We recently conducted an interview with Doro Pesch / The Electric Boa drummer Jonny Dee. We caught up with Johnny at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville PA 1/31 after The Electric Boa’s set opening for Anvil. CHECK IT OUT

RN: I just wanted to clear up any Britny Fox rumors that may be out there. Is there going to be a reunion?

Johnny Dee: For me it’s been sort of a failed opportunity for us. It’s very obvious that there is some place out there for us as a band in a nostalgic sense. Everybody else from that time, if they are able to play and work they are out there doing things. For me it’s a no brainer. But to be honest I have not spoken to those guys about it in a while.

RN: Is it something you would want to do?

Johnny Dee: I’m just waiting. I wish we all could get together and just talk. The reality of it is we are not going to get together and do two hundred shows a year. It’s not going to be a band that is going to be current. It’s going to be a festival type thing. Get together, do about twenty five or thirty shows during the summer, play the songs that everyone loves and shake hands and go our own way and get back together if something comes up.

RN: How about getting back with Tommy Paris?

Johnny Dee: I don’t think so. We tried that but everyone seems to want the original lineup. Tommy was great. Vocally the guy can sing his way to Mars. He can hit the highs and the lows. Bite Down Hard was one of my favorite records to make.

RN: The live CD was great. We were at the tapings for that record. Those shows were killer.

Johnny Dee: We were hungry. He had something to prove. And I think we made a great fucking record. Then at that time a lot of the bands that came from that era just started to crumble at no fault of there own but that’s just the way the industry went. The 80’s style bands started to take a back seat again so we all just kind of said we can’t take this any further. And we took a break and now here we are. All this time has past. We don’t have forever. If we are going to do something let’s do it. And for me, there is no reason why it can’t be done unless you absolutely don’t want to do it or if someone does not want to see another person ever again in their life time. I try to be a better person than that. I can forgive and be professional. And really it’s about the fans that grew up on that. I am a fan of bands and I don’t want to see them bullshitting and fighting and talking shit about each other or whatever. It takes the fun out of it. I want to see them play the songs that I like, the songs I grew up on and the songs that mean something to me. And that’s what Britny Fox is to a lot of people. I would love to see a reunion happen and I am up for it. But we would have to get in a room and iron some things out first.

RN: What’s going on with Doro?

Johnny Dee: We just finished up a tour of Europe. Pretty much the last dates for the “Fear No Evil” album and promoting the “25 Years In Rock” DVD. Now the new CD is being finished up. I think they are looking at a single around the summer and have a fall release. So there is not a lot of touring at the beginning of this year. There will be some shows in Norway in April and nothing again until festival season. I am sure we will do some festivals in Europe. We have some down time waiting for the record to be finished up. She is still working on it. It’s coming together.

RN: Doro really is the Queen Of Metal. She still has pipes.

Johnny Dee: She is amazing. I have never seen anyone work so hard and not have to work hard at singing. She will do interviews for eight hours straight and walk on stage and sing for two and a half hours. She never complains and never takes a day off.

RN: Let’s talk about your down time. Right now you are here with The Electric Boa in Sellersville PA opening for Anvil. How did you hook up with these guys?

Johnny Dee: I hooked up with these guys sometime in 2011. I liked the songs and I liked the guys and I wanted to help out. They needed a drummer and I had some time off so I said let’s do it. It’s cool to be opening for a national act because playing around Philly these days, it’s hard to get people out to the shows.

RN: What do you think of the scene in Philadelphia now opposed to what it was back when you were out with Britny Fox?

Johnny Dee: I am much older now than I was back then. And I sit back and think is it because I’m older. I’m in my 40s and I just don’t know what’s going on, on the scene or is it just that fucking dead.

Mistress Katie: It’s that dead. When you have to drive three states away to see a good show. It’s that dead.

