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Jimi Hendrix
The guitar legend through the
lens of Baron Wolman.
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Inglorious 32
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his band ’s dramatic split and Brothers
their future plans… Brother Mikko picks six songs
that salute that eternal goal
of peave and love, man.

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Spirit Of Radio
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share their favourite
Iron Maiden stories and give
us the skinny on what’s
steaming right now.
34
Tom Morello
The Rage Against the Machine and
Audioslave guitar hero shares
with us his worldly wisdom.

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Upfront
Offski: Nathan James
(bottom left) bids
adieu to Parkinson
(top), Lowe (top right)
and Eriksson (right).
Nowhere Men
Nathan James reveals truth
behind shock Inglorious
split and looks to the future.
O N O C T O B E R 2 5 , just
one week after announcing
a January 25 release date for
his band’s third album Ride To
Nowhere, Inglorious frontman
Nathan James revealed that
guitarists Andreas Eriksson and
Drew Lowe plus bassist Colin
Parkinson had left the band. The
news came as a shock to fans
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musicians were heavily involved
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to Inglorious II, and had spoken
about their excitement at the
prospect of premiering the
new songs on the band’s planned
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UK and European dates in
January and February.
“I didn’t see this coming at
all,” James admits, speaking
exclusively to Planet Rock. “It
was a big surprise to me, and
a really odd time for the guys
to choose to do this. Everyone
who’s heard the new album
thinks it’s our best work to date,
so honestly it seems a bit silly to
walk away now. But people’s lives
and personal situations change.
There are people having babies,
people getting married, people
moving house… and as a result,
they don’t feel like they can
commit fully to the band.
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“because we’ve got so much
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those guys won’t get to reap the
rewards of the hard work they
put into the record. But it’s their
choice, and I respect that.”
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Dela Cruz, formerly the band’s
guitar tech, to replace Eriksson,
and will announce a new bassist
and guitarist imminently.
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starting this new chapter,” says
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his attitude. I wish Colin, Drew
and Andreas the best, they’re
very talented individuals. No
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Artist Tom Spencer
reveals the story
behind this issue’s
bespoke Maiden cover.
When most magazines wish
to display a stained-glass
window as a cover image, they
would turn to an illustrator.
Planet Rock, however, is not
most magazines, and so we
commission London artist Tom
Spencer to produce a unique,
bespoke window for the cover,
referencing the artwork of Iron
Maiden’s first four albums.
“The original sketch ends
up as my cutter guide for the
glass shapes,” says Spencer,
who specialises in making
rock’n’roll-inspired art, and
also fronts The Professionals,
featuring former Sex Pistols
drummer Paul Cook. “It’s then
used as the grid to build the
panel, and the cut glass pieces
are painted on. These then go
in a kiln. Then I build it, using
lead, solder and cement.”
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Split vote:
“Rod Stewart
parody” Plant
in ’1968.

10 Things IN BRIEF
We Learned
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On Tour
their sixth studio album,
Feral Roots, on January 25.
The 11-track album will
emerge via long-time producer
Dave Cobb’s imprint Low
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An encyclopaedic new book offers Nashville quartet begin their
an embarrassment of Led Zeppelin European tour in Newcastle
memorabilia, facts and pub trivia. on January 31.

Led Zeppelin’s

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reviews described the budding vocalist as
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billers: The Lady Stairway To
Birds and (above)
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Kris Barras
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NEW ROCK his way to the forefront of the British blues scene.
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16 The Planet Rock Interview
Those Damn Crows
Bridgend’s own high-flying birds look to
NEW ROCK spread their wings over the whole world.
WORDS: SIMON YOUNG
THERE’S A tattoo parlour
on Bridgend’s Nolton Street
just eight minutes from the
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station. Among the usual
requests for pocket watch and
rose designs, there’s been a
recent upswing in demand for
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around 60 or so people
prepared to show that their
love for the band extends to
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frontman Shane Greenhall. “It’s
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reputation as local heroes in
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to an unrelenting work ethic.
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connection to one of Britain’s
biggest metal bands would kick
open more than a few doors
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started out, but it FOR MY
wasn’t until we took VALENTINE
control of our band
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again that we
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gained some
momentum and the
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and that hasn’t changed.”
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their exhilarating hard rock
debut, The Murder And The
Motive, via Earache. A chance
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Birds of a feather:
Bridgend heroes
Those Damn Crows.
ONES TO WATCH
Three more Wyatt
Wendels-approved acts
to keep an eye on.
Gin Annie
Built around cousins
Dave Foster (vocals) and
Byron Garbett (guitar),
Wolverhampton quintet Gin
Annie deal out gritty high-
octane hard rock with punchy
melodies and killer hooks.
Their debut album, 100%
Proof, due for release on
January 25.
Find out more at:
www.ginannie.com
unexpected swell in their
evening’s takings.
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deVience
LQ1RWWLQJKDP´VD\V6KDQH You might recognise deVience
frontman Giovanni Spano
“and little did we know that from his starring role in the
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After the show, he bought our musical, or perhaps from his
merch but we had no idea who recent stint in The X Factor.
Either way, his London-based
KHZDV7KHQZHJRWDFDOOIURP melodic hard rock band look
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to sign us.” Find out more at:
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our second album Fronted by the charismatic
Lauren Tate, South Yorkshire’s
and have a few HOG drink deep from the well
BULLET killer shows lined of ’90s grunge and alternative
up with Skindred rock. Current single S.A.S.S. is
DQG0DVVLYH:DJĥ a riotous tangle of bubblegum
ons, then a tour riffs and rebel girl swagger.
with Stone Broken Find out more at:
www.handsoffgretel.co.uk
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Broken have come,
that we know we
can do too.”
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Damn Crows
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LISTEN TO: THE
MURDER AND
THE MOTIVE
(ALBUM, 2018) Oh crumbs:
Hands Of
Gretel.
Upfront

The Reich Stuff

WHO:Lemmy Kilmister

BACKSTAGE WHERE: Hollywood, California

WHEN: May 1992

“ I WO R K E D for the German edition of a UK rock magazine

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encountered Lemmy in 1989. “In May ’92, while on another assignment
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“Lemmy, being a seasoned strategist, had chosen this place wisely
when he had moved from England to Hollywood two years before,”
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hole, the Rainbow Bar And Grill, which meant he could walk there.
He didn’t have a driver’s licence.”
Götz recalls getting out of a cab and twigging immediately which
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always overcome youth and skill”. Motörhead’s leader opened the door
a few inches, peeped through the gap and beckoned him in.
“That was easier said than done,” laughs Götz, “the place was so
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memorabilia that it looked as if someone had thrown a hand granade
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a worn sofa, handed me a beer and started to play me some rough
versions from the latest Motörhead album, March Ör Die.
“I was getting nervous and carefully tried to change the subject
towards taking some shots. I knew that Lemmy’s mood could change
quickly, should I irritate him. And getting thrown out with no pictures
wasn’t exactly my idea of a successful photo shoot.”
DIRK GÖTZ

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and took this evocative portrait. “The acoustic guitar on his lap spares
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 Haus and home: keen historian
and WW II memorabilia collector
Lemmy in residence, May 1992.
Upfront
The Hairy Bikers Present...
ROCK’N’ROLL COOKERY
WITH FISH
Mr Derek Dick whips up a
culinary feast fit for a Beatle,
a poetic genius, a master chef
and a green-fingered TV host.
What food would you cook on
a good night in?
Well, the lucky problem I have is
that my wife is a really brilliant cook,
but I do get to make my own little
specials now and again. I might go
with a seafood linguine, a mixture of
octopus, squid, salmon, prawns, white
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A shore thing:
Fish out of water.
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I’d get those cooked in a nice creamy
sauce with paprika, sea salt, black
pepper and a touch of garlic. I live
near the coast, and there’s a couple
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Bros in Musselburgh is
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bakes fantastic homemade
bread, so I’d serve it with that,
and we grow all our own
vegetables in our garden, so
maybe a nice organic salad too.
No dessert as we’re not dessert
people.
What would you drink?
I think it’d go well with a nice
dry white wine, perhaps a Riesling,
or something from the Alsace area.
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Sauvignon blanc, something crisp and
dry. I’m no wine expert, but they’re
safe bets.
What music would you listen to?
A bit of Frank Sinatra and Dean
Martin, I’m old school in that way.
Maybe some Van Morrison too,
OCCASIONALLY something laidback and not too
intrusive. And not my own music.
I’LL HEAR
THE OPENING
Occasionally I’m in a restaurant
and I’ll hear the opening chords of
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CHORDS OF and I’ll think, “Awww, fuck, no!”
Although even that’s not as annoying
KAYLEIGH IN as when someone interrupts a quiet
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A RESTAURANT That’s the height of rudeness.
AND THINK, Who would be your dream guests
AWWW, for a night in?
We’ve got an amazing big table at
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there’s plenty of space for guests. One
person I always wanted to meet,
but who’s sadly left us now, is
Anthony Bourdain, the chef, as
I’ve read most of his books. My
current production manager
worked on his last programmes,
she was the production manager
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and it was terrible to hear of his
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interesting guy, and I’d like to
pick his brains. John Lennon
How to make would be great too, I loved his
seafood linguine:
character and the way he thought and
paprika, organic
salad, white fish, wrote. And maybe Dylan Thomas.
prawns, salmon,
octopus, plate. What’s the best night in you’ve
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ever had?
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so many great nights over the years.
When my band are up rehearsing in
the studio that my wife and I live in,
we have some excellent evenings. I
like when the story boxes get opened
and everyone is chipping in. And I
like big meals with the whole family
I N T E RV I E W : PAU L B R A N N I G A N
gathered round too, that’s always a bit
special. I’ve obviously got Italian
blood in me somewhere!
Present
T H E H A I RY B I K E R S
T H E H A I RY R O C K S H OWon Sunday
mornings from 10am to 12pm. Repeated
every Tuesday night from 7pm. F I S H
tours the UK in December. His new EP,
A Parley With Angels, is out now.

Upfront
HOW
I WROTE...
KEEP ON
LOVING YOU
REO Speedwagon frontman
Kevin Cronin on how a
disintegrating marriage inspired
a definitive ’80s soft rock classic.
I T WA S the turning
point for us. We’d been
breaking even, the
perennial underdogs in
some ways, just waiting in line for
that one song to come along. That
one song was Keep On Loving You.
It came to me at four in the
morning. I woke up with the sound of
the opening piano chords in my head.
I stumbled into my tiny home studio
and started playing those chords, and
as I played them, the lyrics
and melody just came to me.
Songwriting is an unpredictĥ
able art. Sometimes you are
determined to write and
nothing happens, and
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sometimes with no intention or
expectation something magical
happens. You just always have to be
ready. It started out as a soft piano
ballad, but when I took it into
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guitar into a stack of Marshall amps
and cranked it up to 11 and gave it a
crunch and a power. Suddenly I knew
what the song would sound like.
All of my songs are chapters of my
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cathartic. It’s my way of working
through feelings I’m troubled by. I am
always shocked by the amount of
people who come up to me and say
they chose Keep On Loving You as
their wedding song, or played it for
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they actually listen to the lyrics? “You
played dead, but you never bled/
Instead you laid still in the grass, all
coiled up and hissin’”. I’m sorry but
this is not a song to play at your
wedding!
WRITER I was no angel but the
Kevin Cronin lyrics are a representation of
RELEASED the hurt, anger, frustration
November 4,
and betrayal I felt at that
1980
moment. That’s where the
LABEL
Epic
Speed kings: REO
Speedwagon, with
Kevin Cronin (top).
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marriage ended so I think it isn’t too
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I’M SORRY, think she knew it was about her too.
I never thought it was going to
BUT THIS IS break the band. There were times
with other songs when I thought,
NOT A SONG TO This is the one. But nothing had
happened, so when Keep On Loving
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WEDDING. on the US Billboard Hot 100 in
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moment. The amount of love and
support that came our way was
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immediately. It was a rollercoaster…
and not all good. There was no time
to take it all in, to enjoy it, because we
were too busy actually doing it.
But all these years later we still get
to play that song in front of an
I N T E RV I E W : A L I C E C L A R K
audience, and we still
get to hear everyone
singing it back to us.
That is beautiful. I’m
a lucky guy.”
R E O S P E E DWAG O N ’s The Early Years
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IRON MAIDEN
AND ME...
SPIRIT OF RADIO
A selection of Planet Rock
presenters share their latest
tips and Maiden memories.
PAUL
ANTHONY
The best thing I’ve
heard recently:
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And Friends. It does exactly
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vocalists Glenn Hughes and
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teaming up with Gary’s former
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Airey and Neil Carter.
The best thing I’ve seen
recently: The Bohemian
Rhapsody biopic at the cinema.
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but overall it totally embraced
the legacy of one of this
country’s most successful bands
and the legendary Freddie
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be warned… you’ll laugh and
you’ll cry!
My Iron Maiden memory: Way
too many to mention! In April
2016 I had the honour and
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producing and mixing
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and Nicko. Then in
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heading back from
their headline
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on board Ed Force
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none other than
Bruce himself!
IAN DANTER
The best thing I’ve
heard recently:
Those Damn
Crows’ Blink Of An Eye is a
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debut album 0XUGHU$QG
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supporting Stone
Broken in 2019 will be
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The best thing I’ve
seen recently: Steve
Hackett at the
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a quite brilliant
talent
playing
such
gorgeous
music all
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Bowling Maiden over:
(clockwise) Darren Redick
and Wyatt Wendels with
Bruce, Paul Anthony
interviews Steve Harris.
orchestra behind adding
to the lush soundtrack.
My favourite Iron Maiden
memory: My mates and I sat
around at someone’s house
listening to the Mission From
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of 2 Minutes To Midnight and
pissing ourselves laughing at
Nicko’s rage!
LOZ GUEST
The best thing I’ve
heard recently:
The crushing new
track from Slipknot. It’s called
All Out Life and it’s hilariously
good. It actually made me laugh
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Thumbs up: Bradley of nervous laughter you get
Cooper and Lady Gaga when you’re a bit excitable.
in A Star Is Born.

