ \k Xc couldn't be shoved into u
box. 1heir music wus expunsive, epic
und chullenging, or sure. 8ut thut's
where the common ground ended.
8ecuuse their upprouches were similur
but contrudictory. Compuruble but
unreluted. denticul but dierent.
1he only option wus to cull themull
prog und be done with it. t might've
been u eeble cop-out, but it worled.
8ecuuse it reminded us o the ull
meuning o the word. gifî\jj`m\.
1he rise o newprog - or gif^
df[\ie\, us they suy in pswich - hus
undoubtedly beneited the old stugers
o the genre. DXi`cc`fe becume u rocl
cottuge industry. Ilj_ were luuded us
prog legends. G\k\i ?Xdd`cc hud u
heurt uttucl in 2003 yet still munuged
to re-ormMXe [\i >iXX] >\e\iXkfi.
Newbunds got in on the uct, too.
Cosmic copycuts C`kdlj uped
?Xnbnè[. :i`ggc\[ 9cXZb G_f\eò
tool Gèb =cfp[ us their inspirution.
;`X^feXc noodled uwuy or hours.
und hours.und hours.1he rise o prog
metul cun't be ignored, either. ;i\Xd
K_\Xk\i# 8pi\fe und Fg\k_ were ull
criticully uccluimed - while
Hl\\ejiZ_\ returned with concept
ulbum8d\i`ZXe Jfc[`\i.
n the Noughties, prog becume the
most buclwurds-looling, orwurd-
thinling music you could possibly
imugine. Prog is truly the showthut
never ends.And ust to prove it, next
yeur sees the comebucl o <CG ut :I's
very own High Voltuge estivul
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1HE 00s
by all accounts, his septum-were alsoat
breaking pointj.
Humour sunkThe Darkness but
ironically the 00s was the decade that rock
got lunny - Tenacious D, HayseedDixie,
llectric 6, Steel lanther, the movie S.oooi Oj
Ro.k -everywhere youturnedsomeone was
squeezing intospandex, throwing devil horns
andmockingjcelebrating rockcliches. lar lrom
harming the genre, it remindeda lot ol people
why they likedrockinthe lirst place -the
theatricality, the comic bookcharacters, the
spectacle -andpavedthe way lor the returnol
the likes ol Liss.
The returnol Motley Crue, meanwhile, was
pavedby a lar more, um, literary device. the
publicationol joint autobiography 1o: Dirt in
2001. Outrageous, hilarious, heart-breaking.
the bookwas one ol the lewrockbiogs tobe
readby people outside the lanbase. lnthe
politically-correct 80s and90s it wouldhave
beenviewedwithdisgust -as anexample ol
extreme rockpiggery. lnthe 00s it was greeted
withsomething approaching reliel. reliel that
not all rockstars were as boring as lonoand
Chris Martin. OnMTV1o: Osloarn:s ranlrom
March2002until March2005. Some rocklans
howledwithdespair at what they sawas a
metal icon's continuedlall lromgrace. The rest
ol us chuckledintoour post-pubpizza and
warmedtoa guy whohadgone tothe edge and
come backa little bit lrailer anda whole load
more scatty, but withhis sense ol humour and
humandecency intact. Whichever way you
lookedat it, Ozzy andhis wile were now
mainstreamicons.
Ona business level, the decade startedwith
Metallica's challenge tolile-sharing website
Napster. They wonthe battle but the war was
lought ontoomany lronts andthe decade ends
withrecordsales interminal decline. One ol the
recordcompanies' lewconsolations? The rock
buyer wouldstill preler toowna hardcopy
thanhave a download, as witnessedby the
astonishing success ol last year's ACjDCalbum,
Bic.k I.: (the secondbest-selling albumol 2008,
withover sevenmillioncopies soldworldwidej.
lroadbandchangedeverything. We were -
andare now-inthe age ol 'The long Tail'.
Aconcept popularisedby wir:J magazine
editor Chris Anderson, the long Tail -the
theory explaining why businesses couldexpect
tosell a large number ol dillerent items but in
relatively small quantities -perlectly described
why we couldexpect tolive ina worldwith
lewer blockbusting bands. The theory runs a
bit like this. your local recordshopwas
constrainedby its physical walls -it couldn't
stockeverything, soit narrowedthings down,
stocking records by a lewhundredkey artists,
promoting records by a lewdozenhit artists.
Webretailers like Amazonhadnosuch
physical restraint. So[ohnQMetalheadin
Doncaster walks intoHMVtobe
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Nobody suwthe post-millennium
blues boomcoming. 1his wus
supposed to be unother decude o
wuter-treuding und wugon-circling,
peopled by the sume old 0s
wurhorses und - ut the other end o
the ood chuin - the hucl covers bunds
murdering Jgffe]lc in provinciul pubs.
Musicully, the blues hud become
Dfekp Gpk_fe's deud purrot sletch. u
uce-cluwingly umiliur routine whose
2-bur punchline could be spotted u
mile o, und whose inherent ustiness
seemed out o step umidst the blogs,
downlouds und cliclwheels o Y2K.
Strunge to thinl o ull thut now, in
the lust duys o u decude when the
blues wus edgy, inventive, modern und
- get this - j\op. you're looling or
the 'storming o the 8ustille' moment,
try July 3, 200, when K_\ N_`k\
Jki`g\j releused third ulbumN_`k\
9cff[ :\ccj. Sure, Jucl White wus u
guiturist cupuble o twisting his Deltu
inluences into the zeitgeist. Just us
importunt, he wus chull-uced, colour-
coded und quotuble - u rocl stur us
imugined by 1im8urton - giving the
nuscent scene its igureheud und
cutulyst. t's not too glib to suy thut
White's stutus us the only true guitur
hero o the 00s licled down the door
or everyone else.
Cenius cume romull ungles.
Stuteside, we were thrilled by the
spurse guruge ruclet o K_\ 9cXZb
B\pj, the blooming o ;\i\b KilZbj'
potentiul, the Albert Hull-humping
explosion o Af\ 9feXdXjjX und the
M1Vsheen o Af_e DXp\i (u guiturist
who inverted blues protocol by done
leuving his buby, Jennier Aniston).
Keeping the 8ritish end up were
AfXee\ J_XnKXpcfi# ;Xmp Befnc\j#
AXp KXdbè und Fc` 9ifne, ull
messing with the set texts to greut
eect, und ruising hopes or their
respective second ulbums. lurther
uield, ucts us dispurute us KèXi`n\e
(Muli), ;\iiè EXl\e[fi] (Austruliu)
und DXkk 8e[\ij\e (Cunudu) tipped
their huts to the pust musters, while
reusing to upe their tricls.
Nor wus the scene simply ubout
cheelbones und bumlu. 1he olilter
muteriul o lietime sloggers lile
J\Xj`Zb Jk\m\# K$Df[\c =fi[# Fk`j
KXpcfi und D`Z_X\c Gfn\ij wus inully
drugged into the duylight by the public
uppetite or innovutive blues. :cXgkfe
might huve spent the decude on
uutopilot, but behind him, old dogs lile
KXa DX_Xc leurned newtricls.
1he old guurd cun't live orever, und
doubtless the next decude will see u
chunge in the world order. We needn't
worry. 1he blues is in sue hunds.
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White Stripes,
2003
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2009
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1uylor, 2009
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conlrontedby copies ol Metallica's St Ang:r
covering the walls. lnprevious years [ohnQ
Metalheadwouldhave takena punt onSt Ang:r
but this year he's heardall about it -via the
web, magazines, digital radio-sohe decides to
give it a miss andlooks lor DreamTheater's
muchraved-about 1rcin Oj 1ooagot instead. He
hearda trackonthis newwebsite called
MySpace andit ticks all his particular boxes.
HMV-restrainedby shell space, by having to
make roomlor albums by 50 Cent, Norah[ones
andDido-doesn't have it. Sowily old[ohnQ
Metalheadbuys it online. lmagine that ellect
worldwide. millions ol music lans sampling
millions ol dillerent bands andthenable tobuy
or downloadthe stull they like, not the stull
hypedtothemby advertisers andthe radio.
.Mcn Rc.:, Mcni. Str::t Pr:c.o:rs, Mcriiiion,
Mcrs \oitc, McstoJon, M:gcJ:to, M:tciii.c,
MiJick:, Monst:r Mcgn:t, Mosti, Aatamn,
Motoro:cJ, Mas:, N:work Doiis, Ni.k Ccr:,
O.:cnsi.:, Oj:to, Orcng: Coliin, Otis 1c,ior, Pcai
Ciil:rt, P:cri jcm, Pig Iron, Por.ajin: 1r::, PriJ: 1ig:r,
Primci S.r:cm, 1o: Pcrior Mol, to: Pr:t:nJ:rs.
ll the recordindustry didn't have enough
problems trying toworkout whichalbums
wouldbe dependable hits, a whole new
generationol music lans grewupinthe 00s
amassing huge music collections without :r:r
having tobuy a CD-a USlstickpackedwith
music, or a DVDlilledwithdozens ol albums-
worthol Ml3s, was their equivalent toa C90
mixtape. Nickelbackandluckcherry scored
hits throughviral videos, but mostly bands
struggledto'crossover'. All the oldcrossover
mechanisms hadgone - radiowasn't playing
that oldrock, magazines sales (withthe
exceptionol Cicssi. Ro.k andsister magazine
M:tci Hcmm:rj were declining as newspapers
coveredmusic more thanever belore andthe
internet broke news andtour dates, terrestrial
TVcancelledall music programmes (withthe
exceptionol [ools Hollandj, andrecord
companies couldnolonger allordtopay the
bills lor young bands togoontour with
establishedacts, building a lanbase the slow,
traditional, well-earnedway.
lnsteadbands were talking directly tothe
converted-throughtheir ownwebsites,
specialist radiostations like llanet Rockand
RockRadio, andmagazines like ours -tapping
intohighly passionate lanbases willing tobuy
CDs, t-shirts, boxsets cnJ pay increasingly steep
ticket prices. Where a hit albumusedtobe the
gilt that kept ongiving -supplying a steady
streamol royalty payments throughout an
artist's lile -the decline inalbumsales (in2008,
NielsenSoundScanrevealedthat albumsales
haddropped45per cent lromthe year 2000j
meant that the money hadstoppedrolling in.
Howtomake upthe shortlall? Alucrative
reuniontour, withtickets snappedupby
hardcore lans desperate tosee their lavourite
bands one more time, anda newer generation
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n eurly 2002, un eight-puge :cXjj`Z
IfZb investigution o the melodic hurd
rocl scene proiled u once-proud
genre in uppurent mortul dunger. Eight
yeurs on, there's been u murginul
improvement. On the downside,
speciulist independent lubels such us
Angelmill und M1MMusic huve gone
bust, ull-duy events tending to be
cuncelled more oten thun uctuully
tuling pluce (u notuble exception
being the lireest, nowinto its sixth
yeur) und the problemo declining
uttendunces ut shows, us highlighted
by the recent UK dutes rom?flj\ F]
Cfi[j, remuins criticul us ever.
n u development thut nobody could
possibly huve oreseen during the
genre's muor lubel heyduy, one
compuny - the tuliun-bused
independent lrontiers Kecords - now
holds the signutures o such previously
huge-hitters us Aflie\p# Kfkf#
Jlim`mfi# Jkpo# Nè^\i# E\cjfe# >i\Xk
N_`k\# 8j`X# >`Xek# K\jcX# Di 9`^#
<oki\d\# ;Xe^\i ;Xe^\i und Jkipg\i
(und i rumours ure correct, in 200
lrontiers will issue the irst studio
ulbumrom:è[\i\ccX in 5 yeurs).
1he continued existence o the
ubove bunds, considered
emburrussing unuchronisms by
muinstreummediu und the record
industry ulile, conirms melodic rocl's
stubborn streul. And sure enough, the
liles o ?%<%8%K%# >fkk_Xi[# N%<%K%#
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IX[`fXZk`m\ Xe[ K_\ Gff[c\j ure now
lying the lug or u lutest wuve - euch
in vurious stuges o youth und mostly
though not exclusively uligned to whut
is nowbeginning to eel lile u lrontiers
Kecords production line.
And yet or ull its perception issues,
ut the spectrum's top end ;\]
C\ggXi[# <lifg\ und especiully 9fe
Afm` (the lutter nowobviously un
udvunced borderline cuse) huve hud
no problems selling records und
leeping ulout. Americun dol protege-
turned-modern rocler :_i`j ;Xl^_kip
hus even hud u UK hit.
1he triumphunt scenes o De
Leppurd's heudline spot ut Downloud
'09 - on u Sunduy thut ulso eutured
(ulp) Aflie\p - conirming thut the
time-honoured uppeul o u good song
sung in tune (Oi No Joe Elliott gugs
pleuse) seems unlilely to die
unytime soon.
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2000
K_\ J\m\ek_
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Croove, 200
:figfiXk\
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K_\ ;\jkèp
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Lions, 2004
C`gj\im`Z\
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2009
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Winger,
2009
:C8JJ@:IF:BD8>8Q@E<%:FD ..
1HE 00s
eager tosee The Real Deal, whether it be
ledZeppelin, Cream, VanHalen, Mott The
Hoople or Liss.
Withgigs becoming the locus ol the artists
andpunters able todownloadindividual tracks
(il they paidlor music at allj, is it any wonder
that The Album-that collectionol tracks
groupedtogether (however looselyj by a
commontheme andsound-sullered? There
were some great albums made inthe 00s, but
the newway we consumedthe music (building
playlists, hitting shullle, streaming tracks via
MySpace, building collections inSpotily,
emailing links toYouTube videos toour lriendsj
meant that we probably didn't appreciate them
the same way.
.Qa::n +Pcai RoJg:rs, Qa::ns Oj 1o: Ston:
Ag:, Qa::nsr,.o:, Qair:lo,s, to: Rc.ont:ars,
RcJioo:cJ, Rcmmst:in, Ri.oi: Lot.:n, Rir:rsiJ:,
Rol:rt Picnt (wito Aiison Lrcass lat :sj:.icii, wito
to: Strcng: S:nsction), Ros: Hiii Drir:, Raso, R,cn
AJcms, Sct:iiit: Pcrt,, Scxon, S:csi.k St:r:, Sooot:r
j:nnings, Sic,:r, Siant, Stcr.csti:, Stctas Qao, Ston:
CoJs, Ston:RiJ:r, Stoog:s, Saj:rgrcss, S,st:mOj A
Down, 1o: SoanJtrc.k Oj Oar Iir:s, 1o: Stor,s.
lronically The Decline Ol The Albumwas
probably one ol the reasons lor prog's
renaissance. Despisedandridiculedlor decades,
suddenly prog seemedadmirable again. Here,
alter all, was a bunchol artists determinednot
tolet their workbe reducedtoa three minute
mp3lile. Concept albums thrived, songs
extendedway past iTunes' 10minute single
downloadlimit, dillicult ideas andambitious
arrangements made prog the perlect antidote to
X-Fc.tor mania. Suddenly making prog music
was the most punkthing anartist coulddo.
(lronically, punknowinhabits a similar
hinterlandtoprog, withits credibility ruinedby
a decade's worthol pop-punkbands andemo
acts. Where once punkarticulatedthe rage ol
youth, nowit provides the soundtrackto1o:
O.C.. Andit lelt a vacuum. lewrockacts railed
against The Maninthe noughties, or even
attemptedtocomment ona worldunder threat
lromterrorism, war, climate change and
recession. lruce Springsteenadmirably tackled
September 11 onhis 1o: Rising cilam, Green
Day railedagainst George W. lushonAm:ri.cn
IJiot, Queensryche tookus intoAlghanistan
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980s, u wretched decude stued with
designer drugs und excesses o
everything, when louder und meuner
wus better, when dudes dressed lile
chicls und strip clubs were elevuted to
houses o worship. 8unds lile Dkc\p
:i\# IXkk# N8JG, und muny, muny
lesser lights rode the wuves o
debuuchery to ume und ortune or
neurly u decude, leuving behind u
hundul o gems. Kff =Xjk =fi Cfm\#
8gg\k`k\ ]fi ;\jkilZk`fe, JdXZb's Fe
Pfl, IfZb :`kp 8e^\cj' Pfle^ DXej
9cl\j, ust ubout unything by ;f^j
;8dfli und ?Xef` IfZbj. All o
these bunds hud the sume busic ideu.
mush up 8\ifjd`k_ und the Jkfe\j
with the J\o G`jkfcj, throwin un
unheulthy obsession with drugs,
booze, und loose women, und wrup it
ull in blucl leuther und cowboy boots.
And it worled, every time.
