Just recently, The Shelter Room Recordings gathered together friends to record a special lockdown tribute video for BLACK SABBATH‘s “Hole in the Sky”. Watch it below.
The Shelter Room Recordings stated: “Music is about sharing and interaction between people. With what is happening in the world lately we were not able to do this the way we are used to. Therefore I thought it would be nice to gather some friends from VENOM INC. – BALLETTO DI BRONZO – BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO – MONUMENTUM – HELL OBELISCO – SPIRITUAL FRONT to do something fun during this particular time.
As a result here in THE SHELTER ROOM RECORDINGS we came up with a tribute song “Hole in the Sky” from one of our all time favorite band Black Sabbath. JACK CONTROL from ENORMOUS DOOR MASTERING kindly helped us to elevate the song to an higher level with a beautiful masterig. I would like to thank @tonydolan @riccardospilli @filippomarcheggiani @andreazanetti @simonesalvatori and everyone involved in this fun project. Big kudos to CLAUDIO JANUARIO for editing the video. I’d also like to thank my friends from CUSTOM 77 for the beautiful Watcher T-Sonic Guitar.”
Video line-up:
Tony Dolan – Bass
Andrea Zanetti – Vocals
Riccardo Spilli – Drums
Francesco Conte – Guitars
Filippo Marcheggiani – Guitar Solo
Simone Salvatori – Backing Vocals
Credits:
Mixed by Francesco Conte at The Shelter Room Recordings
Mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door Mastering
Video edited by Claudio Januario at CJ’s L+R Studio
VESSEL OF LIGHT are currently working on their new full-length album. Furthermore the band has released a cover video for BLACK SABBATH‘s ‘Wasp’, watch it below.
VESSEL OF LIGHT’s Dan Lorenzo on the video and on the new album in the works:
“I’ve written the music to 15 new songs for the 4th VESSEL OF LIGHT album and recorded my guitar parts to 11 of them. Starting with Woodshed and since then, I’ve records all my guitars first as opposed to the old days when everything started with the drums and a rhythm guitar scratch track. Ron Lipnicki has already tracked drums to six songs and Nathan is well on his way to writing/recording his melody and lyrics. Jimmy Schulman will record bass in June and we should have the whole thing finished by the Fall. We are speaking with three labels about releasing our 4th album on vinyl and CD.
Until then I wanted to release something now and so I had Jason Stewart put together a video for our Black Sabbath cover of Wasp which is not available elsewhere. Jason also edited a cool 3 camera shoot of our last show in early March, back in the days we were allowed to have fun. He also made a great interview with Nathan and soon will finish a long interview with me, guitar in hand discussing my riffs in Hades, Non-Fiction, The Cursed ( my project with Bobby Blitz) and of course Vessel of Light. All of the above can be found on my YouTube page.
Until we release our first single from our next album we hope you enjoy this video of the classic song Wasp from the first Black Sabbath album.”
Concerning the upcoming shows, Dan adds “Thanks to the CCP it looks like we’re not going to be allowed to play the shows we had scheduled in June.”
Vessel Of Light line-up:
Dan Lorenzo ( founding member of Hades and NON-FICTION)
Nathan Opposition (Ancient VVisdom)
Ron Lipnicki ( former Hades and Overkill)
Jimmy Schulman ( former Hades)
Recently, Finnish singer/bassist Marko Hietala released his solo album “Pyre Of The Black Heart” via Nuclear Blast. By now, the album has entered the charts and reached #48 in Germany, #25 in Switzerland and #10/#2(physical) in Finland and today, the band release a live video for their cover version of BLACK SABBATH’s ‘War Pigs’, that was recently recorded in Prague.
Watch the video here:
“Here’s a nice little live video from Roxy, Prague. We’re doing SABs’ ‘War Pigs’ because it’s a true classic and, frankly, both these right & left wingers everywhere should examine their bull vs. history and learn. Liars are transparent. The vibe with the band & audience was and will be just great!!! Thank you and see you at the shows!!!”, comments Marko Hietala
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice spoke to former if Rainbow, MSG, Alcatrazz singer Graham Bonnet in Montreal Quebec Canada on the Michael Schenker Fest Tour on March 12 2018.
