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War Babies Vocalist Brad Sinsel - Part III
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FIB MUSIC:
What are your memories of Andrew Wood?
Brad: He used to follow the band as a kid. Eventually, we were all managed by the same
management company. At the time, I had
War Babies and he had Mother Love Bone. He was struggling with his addiction, but being really optimistic.....I remember
having a conversation with him about....."All I want is a tour bus" and I'm like, "oh buddy (laughs), be careful what you
wish for....they're not as luxurious after six weeks on tour, it just turns into butt fumes and deli trays".....
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Interview with
Sweet Savage / Kottack Guitarist
Chris Sheridan
FIB MUSIC: What was the Texas scene like back then?
Chris: The Texas scene was just insane, everywhere you went, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin,
Houston, El Paso....there were a thousand
seat clubs that would pack up on the weekends. You could put 800 people in a big club then, three nights a week.....and get
paid. We just did this circuit and it was just great. We went to L.A. to play a couple of times, we went to Phoenix, back to
Ohio, the East Coast....there was nowhere else for us to go and L.A. was happening. We ended up moving up there in early 1987. It
was the heyday.....
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The Dogs D'amour Days,
by BAM BAM - Part II
FIB MUSIC:
Which you guys actually sign with first, right?
BAM: Yeah, well kind of yeah (laughs). What happened was Kaz came down to the first gig and, in
true form, the band was stamped as this raucous crazy rock n roll band. Robert and Tyla were kind of banging and smashing into
one another. I think Tyla banged into Robert too hard and Robert hit the PA stack and the PA stack started coming down. It was
just a stack of cabinets on the floor, you know what I mean? So the stacks just come falling over and luckily, my roadie guy, my
good friend Andre, who's this huge giant of a guy. He caught the PA stacks, but unfortunately Kaz was standing right next to this
as it all went down, so as far as he was concerned, that was the first time and the last time he ever came to see the band. He was
like, "I almost got killed by the PA stack".
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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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Interview with
Heavy Pettin Guitarist, Punky Mendoza
FIB MUSIC: How long was the band together before signing with Polygram? Any cool memories from
those days stand out?
Punky: HEAVY PETTIN was virtually signed after months of being a functioning
business proposition. Perhaps just under a year. Interest in the band was first noted by Warner Brothers
Publishing. Then Peter Mensch (Def Leppard manager at the time) got involved. Showcased the band in front
of all the majors in London. The band decided to choose POLYDOR/POLYGRAM. Coolest memory was meeting
Peter Mensch. A highly articulate and astute business man. Only spoke the truth.
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FIB MUSIC:
What was it like working with Vinnie and Darrell?
Marc: Both amazingly talented, focused and truly gifted musicians. Ideas were always
flowing...I seem to remember some differences of opinion between the two from time to time but that's only natural. I
"produced" Proud To Be Loud, but I use that word loosely because it was really Vinny who was in the driver's seat and
was responsible for the tone and pace of the sessions. I coached Phil as best as I could without making him sing the way
he wouldn't have done by himself, I just basically guided him with the melodies and structure of the phrasing....
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Interview with
Quiet Riot vocalist, Kevin Dubrow
PART I - The Randy Rhoads Era
FIB MUSIC: Can you tell us about
the first time you met Randy Rhoads?
Kevin: Sure. After the phone call, he and Kelly Garni came over to my mom's
house...I was eighteen, Randy was seventeen. He walked in and he had hair down to the middle of his back
and a really long thumbnail....I said what's the thumbnail for. I didn't hear him play the first time I met him. Then
the second time, I went to his mom's house and I went there just as a joke, because I was playing with Stan Lee, the
guitarist of the Dickies, believe it or not. And Stan is the one who said you should go hear him play, it's going to
be funny....you know, we did it as a joke. (laughs).....the joke was on me, because he was amazing. So, I heard him
play and Randy says, ok, let's hear you sing and I was like no, not going to do it (laughs) and eventually, obviously
I did. But he was brilliant, he was gifted, he was hilarious and a wonderful person.....he was not an angel, the way
he is made out to be.....I don't think anyone is. I think it's a shame his memory is not being cultivated the way it
should be, like the way.......there's certain bad things about the Jimi Hendrix estate, but at least the memory is
being cultivated.
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Kevin Wood & Andrew Wood |
Andrew Wood's brother tells us about the Malfunkshun days.
FIB MUSIC:
In Andrew's last interview, which was just after Mother Love Bone cut Apple, he comments that when he gets some downtime he wanted to work with you again and said that he felt bad about leaving you.
Kevin: Yeah, we were working on some stuff actually, before he died, we were doing some preproduction recordings for some songs that he was writing...I was playing guitar, it was coming along pretty well too; we were having a good time....coming up with some pretty good stuff. Actually Me, Andy and Regan met on the street, by chance, on the street, on the 3rd of March, when I was coming back from one of our sessions, where me & Andy had been working on that stuff....it was 3-3-3 day. You know, that was Malfunkshun's number. The 3 power of Malfunkshun. You see that all over the place from the Malfunkshun days. So the three of us meet, by chance, on the street on the date 3 / 3, then us 3. That
was the last time I saw Andy alive, it was the last time we were ever together.
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Rik Fox & the Steeler Days
FIB MUSIC:
How did you end up playing in Steeler? Were you aware of them before you joined the band?
Rik: I 'was' aware of STEELER alright...They were new in town and making quite a big notice already. They were one of the only bands who commanded their own truck, light show and sound system (a true sign of a road band for sure). I was at the Roxy Club on the Sunset Strip one night, hanging out with my good friend, (the late) ERIC CARR of KISS. (I had once played with a band that had his not-yet girlfriend fronting it in Long Island, N.Y.). He was interested in this girl who was a friend of mine (and, who's life I saved one day). I was trying to set him up with this girl (Bambie), that was eventually the model for the POISON album with the Chick sticking our her tongue ("Open up and say ...Ahhh").....
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