The best thing I’ve
seen recently: I have
to say Red Dead
Redemption 2 on the Xbox One/
PS4. I’m a massive gamer and
I’ve seen a lot of landmark
games over the years, but this
thing is just incredible. The
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characters, the action and the
world that Rockstar Games have
created is simply staggering. It’s
my new mistress.
My favourite Iron Maiden
memory: My favourite Iron
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saying to my mother, “I saw
Bruce Dickinson on the tube
the other day”, to which she
replied, “Ooooh, I love Bargain
Hunt…” If it’s not one thing,
it’s your mother…
DARREN
REDICK
The best thing I’ve
heard recently: Yes
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recently. Good as it is, I don’t
know why they felt it necessary
to add crowd noise. Everyone
knows we Yes fans are bit more
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these days.
The best thing I’ve seen
recently: A Star Is Born with
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is great. Double Redick
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based his character on Eddie
Vedder and guess what? He
looks and sounds a lot like Eddie
Killer Queen: the
Bo Rhap biopic.
My First
gig
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fantastic too.
Where: Göta
My favourite Iron Maiden Lejon, Stockholm,
memory: ,W¶VDWRVVĥXSEHWZHHQ Sweden
two good ones. One was sitting When: December
in a booth at the Astoria 2 in 5, 1979
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as he demonstrated a few of his The first garage rock
band I was in was
party tricks following his gig
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called Burn. I was 14 Danny
Tate as The Three Tremors. He
years old and we were
fans of bands like Bowes
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beer coaster! You try it! There
Deep Purple, Thin
Lizzy, Kiss and UFO.
Presents
POCKET MONEY PICK
In 1979, me and the
was also the time he rode his
other guys in the band
bicycle up to Planet Rock for an decided to buy tickets
interview. There was something to the UFO concert at
very endearing in his rock the Göta Lejon theatre The first record you bought
godliness arriving in the in Stockholm, a with your own money.
humblest way. two-hour trip by train
from our hometown in This issue: PR reader
Bergslagen – which I’d Allan Twiname on
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Scorpions’ Blackout.
WENDELS without my parents.
Me and my friends
The best thing I’ve stayed at a cheap I was a late starter when it came to
heard recently: I’m hostel and the other music. The only albums my parents
really liking the new Rival Sons guys, who played regularly were Bill Haley, Ray
single. They really have crafted were older, Charles and the soundtrack to That’ll
a sound and production sound went out to Be The Day. But at school, some
you know you’ll always get, buy beer
friends of mine would tape their
before the
which is great if you’re a fan. albums and let anyone who was
concert. I
Really looking forward to the remember interested have a listen. I got a blank
new album early next year. drinking it tape and gave it to one of the friends.
for the first A couple of days later I was handed
The best thing I’ve seen time and it my tape back. Mind. Blown. Highway
recently: Shinedown on their tasted To Hell on one side, 1984 on the
recent UK tour. They’ve been awful! It would take a other. What an introduction!
few more years before
just brilliant on what is From that point I knew I needed
I got around to liking
essentially an intimate tour for rock music, and a decent stereo to go
it… We arrived at the
them compared with their US theatre and heard Phil with it. I saved everything I could until
status. The sound, the light Mogg doing his the day finally arrived. I bought my
show, the songs… just great! soundcheck. I started first stereo. Now I needed something
to get really excited to play on it. But what? I went into the
My favourite Iron Maiden and hoped they would Woolworths in Castle Douglas and
memory: I’ve many but I’ll go play my favorite song, down the racks. One album cover
Love To Love from the
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Lights Out album. This
gig. December 11, 1988, was during their
band I hadn’t heard of
Wembley Arena on the Seventh Strangers In The Night before, and one of the
Son… WRXU,ZDVMXVWDZLGHĥH\HG tour so the set list was coolest covers. I
rushed home and put
teenager with no idea what to built on the classic
expect but it blew me away. live album released it on straight away.
earlier that year. UFO And from the first
rocked like heroes notes of Blackout that
and, yes, they also
H EAR TH E GANG AN D was me, hooked on
A W H O L E L OT M O R E : played Love To Love.
Scorpions, hooked on
My first gig was
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complete. Who could
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LETTERS

THE EMAIL THAT MEN DO

YOUR LET TERS PRINTED! INCLUDES YOUR RIFFINGS ON BOTHERSOME GIG-CHAT TERERS, SHOVING
M O R E L E D Z E P I N T O T H E M A G A N D P R U D I S H LY P L A C E D S T A R S H A P E S … M A I L @ P L A N E T R O C K . C O M

YOU HAUNT ME, YOU TAUNT ME

I’m sure I am not alone in this gripe but I am getting sick to death
FIRST-CLASS MAIL with constant, inconsiderate chatting at gigs. I went to see Glenn
Hughes in Southampton a few weeks ago and had to move around the venue at least
half-a-dozen times to try and escape people who thought that we had all come to
listen to them shout at each other, rather than listen to the legend that is Mr Hughes.
I’m not sure what is most incredulous, the fact that they’d pay over 30 quid to just come
and talk all through the gig or that they don’t seem to care that they are talking through
what the rest of us have paid over 30 quid to listen to. It makes me so angry. I’ve tried
asking people to stop but no one appears to like being told what to do these days. I ask
people to keep it down and they tell me to fuck off. I really wouldn’t want have to resort
to anything more forceful and at 6’ 5” and 19 stone I am more than capable. But here’s
the thing, I wouldn’t be that rude or inconsiderate, it’s not what decent people do.
I guess my only option is not to go to any more gigs, which unfortunately is what I’ve
decided to do. I’ve got Saxon, Blackberry Smoke, The Temperance Movement and UFO Shut it!: the
to come and that will be it. I will retire along with Phil Mogg hot new gig-
Graham Andrews, via email going accessory.

DON’T YOU CARE
WHO YOU LET IN
Hell’s teeth, how much more Led
Zeppelin must you shove at us?
Didn’t you celebrate their 50th
anniversary back in issue 6? Did we
really need another 10 soddin’ pages
on the most over-rated rock band of
all time in ‘Zepptember’ too? How
about you remove your heads from
Jimmy Page’s arse and write about
some bands that would actually
benefit from some coverage?
Move on!
Stewart Enstoll, via email
I’VE GOT NOWHERE
TO CALL MY OWN
KK Downing: bitter much? That
interview (issue 10) was wild!
The guy is a legend, a proper
metal god, but given that he
walked out on Priest why should
I KNOW YOU’D HAVE YOU DAMAGED MY
GONE INSANE… MIND AND MY SOUL
Were you guys deliberately trying to At the risk of sounding a little rude, at
wind us up with that ’DC Top 40? No the best of times there are plenty of
Money Talks? No Put The Finger On massive tits in your magazine –
usually it’s the lead singer or the
You? No Go Down? Anyone can list
the greatest hits! And I don’t know guitarist in the band – but please
ANYONE who thinks that Problem enlighten me as to what happened
Child is the best ’DC song! on page 74 of the AC/DC issue,
Rosie forever! where one of Nazareth’s stripper
Bifter, via email friends appears to have her nipples
covered with modesty-preserving
Calm down, Bifter, it was
stars (albeit
just a nice way to celebrate
From coldheartdman’s see-through)
the group’s back catalogue
instagram: “Don’t often while the other one
via a genuine poll of the
buy rock magazines doesn’t. Do you think
mag’s ’DC heads.
anymore but when the we’re children or
cover matches your arm something and
you kinda have to…”
might be corrupted
by the sight of some
perfectly natural and
wholesome ‘Bristols’? Please,
don’t be so prudish, then
– and not before time. I remember
just how awesome they sounded the
first time I heard We Care A Lot –
and how different from all the
poodle-haired spandex schlock
rubbish (Poison, Mötley Crüe, etc)
that surrounded them. Although I
always did prefer Chuck Mosley to
Mike Patton, FNM were one of the
most kick-ass bands I have ever seen
live. The other being their
contemporaries, Jane’s Addiction,
who were, if possible, even more far
out in the boundaries they pushed.
On that tip, is there any chance of
PR taking a similar trip down manic
memory lane to celebrate the
Nothing’s Shocking album of 1988
and its astonishing cover art that
was actually a sculpture made by
Perry Farrell himself? I am sure there
are more than enough good stories
surrounding that release, the lyrical
INSTAGRAM, GET TY

seemingly bodge up the job. inspiration of Ted, Just Admit It being

he feel entitled to saunter back
Cyril Blaze, via email only one of them.
in just because poor Glenn
Tipton is ill? That’s not how the Norah Perry, via email
real world works! Fascinating I’M HAPPY IN MY Congratulations to Howard Thorpe,
interview, and well done to your STRANGE NEW WORLD the only PR reader to correctly identify
writer Mark Blake. Brilliant to see Faith No More that the mystery act in issue 10 were
Erin Tulton, Coleraine given their due in your pages LA hard rockers KK Wilde.

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FULL METAL JACKET
Planet Rock listeners show us their colours.
S TAT U S Q U O DAT E O F B I R T H : 1981 W H E N R E T I R E D : 1988
“Status Quo were the W H E R E F O U N D : The Chilterns
acceptable face of rock to my
parents because they appeared
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the ’81 tour and also saw the VD\V35UHDGHU-RQ7KHREDOG³%XW\HDUV
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“A friend of mine, RUSH
Niall, was a massive “This was the first piece
UFO fan and he of embroidery on the
introduced me to jacket: my mum helped
them. I think this with me with it. I recall
patch came from a once playing Permanent
little stall called Star Waves in English class
Spot in Chatham in at school and we
Kent, which we’d visit discussed the
every couple of weeks. alliteration in Freewill.
I saw UFO at Ramblin’ I first saw Rush in 1983,
Man a few years back, at Wembley Arena, but
and they’d still got it.” fell out of love with
them a bit when they
went a bit too
electronic.”

AC / D C
“I never
got to see
’DC with
Bon [Scott],
sadly, as I first
tuned in on
Back In Black
and For Those
About To Rock...
I saw them
at Donington in
the Monsters Of
WH ITE S NAKE Rock days, and
“This was Liz’s caught them again
favourite band at the a few years ago on
time. We saw them the Axl/’DC tour.
together in 1983 at I thought Axl did a
Hammersmith Odeon. pretty good job and
Embarrassingly, I he deserves a lot of
recall once sporting credit for stepping in
white leg warmers and helping out.”
and white leather
boots to try to imitate
GIANANDREA TRAINA

David Coverdale’s
fashion sense.
But I never had the
hair… and I’ve even
less of it now!” R A I N B OW
“I really admire Ritchie Blackmore as a musician
but it always seemed like his management style left Don’t be shy. Raid that wardrobe, shed or
something to be desired! I didn’t actually see Rainbow loft and email us a photo of your old colours
play until last year at the Stone Free festival. That was to appear in the next issue of Planet Rock.
a surreal experience. I’m glad I could finally tick them Contact: mail@planetrock.com.
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 WHO: Iggy Pop 'HWURLWORYHGĦORXGLQĥ\RXUĥIDFH
WHERE: Whisky A Go-Go, rock bands. And then we had the
Los Angeles MC5 and The Stooges. I really loved

WHEN: June 15, 1974

Iggy and The Stooges. I thought they
were the greatest thing ever.
HERE WAS THIS
We got on so well. Our theatre
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GUY WITH NO
I N 1 9 6 9 , when the
Alice Cooper band
theatre was the most punk thing I’d SHIRT ON
ever seen in my life. They were pure
moved to Detroit, we
played a gigantic festival
Detroit. Musically, they weren’t The AND NO
called the Saugatuck Pop Festival, and
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with the three chords they played,
PANTS ON,
backstage I remember someone
saying to me, ‘The Stooges are gonna
and Iggy was such a great frontman. WITH PEANUT
It was just raw sex and anger.
come on.’ I was like, Who’s that? I’d
Goodness knows what we were on BUTTER ALL
I L L U S T R AT I O N S : C W B

never heard of them. The guy just

said, ‘You’ll see…’ We were used to
when that photo was taken, it could
have been anything. Back then we’d
OVER HIM...
playing with bands like The Doors
do whatever was around at the time,
and Love in LA, but The Stooges
and probably do it to excess. But we’d
came on and here was this guy with
still be very functional. Those were
no shirt on and no pants on, just in
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his underwear, with peanut butter all
I’d still consider Iggy a friend.
over him, standing out in front of
About 10 years ago he and I did a
PHOTO: JAMES FORTUNE

150,000 people, going crazy.

movie together called Suck, a vampire
Back then I used to always say
movie that was really fun to make.
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One day I sat next to him on a plane,
after anybody, I knew what we could
and I talked to him for about 15
do. But when I saw Iggy I said, Oh
minutes and got absolutely no
boy, I just found my nemesis! I was
reaction at all. I thought he was
thinking, Well, this is going to be
mad at me. Finally his girlfriend
interesting, because now I had to go
tapped me on the shoulder and she
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I N T E RV I E W : PAU L B R A N N I G A N