Graham Bonnet spoke about his Audition with Black Sabbath in the 1980’s, his upcoming US tour with the Graham Bonnet band playing ‘No Parole From Rock and Roll’ in it’s entirety and news, timeline and details on upcoming Album by the band
Watch the interview here:
When asked about the details and timeline of the follow-up Album to the Graham Bonnet Band’s The Book
“I finished my part on the new album everything is finished vocally. Now when I go back, we go in the mixing stage but at the moment Beth-Ami Heavenstone is putting down the bass parts. We got the bass to put down a little bit of keyboards. It sounds pretty good I am very pleased. If anybody liked the previous album the Book , they are going to like this too, it has got the same kind of material, same kind of sound and it’s got a little of that Alcatrazz, MSG, Rainbow sound. It will be released in a few of months I think, it will be out this year.”
When asked about the Graham Bonnet Band playing the complete Alcatrazz ‘No Parole from Rock and Roll Album’ in it’s entirety for the 35 year anniversary on their upcoming US tour
“It will be all the material that I made up 35 years ago, we will play all the Alcatrazz tracks off that album along with the Graham Bonnet Band songs. There is a new audience for Alcatrazz it seems like a younger audience, I wish they had been turned on to it back then when we needed a bit more publicity back then. It’s amazing to see kids of 18 years old coming up to me and singing the lyrics.”
When asked about how he turned down an audition to sing for Black Sabbath in the 1980’s
” I can’t actually remember the actual year it was 1980 something. I had a call from one of the guys from Black Sabbath I can’t remember who asked me if i was interested in auditioning cause I just left Rainbow and it was something I wasn’t really sure of. I wasn’t sure of the music, I wasn’t sure if I really fit with my short hair. I wanted to do something different on my own not to be in another band as another singer in a revolving door, so I turned it down.”
USA – GRAHAM BONNET BAND PERFORMS ‘ALCATRAZZ – NO PAROLE FROM ROCK N ROLL’ TOUR
SEPTEMBER
28TH VIPER ROOM – WEST HOLLYWOOD , CA
29TH MALONES – SANTA ANA , CA
OCTOBER
3RD EL CORAZON – SEATTLE, WA
5TH DIVE BAR – LAS VEGAS, NV
6TH BRICK BY BRICK – SAN DIEGO , CA
7TH THE HUB – COLTON , CA
OCT 11 THE CABOOZE – MINNEAPOLIS , MN
OCT 12 BIGS BAR – SIOUX FALLS , SD
OCT 13 THE RED HERRING LOUNGE – DULUTH , MN
OCT 14 RED CARPET – ST CLOUD , MN
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to legendary OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW, GARY MOORE and URIAH HEEP bassist and songwriter BOB DAISLEY.
In the interview Bob Daisley spoke about his time in Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio and goes in depth in regards to the writing and recording sessions on the classic Ozzy Osbourne albums, Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman, Bark at the Moon, The Ultimate Sin and No Rest for the Wicked. As well Daisley talks about the court challenges he and drummer Lee Kerslake pursued over the years against Don Arden of Jet Records over unpaid royalties.
Watch the interview here:
When asked about his dismissal from Rainbow during the Ronnie James Dio years (5:29)
“In 1978 Ritchie Blackmore decided that he wanted to go a little more commercial he wanted to have hit records, chart success, so he got a new line up. Ritchie did have the chart success that he wanted with his new singer Graham Bonnet but I think it was at the expense of a certain amount of respect because Rainbow became sort of poppy and commercial. You can’t knock the success but I don’t think it was the best versions of Rainbow. The classic lineup what other people say is the lineup with Ronnie James Dio, Blackmore, Cozy Powell and David Stone and myself.”
