Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former ACCEPT, and current SAINTED SINNERS Singer David Reece about his “Eat The The Heat Live” tour, the making of the 1989 EAT THE HEAT album and the launching of his new Super Group called ‘The Last Temptation’
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When asked about the Eat the Heat Tour Live A night of Accept with David Reece (22:00)
“In Sainted Sinners we do Generation Clash (Accept) and it always goes over great and I am able to still sing that stuff, thank God. So out of the blue my good friend Tony and his wife sent me an email they do the festival in Barcelona and he said what you think of doing David Reece sings the whole album EAT THE HEAT Album live. at my festival? I said iIthink that’s a great idea, let’s do it. The next 30 minutes he also booked the North of Spain so I got the 10th and 11 of March next year 2018. I talked to his ex-wife and yesterday and she said ticket sales have been fantastic. ”
“What I am going to do is play in all these different countries, so I am using a Spanish band they are called Serious a backing band who grew up in the Accept days and they know every song especially fanatic about EAT THE HEAT.”
When asked if he will also be playing songs from the UDO Accept years during the tour ( 24:50)
“Yeah I’m gonna do Accept’s London Leatherboys, I love playing that song and if I can vocally do it well I would love to do FAST AS A SHARK or RESTLESS AND WILD and obviously throw in BALLS TO THE WALL. There are time restrictions on the set list and I can’t do more than 3 or 4.”
I have know UDO for years his son SVEN used to open for me, he had a band called Damage I would play solo shows in Germany and Damage would open for me and everytime I did UDO was around. Last time I spoke to UDO it was 2011
When asked about his new Supergroup project (38:00)
“Certain members that are part of it are all guys that were my super heroes and I have been asked to sing in it. The group is going to be called ‘The Last Temptation’. That’s all I can tell you. I have written three songs to this music , the lyrics and vocals that I am going to track probably next week .”
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’.
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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.”
Jimmy Kay From Canada’s The Metal Voice talks to Martin Popoff about his NEW BOOK Led Zeppelin“All the Albums, All the songs”, talking about the songs, the albums, the artwork, their inspirations and their influence on Hard Rock Heavy Metal Today.
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THE STORY BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK.
Commonly described simply as heavy, Led Zeppelin’s music was actually a complex amalgam of blues, rock, folk and country. Martin Popoff dissect each of Zep’s 81 studio tracks, including the circumstances that led to their creation, the recording processes and their historical contexts. Introductory essays for each album features sidebars listing studios, release dates and personnel. Beautifully illustrated with rare performance and offstage photography and memorabilia, the result is a stunning look at the foursome who forged the template for the marauding modern rock ‘n’ roll band.
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former Iron Maiden Drummer Doug Sampson who appeared on Iron Maidens, The Soundhouse Tapes E.P. as well as the Metal for Muthas compilation in 1980.
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Currently Doug Sampson is drumming for the band reformed NWOBHM band Airforce and have a new EP out called The Blackbox Recordings EP Part 1
Sampson spoke about his pre-Iron Maiden days in Smiler with Steve Harris, his memories of recording The Soundhouse tapes with Iron Maiden and his reformed band Airforce and the release of their new album The Blackbox recordings E.P. Part 1
When asked when if there were any songs from ‘Smiler’ days (Steve Harris and his former band) that appeared on the first two Iron Maiden Albums
“The only song that I could remember Steve coming up with is ‘Innocent Exile’ I can’t remember anything else, we actually played that with ‘Smiler’. ”
When asked about Paul Di’anno’s audition for Iron Maiden
“We were knocked out by Paul Dianno’s audition. From that minute he auditioned he was the vocalist for Iron Maiden. we heard a phenomenal voice one that really suited the band at that particular time, this was a different league, Dianno took it to another level. And Paul got the job obviously.”
When asked about his memories of the recording of Iron Maiden The SoundhouseTapes E.P.
“I don’t think we did any gigs at that point. Steve Harris said we really need to get a demo together. We would all pay and chip in and we would go to this place called Spaceward Studios, on New Years Eve. It was great it was the first time me and Steve Harris had been to a studio. Dave had done a bit of recoding before. ”
“More than anything I can remember doing Strange World my personal memories of that was just so haunting it just took on a different feel, it was quite eerie. When I hear it now it still brings back memories of that recording session.”
When asked about his memories of the recordings of Sanctuary and Wrathchild on the 1980 Metal for Muthas compilation
“That was the first time we went to the EMI studio for us to do them and that was a different league as well, this was not a demo this was done in a proper studio.That was quite a jump from what we have been doing. I remember we stayed there right ot the early hours of the morning, me Paul and Dave just crashed out in the corridor at the studio and slept on the floor and I think the executives couldn’t believe what they were seeing.”