goes, ‘Alice, Iggy is deaf in that ear,

After that, neither Iggy or I really
he hasn’t heard a word
wanted to go on after the other.
you said.’ All those
The Detroit scene was probably
years hanging out
the best rock’n’roll scene anywhere in
and I had no idea!
the world at that time. An artist like
Donovan would not have gone over in
Detroit. Savoy Brown were big there, Listen to N I G H TS W I T H
ALICE COOPE R every week night
and Fleetwood Mac when they were a
on Planet Rock. Monday nights at 7pm Lost boys: Alice
blues band, and The Kinks and The 7XHVGD\Ħ)ULGD\SP and Iggy, possibly
Yardbirds: those were the bands plotting Motor
City mischief.
30 PLANET ROCK
Upfront
Six songs about...
PEACE
AND LOVE
Von Hertzen Brothers frontman
Mikko on positive hippy vibes,
the best VHS rock docs and
Lennon lyrics to woo girls with.
1
LENNY KRAVITZ
Let Love Rule
(on Let Love Rule, 1989)
This album came out in 1989, just
as I started high school. This was
SUHĥJUXQJHDQGWKHUHZDVDNLQGD
hippy thing going on in our school.
I spent that summer in Los Angeles
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who’s now the drummer in our band
and was then studying at the Music
Institute in Hollywood, and we played
this constantly while driving around
/$,WUHDOO\GLGIHHOOLNHWKHZKROH
world was in front of us.
2
JOHN LENNON
Imagine
(on Imagine, 1971)
If you’re considering songs about
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ignore this song. It’s one that’s always
32 PLANET ROCK
Hippy sheik: the
Von Hertzen
Brothers with
Mikko VH (centre).
4
ELVIS COSTELLO
(What’s So Funny
’Bout) Peace, Love,
and Understanding
(on Armed Forces, US edition, 1979)
You never saw this song on
MTV, and it really wasn’t played
much on radio either, but for
some reason it got played
during our school discos, and
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hippy movement was fading away
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saying, “Don’t ridicule those guys,
what’s so funny about peace and
love?” It’s actually a good idea. I’ve
always been a hippy, and that line
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such a great song.
5
DIRE STRAITS
Brothers In Arms
WATCHING (on Brothers In Arms, 1985)
THE VIDEO If there’s one guitar player I admire
DVDVWRU\WHOOHULW¶V0DUN.QRSÀHU
FOR BROTHERS he’s a genius when it comes to
conveying a story without words.
IN ARMS When cable TV came to Finland
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GAVE ME of the videos I remember most, it
GOOSEBUMPS. had such strong, powerful visuals to
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been close to my heart. When I was out the video again when I was
researching for this and it brought
15, 16, I used to write out these lyrics
to girls and they’re such poignant EDFNVRPDQ\PHPRULHV
words even today. We called our it gave me goosebumps.
current album War Is Over, and that
6
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JOE COCKER
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(on Live At Woodstock, 2009)
problems we’re facing.
Growing up in Finland, not
many families had a VHS
3
PINK FLOYD
Us And Them player, and there were very
(on The Dark Side Of The Moon, 1973) few movies you could get.
Dark Side… is maybe the best album 2QHZDVWKH:RRGVWRFN
of all time for me personally, one of FRQFHUW¿OPVRZHZDWFKHG
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during my adolescence I realised that but he was 110 per cent
committed to the song. It’s
it was written during the Vietnam War
the best song in the movie,
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with the idea we need to come
TERO AHONEN, GET TY
song, questioning the narrative. It’s
together to face our problems.
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are we seeing the world in this
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tour the UK in December, starting
piano, and this was one of
with their appearance at Planet
my favourite songs to play. It’s
Rockstock on December 2. Their
a beautifully crafted War Is Over album is out now.
piece of art. Poignant
words:
Lennon.
Upfront
TOM MORELLO
T H E RAG E AGA I N S T T H E M AC H I N E A N D AU D I O S L AV E G U I TA R G E N I U S O N E XO T I C DA N C I N G ,
B R U C E S P R I N G S T E E N , S TA R T R E K , B E I N G I N JA I L A N D I N S P I RAT I O N A L B O O K S A B O U T RA B B I T S .
Follow your own North Star
There was a time when I’d do
anything to be a rock star. I had these
insane Jheri curls, I wore spandex,
had a bandana tied around my thigh,
YOUR CHILDREN
I was aiming for the black David Lee
Roth look, but was more like Lionel
ARE NOT YOUR
Richie at the time of Dancing On
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signed, we did everything the record
company told us to do and we failed
miserably. The day we were dropped I
AND DESTINIES
vowed I’d never play another note of
music I didn’t believe in. So whether
it was Rage Against The Machine,
Audioslave, Prophets of Rage, The
Nightwatchman, I followed my vision
and let the chips fall as they may.
The rent is not going to pay itself
,GLGVRPHFUXPP\MREVĦWHOHVDOHV
selling garbage bags, I was an exotic
dancer. The Commodores’ Brick
House will get you a long way to
paying the rent.
Aim high
:LWKĬQHZVRORDOEXPĭThe
Atlas Underground I wanted
to create a sonic conspiracy
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ethnicities, ages to forge a
new kind of rock’n’roll, one
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fury with huge EDM drops.
There were no barriers.
Let songs find their own path
Each song on the album came
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Clark Jr and I jammed for three hours
at my house and from that I forged a
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Marcus Mumford and I Skyped over
34 PLANET ROCK
MY GUIDE TO LIFE
a number of weeks playing acoustic
guitars, which were then brought to
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it to Killer Mike and Big Boi to write
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diatribe. My role on The Atlas
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writer or guitar player but of curator.
HAVE SOULS
Screw you if you are not
on board
DIFFERENT TO You’ve got to like what you like and
be at peace with yourself. Whether
YOURS… that’s being a Kiss fan, a black heavy
PHWDOJXLWDULVWD6WDU7UHNIDQĦ
you’ve got to be who you are, even if
it isolates you. Star Trek’s got
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interracial kiss. It was put together
during the Cold War and has got a
Russian and a Vulcan getting on
harmoniously on the bridge. It
painted a picture of what the world
could be one day if we got our shit
together. I had a cameo in Star Trek
Insurrection, I was a Son’a.
Don’t be afraid to meet
your heroes
I toured with Bruce Springĥ
steen over six years as a part
of the E Street Band, got
to play with him at Pete
Seeger’s 90th birthday
concert. Bruce’s commitĥ
ment to excellence is well
known but his open
mindedness is also
inspiring. We were playing
Perth and the night before
I visited Bon Scott’s grave.
I went to the hotel bar after
and said to Bruce, “Will the circle of
the E Street Band ever intersect the
circle of AC/DC for us to play a song
tomorrow?” Bruce went to his room
and later that night texted me: “Yes,
Highway To Hell”, and we played this
incredible version.
Always have your kids’ back
The lesson I learned from my mum
was to give unconditional love, to
make your child realise that no matter
what happens you’ll always love them
and that they can always come home.
You’ve got to recognise your children
are not your pets, they are indepenĥ
dent of you, they have souls and
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just got to help them be the people
they are meant to be through
empathy, kindness and determination.
Jail sucks
There’s this romantic notion about
going to jail but let me tell you, being
in jail really sucks. And I’m lucky,
I’ve only been in for a short time.
But you have to put your soul where
your mouth is sometimes, and put
yourself at risk. .
PHOTO: GETTY
Read Richard Adams’
Watership Down
“What? You want me to read a book
about rabbits?” But it’s so much more
I N T E RV I E W L O I S W I L S O N
than that: it’s about friendship,
VROLGDULW\VWUXJJOHĦWKHZKROHRIOLIH
is in this book. I go back to it every
other year, never tire of it.
The Atlas
TO M M O R E L L O ’ S
Underground is out now
via BMG.
 This machine kills
fascists: Morello in
Rage Against The
Machine pomp.
Upfront
 Motor-bicycle race:
the Argentinian CHiPs
chaps, aka FRiTAs,
larking with Queen, ’81.

Don’t Stop
Me Now!
Queen duo share the

ON PLANET ROCK secrets behind the songs

in Xmas radio special.

Q U E E N ’ S B R I A N M AY and Roger
Taylor cheerfully admit that they had no clue
what bandmate John Deacon was trying to
achieve when the bassist wrote the band’s
“immortal” 1980 hit single Another One
Bites The Dust.
“It’s fair to say we had no idea what on
earth he was doing when he started this,” says
May, as the Queen duo talk through the
stories behind their greatest hits in
a Queen special to be broadcast on
Planet Rock radio over the
Christmas holidays. “It’s one of
Deaky’s masterpieces. I guess it’s
part of the strength of the band
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which Roger and I never would have
gone, unless we were coerced, and it just
turned out to be brilliant.”
Taken from the band’s eighth studio album,
The Game, Another
“IT WAS One Bites The Dust
MICHAEL became Queen’s
JACKSON WHO second US Number 1
SUGGESTED single, topping the
charts for three weeks
WE RELEASE
in October 1980.
IT. I THOUGHT
“We weren’t going to
HE WAS NUTS!”
release it as a single,”
admits Taylor. “It was
actually Michael Jackson who suggested we
release it. I thought he was nuts!”
Queen’s Rockblock special will be aired
as part of Planet Rock radio’s festive programĥ
ming. Other highlights of the season will
include a Led Zeppelin special, and a
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in December for more details.

This shot of Queen in Argentina is taken from

Neal Preston’s stunning photo book, Exhilarated And
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 THE
PLANET
ROCK
INTERVIEW
AS THE HARDEST-WORKING MAN IN MUSIC,
JOE BONAMASSA HAS ALWAYS BEEN HAPPIEST
LETTING HIS GUITAR DO THE TALKING. BUT NOW
THE BLUES MAGUS FINDS HIMSELF AT A CROSS-
ROADS, WITH SOME BIG DECISIONS TO MAKE…
INTERVIEW BY MARK BLAKE. PORTRAIT BY ROSS HALFIN

JOE BONAMASSA
BOR N
May 8, 1977
New Hartford,
New York
OCCU PATION
Singer
Guitarist
YEAR S ACTIVE
1989 – Present
ASSOCIATE D ACTS
Black Country Communion
Beth Hart
Mahalia Barnes
Bloodline
ROSS HALFIN

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mate places Bonamassa’s net worth at $20 million.] Eric Clapton… i i .Li ,I l i pl i
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[1992’s Unplugged] and won every Grammy going, You’re from the home of the blues, but you
that’s the nature of the business. Also, we’re in the
including Best Spanish Spoken Word or whatever love the British and Irish take on that music:
Opera House and U2 is over at the Arena tonight.
(laughs). A guy at school came up to me and said, Free, Zeppelin, Rory Gallagher, etc.
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 huge Fabulous Thunderbirds fan I said, “Hey
Jimmy, that white Strat you used to play? Is that
because you wanted to be like Cliff Gallup in Gene
Vincent And His Blue Caps and all those other cats?”
And he went, “Er, yes, I guess I did.” Sometimes the
mystique we put on our favourite music is more
interesting than the truth. We don’t always want to
know the truth.
There’s a great song called Self-inflicted
Wounds on the new record. How easy do you
find it writing your own material?
I don’t consider myself a good songwriter. I consider
myself a bloke who watches good songwriters and,
like a clock, twice a day it works out and I get it
right – like with Self-inflicted Wounds. You have to
write some real shit songs to get some good ones.
Everybody has their share of misses.
Do you ever worry you might be a
bit too prolific?
Probably. Our model has been to make
a record when you feel like making a
record. Every time we put one out, our
fans are nice enough to buy it, until they
don’t (laughs). But until that day…
Why have you released so many
WALNUTS
live albums?
Joe hates the things.
We’ve done a lot of live records based “I don’t know anyone
on venues and places we’ve played, but who likes walnuts,”
he protests. “Nobody
also because the songs develop on the
in the world ever
road. I love live records, because they’re
the moment of truth for any artist. says, ‘Oh man! I wish
Although these days you can’t count on Planters would put
more walnuts in this
what’s live and what’s not. There might
jar of mixed nuts.’”
be someone behind the curtain, like the
fucking Wizard Of Oz.
What are your favourite live albums that
don’t have a wizard behind the curtain?
BB King’s Live At The Regal and Blues Is King, which
I like better than Live At The Regal, because it’s kind
of unknown. Also Humble Pie’s Performance: Rockin’
The Fillmore. I don’t think there was ever a better
male rock singer than Steve Marriott. You could ask
the best – like Glenn Hughes or Robert
Plant – and they’ll tell you Marriott in his
prime was untouchable. He should
have been a household name.
In a way your career approach
is the antithesis of someone
like Marriott’s. He suffered with
bad management and sub-
stance abuse.
Yeah, but you can’t blame it all on
that, because there’s a lot of suc-
cessful junkies with bad manag-
ers out there. It’s more complex
than that. I think fear of success
affects some people.
Is fear of success in music
more common than people
think it is? You seem
very happy being on
this rollercoaster, but
42 PLANET ROCK
“WHAT MAKES ME GREAT
AT MY JOB MAKES ME
SHIT AT OTHER THINGS.”
there are other great musicians who just
want to get off it.
Or they just hated the fucking rollercoaster to begin
with. That’s OK too. We decided a long time ago to
control our own destiny. That’s been our strategy and
it works for us, but may not work for others. Look at
someone like Bobby Tench, who sang on those two
great Jeff Beck records [Rough And Ready and Jeff
Beck Group]. He had one of the best voices of the
’70s. What happened? Why aren’t we
talking about Bobby Tench these days?
I
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Glenn ‘The Voice Of Rock’
Hughes, Jason ‘Son Of John’
Bonham and Dream Theater’s
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selection of his side projects, making you
wonder if there aren’t more than 24 hours in
Joe Bonamassa’s day.
You’ve collaborated with a lot of other
artists. What’s the appeal?
I like mixing it up. There’s no point in me fronting an-
other band when I have a perfectly good solo band,
so I like to get up with other artists, play my guitar and
not have to worry about being the guy. A lot of people
see me on-stage with Beth or Black Country and ask
why I’m not wearing the suit. I tell them, because
that’s the other guy. I’m just here, being the sideman,
there’s no pressure.
How does Black Country Communion work?
Does one of you send the initial email or
make the call – “Want to make a record?”
Yes. For the last record [2017’s BCCIV] I made the
call. I reached out to them, and before that it tended
to be a combination of [producer] Kevin Shirley and
myself. We ask ourselves: do we have time? Does it
make sense?
You’ve said that some of your solo fanbase
don’t get Black Country Communion?
It’s not for everyone. Black Country Communion is on
the fringes of what I do solo. I’m cut from that Brit
blues-rock cloth, so it’s not a stretch for me, as I grew
up with Ritchie Blackmore, Beck, Page and Clapton.
Some people get it and some just don’t get it. That’s
fine. By far, though, the most successful collabora-
tion I do is with Beth Hart, probably because that’s
closer to what I usually do on my own.
What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without
playing the guitar?
Six months, in my late teens when I lost my record
deal and didn’t have any prospects. I felt fine
for that six months. We just had a month
off between the summer run and this
tour and I didn’t play much. Real life
comes into it, and suddenly you find
yourself thinking, “Shit I got to go to
the bank and do this and do that,”
and before you know it you’re
watching Netflix all the time.
Do you enjoy not working?
I enjoy being at home now more
than I did five years ago, I think,
’cos I’m older. When you come
off the merry-go-round, even
for a minute you go, Hey, this
isn’t so bad. But at the end of
the day I chose this life. I’m
also not sure I believe it when
people say they have this per-
fect balance of career and
family life. On paper it

