TALK BACK ........................................................................... 4 FEATURED INTErviEW: THE RODS ................................ 5 TIM GIBSON ........................................................................ 12 JAMIE DELERICT ............................................................... 16 THE CROSSING .................................................................. 20 WRITINGS ON THE WALL ................................................ 23 PRETTY BOY FLOYD’s TROY FARREL ......................... 34 COLBY VEIL’s FREAKSHOW .......................................... 44 CD REVIEWS: THE RODS ................................................. 46 Editor/Graphics/Layout: Leith Taylor Illustrations: Oktobyr Interviews: JRock Houston Advertise With Us: [email protected] Graphics: Oktobyr & Leith Taylor HOW ARE WE DOING ? WE WANT TO H EAR FROM YOU . Chaotic Riffs Magazine is owned, created and published by: Questions or Comments: Vortexual Dreams Production, Inc. [email protected] PO Box 32, Ocala, FL 34478 Issue 9 - January 07, 2010 Copyright 2009. Chaotic Riffs Magazine - www.chaoticriffsmagazine.com Here at Chaotic Riff’s Magazine we really do hope that you all had a Rockin’ New Years Eve...............Well in 2010 we have big things planned for our readers....To start off with want to know what you think! We want to know how we are doing....We want your input on how we can make our magazine better than it already is.... We want to be sure you keep visiting our site which is why in 2010 we’re going to continue to cover the bands/ musicians that we really believe in and that we think you need to know about....This May will be our one year anniversary and in our May issue we’re planning to bring you up to date on several of the acts we’ve featured in our magazine over the last year. Now to start off the new year we want to welcome you to a new feature TALKBACK....Which is a monthly topic where we will talk about some music related topic and then ask for you to E-mail us back your thoughts/feedback which we in return will publish some of these letters at a later date. This month’s topic is Tribute Bands! Now as anyone who has ever read a single issue knows we have featured some tribute bands in our magazine over the past year...I know some of you may have been scratching your heads wondering why we’d bother cov- ering a tribute band in our magazine.................Well let me tell you there’s more to tribute bands than meets the eye....I am here to tell you the long believed myth that anyone who plays in a tribute band is just a failed musi- cian who has no talent and can’t hack it in an original act. In my years interviewing bands I have interviewed many tribute bands and I, myself was amazed at what great stories some of these bands have....For example, I once interviewed the Drummer from a Kiss tribute band and was amazed to learn that in the film Detroit Rock City it was this tribute band that filmed the concert scenes and not the actual band Kiss. In issue 2 I interviewed Hollywood Roses Singer Colby Veil which is one decision that I have never regreted... Not only in that interview did I accomplish the goal I set out to which was to tell that band’s story but after that interview was published Singer Colby Veil contacted m to first thank me for the interview and then to tell me that he would like to write a monthly column for Chaotic Riff’s Magazine which is how Colby Veil’s Freak- show came to life....I contacted the magazine’s Owner/Editor Leith Taylor and ever since then Colby’s monthly column has been a welcome addition to Chaotic Riffs Magazine. Since the interview in issue 2 I have got- ten to know Colby Veil and I can tell you he’s one of the most down to earth, friendly guys that you can ever hope to meet and the guy is loaded with talent! Colby is not only in Hollywood Roses, La’s Premiere Guns N Roses tribute band but he has his own original band DOPESNAKE who will be making some serious noise in 2010! Let’s not forget that Tim Owens was found in a Judas Priest tribute band and look at the success he’s gone on to have......And then this New Years Eve I had further proof to just how great a tribute band really can be! I Experienced not just Hollywood Roses live at the Whiskey in Los Angeles but also another great tribute band..................Beggers And Hangers On....A Tribute to everything SLASH! Expect Beggers And Hangers On to also make some serious noise in 2010! So now, what we’d like to know from you is.............What do you think of tribute bands? Do you have a favor- ite tribute band that you’d like to see featured in Chaotic Riffs Magazine? Send Comments to: [email protected] 4 Issue 9 - January 07, 2010 Copyright 2009. Chaotic Riffs Magazine - www.chaoticriffsmagazine.com Interviews with Singer/Guitarist David Feinstein & Drummer Carl Canedy JROCK: If you don’t mind I’d like to go back in time JROCK: I was curious why you decided to be a trio and talk a little bit about back when you were in the band when forming The Rods? ELF w/Ronnie Dio. DF: - I don’t know if becoming a trio is something DF: - Well I joined the band when it was still named that we really decided on but like I said when I met Ronnie Dio and The Prophets which turned into Electric Carl I was just really impressed with what a phenom- Elvis, which eventually turned into ELF. enal Drummer he was and then Gary was a fantastic Bassist. Before The Rods I really wasn’t a Singer. I JROCK: Now I know that you and Ronnie James Dio was known more for my Guitar Player....I became a are Cousins....Did you guys grow up together, were you Singer almost out of necessity. We just didn’t have a close when you were growing up? Singer so I became the Singer/Guitarist. Even today I don’t think I’m that good of a Singer. DF: - Well Ronnie is a few years older than me so we treally didn’t grow up together but we lived next door JROCK: I understand that back in the day you had together and then in High School we were both in band Managers who would tell you guys that your albums and played the Trumpet so we had that in common and I weren’t selling and that The Rods sucked....Now can also play the drums but when Ronnie learned that I these guys are supposed to help push the band so why could play the Guitar that was when he asked me to join do you think they did such an awful job? his band. DF: - I really couldn’t tell you why........We even once JROCK: So you actually played on some of the albums? had the opportunity to open for AC/DC in the U.K. and the management didn’t allow us to do the tour DF: - Yeah I played on the first two albums and then I left because they said that it would be too costly, cost too the band. much for us to tour over there and to this day I think that was a really, big mistake on the management’s JROCK: So what led to your decision to leave Elf? part because we got offered that tour because AC/ DC who was very big at the time wanted us on that DF: - Well there wasn’;t any animosity or anything be- tour! I think had we done that tour we would have tween me and the other members of the band or anything been headlining shows after that. This was during the like that. It was more about me wanting to do some non period after the first album was released on Arista Re- musical things for a while which I did back then. I took cords and after the Managerment wouldn’t allow us to several years off from music.....I didn’t even pick up the do the AC/DC tour we fired them but they held us to guitar for years. our contract which means our hands were tied and we were unable to do anything else for a year. JROCK: After leaving Elf and seeing Elf eventually break up and go their seperate ways what was it like for JROCK: Who were some of your influences? you to see all the success that came Ronnie’s way? DF: - Beck, Blackmoore, Hendrix, and Page. As a DF: - I thought it was just great....I felt that Ronnie really matter of fact I’ll tell you a funny story. Back in The desearved all the success that came his way because not Elf days we toured w/Deep Purple which I just loved only is he a great Singer but he’s always been a very, because I was such a fan of Rihie Blackmmore’s and hard worker and I have to say that Ronnie’s always been I’d watch their show every, single night and I was just a great guy to me. so impressed with the guy’s playing. JROCK: So what year was The Rods formed? JROCK: Did you ever get a chance to meet Black- moore? I’ve heard stories that he’s always been very DF: - 1980, I didn’t touch the guitar for years after I left standoffish. Elf but when I met Carl and Gary I knew I had met the prefect Drummer and Bass Player and that’s when The DF: - I’ll tell you what, I had heard all kinds of horror Rods came together.