Glenn Hughes: The Soul Mover Speaks. Glenn Hughes talks at length about his soullyfully rocking new solo album, Iommi Hughes, that live DVD and a bunch of other great stuff! This is a MP3 Interview in 5 Parts! I hope you enjoy the concept - it allows the lengthy interview to be placed online quicker than waiting for a transcript to be typed out. Highlights of the interview include: "The last 10 years ... it's been a nice little ride, now let's get serious. What's missing for me is that I wanted to start focusing on what makes me tick. I want to make records now for the way I will be remembered in 10 years time. I made a lot of records, what I did with From Now On…Feel…all different…that was a guy figuring out what I really want to do. It's all me (style changes) – it takes me quite a while to feel comfortable in my own skin. I'm really happy with the focus of what's going on right now….I'm allowing myself to have fun with my music now. Labels that want me to be one dimensional – no – I'm going to do what I want to do. I ...

Gregg Fulkerson: A new name, a new band, same classy attitude.   Gregg Fulkerson talks to me about Attraction 65, his passion for music, life after Blue Tears and the long road inbetween. I think you will agree that Gregg's one of the nice guys of rock n roll. Read on...       So Gregg, most folks will know you (and Mike) from Blue Tears. Starting at that point, how did you enjoy the ride that was Blue Tears? We enjoyed it immensely, that was a long ride as well. Starting when I was in high school and to tell you the truth, we've just gotten back on with ATTRACTION 65 for all practical purposes, we are literally picking up where we left off even down to using the last song I wrote during that era, "Strong", on the new album but I'll get to all that somewhere in this interview I'm sure. Let's go straight to the new record - the debut Attraction 65 album. When did you start work on this album? About a year ago as far as the recording as far as the writing of the new songs which is the majority of the record it was written ...

Glenn Hughes: The voice of rock is finally comfortable with his with his role in the rock music world and is delivering some of the best work of his career. Hi Glenn, now's okay to talk for a few minutes? Oh, yeah. I just got home in time. Fantastic mate, thank you for that. How is HTP II coming then? Well, I'm really excited by it because I wanted to make another record that was similar to the first one. It's probably more melodic than the first one and I wanted to keep it in the box of what the first one was, but this one has probably more music in it. Right. When I say more music, it's got more harmonic thread. Obviously you'll have to hear it, you'll hear it soon. It's a good follow up, Andrew. It's a strong follow-up. I love the first one. Yeah, the first one is the blueprint and I didn't want to go too far out of the box on this one, so it's got moments from the first one and it's got the big musical harmonies and its got the classic sound. We're really, really happy with it. You've got your ...

Queensryche Interview - Interview conducted Thursday 20th October 2001. Geoff Tate, who is the lead vocalist for Seattle's own Queensryche, took the time to talk to Justin Donnelly about the bands new double live album 'Live Evolution'. Why a live album at this stage in your career? It wasn't planned at all, and was a kind of a spontaneous in our decision to make it. Our new record company Sanctuary inspired it. We went out to dinner after they came to see us play, when someone suggested we should do a live record. The next day, following a lovely dinner and several bottles wine, we had an agreement to do a live record. (Laughs) How was the track selection organised? Did you decide to slip in some tracks that hadn't been played for a while? Their (Sanctuary) idea, what they would ultimately like to see, was a well-rounded record. And the more we (The band) talked about it, we came up with more and more songs we wanted to include on it. It just turned into a big monster. Then we thought, 'Wow! We've got so many songs, why do we just represent our entire career by taking a couple of ...