MY KIND OF BLUES
The best of Joe Bonamassa, by Joe Bonamassa.
Suits you sir: JB at
London’s Royal Albert
Hall on May 4, 2009.
1 3
ASKING AROUND
FOR YOU
(on You & Me, 2006)
“The first thing I’ll do before I meet my
maker, I’m gonna ask around for you,”
declares Bonamassa at the start of this
graceful orchestrated number. The string
section soars and sweeps before the boss
breaks free with an explosion of stinging,
sustained notes. “Apparently, this song gets
played at both weddings and funerals,” he
reveals. “It celebrates both sides of life.”
2
SLOE GIN
(on Sloe Gin, 2007)
Composed by premier-league producer
Bob Ezrin and top-drawer arranger Michael
Kamen for Rocky Horror Picture Show star
Tim Curry, this gut-wrenching blues later
became Joe B’s calling
card (though he swaps
Curry’s 18-rated lyric “I’m
so fucking lonely” for the
more family-friendly “I’m
so damn lonely”). “This
was the first song
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anybody heard of me. It
really connected with
people on a bigger level.”
MOUNTAIN
TIME – LIVE
(on Live From The Royal Albert Hall, 2009)
Originally on Bonamassa’s 2002 release,
So, It’s Like That, the boss favours this
slower-paced take. Bonamassa’s on
suspenseful, unhurried form, letting the
guitar do the talking on an ode to a girl
who’s “wild as eagles, sweet as honey-
suckle”. “There are two different versions,”
he explains, “and we’ve just bought this
slow one back. People love it.”
4
THE BALL AD OF
JOHN HENRY
(on The Ballad Of John Henry, 2009)
“I have to include it,” says Joe, “as I’m
flattered to get 25-year-olds coming up to
me saying they learned to play guitar from
hearing John Henry.” This
modern twist on
Mississippi John Hurt’s
ode to the hammer-wield-
ing African-American folk
hero distills the essence
of Bonamassa: dextrous
guitar runs, battering-ram
drums and a lyric loaded
with pain and heartache.
5
DUST BOWL
(on Dust Bowl, 2011)
“This is still one of my
best,” offers Bonamassa. A
marching blues built around a
slinky four-note guitar figure (think: a
swamp-rock take on David Gilmour’s
signature intro to Shine On You Crazy
Diamond), this also find its composer in
the grip of whisky-induced romantic
turmoil. “Diamonds and pearls/Ya that
kinda girl/you size me up to break me
down/While you’re sippin’ on your
Crown Royal”.
6
BL ACK LUNG
HEARTACHE
(on Dust Bowl, 2011)
Bonamassa plays the role of the rural
dweller depicted on the cover of the
Dust Bowl album. This hard-working
man of the soil is worn down by
poverty and old Mother Nature (“I’ve
shed many tears/Seems I can’t
shed no more”), while Joe and his
band whip up a biblical tempest of
heavy-footed Zeppelin-style blues.
7
THE VALLEY
RUNS LOW
(on Blues Of Desperation,
2016)
A charming country-blues
co-written with
Californian singer-com-
poser James House
(the brains behind hits
for a bunch of country
artists, including Dwight
Yoakam). A trio of female
backing singers add a
gospel touch as Bona-mas-
sa serenades the girl of his
dreams (“I’m gonna
wait/’Til I hear her
calling”), though she’s
forever slightly out
of reach.
8
SELF-
INFLICTED
WOUNDS
(on Redemption, 2018)
Bonamassa’s soul
searching reaches
breaking point on this
fabulous, haunted blues. Is
it the sound of his troubled
subconscious? “It’s my
favourite song on the new
record,” he declares.
Composed in Cuba during
a pre-gig reconnaissance
trip (“It never materialised,
the place was a little shady”),
the Earth-moving guitar solo
at 4:04 might just be
Bonamassa’s Comfortably
Numb-style best yet.
Minor fret: Joe
Bonamassa with
some of his treasured
axes, at home in Los
Angeles, May 2011.
 looks like a combination of, I dunno, [the 1950s
US family sitcom] Ozzie And Harriet meets the
Osbournes, but in real life? I’m not so sure.
Other than Netflix, what do you do on your
days off?
(Long pause and much twanging) My hobby is
collecting guitars (laughs), which I know is a stupid
extension of what I do.
That’s ridiculous. You’ve not really stopped
If you had a kid, would you encourage them
to play the guitar?
“WILL I BE DOING THIS Not a chance. I think music is very important. It
enriches lives, it helps people cope, helps people be-
IN 10 YEARS? IF I HAVE come more well-rounded and better in school. But as
far as recommending a career – no. It’s a very difficult
ANY FUCKING SAY, NO...” and unsettled business, especially now. I’ll say this –
and you can use it as a soundbite – when I walk away
from the music business and guitar playing, that’s it, I
will probably not play anymore.

working, have you?
No. I really have not stopped. There’s a reason why
I have made so many albums. But what happens
when you do stop is you start to see fissures and
cracks in not just yourself but your relationship with
others, and you think, “Man, I’m not as good a human
being as I would like to be.”
Are you in a relationship now?
I have had the same girlfriend [Australian singer-
songwriter Sinead Burgess] for four years and I love
her dearly. But (longer pause, even more twanging)
I’ve ended up at a point where I am constantly on the
go. You don’t know what you’re chasing, but you’re
chasing something – the next show, the next record
– because that’s how you’re programmed. And ulti-
mately you wake up one day and think, “Jesus Christ,
how many more guitars do I need?” And you realise
you’ve become a part-time alcoholic and
a part-time obsessive compulsive guitar collector.
When did you start feeling like this?
That’s how I found myself at the tail-end of making
this album. Looking back, some of the songs written
before this grand self-realisation were almost a cry
for help. It was my sub-conscious speaking. You can’t
ignore the subconscious. I realised, “Holy crap! I am
41 years old, and this behavioural pattern is unsus-
tainable.” I had to throw this shit down or I was going
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– “politics is a cesspool” – but as The Noisemakers, to fact, I know I’m not a lifer. But, hey, there
all non-believers: “If I
a globe-trotting American, you might be an act two, but with me doing
wasn’t this guy, I’d be
must be asked to comment on something else. Ten years from now,
running Bruce’s fan
politics all the time? people might say, “I don’t understand
club and sending our
Yeah, all the time. But there are two why Joe Bonamassa gave it all up to
bumper stickers.”
things. One, I have my political views and start a pumpkin patch.”
they’re not what you think. [Bonamassa

to hit a brick wall.
Let’s go back to the bit about being a “part-
time alcoholic”.
I was probably drinking too much earlier this year and
I just stopped. It wasn’t court mandated. It wasn’t mea
culpa – to weasel myself out of trouble when some-
thing offensive I said on Twitter went viral: “Ooh, sorry,
I was drinking too much.” No, If that ever happens it’s
not alcohol, just me being cranky. The thing is, I’ve
never done a drug in my life, but I probably indulged
too much in other areas. My thing is never going on-
stage and giving less than 100 per cent. But when
you find yourself hitting the bar after the show and
you’re prioritising that, remember who put you there
are the fans. So you owe them.
How easy is it to stay sober on tour, though?
Ultimately, I can’t abuse myself, and still show up at
8 o’clock and hit the notes. Some people can fucking
gargle Goldschläger all night, smoke like a chimney
and then wheel themselves out on-stage and its per-
fect. But that’s somebody else’s constitution – not
ROSS HALFIN
doesn’t answer when I tell him I have no idea what his
political views might be.] And, two, America as a
country is so divided, it’s really 50/50. So when I go
out in front of, say, 2,500 people I have to consider
that 1,250 people hate Trump and 1,250 think he’s a
saint – and that’s in any state in America. Regardless
of what I think, I have to remember I’m not selling
what I think. A big part of my job is to offer escapism
from all that.
A lot of musicians would say you should
voice your opinions.
Yeah, I know, and a lot of musicians are up their own
ass. People don’t need to hear what I think about
politics. (Starts strumming) The last thing the world
needs is yet another idiot chiming in about politics on
Twitter. You know, I am no different from the cashier
at Tesco. So imagine you’re at the checkout and I’m
your guy. You’ve got a roast chicken, some Doritos, a
bottle of cheap Chardonnay…
Have you been looking at my shopping list?
…Some soya beans and some fucking, I dunno,
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mine. If you want to know what’s in front of me right
now, there’s a tray of vegetables, some hummus, a
couple of bottles of water and some non-alcoholic
beers. The party has no intention of starting here in
Copenhagen tonight.
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and suddenly launch into a tirade about Brexit. What
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politics is like that. I’m the guitar-playing equivalent of on Mascot/J&R Records.
the cashier boy. Shut up and play your guitar, Joe.

PLANET ROCK 45
Finger buffet: Lzzy
Hale channels her inner
Joan Jett, backstage at
Birmingam’s O2 Academy,
September 24, 2018.
 ON THE ROAD

BAD
REPUTATION
Fronted by the iconic Lzzy Hale,
H A L E S T O R M have spent 21 years
building a cross-Atlantic audience for the
singer’s raw, confessional songs
exploring female sexuality and desire.
Planet Rock joins the Pennsylvania
hard rockers in Birmingham
to uncover the secrets
that have taken them
to the cusp of
arena stardom.

WORDS PHOTOS
JAMES SANDRA
MACKINNON SORENSEN

PLANET ROCK 47
 I T IS AN U N S E AS O N A B LY
Monday evening in Birmingham and
the weekend feels like it’s years away,
but inside the O2 Academy’s walls
everybody is cutting loose. Fists are thrown
high in the air and plastic cups of beer are
spilled as the crowd moves to a thrashing
warm
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Joe Hottinger and Lzzy Hale
trade riffs in front of drummer
Arejay Hale; (below, from left)
Halestorm tour art, the Brum
faithful, Joe crashes out, and
L. Hale, Hottinger, Smith and
groove. Further back, older veterans and couĥ A. Hale get into squad formation.

ples with young children, some in small leather

jackets, line the balcony and stairs, craning
their necks to get a better look at the band.
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months in advance, Halestorm are blasting out
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but she’s still pumped up as she describes the
fateful events of August 9, 1997. Armed with a
Casio keyboard and an original ballad entitled
Love Is Power, Lzzy and her drumming brothĥ
er Arejay took the stage for a talent show at
Schuylkill County Fair. The response was
somewhat less than rapturous.
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old girl who came second place was singing a
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TLC, then slam the eject button when
Lzzy put on Holy Diver by Dio or Alice
Cooper’s Love It To Death. At 15, she was
already playing rock shows with Arejay
and getting into trouble at school for
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recordings, a cassette auspiciously entitled
A Forecast For The Future.

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teenager because I would meet people and say,
I’m Lzzy Hale… and I’m in a band called
Halestorm! We made up cards and would hand
them to complete strangers. I was hiding
custom picks in shoes in Walmart thinking
somebody who buys that shoe will see the pick
and look up our band.”
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their songs. Their mother would book and
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Skid Row and Heart in bars lenient enough to
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came and went until the band relocated to Philĥ
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a song, comes right up to me in the middle of
the room and stares at me like she’s singing
through me,” he says, his eyes widening at the
memory. “So I was like, What the fuck is this?
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“We were trying to work out how we
could get him in the band,” chips in Hottinger.
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a show, can you do that? We’ll give you 20
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with a similar drive, and it really wasn’t until
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her warpaint.
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hat, shoes, jacket, everything,” Hottinger
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giggles. “But it doesn’t click until you watch
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totally a stripper song!”
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many Halestorm lyrics, and nowhere has
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GIRLS THINK ABOUT SEX probably had twice the career that a lot of
bands have had and we’re still moving forward.”
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squeeze his lemon, Lzzy understandably sees
JUST AS MUCH AS, IF NOT Bus call isn’t for another 20 minutes, but
there is a small crowd of fans still waiting outĥ
no distinction when it comes to writing lyrics
about her own pleasures.
MORE THAN, GUYS.”
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will take the band that time to make their way
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as much as, if not more than, guys,” she says They stretch I Miss The Misery into a doors to the coach.
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proached with, ‘This is really weird.’ And I’m with a huge singalong of Here’s To Us. As the place and says, “The way I see it, everybody
like, Well, why is it weird? Screw it, I’m gonna FURZG GLVSHUVHV PXOWLSOH /]]\ 0LQLĥ0HV IHHOVWKDWHOHFWULFLW\ZKHQ\RXJHWXSRQĥVWDJH
do it anyway! And truly, it’s just an extension of dressed in leather jackets and sparkling shoes, and people are listening to you. I still do, every
me and I think anybody who has met me or give their ecstatic smiles. time. What matters is what you do with it.”
spoken to me, even online, understands that. “That to me is probably the coolest,” says She smiles, then turns and strides towards
“It’s a big reason why I decided very early Smith back in the dressing room as Arejay her people. As the four muscians spend their
on to be open with our fans, because it’s honĥ pushes liberal plastic cups of Jameson into last minutes chatting to new fans and embracĥ
estly easier. It’s easier to be unapologetically open hands. “We had some openers in Ireland ing those recognised from previous shows, you
myself than to try and put up this facade. And, who had female singers and they both said the can sense an excitement that has propelled
if anything, the whole rock star and being cool same thing, that they started singing because them this far and will no doubt keep on pushĥ
thing, the reason that I got into rock music is of Lzzy. It’s crazy to see these people you’re inĥ ing them to higher ground.
because I wasn’t cool.” ÀXHQFLQJ %XW LW¶V IXQQ\ WRR EHFDXVH WKDW Only a fool or a Schuylkill County
As if to emphasise this point, Arejay makes dates us a little bit, like, Oh shit! We’re old!” Fair judge would bet against them.
his entrance into the dressing room carrying a “I’m super proud that I’ve been in this band
pressed white shirt and a pair of bright green longer than I haven’t been in my life,” muses
H A L E S TO R M ’s current album Vicious is out
shorts emblazoned with red popsicles. They Lzzy. “My little brother and I talk about this a now on Atlantic Records. The band are on tour
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appropriate moment to ask him if his big sister
is right about being uncool.
“I don’t think either of us were ever cool,”
he chirps, hanging the clothes on a nearby mirĥ
ror. “But if being cool is trying your hardest to
be the best person you can be, then, heh, yeah.”
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Brum enchanted
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endorsed by Ronnie James Dio, Joan Jett and Birmingham farewell.
Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, there is a
grain of truth in there. What you see with
Halestorm is, in fact, what you get, and it is
their quiet determination that has assured
their steady ascent and place in the hearts of
fans around the world. With talks in play for an
arena tour in their own right next year, the
road ahead is still wide open.
“I think it comes down to, Can you make a
moment?” muses Hottinger of their appeal.
“Something where people go, ‘Fuck yeah!’ That
goes beyond genre and language. Just, ‘Fuck
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“That’s all that matters.”

