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Mott / London Vocalist Nigel Benjamin
FIB MUSIC:
Tell us about joining London in 1979. How does all that come about?
Nigel: I'd just moved to L.A. and an ad was put in the paper looking for a singer influenced by me! I thought, that's odd; so I called and went to a gig, that night I think, soon anyway.
FIB MUSIC:
What was it like working with Nikki Sixx? How would you describe him.
Nigel: Nikki wanted SO desperately to be a star. And now he is.
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Riot Vocalist
Tony Moore
FIB MUSIC:
Your first album with Riot, "Thundersteel", was released in '88. Do you have any cool, sucked, or brilliant moments that stand out?
TM: I remember the release party at the studio - CBS execs were there and everybody was doing a lot of blow. There was a blizzard of phone interviews from Europe. We felt like rock stars for couple of minutes.
FIB MUSIC:
Do you remember what the budget was for recording the album? Did you stay under?
TM: Wow, I don't really remember. Our producer and I were close at the time and he would do anything to get the record finished. Then he went crazy and re-wrote our ASCAP splits so that he owned the publishing & the masters. We never saw a dime from those 2 albums, and he took the whole advance claiming we had spent a fortune.
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Dangerous Toys / Watchtower Vocalist
Jason McMaster
FIB MUSIC:
In 1987 you joined the band Onyxx, which later became Dangerous Toys. How did you meet Tim Trembley and what was it like working with him?
JM: Those guys used to come see Watchtower play. They knew Billy White, and that's how I met some of them. Mike (Watson) had come into my work a couple of times looking for bands to play with. But, when Tim asked me to fill in for his band, just doing covers and stuff, who knew what the future would hold? Tim was alot of fun, and I miss him. He wrote lyrics for the songs on the first Toys record that are now legend to me.
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Autograph Guitarist
Steve Lynch
FIB MUSIC:
What was it like touring with Van Halen? Any cool stories from the road?
Steve: The experience was really good but there were a lot of restrictions. I was told I couldn't use my hammering technique because it was "Eddie's thing", which I was completely turned off by, especially when I had developed the technique years before I had ever heard of him. The other things that we were restricted were we couldn't say the name of the city we were in because that was "Davids's thing", we were very limited in our volume to a point of being ridiculous, they wouldn't allow us to put our name on the marquee, we had to be out of the backstge hallways before and after their show....and the list went on and on. I thought it all was a big joke, but realized it wasn't when they said if any of the "rules" were broken we would be fired from the tour immediately.
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Season 4 Begins
April 15, 2009 |
Kingdom Come Vocalist Lenny Wolf
FIB MUSIC:
What was it like working with Bob Rock?
Lenny: Great, great , and greater! Miss him. Last I heard is that he is burned out by the Metallica boys. Very cooperative, very talented, and very serious! He knows how to get the best out of a band's strengths.
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Hurricane Guitarist Robert Sarzo
FIB MUSIC:
How do you end up making the
move to Los Angeles?
Robert: Well, I was here in New York and my brother (Rudy) decided to move to L.A. and
then he started working with Angel and then later Quiet Riot and all that. Up to that point, we had played together, for
many years. We learned our instruments together and we would jam for hours on stage. Our songs were like a half
hour long (laughs). We were a jam band....we did a lot of improvising. It was great.
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Paul Shortino - PART III
The Quiet Riot Days
FIB MUSIC:
How do you end up joing Quiet Riot?
Paul: After I left Rough Cutt, I went into cut some tracks with Quiet Riot. Initially, they were trying to keep me secret from Spencer Proffer. We were recording at Pasha, but the entire time we were recording there, it was without Spencer being around. He would come in and they would hide me. They only had one more album to do on Pasha and they wanted out of their record deal because Spencer owned all of the publishing. So, when Spencer made space, we go into record "Stay with me Tonight", "Your Time is Going to Come", which is a Russ Ballard tune and another song.....and then we went into litigation for a year. It cost me $30,000 of my own money, to join Quiet Riot.....to get their publishing back. It cost Frankie and Carlos, between them, $24,000.
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Interview with
ROUGH CUTT, GIUFFRIA, DIO GUITARIST, Craig Goldy
PART II
FIB MUSIC: You're living on the streets in San Diego?
Craig: Yeah. I was living in a car. I was washing my hair; I had two 7UP, liter bottles,
one to rinse and I would shave with a plastic bowls and use the sideview mirror. I had a wind-up clock, because, once in awhile
I would get a part-time job and just sleep really near it. I would use the clock to wake me up and then get dressed with my
clothes in the trunk. Then, eventually, I saved up enough money for a demo and it got in the hands of Ronnie James Dio. One
guy gave it to another guy, who gave it to another guy who was going to L.A., that guy gave it to a guy who was in L.A. and the next
thing I know, Jake E. Lee had left Rough Cutt, to replace
Randy Rhoads and there
was an opening in Rough Cutt.....
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The Too Fast for Love Days,
by Don Adkins - Part II
FIB MUSIC:
Do you have any stories about any of the songs from the "Too Fast for Love" release?
Don: Yes, "Merry Go Round". Basically, Nikki was living in the projects outside Seattle, WA. He was really struggling in the projects and one day he came out to this playground area right outside of his place and there was this guy there that had lost it. The guy had just lost his job, or something and lived there in the projects and he was just going round and round on the merry-go-round and Nikki said it just struck him.
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