  After many attempts at getting Dann on the phone, I was finally able to last week for a brief chat in between recording sessions in a Nashville studio. What you read may not be exactly what you wanted to hear, but at least the door is open to the chance of a new Giant record...maybe!   Hey Dann. Have you got a few minutes to talk? I sure do. I appreciate your time, thank you. Well it's great to get you on the phone. Yeah, sorry it's taken so long. No problem, it's just great to be able to talk to you. So how's life? Fine. You know, working ahead every day. Doing what seems like the same thing…but somehow you seem to make some headway and over a period of time you look back and see what you've done and it's more than you think when you are doing it. Well you've got quite an impressive body of work if I might say so, both as a producer and as a session guy now. Yeah well the session stuff has definitely been the predominant. Are you enjoying the producing side of it? Yeah it's kinda always ...

If there is one thing we all know about Glen Burtnik is that he is a great songwriter. He has crafted some of the finest undiscovered pop/aor tunes that have ever been, and still today remains one of the biggest cult AOR stars. This interview was taken a few months back, when I talked to Glen at home, inbetween making arrangements for the release of his latest CD Palookaville. It has turned out to be a great year for Burtnik fans, (note: no longer a ‘c’ in Burtnik!) with the new studio album, and also from MTM in Sweden, an archives compilation of his unreleased tunes, some of which he discusses in the interview. You can read reviews for Palookaville and Retrospectacle after you have read Glen's teachings! So Glen , Where have you been hiding? Well what happened to me, was I put out two records, and there was a change of A&R staff at A&M Records and I kinda got caught in one of those things, so you know, I had a short little moment there at A&M and then it was over. But then I started getting into songwriting after a ...

Glen Burtnik: Something old and something new. Glen talks in detail about his diverse, but rocking new CD Welcome To Hollywood, out now. And then there's his time with Styx!       G'Day Glen. Great as always to talk with you - you have had a busy time of it lately. Not sure where to begin, so maybe I'll start with the album and work backwards! First of all, Welcome To Hollywood is now released. Judging by your Newsletter comments, it must come as a great relief to see if completed and actually available? I am very glad this record is finished and finally finding it's way to an audience. As Bon Scott once sang, “I've done everything I'm gonna do. The rest is up to you” It seems there were times where you felt that wouldn't happen? Well, it sure took a very long time… Like Eric Clapton said, “Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.” Was the recording process for this album much harder/different to that of previous albums - and if so - why was that the case? I've never recorded an album while on tour before. At the same time I ...

Green: A new face for Italian prog-rock. Green talk about their unusual debut album and where the band gets it's heart from. First of all - when were Green formed? Green were born in the summer of '98 as a cover band. It was mainly a way of having a chance to play live (instead of being looked in a studio). At the time the name of the band was ppg but the band members are still the same. None of us had any project of composing or bothering with anything like that, we were a cover-band. I wanted to make my guitar scream a bit since it had been "suffocated" by endless studio sessions. I knew Michele from a previous "bad toys" (one of my first metal projects of the eighties) reunion a few years before (we hired him for the occasion). I asked him if he fancied playing a few songs and then asked Guido to join us. Michele then introduced his brother Giovanni, our keyboard player and seventies rock became the basic ingredient of our cover band. I started playing Jimmy Page again, rediscovering the thrill of playing in a band (which I hadn't done for 10 years ...

Goran Edman The Interview (Kharma, Reingold, Street Talk, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brazen Abbot, Glory & John Norum) Goran, you have a fantastic resume these days, covering some very memorable projects over 16 years now. But on your latest release Kharma I think you put in your best vocal performance ever. I totally agree. It is difficult to explain , from the beginning it was just meant to be another project requested by Magnus Soderqvist on MTM. I felt very skeptic about doing songs out of a 10-year-old demo but when I heard the new material I started to feel the potential of the band. Atilla is an outstanding songwriter and from the hard work and all confrontations a friendship developed that also contributed to the final result of the production. The chemistry in the band is easily underestimated I think. It was also a privilege to be able to work in a high tech top class studio such as Dragan's Bohus Sound Recordings. The pre production of the vocal arrangements became the final master and the result felt very spontaneous when we did not have to deal with the magic demo syndrome. Kharma's musical orientation was very similar to my own preferences I ...