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moments. Lzzy opens with a

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that is equal parts Tina Turner

and Ronnie James Dio, slipping
seamlessly into Do Not Disturb’s lascivious
grind. Arejay later produces comically overĥ
sized sticks and lays into a drum solo that is so
Spinal Tap you half expect him to go the way of
all ’Tap sticksmen and spontaneously combust.

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 Up in smoke: Aerosmith’s
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Hotel, London, October, ’76.
 Alice Cooper’s producer thought
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But frontman Steven Tyler always
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Beyond the fringe:
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Auditorium, Santa
Monica, June 1975.
All the young dudes
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Whitford, Joe Perry,
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 Dream on:
Steven Tyler and
Brad Whitford on-
stage, June 1975.

“DRUGS WERE PART OF OUR LIFESTYLE,

BUT SLEEP DEPRIVATION WAS JUST
AS IMPORTANT...”
STEVEN TYLER

“We were a band who were still trying to prove ourselves, and we
were conscious that whatever music we wrote, we’d be playing it on the
road for the next year. So the consideration was, How is this going to go
down live?’ We wrote everything with that in mind, and with the fans in
mind. As a songwriter you start thinking in terms of, If I was sitting in
the audience, what would I want to hear? That gave new focus to the
songs that ended up on Toys…
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together in Boston in 1971 he’d sit in his room and get stoned and play
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G E T T Y , L L OY D N E L S O N / F RO M T H E B I L L A D L E R A RC H I V E AT T H E C O R N E L L H I P H O P C O L L E C T I O N
Get Your Wings at its peak. The band hit the road hard, with the likes
of Foghat, Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon in support: by December
their momentum carried them all the way to New York’s fabled Madison
Square Garden.
For Tyler, who’d long dreamed of appearing at the iconic arena,
the success was bittersweet.
“We were worked to death,” he recalled. “We were seen as a cash cow.
We did three shows a week and we were kept on blow. No one ever once
said, ‘You guys had better take a break.’ At any time I could have had
a heart attack and people would have looked away and
said, ‘Well, we didn’t know what they were doing.’ Bullshit!
Everybody knew what we were doing and we were a mess.”
Nonetheless, in the midst of the madness, the singer
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them stars.
“I knew we’d made it,” he wrote in his autobiography
Does The Noise in My Head Bother You. “I was the kid
who put my initials in the rock ’cos I wanted the aliens to
know I was there. It’s a statement of longevity. The record
will be played long after you’re dead. Our records would be
60 PLANET ROCK
“WE WERE WORKED TO DEATH,
A CASH COW KEPT ON BLOW.”
STEVEN TYLER
up there in the attic, too, with the things that you loved and never wantĥ
ed to forget. And to me, Aerosmith was becoming that.”
Speaking to this writer in 2017, Joe Perry was, typically,
a little more measured than his old pal, in his assessment of
the record, sales of which then stood at 32 million copies
worldwide.
“Well, those songs still resonate with the fans, that’s for
sure,” said Perry. “With the early records, we’d play almost
every song live, and you quickly learn which ones the
audience likes, those songs rise to the surface for a reason.
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Rocks, we came closest to making the perfect
Aerosmith album.”
 BREAKING
DOWN THE
WALLS
In 1986, thanks to a call
from Run-DMC, Aerosmith
unexpectedly found themselves
pioneering the crossover
between rock and hip hop.
By Mark Blake.
IN 1985, Aerosmith were, if not dead,
then floundering. That year’s Done With
Mirrors LP failed to revive their career,
and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were
bouncing between drug binges and
spells in rehab. Meanwhile, the hotly
tipped US hip hop trio Run-DMC were
making a new album, Raising Hell, when
their co-producer Rick Rubin played
them Toys In The Attic.
After encouraging them to rap over
Walk This Way, Rubin called Aerosmith’s
manager Tim Collins to ask if Tyler and
Perry would guest on Run-DMC’s cover.
“Um, Rick, what is rap?” asked Collins.
Still, the promise of $8,000 for the
session was enough to lure the recently
Toxic Twins to the studio. “They’d made
a loop of the song,” Tyler recalled, “and
Sight for sore eyes:
Joe Perry and his Corvette
Stingray, Waltham,
Massachusetts,
August 10, 1975.
they were rapping over it.
I thought, What’s this gonna be?”
In Walk This Way, the libidinous Tyler
swaps masturbation for “going down on
a muffin” and manages to bed a cheer-
leader, her sister and her cousin. The
bragging lyric and the rolling cadence
of the vocal lent itself to a hip hop treat-
ment. Strip in Jam Master Jay’s hypnotic
drum loop and Joe Perry’s slashing guitar
riff – and the results were irresistible. “It
had a swagger our version didn’t have,”
admitted Tyler later.
It was the video, though, which com-
pounded how revolutionary this fusion
was in 1986. Symbolically, Run-DMC
were shown in one studio, Tyler and Perry
in another, both parties banging on the
dividing wall in protest at the noise the
other is making. Then Tyler batters his
way into DMC’s studio to howl “Walk
this-a-waaay!” through a hole in the
wall, and the sparring factions are united
on-stage.
Run-DMC’s Walk This Way became
a Top 10 UK and US hit; Run-DMC
saw Raising Hell reach Number 1, and
Aerosmith gained a new young with
1987’s Permanent Vacation LP, their
biggest hit yet. By the turn of the ’90s,
the likes of Faith No More and Red Hot
Chili Pepper had further broken down the
barriers between rock and hip hop, and
Public Enemy and Anthrax were unveiling
their thrash/rap love-in
Bring The Noise.
But the journey Clash: Aerosmith
started here. and Run-DMC
at Magic Venture
Studios, NYC,
March 9, 1986.
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 THE YEAR
IN ROCK

It’s been another thrilling

year for rock music, with
legends returning and
a raft of fabulous new
talent emerging. We asked
Planet Rock’s presenters
and writers to nominate
their favourite albums of
the year, and having totted
up the votes we now unveil
PANiK

the results. Fancy winning

them all? Step this way…
PLANET ROCK 65
THE YEAR
IN ROCK

14
Myles Kennedy
Year Of The Tiger
(NAPALM)

Myles Kennedy’s
spot on the Outlaw
Country Stage at
2018’s Ramblin’ Man
Fair showed his
New noise: Myles willingness to step
Kennedy and away from the full-throttle
(below) angelic demands of his arena-rock day job.
upstarts Turnstile. This debut solo album was
inspired by the death of Kennedy’s
father, a Christian Scientist who
refused medical treatment on
religious grounds, when his son
was just four years old. Myles
strives to make sense of it all on
songs such as Blind Faith and
Ghost Of Shangri-La. By allowing
acoustic and slide guitars and
subtle string arrangements do the
hard graft, he lets these deeply
personal songs breathe. It’s not all
navel-contemplation introspection,
though. There’s a quiet optimism
to Year Of The Tiger, and a sense
of nostalgic fun to one song,
Haunted By Design, where
Kennedy – accidentally on
purpose? – sounds more like an
early ’80s David Coverdale than
the man himself on Whitesnake’s
Come An’ Get It.

13
Therapy?
18 16
Blackberry Smoke Stone Temple Pilots
Find A Light Stone Temple Pilots Cleave
(EARACHE) (RHINO) (MARSHALL)

Flesh And Bone, the Naming a new album Angry slightly older

20
Howlin’ Rain first song on Find A after the band itself men alert! Impending
The Alligator Bride Light, suggests a suggests STP making middle age hasn’t
(SILVER CURRENT) monster truck a fresh start following smoothed off
bumping across the frontman Scott Northern Irish
The fifth full-lengther New Mexico desert, Weiland’s tragic power-trio Therapy?’s
from these West steer horns on the radiator grille, demise. New boy Jeff Gutt’s radio- barbed edges. Cleave provides another
Coast blues-rockers friendly roar fits the brief like an old outlet for mouthpiece Andy Cairns’s
Skynyrd on the radio. The wheels keep
and Rick Rubin’s pair of Docs, and the San Diegan fuck-the-world rhetoric (“Do you feel
turning, on 12 more nuggets of
former protegés grunge survivors’ comeback LP is an let down? ’Cos I feel so let down,” he
delivers a whisky Southern-fried rock’n’roll, as loud and
proud as Smoke frontman Charlie embarrassment of whirling-dervish, announces on Kakistocracy) amid a
barrel-load of weeping slide guitar Zeppelin-tinged riches. warmly familiar barrage of bulldozing
and poetic story-telling from mighty- Starr’s woolly-mammoth sideburns.
drums and guitars.
bearded preacher man Ethan Miller.

15
What, though, in Lucifer’s name, is an The Temperance
17
Slash featuring

12
alligator bride – would you marry one,
Movement Idles
and what would happen on the Myles Kennedy & Joy As An Act Of
wedding night? The Conspirators A Deeper Cut
(EARACHE)
Resistance
Living The Dream (PARTISAN)

19
Stone Broken (SNAKEPIT/ROADRUNNER) TM frontbloke Phil
It’s not every year Brit
Campbell (below) and
Ain’t Always Easy Slash might have punk gets sonically
his men’s sturdy Brit
(SPINEFARM) been welcoming us reinvented and given
take on the blues just
back to the jungle in a singular new voice,
The West Midlands gets bigger and better,
2018, but Living The but that’s what’s
foursome’s second even after
Dream disproves the happened thanks to
album sports riffs weathering some pesky
notion that Myles K Joe Talbot’s discombulating
larger than the line-up changes.
and his Conspirators are Slash’s A Deeper Cut shimmies Bristolian noisemen, Idles.
testicles of the North
Sunday-morning kickabout team and pimp rolls, like Grown-up man-angst – about
PAUL HARRIES

Pacific right whale, but

also the tunes to match. You could strip
paint with the guitars on Worth
Fighting For and still have a smoochie
first dance to the lighters-aloft power
ballad Home. Straight outta Walsall;
next stop, the world.
after Guns N’Roses’ FA cup final
squad. Hell no! Instead, this third
collaboration between the rock vets
offers up a banquet feast of spit-
and-sawdust rockers and head-back,
crotch-forward ballads. Truly dreamy.
their former touring his stillborn child, the perils
partners The Rolling of fighting men with perms,
Stones, with Built-In immigration – is set against
Forgetter boasting the fierce guitarscapes, equally
finest riff Keef’n’Ron thrilling consumed live or
forgot to write. on your living room hi-fi.

66 PLANET ROCK

11
Halestorm
Vicious
(ATLANTIC)
Frontperson Lzzy Hale
leads her group back
to more familiar
territory after 2015’s
glossy left-turn Into
The Wild Life. Here, it’s
all sandblasting riffs and unbridled
rage, while Hale lets rip like a petulant
teenager who’s just had her PlayStation
controller confiscated by Dad.
10
Turnstile
Time & Space
(ROADRUNNER)
Second time around
for these troubled
young men of
Baltimore, Maryland.
On Time & Space’s
signature songs – try
the bullish opener Real Thing or the
disembowelling bass-driven I Don’t
Want To Be Blind – hardcore punk
meets heavy metal power.
9
Massive Wagons
Full Nelson
(EARACHE)
In which the burly,
whiskery men of
Lancaster bring their
uniquely now take on
old-school metal to the
masses. With songs
about how crap Facebook is (China
Plates) and a 101-year-old skydiver
(The Ballad Of Verdun Hayes), there’s
warmth, wit and genuine emotion in
these barmily infectious hard rock songs.
8
Greta Van Fleet
Anthem Of The Peaceful Army
(REPUBLIC)
Partly composed in a
remote cabin in the
wilds of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, the
millennial mini-Zep
explore ecology and
the ruinous state of the planet, as well
as the usual love and sex, on this debut
album; irresistibly swinging through the
likes of Lover, Leaver… and killer
single When The Curtain Falls.
7
Clutch
Book Of Bad Decisions
(WEATHERMAKER)
Finding the sweet
spot between bluesy
stoner-rock, metal
and “weaponised
funk”, this 12th release
from Maryland’s finest
is full of gems. Neil Fallon’s growl and
fuzzed-up guitar propel the swaggering
title cut and the blaring horns-assisted
In Walks Barbarella over the finishing
line – and back out for a victory lap. Caning it: Rob
Very few bands have matured with Halford and the
such class. Priest unleash a
“truly great” LP.
6
The Magpie Salute
High Water I
(PROVOGUE)
Shake your
moneymaker, again.
Former Black Crowes
Rich Robinson and
Marc Ford salute the
old band but also
stamp their own identity on this debut
studio album. There’s sweet southern
soul, folk, honky-tonk and psychedelia,
with West London singer John Hogg
flavouring the mix with a some
irresistible Brit rock grit.
5
Deafheaven
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
(ANTI-)
The fourth studio
album by these
angst-ridden San
Franciscans splices
its black-hearted
riffs with moments
of genuinely beautiful, jawdropping
sublety and a title borrowed from
Graham Greene’s novel, The End
Of The Affair. Prepare to be stroked,
then, by Near and You Without End
and have your face melted by most
of the rest.
4
Alice In Chains
Rainier Fog
(BMG)
The One You Know,
the opening track
here, has a riff so bastard robotic offspring of
2
brutally repetitive it’s Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance’s hellion
the musical equivalent Firepower and that phallic joystick on the front
of Chinese water (COLUMBIA) of Turbo.
torture. So far, so vintage Alice, then. It succeeds by sounding as if
Rainer Fog (with vocalist William These are its songs might have been written
DuVall in for the late Layne Stayley) challenging times in the 1980s but were recorded
is thrillingly on-message: doomy, for the Priest. this side of the millennium. Despite
introspective and shot through Following helping define heavy metal in all
with soaring melodies. Firepower’s release, its uncompromising glory, Priest
it was revealed that have what many of their disciples
guitarist Glenn Tipton had been lack: namely, an innate sense of
3
A Perfect Circle diagnosed with Parkinson’s melody. There are riffs aplenty here,
Eat The Elephant Disease and was retiring from the but choruses too. The punishing
(BMG)
road. His replacement was title track immediately takes up its
announced as the album’s place in a roll of honour alongside
On their first album in co-producer, ex-Sabbat man Andy other great Priest LP openers,
14 years, Maynard Sneap. Yet despite the difficult Exciter, Rapid Fire, etc; Never The
James Keenan and circumstances surrounding its Heroes is a socially conscious
Billy Howerdel’s birth, Firepower had more of that mid-tempo call-to-arms with an
sporadic, on-off precious fire in its belly than any earworm hook; and Lighting Strike
supergroup join the other Judas Priest album released contains the silliest (read: greatest)
dots perfectly between mournful this century. The involvement of Priest lyric since forever. When Rob
balladry, slashing hard rock and co-producer Tom Allom (the Halford declares, “I’ll bring you the
nouveau prog. With lyrics drawing on engineer on British Steel and other head of the demon, I’m peeling the
death, politics, religion and the chaos ’80s Priest records) suggested a skin from his face”, you know you’re
and uncertainty of the modern world, nod to the past. So too did in the presence of a truly great
you wonder what took them so long. Firepower’s cover art, evoking the Priest album.
PLANET ROCK 67
 THE YEAR
IN ROCK

MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY

WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT THE CLERGY HAS
BEEN INFORMED OF CARDINAL COPIA AND HIS
NAMELESS GHOULS’ MOST RECENT ACCOLADE.
PLANET ROCK HAS AWARDED PREQUELLE WITH
ITS HIGHEST HONOUR, ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
WE ARE TRULY PLEASED AND GRATEFUL FOR THIS
PRESTIGIOUS AWARD. WE RECOGNISE THIS WOULD
NOT BE POSSIBLE IF IT WASN’T FOR GHOST’S LOYAL
BELIEVERS AND SUPPORTERS AND WE GIVE
THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.