Johnny Dee: Yeah to me is like a microcosm of the whole industry. There is not one place to go and have a good time. Back then you could go to the Empire ( Rock Club) and I don’t give a shit who was playing you were going to see a great show and see a shit load of people that were exactly like you having fun. And see people you knew. It was like a gathering place. I’m talking about the clubs that support original music that gives bands a place to play. Philadelphia is lacking that. There are a lot of places that just don’t care. It’s all numbers. Who does all ages shows anymore? No one wants to take a chance because they want a bottom line number at the end of the night. They want cover bands and people to drink. They want mindless music because some people don’t give a shit what they listen to. Some of it has to do with people’s music taste as well. People are spoon feed bullshit and they start to think it taste good. They don’t know any better. People should go out and see some local original music. There are some people and places that support local original music but unfortunately the numbers are smaller than when we were hanging at places like the Galaxy and the Empire.

The cool thing about The Electric Boa is that I see a little bit of a resurgence. The band has a vibe that people want to see. People do come out and they come up front and they want to be part of the show. And that’s what this band is all about. It’s about the fans, it’s about showing people a good time with good songs. Come see the band have a good time and get in on the energy. It’s pretty cool. It’s about as good as it can be at this point until that wave catches on again.

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Wow, what a fun show. Steel Panther played a sold out show in Allentown PA Friday night 2/17.  I have never seen the Crocodile Rock so packed with hot women. The ladies came clad in tight mini skirts and halter tops and some guys even broke out the spandex and bandanas. (I could have done without that)

Direct support came from NJ based metal band Filter Effect, who warmed the crowd nicely.

Then came the band of the evening. From the opening song “Supersonic Sex Machine” the crowd was theirs. The fans new every word to every song. Between each song singer Mike Starr and guitar player Satchel took turns abusing the fans in a fun way. (If anyone got offened they should not have been there in the first place.) While bassist Lexxi Foxx did his hair and checked his makeup.

The combination of raunchy humor, funny lyrics and stellar musicianship makes for a fantastic show. Someone recently asked me “Where are all the rock stars“. I think Steel Panther is the answer to that question. People want to go out and have a good time. Steel Panther provides just that.

FOR PICTURES OF THE SHOW CLICK HERE

Set List Was As Follows:

Supersonic Sex Machine

Tomorrow Night

Asian Hooker

Fat Girl (Thar She Blows)

Gold Digging Whore

Community Property

Guitar Solo

It Won’t Suck Itself

Just Like Tiger Woods

Weenie Ride

17 Girls In A Row

Party All Day (Fuck All Night)

Let Me Cum In

Encore:

Turn Out The Lights

Death  to All But Metal

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Following the massively successful Final Frontier World Tour 2010-11, IRON MAIDEN are back on the road this summer with a series of Arena, Amphitheatre and Festival shows in the U.S.A. and Canada, opening in Charlotte, NC, U.S.A. on June 21, and finishing in Houston, TX, on Aug 18 (dates listed below), to be followed by further dates around the World in 2013. The MAIDEN ENGLAND WORLD TOUR will closely mirror, in terms of production and content, the original 1988 concert video of the same name, shot on the “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour”. This opening section of the World Tour is the band’s most extensive visit to North America for many years and includes a number of cities the band have not played in a very long time, such as Charlotte, Atlanta, Buffalo, Indianapolis and Salt Lake City.

MAIDEN ENGLAND 2012 TOUR DATES

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RN: Even though you have been making albums and have never stopped, before the movie most people either never heard of Anvil or thought you guys broke up a long time ago. How has life changed since the release of the movie “The Story Of Anvil”?

Lips: That might be true about America but not around the rest of the world. In Europe we have had a cult following for over 30 years.

Robb: In America we have been obscure. That’s true.  But the movie introduced the brand name Anvil to America more than ever. Sure there are people who still don’t know who we are but it has been an ongoing discovery process for the last four years. All of our records are being released again and people can buy all our records now. We are there to be found now. If you look for us you can find us. All that obscurity is going away.

