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Boasting a savvy retro vibe, singer- education. I’m actually headed back to and recording an album and had played Ugly Duck Studios. songwriter Katrina Marie and her band school again, this time for music. I was just gigs as a solo act. I got lonely and wanted METRONOME: Who engineered? deliver jaw dropping performances on their accepted into Berklee School of Music in some buddies to advertise my album with. I was so lucky to have Eric Alper engineer outstanding new CD, When There Is No Boston and I start in the Summer. METRONOME: Who’s in the group and the album. Recording always freaks me out. Color. Blending R&B, soul, uptown Jazz and METRONOME: Were you in bands during what instruments do they play? I’m a much better performer when there is beatific blues into memorable, toe tapping high school? Dave Barber plays guitar, John Libby an audience to interact with. Eric always numbers, this talented quintet knows how No. That would have been cool though. is on keys, Jon Grogins plays bass, Bob made me feel comfortable to just be myself to deliver a great tune. We queried Katrina The opportunity never presented itself. I Martin on drums and myself on vocals and sing from the heart. He came up with so about her music and she weighed in with went to such a tiny school it would have The guys all chip in on vocal harmonies too. many great ideas for the album too. There’s how the project came to fruition... been hard to form a group. METRONOME: How did you all meet? not enough bourbon in the world to thank METRONOME: When did you start writing A combination of the internet and old him for the late nights. METRONOME: Where are you from? songs? friendships. METRONOME: How long did it take to Katrina Marie: I was raised in a tiny I started writing songs in high school. It METRONOME: How would you explain record? vacation town by the lake in Northern N.H. was a great way to get emotions out. My your style of music to someone who had Recording only took about a week. That called Moultonboro, but have been living in teachers were incredible. A few of them never heard you before? was the fastest part of the process. The full the Boston area for the last several years. were extremely encouraging and offered An old school soul vibe with a blues rock project from writing to mastering took a little METRONOME: Who were under three years. Keep in mind some of your musical we all had day jobs. influences as a child? METRONOME: Did you pen As a kid I listened to whatever all the songs? my parents were listening to. Yes. I wrote the music and Neither of them was a musician lyrics for all of the tracks. My or professional singer, but they goal with this album was to both welcomed the exploration create something personal of a diverse pool of music, so I and authentic to who I was at took a dip into every genre. the time and what I was going I danced around the house through in my life. I did however with my mom to Bob Marley and have an incredible team of Madonna and watched black artists who assisted me on the and white films with my dad project with writing, arranging, showcasing the voices of artists production, engineering, like Judy Garland and Gene instrumentation, etc. Kelly. If it weren’t for my dad, I METRONOME: What were wouldn’t know the lyrics to just some of the things that about every Beatles song. inspired the songwriting? Growing into adolescence, I I was going through a lot developed an affinity for Motown of hardships at the time and artists like Etta James including health, financial, and and Otis Redding. Soul was a relationship challenges. Writing language that I understood and the album was a way for me to I knew pretty early on that it get through it and hopefully find would be the most comfortable a way to help other people who way for me to use my voice. may listen to the album one METRONOME: How long have day. you been singing? METRONOME: Who played I don’t think I have any on the album with you and memories before I started can you give us details about so... quite little! One of my first each musician? memories is asking to put the As the team was so large, I headphones to my parents’ stereo on my their assistance in creating recordings with edge. will attach a photo appropriately crediting all ears so I could sing along to a Belinda me and this was before we had easy access METRONOME: Tell us about your new of the artists. And to squash any confusion, Carlisle song. to recording and editing softwares. album, When There Is No Color. Is it your my current band mates from Katrina Marie METRONOME: Did you have any formal METRONOME: Do you play any first CD release? Band were not a part of the When There Is training? instruments? When There Is No Color is my second No Color album project. No. Aside from a little school chorus and I play enough guitar to get by, but nothing album, but my first professionally recorded The core team who worked towards a couple