BIG NOIZE, the band featuring Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL) on drums, Phil Soussan (OZZY OSBOURNE, BILLY IDOL, VINCE NEIL) on bass, George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB) on guitar and Sebastian Bach (SKID ROW) on vocals, kicked off its South American tour this past Tuesday, July 9 at Teatro Caupolicán in Santiago, Chile.
The band’s setlist was as follows:
01. The Mob Rules (BLACK SABBATH cover)
02. I Don’t Know (OZZY OSBOURNE cover)
03. Kicking & Screaming (SEBASTIAN BACH cover)
04. Into The Fire (DOKKEN cover)
05. Bible Black (HEAVEN & HELL cover)
06. Crazy Train (OZZY OSBOURNE cover)
07. Killer Of Giants (OZZY OSBOURNE cover)
08. 18 And Life (SKID ROW cover)
09. The Hunter (DOKKEN cover)
10. Shot In The Dark (OZZY OSBOURNE cover)
11. Mr. Scary (DOKKEN cover)
12. In A Darkened Room (SKID ROW cover)
13. Heaven And Hell (BLACK SABBATH cover)
14. Alone Again (DOKKEN cover)
15. I Remember You (SKID ROW cover)
Encore:
16. Youth Gone Wild (SKID ROW cover)
Fan-filmed video footage can be seen below.
Bach previously performed with BIG NOIZE on July 14, 2012 at the Kavarna Rock festival at Kaliakra Stadium in Kavarna, Bulgaria. Bach was filling in for regular BIG NOIZE singer Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), who was apparently unable to make the gig. Playing guitar at the show was former QUIET RIOT and current RATT guitarist Carlos Cavazo.
Formed in 2007, BIG NOIZE performs classic-rock hits, has played a select number of dates over the years, including the M3 Rock Festival, domestic dates, dates as far as Europe, Spain, Brazil and even a special trip to Kuwait and Iraq, to entertain the brave men and women of our military forces.
While some classic rock musicians have formed successful “all-star” bands, what is unique about BIG NOIZE is its heritage and concept. All members have a related and connected past. The artists they are associated with have featured many of the same musicians and shared the same fans: OZZY OSBOURNE, DIO, BLACK SABBATH, QUIET RIOT, RAINBOW and DEEP PURPLE. A BIG NOIZE concert is a tribute to the bands that the members were integral parts of and a reunion for their extensive and loyal fan base. The setlist is a powerhouse of anthems that topped rock and pop charts in the ’70s and ’80s and reads like a classic radio playlist.
NOTE: Due to the fact that the “Rockline” web site was linking to the official homepage of the Geoff Tate-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE when announcing QUEENSRŸCHE‘s appearance on the show, a previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Tate‘s band was being interviewed on the program.
The Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE will guest on the nationally syndicated radio show “Rockline” with host Bob Coburn on Wednesday, July 24 at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET. Fans are encouraged to speak with QUEENSRŸCHE by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625). The show will be streamed on the “Rockline” web site for two weeks beginning the afternoon after the live broadcast.
“Fallout”, the first official video from the Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE, can be seen below. The clip was filmed in Gelsenkirchen, Germany this past May during the annual Rock Hard Festival and features footage from the band’s set and some behind-the-scenes shots. The song comes off the group’s self-titled new album, which sold around 13,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 23 on The Billboard 200 chart. The record arrived in stores on June 25 via Century Media Records.
“Frequency Unknown”, the latest album from the Geoff Tate-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE, opened with around 5,500 units to debut at No. 82.
QUEENSRŸCHE‘s 2011 studio CD, “Dedicated To Chaos”, registered a first-week tally of around 8,000 to enter the chart at No. 70. The band’s 2009 effort, the epic concept album “American Soldier”, premiered with 21,000 copies to debut at No. 25. This was roughly half the first-week tally registered by QUEENSRŸCHE‘s “Operation: Mindcrime II” album, which shifted 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release back in April 2006 to land at No. 14 on The Billboard 200 chart.
QUEENSRŸCHE‘s 2003 effort, “Tribe”, sold 20,000 copies in the first week while 1999’s “Q2K” opened with sales of 28,000.
QUEENSRŸCHE‘s top-selling album by far is 1990’s “Empire”, which was certified triple-platinum in October 1994 for sales in excess of three million copies in the United States. The original “Operation: Mindcrime” release (1988) attained platinum status in August 1991, while 1994’s “Promised Land” reached the same plateau in December 1994.