1
Ghost
Prequelle
(LOMA VISTA)

“It’s hard to imagine a more

compelling or audacious metal
album being released in 2018,”
read the final line of Planet
Rock Editor Paul Brannigan’s
review of Prequelle in June.
Facing some uncertainty over
the future of his band, with ex-members having filed a legal
suit against him, Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge dug deep
to create an instant classic, a collection of life-affirming
Satanic spirituals rooted, paradoxically, in doom, death and
darkness. From the Black Death-inspired Rats through to
the walk-with-me-in hell hymnal Life Eternal, Forge conjures
up a fantastical, spectral phantasmagoria through which
star-crossed lovers, bewitching demons, vengeful spirits and
the mysterious, omniscient Cardinal Copia glide. Truthfully,
one might argue whether Prequelle is actually a metal album
at all, drawing as it does from ’80s stadium rock, classical
waltzes, Ennio Morricone soundtracks and liturgical arias,
but, by popular assent, it’s inarguably the boldest, most
fearless, sui generis rock album of the past 12 months.

WI N ALL 20 ALB U M S!
PAUL HARRIES

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September 9, 2018.

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 THE CULT HEROES

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Trick shot: Cheap Trick
in 1978 (clockwise from
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time he visited the UK.
It was the early ’70s and he’d just been to see
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at a bingo hall in Edinburgh.
“Oh God,” he sighs. “I’d grown up
near Chicago and never had a problem,
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stairs to put…” he pauses, “a shilling in
the meter.” Zander hasn’t uttered those words
in a while.
Robin and his teenage pal, Brian, played in
a duo and were staying with a Scottish friend
and hoping to get signed to a British record
company. “But they all told us to go home and
practise some more,” he admits. Zander had
gone to The Beatles’ homeland to seek his forĥ
tune, but what he was looking for was actually
right there at home in Rockford, Illinois.
7KH¿UVWWLPH=DQGHUVDZIHOORZ5RFNIRUG
native and future Cheap Trick guitarist Rick
Nielsen, he was playing with a group called
The Grim Reapers. Nielsen had yet to adopt
his trademark costume of baseball cap and
bow tie, but he was already a little peculiar.
³5LFNKDGDVWUREHOLJKWÀDVKLQJRQKLP´ Stepping out: Cheap
Zander recalls, “and it was his birthday. He was Trick at the American
playing a keyboard with one hand and throwĥ Music Awards,
ing a birthday cake in the air with the other, January 1980.
catching the bits as it fell down and eating
them. It was pretty, er, far out.”

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other in 1973, when Zander

T joined Nielsen’s new group

&KHDS 7ULFN ³:KHQ , ¿UVW
heard Robin I realised I’d found
the voice for the songs I was writing,” says
Nielsen today. Completed by bass player Tom
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Cheap Trick would go on to make 19 studio
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the breakthrough live document Cheap Trick
At Budokan.
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and Woke Up With A Monster ĪUHPHPEHU WKDW
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tween. “What’s the secret of staying togethĥ
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grown gravellier with age. “You don’t have to
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like what you do, but you’ve gotta love it. We

have fun and we’re still… pretty good.”

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 “ YOU GET FULL OF YOUR-
S E L F, S T A R T T O M C AT T I N G
AROUND AND THINKING
Y O U ’ R E A B I G S H O T. ”
Cheap Trick never split up, and became a
touchstone for groups as varied as Mötley
Crüe and Nirvana, Green Day and Bon Jovi.
They’ve also watched other bands get big
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December, Cheap Trick support Def Leppard
on their UK arena tour. “They’re good guys
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Though you can’t help wondering if he’s
secretly gritting his teeth.
As a teenager, Rick Nielsen, the son of
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tor: records, guitars, copies of Melody
Maker which he had airmailed from
the UK. “When The Beatles and The
Kinks came out, that was it,” he says.
³$PHULFDQ PXVLF ZDV DZIXO ,
couldn’t stomach all that West
&RDVWVWXɱ´
Cops and rockers: “Everything on American radio
promoting the
was so boring,” adds Zander. “We
Dream Police
album in Tokyo, just latched on to the UK. The
Japan, March 1979. :KR7KH 0RYH Ħ WKRVH JURXSV
were more exciting.”
Cheap Trick’s 1977 debut
sounded like Midwestern kids
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culture trying to play The Beatĥ
les’ Magical Mystery Tour. Not much has
changed. “We don’t change,” Nielsen points
out. “We’ve never… progressed.” The guitarist
pronounces the last word as if he’s never said
it before.
The LP’s front cover set their image in
stone. Zander and Petersson looked like rock
star gigolos en route to the Playboy Mansion;
Bun E. Carlos, with his cigarette and droopy
’tache, like he should be running an illegal
gambling den, and Nielsen like the class clown
pulling faces in a school photo.
³7KHORRNZDVDQH[WHQVLRQRIZKR,ZDV
as a kid,” explains Nielsen, who’d been the star
of his school orchestra until he called its direcĥ
tor “an incompetent, drunken fool” and was
Necks appeal: Rick NLFNHGRXW³,¶GQHYHUKDYHDGPLWWHG,ZDVWKH
Nielsen on-stage FODVVFORZQEXW,ZDV´
at Madison Square Cheap Trick played every bowling alley
Garden, July 29, 1988. DQGVSRUWVEDULQ,OOLQRLVDQG:LVFRQVLQ1LHOĥ
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a dweeb in checkerboard sweaters and a
bowtie and hid his retreating hairline under
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tive performer, gurning, windmilling and
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collected in a shirt and waistcoat, an image
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steal from the best,” he insists.
&KHDS 7ULFN¶V EOHQG RI KHDY\ ULɱV DQG
VXJDUĥVZHHWPHORG\FRQWLQXHGRQ¶¶VIn Color
and ’78’s Heaven Tonight. Today, Nielsen comĥ
pares this yin and yang combination to “Mariĥ
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They also stuck with the cartoon image.
In Color’s sleeve showed Robin and Tom stradĥ
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and Bun E. perched on kids’ push bikes on the
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enough. Cheap Trick played with everybody:
from AC/DC to Lou Reed, from The Kinks to
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couldn’t get a hit. Then came Japan.
N TH E N EVE R-E N D I N G pub
debate about the greatest live
I albums ever, there’ll always be
someone rooting for Cheap
Trick At Budokan, alongside
Strangers In The Night, Live And Dangerous, etc.
And rightly so.
By 1979, America hadn’t succumbed to
Cheap Trick, but the Far East had. Zander reĥ
calls their manager suggesting they spend their
¿QDO³EXFNVRUZKDWHYHU´RQPDNLQJD
live record in Tokyo. “We were broke and it
was our last attempt to make something hapĥ
pen. Our manager said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s just
for Japan, no one else is going to hear it.’”
Cheap Trick At Budokan arrived in 1979,
and America suddenly and unexpectedly
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‘Kamikaze yellow vinyl’. “Yeah,” winces
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record company’s idea.”
Even now, the singer seems bemused by it
all. On the night, Cheap Trick only included
WKHLULQIXULDWLQJO\FDWFK\SRSVRQJ,:DQW<RX
To Want Me because the promoter at the
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Cheap thrills: the Trick
in 1985 (from left) Jon
Brant, Rick Nielsen, Robin
Zander, Bun E. Carlos.
Budokan told them they needed to pad All Shook Up didn’t sell as
out the set list. I Want You… became a huge well, and illustrated Cheap
hit and remains their most famous song. Trick’s greatest problem: they
“Maybe we’d been thinking too hard beĥ were too quirky for the heavy
fore,” admits Zander. “We’d just thrown this metal crowd, too heavy for the
WKLQJWRJHWKHUĦDQGLWVROG´ pop kids and too old for the
Cheap Trick had their fourth album ready ‘new wave’. As the 1980s got
to go, but it was put on ice as Budokan kept underway, cracks began to
VHOOLQJ:KHQLW¿QDOO\DSSHDUHGDream Police appear.
FRPSRXQGHGWKHVXFFHVVZLWKDKLWĥVLQJOHWLWOH “You get full of yourself
track and the big ballad Voices. It also saw when the money starts to pour
1LHOVHQ DQG &DUORV UHĥSURPRWHG WR WKH IURQW in,” admits Zander. “You start
cover and the whole group looking like the tomcatting around, thinking
RGGHVWFDPSHVWODZHQIRUFHPHQWRɷFHUVHYHU you’re a big shot, then you get
Suddenly Cheap Trick were superstars in arrested and thrown in jail.”
their homeland. Nielsen with his daft sweater Cheap Trick were touring
DQG FDS DQG RXWODQGLVK ¿YHĥQHFN JXLWDU ĪLQĥ with Heart in 1980 when
WHQGHG DV D JHQWOH SLVVĥWDNH RI 5XVK¶V *HGG\ Zander was nicked. “It was for
/HHDQG$OH[/LIHVRQZKRERWKSOD\HGWZLQĥ disorderly conduct without
QHFN D[HVī KDG EHFRPH WKH ELJJHVW FDUWRRQ violence,” he divulges.
rock star in America. Zander didn’t get much
The band also realised one of their teenage support from his bandmates:
dreams when they recorded 1980’s All Shook “We were all getting too big for
UpZLWK7KH%HDWOHV¶SURGXFHU*HRUJH0DUWLQ our britches. Being from a
Nielsen had just missed the birth of his son VPDOOWRZQOLNH5RFNIRUGNHSW
Daxx to play, along with drummer Carlos, us anchored, but the 1980s was
on John Lennon’s Double Fantasy sessions. “If it a strange time.”
was Paul McCartney I’d have gone to the Change was perhaps ineviĥ
hospital,” he jokes. table. Tom Petersson left to
Nielsen, Carlos and Lennon toasted Daxx’s start a group with his then wife,
arrival into the world and even planned to D *HUPDQ IDVKLRQ PRGHO DQG
fellow Illinois musician Jon
work together again.
“John Lennon was talking about playing Brant played bass on Cheap
live and he wanted Cheap Trick to be his Trick’s next four records. Brant
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lost some of its sparkle.
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you going to do another I Want You To Want
Me?’” sighs Zander. When Heart started scorĥ
LQJ KLWV ZLWK VRQJV E\ RXWVLGH ZULWHUV (SLF
suggested Cheap Trick try the same. Until
now, they’d written everything themselves, bar
the odd cover version.
The 1986 blockbuster
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Cruise into a superstar, and
Trick And Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone
and Berlin’s Take My Breath
Treat
Away into worldwide hits. But
who recalls the soundtrack’s
third single, Cheap Trick’s
Four great underrated, 0LJKW\ :LQJV FRĥZULWWHQ E\
under-loved CT songs. Harold ‘Beverly Hills Cop’
Faltermeyer? “I could write
He’s A Whore shitty songs on my own,
(on Cheap Trick, 1977) thanks,” deadpans Nielsen. “I
“This girl, didn’t need anyone to help me
she’s a joke,
she’s a
do it.”
joke,” Cheap Trick’s 1986 LP, The
implores Doctor, didn’t fare much betĥ
a frantic ter. “Have you listened to it
Zander, as the Trick
lately?” growls Nielsen. “Coupĥ
out-Ramones the Ramones
on this peerless garage-rock la good songs.” Cheap Trick
tear-up. wanted Def Leppard’s producĥ
er ‘Mutt’ Lange, but he was
Southern Girls busy making Hysteria, so they
(on In Color, 1977) ended up with his colleague,
Cheap Trick Tony Platt, instead: “We were
sound like a
zonked-out,
told, ‘Hey, this guy is just as
hard-rock JRRG¶:HOO«*XHVVZKDW"´
Beach Boys Things could only get
on this worse. That summer, Cheap
homage to a group of
Trick supported Mötley Crüe
friendly female Trick fans
from Southern Canada, in Britain, and found themĥ
apparently. selves playing the same
theatres they’d once headĥ
The Way Of OLQHG 'XULQJ D ODWHĥQLJKW
The World boozing session, the Crüe’s
(on Dream Police, 1979)
Nikki Sixx dropped his trouĥ
The
sers and urinated on Nielsen’s
orchestral
strings? The MDFNHW 5LFN ZDV ZHDULQJ LW
jangling at the time. It seemed like a
guitar riff? metaphor for Cheap Trick’s
The desperate situation.
nursery-rhyme lyric? It’s the
best song ELO’s Jeff Lynne
Meanwhile, Tom Petersĥ
never wrote. son’s new group had fallen
apart. One night, he ran into
Anytime KLV H[ĥEDQGPDWHV DW D SDUW\
(on Cheap Trick, 1997) thrown by Julian Lennon. Any
The Trick awkwardness disappeared
‘go grunge’
when Petersson tripped and
or else
pastiche spilt a pitcher of beer in Nielĥ
grunge. VHQ¶V ODS +H UHĥMRLQHG &KHDS
Take your Trick soon after.
pick. Either way, their teen
spirit is strong.
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“It hadn’t been the same without him,” CHEAP TRICK. NOT MUCH
admits Zander.
Petersson’s reappearance for ’88’s Lap Of OF A LIFE, BUT LIVES
Luxury strengthened the Cheap Trick brand,
but Epic gave them an ultimatum: have a hit
NEVERTHELE SS.”
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Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham, gave Cheap
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end or the end of the beginning.” Nevertheĥ %RXUGDLQ¶V QHZ ERRN 7KH FXOLQDU\ ZRUOG¶V sion Cheap Trick keep going because it’s all
OHVVLWVDYHGKLVKHURHV¶FDUHHU³+H\WKDW¶VWKH enfant terrible told him Cheap Trick was the WKH\¶YHHYHUGRQH³:HOLNHZRUNLQJ´KHVD\V
business,” states Nielsen. “It is what it is.” VRXQGWUDFN WR KLV \RXWK ³, WKLQN $QWKRQ\ ³:HDOOKDYHOLYHVRXWVLGH&KHDS7ULFN«1RW
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“the ’80s was a strange time”, SHRSOH RIWHQ VWRS =DQGHU DQG WHOO KLP WKH\ VLQFH  7KH\ KRQH\PRRQHG LQ /RQGRQ
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still. Cheap Trick split with
Epic and released just three
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the Marquee. Zander, meanwhile, lives with
DJRDQGLW¶VXVXDOO\,:DQW<RX7R:DQW0H VHFRQGZLIHIRUPHU3OD\ER\SOD\PDWH3DPHOD
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Trick, had the same title as their debut, and course.” ZLWK&KHDS7ULFN\RXZRQGHU"³1RWKLQJ,¶P
appeared on the independent Red Ant 6XUUHQGHU &KHDS 7ULFN¶V VHFRQG PRVW SUHSDUHGWRWHOO\RXDERXW´KHODXJKV
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XWHV DIWHU LW FDPH RXW ³1RERG\ ERXJKW WKDW records. “There’s a generation of moms and SDUG5LFN1LHOVHQWXUQV+H¶VFHOHEUDWLQJ
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problems, making him unable to perform a full per’s Lonely Heart Club Band in full with the JRQQDVD\"+H\ZH¶UHSODQQLQJZRUOGGRPLQDĥ
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retained his stake despite no longer touring. It sounds like the best reason in the
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The matter was settled out of court. ZRUOGIRU&KHDS7ULFNWRFDUU\RQ
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The four originals performed together
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when Cheap Trick were inducted into The CH EAP TR ICK tour the UK with
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Beatles’ records?
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Trick in 2018,
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“Won’t you come in to my
room, I want to show you all
my wares…” Steve Harris’s
original vision for Maiden was
to combine the complexity of
Yes and Genesis with
Wishbone Ash’s twin-guitar
harmonies and the melodi-
cism of Free. But the East
Londoners’ debut album
offered much more. Running
Free, with Paul Di’Anno’s lyric
about embracing the chaos of
youth, is an early escapist
anthem, Phantom Of The
Opera stands as Harris’s first
attempt to fuse high and low
culture in epic form and
Remember Tomorrow sets a
template for moody
minor-key balladry which
Metallica have mimicked from
Fade To Black onwards. Had
Maiden held back the brilliant
Wrathchild from 1980’s Metal
For Muthas compilation and
swapped that and Sanctuary
in for, say, Transylvania and
Dave Murray’s off-colour
Charlotte The Harlot, they
might just have made the
finest heavy metal debut
album of all time.
EMI, February 1981
Released on February 2, 1981,
Maiden’s second album is
perhaps most significant for
a) marking the beginning of
the band’s working relation-
ship with producer Martin
Birch and b) for introducing
former Urchin frontman
Adrian Smith as Dave
Murray’s guitar foil, the pair
having been pals since the
age of 14. Their telepathy is
evident throughout an
ambitious, ridiculously
GETTY, ALAMY
underrated album
which pivots much
closer to prog
than punk. The
six-minute
Prodigal Son
nods towards
Beastie boy: Bruce
Dickinson on-stage at New
York’s Madison Square
Garden, October 2, 1982.
How’s Maiden first four
albums paved the way
for their global success.
The Who, Murders In The Rue
Morgue and Innocent Exile
channel the spirit of Edgar
Allan Poe and the title track
is one of Paul Di’Anno’s most
dramatic performances.
Curiously, Killers was
savaged by former champions
Sounds, who awarded the set
just one star, and damned it
as “more of a failure than a
triumph”. While it peaked at
UK Number 12, the album
sold 750,000 copies
worldwide, 150,000 of those
in the US, giving Maiden a
platform for a tilt at Stateside
glory. Sadly, Di’Anno wouldn’t
last long enough to unleash
his Cockney charm on
the colonies. “After it Maiden was a
worldwide major act.”
EMI, May 1983
EMI, March 1982 Though Piece Of Mind rarely
polls high in any list of
From the outside, firing fan
all-time great metal albums,
favourite Paul Di’Anno in the
Steve Harris actually
summer of 1981 looked like a
bold move for Maiden, but considers it the finest of
once the vocalist’s lifestyle Maiden’s first four releases.
choices began fucking with “Piece Of Mind is just
his ability to do his job, his special,” he says. “We felt
days were numbered. Steve like we were on a high, and
Harris then faced the you can hear that mood on
prospect of writing an album the album.” With live-wire
from scratch in just four ex-Trust drummer Nicko
weeks and blooding new McBrain replacing Clive Burr
vocalist Bruce Dickinson. on drums, Maiden’s ‘classic’
With their backs to the wall, five-piece line-up assembled
Maiden delivered their finest here for the first time, and the
album to date. Adrian Smith’s improved chemistry in the
unit was tangible in the nine
blossoming songwriting
songs taped with Martin
partnership with Harris
Birch in the Bahamas. Having
delivered two storming cult
been tied up in legal red tape
faves in The Prisoner and 22
Acacia Avenue, while the on TNOTB, Bruce Dickinson
galloping Run To The Hills, delivered a mouth-watering
the philosophical doom of taste of his compositional
Hallowed Be Thy Name and skills with the G.K. Chester-
the diabolical title track are ton-referencing Revelations,
three of metal’s all time and kicked off what would
classic anthems. Released on prove to be a superb
March 29, 1982, the album songwriting partnership with
debuted at UK Number 1, and Adrian Smith on the soaring
broke the Top 40 in America. Flight Of Icarus. While the
“Before The Number Of Crimean War-themed The
The Beast we were Trooper is undeniably the LP’s
part of the New most celebrated track, its
Wave Of British hidden gem is the gently
Heavy Metal,” hypnotic Still Life, a rare
noted manager co-write between Harris and
Rod Smallwood. Dave Murray.
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at the thought of starting some new

