Eddie, I love the new Podcast!! Just listened to King Diamond. I couldn’t name one King Diamond song or Mercyful Fate song, but I enjoyed him on TMS, and he was fun to listen too on the podcast!! Maybe my favorite so far!! Went and saw Black Label Society Wednesday night here in Indy, sporting my TMS shirt proudly. Great show in a packed house!! Looking forward to hearing the Brian May podcast next week!!

Jericho rules:

Chris: We toured with STEEL PANTHER last December in Australia. Michael simply said, “I want to sing on the new FOZZY record!” I said, “OK!” Every time we have collaborations, it’s not stunt casting. We don’t do it because it would be cool to have a certain person on it but because we want it to add to the song. STEEL PANTHER getting so popular and being so comedic and so much fun is something that just proves how damn good they are! Michael Starr is, without question, one of the best rock singers in the business today. To have him involved on “Tonite” was amazing. The song is a sort of CHEAP TRICK, power-pop song. We knew he would kill it on a song like that, which he did! It got to the point where we actually gave him more to do! He sang background vocals and it sounded so great that we asked him to do the bridge as well. He really adds a lot to that song and made it even better than it was! It was great to work with him because, like I said, he is one of my favorite rock singers in the business today for sure.

2 things I think,
I have no doubts about Steel panther’s abilities, but until they write a serious good song, I can’t get into them. I believe humor does belong in music (as the great Zappa said), but you must have great songs as well.
On another note, listening to the new Zakk album (which I love) I’m realizing what a huge part of Ozzy’s resurgence his writing played a role in. He’s firing on all cylinders right now.