“Queensrÿche” marks the debut release from the lineup comprised of La Torre (vocals; ex-CRIMSON GLORY), Michael Wilton (guitar), Parker Lundgren (guitar), Eddie Jackson (bass) and Scott Rockenfield (drums). The drums for the album were recorded at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Washington with producer James “Jimbo” Barton — the man who engineered and mixed the band’s classic 1988 LP, “Operation: Mindcrime”, and its 1990 follow-up, “Empire”, and co-produced 1994’s “Promised Land”. The rest of the music and vocals were laid down at several different facilities on the West Coast. The cover artwork was created by Craig Howell, who has previously worked on designs for “Star Wars”, SLIPKNOT and “American Idol”, to name a few.
In a recent interview with Jason MacNeil of ShawConnect, ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell spoke about the pressure of following up 2009’s “Black Gives Way To Blue”, which was the group’s first all-new collection of material in 14 years.
“I think we probably felt better, more at ease in some ways,” the guitarist said. “You have the opportunity every time you make one to completely fucking destroy your reputation and fucking lay a turd. But it couldn’t have gone any better. We had a successful tour, people dug it, it performed well in a dwindling economy and also a dwindling music business. So we kind of reestablished the band, brought in a new member, did a lot of stuff and it worked out. Now we don’t have to worry about that so now where do we go?”
Cantrell also talked about the songwriting process for “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”, which is ALICE IN CHAINS‘ second album with William DuVall on vocals.
“[The songs] get torn apart, they get performed, maybe it doesn’t come across because the guitar doesn’t sound right or the drums don’t sound right,” he said. “And you got to get in there and fight through all of that shit. What you come up with in the end is what you have in your hand right now and that’s because everybody went through the process and we worked as a team. That means it made it through all the filters where it could have got cut off.
“There’s a period spent however long collecting ideas, right?” Cantrell said. “Then at some point you start to tinker around with ideas and you get motivated to create new stuff. Whenever that happens I just try to keep myself open to the fact and not to push it until it does. So once that process begins you’re in it until the end no matter what it takes to get that done and make the best record that you can.”
Nick Raskulinecz, who helmed “Black Gives Way To Blue”, assumed production duties once again for “Dinosaurs”, a move which Cantrell says was vital in ensuring the band’s satisfaction with the final product.
“Obviously he did a good job and we felt really comfortable having him in the mix,” Cantrell said. “You know he’s great, he’s a fan of music, he cares, he gets it. He’s willing to put his ego aside to make the best record for the band. I think that’s a really strong and positive attribute to a producer who’s not bigger than the project. He’s someone you can trust too and we had to trust to be able to take our hands off the wheel occasionally and let him drive it.”
Now celebrating the 25th anniversary of their landmark “Slowly We Rot” full-length debut, Tampa death metal icons OBITUARY have been perpetually busy finding new methods way to bring fans closer to their audio carnage through worldwide concert streams and all-access backstage giveaways.
Most recently, the band offered up a pay-per-view, professionally shot live stream of their homecoming performance at The Orpheum which featured a pummeling all classics setlist from their first three platters of brutality: 1989’s “Slowly We Rot” 1990’s “Cause Of Death” and 1992’s “The End Complete”.
This week the band continues to spread their timeless audio devastation with an on-demand, regionally based, virtual tour and live chat with fans. The pay-per-view live stream from the aforementioned Florida show will be presented in full HD quality from multiple camera angles to specific regions and OBITUARY will be in live chat mode for the duration of each show. The show will remain on demand to fans who initially purchase the stream to watch as many times as they wish.
Said the band in a collective statement: “We couldn’t be more excited about watching this stream with our fans! We have performed this classic set list on every corner of the planet, so for us to have the chance to watch it live and chat about it with the fans we’ve been playing for all these years is amazing. We are celebrating 25 years since the release of ‘Slowly We Rot’ and we want you to party with us!”
See regions, dates, times (specific to that territory) and links below.