RN: How does it make you feel knowing that a lot of metal bands look up to you guys? Sighting Anvil as an influence. Metallica being one of them.

Robb: Well, we are responsible for pioneering a certain kind of sound.

Lips: We all pay homage to the guy ahead of you in line. That’s what it’s about. For instance Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Montrose and all the stuff that happened in the 70’s we were more attached to that than Metallica was. Metallica was a little younger than us. So what they did was look at us and said “Hey that’s really cool. What can we do that’s like that”? That’s what you do. I looked at Black Sabbath and said “what can I do to be like that“? Each band inspires the next. We are all connected one way or another. We all have gotten to know each other through the years.

It’s not like it was a surprise to us. These guys have been coming to our shows and have been our friends for years. Than someone would say why didn’t they help you? People forget this is a business. You can’t just say these are my friends and I’m going to help them. If the world really worked like that it would be a better place. At the end of the day everybody is out for them selves. It’s about making yourself successful. Not worrying about everybody else’s success but worrying about your own. So when it comes to business if one of those big bands wants to take Anvil out, they have a manager to answer to and a crew of business people to answer to. Than they say why Anvil when we can hire this other band that can bring this to the table. Either they are going to pay a buy on or they are worth more ticket sales.

Robb: Anvil’s marquee value is much bigger now. So maybe someday one of those bands might want to take us out. Because business wise it will make sense. But we are not going to worry about it. We don’t care and we never did. We are going to do our own thing anyway. We are not sitting around saying why won’t they help us.

Lips: We never did. We never begrudged them for their success either.

RN: How about you guys taking newer bands out with you?

Lips: Our emails are inundated by 100s of bands hoping we will help them. Now how do you do that? If you bring another brand name out with you they need to get paid. How does a promoter off set that. If a promoter hires two brand names than you have to pay twice as much. Are there going to be twice as many people at the show?  You don’t know. So you go out and they want local openers. This gives bands in the area an opportunity to play. So if we took bands that are going out to clubs like we are anyway as support bands, than we are taking away from the bands the really need the help so in a way its better to leave well enough alone. Let the promoters decide who is going to open.

Robb: Brand name bands have an audience. And that audience is worth money. Now if we take a band out with us night after night and give that audience to that band, that band is taking a percentage of that audience away from us.

Lips: When we go out with another band, the manager of that other band is watching our merchandise sales. And they look at every t-shirt we sell as a sale their band is not getting. You get that kind of shit all the time. You name it all kinds of shit gets thrown at you.

Robb: It’s all really about making it work behind the scenes. When we get the bigger shows we do them and they are real beneficial to us. We get great exposure from them. When we played with AC/DC that was great. We got to play for an hour in front of 50,000 people in one shot. It was AC/DC fans. It was major exposure because we played in front of their crowd. And we made some fans out of that. We did 3 shows with them it was great.

RN: I wanted to ask about (Bass Player) Glenn Five’s departure from the band and the addition of Sal Italiano?

Robb: There is no real big thing to talk about. It was an over due change. Anvil is sitting right here.

Lips: It’s just the sound of a bass. What’s more important is who that person is rather that what ability he is bringing because I’m doing all the writing anyway so what’s the difference?

Robb: It was an over due change that just finally came to be. Sal is working out great. This is really going good. We just want to take our time.

Lips: This is only the third gig Sal has done with us. Is he here permanently? I don’t know.

Robb: We are going to do the tour and talk and see how things go. We are not in a hurry. We are going to do things different. It’s all about making a really good fit. The other guy was a good fit but he was not the best fit. There’s not much more to say about it. Everything is good.

RN: What is going on after this tour ends?

Robb: We are going to make a new album.

Lips: We will start writing in August after the Juggernaut touring cycle ends.

Robb:  Start writing in August and start recording next year. We are going to take some time off because we have not had any time off then start writing.

