The Jersey Guys Podcast

The Jersey Guys Podcast is back with its latest episode and this time we talk with vocalist extraordinaire Mark Boals!

Mark Boals has performed on more than 40 albums during his career as a lead vocalist, along with doing various tours worldwide with such notable acts as Dokken, Ted Nugent, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth, Royal Hunt and many more. He joined Savoy Brown in 1982-83, then in 1984 joined Ted Nugent's band and toured with Nuge throughout the U.S. and Europe. In 1985 he joined Yngwie Malmsteen's 'Rising Force' as lead singer and in early 1986 recorded his first album with Malmsteen entitled “Trilogy”. To date Mark Boals has recorded 3 solo albums, 4 studio albums and a live DVD with his own band, "Ring Of Fire", with other members Tony Macalpine, Virgil Donati, and Vitalij Kuprij. He has toured with the band “Dio Disciples” with former members of Ronnie James Dio’s band and also participated in the Dokken album, ‘Broken Bones’ performing background vocals with Don Dokken and he joined the band playing bass guitar and vocals for the tour.

Mark was also a cast member of the Las Vegas show “Raiding The Rock Vault” which includes many rock stars performing a history of rock music from the 60’s through the 80’s and also has been part of another Vegas show named “Tenors of Rock”.

Also be sure to check out his latest project named “Shining Black” (Frontiers Records) where he partners with Olaf Thorsen (Labyrinth, Vision Divine).

Keep tabs on all things Mark Boals on his website www.markboalsofficial.com and we hope you enjoy episode # 30 of The Jersey Guys Podcast with Mark Boals!

The Jersey Guys Podcast is back with episode # 29 and this time we are joined by special guest Jerome Mazza (Angelica, Pinnacle Point, Steve Walsh and solo work).

Jerome Mazza is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. At the age of 8, Jerome taught himself how to play the guitar and sing after being influenced by guitarist and singer/songwriter, Mark Farner of the band Grand Funk Railroad. Playing guitar and singing through his teenage years, he joined his first band at age 19 and toured the east coast in various pop and rock bands. Jerome started to write songs at the age of 25 and was very influenced by the rock band, Kansas, whose music combined classical music with progressive rock.

While honing his songwriting and his singing, he became a session vocalist including singing commercials in Los Angeles for major corporations such as Coors Beer, Pizza Hut, HBO and several publishing firms.

In 1990 Jerome became the lead singer for the second album from the Christian metal band, Angelica, entitled “Walking In Faith”. The album ended up being the best-selling Angelica record. Still today, it’s known as one of the best metal albums in Christian music.

In 2015, Jerome recorded a self-titled solo album in a classic adult contemporary style that could be compared to everything from Josh Groban to Michael Bolton.

In 2016, Jerome became the lead singer and one of the founding members (along with guitarist/songwriter/producer Torben Enevoldsen) of the band, Pinnacle Point.

In 2017, Jerome contributed lead vocals to multiple tracks on Steve Walsh’s (Kansas) fourth solo album entitled “Black Butterfly” which was released in November of that year. Jerome sings lead vocals on three songs (“Winds Of War”, “Now Until Forever”, “Mercy On Me”) and duets with Walsh on the single “Born In Fire”.

In late 2018 Jerome released his new solo album “Outlaw Son” and it is a classic AOR album of the finest order, drawing comparisons to Journey and other great AOR acts.

After listening to the podcast you can stay up date with the latest on Jerome Mazza at www.jeromemazza.com.

We are back with a brand new episode and today our special guest is Alex Salzman formerly of the great Westchester County New York band Tour De Force. This band once had a development deal with Geffen Records and a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Publishing, but in our view remains one of the greatest hard rock bands to never have that elusive major label release. Tour De Force wrote over 40 songs during their time and in this episode Tom & Mark take a trip down memory lane with Alex and talk about everything from the band’s early days, their eventual album releases and right up to what Alex has going in his musical career today.

We hope you enjoy this episode and to learn even more about Alex and see what he is doing since his days with Tour De Force, please visit his website at www.alexsalzman.com.

Here is the latest episode of The Jersey Guys Podcast! Today Tom & Mark discus the discography of the great Swedish band Treat. Starting with their debut in 1985 and continuing all the way up to their brand new album released earlier in 2022, we talk about all 10 studio records this great melodic rock band has produced. Much like their fellow countrymen in Europe, Treat went on an extended hiatus at one point but have been back releasing solid studio records since 2010’s comeback “Coup de Grace”. This was a good discussion on a great band that may fly under the radar for some. So check it out and enjoy!