Germany: July 11 at 7 p.m. Bangkok: July 12 at 9 p.m. – Sydney: July 18 at 9 p.m. – Phoenix: July 19 at 8 p.m. –
OBITUARY 2013 is:
John Tardy – Vocals Trevor Peres – Guitar Donald Tardy – Drums Terry Butler – Bass Kenny Andrews – Guitar
OBITUARY is currently writing and recording material for a new studio album, tentatively due in early 2014 via an as-yet-undetermined record label.
Guitarist Ralph Santolla, who joined OBITUARY in 2007 as the replacement for Allen West, has not played any shows with the group since 2011.
OBITUARY‘s next album will be the follow-up to the “Darkest Day” full-length CD, released in 2009 via Candlelight Records.
“Darkest Day” landed at position No. 32 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA have completed recording their new album for a tentative October release via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was tracked over a 40-day period at producer Ross Robinson‘s (KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, SLIPKNOT) studio in Venice, California and will be mixed and mastered by co-producer Steve Evetts, who previously worked with SEPULTURA on the “Nation” (2001), “Revolusongs” (2002) and “Roorback” (2003) albums, in addition to having collaborated with Ross on a number of other projects in the past.
The follow-up to 2011’s “Kairos” will contain nine songs, including “The Age Of The Atheist”, “Tsunami”, “The Vatican” and “Trauma Of War”, and two bonus tracks (covers of DEATH‘s “Zombie Ritual” and a track from the Brazilian group CHICO SCIENCE E NAÇÃO ZUMBI). The CD will also feature a guest appearance by former SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo.
SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser recently stated about the upcoming CD: “I think this album is one of the heaviest albums we ever did. We want to bring the SEPULTURA live attitude to the studio and with Ross we achieved that more than any other album, it sounds very alive, the performances are at their best. But we have one specific song that is more dramatic, clean but heavy and dark. The song is called ‘Grief’, which had the nickname ‘Balada’. It is a song that starts with clean guitars in a way that we never attempted before, I think it was our biggest challenge on this album, regarding all the instruments and it came out amazing.”
Regarding the contributions of SEPULTURA‘s new drummer, Eloy Casagrande, to the new album recording sessions, Kisser said: “Eloy is one of the great drummers of the world. It’s amazing to see him playing with such energy and power. He brought a new level of energy and possibilities to our music. I wrote crazy riffs on the guitar that was no problem for him to work something even crazier on drums. Heavy parts with lots of double bass and fast drum fills. We wrote one of the best SEPULTURA albums together. You all will hear this monster behind the drumsticks. He killed on the recording sessions and it will be awesome to perform these songs live on stage.”
SEPULTURA‘s upcoming CD will mark the first time the band will have recorded an album outside Brazil since “Against”.
The reunion between SEPULTURA and Robinson was first suggested by Monte Conner, the former Roadrunner Records A&R chief who is now the head of Nuclear Blast Entertainment, a U.S. partnership with Nuclear Blast owner Markus Staiger.
Robinson produced SEPULTURA‘s classic “Roots” album in 1995. Released in February 1996 by Roadrunner, it was the band’s last studio album to feature founding member and vocalist Max Cavalera.
“Roots” sold more than 2 million copies worldwide and was certified gold in the United States by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) for sales in excess of 500,000 units.
SEPULTURA has spent most of the past two years on tour in support of its 12th studio album, and Nuclear Blast Records debut, “Kairos”, which hit stores in July 2011.
I hadn’t seen the legendary guitarist Joe Satriani since his ‘hair’ days in 1992 at the NEC in Birmingham. So when I was given the opportunity to review his show on the “Unstoppable Momentum” tour, I jumped at the chance. Joe has recently released his fourteenth studio album, “Unstoppable Momentum” via Epic Records/Sony Music UK and I have to admit that I had a very limited knowledge of it, not having heard his work in a while.
The City Hall in Sheffield is a fantastic venue for a show, especially since being refurbished and re-developed in 2005. The shows take place in the magnificent Oval Concert Hall which seats over 2000 people. Tonight the venue was pretty much full except for some spaces on the top balcony. There was a mix of ages, leaning more towards who I considered to be the older longstanding fans of Joe.
Support came in the shape of British guitarist and vocalist Matt Schofield, the band completed by Jonny Henderson and Kevin Hayes on Hammond organ/bass guitar and drums.
He introduced his band as “The Matt Schofield Trio” and they played several blues based songs. They were enjoyable, but after the first few, sounded a little ‘samey’ to my ears. Matt has a deep, soulful voice, most suited to his style of (Gary Moore influenced?) playing. He announced that they were playing songs from their current Live CD.