On his first rehearsal with Ozzy (9:47)
“I took the train to Stafford England, I got to Ozzy’s house and he had a couple of other guys there a drummer and a guitarist and I don’t know who they were, nice blokes but I wasn’t sort of knocked out by them, no real spark there, it was just ok no real chemistry. So I went to the kitchen with Ozzy and I said look if you want to be serious about this I would like to form a band with you but I don’t think these two other guys are world class players. Ozzy said ok one minute, Ozzy walked back into the rehearsal room and he told those two, pack up fellas it’s not going to work out and they were gone, on the spot.”
When asked about his original contract stipulations with Jet Records and how he was fired from Ozzy’s band (13:41)
“An average deal in those days was around 12% of retail so we were suppose to have 12% for the whole band and because Ozzy had just come out of Black Sabbath and he was already signed to Jet Records as their artist we decided that we thought it was fair that Ozzy gets 6% for himself. The other 6% was suppose to be split between guitarist Randy Rhoads, drummer Lee Kerslake and myself we were suppose to get 2% each. And that would change as we went further down the line as it became more of a band. Also It was a band it wasn’t a solo project, it was a band called The Blizzard of Ozz. We didn’t actually sign the contract because things were getting changed all the time, we had our law firm and they had their law firm and lots of back and forth.”
“The two albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman were done about 10 or 11 months of each other including a UK tour in between. We wrote the songs then we recorded the album. The first album was recorded and out before the contract was signed. Then when it came to write the second album Diary of a Madman we said hang on a minute we haven’t got the money from the first album yet. Don Arden the manager at the time said on the phone to us don’t worry carry on the work and it will be all sorted out you will have your contract and money so we believed him and we carried on working. Then we recorded Diary of a Madman and Lee Kerslake and I got fired. Ozzy wanted Tommy Aldridge in the band and Tommy was a friend of Sharon Arden’s as well. During the UK tour they kept pulling me a side saying let’s get rid of Lee let’s get Tommy and I just didn’t think it was the right move, they asked me several times and I said no all the time, so eventually they got rid of me and Lee.”
When asked about Ozzy Osbourne’s musical contributions to Blizzard of Ozz (19:50)
“Randy Rhoads had riffs and ideas. Randy and I would sit on a chair next to each other and work things out together musically most of the main riffs were Randy’s but the music part we did together. We would play a backing track and Ozzy would sing a melody over it and a lot of these melodies were very good. Ozzy had never written lyrics, Randy wasn’t a lyricist and neither was Lee so I did the lyrics. I just wrote lyrics that would fit with Ozzy’s phrasing and his melodies.”
When asked about the court case against Jet Records and Don Arden (45:00)
“We had gone to court against Jet Records and Don Arden, we didn’t get credited on Diary of a Madman they put bassist Rudy Sarzo and drummer Tommy Aldridge and credited them on playing on Diary of a Madman when they hadn’t played a note or beat on it. We got our songwriting credits but we didn’t get our co-production credits and we didn’t get our performance credit royalties. We were going to court against Jet Records. Ozzy and Sharon Arden were helping us because she had a big fallout with her father but we didn’t know at the time was Sharon had bought the rights to Ozzy’s catalogue from her father Don Arden in 1983 and they were getting the royalties. We went to court in 1986 and Don Arden and Jet records paid us an amount but in 1986 those albums weren’t multi platinum they done a million and a bit each, we thought we would continue to get royalties but we didn’t because there wasn’t an actual judgment against Don Arden or Jet Records because he waved a white flag and made an offer and the lawyers advised us to take it.”
When asked if he would keep pursing the court cases against the Osbourne’s camp over unpaid royalties after his latest lose (54:05)
“Oh no.”
When asked how much money he believes he was owed in unpaid royalties today (54:18)
“The Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman have probably sold 4 or 5 million each and the record royalties from performance that’s got to be in the millions that we didn’t get paid.”