When asked about the writing sessions of the songs Running Free and Remember Tomorrow
“I would say Running Free was the one, the only one that I had a major input on because I was messing around in the studio, in the rehearsal room, doing glam rock. Sort of mad Sweet Style beats and I was playing this beat, generally messing about. Then Steve came in and started putting a bass line to it. It just started off as a joke. Then Dave came in and hang on here I think we got a song here. Got the structure of the song down. Paul went off he had some ideas, I could remember him just sitting outside on some steps jotting some words down and he came back and we said we got a song here.
Remember Tomorrow just evolved in the studio, we all started playing and Steve had an idea and just jammed away until it manifested itself.”
When asked how he parted ways with Iron Maiden
“We were doing more and more gigs living in back of a Lorrie called the Green Goddess. Coming off stage soaking wet getting in the back of the Lorrie, freezing cold in a sleeping bag in the end it got to a stage where it was beginning to affect my health I had a virus and the more gigs we were doing the worse it was getting. I said to Steve i don’t know If I can carry on and do this and I said I think it’s time I went.”
When asked about his reformed band Airforce and their new E.P.
“Last year we decided to get together again. we just released the new album called The Blackbox recordings Part 1, we have three tracks, two new tracks and one that has been around for a few years called ‘Heroes’, it really goes down well live. We still have three main members but we’ve got a new vocalist now, that’s got a completely different edge, he is more of a metal singer. Next few weeks we are going back into the studio to record The Blackbox Recordings part 2 and we hope to have an album before or after Christmas to add all six numbers from the first two Eps and more new songs.”
When asked if he would even consider working again with Paul Di’anno or any other former Iron Maiden members (24:15)
“It’s funny you should ask because their maybe a possibility that we actually do something with Paul Dianno. Hopefully, that would be a great great honour to do something with Paul Dianno. Nothing confirmed yet. That might be something in the future, fingers crossed. Dianno is the man, there is no two ways about it, hopefully everything will work out I really really hope so.”
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke with former IRON MAIDEN Singers Paul Di’Anno who announced his new band ANGELS OF CHAOZ. Di’Anno gave The Metal Voice an update about his current health situation and spoke in detail about a Battlezone Reunion and the songs on the first IRON MAIDEN album, Killers album and Maiden Japan.
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When asked about an update on his current health situation
“I have had some problems with my legs over the years, wear and tear jumping around like a loony on stage and my knees started to give out. What happened is the fluid in the right knee started to get infected and went into my chest and I did a couple of shows in the wheel chair I went back to Argentina and did some shows and I had a bit of a fall. By the time I got back to England I went to see the surgeon for my knee, I got home dropped my luggage and then I went off to the hospital, I came back in the afternoon and then I collapsed. I was dying of an abscess basically. I was lucky enough I had my phone with me and I called up the ambulance and they took me off to the hospital and I was there for 8 months. When they saw me the Doctor said we don’t think you are going to make it through the night, they didn’t tell me that until a couple of days after that. A huge big abscess on my chest in my clavicle eating my bone and breast bone away. The abscess was the size of a rugby ball, it was huge, they shrunk it with about 40 pills a day for 8 months in the hospital I couldn’t move. They are saying it’s from the fluid on the knee but it could have been something else i picked up traveling in South America, India like what happened to Steve Grimmett.(Grim Reaper).”
“It’s all clear now but the thing is I got to make certain that I do the operation on my knees so it’s all delaying everything. So now I’m trying to get my knees fixed. I have a special designer knee being built for me at the very cheap sum of 86,000 pounds, I got to pay for that and then I found out from my dentist the other day all the pills I am taking is making all my gums shrink and now I’m going to lose all my teeth as well if I’m not carefull. They are going to try and take my right knee out completely towards the next few months obviously the best surgeon in the country he’s booked up with other patients I’ve got to wait for him.They let me out of the hospital after 8 months just before Christmas last year and I went into a care home which was a f****** nightmare, the home was where people would go to die, a bunch of 80 and 90 year olds I was the youngest one there and most of them had dementia.”
When asked about why his former band Architects of Chaoz decided to go on without him
“I was so sick and they decided that they want to carry on without me and I said that’s ok you can do that. I wrote all the lyrics in Architects of Chaoz and I got the name of the band, so F*** You. So we got a new band now called The Angles of Chaoz , F*** You.. I’m a bit too stressed out to write at the moment. I asked the boys in Argentina to start getting a few tracks out to give me something to do,so I can start writing to it, there is a few bits and pieces going on. When we do work we work quickly, I’ve got a lot of lyrical content in me, rest assured, a lot of anger, frustration and being pissed off I’m not going to have a problem with that . Also I will be going to Russia about Christmas time doing something with an orchestra.”