Lips: We have not had any time off. The time off we had, we spent sorting out a new bass player. Come New Years Eve our bass player tells us he is not coming on the road and we are leaving on the 26^th of January. So we came home from touring with Saxon and we had to start looking for a new bass player. We have been busy nonstop.

RN: How did the Juggernaut Of Justice album do?

Robb: Real well. I would say it’s one of our best selling albums in many years.

Lips: We have been on tour a year and a half nonstop. I would say it did real good.

RN: After all these years what keeps you guys going?

Robb: The drive and the passion to rock.

Lips: We have been deprivated for over 20 years having the United States being dangled in front of our nose. And every time you want to take a bite it’s pulled further away. You never get to go down there you never get to play.

Robb: We have American managers. We have American agents. We have an American record company. We are Americanized now.  So now we come here and play when ever we can. Big places or small places it does not matter what level we do it. Most people have never seen Anvil here in America. Now they can get the chance to do it.

Lips: Finally it took 30 years. So you ask where the hunger comes from. When you have that shit going on you get hungry man.

RN: Is there anything you guys want to plug before we wrap it up?

Robb: The Anvil Metal Pounders Union. It’s our fan club. It’s a life time thing. You join up and you become part of the union. It’s a metal family community. It’s kind of interesting everyone shares their love of metal.

Lips: It’s more than just a fan club. It’s a metal family. Everybody has to have their picture taken to be part of it. Your membership is validated with your card. So it’s displayed to all the other members so we all get to know one another visually and not just a code number. It’s amazing. What your card does it gets you privileges. We pick number in every city and if your number gets pulled you get put on the guest list along with other things.

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Syracuse-based heavy rockers, BRAND NEW SIN have announced a string of tour dates in support of their latest release, United State. The band recently released a video for the song “The Lord Came Down.” The video, directed by Eli Brown, was shot in early November in Detroit, Michigan in the basement National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) building. Visit this location to watch the video. United Stateis out now on Goomba Music.

1/26/12 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania @ Peter B’s

1/27/12 Campbell, New York @ The Cabin

1/28/12 Rochester, New York @ The Montage Music Hall

1/29/12 Brooklyn, New York @ Trash Bar

1//30/12 East Hampton, New York @ East Hampton Bowl

2/9/12 Battle Creek, Michigan @ Planet Rock

2/10/12 Lansing, Michigan @ Ulis House of Rock

2/11/12 Warren, Michigan @ The Ritz

2/24/12 Utica, New York @ The Electric Company

2/25/12 Albany, New York @ Bogie’s

3/2/12  Mattydale, New York @ Mac’s Bad Art Bar

 

Brand New Sin has risen to new levels with the disenfranchised roar of

United State out now on Goomba Music.

The enduring trio of Kris Wiechmann (Vocals/Guitar), Chuck Kahl (Bass), and Kevin Dean (Drums) are joined by the new blood of Tommy Matkowski on lead guitar. Tommy’s playing is truly the finishing piece to this already powerful puzzle, lending a fresh and deeply rooted hard rock style to the Brand New Sin sound. This line-up spent much of 2010 on the road together defining the terms of United State, including opening shows for Slash & Myles Kennedy.

United State expands on their 2009 independent release, Distilled, delivering some of the most accomplished and self-defining tracks of the band’s career. It’s clear that the lyrics of these autobiographical songs resonate in the state of mind of so many today. United State is a time capsule of the struggle to survive and overcome in our current society. Many of the songs are about self-reflection. Wiechmann taps into the psyche of the masses: the moments that define each of us. “Infamous” and “Elbow Grease” animate the thoughts of a listener pondering their own past. The rage of songs like “Goddess Of War” and “Bed Of Nails” call out those that try and take advantage of the plight of others, while the anthemic “All My Wheels” tells a story of the struggle to live life never looking back, never regretting, uncompromised.

United State sees a determined and confident Brand New Sin voicing the rage of the world, through fiercely developed statements in lyrics, riffs, and powerfully crafted guitar solos, backed by a driving rhythm section that continues to define strength.