of voice lessons here and there, to write home about. and released album. developing the record works under the it pretty much all comes from the heart. METRONOME: When did you form your METRONOME: Where did you record the name ATIC Music: Dave Cohen on guitar, My family didn’t have a ton of money so band? album? arrangement & production, Mariann my focus was always on gaining a strong A year ago. I had spent a few years writing A mix of two studios: Mortal Music and Uleberg-Cohen on guitar & production and Karim Georges on production. thinking, If I were giving a speech 30 years METRONOME: How did you come up from now to a group of 22 year olds, what with the album’s title, When There Is No would I say? “Hard Fight” became my Color? response to that question. I would share I had written most of the songs on the with the students that I chose to fight hard album when it was time to come up with a through a lot of challenges rather than title. I remember struggling with it because live an easier, uneventful life. Essentially if I had written about a lot of tough situations, someone were to write a story based on my but there was no way to really tie it all up in a life, I would want it to be very entertaining. pretty bow. It’s not like my life was a piece of METRONOME: Did “Not Afraid” hold any magical perfection just because I wrote an personal meaning for you? album. If anything, I knew that there would “Not Afraid” perhaps holds the most be even more challenges heading my way meaning for me out of all the songs. It’s because I was trying to exist as an artist in about all of the phases I went through at a a world that is not generally accepting of time when I was faced with a hardship that I or respectful of artists. Then again, I didn’t had little control over. I didn’t want to just list want to leave a mark on the world that was emotions though. My goal was to describe a total downer because I like to lift people’s them by painting a picture. spirits. So I based the title on the track METRONOME: “To The Sun” was a “Crimson.” When There Is No Color in the gorgeous tune. What inspired the writing world, I can either choose to be a part of it for that song? and remain shades of gray or I can dare to “To The Sun” was about finding the light be unique and colorful. at the end of the tunnel and feeling lucky METRONOME: Your vocal performances that I had people in my life that could help run the gamut from uptown jazz to sultry me find that light. blues to straight ahead rockers and METRONOME: Who did the artwork for sweet nostalgia. Is it easy for you to the album? cover those many emotions vocally? An incredible artist. Her name is Jordan That’s actually the easy part (laughs). Piantedosi. As an untrained singer, emotion is all I really METRONOME: How often do you perform have to work with. I love jumping across live? genres because each genre helps me find I perform with the band once or twice a a different way of communicating with the month at restaurants, taverns, and outdoor audience. The idea that I can be responsible festivals. We do a mix of R&B, jazz, pop, for making people feel an array of emotions rock, and blues from all decades and mix is so special. in my originals here and there. We love to METRONOME: “Clock Tower” is a stellar give audiences a unique experience and album opener. What inspired that tune? get them on their feet. Also, our keys player People are surprised when I tell them John Libby and I will be playing a duo show it’s actually about female empowerment. I pretty much every week this summer at lots was thinking about all of the people in my of different locations around Massachusetts life who have taught me subtle lessons and New Hampshire. We do more of a low about how females should have the right to key old school love song kind of thing. All design a fulfilling life independent of societal show dates are on our website. standards. I was intrigued by the question METRONOME: Do you have any big of how modern day females incorporate shows coming up this Summer? romantic relationship into their lives. I used We want to give a huge shout out to a lot of the imagery from old romantic films Fody’s Tavern in Nashua, NH. It’s an like Singing In The Rain. amazing place. They have supported us METRONOME: “Crimson” had a bluesy from day one. The full band will be rocking edge to it. How did that song come out there August 11th at 10pm. about? METRONOME: Have you shot any videos I was working a terrible job in Boston for your songs? at the time making no money and I just No videos for any of the album songs remember feeling like I was trapped in yet, but we do have a fun album promo the city and I was going to be depressed video as well as many cover song videos on forever. I went outside on one of my breaks YouTube. 