8y the end o the 980s, the glum-
metul scene hud degeneruted into
sel-purody, romB`jj's hot-pinl
spundex to Gf`jfe's ruby red lipsticl,
so sleuze-rocl brole runls und
burrowed itsel underground. n the
90s, you hud to be pretty sleuzy
yoursel to huve even heurd o bunds
lile K_\ ?Xe^d\e# >le]ì\ ;XeZ\#
:fdX$Kfe\j# DfkfiZpZc\ 9fp or
Ale`fi DXejfe JcX^j, und thut suited
the uns ust ine. t wusn't until
9lZbZ_\iip's cocuine-purty rullying
cry in 999 thut sleuze even popped its
greusy heud bucl into the muinstreum.
Cherry's success cleurly inluenced
dozens o bunds to explore their inner
dirtbug, und the 00s were littered with
sleuze-rocl ulmost-weres. 9cXZb
?Xcfj# :ipjkXc G`jkfc# <e[\m\iX]k\i#
Kfn\ij f] Cfe[fe# Gli\ IlYY`j_#
?Xi[Zfi\ Jlg\ijkXi. 8ut none o them
brole through the wuy 8uclcherry did,
und sleuze rocl remuined u slithery,
durl presence ust under the suruce
o hurd rocl. 1he only remotely sleuzy
bund selling ticlets to the big showus
we enter the next decude is Jk\\c
GXek_\i, und they're ust lidding.
Sleuze still lives und seethes, however.
hul the porn ilms lust yeur hud
soundtrucls by bunds lile K_\ <ifk`Zj#
J\o JcXm\j und JkXij ]ifdDXij, the
lust record by Chicugo degenerutes
K_\ CXjk M\^Xj wus produced by
Nilli Sixx, und glum-slumming pervs
J\d`$Gi\Z`flj N\Xgfej ure spending
u good chunl o 200 touring with
Ludy Cugu. s this ull leuding up to un
80s-style sleuze-rocl renuissunce in
the 0s? Hurd to suy, but 'd leep my
snuleslin boots hundy, ust in cuse.
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1HE 00s
andlraqonAm:ri.cn SoiJi:r, andRadiohead
kept sticking the knile intocapitalism. lut il
anything rockbenelitedlroma world-gone-to-
shit. lace it. this is notime lor the sell-pity ol
Coldplay, it's time lor music that's as urgent,
visceral andemotive as the times we're livingin.j
lnthe endThe Decline Ol The Albumandthe
wealthol newtalent was just a continuationol
a lragmentationthat's beenhappening since the
birthol rock'n'roll inthe 50s. Aprolilerationol
newacts, oldacts, andnewmedia has meant
that we all agree onless music thanever belore.
As rockcritic SimonReynolds commentedin
1o: CacrJicn last month. The lragmentationol
rockjpophas beengoing onas long as l can
remember, but it seemedtocross a threshold
this decade. There was just somuchmusic tobe
intoandcheckout. Nogenres ladedaway, they
all just carriedon, pumping out product,
prolilerating ollshoot sounds. Nor did
musicians, seemingly, cease anddesist as they
grewolder, those that didn't die kept churning
stull out, jostling alongside younger artists
thrusting lorwardtothe light. lt's tempting to
compare noughties music toa gardenchoked
withweeds. lxcept it's more like a llower bed
chokedwithtoomany llowers, because so
muchol the output was good.
.1c Mcoci, 1o: 1r:ws, 1o:mCrook:J \aitar:s,
1oanJ:r, 1ooi, 1ow:rs Oj IonJon, 1arlon:gro, 1-MoJ:i
ForJ, UFO, Urico H::j, \cnJ:r Crccj C:n:rctor,
\:ir:t R:roir:r, wc,st:J, woit: Strij:s, woit:snck:,
wiiJo:crts, wing:r, wint:rriii:, woijmoto:r,
:cr Iong Discst:r, oang H:crt Attc.k.
We're lockedintoour owniTunes playlists,
headphones on, streaming digital radio, logging
ontoSpotily. Our ownindividual tastes are
indulgedtosuchanextent that it's hardto
imagine that, eveninthe more narrowand
delinedworldol rock, we'll agree onany one
collectionol tracks lromone artist ever again.
Writing about the deathol llvis lresley in
1977, rockcritic lester langs commented. We
will continue tolragment inthis manner,
because solipsismholds all the cards at present,
it is a king whose domainengulls evenllvis's.
lut l canguarantee youone thing. we will never
againagree onanything as we agreedonllvis.
Sol won't bother saying good-bye tohis corpse.
l will say good-bye toyou.
lester was aheadol his time, but it couldbe
that linally, 33years later, we're not just saying
good-bye tothe 00s, we're saying good-bye to
the kindol consensus that brought us mega-
bands like the Rolling Stones, ledZeppelin, and
ACjDCinthe lirst place, saying good-bye toany
kindol delinedrockcommunity, that -just as
the internet has ironically givenus easier access
thanever belore toall kinds ol music -we're
splintering intoa millionpurist rock'n'roll
tribes. metalheads, proggers, hair-metallers,
punks, bluesers, mods androckers.
.Whichis kinda where we all came in
all those years ago. \ir: i: ro.k!
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luent worl is ulmost us
prominent us Morse himsel)
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country-style picling (by both
Morse und LuPue) o which
Albert Lee would be proud.
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beore Nugent,
Kid Pocl or Jucl
White, the
eurless heurt o Mitch Pyder
und 1he Wheels' Motown-
powered guruge rocl wus k_\
sound o Detroit.
8uttered und bruised in bud
deuls und cucl-hunded cureer
direction, Pyder's irregulur
output since then hus
nonetheless shown u vibrunt und
enguged spirit, ully deserving o
the enhunced plutormhe gets
to strut his stu here.
Acrucl bund und producer
Don Wus rume u superbly
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hirty years since its inception,
there's still an unholy obsession
with the NewWave Ol lritish
Heavy Metal - and we don't just mean
among aging rockers and lars Ulrich.
let's lace it, the NWOlHMhas
relreshed the parts other music genres
have lailed to reach. Who would've
thought lady Starlight, lady Gaga's D[,
would turn out to be a lan? Howdid
llitzkrieg and lashlul Alley bludgeon
their way into the world ol NewYork
perlormance art? The mind boggles as
much as Ms Germanotta's stage outlits.
Now, lromlos Angeles, there's White
Wizzard. ll someone told you Or:r 1o:
1oj had been recorded in a cowshed in
Wakelield on a Memorex C90, that its
title was inspired by a track on Raven's
Ro.k Untii oa Droj - which it may well
have been - and that original white-
vinyl copies, catalogue number WlZ
001, were selling lor 750, you'd have no
hesitation in believing them.
White Wizzard are clearly NWOlHM
connoisseurs, but the great thing is that
Or:r 1o: 1oj doesn't sound at all dated.
like all the best NWOlHMthis crackles
with livewire enthusiasm, it's blisslully
nave, delightlully underproduced and
impregnated with a deep-rooted
allection lor the music that's provided
the unlikely inspiration lor these
Calilornians. The main relerence point
is lron Maiden - complex duelling
guitars and all - but there are also
portions ol lraying Mantis, whills ol
Weapon, smidgeons ol Saracen and
hints ol many other second-tier
NWOlHMacts.
White Wizzard come into their own
on mission statement Oat Oj Controi
where they namecheck NWOlHM
pioneer Neal Lay and declare they're
riding the s:.onJ wcr: oj c n:w :i:.tri.
storm'. Strik: Oj 1o: \ij:r (which surely
should've been titled Str,k: Oj 1o: \,j:r,
a glorious opportunity missedj is
another madcap headbanger - you can't
help but leap lromyour larker-Lnoll
Recliner when lrontman Wyatt
Anderson screams: StcnJ aj jor m:tci! '
(When was the last time anyone, apart
lromManowar, had the gall to say that?j
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Rc.:: dig those Sjc.: InrcJ:rs bleeps over
the solo, very much 'ol the era'.
Our only criticismis that some ol the
songs are overlong, concise songwriting
being a key NWOlHMattribute. llus
we would've loved to have heard
a reworking ol White Wizzard's best
song, Higo Sj::J C1O, which was
recorded with a dillerent line-up.
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ulbumthut's
cleun, sonicully
bulunced und
ull o obvious studio triclery?
Nobody. Which is why the uct
thut this hus ull the hullmurls o
un oiciul bootleg is its strength.
Pecorded two yeurs ugo in
Mudrid, the mistules come
riding through lile budges o
honour, the bund's discord is ust
glorious und the music's rougher
thun chins ut u stubble
convention.
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ulwuys supposed to be ubout -
closer to punl thun to the churts.
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up songs lile KflZ_ D\ @dJ`Zb
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bund unywuy, more u live uct
und ulbumproposition, singer
Pobert Schneider's loosely
bunded crewhuve been muling
perectly pitched, psychedelic
pop or the better purt o S
yeurs. 1hey've munuged u
meugre six ulbums in thut time
und why they've inully decided
to curute purt o their pust now
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8oys und 8eutles inluences ure
rie, vocul hurmonies smother
the sound und ulmost
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three minutes. 2007's E\n
DXê\k`Z Nfe[\i suwthem
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USAund
Europe during
Wuits' sold-out
2008 tour,
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sepiu-tinted clung, clunl und
boomthut's been his trudemurl
or the lust quurter o u century,
topped o by thut blistering
bullrog bellowo u voice.
Yet or u sound so distinctive -
thinl Cuptuin 8eeheurt und Dr
John gruppling with u unlyurd
orchestru - it seems to congeul
rupidly on this disc. 1he most
memoruble moments ure those
thut step outside the urchetype,
such us the rusty bulludry o
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Exucerbuting the ulbum's
deurth o vuriety, ulmost ull the
shuggy dog stories und ellipticul
observutions thut ure purt o
Wuits' live perormunces huve
been lumped together on u
second disc us u single
3-minute trucl, Kfdj KXc\j.
ideul or listeners with short
uttention spuns who don't wunt
their music interrupted by ull
thut tedious tulling, less so or
those hoping or un uccurute
replicution o the lowo u
typicul concert.
Entertuining us it oten is,
>c`kk\i 8e[ ;ffdC`m\ seems lile
u compromise, suggesting the
deinitive 1omWuits concert
document hus yet to be
cuptured.
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using those ley
0s
touchstones -
the nuive und
upliting west coust psych scene
with its more grounded und
scued 8ritish pop counterpurt -
is no meun eut or u Norwegiun
ive-piece whose cureer sturted
within singeing distunce o the
90s' church-burning blucl metul
muyhem.
1hut they do so with
consideruble verve und uplomb,
cusuully weuving in threuds o
pustorul prog und Zuppu-lile
uzz meunderings, urther serves
to embellish un ulreudy complex
musicul pulette. Very
occusionully, mugpie tendencies
buclire - the dervish situr on
:iXqp IXèYfnevoles Austin
Powers more thun Arthur Lee,
und the intro to @ ;fek Dè[ hus
u more thun plutonic relutionship
with 1he Smull luces' Kè Jfc[`\i.
Quibbles uside though, this is
superior stu, more sunny ruys
thun iery brimstone, und inused
with enough contemporury nous
und inectious energy to prove
the old uduge. sometimes you've
gottu lool bucl to lool orwurd.
Huppy duys indeed.
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When you've
sold us muny
records us
Linlin Purl's
Chester
8ennington you cun do pretty
much whut you wunt - but it
seems the ungst-driven
voculist's muse remuins irmly in
the shudows with this new
proect. 8ousting the lind o
lyrics thut uny troubled teen will
identiy with, this is ull ubout
emotionul cuthursis, not unlile
Chester's duy ob.
However, one big dierence is
the complete lucl o unnoying
hip-hop stylings. 1his is more
ubout luyered, souring melodies
und huge ris embellished with
electronic noodling - the trouble
is the bund mule it sound u bit
too ponderous ut times und
things don't reully tule o until
the punly thrushing o Dp
Jl]]\iè^.
Amore pucey upprouch would
huve puid o big time.
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Hot on the
'exciting' news
o 1he Pich Kids
reunion, 1he
Vibrutors ure
bucl with un ulbumo 4 new
trucls. Yep, lunguorous but still
uctive with Knox on voculs,
Eddie on drums und produced
by originul bussist Put Collier,
this does exuctly whut it suys
on the tin without uny surprises
- except possibly or the croon-
bullud ?fn9\Xlk`]lc Pfl 8i\%
You get the impression thut
whut held 1he Vibrutors bucl in
the eurly duys is the sume us
whut holds thembucl now.
1he production muy be
deliberutely low-i but it's the
lucl o urgency or untugonism
thut's most stultiying. @ nifk\ X
d`cc`fe jfe^j Ylk @ e\m\i ^fk X _`k#
wuils Knox on ;fek E\\[ @k. 1oo
true, chum. On tour nowwith
the UK Subs.
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you're u Pory
Cullugher un,
you'll lnowthut
1uste wus one
the guiturist's
eurliest bunds, ormed in Corl,
relund in summer 9. Pory
sudly died in 99S, o course. Yet
whut we huve here is u brund
new1uste ulbum.ull o
rurities'n'outtules, right? Wrong.
1uste 2009eutures drummer
JohnWilsonund, occusionully,
bussist Pichurd'Churlie'
McCruclen, botheurly but not
originul groupmembers.
McCruclenis ubsent here, Wilson
being oinedby cruggy 8elust
bluesers SumDuvidson(guitur/
voculs) undAlbert Mills (buss).
1hut preumble is ubout us
interesting us it gets, becuuse
NXcc Kf NXcc is u shoclingly
produced ulbumull o the most
miseruble-sounding blues. n the
seedy buclroomo un Oirish
drinling den 1uste might ust
ubout be ucceptuble but
whoever put themin the
recording studio should be
1usered in the bollocls not once,
not twice, but six billion times. A
couplu songs (;\m`cj NfdXe,
Gi\kkp NfdXe F] Dè\) oer
u vugue upproximution o Pory's
signuture doodling but otherwise
this hus ull the luvour o boiled
bucon und cubbuge.
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Just howmuny
punl bunds ure
there peddling
this lind o
thing. u drive-in
movies uesthetic used to trushy
guiturs und guttersnipe voculs?
Yes, it's lind o un in u roclet-
uelled NewYorl Dolls sort o
wuy ut irst, but it rupidly
becomes cleur thut the De Pellus
huve only one song ideu - und by
the time you're ust three trucls
in you lnowhowthe remuining
nine tunes ure going to pun out.
n umong the sel-penned
eorts, the bund tuclle Curly
Simon's Pfli\ Jf MXè, which
they mule completely their own
by ditching ulmost everything
ubout it except some o the
lyrics. 1o suy it's the highlight o
this debut set suys it ull reully.
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lor 8risbune
uns und
urchivists it wus
the equivulent
to 1he Sex
Pistols or 1he Clush getting bucl
together. Chris 8uiley und Ed
Kuepper spent much o the time
since their clussic punl eru d
JkiXe[\[ single with duggers
druwn. 1ogether here with third
Suint vor Huy, neurly 30 yeurs
since their split, or u bruss-
bolstered comebucl (orgunised
by locul uuthor AndrewStuord)
they ussuredly pucl u punch but
there's u hurd uced coldness to
go with the ruthless uttucl und
u worrying disconnection rom
their core muteriul.
1he good tunes still stund but
its hurd to detect u genuine thrill
or momentumto the comebucl
with 8uiley's cynicul sneer oten
sounding orced und uded.
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Derided by the
critics us u
lumpen Peurl
Jum, Creed sold
S0 million
ulbums beore singer Scott
Stupp dislocuted himsel rom
the rest o the bund - who went
o to ormAlter 8ridge - uter
W
hen Neil Young released
Hcrr:st Moon in 1992, it was
intended as a companion
piece to Hcrr:st, an international No.1
some 20 years earlier. Hcrr:st Moon,
leaturing many ol the same musicians,
marked a sudden return to gentle, rural
songwriting alter the wild guitar riots ol
Rcgg:J Cior, and w:iJ.
Although Hcrr:st Moon, a sensitive
and modest album, can sometimes be
overlooked among so many ol Young's
lormidable accomplishments, it did
result in a Top 10 ULchart placing, his
highest since Hcrr:st.
lelore its release, Young road-tested
all ol the songs live, singing alone with
an acoustic guitar and a harmonica.
Nowvarious perlormances have been
compiled to create Dr:cmin' Mcn,
a complete live version ol Hcrr:st Moon.
Stripped ol their lamiliar
arrangements, there's no hiding place
lor these compositions, which have
become more intimate to be revealed as
acoustic lolk songs, pure and simple.
This is generally not a bad thing,
although some might well miss the
lovely steel guitar and sweet, subdued
backing vocals on Dr:cmin' Mcn, the
slipping, sliding, magical guitar notes
and swoon-some voices on Hcrr:st Moon
and, certainly, the way in which the late
Nicolette larson duets so beautilully
with Young on oa AnJ M:.
