A couple of interviews that you might dig

Foo Fighters - We Are Very Loud

Hopefully my Friday night will consist of rocking out with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters!

Music comrade John Soeder caught up with Foos guitar player Chris Shiflett for a conversation that led me to discover that somehow, their brilliant cover of “Band on the Run” has taken a walk away from my Ipod.

Foo Fighters – Band on the Run (Wings cover)

Fixed.

It also made me think about their previous cover of “Baker Street,” which is always a favorite when it pops up.

Foo Fighters – Baker Street

I’ve haven’t heard a cover song yet from Foo Fighters that I don’t like!

Check out John’s Foo Fighters interview right here.

As long as we’re talking about interviews, I thought I would feature another interview from my music pal Chris Akin, since many of you enjoyed his conversation about Heart with author Jake Brown.

Chris comments on the above Heart article in reference to the Survivor albums I mentioned in that article…

Point of reference for your article…I’m the guy that knows that CAUGHT IN
THE GAME was the followup to EYE OF THE TIGER…not prior to it.

Oops. My bad. That was back in the good ole’ days of the music industry, when you could have a big album like Eye of the Tiger, and follow it with a bomb like Caught In The Game….and they’d still let you stick around to make another album called Vital Signs.

Good thing, since Vital Signs ended up doing “ok,” (note my sarcasm) with three hits inside the top 20, including the top 5 smash “The Search is Over.”

Survivor – The Search Is Over

The beginning of the video is one of my favorite video beginnings from videos back in the day.

Anyway, that’s not what this is really about….

Chris and I interviewed various members of Queensryche over the years, including this particular interview in 2002 with lead singer Geoff Tate, which caused a bit of a stir.

Geoff Tate 2002 Interview – Check out the Blabbermouth links above for the resulting fallout.

I’ve always been a big Queensryche fan, and thought that you all would probably enjoy the interview that Chris (and fellow co-host Neeley) did with guitarist Michael Wilton on last weekend’s edition of The Classic Metal Show.

Within the interview, they discuss Queensryche (of course) and also his collaboration with former Judas Priest / Iced Earth singer Tim “Ripper” Owens on the new material from Wilton’s Soulbender side project.

I was listening this past weekend to the Queensryche Empire album, and it’s still one of my favorite albums from the 90s, without a doubt.

Queensryche – One and Only

Enjoy the interview!