DRUMMER VINNY APPICE DISCUSSES WORKING WITH DIO, IOMMI AND JOHN LENNON
Greg Prato of Vintagerock.com spoke with drummer Vinny Appice. Portions of the interview, appear below. Vintagerock.com: Why did Ronnie and Vivian seem to not get along? Appice: Well, it was more of a business thing. We were promised a lot of things from Ronnie and Wendy [Dio, Ronnie’s wife and manager] — to share in […]
10/17: MARK TREMONTI THIS WEEKEND, AC/DC, PODCAST UPDATE
Congrats to Joe Perry for making the NY Times Best Seller list for his book Rocks. If you are a fan of Aerosmith it is truly a great read. If you’d like to hear my interview with Joe from his book launch in NYC a couple weeks ago grab my podcast free on Itunes or […]
AEROSMITH – MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION
I hear much about the amount of ballads on this album, but nobody says it also has 15 songs on the standard edition, 20 on the deluxe. So even if you take out 4 ballads it’s still 11 rocking tunes. It is not a perfect album, but it is damn good. The production is […]
SLASH & THE CONSPIRATORS – APOCALYPTIC LOVE
I loved the last Slash album, and my favorite songs were the ones with Myles Kennedy singing. So I was thrilled that the live band he had on that tour now is a real band and has made a full cohesive album of brilliant hard rock. They even have a name, The Conspirators. It’s […]
OVERKILL – THE ELECTRIC AGE
An incredible, relentless, pounding thrash metal album that may be my favorite from this highly underrated band since Taking Over. Overkill have made a string of solid albums lately, but this is just next level. It is uncompromising speed metal at its finest. Production and mix are incredible, the riffing just builds and builds, great […]