Former Anthrax singer Neil Turbin joins Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice to review the new documentary by TWISTED SISTER called “We Are Twisted F***ing Sister”.
Neil Turbin Talks about the Tri-State era and the times he saw Twisted Sister perform.
“I got to see them a fee times and also I had the opportunity to play with A.J. Pero so that was a thrill for me. I met some of the guys in Twisted Sister. I really enjoyed the movie I thought it was really well done loved the stories.Twisted sister is just an iconic band from New York. Seeing that band in the New York scene was a huge inspiration.”
Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon of Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet about the current AC/DC situation in regards to the rumors of Brian Johnson potentially retiring from the band and who would make a vocalist good fill in on the remaining rescheduled tour dates.
Sweet told The Metal Voice,”First of all, you can’t replace Brian Johnson they have been at it so long they are so classic, they are legendary. I see it as why would you even want to do that? But at the same time, if the other guys want to continue on, they have lives they have a career, why shouldn’t they be allowed to do so. I don’t think you can replace Brian Johnson because but let’s just say Brian can’t tour and the guys decide to replace him and he is in agreement with it and it works out . So the question is at that point in time who? I think there are only a few guys who can pull it off. The guy from Krokus (Marc Storace) yeah no doubt about it, he’s got that vibe, he’s got that tone and he’s got that persona when you see him perform on stage he can fit in right there with AC/DC. The other guy that I think is brilliant, I was floored when I saw him live at Eddie Trunk’s event, I performed with him, the singer for Accept (Mark Tornillo), he is phenomenal he would tear up the AC/DC stuff.”
Lead singer and guitarist Michael Sweet of STRYPER recently joined Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon on Canada’s The Metal Voiceto review the new album by Avantasia entitled Ghostlights and to give a first impression on the new live DVD/CD/Blu Ray by Judas Priest called Battle Cry
On Michael Sweet’s review on the new Avantasia album Ghostlights
“My first impressions, there are good and bad. The good being there is no denying the talent that is involved in that makes up the band, everybody, the musicianship levels are high, the vocals levels are high. Everything is obviously top notch in that regard . What didn’t do it for me, I guess as a producer, I wasn’t 100% floored by the production. As I kept listening to it, I kept thinking gosh I would have loved to produced this, just to see what it would have sounded like. My first impression it almost sounds like a modern day Meatloaf, that rock opera Jim Steinman, very complicated songs, parts and structures. I just felt like the production was lacking a little bit. I wanted to hear a little more punch, a little more crispness, it just sounded flat in that regard. ”
On Sweet’s first impression on Judas Priest’s new live album/dvd
“My first impression was how great the band sounds, how great the guitar tones sound, the drum tones. Rob being who he is and how old he is, what he has done. I’m thinking gosh this guy sounds amazing, he sounds incredible and I just love Priest. There is an energy, the minute you hear them start playing there is this energy they have that not very many bands have. So I love it, I love Priest. For a live album for what it is it’s awesome.”
All Day and All Night Long is a documentary tour diary on Graham Bonnet(former lead Singer of Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group and Alcatrazz) and his newly assembled Graham Bonnet Band, it follows the band in the studio, at rehearsals and on their first proper tour of the U.K.
A multi-part diary covering the band’s experiences as the tour progresses and unfolds. The documentary tour diary is produced by filmmaker Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice and manager Giles Lavery of The Graham Bonnet Band.
Part 4 concludes the multi- part documentary you can watch the whole documentary below:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part Four finds the band in a few Spinal Tap moments; the band’s van trapped in mud at the side of the highway halfway to Newcastle and stuck in an elevator at Sheffield 02 Academy.
In Manchester, Graham Bonnet apologizes on stage for exposing himself on stage when fronting the M.S.G. band in 1982 which got him fired. “I just wasn’t very respectful of the audience or my penis”. The documentary also includes an interview with an audience member who was an eye witness of the whole M.S.G. incident back in 1982.
On their final tour date in London, Bonnet meets up with long time collaborator and English Singer Songwriter Russ Ballard (Rainbow, Kiss, Roger, Daltrey Ace Frehley etc..)