When asked if the Osbourne’s called him up today to participate once again on another album would he consider participating? (54:49)
“Well I never say never. I don’t burn bridges, I don’t hate people. If there was a way to do it where we could work something out in a sort of nice way I wouldn’t say its completely out of the question, it’s a possibility I suppose depending on the circumstances on how they sell and offer it.”
When asked about his thoughts about the Ronnie James Dio Hologram Tour (54:43)
“I wouldn’t see something like that I think its a little distasteful but that is just my opinion.”
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former BLACK SABBATH, DIO Drummer VINNY APPICE who on October 27 will be releasing the album with his brother Carmine Appice entitled Appice ‘Sinister’.
Watch the interview here:
Vinny Appice spoke about how he joined Black Sabbath the recording of The Mob Rules album, the Live Evil controversy and how he and Ronnie James Dio left, recording Holy Diver, the last in Line, Dream Evil with Dio and his time playing with John Lennon.
When asked about when he was asked to possible join Ozzy Osbourne’s band during the Blizzard of Oz period (10:16)
“Right before Sabbath a couple of months before I got a call from Sharon Osbourne and she was just starting to manage Ozzy and Ozzy wasn’t doing anything except partying.
Sharon asked me if I wanted to go to England, I guess they heard my drumming somewhere and go meet Ozzy. hang out and see how it goes and possibly join the band. But I was like 20 years old. So I asked my brother (Carmine) I knew Ozzy was not the average guy, but Ozzy didn’t have a solo career yet he was the singer they fired from Sabbath. Carmine said that the last time he saw Ozzy was at the Rainbow and Ozzy was eating spaghetti and Carmine turned around to talk to somebody and then he turned back to Ozzy and there was Ozzy sleeping in the spaghetti bowl. Who knows what would have happened if I joined? I always think I might have been on that plane that crashed with Randy Rhodes if I joined Ozzy. Who knows cause I knew Randy before we were friends.”
When asked about the controversy surrounding the departure of Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice during the producing of the Black Sabbath Live album Live Evil (16:20)
“I think the engineer (of Live Evil) liked to party at that time I just remember that me and Ronnie would show up around 2pm that was the call and the rest of the band didn’t show up till later on. I didn’t understand why, I loved the band I loved everybody in the band. Then it came out in the press that Ronnie and I went early into the studio to turn up the drums and vocals, why would we do that?”
When asked his opinion of guitarist Vivian Campbell being fired from Dio (24:40)
“Vivian is a monster guitar player. There were some business problems within the band we were promised to be sharing and things we gave it up for the first album and tour cause it costs a lot of money to launch a band and Ronnie was putting in his money. Then it never happened we were doing tours and arenas back then one of the tours grossed 8 million dollars but we got nothing out of it, just salaries. What was promised never happened and Vivian really called management out on it. So that really became bad blood with Ronnie but we all felt the same way. Ronnie and Vivian did not see eye to eye and then Ronnie said to me I am going to fire Vivian, I’m like WHAT? I was just in shock. I kind of mentioned that was not a great idea cause of the sound of the band. Ronnie decided he could go on without him. When ever you got something that works in a band, magical with the people in it you don’t do that. ”
When asked about him playing on Lennon’s last live performance ever (52:00)
“Our producer friend Jimmy Lovine he loved our band at the time BOMF and wanted to produce us brought us into the studio in New York Mahatten to record some demos the owner heard our band and singed us to a management deal . One night Jimmy called us up and asked if we could come to the studio to do hand claps, we said sure, we go downstairs and their is John Lennon in the room . We ended up doing hand claps for the song ‘Whatever gets you the the Night’. Couple days later Lennon came to our rehearsal room to check us out. We smoked a couple of joints with John, it was very cool. John would come back and hang out with us a lot. He felt safe with us. He asked us to do three videos with him. then we asked us to do a live performance with him at a TV show on ABC. then about three years ago i see a magazine that says big page with that picture in it I am right next to John and it mentions me and Lennon and it says this was John’s last performeance, I’m flattered WOW. I played on John Lennon’s last performance ever.”
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