Blue collar, beer drinking, Rock N’ F’n Roll!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 23, 2012

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH ANNOUNCE CANADIAN TOUR, SELECT WEST COAST DATES

SOULFLY TO SUPPORT ALONG WITH WINDOWPANE, PERSIST

Las Vegas, NV – American Capitalism will be heading to the Great White North this spring.  Five Finger Death Punch has announced they will tour Canada as well as the Western US beginning this March, with legendary Soulfly as support, as well as Windowpane and Persist.  5FDP will headline Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and more, while also playing a special Las Vegas hometown show alongside other western-US markets.  Singer Ivan Moody shared, “The few times we’ve been to Canada it’s been absolutely phenomenal.  The fact that we get to take a band like Soulfly with us on a tour like this says it all.  This is going to be one hell of a great time, in no uncertain terms.”  Guitarist Zoltán Báthory added, “We only played a handful of dates in Canada, but they were all sold-out so we are really looking forward to a headlining tour up there.   What makes it even sweeter is taking one of our favorite bands Soulfly with us on this trek.  As we are playing bigger and bigger venues, I think it became our responsibility to help expose some great metal bands to our more diverse audience .”

This will be 5FDP’s first proper headlining tour in Western Canada, where their current album, American Capitalist is already more than halfway to CRIA-Certified Gold Record Status – a mere three months after its release.  5FDP’s previous album, War is the Answer, is projected to hit CRIA-GOLD Status this spring, right around the time of the tour.

In the US, 5FDP continues to rack up impressive sales with over 280,000 copies of American Capitalist already sold.  Incredibly, American Capitalist is selling twice as fast as their previous Gold record, War Is the Answer- which itself has been one of the best-selling hard rock/ metal albums of the last five years. 5FDP’s current hit single, “Remember Everything” is already Top Five at Active Rock and climbing; their lead single, “Under and Over It,” was recently named Sirius Octane’s Song of the Year, and American Capitalist was named a Top Album of 2011 by ARTISTdirect.

Tickets go on sale to the general public the weekend of January 27^th and 28^th, but special VIP packages and tickets will be available starting WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25^th 3pm LOCAL at

www.fivefingerdeathpunch.com

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH HEADLINING TOUR W/ SOULFLY, WINDOWPANE, PERSIST

MARCH 2012

FRI 23       Las Vegas, NV The Joint

SAT 24       Pomona, CA      Fox Theater

MON 26       Fresno, CA          Rainbow Ballroom

TUE 27 Modesto, CA     Modesto Center Plaza

WED 28        Redding, CA       Redding Convention Center

FRI 30 Yakima, WA        Yakima Valley Sundome

SAT 31 Seattle, WA        Paramount Theatre

APRIL 2012

MON 02 Dawson Creek, BC           EnCana Events Centre

WED 04        Calgary, AB         MacEwan Hall, University of Calgary

THU 05       Edmonton, AB   “Thaw at the Shaw” @ Shaw Center

SAT 07        Regina, SK           Agribition

MON 09       Winnipeg, MB   Burton Cumming Theater

WED 11       Rapid City, SD    Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Arena

THU 12       Casper ,WY          Casper Event Center

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Release Date February 1st 2012

 Great CD from California based band Her Bed Of Thorns. I was pleasantly surprised when I put this in. Although I don’t think the production is great, I think the songs are. Taking nothing away from any other member of the band I think Bil Griffith (Bass) stands out on a lot of the songs. While most are hard hitting like “Bad Girl”, “Broken” and the title track “Alive” I like the slower tunes “Fall Down” and “Help Me” as well. I think “Alive” is well rounded and sounds best when played loud.

Her Bed Of Thorns is:

CHRIS IRICK – VOCALS/GUITAR
TIM MICHOLSON – GUITAR
BIL GRIFFITH – BASS
WILL THOMPSON – DRUMS

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