stories too…”

I R O N M A I D E N take their The Legacy Of The

Beast tour into North and South America in 2019.
See IronMaiden.com for details.

96 PLANET ROCK

“WE HAD A FEW SPINAL
TAP MOMENTS...”
Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris select some
highlights from The Legacy Of The Beast tour set list.
ACES HIGH Steve Harris: “Always
a great set opener. Even now, when
I hear Churchill’s speech starting
up I start to get goosebumps,
and that’s a good sign, because
hopefully the crowd is feeling that
too. I must admit, starting off with
this and with a Spitfire screaming
above us we did wonder, How are
we going to follow that?”
2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT BD:
“We’ve always been surprisingly
prescient about political issues.
2 Minutes To Midnight was spot-on
with what was going on in 1984,
and with what’s going on now.
You’ve got all the big powers
selling arms, genocide across the
world, private wars costing the
lives of thousands – all happily
bankrolled by the States, ourselves,
the Russians and the French.”
THE CLANSMAN BD: “I have a
sword fight with Eddie in The
Trooper, which is the next song up,
so I got a claymore to use on The
Clansman, as a nod to Braveheart.
We had a few Spinal Tap moments
where the claymore was covered up
too well and I had to rip half the set
down trying to find the damn thing!”
THE TROOPER SH: “This is the
sort of aggressive, adrenaline-
based songwriting we were good
at in the early years. I think every-
one knows that I’ve never taken
a drug in my life, but I feed off
adrenaline, and when that runs out,
I guess I’ll have run out! It’s a song
about the Crimean War, but sadly
it seems like there’s always a new
conflict to write about.”
IRON MAIDEN SH: “Could we play
an Iron Maiden gig without this?
I mean, we could, we’ve more than
enough songs to make it work, but
since the very early days we’ve
always ended our main set with
this, so it’s a traditional thing now,
and I think the fans expect it. It’s
always a highlight of the night.”
WHERE EAGLES DARE Bruce
Dickinson: “We wanted to use the
intro music from the movie, as we
did years ago, but it’s a different
century now, and now you need a
personal letter from Clint Eastwood
to authorise that. So we made our
own intro tape. The Spitfire crash
is actually the sound of a Stuka.”
FEAR OF THE DARK BD: “I tried
to repurpose this song on this
tour to make it more scary, with
the Jack The Ripper-style outfit.
Originally, I wanted to have LED
lamps embedded in my palms, like
Iron Man, so that I could be like a
human searchlight. We got some
lamps, but they weren’t working for
me. Then we got one on a bracket,
like the hermit with his lamp on the
Tarot card. Scary, gothic, dramatic,
a bit of smoke – perfect!”
Nostril-damus:
Steve Harris and Nicko
McBrain at Atlético
Madrid stadium,
July 14, 2018.
RUN TO THE HILLS BD: “Run To
The Hills is a reminder that you
should never take yourself too
seriously. Rather than try to
recreate the serious topic of the
song, I mime galloping on an
invisible horse, which is my tribute
to Monty Python And The Holy
Grail. I also have a virtual apple in
my back pocket so I can give my in-
visible horse a pat on the head and
a munch of invisible apple. These
little details amuse me.”
REVELATIONS BD: “I always liked
the lyrics from O God Of Earth And
Altar by G.K. Chesterton, and it
really suited having some rock-style
chords underneath it. It’s a song
about religion, but not conventional
religion, the occult and alchem-
ical side of it, which is a theme
I’ve always been interested in, as
explored in The Chemical Wedding,
my album about Blake, and the
movie I did about Aleister Crowley.”
FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF
GOD SH: “I’ve always loved my
prog rock, I grew up on it. Having
songs like this in the set, the big,
epic, dramatic songs, offers a
good counterpoint to the more
aggressive songs. We do a two-
hour set every night, so you have to
have different dynamics, because
neither us nor the audience can be
jumping around the whole time.”
THE WICKER MAN BD: “The great
thing about doing The Wicker Man
is that it kicks into touch this idea
that we stopped writing catchy
songs in 1987. People think we only
do prog-style songs since I came
back [in 2000], but we’ve had a lot
of catchy songs and The Wicker
Man is one. It’s a great crowd
favourite. I was blown away by how
well it went down every night.”
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO SH:
“Adrian [Smith] wrote the opening
riff, I wrote the chorus and Bruce
chipped in too. I remember he
thought that the bridge should be
the chorus, and I said, It’s a bloody
good bridge, but it’s not the chorus,
we need something to lift the song
again. When we play it live now, it’s
obvious that I was right!”
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Open-hearted debut
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invincible. Sadly, that last
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Anthology of the uneven career and
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CREEDENCE
CLEARWATER REVIVAL
The Complete Studio Albums
CRAFT RECORDINGS/UMC
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CCR’s seven studio LPs
in deluxe box set form.
Of all the American guitar
bands that emerged in the
1960s, few have endured quite
as resolutely as have Creedence Clearwater
Revival. Despite the El Cerrito quartet having
concluded their business inside of six years,
many of their songs have risen with graceful
ease to the status of standards. The Complete
Studio Albums features 65 songs, many of
which display a simplicity of purpose that in
lesser hands might appear remedial. But CCR
were no arrivistes, and founder John Fogerty,
in particular, bestows upon the material an
ageless and timeless voice that stands equal to
singers such as Van Morrison and Joe Cocker.
Presented with powerful panache,
a song such as Run Through The Jungle capĥ
tured the essence of America’s paranoid and
dangerous age with an ease reminiscent of the
Stones’ Gimme Shelter. And while CCR
lacked the poise of their more glamorous
brethren, the repeated warnings of a hard rain
soon to fall resonate from their troubled
times all the way to ours. IAN WINWOOD
B E ST TRACKS: Have You Ever Seen The Rain,
Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising
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Electric Ladyland
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Official document of Led Zeppelin shows them sharing a joke in
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Festivals 1999-2013. It’s a fitting sign-off for the story of a life
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music, all of the time.” Except, as timeless
as that music is, Zeppelin also sold a
timeless image (“Rough and ready, joyous
and ecstatic,” according to Plant). And
rarely more so than in this book.
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unbridled energy, but also, via several
panoramic shots, the ever-increasing size
of their audience. This, then, was the view
Zeppelin had while conquering the world.
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more so than the ever-swaggering Jimmy
Page – that comes to the fore here. A shot
taken at The Cherry Tree, Welwyn Garden
City in 1969 says it all. Locked in tight on a
low stage in front of naff pub curtains,
Zeppelin look like they are about to
spontaneously combust – and take the
boozer with them. It was all about the
music, but also a whole lot more.
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 T h e B u y e r s’ G u i d e
Vedder the devil you know:
Pearl Jam at the Eagles
Ballroom in Milwaukee,
October 1991.
PEARLJAM
THE RAW RESPONSE TO TRAGEDY. THE RETREAT FROM THE
MAINSTREAM. THE FAN FAVOURITE. SO WHICH ALBUM IS BEST?
George Garner explores the deep waters of the unflinching Seattle anti-heroes’ output.
I N 2 0 1 1 , the members of Pearl Jam watched their
lives play out on a cinema screen. Alongside a host
of boisterous fans, frontman Eddie Vedder, guitarĥ
LVWV6WRQH*RVVDUGDQG0LNH0F&UHDG\EDVVLVW-Hɱ
Ament and drummer Matt Cameron took their
seats in Toronto’s Princess Of Wales Theatre as
Cameron Crowe’s documentary PJ20 told their
story as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.
In a press conference afterwards, Eddie Vedder
recalled how it all started when he received a demo
that altered the course of his life.
“I just heard something that I had never heard
before,” he said of the music that compelled him to
MRXUQH\IURP6DQ'LHJRWRWKH3DFL¿F1RUWKZHVWLQ
order to meet his future bandmates. “I thought that
I would have a week in Seattle,” he laughed.
That week transformed into a life’s work frontĥ
ing one of rock’s most extraordinary groups. Formed
118 PLANET ROCK
in the aftermath of Ament and Gossard’s prior band
Mother Love Bone, following the fatal overdose of
frontman Andrew Wood, Pearl Jam’s debut, Ten,
crystallised grunge in the world’s consciousness
DORQJVLGH1LUYDQD¶VNevermind.
With Ten VHOOLQJ PXOWLĥPLOOLRQV DFFXVDWLRQV RI
the band cashing in/selling out inevitably followed.
Fame gnawed at them so much they proactively
sabotaged their own success: potential hits were
shelved, they stopped making videos and, to this
day, interviews are rare. Fortunately, their 10 studio
albums speak volumes. And with hundredsRIμRɷFLDO
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live discography is worth celebrating in itself.
Much more than just grunge’s great survivors,
Pearl Jam’s collected body of work constitutes one
ALAMY
of the most exhilarating and expansive in rock. Let’s
examine the evidence in detail…
Riot Act
(Epic, 2002)
It is impossible to
I0 9
talk about Riot Act
without first
addressing the
trauma that
preceded it. On
June 30, 2000,
nine fans died in a crowd
surge during Pearl Jam’s
Roskilde Festival set – the
event was ruled an accident,
but that did little to alleviate
the emotional toll on the
band. With Vedder explicitly
addressing the tragedy on
Love Boat Captain, singing,
“Lost nine friends we’ll never
know, two years ago today”,
Riot Act is best understood
as a beautiful, meditative
response to a tragedy.
Yield
(Epic, 1998)
Yield marks a
5 4
significant sea-
change in Pearl Jam’s
songwriting. Following
two records of Eddie
Vedder steering the
ship, Yield saw the
band adopt a more
collaborative approach to the
creative process. The result
was one of their most
anthemic albums thanks to
Given To Fly, Low Light,
Brain Of J. and Wishlist,
while the shapeshifting
groove of Do The Evolution
was even promoted with –
STOP THE PRESS! – a
music video. After years of
fending off the world at
large, Yield was Pearl Jam
resurfacing to offer a warm
handshake.
9.11.2011
Toronto, Canada
(Monkeywrench, 2011)
The day after the
PJ20 premiere, Pearl
Jam played a 20th
anniversary concert
at Toronto’s Air
Canada Centre. The
set list not only drew
from every corner of their
discography, it was also
supercharged with emotion.
PJ had covered Mother Love
Bone’s classic Crown Of
Thorns before, but here they
played it with Vedder singing
Andrew Woods’ Chloe
Dancer intro in full for the
first time. As for the grand
finale? Oh, just Neil Young
joining them for a killer
Rockin’ In The Free World.
Vitalogy
(Epic, 1994)
A vocal contingent in
the Pearl Jam fan
community insist that
Vitalogy is their finest
outing. Assuredly, it is
an utterly beguiling
listen. Sandwiched
between beloved songs
(Better Man, Corduroy) are
moments of arch eccentricity,
such as the accordion
freak-out of Bugs. Vitalogy
is, then, important for what it
represents: released in the
same year as Nirvana
frontman Kurt Cobain’s
suicide – a subject many
interpreted as being
addressed on Immortality –
this is the sound of a band
taking a sharp turn away
from the mainstream. They’re
still reaping the rewards.
Backspacer
(Monkeywrench, 2009)
As with other grunge
8 7
alumni, in their early
days Pearl Jam were
often unfairly
misrepresented in the
press as consummate
miserablists. That was
always a one-dimensional
evaluation, but it is worth
noting that latter-day Pearl
Jam albums have excelled at
making songs about
contentment every bit as
compelling as those
channelling angst. With
soaring entries like The
Fixer, Just Breath and
Amongst The Waves,
Backspacer celebrates how
very sweet it is to be –
fittingly for this band – alive.
Pearl Jam
(J Records, 2006)
Galvanised by the
3 I
presidency of George
W. Bush, Pearl Jam
raged like they hadn’t
since the early ’90s
on their self-titled
eighth release. There