However, most ol the selection bears
up exceptionally well in any
comparison with the well-known
studio recordings. FromHcnk 1o H:nJrix
ambles along sedately with its crucial
llourishes ol harmonica. Young's banjo
is present and correct lor the hillbilly-
ish ode to OiJ Ling, his dearly departed
hound dog. And although the string
section has disappeared lromthe slow,
hymnal Sa.o Awomcn, Young perlorms
it beautilully with a stately piano
accompaniment that belits its
devotional atmosphere.
The one-man-and-his-dog lormat
lays bare the soul ol a remarkably
emotional albumthat ranges lromthe
richly romantic and melodic Hcrr:st
Moon to the nostalgic On: Oj 1o:s: Dc,s
and a delicate oa AnJ M:, in which
Young dreams ol recapturing the
headiness ol young love, but will settle
instead lor contented partnership.
He's nothing il not realistic, casting a
hall-amused eye over the ageing process
(Unknown I:g:nJj and railing against
environmental destruction in the
moody, 11-minute Nctarci B:cat, and the
Gull War via a stark wcr Oj Mcn.
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200's N\Xk_\i\[. Seven yeurs
luter they've lissed, mude up,
ubsorbed u ewhome truths und
gone bucl to their roots, hence
the title o the ulbum.
Cynics will sneer thut they
never got beyond irst buse
unywuy but they weren't
listening uter the irst ulbum.
Creed uns will ind the
prevuiling nu-metul und Zeppelin
riuge umiliur, the muin
dierence being thut the bund
sounds better. 1hey've opened
themselves up with greuter
sepurution und you cun even
heur ucoustic guiturs on u couple
o trucls.
Much o thut is down to Alter
8ridge, which hus boosted the
conidence o the instrumentul
bund members, purticulurly
guiturist Murl 1remonti. And
Stupp hus responded by inding
u brouder vocul runge.
Unortunutely the songs, with
the exception o the title trucl
und the opening Fm\iZfd\, ure
not us strong us the strident,
single-minded belters o yore.
1hen there is the question o
whether Creed still strile the
sume chord with their uns who
ure ulso seven yeurs older.
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8ucl in July
2007, PEMset
up cump ut the
Olympiu
1heutre in
Dublin und tested out newsongs
thut would eventuully mule it on
to 2008's pleusing return to
guitur rocl 8ZZ\c\iXk\ - und to
leep everyone huppy pluyed
u set o old trucls too.
Jlg\ieXkliXc Jlg\ij\i`flj
uppeurs in its originul ormus
;`j^l`j\[, us does the
murvellous ?fljkfe. 1estument
to the bund's stundurds is thut
one o the better newtrucls, Fe
K_\ =cp - u beuutiul, distunt
cousin to 8lkfdXk`Z =fi K_\
G\fgc\'s E`^_kjn`ddè^ - didn't
even mule it on to 8ZZ\c\iXk\.
1he reul uttruction o this
ulbumthough is thut it cuptures
u bund reussessing their bucl
cutulogue, riling through old
songs they huven't pluyed in
decudes (delving us ur bucl us
982's :_ife`Z Kfne EP und
rediscovering lost live gems such
us Dfejk\ij :ìZlj <emp),
ignoring the hits und in the
process recupturing thut elusive
'moo' thut mude themgreut in
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the irst pluce. 1here u ewlyricul
mis-steps - "Oh, whoops"
stumbles Michuel Stipe during
;i`m\ - upologies und sel-
mocling ("1his will become
lnown us un experiment in
terror") but PEMhudn't sounded
this viscerul or reluxed since 8ill
8erry's depurture.
you used to lile PEMhere's
un ulbumto mule you believe
uguin, i you're u relutive
newcomer here's u ur better
delve into their bucl cutulogue
thun uny best o.
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t's been S
yeurs since
Cinderellu's lust
studio ulbum,
the misleudingly
titled Jk`cc :c`dYè^, emerged und
then quiclly vunished uguin ut
the height o grunge.
So, with the bund intent on
retreuding its our-ulbum
cutulogue, whut does C`m\ 8k
Df_\^Xe Jle oer us thut, suy,
999's C`m\ 8k K_\ B\p :clY or the
ur more recent <ok\e[\[
M\ij`fej, do not? you bought
the lutter three yeurs ugo, you
might wunt to give this one u
miss us it's simply u re-titled
expunsion o the sume record
(un extended version o <ok\e[\[
M\ij`fej, i you will). 1he three
udditionul songs ure =Xccè
8gXik 8k K_\ J\Xdj, Glj_
Glsh und Jk`cc :c`dYè^.
Perormed by the originul line-
up und uugmented by leybourd
pluyer Cury Corbett, most o the
group's M1Vuvourites ure here,
but guiturist 1omKeier's
gruvelly voice, u cornerstone o
the Cinderellu sound, is sturting
to sound struined. Production is
ulso slightly muddy.
All things considered, with
rumours o u newstudio ulbum
in the pipeline, C8DJ is some
wuy o being essentiul.
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As proliic u songwriter us Prince
on his duy - und with u similurly
buling lurge bucl cutulogue to
boot - 1ylu's outdone himsel
with his lutest releuse, ull 23
songs o it. 9cff[p ?\cc =ì\
collects together ull o 1ylu's
musicul truits. the down-ut-heel
troubudour, the louche rocl und
roller und the lovelorn bulludeer.
Consistency might be 1ylu's
problemthough, since the heudy
duys o the Dogs D'Amour it's
sometimes elt thut there's been
u new1ylu record every ew
months or so, thus nulliying
their impuct. t's u shume us
most o his solo output hus been
o u consistently high stundurd
und 9cff[p ?\cc =ì\ is more o
the sume, perhups even the best
thut 1ylu the solo urtist hus to
oer. Some sel-editing wouldn't
hurt (two versions o the sume
song pushes things u bit), but
with his lument or Puul Puven -
K_\ IXm\ - und in the punchier,
horn-illed turn his tunes huve
tulen, 1ylu's ound u newvoice,
one thut still sounds lile it
smoles twenty u duy, but
rereshed nevertheless.
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1he inluence o
Cuno's seminul
worl, 1he
Violent
lemmes' sel-
titled 983 debut, cun be still be
heurd in everyone romArcude
lire to Cnurls 8urlley. Now
seven yeurs since his solo debut,
un ull-stur uuir thut hid
Cordon's ucid wit und
individuulity under un umbrellu
o udmirers, he's hooled up with
brothers 8illy und 8rendun Pyun
(ulu 1he 8ogmen).
Awell-mude mutch it is, too -
impishly urcune musicul
invention , superbly stewed
invective, bizurrely inlumed und
enguged scenurios providing u
linty eust o o lilter
excellence. As u writer Cuno's
potency holds strong, the
postures he striles us nurrutor
cull to mind whut could huppen
i 1omWuits und Verluine
presided ut u church meet, on
mountuin moonshine. 1he
Pyuns' lnowledge o the o-roud
terruins ,where u host o oyously
mongrelised genres thrive, is u
greut boon to CC's rumpunt
imuginution.
Aslight wurning, Cuno's
8uptist belies occusionully rub
up u little too strong (K_\ NXp
N\ N\i\) but perhups it's no
more thun you might expect
romsuch u singulur orce.
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t's so eusy to get it wrong when
muling music or lids, udults
oten ulling into u muwlish trup
o cutesiness thut's unpleusunt
or little 'uns und big 'uns ulile.
t's to Kuren O's credit thut her
soundtrucl to Spile Jonze's ilm
encupsulutes childlile ubundon
und udventure with
u rereshingly unputronising
gusto, the rontwomun ull but
indistinguishuble romthe rug
tug choir o unlle-biters during
the gleeul hipster indie rocl o
8cc @j Cfm\. lewure us slilled us
Miss Owhen it comes to
urticuluting emotion, sounding
us lost und wounded rom
u child's eye viewin Nfii`\[
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YYY's DXgj. Long muy she stuy
untumed.
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things ubout
Sweden's
Punzer Princess,
it's hurd to lnowwhere to sturt.
1hereore, we shull list their
uttributes in no purticulur order.
1he members ure 1unl
Hooler, Simon LuPue, Kelly
Morgue und Sir Alex (tuling
time out romhis Mun Utd
duties no doubt). 1hey ure
u picl'n'mix o Hunoi Pocls,
NewYorl Dolls und Heuvy
Metul Kids (ucl the E-chords,
bring on the E-numbers). 1his
ruclet-strewn ulbumhus trucl
titles lile 8jj_fc\# 9XjkXi[ Jfe
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1he singer hus u peroxide
mohicun. You might cull them
guruge roclers.but beur in
mind their guruge used to be on
u council estute ut the wrong
end o town, und it wus torched
lust 1uesduy by itinerunt crucl-
heuds. PP ure, runlly, stinlin'
brilliunt. 1his ulbumtunls in the
best possible wuy.
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u two-CDset o
demos, plus
reheursuls und
u live set, rom
the yeurs 980-982 in which
8yron worled with the much
younger guiturist-cum-producer
Pobin Ceorge.
1he second CD's live worl
suggests thut the ulcoholism
blighting 8yron's privute lie
didn't trouble himon stuge. And
while the demos on disc one ure
not the strongest muteriul o his
cureer, his unique voice still hud
the power to lit it.
He veers eusily between good-
time rocl (=ffc =fi 8Gi\kkp =XZ\#
C\Xie K_\ ;XeZ\) through boogie
(N_Xkj Pfli >Xd\) to peul on
the unexpectedly soulul Jk`cc
NXeeX ?fc[ Pfl. With Heep,
8yron wus u stur, und history
ought to lend these recordings
greuter weight, but his deuth in
obscurity in 98S somehowonly
mules themsudder.
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1he lute,
tormented
Jerey Lee
Pierce wus on
u twisted gothic
revenge untusy when he set
out his Cun Club stull in eurly
80s LA.
lollowing hot on the heels o
the =ì\ F] Cfm\ debut D`Xd`
(982) put his unorgiving Jim
Morrison-esque visions in cleur-
eyed perspective. 8oth there
und on the extru disc included
on the brilliunt 984 ollow-up
K_\ CXj M\^Xj Jkfip concert
recordings provide u sulutory
reminder o 1he Cun Club's
erocious in-person power
und Pierce's drumutic und
unhinged personu.
Auscinuting dose o noir
desperution uels the songs und
the bruin-busting ussuults ure
uided by guest guitur rom
8luster Duve Alvin. 1here's ulso
u wicledly diubolic reimugining
o Phurouh Suunders's K_\
:i\Xkfi ?Xj 8DXjk\i GcXe.
Quite - und Jerey Lee Pierce
hud his too.
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Sudly under-
uppreciuted,
this wonderul
debut ulbum
rom980
seriously mules you wonder
whut could huve been or this
super-tulented und mostly
8ritish outit.
n the end it ull cume down to
timing, or ruther u lucl o it. At
odds with the more struight-
uheud rocl ethos o the rupidly
burgeoning NWO8HMscene,
Crund Prix were ur more
polished und sophisticuted thut
muny o their peers, their lush
urrungements huving more in
common with US ucts such us
Journey. Add in poor promotion
by their record lubel PCAund
Crund Prix hud their worl cut
out or themgetting unywhere.
1his crucling irst ulbum,
however, showcuses u bund not
uruid to mule their tunes
extremely hooly und
commerciul. Cunudiun 8ernie
Shuw- who nipped ucross the
Atluntic to tule u shot ut the big
time in the UK - hus u voice
ideully mutched to the writing
nous o leybourdist Phil Lunzon
und guiturist Micl O'Donoghue,
und there's reully no let-up in the
quulity o the tunes. Sticl it on
the stereo und imugine whut
could huve been.
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SuwDoctors
huve been
peddling their
bullsy blue-
collur rish oll rocl or u couple
o decudes, neurly three-quurters
o this collection comes romthe
irst hul o the 90s including
@ Lj\kX Cfm\i, still relund's
biggest-selling single. n uct
their 99 debut @] K_`j @j IfZb
8e[ Ifcc @ NXek Dp Fc[ AfY 9XZb
supplies eight o the 22 trucls.
8ut i thut suggests u
compilution cush-in romu bund
pust their prime, thinl uguin.
Lust yeur the bund chulled up
unother big rish hit with u punly
cover o the Sugurbubes' 8Yflk
Pfl Efn# und they're ubout to
huve unother with the syrupy
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W
hen Montrose lirst
appeared on the
scene in lritain they
were viewed with suspicion by
the denimmasses and the press
alike. Suddenly out ol nowhere
this debut appeared, allegedly
pressed on virgin vinyl with
extra space in the grooves to make it the
loudest rock albumever released. On the
cover a bunch ol hall-naked dudes could
be seen exuding an arrogance that was
perceived as a threat to the average
anaemic, spotty, girllriend-less
headbanger. We were used to a gestation
period with our bands, hence I:J Z:jj:iin
1,2 and 3 lollowed by the symbol, which
was obviously 4. With Montrose we had
a bunch ol upstarts who acted and looked
as il they had already struck gold belore
hitting their lirst chord. At the same time,
one couldn't deny the pure energy and
enthusiasmthat
counteracted the
more sell-conscious,
sell-indulgent
whims and lancies
ol Deep lurple,
Uriah Heep, llack
Sabbath etc.
lt was dillicult to resist the visceral,
untamed leedback led assault ol tracks
like Montrose's BcJ Motor S.oot:r. Sure,
Montrose sounded like a hybrid, paint-
by-numbers riposte to lrit metal and had
a singer who looked like a beach bum
version ol Robert llant, but they also had
- to quote CR..omcolumnist Ginger -
chutzpah and plenty ol it.
Montrose was lormed in 1973 by
eponymous lead guitarist Ronnie and
leatured lill 'The llectric' Church (bassj
and Denny Carmassi (drumsj. All three
were already seasoned vets who had
trodden the boards with ldgar Winter
and a curmudgeonly Van Morrison (who
lired Montrose with the immortal line:
Ronnie, it looks like rain.j. The only
unknown quantity was Sammy Hagar,
who Ronnie discovered singing soul
standards in a low-dive bar in the North
leach area.
Recorded in a matter ol days and
mostly live, with just over 33 minutes ol
music (with one cover version, jump
blues standard CooJ Ro.kin' 1onigotj
Montrose produced a mission statement
that still resonates in the rock charts
today with bands like luckcherry. The
band were also blessed with producer Ted
Templeman (previously the Doobie
lrothers' producerj and uber engineer
Don landee (also the Doobies,
plus Captain leelheartj who
would use this albumas a
template lor their luture
successes with Van Halen. The
similarities are obvious: the
dynamic, original lead guitarist
(who lddie admits inspired
himj, the rock-solid brothers in rhythm,
and the larger-than-lile lead vocalist who
eventually went on to replace Dave lee
Roth in VH. This was lormulaic heavy
metal at its best. The songs are simple,
raw, gutsy and sexy, and in dillerent
hands would sound like parody.
Take l'rinstance Sjc.: Stction #5 with
its bizarre seagull squawks, Hawkwind
rilling and inane lyrics. lt's purely a
vehicle lor Ronnie's backward guitar
histrionics, a Higowc, Stcr jnr, and it
works. Albumopener Ro.k 1o: Nction is
equally banal, brainless and brilliant. lt's
Hagar's spontaneity,
naivety and
enthusiasmthat
drives this beast into
overdrive. like all
the best lrontmen,
you believe that he
believes in what he's
singing about. The band never lully
recovered lromHagar's departure (see
Hard lacts box on the leltj. He brought
the best material to the table and alter
leaving the band gradually developed
into one ol those introspective noodlers
Montrose were once an antidote to.
l sawMontrose support Status Quo
in lristol in 1974 where they were
allocated a small portion ol the stage
and lailed to impress the audience (an
experience Hagar is still recovering
lromj. ll l recall they gave away Montrose
lrisbees at the gig which were thrown in
the direction ol the band as a mark ol the
heads-down, no-nonsense crowd's
dissatislaction.
Although the band disappeared lrom
my ever-expanding radar alter this show,
the albumgrewin stature and legend as
the years passed.
Now, surprisingly lor the lirst time on
CD, this historic debut has been released
appropriately on a label which is named
alter track six. The package comes with
inlormative notes, band interviews but
unlortunately no extras (c'mon guys - a
lewlive tracks would have been nicej.
lssential listening lor any sell-
respecting lover ol gonzo metal.
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1he loss o his
brother Duune,
drug busts,
drinl problems
und the well-
publicised divorces (romCher,
umong others) huve oten
overshudowed Cregg Allmun's
musicul cureer.