The third song, “Where Do I Have To Stand?” had a definite jazz vibe to it, I would describe the music as a rock/blues/jazz/ vibe fusion.
Plenty of people were watching which is not always the case for a support act, a few people were in and out of the hall, but on the whole the audience seemed to enjoy the band and their half hour long set, there were lots of nodding heads around me and cheers at the end.
After the short interval it was time for the guitar master Joe Satriani to appear. The show started with drummer Marco Minnemann showing us a mean drum solo, getting the crowd going, then he was soon joined by bass player Bryan Beller and keyboardist Mike Keneally. Joe entered the stage to loud applause, of course wearing his trademark dark shades (which stayed in place the whole time) and looking very relaxed in black jeans and T-shirt complete with contrasting bright flame orange Ibanez, which was played for the first of several times by Joe’s teeth.
Straight into ‘Cool #9’ with a flashing target backdrop in the background, the first of many more images to come through the show! The band were very relaxed and all three guitarists often came together in the centre of the stage. Then we were treated to ‘Flying In A Blue Dream,’ along with some stunning imagery of running water on the screen. Before the next song, Joe changed to his white guitar and as we had not heard any speech from him yet, an audience member shouted out “Talk Joe!” This was greeted by laughs and Joe said ‘what a beautiful place it is here and we have lots to play tonight.”
‘Unstoppable Momentum’ was next, a great song which began with Mike playing keyboards before changing back to his guitar and taking centre stage with Joe. There were smiles from each member of the band, it was obvious to see how much they were enjoying performing. Marco’s drums sounded brilliant, very solid, as did the whole sound, made even better with the excellent acoustics in the City Hall.
The energy of the songs was a very sharp contrast to the fact that the whole audience was seated. Personally, I do not attend many shows with seating, especially for a rock gig, and it just doesn’t feel right to me, as you want to move around. We must have looked strangely static to the band on stage, just a sea of nodding heads!
Of course there were plenty of guitar solos throughout the night, the sounds Joe produced from his guitar were amazing, he made it look totally effortless. Joe changed guitars again, an eye catching red and blue this time, for ‘The Crush Of Love’, where he invited us to “take a trip down memory lane.”
Song after song through the two hour set was a feast for the eyes and ears – atmospheric lighting, brilliant effects on the screen, the unity of the band and of course Joe’s style; the amazing dexterity and speed of his fingers, making his guitar sing.
Joe stopped to tell us his ‘crazy story’ before the classic ‘Satch Boogie.’ It was from 1997 when he played this venue. After the song, the band all left the stage and it went completely dark. They waited for the crowd reaction and there was nothing, just complete silence, so they just shuffled back onto the stage. Joe remembered; “so that didn’t work! (laughing) Now when anything goes wrong anywhere in the world, we call it the ‘Sheffield Shuffle.’”
Another classic stand out track for me was ‘Shine On American Dreamer,’ which Joe introduced by asking us to “imagine being in a Cadillac driving through the USA desert,” which of course was on the screen too.
Joe thanked the crowd for “letting us play all this music” and was clearly enjoying himself immensely. Then he announced it was three of the crew members birthdays (Trent, Russ and Jack) and the band played ‘Happy Birthday’ to them and the audience sang. Joe announced “Those are the guys who do all the hard work, we just gotta play!”
‘Surfing With The Alien’ was another highlight of the show for me, what a song and great to see it performed live again! That was the last song and the crowd were on their feet (at last!) cheering the band’s brilliant performance.
Joe and the band played three encores and most of the crowd stayed on their feet until the end, it was great to see everyone come to life and show their appreciation for such a brilliant performance.
Set List
Drum solo
Cool #9
Devil’s Slide
Flying In A Blue Dream
Unstoppable Momentum
The Weight Of The World
Ice 9
The Crush Of Love
I’ll Put A Stone On Your Cairn
A Door Into Summer
Lies And Truths
Satch Boogie
Shine On American Dreamer
Three Sheets To The Wind
Cryin’
Jumpin’ In
Jumpin’ Out
A Celebration
Always With Me, Always With You
Surfing With The Alien
Crowd Chant
Summer Song
Rubina
JOE SATRIANI 15/06/13 Photo Credit: Damian Twigg
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