Rockin' Realities

John Schubert - drummer and founding member of the bands Candy, Electric Angels and The Loveless - joined us to talk about his musical career. We talked about everything spanning from why John became a drummer and the beginning of the band Candy to recording the Electric Angels album in London with Tony Visconti - and even why you can hear him say "I am not taking my pants off" at the beginning of "The Drinking Song".

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Ob in Deutschland, Europa oder den Vereinigten Staaten - Bonfire sind und bleiben Rock-Giganten. Ohne ihren Einfluss auf die Melodic-Rockszene würde ein wichtiges Kapitel der internationalen Rockmusikgeschichte ungeschrieben bleiben.    

Im Februar wurde das neue Album "Roots veröffentlicht" - ein "almost unplugged" Album, das durch ein Crowdfunding ermöglicht wurde und auf Platz eins der Amazon Album Charts zu finden ist.   

Der Bandgründer Hans Ziller und der Gitarrist Frank Pané haben sich mit uns über das Album unterhalten und uns dabei den dazugehörigen Wettbewerb erklärt, wie es zu dem Album kam und sogar weshalb es beim Crowdfunding selbstgemachten Eierlikör zu erwerben gab.

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John Fiddler is best known as a member of the band Medicine Head that became successful in the early 70s with songs such as "One And One Is One", "Rising Sun" and "(And The) Pictures In The Sky".    John's newest single "Warriors Of Love" is available on all streaming services as well as a physical copy on his website.   

John took the time to talk to us about the beginning of the band, what the band name means and which role John Lennon played in the band getting signed to a record label, his newest release and his own record label, and so much more!

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Elizabeth Lee enters the stage like thunder and lightning, enchanting the hearts and souls of the lot. Her voice is soaked in pure southern rock and blues…dusted and groovy like the hot Texas desert. Graciously embracing the prestigious South by Southwest Music Festival & Austin Music Award’s category for »Best Female Vocals«.  

Born in Pasadena, Texas, she began her musical journey at the age of 10. singing in the church choir. Her career, which spanned from Los Angeles to New York to Europe, where she worked as a model, founded her first band, and appeared in videos of Depeche Mode (Policy of Truth), RunDMC, John Scofield, Kid n’ Play, Placido Domingo and many more. Her musical career is stunning. She opened stages for Buddy Guy as well as Jeff Beck and speaks often of one of her most moving and inspiring moments.    

In 2017 Elizabeth founded the highly acclaimed acoustic project with Martin Hauke, the guitar player of Europe's best Rolling Stones tribute band Voodoo Lounge. His guitar style is so dusty-dry and uncompromising that most think he’s from somewhere in Texas and not the North German Plain. It seems like the two musicians from two very different continents have searched and found each other, creating their “WANTED” musical posse.    

The duo have taken some time to talk to us this week, and the topics spanned from musical influences and our favourite members of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles to songwriting and meeting Tom Petty after auditioning for Joe Cocker.

Irgendwie hat Mathias Kellner, der Straubinger Dude mit der Gitarre, der musizierende Schauspieler, der „großartige Entertainer“ (MZ) zwischen seinen früher auf englisch und später auf bairisch gesungenen Songs schon immer unglaubliche Geschichten auf der Bühne erzählt. Nix Großes, keine langatmigen Epen, eher so unaufgeregt ungefähres, mitten aus dem Leben im bayerischen Hinterland treffsicher Gefischtes: herrlich skurril, manches kaum zu glauben. Auf der Bühne präsentiert Kellner ein urig-witziges, kurzatmiges Gesamtkunstwerk aus Worten und Akkorden.    

Mathias hat sich Zeit genommen und auch uns ein paar dieser Geschichten erzählt. Zum Beispiel wie er Musiker wurde, der Unterschied zwischen englischen und bairischen Songs - und wie er mal an einer Tankstelle spielen musste, um Benzingeld zu verdienen und zu seinem Auftritt fahren zu können.

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Don is back! The drummer of the legendary band Slade has agreed to come on the show a second time. The debut single 'Back On The Road' by the Don Powell Band is out today, and of course, we talked with Don about the new band and the new song, but also about Don Powell's Occassional Flames, his collaboration with Andy Scott and Suzi Quatro. And of course, Don also told us some Slade stories.

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Jay Jay French is best known as a founding member, guitarist and manager of the legendary band Twisted Sister, but he is also a keynote speaker, columnist, author and host of his own podcast The French Connection.   

Jay Jay took the time to talk to us, and the topics spanned from his early influences and our favourite records to the Twisted Method of Reinvention and the hard work that is involved in becoming successful.  Jay Jay's book Twisted Business: My Life with Rock'n'Roll will be published later this year.

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Andy Susemihl hat die Bühnen mit Rock-Ikonen wie Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses, Deep Purple und Lita Ford geteilt, über 20 Alben produziert und eingespielt und über 500.000 Tonträger verkauft. Seine Songs und seine Gitarrenarbeit sind auf CDs neben renommierten Gitarristen wie Steve Vai, Joe Satriani und Steve Stevens zu finden. 

In Deutschland geboren und aufgewachsen, kam Andy Susemihl zum ersten Mal im Alter von 14 Jahren mit der Gitarre in Berührung. Nachdem er sich in der heimischen Szene einen sehr guten Namen erspielt hatte, erlangte er überregionalen Bekanntheitsgrad als Gitarrist von Bands wie Sinner und U.D.O. dem Projekt des Accept-Sängers Udo Dirkschneider.   

Seit einigen Jahren pendelt er zwischen L.A. und Deutschland und betreibt neben all diesen Aktivitäten das Projekt Andy Susemihl & Superfriends von dem am 22. Januar2021das siebte Studio Album „Alienation“ u.a. mit Peter Baltes am Bass und Francesco Jovino sowie Andre Labelle an den Drums veröffentlicht wird.

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The experimental spirit and rocking subculture of the 60s live on in Jeff Mezzrow's music. Whether through blues and soul-soaked groove music or rock - guitarist / singer Jeff Mezzrow offers a truly lively performance that sweeps the audience away. After his youth in the Southside of Chicago, Mezzrow left his hometown in 1972 and has been on the road with his music in the United States and Europe ever since. In 2004 he settled in Berlin to perform with the Blue Man Group. There he teamed up with drummer Benedikt Stehle (Alexander Knappe, Fanfare Ciocarlia) and bassist Leon Schurz (Samy Deluxe, Fetsum) and found in them a rhythm section that creates the kind of groove that makes everything feel right.    

The band's latest album "Pawning The Plant" was released in 2020, and is available on CD.   

Jeff took the time to talk with us about the album, living in Germany, Albert King playing at his high school graduation, and much more! He even took out a guitar and played the album's title song.

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John Fred Young is best known as the drummer of Black Stone Cherry, who recently released their new album 'The Human Condition'. Watch the interview to find out more about the new album, touring with Alice Cooper, and hear the story why Black Stone Cherry almost got escorted out of Wembley Arena after meeting Jimmy Page.

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