1his useul compilution is u
shurp reminder thut his 973
solo debut CX`[ 9XZb (represented
here with our trucls) und the
live ulbumthut ollowed ure u
potent distillution o southern
blues und soul roots. Acrucl
bund, including stulwurt Stones/
Allmuns piunist Chucl Leuvell,
counterpoints Cregg's smoly
orgun ubs und rucled,
impussioned voculs. 8y
compurison, with Cregg
relocuted to LAund disowned by
his southern computriots, his
lute-70s und 80s worl shows
composing utigue und whut is
nowbudly duted production.
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pushed to
uord the
Elevutors'
recent 0-disc
compilution J`ê F] K_\ K_i\\
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the one to orl out or insteud.
Whut you get here is u
distillution o live tupes rom
9-'7, in which 1exus's
ultimute exponents o trippy
guruge-rocl yelp, wuil und creute
merry huvoc on un eye-bulging
set o covers und originuls. their
intention reully wus to creute the
uurul equivulent o u ull-on ucid
trip, they more or less got there,
the eect is heightened by the
bizurre electric ug o LSDiend
1ommy Hull.
1hey uttucl 8o Diddley's
9\]fi\ Pfl 8ZZlj\ D\ with ull the
het o u proto-Led Zeppelin,
while Poly Ericlson doing his
best 8uddy on Holly's @d>feeX
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through u Wonderlund mirror.
8est o ull, though, is =ì\ <e^è\,
with Stucy Sutherlund's helter-
slelter guitur und Poly growling
lile there's no tomorrow. Which,
sudly or the bund, turned out to
be the cuse.
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W
hen the kids had killed the
man, Ziggy had tobreak up
the band. And, muchtothe
chagrinol the Spiders lromMars, the
mainmanlelt themin1973 alter the
contract-lilling Pin Ujs, the glamour days
were done as Dave went tothe Dogs.
lor guitarist Mick Ronson that meant
the opportunity to lollowhis muse.
With Spiders bassist Trevor lolder in
tow, and lowie stalwarts Mike Garson
and Aynsley Dunbar lor company,
Ronno maintained contact with his
recent past on a debut solo that hit the
Top 10 in March 1974.
Sicagot:r.is a mixed blessing. The
interpretation ol Richard Rodgers's
instrumental ballet piece was an
ambitious vehicle lor Mick's trademark
thick-as-treacle les laul, but it sounds
overblown now. On the plus side, lowie
gilted himCrowing Uj AnJ I'mFin:, Masi.
Is I:toci and hall the portmanteau piece
Pi:csar: McnjH:, Mc C:t Pcjc, three
slices ol old-school camp given a
no-nonsense twist.
Ronson's skills as an arranger,
producer and sonic guitar technician
are better appreciated on Pic, Don't
worr,, a less sell-conscious allair
boasting better songs and more context.
Biii, Port:r linds Ronson stepping
outside lowie's shadowwith a
cautionary tale inlluenced by lou Reed's
narrative approach and lill Rose's
comic delivery, while the Velvet
Underground's woit: Iigotjwoit: H:ct
- an old Spiders live lavourite - had
been tossed around when Ronson was
producing Reed's 1rcnsjorm:r album.
An earlier acquaintance with the
Ohio country band lure lrairie league
inspired the inclusion ol Ang:i No.9 and
the radio-lriendly womcn - shards ol
pedal-steel litter the albumand the nine
out-takes. The real excitement lies in
discovering 1ois Is For oa, written by
laurie Heath ol the NewSeekers (j and
Milkwood lame. Ronson's sumptuous
acoustic style, so vital to lowie's sound
lrom1o: Mcn woo SoiJ 1o: woriJ on, is
given lull rein.
Having just been part ol Mott The
Hoople, a newlriendship with lan
Hunter lent Ciri Ccn't H:ij It a breezy
rock'n'roll bounce, and there's even a
soupy ballad, Emjt, B:J, that has a whill
ol [acques lrel's old Gauloise'n'garlic
lolderol. lest items among the bonus
tracks are Ronno's pleasantly sleazy
Dogs (Fr:n.o Ciri) and a version ol Ston:
Ior: (Soai Ior:) lor old time's sake. Aye,
the Spider Man is still sorely missed.
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Pocl Cundy
speciulise in
reissues thut
mule you eel
both old und
good. J_X]k F] C`^_k cume out
in 984, und those who cun
remember the moment cun
recull the momentumthut
Airruce hud behind them. Signed
to Atluntic und with 8euu Hill
producing, they were considered
u reul shot to ollowmelodic
hurd rocl bunds lile loreigner,
Heurt und Survivor onto the
rudio und into the churts (uh,
howsimple record murleting
wus bucl then).
t's one o those mysteries o
synergy thut it never huppened.
J_X]k F] C`^_k is u highly
commerciul record euturing u
superlutive, huiry-chested singer
in Keith Murrell, und some
thunderous AOP tunes, in
purticulur :Xl^_k @e K_\ >Xd\
und Gifd`j\ Kf :Xcc.
Heuring it uguin brings u rush
o recognition und recollection.
1his is u slicl, shurp record,
glowing with crut und heurt, und
its muor uult wus one o timing.
Airruce ust missed out, but not
becuuse o the music.
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u ine 88C
documentury,
u newguide-
bool und the
complete reissue o the
Krutwerl bucl cutulogue, we
seemto be in the middle o
unother Kruutrocl mini-revivul.
And while it's debutuble whether
we need uny more ulbums by
Eloi or lrumpy, these two mid-
period Cluster reissues,
Jfn`\jfjf und :li`fjld# ure ine.
1he heuvily experimentul
Cluster duo o Huns-Jouchim
Poedelius und Dieter Moebius
were exploring the, then,
liberuting potentiul o the
synthesiser. 8ut, unlile
contemporuries Krutwerl, they
were not interested in muling
uturistic urbun pop music, but
bucolic, umbient soundtrucls
thut hud more in common with
1ungerine Dreum.
1he bund were resh romu
couple o ruitul yeurs spent
with Neu guiturist Michuel
Pother (with whomthey
recorded us Hurmoniu) in 97
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l
or a while back in the late 1980s and early
into the next decade, Scarborough's little
Angels were the lritish band that looked
the most likely to break into America. They
had the image, the hooks and were cooking
live. Unlortunately it never happened.
Their 1989 debut Don't Pr:, For M: has now
been reissued by lemon Recordings (a Cherry
Red subsidiary who are also reissuing the
Ronson album- on the page oppositej. lt has
the energy, vitality and power ol young kids
rushing wide-eyed into the rock'n'roll dream.
The songs all breeze along with the
spontaneous enthusiasmol youth, but also
sparkle with a somewhat surprising maturity.
Two decades on, you can hear that they had
something. lt was almost like a very young Del
leppard - with a naivety that was endearing,
but also with the vision to become something
much bigger.
The seven-track bonus CD, stulled with
material lromlls, just serves to make this a
more than decent representation ol an era.
ly 1991's oang Cans (now
available on lad Reputationj
the band had become altogether
sharper and more worldly wise.
lroducer [ames larton brought
a shine to the band's sound that
would have seemed out ol place
previously. This albumbristles
with hit songs. lromthe slow
groove ol Bon:,crJ to the
anthemic title track and the
thrusting jar:nii: Ojj:nJ:r. The
addition ol a horn section, The
lig lad Horns, allows the Angels
to try some almost lunky
moments. And it's not hard to
understand why this albumreally
broke through commercially in the UL.
The dillerence between these two records is
almost the same as that between Del leppard's
On 1oroago 1o: Nigot debut and lollow-up Higo
'N' Dr,, although the Angels didn't have the
'Mutt' lange magic. lut when you hear again
howgood little Angels at their best could be,
it makes their ultimate global
underachievement even more inexplicable.
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best, o these ulbums, Jfn`\jfjf.
1he melodies o ;\dNXe[\i\i
und QldNf_c ure cleurer und
utilize gentle und chiming guiturs
us u result.
8y 980 however, their eorts
on :li`fjldsuer in
compurison to the more urgent
sounds o 1hrobbing Cristle und
Cuburet Voltuire thut were
coming out o the UK.
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n the 80s,
Arthur 8rown
relocuted to
Austin, 1exus.
While there he
teumed up with ormer Mothers
O nvention drummer Jimmy
Curl 8lucl to record un ulbumo
P&8 stundurds. 9ifne# 9cXZb
9cl\ is thut colluborution. And
you'd probubly huve to be u bit o
un Arthur obsessive or u Mothers
completist to need to huve its
bur-bund versions o Jdfb\jkXZb
C`^_keè^# >fk Dp Dfaf Nfibè^#
JkXe[ 9p D\ et ul in your
collection. Still, it sounds lile
Arthur und Jimmy hud u luugh.
More seriously, in 2002
Arthur returned with the Cruzy
World or KXeki`Z Cfm\i, u
collection o newsongs. Some,
lile >XYi`\c, were brilliunt, others,
lile the schmultzy ?\XikXZ_\j,
less so. 8ut it's proo thut there
is und ulwuys hus been more to
Arthur 8rown thun u luming
helmet und his 'novelty' hit =ì\.
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Spirit didn't it
into the bund
cliques thut
ormed uround
Los Angeles in
the lute 0s. With u line-up thut
spunned the uges romteenuger
Pundy Culiorniu to his
steputher drummer Ed Cussidy,
they looled odd without trying
to be. John Locle's musicul eur
ensured their urrungements
were tighter thun the ucid norm,
while songwriter Juy lerguson
could switch romeccentric
psychedeliu to sweet pop ut the
drop o u tub, us in the stund-out
trucls =i\j_ >XiYX^\, the
exquisite ;i\XdN`k_ 8;i\Xd
und 8e`dXc Qff.
1his two-CDset does Spirit
ustice, collecting ull the best
romtheir our ulbums us u
disciplined ive piece beore
meundering through the
increusingly idiosyncrutic world
o guitur prodigy Culiorniu (once
u Hendrix uccomplice) us he
zupped ucross the time coust o
cult ulbumJgì`k F] .-, und the
=Xik_\i 8cfe^ reunion. An
excellent primer or new
listeners, it should ulso send uns
bucl to their musterpiece, Kn\cm\
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Crill rocl uns on lute-0s Detroit
und chunces ure they'll come up
with the MCS und the Stooges.
SPCwere u bunch o Ann Arbor
lids in thrull to the 8ritish P&8 o
the Pretty 1hings und 1he Move,
preerring to tinler with the limits
o song ruther thun merely crunl
it up to .
1his collection, druwn romthe
bund's three ulbums or Cupitol
und vurious 4Ss, proves thut
while singer Scott Pichurdson
wus u cupuble rontmun, the stur
uttructions were brothers Cury
und Clenn Quuclenbush. Cury's
pummelling guitur leuds ure
Subbuth-heuvy, his sibling's
psychedelic Hummond ris push
the bund into the proggy beyond
Procol Hurum. 1heir 98 single
9cXZb J_\\g is u bluze o uzzy
Anglophiliu, while the guiturs on
I\]l^\m\ und GXiX^fe :fleZ`c
ustro-plune somewhere into the
cosmos. Peter Cubriel once suid
he loved SPC's irst ulbumso
much he wore its grooves down.
You cun see the uttruction.
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1he glossy
production
might not do
Duvies much
service on this
ussortment o tunes romhis
two recent solo ulbums und
elsewhere, but beneuth it there's
the burely veiled disquiet und
sour sociul commentury thut
murls his best worl.
Pflij Kilcp# :fe]lj\[# E(' is
u cuse in point, eel-good horns
unuring over Duvies's eel-bud
ussessment o dotcom8rituin
und the loss o the 'î\\e Xe[
gc\XjXek isle he once lnew. t
seems incredible thut his irst
solo ulbumproper (Fk_\i
G\fgc\j C`m\j) wusn't releused
until 200, but the songwriting
is poignunt und detuiled, not
leust on the suburbun E\ok ;ffi
E\`^_Yfli und, given his
encounter with u NewOrleuns
mugger u couple o yeurs luter,
2002's oddly prophetic 8]k\i K_\
=Xcc. At times, us on the piquunt
Cfe[fe Jfe^, he reully could do
without the studio sheen und the
girl bucling singers, but this is u
collection you should sticl ut.
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8ritny lox hud
split up uter
trucl one o
their
eponymous
debut ulbum, they would huve
let huir metul us legends. 1he
song in question, >ìcjZ_ffc,
contuins prime requirements o
the genre. risque subect mutter
(the notion thut loxy rontmun
Dizzy Deun Duvidson is duting
u schoolgirl), the potentiul or
single entendre ('Pfli\ jkXpè
X]k\i jZ_ffc'), und, o course, un
overheuted, irresistible chorus,
expertly screeched. 1he video
wus quite stupendous too. 1hey
couldn't top it o course, und
ulthough 9i`kep =fo hus its
moments - the hool-luden Cfe^
NXp Kf Cfm\, the gung-voculs o
B`Zb 8e[ =`^_k - the record slips
quietly uwuy towurds the end.
9fpj @e ?\Xk displuys the perils
o over-umbition. 1rying or u bit
o Poison-esque bulludry or
Cinderellu-style rootsiness
(something thut didn't uctuully
worl or Cinderellu), 8ritny lox
cume up short. Aguin the ulbum
sturted well enough, with @e
Dfk`fe und JkXe[è^ @e K_\
J_X[fnj, but uguin it ell uwuy,
leuving behind ust un over-
dressed corpse.
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Peter Cubriel
truly brole
musicul ground.
Phil Collins did
not, but went
stellur. Mile Putherord crucled
the pop churts. Steve Huclett
remuined mostly true to his prog
roots. Strungely, it wus leybourd
pluyer 1ony 8unls, the driving
orce musicully behind Cenesis,
whose solo cureer never quite
got o the ground.
8:li`flj =\\cè^ wus 8unls's
irst solo ulbum, und probubly
his best. Pecorded in 979 (while
Cenesis were on hiutus us
Collins deult with his divorce),
there ure muny Cenesis motis
here, not leust on opener =ifd
K_\ Le[\ikfn, which borrows
romLe[\ikfnromCenesis's .
8e[ K_\e K_\i\ N\i\ K_i\\..
Conceptuul (bused on Duniel
Keyes's =cfn\i =fi 8c^\iefe) und
mostly perormed by 8unls
(with String Driven 1hing
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ollecting an hour's worth ol high
spots lromtheir recent (ishj live
albums (Raso In Rio, R30 and
Snck:s 8 Arrows Iir:j, working M:n bills
itsell as a B:st Oj.Iir:, with the
inclusion ol just one previously
unreleased track, On: Iitti: \i.tor,.
Without the occasional excesses ol a lull
set, what you get here is a compact,
highly polished and adroit workout ol
12 cherry-picked lavourites taken
largely lromtheir heavyweight albums
P:rmcn:nt wcr:s, Moring Pi.tar:s, Signcis
and AFcr:w:ii 1o Lings. As you'd expect,
these perlormances are the veritable
creamol the crop.
Helped by animpressively punchy and
massive sound, the world's biggest cult
band are inthe lormol their lives
throughout, the set-list just about
cohesive despite disparate sources and
the mildly unsettling lade-outs alter each
number. Newer songs Fcr Cr, and
Dr:cmiin: - certainly strong ontheir own
merits - inevitably suller compared to
superlative, universe-sized renditions ol
1omScw,:r, Iim:iigot and the
polyrhythmic party piece that is Z.
lt's about hallway through 2112 when
it becomes obvious that the relationship
between Rush and their lans is a little
more intense than is usual. lndeed, such
is the lan lervour, il Ayn Rand hersell
were transported back lromthe dead
she could be lorgiven lor thinking her
philosophies had spawned some rabid
rock cult. As the intro gives way to the
lootball-chant rill, the already vocal
crowd move into top gear, launching
into a demented and allectionate call-
and-response between band and
audience, and in the process illustrating
that Rush have possibly the only lans
who can sing along in 7j8 and clap their
hands in 5j4.
All ol which leads us to the obvious
question: why release this live 'best ol' at
all? Releasing live live albums in almost
as many years invites accusations ol
over-milking the lan base, those albums
have sold a lot ol copies. Only a
curmudgeon would begrudge the band
a spot ol haymaking when the evening
sun is out, but an unsavoury and
unwelcome whill ol turkey and dollars
lingers over the project, compounded
lurther by some perlunctory packaging.
Tucked into the Christmas stocking
ol a casual Rush lan (should such a
creature existj, it more or less passes
muster as an introduction to the band's
considerable catalogue. The already
converted need only reach lor the Rush
live albums they already own.
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voculist Kim8eucon und
drummer Chester 1hompson
helping out), the music on this
new, luvish reissue hus stood the
test o time well. 1his is lush
pustorul English prog rocl thut
deserved better ut the time.