The Jersey Guys are back with a brand-new podcast for you and this time we tried something a bit different. If you have been following along with the podcast since we started, we have done episodes where we have had special guest interviews and we have had episodes where we’ve had discography discussions on bands, sometimes full discographies, and sometimes certain eras of a band. This time around we thought we would take a more “free-form” approach and pick a musician and discuss their career, the bands they were in and albums they played on and just have a general discussion on that musician.

We think we came with a good one to start this idea off with and it is none other than the great British vocalist Tony Mills. Of course, if you know Tony Mills name then you know bands he was in bands like Shy and TNT and maybe even Siam, but Mills was an ace singer who was capable of many different styles and therefor was in demand in the hard rock and AOR world throughout the years. He sang on many albums and projects such as Serpentine, State of Rock, Crying Steel as well as having six solo albums to his credit and there was so much more.

In this episode we touched on a lot of the work Tony Mills had done over the years, but we’d probably need a part two to cover it all so we touched on the major highlights. So, sit back and check out our discussion about the late, great singer Tony Mills!

We are back with a brand new episode of The Jersey Guys Podcast for you all and this time around we have special guest Rick Ventura formerly of Riot and currently of the new band Riot Act. Rick appeared on the classic Riot studio albums “Narita”, “Fire Down Under”, “Restless Breed”, “Born In America” as well as 1980’s “Riot Live”.

Joining us in the studio for this episode is special co-host Phil DiBenedetto, who was our very first guest on The Jersey Guys Podcast! Phil was of course the long-time owner of Zig Zag Records in Brooklyn, NY and he was the perfect co-host to bring Rick down memory lane and talk about those early days of Riot and the NY scene that they were both a part of.

Nowadays, Rick & Riot Act just released its debut album “Closer To The Flame”, so we touch on that as well and get all the details of what their plans are for 2022 and beyond.

So settle it and check this episode out. It was a real good one!

On this episode of The Jersey Guys Podcast Mark & Tom talk with guest Larry “L.A.” Greene from the cult classic band Fortune (and also Harlan Cage where he teamed up with ex-Fortune keyboard player Roger Scott Craig). Fortune has just released their new album “Level Ground” earlier this year to rave reviews and let’s not forget their two other albums starting with the 1985 self-titled all-time AOR classic as well as 2019’s comeback “II”.

Larry talks about all the Fortune and Harlan Cage albums as well as his career as a soundtrack musician for film and TV where he’s written songs and music for films such as “Top Gun” (Tom Cruise), “Mystic Pizza” (Julia Roberts) and “Over The Top” (Sylvester Stallone).

All in all it was a great interview with this super-talented singer and songwriter, so we hope you enjoy this one!

A brand new episode is up and this week Tom and Mark talk with Anthony Corder of Tora Tora. The band debuted in 1989 with “Surprise Attack” and their MTV hit “Walkin’ Shoes”. Their sophomore release “Wild America” was released in 1992 and, as with so many hard rock bands of the ‘80s, grunge took over and even though the band completed work on its 3rd album it would not see the light of day until 2011 when “Revolution Day” (FNA Records) would hit the shelves. The band would eventually regroup and ultimately release it’s newest album titled “Bastards of Beale” in 2019.

Currently the band has been putting some new music out via single releases with a new one due very soon as Anthony broke the news right here on episode 23 of The Jersey Guys Podcast!

So sit back and check it out right here and on all your favorite podcast streaming apps!

In this episode of The Jersey Guys Podcast we talk with Mark Mangold, the man behind bands like Touch and Drive, She Said as well as projects like The Sign, Mystic Healer and others. Mark has a long history as a song-writer, keyboard player and more and Tom and Mark touch on all that and more.

Did you know Mark played in Michael Bolton’s band early on and co-wrote “I Found Someone” which was a huge hit for Cher? Mark talks about that as well as what is currently going on with the re-grouped Touch and his brand new project Keys and how he’s been writing with and playing keyboards with House of Lords on their new, in-the-works album!

We cover just about all things Mark Mangold in this episode so check it out!

In this episode we are joined again by Tom's son Tj in the studio and we discuss the first 9 albums in Iron Maiden’s illustrious career. We star with 1980's debut and go up to 1992's "Fear of the Dark"!

We will be covering the rest of the band's discography in the near future when Tj can join us again but for now enjoy this episode!