is a breath-taking sense of
urgency here, whether it’s
protesting against the Iraq
War on World Wide Suicide,
highlighting poverty on
Unemployable or Vedder
mourning the loss of his
close friend Johnny Ramone
on Life Wasted. Beyond
these searing cuts, however,
are moments of rarefied
grace; the slow-burn serenity
of Come Back and epic
scope of Inside Job
showcase a band on
mesmeric form.
No Code
(Epic, 1996)
By this point in their
career, Pearl Jam
were at serious risk of
burn-out. Though they
had been temporarily
rejuvenated by
working with Neil
Young on 1995’s Mirrorball
album, they were otherwise
fatigued by fame, boycotting
Ticketmaster, and affected
by poor communication
within their ranks. Yet out of
this exhaustion came an
album that, whilst underper-
forming commercially,
showcased a band making
some of their greatest songs
in the form of Sometimes,
Present Tense, Lukin and
Hail, Hail.
Vs.
(Epic, 1993)
Pearl Jam took the
2
absolute piss out of
the notion of “difficult
second album”
syndrome with Vs..
Not only did it shift
some 950,000 copies
in one week in America
alone, it also rivalled their
seismic debut’s quality. In
particular, the social
consciousness evidenced on
Ten was painted on a much
broader canvas here;
Daughter saw Vedder tackle
domestic violence from a
female perspective, while
Glorified G took a swipe at
gun culture. Bonus: also
features some of the most
explosive rock songs of
the ’90s via Go, Blood
and Rearviewmirror.
7/11/03
Mansfield,
Massachusetts
(Epic, 2003)
Given they can – and
6
will – perform any
song from their
sizeable repertoire,
there are just too
many variables at play
for one Pearl Jam
show to please everyone.
Unless we’re talking
Mansfield ’03. Across three
nights they played 82
originals and 12 covers, with
only one song duplicated.
For the final night they went
into overdrive with a
46-song set capturing them
in imperious form. It even
included a full acoustic set.
Sometimes more is more.
Ten
(Epic, 1991)
Though it feels
somewhat reductive to
claim that Pearl Jam’s
essential album is their
debut, to be fair it’s not
just any old debut. The
Seattleites emerged fully
formed here as one of rock’s
greatest bands. That songs
as accomplished as Black,
Release, Alive, Even Flow
and Jeremy were conceived
by a fledgling act is
astounding – it may as well
have been christened
Greatest Hits Vol.1. An
instant classic and
multi-million seller, Ten
remains their indisputable
calling card – one freighted
with enough raw feeling to
help reshape rock music for
a new generation.
P L A N E T R O C K 119
Mistreated but
unbowed: the
mighty Hughes
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GLENN HUGHES
E LECTR IC BALLROOM
Monday, October 15, 2018
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surely as packed as it’s been on any night since
the exiled sons and daughters of Ireland
swarmed here in search of love, of at least a
decent ‘shift’, in the 1940s. The London date
of Glenn Hughes’ Classic Deep Purple Live
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through Highway Star.
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Planets rock: John
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at London’s O2
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Wrote A Song
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all-American anthems on the opening night of BluesFest 2018.
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O2 Arena, London
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hit after hit out of the park tonight without
thinking of his painful estrangement from
these remarkable songs for almost a quarter
of a century. For the longest time,
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s forĥ
mer frontman refused to perform his
back catalogue classics, indeed would
switch stations when one came on
the radio, which they did, regularly.
Yet even as he shunned his art, others
rushed to embrace it: Johnny Cash,
U2, Rod Stewart, Ramones, Elton
John and Hanoi Rocks are just a
handful of the artists who covered his
tunes and sang his praises during
those bleak and bitter years.
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speech inducting CCR into the Rock
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poetry and simplicity of Fogerty’s
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doppelgänger son Shane on guitar, thrashes
through a muscular Travelin’ Band, Green
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conceive of any other act in London this week
having such a wealth of riches to draw upon.
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of Who’ll Stop The Rain by pointing out that
he’s using the same Rickenbacker 325 guitar
he played at Woodstock in August 1969, it’s a
gentle reminder of his often underrated
contribution to rock’n’roll history. In that
same year, Creedence released three killer
albums ĪBayou Country, Green River and Willy
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just shy of the summit of the US national
charts. When The Beatles split the following
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could lay claim to being the biggest rock band
in the world. Just two years later, however,
CCR themselves had split acrimoniously, and
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some of the more questionable choices in
tonight’s set. As sweet as it is to see him
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Golly Miss Molly and The Sonics’ Psycho, it’s
an intervention which kills momentum.
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marching through the audience playing When
The Saints Go Marching In, is excruciating.
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the soul, compassion, empathy and simmerĥ
ing rage that courses through his best work.
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? is prefaced by
a video screen dip into the family photo
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is a reminder that Fogerty’s compositional
skills didn’t dry up with CCR’s disbandment
in 1972.
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a searing harmonica solo and a pyroĥ
technics display hot enough to singe
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protests, Fortunate Son scorches
without any theatrics, its acerbic
analysis of the ruling class’s appetite
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foreign lands every bit as relevant in
2018 as it was in 1969.
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or Run Through The Jungle, sadly,
but, as red, white and blue streamers
shower the audience, who could
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Moon Rising and Proud Mary, two
of the most evocative American
rock’n’roll standards ever written?
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the waylaid Tom Sawyers and Huck Finns,”
Bruce Springsteen noted in his poetic Hall of
Fame induction speech, but for a time it
looked like their frontman was going to get
lost forever on his own journey into the
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friends on the other wide of the Atlantic, the
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home. PAUL BRANNIGAN
B E ST MOM E NT: The grit and fury in Fogerty’s
vocals on the scathing, timeless Fortunate Son.
P L A N E T R O C K 123
 Showtime
Hysterical: PR
DJ, and Leppard
crooner Joe Elliott.
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The Sheffield
rockers – who were recently
shortlisted as Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame nominees –
will perform their legendary
1987 album Hysteria in its
entirety on this 11-date
arena tour of the UK and
Ireland. Rock Hall inductees
Cheap Trick support on
all dates.
Fun fact: Def Leppard
spent an estimated £4
million recording Hysteria
Expect: an arena full of
people losing their minds
when Joe Elliott asks if
they take sugar
When: December 1-18
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THE MAGPIE SALUTE
This band – led by former
Black Crowes guitarist Rich
Robinson –released their
debut album, High Water I,
this summer and pay a
visit to the UK this winter,
including a headline slot at
Planet Rockstock. With a
line-up that also features
Marc Ford and Sven Pipien,
PLANET ROCKSTOCK
Planet Rock’s annual party
returns to Trecco Bay, South
Wales in November. The
three-day weekender
features headline sets from
The Magpie Salute, The
Black Star Riders and
The Dead Daisies, plus the
likes of the Geoff Tate-led
Operation: Mindcrime, Walter
Trout and Wayward Sons
bolstering a thrilling bill.
Get there a day early for:
RavenEye, who kick off the
festival with a special
headline set for Gold Ticket
holders on November 29
Don’t: even think about
going to work on
December 3
When: November
30-December 2
DAN PATLANSKY
Following his sold-out March
tour, the Pretorian bluesman
will return for a nine-date run
this November, plus an
appearance at Planet
Rockstock on December 1.
If you’ve not had a chance
to listen to his latest album,
Perfection Kills, it’s best you
acquaint yourself as soon
as humanly possible.
Don’t shout: “Dan!
Dan! Dan!”
Nod approvingly during:
the stomping,
Audioslave-like
drive of Dog Day
When:
November
21-30
FISH
As part of his upcoming
UK tour, Fish will perform
Marillion’s 1987 album
Clutching At Straws in its
entirety and a selection of
tracks from his forthcoming
album, Weltschmerz.
The 6’4” Hibernian fan
announced earlier this year
that he will retire from
touring in 2020, so catch
him while you can.
Painfully niche fact to
drop in the merch queue:
In 2000, Fish appeared in
the Scottish detective show,
Taggart, as Dougie Todd
Best Marillion song about
a cocktail: White Russian
When: December 2-13
would it be foolish to think
there’ll be a smattering of
Crowes classics?
Wet one’s whistle: by
listening to their single,
Send Me An Omen
Don’t shout: “Where’s
Chris, then?”
When: December 1-11
Easy rider:
BSR’s Ricky
Warwick.
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Ace Face:
Clutch’s
Neil Fallon.
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BLACK STONE
9 NIGHTWISH
It’s been six years since the
Finnish symphonic rockers

6
have performed any UK

CHERRY headline dates. Now, the

wait is over, as the six-piece
have lined up three arena

7
Following their Main Stage
appearance at Download
this summer, the Kentucky
quartet return to the UK for
a seven-date arena tour in
support of their latest album,
Family Tree. The band
promise a “Southern-fried,
rock’n’roll revival” and are
bringing vehicular-themed
rockers The Cadillac Three
and Monster Truck along for
the ride.
Expect: a few classic covers
sprinkled in their set
Do: go to the toilet before
their 21-song show
CLUTCH When: December 6-14
These Maryland volume
BROTHERS OSBORNE
These Nashville-based
bearded siblings – John
and TJ – released their
country-flavoured second
album, Port Saint Joe earlier
this year. And, following their
sold-out tour earlier this
year, the pair are back this
November for a second
helping of Britain’s service
station fayre.
Expect: the irresistible
single, Shoot Me Straight
Best song about deflect-
shows in support of their
best-of compilation,
Decades. Support comes
from Helsinki power
metallers Beast In Black.
Did you know?: Floor
Jansen is a soprano, but
has nothing to do with
the TV crime family
Don’t expect to see:
Richard Dawkins in the pit
When: December 8-11

URIAH HEEP dealers roll into the UK just

Currently in the midst of an
extensive European trek, the
perennial London rockers hit
the UK in support of their
latest album, Living The
Dream. Kicking off with a
date in Manchester, the band
stop off at Glasgow, London,
Nottingham and Hull. With
25 albums under their belt,
it’s anyone’s guess how they
pick a set list to satisfy their
most loyal fans.
Expect: Gypsy, the opening
track from their 1970 debut
...Very ’Eavy ...Very ’Umble
Hats off to: sole original
member Mick Box for 49
years of continued service
to rock
When: December 12-16
a week before Christmas
and will cause more earthly
ing blame: It Ain’t My Fault
When: November
25-December 2, Planet
tremors than any amount Rockstock December 1
of fracking. Expect a fat
slice of their latest album,
Book Of Bad Decisions,
while frontman Neil Fallon
roams the stage like a
wild-eyed lay preacher.
Spill your beer to: the
thundering X-Ray Visions
Best Clutch song about
that thing above your
neck: The Face
When: December 18-22
Killing Floor:
Nightwish’s
Floor Jansen.
Kentucky fried:
BSC’s Chris
Robertson.
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