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Ater Swedish
pretty boys
Europe
conquered the
world with
K_\ =èXc :flek[fne in 98, the
pressure wus on to deliver more
rudio-riendly, huir-metul hits.
1his 2-or- pucluge is the
bund's subsequent ulbums. both
solid, but neither destined to
repeut the huge success o k_Xk
ulbumund k_Xk song.
Flk F] K_`j Nfic[, rom988,
is the stronger o the two. 1he
highlight is Jlg\ijk`k`flj, urguubly
Europe's greutest ever song, with
u heuvy, Purple-inspired ri,
triumphunt chorus und u reul
doozy o u solo romdebutunt
guiturist Kee Murcello. And Fg\e
Pfli ?\Xik is u song Whitesnule
would huve lilled or. Flk F] K_`j
Nfic[ did good business, going
1op 20 in the UK und US.
8y the time o '9's Gi`jfe\ij F]
GXiX[`j\, grunge hud urrived. 1he
ulbumpeuled ut u lowly in
the UK, ulthough it hud some
ine moments in the punchy
single ?Xc]nXp Kf ?\Xm\e und
the heuvyweight J\m\ek_ J`ê.
Chustened, Europe culled it u
duy in '92. 8ut with u newulbum,
CXjk Cffb 8k <[\e, releused to
ruve reviews lust yeur, their
rehubilitution is complete.
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uicionudos o
80s cocl rocl,
Dungerous 1oys
will ulwuys be
remembered or one song.
Jgfike 8Nff[p. With its deiunt
reruin - 'Jgfike X nff[p k`cc k_\
[Xp @ [`\' - it's u priupic, gonzoid
huir-metul cult clussic thut runls
ulongside Spreud Eugle's ?fk J\o
und Dunger Dunger's Jc`gg\[ ?\i
K_\ 9`^ Fe\. t's ulso the
stundout trucl on the 1exun
quintet's eponymous irst ulbum,
originully releused in 989 und
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l
or all that they were an amazing band,
the Sex listols were a product ol
compromise, an accident caused by
strong-willed characters pulling in dillerent
directions. lromGlen Matlock's classic-rock
sensibilities, to [ohnny Rotten's desire lor
white noise, to MalcolmMclaren's
situationismand hucksterism. No wonder
they exploded.
lil, lydon's post-listols group, were closer
to the sound ol people pulling together in
unison. And in 1979 this resulted in M:tci Box,
their second albumand grand artistic
statement. lydon's laith in giving a mate a bass
guitar and saying: [oin my band, had linally
paid oll with [ah Wobble proving himsell to
be one ol the best bassists ol the post-punk
era. His instinctive leel lor rolling dub reggae
rhythms helped himcarve out great pockets ol
sound lorming the cornerstone ol this album.
And il the bass was heavy, the guitars
were trebley and piercing. Original
Clash member Leith levene used
arpeggiated chords on an aluminium
guitar to achieve results that still
make the llesh crawl.
Ol course, the idea ol people
pulling together didn't apply to
drummers. One ol the many who
occupied the stool in lil during this
period was luture lall member Larl
lurns, who decided to leave the band
alter being set on lire by Wobble.
This reissue ol M:tci Box, on three 12 vinyl
platters (packaged in a metal canj - ideally
suited lor delivering the bass-heavy grooves ol
such lare as Ailctross - allows us to appreciate
it as it was meant to be heard. This is not an
easy listen, but songs such as Swcn Ick: (aka
D:cto Dis.oj, Ccr::ring and Pojton:s are the best
ol the genre. Virgin must think we've all been
good little boys and girls as well, as they're also
reissuing the excellent Picsti. Box anthology,
which gives as good an overviewol the band
as you're likely to get.
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nowreissued in u two-disc set
with the ollow-up, 99's
?\ccXZ`flj 8Zi\j.
Arriving ut the end o huir
metul's golden eru, ;Xe^\iflj
Kfpj shited more thun u million
copies in the US. Produced by
Mux Normun (Ozzy, Y&1), it hus
the ruwedge o eurly L.A. Cuns
und the biler-rocl sensibility o
Junlyurd, with singer Juson
McMuster coming on lile un
overexcited Axl Pose.
However, us 1he Durlness
luter discovered, huving Queen
producer Poy 1homus 8uler
helming your second ulbumis no
cust-iron guuruntee o success.
?\ccXZ`flj 8Zi\j stied, und
McMuster wus let rueing
his decision to turn down u ob
with unother 1exun bund.by
the nume o Punteru.
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Vying or
supremucy in
98 were three
bunds led by
ormer
members o Deep Purple. Pitchie
8luclmore's Puinbowcelebruted
their biggest ever hit single,
@ Jlii\e[\i. Duvid Coverdule's
Whitesnule hud their highest
churting ulbum, :fd\ 8e >\k
@k. And Cillun - ronted by
Coverdule's predecessor in
Purple, und 8luclmore's
nemesis, un Cillun - releused
their most successul ulbum,
=lkli\ J_fZb.
Yet Cillun were unlile Puinbow
or Whitesnule. lor ull their
populurity, Cillun operuted with
the cusuul uir o u drinling club,
in leeping with their leuder's
down-to-eurth, luddish imuge.
n contrust to their po-uced
peers, Cillun were the ultimute
people's bund.
1hut essentiul quulity is ut
the heurt o this three-disc
unthology, which eutures two
lundmurl perormunces rom
98 - ut London's Puinbow
theutre und the Peuding lestivul
- plus u Pudio session rom'82
und highlights o unother 98
gig romNottinghum. And
ulthough there is one personnel
chunge, with uture ron Muiden
guiturist Junicl Cers replucing
8ernie 1orme, the songs mostly
remuin the sume, us does the
bund's o-the-cu, tight-but-
loose vibe.
Cillun were u rollicling live
bund - witness the hell-or-
leuther ury o LeZ_Xè Pfli 9iXè
- und un Cillun's boozy
bonhomie developed u rupport
between bund und uudience thut
hus rurely been equulled. 1hese
were good times.
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NewYorlers
Piot will ulwuys
hold u speciul
pluce in uny
discerning rocl
un's heurt. 1hey pluyed the
inuugurul Monster O Pocl
estivul in 980 (the events o
thut yeur being the theme o this
purticulur issue) und eurly
ulbums IfZb :`kp und EXi`kX were
u winning umulgumo slicl US
rocl'n'roll und ruwNWO8HM
sensibilities. 1he depurture o
voculist Cuy Sperunzu wus u bit
o u blow, but they repluced him
with the muniucul Phett
lorrester und curried on
regurdless. (Sudly both ure deud
now. Sperunzu succumbed to
cuncer, lorrester wus shot
during u curucling incident.)
Piot tool u hiutus in '83,
re-emerging three yeurs luter
with only one originul member.
be-syruped guiturist Murl Peule.
Comebucl ulbumK_le[\ijk\\c is
regurded by some us one o the
irst speed metul ulbums but in
reulity it ust sounds lile u tinny,
poor mun's Judus Priest. Some
suy Piot lost the plot with
experimentul ollow-up Gi`m`c\^\
F] Gfn\i but toduy it sounds lile
un undiscovered clussic. t's ull
o weird between-song putter
(brunded 'unintelligible
nonsense' in the sleeve notes)
und includes cumeos rom1he
8recler 8rothers und the 1ower
O Power horns. Even so, the
Accept-lile D\kXc Jfc[`\ij is
totully triumphunt, while 9cXZb
C\Xk_\i 8e[ >c`kk\iè^ Jk\\c is
rightly regurded us the 82nd
greutest song title o ull time.
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I\`jjl\j :?<IIP I<;
?\ccf :Xdg\ij%
lewO$=XZkfi-style sups huve
endured the slup in the uce thut
uwuited John Mellencump when
he releused his debut ulbum,
:_\jkelk Jki\\k @eZ`[\ek. Picling
up the record or the irst time,
he mude the unpleusunt surprise
thut his munuger hud billed him
us 'Johnny Cougur'. Oops.
1he record burely deserved the
hype. t hus the rootsy vibe thut
Mellencump's tulent, when
mutured, would trunsmute into
some genuine Americun
clussics, but the younger Johnny
lucled the chops. nsteud, his
own songs wither beside his
covers o F_# Gi\kkp NfdXe und
Kn\ek`\k_ :\eklip =fo.
K_\ B`[ @ej`[\ wus the intended
ollow-up but wus pulled by the
record compuny und wusn't
releused until 982, uter
Mellencump hud hit big with
8d\i`ZXe =ffc. K_\ B`[.is u
stilted uuir, ut best u curio or
his more devoted collectors.
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1he reissuing o
Peter Hummill's
seemingly
endless bucl
cutulogue
continues with this gemrom
994, one o the Vun der Cruu
Cenerutor mun's most
uccessible oerings. K_\ >`]k F]
=ì\ is weirdly reminiscent o
Chris Peu's IfX[ Kf ?\cc, while
Pfl :Xek NXek N_Xk Pfl 8cnXpj
>\krocls out to such un extent
it could ulmost be dubbed
'Hummill goes AC/DC'.
1he centrepiece is 20-minute
epic 8?\X[cfe^ Jki\kZ_,
u tortured trip thut reculls
VdCC's 8GcX^l\ F] C`^_k_flj\
B\\g\ij in the scule o its
umbition. Why, it even contuins
the line. N\ Zfd\ kf î`\]# n\ _`k
k_\ i\\].' 8ut the best lyric crops
up in J_Xigcp LeZc\Xi. '8cc k_\
dìifij è pfli gcXpiffd&K_\p
kn`jk pfli gjpZ_f$\g`[\id`j èkf
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incomprehensible poetry. We
wouldn't huve it uny other wuy.
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n a career that spans 45 years, Stephen
lawrence Winwood has been many
things: child prodigy, leader ol one ol
lritish rock's most innovative bands,
co-lounder ol the world's lirst supergroup,
multimillion-selling solo star.And
through it all, three qualities have marked
out Winwood as a truly singular talent:
his mastery ol the Hammond l-3 organ,
his brilliance as a songwriter and, above
all, one ol the most richly expressive and
soullul voices in rock.
lorn in Handsworth, lirminghamon
May 1, 1948, Winwood was barely into
his teens when he served his rock'n'roll
apprenticeship playing in a band that
backed blues legends Muddy Waters,
Howlin' Woll, ll Ling and Chuck lerry.
He was still only 15 when he joined the
Spencer Davis Group along with his older
brother Mull. Young Stevie was the group's
star, co-writing and singing their now
classic 1967 ULNo.1 Cimm: Som: Iorin'.
lut he didn't hang around. ly the end
ol that year he'd lormed a newband, Trallic.
Originally based ina cottage inrural
lerkshire, their very ownhippie commune,
Trallic's idiosyncratic blend ol rock, lolk,
blues, jazz and psychedelia made them
trailblazers ol the newrock era.
lut Winwood was always looking lor
lresh challenges. ln 1968 he made a guest
appearance on the [imi Hendrix
lxperience's landmark double album
Ei:.tri. IcJ,icnJ, playing organ on the
extended blues jam\ooJoo Coii:. And in
1969, with Trallic disbanded, Winwood
hooked up with another icon, guitarist
lric Clapton, to lormthe short-lived, one-
albumsupergroup llind laith.
Winwood revived Trallic in 1970, but
by 1975 the group had become passe and
Winwood went solo - in the most literal
sense, on 1980's Ar. Oj A Dir:r, his
commercial breakthrough, Winwood
played every instrument himsell.
ln 1988, at his peak as a solo artist,
Winwood topped the US albumchart
with Roii wito It. These days he operates
in a more low-key lashion, releasing solo
albums as and when he pleases, his latest
being 2008's Nin: Iir:s. With his status as
a rock legend secure, Steve Winwood
doesn't have to push himsell too hard. As
he once said: l never wanted to be a great
star. l wanted only to be a great musician.
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Winwood's ourth solo ulbum
murled the end o his 20-yeur
ussociution with slund Kecords,
und he let themon u high.
Propelled by the churt-topping
single ?`^_\i Cfm\, it sold more
thun ive million copies.
1he ulbumis u model o
elegunt, soul-inluenced
muinstreumrocl, ull very 80s
but so inely cruted thut it hus
uged surprisingly well.
Huving perormed his previous
two ulbums ulone, this time
Winwood culled on some big
numes, including Jumes 1uylor,
Chulu Khun, Joe Wulsh und
Chic's Nile Kodgers. And, once
uguin, there wus u co-writing
credit or riend Viviun Stunshull.
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Creutive tension wus ulwuys un
issue or 1ruic. Even when
creuting their irst ulbumin u
rustic idyll there wus u cleur
dispurity between Winwood und
guiturist Duve Muson, who wrote
?fc\ @e Dp J_f\, u song Winwood
recorded "under duress".
Muson let the group soon
uter Di% =XekXjp, but, in u
surprise volte-uce, he returned
or this second ulbum. His =\\cè
8ci`^_k6 wus in leeping with the
ulbum's luid-bucl vibe but,
tellingly, he pluyed no purt on its
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ired, 1ruic wus put on ice und
Winwood wus hunging out with
Eric Clupton.
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Winwood's third solo ulbumhus
been lurgely orgotten. Keleused
two yeurs uter the clussic 8iZ F]
8;`m\i, und uguin recorded by
Winwood ulone, it uiled to
mutch its predecessor, stulling ut
No.28 in the US. t is, though,
u strong ulbum, und its most
umous song, the AOK unthem
MXc\i`\, hus enoyed u long und
unusuul uterlie.
When irst releused us u single
in 982, MXc\i`\ stied. 8ut u
remixed version hit the US 1op
0 in 987, und in 2004 the song
wus reworled by Eric Prydz or
his UK No. bungin' choon :Xcc
Fe D\. Winwood wus so
impressed by Prydz's version
thut he re-recorded voculs or it.
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Winwood's irst ulbumor Virgin
Kecords wus u US No., us wus
its leud single und title trucl. 8ut
on u creutive level Winwood wus
sleepwulling.
lor un ulbumeuturing 1he
Memphis Horns, veteruns o
clussic soul records by Otis
Kedding und suuc Huyes, Ifcc
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soulless. Even ?\Xikj Fe =ì\,
co-written with JimCupuldi, is
orgettuble. Only the title trucl
und the inule, J_èè^ Jfe^, ure
worthy o Winwood's nume.
n short, Ifcc N`k_ @k is the lind
o blund, yuppie rocl enoyed by
Putricl 8utemun, homicidul leud
churucter o 8ret Euston Ellis's
80s sutire 8d\i`ZXe GjpZ_f. u
most dubious recommendution.
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1he songs thut irst mude Steve
Winwood umous ure still
thrilling more thun 40 yeurs on.
loremost o these is >`dd\
Jfd\ Cfmè, u ubilunt rhythm
&blues stomp powered by
Winwood's electriying
Hummond orgun ri und sung
with the soul power o u
Motown superstur. 1he song hus
been covered muny times but
nothing comes close to
mutching the originul.
Also included on this collection
is unother clussic hit co-written
und sung by Winwood, the
blistering @d8DXe, which went
1op 0in both the UK und US.
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ulbumwus very much u product
o the psychedelic uge, even
though it wus originully issued
without the quuintly trippy hits
GXg\i Jle und ?fc\ @e Dp J_f\.
Some o the songs ure truly
bizurre, such us 9\ibj_ì\ Gfgg`\j,
but Winwood hud u more
serious ugendu, us illustruted by
the soulul ;\Xi Di% =XekXjp und
the meluncholy Ef =XZ\# Ef
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u rocl group without limitutions.
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lorming 8lind luith, Winwood
teumed up with ormer Creum
members Eric Clupton und
drummer Cinger 8uler, plus
bussist Kicl Crech, in 'the
originul supergroup'. 1he bund
mude their live debut in ront o
un uudience o 00,000 ut
London's Hyde Purl in 959. 1wo
months luter this ulbumwus ut
No. in the UK und the US.
n pluces it wus brilliunt,
Clupton's Gi\j\eZ\ F] K_\ Cfi[ u
deep, spirituul blues, Winwood's
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beuutiul ucoustic number. 8ut
when Clupton builed, 8lind luith
wus over, their sole ulbum
orever murred by thut inumous
cover photogruph.
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Ater 8lind luith und un even
brieer tenure in unother
'supergroup', Cinger 8uler's
Airorce, Winwood begun worl
on u solo ulbum. 8ut, huving
enlisted 1ruic drummer Jim
Cupuldi und sux/lute pluyer
Chris Wood, Winwood soon
bowed to the inevituble und
re-ormed the bund.
His decision wus quiclly
vindicuted, Af_e 9Xic\pZfie Dljk
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certiied ulbumin the US.
