Night Ranger Part 2: Kelly Keagy. Night Ranger drummer Kelly Keagy talks about the new Night Ranger album and also his new solo album I'm Alive, plus working with Jim Peterik and his new project Scrap Metal. Hey Kelly, good to talk to you again. Hey Andrew. What did I catch you in the middle of? I'm working on the Scrap Metal band because we've got our first gig up Connecticut in a casino and we're gonna film it so we've got all these details we've got to take care of. Just, you know, learning everybody's songs and it's quite an undertaking. Then I'm doing interviews for this album of course and trying to get ready for touring and stuff like that. Both for myself and Night Ranger included. I can't believe it's only your first Scrap Metal gig. You seem to have been doing that for a while now. Well we started out like a year ago last March. We thought we were gonna have more gigs than that buy we were all so busy. We couldn't really pull it together. Plus we didn't have anything to promote; no records or anything like that. We still don't, but at ...

T h e Time Passes I n t e r v i e w         Hey Kelly, thanks for your time again. The album's out in Europe, are Frontiers are going to do the US release for you? If I can get something better, they'll go for that. So I'm going to see if I can use some of my contacts around that I know. But any of the companies that I know are majors and they're not really keen on signing an act like me. What, good music you mean? Yeah. They want all that..., anyway. Maybe if you dye your hair blond and wear shorts or something and a baggy top. And pierce everything and brand my face. And play music with no melody in it at all. Absolutely. And scream a bit more. It's not a sign of age is it? Definitely not. I think we just like good music. Yeah, we do. And you know what? I've got some kids on the site that e-mail me and say, hey, I'm nineteen and I haven't been corrupted by the crap on MTV. Some of those kids do like good music. That's cool. That's great. ...

Khymera: A traditional AOR album featuring one of rock's great singers. Daniele Liverani - Khymera's musical director Daniele Liverani talks about the challenges of making the acclaimed album. Hi Daniele. First off, are you personally happy with the responses you have received back and the reviews you have read? Well, I must say that I've read great reviews about this Khymera album and of course I'm really excited about this! I'm especially very satisfied with the production and mix quality...I really hear everything well and in the right place in terms of sounds, balance, vocals...and this is very important to make a record sound good! Did you enjoy making the album? I enjoy a lot doing this Khymera, even if I didn't made the songwriting of these songs, I really did my best for making them sound very personal and original, staying of course into the AOR straight rock that this kind of songs were requiring. So it was not only a production, arrangement job for me. I definitely feel this album close to my sensibility since I put all my style and experience on its creation. I must say that it was very interesting to test my ...

Interview with Two Fires vocalist Kevin Chalfant - May 2000. TWO FIRES: OK Kevin....On the verge of the album's release, how do you rank this record among the others that you have participated on? There are things that I like and dislike about everything that I have recorded. I rate this very high on the list. I am very pleased with the songs, the players, the performances, the sound. I compare it with the debut Storm CD. That is what I gauged this Two Fires with. You and Josh have a partnership that goes back several years now. Did you guys do anything different in the recording process this time around, or did you just pick up where you normally would? Josh and met in 1983 on a recording that I was doing at Prairie Sun Recorders. We just fit together in music. This album is pure AOR. It seems to me that it was recorded with the die-hard fan in mind. Was that the aim of the record, or what was your vision going into this? Yes, this is a fan record. If you don't have your fans, you don't sell records, you don't tour, you don't have any fun. ...