When asked if he would do a Iron Maiden show with all three Iron Maiden singers on the bill
“Yes, if something good would come out of it of course I would, yeah. It would be great to see all the guys again”
When asked if he would ever do a resurrect his old band Batttlezone
“We are in talks at the moment, that’s no secret, me Steve Hopgood are up for it, Graham Bath is up for it been trying to get a hold of John Wiggins he has not been forthcoming at the moment but my old Bass Player Colin Riggs will be involved as the Bass player . It’s still Battlezone but different genres of it. ”
Di’anno also spoke in detail about the songs on the first Iron Maiden album, Killers album and Maiden Japan
The former IRON MAIDEN singer originally formed ARCHITECTS OF CHAOZ a couple of years ago with musicians from his longtime German touring backing group THE PHANTOMZ. AOC’s debut album, “The League Of Shadows”, was subsequently recorded and released in 2015
Jimmy Kay from Canada The Metal Voice recently spoke to Tony Dolan (The Demolition Man) and Jeff Dunn (Mantas) from VENOM INC. whose new Album “Avé” will be released on Nuclear Blast on Aug 14 2017.
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In the broadcast Mantas and The Demolition man go through all the tracks off their new album Ave and talk about the lyrical themes and music. Mantas also announces that we will be releasing an autobiography in the near future. As well the two spoke about the Venom past the quick rise to fame and how Tony Dolan joined the band.
When asked about their continuous fascination with Satan and the Dark side of music (5:11)
“We had an interest in the dark side. It was a shock horror thing. We looked at bands like Black Sabbath and others that sang about the devil but it wasn’t stuffed in people faces. So we thought we would just develop a pure shock value. We were going to stuff it in people’s face and if they ran away screaming then great and if they embraced it then great that was the whole premise. It was three young guys who wanted to shock the world. It wasn’t something new we just took it a step further. We also had songs with other topics, Teachers Pet, Poison we had songs about serial killers. It was all about the dark side of things or life.” Mantas
When asked about how the album At War with Satan was inspired by Rush 2112 (17:00)
“I was a huge Rush fan and so was Conrad. It was mainly Conrad’s body of work and I contributed to it. It’s no secret, it’s just a personnel opinion. I spoke to fans about this before. The Albums At war with Satan and Possessed I have never been a big fan of those two albums.” Mantas
When asked Mantas why he lost interest in the band in the early years. (19:53)
“If i have to be brutally honest for me it was after Black Metal album. You have to remember the speed of the success of Venom wasn’t gradual, it was overnight, zero to hero in a matter of a week. It was the right place at the right time. The stars aligned everybody was ready for something different and we came along.There was one weekend we were rehearing in this run down place, the following weekend we were in Belgium playing in front of 3000 people. And I think that contributed to the change in personalities as well. When the success of Venom really hit big the personalities changed in certain members and it was unbelievable and that is what I couldn’t deal with.” Mantas
When asked if the new album Ave of it’s is a continuation of the Dolan era albums (39:35)
Ave is it’s own beast, it’s not a first album, it’s not a follow up album, it’s us, it’s what we do. I think it fits perfectly in the Venom legacy. I think Ave stands more in the Venom legacy than the albums Possessed and Cast in Stone- Mantas
When asked about the theme of album cover artwork on the new album Ave (42:00)
There is Lucifer on the cover of the album clearly walking towards you in a very passive way on a desolate landscape, you can see Adam and Eve eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. It’s about looking for that inner self. The cover could be, is it Armageddon or is it the beginning? Not only can he fly but he is Lucifer and he can do damage if he wants to but he is quiet passive walking toward you. Is he signaling the end or is he signaling the beginning and your suppose to answer that question. He was an angel banished, what his duty was feed man knowledge and look after him because he questioned the god he was cast down to walk eternity on earth. ” Dolan
When asked about Mantas’ autobiography ( 52:00)
“What I am doing with the book is I am talking it from the day I was born to what we are doing now. Everything I have ever done . Also their will be a lot of photographs that have never been seen before.” Mantas
When asked about the Venom inc Documentary in the works (1:40:00)
What we have been doing is taking snap shots of us traveling up until now and we also did a lot of stuff talking about the new album, the journey of that and continue on this world tour. Then hopefully put it on DVD box set together with some old stuff, unseen stuff, the backstage stuff, the making of the videos and it will be something really interesting.” Dolan
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