As u trio, the group mixed
luid, experimentul uzz rocl with
English oll themes, reworling
u truditionul song duting bucl to
45S or this ulbum's title trucl.
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uppeurunce ut the Keep t 1rue
estivul, Lg :cfj\ 8e[ G\ijfeXc is
something o u compunion-piece
to C`m\ 8k K`]]Xepj (0/) releused
eurlier this yeur, the two gigs
bool-ending Demon's cureer.
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cuptured their grund-guinol-on-
u-budget eurly duys, Lg :cfj\ 8e[
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more expunsive luter muteriul,
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the similurly wide-scule C`]\ Fe
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Demon ure physicully
construined by their lucl o
commerciul success, but they
huve ulwuys been umbitious
musicully, und there's u nice
contrust between the down-
home und unpretentious ellows
they ure in the tour-diury inserts,
und the wholeheurted,
convincing wuy they pluy. ;fek
9i\Xb K_\ :ìZc\, their most
umous song, provides u
tremendous climux, too.
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releused in
2002, this
concert ilm
romthe inul
night o
Munson's Holy
Wood tour cutches himwhile
he's still middle Americu's public
enemy number one, when he
wus still u bit dungerous. 1hese
duys Munson continues to spit
und ruge und slumthe door or u
dwindling demogruphic, but he
hus never been close to
cupturing the bile-uelled hute
metul on displuy here. You get ull
the hits - ;`jgfjXYc\ K\\ej# K_\
=`^_k Jfe^# K_\ 9\Xlk`]lc G\fgc\ -
und ull the spectucle.
Whutever you thinl ubout
Munson, his ubility to stuge u
truly spectuculur rocl'n'roll
extruvugunzu is never in doubt.
Whut we get here is K_\ IfZbp
?fiifi J_fnus reimugined und
rebooted by u cubul o Duvid
Lynch, Aleundro Jodorowsly
und 1im8urton. 1he trunser to
HDis lovely, purticulurly the
close-up shots o MMhimsel.
Extrus include the Munson-
directed short ilmK_\ ;\Xk_
GXiX[\, with cumeo uppeurunces
romEminem, Ozzy und Shuron
und Christiun undumentulist
cump icon 1ummy luye 8uler.
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u lilling spree.
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According to this uccompunying
press releuse, the legendury
Leonurd Cohen rutes the live
cover o his own song ?Xcc\claX_
on this DVD- o the inul show
on the bund's lengthy Lost
Highwuy tour - us his uvourite.
No disrespect, but time must
huve wreuled huvoc with his
heuring becuuse, much lile the
rest o this sturtlingly
disuppointing DVD, it's u
slupdush uuir, und one thut
doesn't hold u cundle to Je
8uclley's version.
Cfjk ?`^_nXp might huve been
the biggest tour o 2008, but the
8on Jovi on displuy here seem
lucllustre und even bored. 1hey
might huve been tired uter such
u lengthy trel, but surely
heudlining u venue they irst
pluyed 9 yeurs previously would
huve spurled some lie into the
bund? Even the expected older
numbers, o which, thunlully,
there ure muny, uil to ignite the
lind o pussionute perormunce
the bund once delivered us
stundurd. And with no extrus the
whole pucluge seems us empty
und uninspired us the bund do.
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When John logerty returned to
London's poshest venue in
2008, it wus ull o 37 yeurs since
he lust pluyed there, ronting
Creedence Cleurwuter Pevivul,
one o Americu's greutest
rocl'n'roll bunds.
Not thut time hud chunged
himmuch. His huir still thicl, his
eutures u little cruggier, his voice
still u thing o wonder, und his
guitur pluying still shurp us u
lnie, logerty rolled bucl the
yeurs with u powerul,
uuthoritutive perormunce.
8ucled by u bund o seusoned
pros including 8illy 8urnette
(ormerly o lleetwood Muc und
8ob Dylun's bund) und John
Mellencump's old powerhouse
drummer Kenny Arono,
logerty luid down the luwwith u
blend o Creedence clussics und
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unday at the 1992 Reading lestival
was a lamiliar scene ol mud,
intoxicationand rancour as punters
huddled around beer-cupbonlires
attempted tokeepupwithrumours
concerning that night's headliners.
larlier inthe day l7 singer Donita Sparks
throwing her used tamponintothe
audience had beenthe maindiscussion
point, but nowtalk was ol Nirvana: had
they split up? Had Courtney love
kidnapped her husband Lurt Cobain?
Was he ill and ina hospital somewhere?
Nirvana's rise lromnobodies (the
previous year they'd played an early-
alternoon slot sandwiched between
Chapterhouse and Silverlishj to
superstars on a sales level with
Madonna and Michael [ackson had been
meteoric, but despite their success chaos
surrounded them- riotous TV
appearances, tales ol drug abuse and
narcolepsy, quotes lromCobain that he
was ready to quit and always the Nancy
Spungen-cum-Wicked Witch Ol The
West ligure ol love looming over the
band's every move. ln briel, no one
thought Nirvana would showup.
As it turns out, Cobain's entrance is
perverse, maverick and llippantly plays
up to the wild rumours. lushed on stage
in a wheelchair, Cobain looks a wizened
old cripple in a hospital gown, belore
shedding wig and chair and launching
into Br::J and a set ol songs mainly lrom
N:r:rminJ and Bi:c.o. Adding to the
sense ol mayhemthe trio are joined on
stage by a mysterious pogo-ing man
bouncing around the stage between
Cobain and bassist Lrist Novoselic. The
pogo man's presence isn't remarked
upon until an hour into the band's set,
when we learn that his name is Tony
and he writes all the songs.
Despite their reputation Nirvana are
lerociously tight during this show-
Hey, we rehearsed last night, Cobain
jokes alter In Bioom- and testament to
the lact that a great band with brilliant
songs doesn't need elaborate stage sets.
liety surrounds Nirvana's legacy, but
this Reading set amply demonstrates
their humour and sense ol mischiel
(singing loston's Mor: 1ocn A F::iing
over the top ol Sm:iis Iik: 1::n Sjiritj as
well as their intensity.
The olten-bootlegged lootage on this
DVDhas been colour-corrected and the
sound is lar superior to the bootlegs.
There are no extras, and with no liner
notes either it does leel slightly
inadequate as a package, although a CD
ol the same showis included.
Unmissable.
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Meut Lou
reully wus the
greut, wobbling
elly o u misit
outsider who so
relected und
inspired JimSteinmun's buroque
teenuge vision. An uppurition in
u ull, ill-itting dress shirt,
clutching u red hunly tight to his
chest lile u comort blunlet, he
wus lile nothing else you could
see on u stuge ut the time. t's
nice, then, to huve the moment
cuptured here, becuuse it hus
signiicunce, given 9Xk Flk F]
?\cc's enduring und endeuring
reusul to die.
t's u concert ilmshot in
Cermuny, originully or television
some eight months uter the
originul 9Xk.ulbumwus
releused. O purticulur interest is
Steinmun's oddly unsettling
presence ut the piuno, ull puy
hunds und wildly rizzed huir.
1hey perormull o the ulbum
except or =fi :ipè^ Flk Cfl[#
und the weird mugic o the
songs is ully uppurent,
especiully when contrusted with
set-illing, throwuwuy covers o
Af_eep 9 >ff[\ und I`m\i ;\\g#
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1he showwould get bigger,
Meut, eventuully, would get
smuller. 1his one night in
Cermuny hus u churmull o
its own.
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broudcust in
July 2009 us
purt o US 1V's
Jfle[jkX^\
series, @e Jlg\i
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is u 2-song set shot in Chicugo
thut (nuturully) leuns heuvily on
983's I\Y\c P\cc ulbum, und
there ure u couple o Cenerution
Xnumbers or older time's sule.
dol struts uround, gurning und
winling ut the girls in the ront
rowus the Anti-Sid Vicious - u
mun with the ley to his gurden
shed, in pluce o thut pudlocl,
uround his necl.
Although there ure no extrus
with this DVD, the show wus
well shot und edited, with long
shots reveuling the Congress
1heutre's surprisingly bure-
bones stuge-set. On it, dol's
long-time guitur sidelicl Steve
Stevens und recent writing
purtner drummer 8riun 1ichy
worl hurd to leep the muin
mun huppy.
Over the 70 minutes, you cun't
help but conclude thut 8illy lools
good or his SS yeurs - und ulso
thut he doesn't lool lile u mun
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insightlul exploration into the lives ol three
very dillerent guitarists with three very
dillerent stories to tell. Stories so lavish and
bursting with intrigue that il they were told in
lull, this 97-minute movie would end up as
a cinematic marathon.
The stars' guitar-playing abilities - not to
mentiontheir personalities- are soimpressive
that you'd be lorgivenlor thinking that the
notionol cramming everything intoone movie
might be wishlul thinking onthe part ol
director Davis Guggenheim. lut the insightlul
snippets presented here are sounique and
appetising, it does leel like youare seeing and
listening tothese people lor the lirst time.
There's less than you might expect about the
bands each guitarist playsjplayed in or the
songs they've written, and more about the
three individual musicians, their own tales
ol six-string addiction and howeach ol them
was set on the path to guitar stardom.
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a makeshilt guitar lroman empty Coke bottle,
a plank ol wood and some nails, belore he
explains his early career genesis as an
upholsterer with a punk rock appetite.
The ldge is lrank and uplront about his
technological technique, going so lar to
display howhis most intricately sounding and
stadium-stunning rills can sometimes be
nothing more than two chords and a box
ol electronic wizardry.
We watch [immy lage meander through
Headley Grange, revisiting tlct hallway where
lonhamlamously delivered tlos: thundering
beats lor wl:o 1l: I:r:: Br:cks. He also
divulges, while air-guitaring, howpower-
chord pioneer link Wray's Ramli: was the
inlluence that lit the luse lor his own personal
musical powder keg.
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main course leatures each ol the three
maestros taking turns to deliver some
signature guitar work, while the other two
scratch chins, study lretwork and genuinely
ponder the obvious contrasts in the live
decades ol guitar mastery they collectively
share. The ldge gets digital, [ack White
digresses, but when [immy lage cranks up his
amp and thunders out wloi: Iottc Ior: you'll
be retrieving your jawlromthe lloor - just
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Howlong agowas it that Cicssi. Ro.k
championedtheir readers witha piece
about booking lees lor concert tickets
being a rip-oll? Yeah, that's it -wave your
'we're withour readers' llag like youmean
it. Andnowyouannounce the Cicssi. Ro.k
HighVoltage lestival. Andguess what, no
booking lee Wow, Cicssi. Ro.k putting their
money where their mouthis, andvery
admirable that is too.
lut wait a minute. What's this
processing lee ol 5.20lor a standard
post-out optionol the wristband(sj? That
wouldn't be a booking lee under a dillerent
name wouldit? Ohno. No, that's
completely dillerent yousee because a
booking lee applies totickets, andthe
processing lee is lor sending out
wristbands. Youknowwhat? You're just
another bunchol hypocrites.
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lirstly sorry about the length
ol this, but l've got a lot to
say. l needtopickat the
holes inyour Star letter
[issue 140], What people
want is a media-rich
experience ina non-
smoking T-shirt. l went tosee The
Almighty (awesome bandj whenthe
smoking banhadjust kickedinl had
toget rat-arsedtoget ridol the weird
ellect ol sterility. lt was a great gig all
the same.
As lor current bands not being as
great or as legendary as ACjDC
because they are secondinline, what
are youare talking about? lands will
struggle today because people don't
take chances withalbums whenthey
downloadsingles andwant a lree ride
oll the backs ol bands by downloading
lor lree. What doyouthinkbands run
on, lreshair? ll you're a struggling new
band, downloads workvery well, but
take a stepupandyouneedcashto
rehearse, record, tour and, yes, provide the
T-shirts youlike towear.
l have tosay l try tolistentonewbands,
andl have bought many newalbums that
CRhas recommended-andnot got a bad
'unyet. However, althoughl listentoolder
bands andyoung bands, l won't listento
cacophonous rubbishthat is paradedas
'newwave' anything. Soil you're young
andplay like llackStone Cherry, The
Answer, or Airbourne then, hey where's
the gig?
As lor the 'long-hair' jibe. Maybe you
shouldopenyour eyes a little more, climb
downoll ol the soapbox, goto
gigs by bands youdon't know
anything about, andsupport the
music scene sothat your peers can
enjoy what we 'elders' have been
enjoying very well belore the
'blessing' the current scene or
current technology is bestowing
onus all came along.
Retrc, via email
KI8:BJ@E9C8:B
l don't want this toturnintoa
moan, but we shall see
where it goes. l leel, as a
lanol rockmusic, that l
get notoing inreturnlor
my loyalty tocertain
bands. This thought
occurredtome recently
as l lookedintogetting the
ACjDCBc.ktrc.ks. Now,
the versioninthe shops is
okay, but the special
editionone online is
magnilicent -andat 150
it ought tobe. lut there's
the thing, it's not 150, it's 180
whenyouinclude the enlorced
shippingjhandling costs ol 30 lrom
UlS. As we canonly buy it lromthe
website, we have topay this. Where
is the lairness inthat? The band
obviously knowthat us lans have to
dothis, sowhy advertise it at 150
whenthe actual cost is 180? lt's
nowa price l won't pay, just on
principle. Why not sell it inthe
mainstreamshops as you're sucha
mainstreamband?
At the other endol the spectrum,
l have tothankyouguys at
Cicssi. Ro.k magazine lor the lree
Sjc.: Ro.k CDlor introducing me to
Generous Maria. l endedupbuying their
CommcnJ Oj 1o: N:wRo.k recordsecond-
handandit's great -and175less than
ACjDC's reject tracks.
Pete, via email
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Along withmany other readers, canl wish
Ronnie [ames Dioa speedy recovery. l'm
sure the 'big' lella will slay this latest
'dragon' andsoonreturntowhat he does
best. l was guttedwhenhis latest ULtour
was cancelled, as l was due togoto
Manchester Academy withmy wile anda
mate tosee him. The cost ol the tickets
totalled60-plus the inluriating
9booking lee.
l got the email lromTicketmaster
telling me ol the cancellationand
that l wouldbe entitledtoa relundil
l sent the tickets backtothe venue
by RecordedDelivery -another 2
ol 'deadmoney'. lmagine my
surprise (notj whenmy bank
account was reimbursedwiththe
lace value ol the tickets, but alas not
the 9booking lee.
Needless tosay l will have togothrough
the same rip-oll scenariowhenthe
maestroreturns toour stages, hopelully in
the not toodistant luture. That will be
another 20wastedonspurious admin
charges andpost.
lut money is certainly not everything
inthe world, andonce againcanl wish
Ronnie [ames Dioall the best inhis
treatment andrecovery.
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H
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and vocal parts on his newsolo release,
, Van der Graal Generator
lrontman leter Hammill also plans to retain his
independence during a bout ol touring activity.
With the nevalbumand these shovs being
performed alone, this is a solo project in the
truest sense.
Absolutely. On the one hand Van der Graal is
still charging lorward in its weird and
wonderlul way, and doing everything mysell -
just a piano, guitar and the songs - is the exact
diametric opposite. They are entirely dillerent
worlds, but alter all these years, l leel very
privileged to still be able to do this.
Is there a part of youthat vhistles 'Sheesh' at
the thought of releasing your l8thalbum?
The way my catalogue has amassed is pretty
amazing. lromthe beginning l always hoped to
do more than just ephemeral, instant stull. One
thing l'mvery pleased about is that l haven't
released 28 albums that were exactly the same.
Now, at 60-plus, l don't write anything that
remotely resembles what l did as a 19-year-old,
which is also quite satislying. Writing and
recording music is still something that, as my
wile attests, l remain obsessed by.
Thn Ar is a remarkably dark record.
lvenby my standards [laughs]. lundamentally,
its theme is disappearance - ol all kinds ol things.
And that's hardly conducive tocheeriness.
The songs Ghosts Oj PIancs and Thc Top Oj
Thc WorI CIub are partially, one might say
belatedly, inspired by the events of 9j11.
lt's only nowl've lelt distanced enough to
express a view. They're not specilically about
the WTC, terrorists or loss ol
lile, more the cultural
signilicance ol 'belore' and
'alter' what happened that day.
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at these shovs?
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commence folloving l008's Trscctor?
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working up the material. lut we don't want to
just tread the same path we've used belore. ;C
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lillboard Top 20 lor their
lilth album, Sociiow Iij:,
ltaly's lacuna Coil are set to play
their biggest headline dates in the
ULso lar. lrontwoman Cristina
Scabbia sets the scene.
The band has vorked hard for
this breakthrough, but you must
be thrilled by the reaction to
ShaIIowIjc?