The lineup and camera crew includes Graham Bonnet, guitarist extraordinaire Conrado Pesinato, bassist Beth-Ami Heavenstone and former FATES WARNING, WARLORD drummer Mark Zonder, and Manager Giles Lavery
GRAHAM BONNET BAND’s new album, which will be made available later in the year via Frontiers Music Srl, will also include a bonus disc of brand new recordings of classic songs from the Graham Bonnet repertoire.
Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former Iron Maiden Vocalist Blaze Bayley about his new, first of three albums (concept trilogy) and his upcoming tour.
When asked about the story behind the new concept album ‘Infinite Entanglement’
“I think this is a really big story, so I started thinking about it like Dune and Lord of the Rings and if I was going to do something like that then it will be done in three albums. This is album is part one of a trilogy. And the story is told across three albums.”
“To keep it very simple it’s about a man who does not know if he is human, It’s set 100 years in the future and he is on a spaceship and it’s how he deals with the fact that he will be one of the first people ever to live for 1000 years because of the advances in technology. And the question, is he human or not? And the story expands from there. Everything is not what it seems and he has been chosen for the mission. It’s a mystery, horror set in space and this is part 1.”
One his thoughts about writing a concept album
“I really wanted to do something like War of the Worlds style and Operation Mindcrime. I wanted it so as a listener you can enjoy each song without knowing the story but if you want to look at the sleeve notes, if you wanted to get deeper into it, you can see the connection. I would like something that I can listen to 100 times. I want to create that Holy Diver, the Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, the Iron Maiden The Number of the beast, I want to create one of those classics and each time I create an album that’s what I want to do.”
On his release date for the second and third albums
“We have half of the of album for two written and we have some of the music and one of the songs for number three. As we go along on tour and I am writing the rest of the story, then we will come up with the rest of the songs.”
On his plans to release this story in a book format
“I’m planning a book, its will be with album three, the book will come out but it will be a limited edition just for the fans.”
“All Day and All Night Long” is a documentary tour diary on Graham Bonnet (former lead Singer of Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group and Alcatrazz) and his newly assembled Graham Bonnet Band, it follows the band in the studio, at rehearsals and on their first proper tour of the U.K.
A multi-part diary covering the band’s experiences as the tour progresses and unfolds. The documentary tour diary is produced by Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice and Giles Lavery from The Graham Bonnet band.
Part 3 now available:
Also check out:
Part 1
Part 2
In part 3, Graham Bonnet returns back to his place of Birth in Skegness, England for a home coming show at ‘The Skycastle’ where he last played the venue 49 years ago. While in Skegness, Bonnet visits his parent’s resting place, his former band mates and his relatives.
While on tour in Glasgow, Scotland Bonnet salutes former Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain who recently passed away,” I’d like to say something, you lost one of your fellow countrymen, Jimmy Bain and I would like to salute him, a former member of Rainbow.”
In Newcastle, during a radio interview Bonnet states,” I started in 1968 that is my age now 68. It’s been a long trip, to see musical styles change, I’ve been through every kind of era and picked up a little bit of every era and added to my music now.”
Bonnet also tells the tale of when he got fired from The Michael Schenker Group after one show for exposing his penis on stage, in Sheffield U.K. in 1982, “my penis came out of my pants, I encouraged it, it was bit like getting a turtle out of a shell and I swung it.”
The lineup and camera crew includes Graham Bonnet, guitarist extraordinaire Conrado Pesinato, bassist Beth-Ami Heavenstone and former FATES WARNING, WARLORD drummer Mark Zonder, and Manager Giles Lavery
GRAHAM BONNET BAND’s new album, which will be made available later in the year via Frontiers Music Srl, will also include a bonus disc of brand new recordings of classic songs from the Graham Bonnet repertoire.
February 2016
17 – Sin City – Swansea, UK
18 – Talking Heads – Southhampton, UK
19 – Bierkeller – Bristol, UK
20 – 02 Academy 2 – Islington London, UK
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