Danny Malone It took a while to get this transcribed, but here is my chat late last year with Diving For Pearls frontman Danny Malone discussing the controversial Texas album. Thanks to Don Higgins for transcribing the interview for me!     Ok Danny. Great to finally hook up with you. You have a partnership of sorts with producer David Prater. How did you guys get hooked up for the debut album? Michael Kaplan was our A & R guy; Don Grisham was the guy that signed this band. And Don Grisham was also the guy that … I wouldn't use the word insisted but he is really, really the guy that suggested very, very strongly that we use David Prater to produce the record. Right, OK. Because originally we had somebody else lined up. Or I shouldn't say that we had them lined up, we had met with a guy named Terry Thompson I believe. Oh, Terry Thomas? Thomas rather who had done Bad Company, right? And went on to do Giant. Terry Thomas was the guy, the first guy that we were interested in. Terry Thomas came to New York, took a meeting with us and came to a ...

Danny Danzi: Welcomes You To Danziland. Danny Danzi has proven to be one of the more popular personalities on the melodic rock scene and in this interview provides some interesting and honest insights into the making of his new solo album DaniLand and surviving the last 4 years. Mr Danzi! Here we go with that interview that's long overdue! Mr. McNeice! You know, we've never done an interview, have we? Long overdue for sure....then again, what the hell could you have possibly asked me anyway? "Danny, will it come out this year?" Hahahahaha! Congratulations on the new album mate - long overdue (which we will get to) - but well worth the wait! Ah thanks man, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I know you're not easy to please, and neither are the AOR fans. We did the best we could though....and I like to think it was worth the wait too. We'll see how the others feel. *prays* :) What are your personal feelings now that it's all said and done and about to be unleashed on the world?!! Bless me Father for I have sinned, it's been 5 years since my last album release and my fans are pissed! ...

AOR Heaven NEH Records Z-Roxx Loud 1 Groove Machine Destiny Hot Tracks Target Wishing Well Perris Visual Vinyl       DAVID HUNGATE / Mecca - Bass Hi David. You are one of the legends of this rock genre, having started your recording career many years ago. Was Toto your first band? My recording career actually began in 1969....Toto began in 1977. Wow…Ok! Looking back, is their any particular segment of your career that you enjoyed most and consider the most rewarding? The period from the recording of Boz Scaggs' "Silk Degrees" (late '75) through Toto IV (1981) was the best. I worked on a number of projects with musicians like Jeff Porcaro, Dean Parks, Lukather, Jay Graydon, Ray Parker, David Paich, David Foster, and others....great rhythm sections, and some great pop/R&B music. No drum machines or click tracks...we just played. Is there a low point that stands out at all? My two years on the A&R staff of MCA Nashville (1985,86). I did very little playing and missed it greatly. What caused you to leave Toto at a period where the band was very successful? In 1982 I had already moved to Nashville and was getting my ...

DAVID COVERDALE The Into The Light Interview             You know, if you make music your mistress....you've got to accept her mood swings.... David Coverdale - 2000 This was a big interview for me. As a long time fan and devotee of everything Coverdale, it took a while to get David on the phone and this was it. Lucky for me David was in a chatty and expressive mood. Unlucky that it would take me this long to get the interview formatted and online. David quite often switched topic mid sentence and was certainly vocal on many issues. He also has a fine sense of humor. I hope that comes through and I hope the interview comes together OK and makes sense...most of the time! So, I owe you a debt of thanks I understand Andrew. Michael said you're an incredible supporter of what I do. Well it comes from being a long time fan David and I've got this site down, I guess it's the least I can do. Bless your heart. Very much, very much appreciated. Thank you very much. As you know, we're dabbling in this, this remarkable Internet thing for the ...

Hey David, I've been trying to get through but we've had some power problems today. Where are you calling from? Hobart, Tasmania. Oh right. How about you? LA right? Yes, you're down under and I'm up above here. I'm in LA and it's a gorgeous day here. Fantastic. Here it's blowing a gale here! How are things with the band then? Things are really good. The band's been touring and we've been playing around the United States doing Vegas and there's a lot of casinos we've been playing in different places. We're going to be playing in Caribbean and we're going down to Costa Rica and Mexico City here in April. The band is doing really well. We're taking a little bit of time off here and getting ready to promote our new album, which is 'Mindfields'. We've gone on a few shows like Donny and Marie Osmond and Rosie O Donnell and things like that you know. So we're just kind of entering a new phase here gearing up here to promote this new record. The way the release dates for the record are kind of speared across the world, this album is going to be around for a ...

