Not even close to being better than the original. They're all so busy over playing (especially Virgil) that they stomped all over the essence of the song. Dino has some voice though...
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The album is great, another band that continues to, erm, deliver...
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It was first recorded by a Danish singer, but the song was written by the singer and guitarist of Ednaswap. They recorded it for their debut. All three of Ednaswap's albums are really good, as is their 'Chicken' EP, which was released between their first and second albums (different labels). The EP featured a shorter version of 'Torn' as did their second album 'Wacko Magneto'.
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You might be right Carl : )
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Tons over the years... Myles Kennedy in a castle in Italy, Myles in a church in Germany Alex Skolnick trio in an industrial museum in Slovakia, also AST in a former car garage in Germany, a former WWII bunker in Germany, in a pub in Germany with Jen from Evanescence sitting in on guitar (she also sat in with Freak Kitchen in the same pub) Seth Lakeman playing on a pallet in a record company wa
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Frankie's last wish was for the band to continue apparently...
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Mats Leven's version of Queen of the Reich has always impressed me. The guy is an unbelievable talent, super nice guy too. Opeth/Talisman's Fredrik Akesson on guitar too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XABuwUGacM8
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Coverdale got a taste of his own medicine with Slade's 'Lock Up Your Daughters' which is basically 'Fool for your Loving'. Whitesnake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWJFjgcAhjQ Slade - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-TnTFH2NY Although Noddy always said he can't hear any similarities...
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'Crying Over You' is Platinum Blonde and 'Lonely at Night' is an Orphan track.
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The whole thing. It's very good. Standouts for me being 'And Then Goodbye', 'Lonely People', 'Need to Believe'... but it's great to hear Steve's voice on something 'new'. Such a talent.
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Definitely not the Rainbow song. This track does have more than a hint of The Beatles 'Norwegian Wood' about it however...
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Tons of picks over the years; Steve Morse, Alex SKolnick, Stevie Blaze, Mick Sweda, Chris DeGarmo, Eric Peterson, Nuno, Yngwie, Michael Romeo, Mattias Eklundh, Mappe (Candlemass), all the Amon Amarth guys, Hetfield, Hammett, Nergal from Behemoth... And a lot of sticks too; Kelly Keagy, Jason Rullo from Symphony X, Chad Smith, Ian Paice, Paul Geary (Extreme), Deen Castronovo, Tommy Aldridge, Ge
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He was fantastic to work with, wicked sense of humour and a brilliant player. Lots of great memories from those recent tours with him.
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Bernie Torme. I've been Bernie's drummer for the past few years, but I've known him since the '80's. Lovely fella. Losing him was a real blow.
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Only two tracks from the Australian version made the International release ("She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover"). Different artwork on the Aus. version too. The rest of the tracks have appeared (on '74 Jailbreak' and 'Backtracks').
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Pretty Maids - 'A Love and A Fiction' (B-Side to 'Hard Luck Woman')
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Rudy Sarzo and Brian Tichy make up the rhythm section on the record but they're not part of the touring band by the looks of it...
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Tour manager and drum tech. But I've pretty much always worked in the music industry in some form or other
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'Strength...' was ready to go in '92 on Geffen, the label did go so far as to ship promos out (I had one) but then they dropped the band. Maybe radio didn't hear a 'single', who knows. Music For Nations ended up sticking it out in '94 but of course by then, no-one really cared for that kind of music. It did OK as I recall (in Europe at least) but nothing startling. 'DCE' was a great record, altho
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Electric Boys announced on their Facebook page last month that they weren't playing. The band are in the studio recording the new album at the moment.
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Yep, big fan of Mats voice. It's a very good album. He and Anders have a great musical understanding.
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The song was written by the guys from Kick Axe with Spencer Proffer (who produced 'Ready to Strike').
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It's not the clearest version but I always liked this intro by Seether from a few years back - https://youtu.be/rEj25FvWmDM?t=4m41s I worked on this tour and I never got tired of this intro to the encores - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2VWpRf1z3g
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Hey Ted, yep, J3 is definitely a genius. I have a ton of Sect. 8 demos that should have been released. Such a great songwriter and a killer band. Hoping to catch up with 3 when The Struts hit London soon.
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The Struts front of house guy is J3 (Bone Machine/Sect. 8/Tommy Lee),he's even been known to do a solo acoustic support slot from time to time for them.
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I would imagine he's referring to the abomination that is 'Wicked Wonderland'.
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Nah, Seb was born in the Bahamas and grew up in Canada.
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It was called Baby Face not Babe Ruth and (according to Ian Paice) it was abandoned after one rehearsal because and he and Blackmore felt Lynott wasn't a good enough bass player
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I hear you Terry but I think in this instance, I can't think of too many frontmen who wouldn't have said/done something. Twisted were doing their show, Dee was in the middle of one of his 'chats' with the audience when the Europe tech started playing... Most singers would have said something, some jokingly, but the likes of Dee, (and Seb Bach, Axl, Nugent and countless other verbose frontmen for
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That's nonsense. Two stages of that size would have a monitor board for each stage, so the monitor guy for Europe (for instance) could set up his stage (monitor mix scene, IEMS etc.) while the other band (Twisted in this instance) performs on the other, with their monitor guy running their board. It's the exact same set up at Wacken; two stages, side by side that run so there's minimal gaps in th
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