You're right, we've paid our dues
lor more than10 years, but this time
we wrote analbumthat we like
everything about. lt connects sowell
withthe crowds that come tothe
concerts and every kid is singing the
lyrics. That's a big reward.
Hovmuch of the nevalbum
vill you play on these dates?
Headlining in lurope it'll be a little
bit ol the old stull and a quite a lot
ol newmaterial.
Knovn for having produced
Duran Duran and Iinkin Park,
vas Don Gilmore fun to
vork vith?
lor someone with such a great
portlolio he's very down-to-earth.
He keeps you locused on the work,
but when the pressure builds up
he's always got a joke to lighten
the mood. Don taught me so much.
With us being ltalian, he made
Andrea [lerro, co-vocalist] and
l pronounce every single word
correctly, which is something we'll
apply to the next record.
Shepherd's Bush Empire vill be
your largest Iondon date so far.
We've headlined the Astoria many
times and l hear the lmpire is a very
attractive old theatre, which is cool.
Adigital-only single, I Ikc It,
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remixes by NevYork electronic
music act Interface, electrojpopj
emo darlings Das Basslaster and
UK-based deejay Dan Peace.
Hovvould you describe the
response to that?
[laughing]: Well, you can't please
everybody. The idea came lromthe
record label, but we are not closed-
minded. l kinda liked hearing what
those guys did with our song.
Your ovn personal involvement
vith animal rights campaigners
PETAvas recently documented
by an internet poster campaign.
l'mnot vegetarian, l'manomnivore,
sol thought a lot about getting
involved. l wanted tobe honest. lut
the idea ol torturing animals lor the
sake ol make-upollends me. ;C
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uudiences displuy u reul intelligence. ;C
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the pulpit lor a rare date
lromStryper, probably the world's
most (injlamous Christian rock
band, which takes place in london
as part ol the US outlit's 25th
anniversary world tour.
It's hard to believe that it's more
than l0 years since Stryper last
played the UK.
That was on the 1o H:ii wito 1o:
D:rii tour, l believe. We're very
enthusiastic about making music
again. lt's great to be coming back.
Do you recall much of that
particular gig?
At [london's] Hammersmith
Odeon? Are you kidding? My gosh,
we were excited about playing
there and the crowd was great.
We also lilmed a video [lor the
song Hon:sti,], too.
Can you talk us through the
band's apparent demise in 1993,
and the band members' decision
10 years later to reunite?
Michael [Sweet, singer] wanted to
do a solo project and move away
lrombeing in Stryper, and we broke
up. lt was a dillicult time in
everyone's lives. Coming back
together, it's been surreal but at the
same time necessary, as the lans
wanted it to happen.
Do the band still throvbibles
into the crovd?
Yes, and we'll do it again in lngland.
lt's important lor us to keep on
giving out God's word.
For some, Stryper turned their
back on that message circa
1990's Aganst Thc Iawalbum,
vhen the band changed their
image and toned dovn the
lyrical positivity. So vhat
really happened?
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with the church and being shunned
by the mainstreammedia, so we
went oll in another direction and
took it too lar. We wanted to show
the world we could rock just like
anyone else. lt was a big mistake.
Another cloudyarea, perception-
vise, is that this summer you
marrieda former prostitute.
My wile Annie [lobert] was a
prostitute lor 11 years until a drug
overdose almost killed her. She now
has a wonderlul ministry called
Hookers lor [esus, helping people
that are trapped in the world ol sex
trallicking to exit the business.
What she does is amazing. ;C
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1he Vilings ure out in orce ut Hurd Kocl Hell's
opening night piss-up. Plustic helmets ure toppled
und crude wooden weuponry is thrust ceiling-wurd, us
8kk`ZXIX^\'s trud-metul unthems bludgeon newly beery
purty-goers into cheerul submission. 1hey muy lucl
inesse, but the Scots' inectious enthusiusmsweeps
ucross the hull lile u grin-shuped tsunumi.
Sometimes when there's mischie to be mude, you need
to bring in the experts. >DKure old but dextrous hunds,
und their thumping blues-metul ruclet could hurdly be
more upposite in this luger-sodden environment. 1here's
something ubout u tough und destructive three-piece thut
never uils to hit the spot, und songs lile <m`c Knè seem
custom-designed to conure some virile, hedonistic
voodoo. All thut's let is to wonder whut must be going on
behind John McCoy's shudes us he lools ucross u roomull
o grown men und women dressed lile extrus romu low-
budget historicul epic. Avision o hell, indeed.
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8ik_\d`j huve truvelled over romtheir nutive tuly
with the primury purpose o winning over u mildly
hungover Hurd Kocl Hell crowd. 1hey do it with euse,
motoring through hul un hour o slicl und iery power-
cum-thrush metul und churming ull und sundry with big
smiles und bigger ris.
Cung-ho Ceordies I\d\[p ucquit themselves well.
Delightully-numed gul singer Jenn Cherene is u soulul
belter, but us the set progresses the bund's bluesy
muteriul - ulthough undeniubly powerul - begins to
sound somewhut one-dimensionul.
We reully enoyed South Wules' ;\X[8^Xèjk K_\
I\jk. mugine the Sex Pistols pluying ron Muiden covers,
with u leud singer - the strungely monilered Shtuq - who
lools lile Meut Lou, und twirls the mic lile Duvid Lee Koth.
luir dues
?Xe^è^;fcc huve the best wind muchines in the house
- even during soundchecl. Plus the 8irminghum-bused
orchestrul goth metullers ure so loud, they mule the
sleeves o your uclet ripple. 1he drumutic, spruwling
@e`hl`kp is u stundout.it's ust u shume thut u lot o the
subtleties ure lost in the deuening sonics. 8ut it's certuinly
rereshing to heur rontgul Sully Holliduy's thicl 8rummie
uccent, u welcome chunge romthe ethereul proclumutions
o the liles o 1uru 1urunen.
Songs ubout beer cun hurdly uil ut Hurd Kocl Hell,
und Bfig`bcXXe` sing ubout little else, their spirulling,
uccordion-luced oll metul lunucy u perect it with the
generul uir o drunlen ubundon. 1he hurdest-worling
bund in Clusgow, Cf^Xe prove themselves us one o the
best wurm-up ucts in the country, uble to win over uny
crowd. 1onight u cleverly pitched cover o NXi G`^j seuls
the deul. Nue bother.
>le don't court the uudience so openly - u det cover
o 1he Police's Jf Cfe\cp shows where their heud is ut -
they're even more successul, teuring up expectutions with
u mix o inectious newsongs (C\k Pfli ?Xì ;fne) und old
clussics lile 9\kk\i ;Xpj. 1hey're one o the ewbunds here
who could trouble the churts uguin. ;\cXè might huve
connections with Within 1emptution (they were ounded
by Murtin Westerholt, brother o W1's Kobert
Westerholt) but thunlully they're nowhere neur us
overblown or pompous. Churlotte Wessels proves to be un
enguging rontwomun und their tule on symphonic metul
hus un ugreeuble cutting edge. Kecommended.
Hurd Kocl Hell comes ulive with u dynumite - but oh so
short - 30-minute set romust-rising Swedish emme
metullers ?pjk\i`ZX. 1here's u surprise line-up chunge,
with Jessicu (no surnume) replucing the neur-legendury
KoclZillu on guitur, but no one notices the oin. 1his is
u mustercluss in burling-mud, burl-it-out-loud metul.
with wurdrobe mulunctions und everything >ìcj DX[\ F]
?\Xmp D\kXc? t couldn't huve been uny better i they'd
been mude o steul und chips.
IXkk ure one o lriduy's best bunds. lrontmun
Stephen Peurcy, with his dinly blucl studded gloves,
sunlen cheelbones und curiously lut huir, lools
eortlessly cool us the veterun LAcombo ruttle through
their hits - Pfli\ @e Cfm\, Ifle[ 8e[ Ifle[ et ul. And
suddenly it got us thinling.could Peurcy be u credible
cundidute or the next Aerosmith singer? On this displuy -
you betchu Shit, his nume's even Steve. t must be ute.
9cXZb Jg`[\ij steudily increuse the size o their
uudience us they go ulong, druwing punters into the second
stuge urenu using only the mesmerising power o luudubly
enormous ris und lushings o melodic muscle. One o
those bunds thut could eusily end up supporting bigger
numes or the rest o their cureer i they're not cureul, this
lot huve criticul upprovul und un-recruiting momentumin
the bug, so ull thut they need is u debut ulbumthut tules
people's heuds o, something they cleurly huve no trouble
doing in the lesh, us the monstrous rour o upprovul thut
greets every song would seemto conirm. 1his weelend,
the Spiders' web is virtuully irresistible.
you wunt u estivul-riendly, greutest hits set,
K\iifim`j`fe ure perect becuuse they never reully
bothered to write unything thut wusn't u three-und-u-hul-
minute single. 1onight they pebbledush the crowd with
sing-ulong sputum, uuntily thundering their wuy through
FYc`m`fe, ;`jZfk_\hl\ Ni\Zb, G\ij\m\iXeZ\ und ull the rest,
with their utter disregurd or coolness or urtistic relevunce
propelling themoyully ulong, ust us it ever wus. Huge,
burly metul uns bellowtheir upprovul, giddy on hool
punch und melody pie, und the bund themselves lool
ubsolutely delighted to be on such splendid orm. Eight
yeurs uter their originul split, 1errorvision ure us resh us un
eight-legged duisy und it's u wonder thut they huven't
ulreudy mude this u permunent urrungement once more.
Or muybe they huve.
t's ulwuys good to see u bund in u heudlining slot on
musicul merit ruther thun commerciul clout, und
Dfejk\i DXê\k huve ulwuys lnown how to deliver the
goods, even in tricly circumstunces. Ater his recent
brush with the cosmic cheeseburger, Duve Wyndor
uppeurs to be beginning to shrinl bucl down to
something upprouching normul size or the snule-
hipped, ucid-uelled sex upe we hope und expect him to
be, und he sounds us thrillingly gooy und luscivious us
ever on Gfn\iki`g und JgXZ\ Cfi[. t might be usling u bit
much or his bund to conquer the world u second time,
but there ure still ew bunds so cupuble o tuling rocl
into orbit, us they ebb, contruct und smother lile the
ultimute spuce-rocl electric blunlet.
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G`^ @ie enoy u surprisingly strong
uttendunce or u perormunce thut sturts
ut the (relutively) ungodly hour o
2 noon. 1he bund sound intense und
plodding, in u good wuy, with some
blistering voculs romJohnny Ogle -
und some greut hurmonicu pluying
romhim, too. 1he brooding, Southern
rocl-luvoured Cfi[, B`cc K_\ GXè
mules u ine ending to
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Wutching ;ldgpj Iljkp
Elkj is lile being in London's old
Murquee club on u wet 1uesduy
night 2S yeurs ugo - it's ull meundering
guitur solos romthe decrepit-looling
Dumpster, und u set pucled ull o witless
mutilutions o old rocl'n'roll stundurds. 1o ollow, Puul
Cuutry, leud singer o K_\ >c`kk\iXk`, lools lile the son o
Cury Holton - und there ure certuinly some hooligun,
Heuvy Metul Kids-style elements to the bund's trush/
punl upprouch.i you concentrute reully hurd. 8ut us the
set goes on euch song - be it newreleuse =`^_k =`^_k
=`^_k or Fm\ie`^_k Jlg\ijkXi - begins to sound lile 1he
Knucl on steroids.
DXij\`cc\'s set is humpered (us it ulwuys hus been)
by u lucl o quulity muteriul. 8e it un oldie lile IfZb Pfl
Kfe`^_k or u new'un lile 8i\ Pfl I\X[p, the bund's songs
ure trite und uveruge ut best. t's ulso discomiting to see
themportruy themselves us NWO8HMlegends, becuuse
thut's u cluimwithout oundution.
>ìcjZ_ffc overcome some eurly problems with Enid
Williums' buss to deliver un excellent perormunce.
Highlights include u rollicling version o KXb\ @k 8cc 8nXp -
u song introduced by guiturist KimMcAulie us "the irst
song we recorded ull those yeurs ugo.but we still
remember it - hope." 1oduy's is un ugeless displuy,
with Enid in purticulur looling hot in her uniormo
leuther or rubber (or possibly both). At the end o IXZ\
N`k_ K_\ ;\m`c u grubby-looling puir o men's underpunts
is thrown on stuge [Pfl ZXek kXb\ k_Xk ;fdCXnjfe
Xepn_\i\ $ <[. 1omJones, eut your heurt out. Our only
criticism? Civen Cirlschool's gritty, down-to-eurth
upprouch, Juclie Chumbers' gleuming llying V-style
guitur lools u bit out o pluce. Still, she could ulwuys sell
it to Steel Punther.
Slipping nimbly uround uny technicul obstucles,
K`^\ikX`cq ure indecently entertuining toduy. Well-drilled
und ur heuvier thun they sounded 20yeurs ugo, they end
with u sculp-liting version o 8Z\ F] JgX[\j und go down
un ubsolute storm.
lor uns looling or some hurd rocl (us opposed to
heuvy metul) ut Hurd Kocl Hell, Hlì\Yfpj ure
u godsend. No pointy heudstocls, no lyrics ubout custles,
demons or wizurds - ust un hour o uprourious (lrunlie
Miller-ronting-1he-luces-covering-Slude) rocl'n'roll thut
mules this writer reulise thut even we on :I don't tule
'emseriously enough.
<còì turn out to be the surprise NWO8HMpucluge
o Hurd Kocl Hell. 1hey huve u eursome twin-guitur
uttucl - tule u bow, Phil Denton und 'Storming' Normun
Cordon - u blond giunt o u rontmun in Puul 1uylor, und
u souring unthemin the ormo D`[e`^_k D\jj`X_. Why
huve they never been uble to cupture this livewire spirit in
the recording studio?
More NWO8HMgenius comes orth in the shupe
o N`kZ_]pe[\, with the umuzing Montulo on guitur.
Amirthsome moment occurs when Luther 8eltz (the
best-numed rocl singer.\m\i) procluims. "Mr Lurs Ulrich
suid to me, when you get to Prestutyn you must pluy my
uvourite Witchynde song." Which they do. '1wus C\Xmè^
EX[ì, o course - one o the greut undiscovered
NWO8HMclussics.
DXipX Ifoo is u deud spit or Luuren Hurris, who is
due to perormluter on in the duy. On closer inspection,
however, the Estoniu-born, Culiorniu-bused singer proves
to be u eursome, cluws-out she-wol - muling Ms Hurris
lool lile u luy pussycut. Plus we get to heur u storming
song culled )(6 "Cet your whips out," Muryu urges ut one
point. Yeuh.but only i you put the hundcus uwuy, deur.
Otherwise things could get decidedly dungerous.
With plenty o bunds proving thut reunions don't huve
to be tired und cynicul uuirs, the not exuctly legendury
?Xdd\i_\X[ could huve triumphed here, but insteud
they burely munuge to plod their wuy through un umiuble
but thrill-sturved set o NWO8HMmeut'n'potutoes, their
collective moo visibly und uudibly mulnourished. Aew
loyul uns generously punch the uir in support, but it's
hurd to uthomwhut younger, less misty-eyed punters
must be thinling.
8e^\c N`kZ_ speurheud u third NWO8HMtriumph,
with the enduring Kevin Heybourne guiding his troops
through clussic uter clussic. Nuturully, the set climuxes
with the rousing crowd-purticipution chunt o. "You're un
Angel Witch, you're un Angel Witch." We would've been
stunned i it hudn't And who wus thut guy on buss? Will
Pulmer, munuger o Cuthedrul, thut's who. Or us
u Cuthedrul-member-who-shull-remuin numeless
whispered to us. "Will? Yeuh, his mumis in <Xjk<e[\ij."
If^l\ DXc\ mule u credible i somewhut shumbolic
return. lrontmun JimLyttle (nowbuld ruther thun
bequied) is still ungry.ulbeit in the munner o
u belligerent neighbour who doesn't lile you purling your
cur ucross his drive. Old chestnuts lile KXb\ Ef J_`k und
Ifl^_ Kfl^_ Gi\kkp Kff might've been strung out or ull
they were worth, but newie ;Xe^\iqfe\ gives the set
u boost und :iXqp DfkfiZpZc\ - their most recognisuble
song - is u decent enough climux.
N%8%J%G%, by populur consensus, ure the bund o the
estivul. 8luclie Luwless, buzzsuw brucelets und ull, hus
still got it - in spudes - und rolls bucl the yeurs with
u blistering displuy. N`c[ :_`c[, @ NXeeX 9\ Jfd\Yf[p,
K_\ I\Xc D\. whut u relie it is to heur these old stingers
delivered with power, pussion und, yes, credibility.