If given the task of listing my favourite ever songs, there is almost no chance of it happening. But I can name a few of them. Those are the songs that no matter how many times I play them, I never ever tire of them. One of these such songs belongs to Danny Wilde. 'Time Runs Wild' is a one in a million tune that made me a life long fan of Danny. So it was quite a great pleasure to be able to catch up with him on the release of his new transitional album. Here's what happened: Hey Danny, it's Andrew from Australia Hey Andrew…. how ya doing? I wasn't sure what time you were going to call. Yeah ( laughs ) I kinda left it a bit confused in Jill's mind there. Because it's pretty early….and I thought I better stick to the time she set up for me! So what time is it there then…like 5 in the morning? Yeah 5am. So how are you? Great, fine. I saw your webpage. Looks great. Great, so you're online then? Yeah. Did you ever see my web page? Look I did, I got a sampler of the album from ...

Daniel Flores: Sweden's Man Of The Moment   Daniel, you are fast becoming the go-to man for session drum work, so there's a few tings to cover here. But first and foremost, we are here to promote your new Mind's Eye album Walking On H20. The album is a concept album about nothing less than human evolution. Couldn't you find anything more light and fluffy to write about?!!! :) Hahahaha Well the topic of world terror had already been taken by George Bush so Human evolution has the only theme left for me… ;-) Seriously, I thought I was a great lyrical theme with the potential of being dramatic and serious at the same time. I mean who dares to write about something like Human evolution? Who dares to say out loud that Darwin's evolution theory has huge wholes in its socket? I wanted to create some discussions about these facts, its fun to provoke feelings into people's minds. I am a guy who likes to provoke, it's so much funnier than to be on the safe side. Still, it's only music. That's why I chose the theme, to encourage people and at the same time still make some good old ...

xxxx   Dreamtide: The guys get daring on album number 2. Helge Engelke and Olaf Senkbeil talk about the brand new Dreamtide album and the songs that make up the new opus. Interview with Dreamtide guitarist and mastermind Helge Engelke. I really like the style of the new album - you seem to be closer to a Fair Warning style sound. Was that a deliberate move? Oops, right the very first one is a question I didn't expect at all. But first of all, thank you. Having been in Fair Warning for more than 10 years I would have estimated that 80% of the songs on this record NEVER would have been on any FW record. Maybe I am wrong but that would mean that the tastes of my ex-fellow members have changed drastically. To answer the question more straight ahead: There was no intention at all, not even a single thought about it, to get closer to FW. What did you have in mind when you started to write the new songs? I'm a simple mind, so most of the time there is not much going on there. I wouldn't even say that I write songs. I would call it 'discovering' what ...

Mark Mangold: American Tears to Drive She Said to The Sign and a new Freaky project. Mark Mangold runs through the new Drive She Said album, his love of working with the people he does and the new Magic Freak Society project. Ok Mark, thanks for taking the time out to be interrogated. There is much more to the man than just a keyboard player - how would you describe yourself? Mmm, I don't think I would actually. That's a hard one. Just another one of the 6 billion Universes living and breathing on this planet, and I must say I'm sure enjoying it. You are a songwriter by trade - could there possibly be a tougher trade to make a living from on the face of the earth? Soldier......But yes anything in the "arts" is subjective and hard and it often comes down to pleasing an "executive" before it even gets out there to the world. That has seriously stifled the making of music unfortunately. I know a lot of my readers are interested in the industry side of things and behind the scenes. In relation to your songs being adopted by same very high profile names such as ...

xx   Daniele Liverani: The Genius behind the music. We have all heard rock opera's...we have also heard long rock opera's, but a Triple CD, released over three years? Sounds like an ambitious project. Just who is behind the Genius opera and hear the entire opera's story line. Let's go right back to the beginning. Can you tell us a little about your history as a musician? I started to play piano when I was a child (at 6) attending a local classical school that gave me all the theory and harmonic notions, then I self approached guitar at 16 (1987), applying it all the classical notions. I learned from classical piano experience. In 1993 (at 22) I won a national contest as Italian best guitar player and I won a paid trip and stage at GIT School in LA. I stayed there for a long period, attending lessons from many of the biggest guitar player of the scene...it was there that I put together the lineup to record the my first solo project album 'Viewpoint' that would have been published only later by Elevate records in 1999. I also studied bass at 24 and drums at 25, I always had a great love for both ...

DANNY VAUGHN mm   Good to talk to you again Danny, how are things in your part of the world, post Sept. 11. Everyone's Ok I hope? There were some worries initially as Michael and I both have some friends and family in the Police, Fire Dept., and medical professions, but we have been fortunate in that respect. Things are still very strange over here. Lots of paranoia and tension. But I guess we have joined much of the rest of the world in that respect. The second Vaughn album was released just prior to that unfortunate date - has this set back the sales and/or promotion of the album in any way? Over shadowed it as such? I'm sure that it has affected things but it seems like such a small worry compared to everything else. I'm hoping that this acoustic solo tour I'm going to do in February will get my head back on music by reconnecting with my friends. To anyone that hasn't bought the album yet - what can you say to convince them to take a look at it? I of course, can't recommend it highly enough!! Ummmm... it's got a really pretty girl on ...