8luclie - who these duys resembles the 8ride O Chucly
dressed up lile Alice Cooper - is in totul control, even
urging the uudience to "SHHHHH" ut one stuge. You
could heur u studded codpiece drop. Ater u succession
o slum-bung stundurds, K_\ @[fc (rom 992's K_\
:i`djfe @[fc) und KXb\ D\ Lg (rom 2007's ;fdèXkfi)
provide u relutively mellow chunge o puce. 8ut beore
long the ruzzle-duzzle renzy begins ull over uguin, und
the set rumps up to u close with 9cè[ @e K\oXj. While
muny o his peers muy be creuling into retirement,
8luclie shows he cun still deliver.
Hl\\ejiZ_\'s heudlining set lools destined to puss
into rocl estivul olllore, but or ull the wrong reusons.
Kicling o with three trucls rom8d\i`ZXe Jfc[`\i und
muling everyone wuit or u ull hul un hour beore pluying
unything rom<dgì\ would huve been u gumble worth
tuling i this wus their own show, but this is u estivul
crowd und the lucl o hits switly tules its toll us the room
begins to empty. Civen howW.A.S.P. ripped the pluce
upurt with hits gulore moments eurlier, it seems ludicrous
thut the Seuttle veteruns cun't even bring themselves to
pluy unything romFg\iXk`fe1 Dè[Zi`d\. We do get J`c\ek
ClZ`[`kp und <dgì\, but or ull Ceo 1ute's smug cuoling
und bizurrely lumboyunt stuge moves, ewpeople here
seembothered. Shume.
1here ure no such concerns with E\nPfib ;fccj,
who ure not ust the loudest bund o the weelend but
ulso one o the most relentlessly entertuining. Huving
slilully estublished this newline-up with two excellent
studio ulbums, the deuth-cheuting veteruns huve little to
prove und could eusily huve trotted out the obvious hits
with luzy contempt, but there is reul vitulity und verve
popping und izzing romthe PAspeulers us clussics lile
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Micl Jugger und his voice remuins u thing o weuther-
beuten wonder, us Sylvuin Sylvuin's six-string street
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"8etween themthese guys huve ucled ull
the girls in Hollywood", the ustute compere
unnounces us Slush und the irst o his cust o
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rupturous uppluuse.
Powered by 8linl 82 drummer 1ruvis 8urler,
Slush - unusuully without the signuture cigurette
dungling romhis bottomlip - opens proceedings
with @dd`îXek Jfe^ euturing erocious voculs
romlrunlie Perez, who then churged through
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conidence und uplomb.
1hen come the guests. Wolmother's Andrew
Stocldule unveiled 9p K_\ Jnfi[, u song rom
Slush's newulbum, which hus 'clussic' embedded
in its DNA, Chester 8ennington storms through
u bombustic version o GXiX[`j\ :`kp thut hus un
ecstutic Steven Adler grinning romeur to
eur behind his drumlit, Perry lurrell slithers
sinuously through the hypnotic trunce o
JpdgXk_p =fi K_\ ;\m`c, u typicully snurling
8illy dol's top lip ulmost leuves his uce
during u pornogruphic rendition o ggy
Pop's ;fne Fe K_\ Jki\\k.
t's u night ull o highlights, but top ludos
must go to Ozzy who, looling trimund
dupper, brings his own brund o insunity to
the evening during :iXqp KiXè by greeting
the Hollywood cognoscenti in the bulcony
with u ruucous "Come on, you uclers"
ollowed by u chucled buclet o wuter.
You reully hud to be there.
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So, cun 8enoit Duvid, Yes's newsinger, reully
repluce Jon Anderson? 1hut's the question on
everyone's mind us the =ì\Yì[ Jl`k\ intro gives wuy to,
it hus to be suid, lume renditions o J`Y\i`Xe B_Xkil und
@m\ J\\e 8cc >ff[ G\fgc\. 1wo-und-u-hul hours luter,
the unswer to the Duvid question is still up in the uir.
nuset stuedwithcrowdpleusers, thereuretimes
- ?\Xik F] K_\ Jlei`j\# Ifle[XYflk - whenthenewline-
upgel impressively, thereureothers - 8jkiXc KiXm\cc\i#
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orcedundstutic. 1helowpoint is thelucllustreFne\i
F] 8Cfe\cp ?\Xik, deliveredwithunemburrussing
insouciunce. t's herethut Duvidshows hecouldeusily
becomeucumpversiono his predecessor. 1he
highlight comes on two songs romthe underruted
;iXdX ulbum, K\dglj =l^`k und DXZ_è\ D\jj`X_ both
bristling with welcome purpose und ocus.
Steve Howe und Chris Squire - nowde ucto
leuders o Yes - cun build u set uround Duvid's
strengths, und give Oliver Wulemun's leybourds u
more prominent role, then the current incurnution o
the bund huve u shot ut u genuine uture. Otherwise
they're doomed to become u nostulgic purody.
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hul un hour to pluy with, but Cirlschool worl us
hurd us uny heudliner, even though their 'hits' ure
delivered to ust un incoming triclle o punters. At the
end o their set the deserved uppluuse hus those ust
urriving wondering. "Whut huve we missed?"
Dumned leybourdist Monty Oxymoron cleurly
missed the wurdrobe reheursul, looling lile u deud
ringer or ormer <Xjk<e[\ij nerd Nigel or the 1up's
Viv Suvuge. And Cuptuin Sensible's stroppy teen-style
Cocl-er-nee personu is decudes pust its sell-by, but
he und equully well-preserved rontmun Duve Vuniun's
well-puced set more thun compensutes.
Suitubly wurmed-up, the Ceordie uudience ure well
reudy or Motrheud, who irst punch out @ife =`jk
beore cherry-picling romucross the yeurs, including
u superb @ >fk Dè\, Dfki`q\i highlights lile K_\
K_fljXe[ EXd\j F] >f[# plus, nuturully, 9fdY\i, u
coruscuting B`cc\[ 9p ;\Xk_ und u pulsuting Fm\ib`cc.
'You're u ucling greut crowd, Newcustle," Lemmy
unnounces. "'d pluy or you uny time." And this crowd
would doubtless be there uny time he chooses to.
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Ke-ormed, reuctivuted und revitulised 70s rocl
bunds cun lool u bit ridiculous. 0s-yeur-olds
in bundunus or those 80s unstructured linen suits or
unluttering tight euns.
Deep Purple stop looling in uny wuy dut ust us
soon us they licl o u punchy ?`^_nXp JkXi. un
Cillun, ut 4, hus u lot to curry. cun he screumthe
wuy he used to? Does he still huve the ubility to
lool good in blucl velvet loon punts? Well, the
screuming ubility isn't reully put to the test, since
tonight Purple don't pluy :_`c[ @e K`d\. On the
'ushion' ront, Cillun lools oluy, but then he isn't
dressing lile he's in his 20s.
With nothing newto promote, the set is something
o u 'greutest hits' und odds und sods collection. 1he
big surprise is the outing or the uzzy DXpY\ @d8C\f.
Cuiturist Steve Morse is the equul o 8luclmore or
8olin, und gets the chunce to showo during u lengthy
Niè^ K_Xk E\Zb, perhups muling up or u shortuge o
songs in the set romulbums mude during his tenure.
Still, ulong with unything else they might pluy, we're
ull here to heur Jdfb\ Fe K_\ NXk\i. And it's till the
greutest ri in the history o the universe.
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" you've come here to see u bund thut's going
to solve globul wurming, then you're in the
wrong dumn pluce"
One could suy thut, with thut, Puul Stunley is stuting
the bloody obvious, especiully when you consider thut
Kiss's stuge production probubly uses enough wuttuge
to power u smull country.
With umily ewels und riends wutching the show
romthe mixing desl plutorm, the bund give it plenty
o lush, bung und even extru wullop in their udopted
home town und, impressively, succeed in druwing
u genuinely enthusiustic response romu usuully
bluse LAcrowd.
1his Kiss Alive 3S tour seems to huve been on the
roud or un eternity und is by nowu inely tuned
muchine euturing ull their clussics - ;\lZ\# ?fkk\i K_Xe
?\cc# :fc[ >è# 9cXZb ;`Xdfe[ etc - ulong with pizuzz
und pyrotechnics thut creute un utmosphere ulin to
the renzy, un und revelry o u WWAtournument.
With u new, more minimulist, hi-tech stuge set
euturing bunls o video screens thut mule wutching
u U2 showseemlile un evening
sturing through u Curry's shop
window, und the introduction o
more newmuteriul, including two
uture unthems - 9\Xlk`]lc ;\c`cX_
und JXp P\X_ - romthe newulbum,
this tuntulising tuster o the
orthcoming Europeun Sonic 8oom
tour culminutes with 'the longest
encore ever' euturing u surreul but
highly eective Murcel Murceuu
moment during ;\kif`k IfZb :`kp.
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t's u rure bund thut receives trunce-lile uttention
und bellowing cheers lile these, but then Purlor
Mob tug ut this sweuty crowd's murionette strings lile
no common breed. With u pucled-out Shinedown gig
ust up the roud, stulwurt roclers the Mob huve still
stued the 8urly with generutions o revellers.
Andwithgoodreuson. thesediminutiveNewJersey
hellruisers simply shit goodtunes. O course, i you
lnowthut thenyou'veulreudy put your money onthis
yeur's breuthtulingly hool-luden8e[PflN\i\ 8:ifn.
8ut onstugePurlor Mobureunevenbigger proposition.
lromsinger Murl Meliciu's Ceddy Lee-pitchedhowl, to
sleweringris thut, pluyedlive, urestretchedtotheir
trippy limits, this is unhypnotic uuir thut, evenslightly
humstrungby someequipment uilurethut curtuils
Meliciu's desiretoextendtheencore, is never less thun
sterling. lromthecuterwuulinghet o ?Xi[K`d\j tound
therudio-riendly mugnetismo <m\ipk_è^PflN\i\
9i\Xk_è^=fi, theonly thingthis set lucls is theshow-
stoppingbulludry o thebreuthtulingDp =Xmfli`k\ ?\Xik
Kf9i\Xb, uewel in8e[PflN\i\ 8:ifn's crown. 8ut ut
leust it's somethingtolool orwurdtothenext time
Purlor Mobbringtheir tulents over here.
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Despite euturing u reul live Sex Pistol (drummer
Puul Cool) und u Leppurd (guiturist/rontmun
Phil Collen) in their line-up, MunKuze (completed by
ex-Cirl bussist Simon Luy) struggle to mule un
impression this evening, u ust-illing Apollo merely
toleruting the trio's presence insteud o uppreciuting it.
lor heudliner Cooper this tour represented u chunce
to reshen up u set-list thut hus stugnuted o lute. Let's
uce it, i you cun't shule things up u little to celebrute
u concept ulbumubout u seriul liller numed Spider
who leuves his victims cocooned in u sill web, chunces
ure you never will. Purticulurly when 2008's 8cfe^
:Xd\ 8Jg`[\i wus so well-received. However, with
ust one song - M\e^\XeZ\ @j Dè\, delivered romutop
u high podium- udded to the routine, Cooper insteud
uvours the hits.
Nobody compluins, mind. lur romit, in uct. Whut
we get tonight is u ust-moving, thrill-u-minute ride.
8ucled by u super-tight bunch o young bucls, Cooper
is gurrotted, decupituted, reincurnuted und impuled on
u 0-oot hypodermic needle.
Alice's presence remuins us mugnetic us ever, but
time ulone will tell i he missed un opportunity here.
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So whut huve 1he Answer leurned during their
summer tour supporting AC/DC? Probubly
thut their brund o rocl is up there with the giunts.
Opening with Kfe`^_k, rontmun Cormuc Neeson
breezes through u irst-rute perormunce with the
ussuredness o u mun who cun tuste lusting success
or his bund. He constuntly tulls to the uudience,
spinning tules und wuxing lyricul ubout the summer
memories thut inspired :ipè Flk# or wurning o the
durler moments in the ominously utmospheric
highlight N_p ;f Pfl :_Xe^\ Pfli Dè[. 1he sinister
utmosphere is then brolen immediutely by the
ironicully more upbeut <m`c DXe.
8ut it's not ust Neeson, distructing though his
curtuin o lowing huir is, who demunds uttention.
Alwuys un issue or whut is essentiully u three-piece
with u singer, guiturist Puul Muhon switches
impressively romris to solos with uplomb.
lirmuvourite Le[\i K_\ Jbp, romthe bund's irst
ulbum, concludes the muin set, beore u stomping
8elust blues-o ulong the lines o Gi\XZ_è closes the
showumid rours o uppreciution romu pucled house,
surely dispelling uny lurling demons.
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younger, inlact -it's hardly surprising. This all-Americanhero,
one ol rock's all-time great vocalists, enjoys the kindol lile that
most canonly dreamol. twoyears agohe sold80per cent ol his
CaboWabotequila business lor $80millionandtoday he lronts
rocksupergroupChickenloot alongside RedHot Chili leppers
drummer ChadSmith, ex-Van
Halenbassist Michael Anthony
andguitar legend[oe Satriani.
Doyouhave a philosophyyoulive by?
Yeah. lt sounds a little pretentious, but
l went ona quest whenl was thrownout ol
VanHalenin'95. l hadtoligure out what l
wantedtodo. l movedtoHawaii lirst and
thentoMexico. l built a place there -the
CaboWaboCantina -andit's really
enhancedmy lilestyle.
Doyoubelieve ina higher pover?
Ohyeah, l thinkyouhave to. Yougot tohave
a little lear inyou. Maybe there is a Godthat's
gonna punishme at the endol this lucking
road l hate trying todeline religionor beliel
inGod, but l wouldhave tosay that it is in
everything. lt's the 'l Am' consciousness.
acknowledging the Godinyou. lt sounds like
the biggest egotripyou've ever heardinyour
lile, but youleel that Godis inyouand
working throughyou.
Where doyoustandpolitically? Onyour
recent soloalbumCosmc UnvcrsaI
FashonyoucollaboratedvithIraqi
musicianStevenIost, yet inthe 80s you
calledyourself the Voice Of America.
Ohluck, l'ma long way lromthere. lnthe
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andright-wing but l thought l was soradical.
l was actually willing tostandupandsay,
We're Americans andwe're a good
country lnmy head, that was as radical as
the hippies protesting against the war. Now
l don't believe inwar.
Your 1984hit I Cant Drvc 55vas a
protest songthat actuallyvorked-the
speedlimit inthe USvas changed. Does that make youa better protest
singer thanBobDylan?
Ha ha ha Not a better lyricist, but a better protest singer lob, l readhis book
andhe was just moaning andgroaning about howhe didn't want tobe the
lucking guru. lut my song wasn't a pre-meditatedthing. l was driving tolake
llacidat 2amanda coppulledme over andsaid, We give tickets aroundhere
lor going 62miles anhour. l thought, l can't drive 55, man- oh, that's good
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askedby the cops todoa public service message tostop'em, andl said, luck
you Change it, man lventually they did.
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bysomeone else?
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rockcliches that we've all used. like a song l
wrote, Di.k In 1o: Dirt [lrom1984's \OA], it's
sostupidit's really clever -not just anybody
canget that many cliches inone song
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onabout VanHalen?
That lddie's a lucking nut Dave won't agree
about it nowbecause he's trying tobuddy up
withlddie, but as soonas he's thrownout
againhe'll be backwithme going, That
lucking guy is out ol his lucking mind
Dave is a real character, one ol those true
rockstars. He's as nutty as lddie, but he's
consistent - consistently anasshole
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Sex, absolutely. Coming. lut l canonly get a
couple out inone sitting nowadays. Andthe
next best leeling -honestly, l really domean
it -is the leeling ol unconditional love. My
little girl, she's eight now, but whenl sawher
being bornl was at anage where l was no
longer just thinking about mysell. Youhold
that baby, cut the umbilical cord, andyougo,
l will doanything lor this child. Whenyou
release all sellishness, that's a pretty special
leeling, aninteresting high. You're sohappy,
youcry.
What canSammyHagar dothat nobody
else can?
Start his owntequila company cnJ sing at
the same time
What vill be your epitaph?
l wouldlike tobe rememberedas someone
whomade people leel goodandbrought
love andjoy intothis world.
What is the meaningof life?
What l loundinlile is that once you've acquiredall those things youwere alter
as a young boy -being richandlamous, having all the girls andthe cars and
the houses -youdon't really knowwhat youwant anymore. Youreally have to
dig down. Youeither turntodrugs andbecome a maniac, or youstart looking
lor what really makes youhappy. lt canbe the simplest thing. growing
tomatoes, walking ona beach, whatever. Youlindthe things that make you
happy, andyoustopdoing the things that make youmiserable. lt's that simple.
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