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At nineteen years old, Ally Venable is a lessons because I know that guitarist part in my playing. and I were both in orchestra together and female blues phenom. Inspired by another Lance Lopez has been a mentor to you? METRONOME: Why did you choose the he actually played the standup bass and I Texas wunderkind, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lance is a great mentor and friend of guitar and not the piano? played the cello. That’s where we met. Venable is the next locomotive drivin’ the mine. I’m so happy that he’s on my new I think it was because of Stevie Ray I met my bass player, Bobby Wallace, on contemporary world of blues music. Touting album. He’s been a guide to me and teaches Vaughan. I started off dabbling in the piano the internet. ferocious guitar playing coupled to soul- me technique. He’s awesome. and I can play a few things, but it’s nothing METRONOME: Was this the first band stirring vocals, Ally’s songwriting carries a METRONOME: Did you study with him compared to my guitar playing. you put together? universal message for listeners young and when you were younger? Being from Texas I really love blues No. I’ve had different lineups, but this old. We predict it’s just a matter of time No, no. I’m just starting to do things with guitarists like Stevie Ray, Billy Gibbons (ZZ one is the main one that’s been constant before the entire planet knows her name... him. I took lessons to learn basic things like Top), Johnny Winter, Lightnin’ Hopkins and and really works. I love the Texas trio thing. open chords. After that, I taught myself by all those guys. It’s certainly integrated in to METRONOME: When did your first album METRONOME: Where are you from? listening to different guitar players. I have a my guitar playing. come out? Ally Venable: I’m from Kilgore. Texas. It’s record player and I collect vinyl. I listened to METRONOME: Have you ever seen ZZ I put it out in 2106. That was with a quartet. in East Texas. I’ve been here my whole life... lots of records and learned from that. I also Top play live? Bobby [Wallace] was actually playing guitar all nineteen years. with me and we had another bass player METRONOME: Did you grow up in a for that album. Elijah was on drums. musical family? METRONOME: What was the name of No. I’m the only one that plays an that album? instrument in my family. No Glass Shoes. METRONOME: What made you want to METRONOME: Was it all original be a musician? songs? I’ve always been able to sing. I sang No. There was a Bessie Smith tune in church when I was little and I thought on there. I had “Messin’ With The Kid” on I would try the guitar just for fun. It took there too, but I wrote the majority of the off from there. songs for the album. METRONOME: Did you sing in your For my new album, Puppet Show, I church choir? wrote eight of the tunes. We also have Yeah, yeah. I sang in the church choir two covers, Bessie Smith’s “Backwater when I was little. Blues” and Taj Mahal’s “He Caught The METRONOME: When did you first pick Katy.” up the guitar? METRONOME: How long did it take to I was twelve. record Puppet Show? METRONOME: Was there a defining We started laying down tracks in moment that made you pick up the August of last year. It was cool because guitar? I was doing shows between the sessions When I first started playing, I was that we had in the studio. One day I would playing country and pop stuff. Then I play a show and the next day we would heard Stevie Ray Vaughan playing “Pride go to the studio. I had that live adrenalin & Joy” and “Texas Flood” and was like... from the shows still going through me who’s this? when we were in the studio recording. When I started to play the guitar, I It was fun to record with so many of my gravitated towards the players that could learn a lot from playing live with my band. I have not seen ZZ Top yet. I really love musician friends on this album. sing and play. Most of those players were That’s where I learn the most, when I tour them and Billy Gibbons. I have seen Keb’ METRONOME: Are you talking about blues artists and the main one that stuck out and when I’m on the road playing different Mo’ and B.B. King. I actually played a festival Lance Lopez, Gary Hoey, Steve Krase for me was Stevie Ray Vaughan. shows. I think that’s where I’ve developed with Keb’ Mo’ at the T-Bone Walker Blues and Eric Steckel? What was cool about Stevie is that he my sound and new techniques. Fest which was really cool. His Americana Yes. introduced so many people to the blues METRONOME: The more you play, the album is one of my top records that I play. I METRONOME: How did you meet Steve that really didn’t know about it. That’s my world opens up to you. love that one. I love that Gary Clark Jr. and Krase? goal now with my music and what I put out. You never stop learning and discovering Sunnyboy Slim album too. Those are my I met Steve at the T-Bone Walker Blues I think why I love blues so much is because new things with the instrument which is why top two. Fest. We did a jam together with Rick that’s where all genres of music come from I love it. METRONOME: Did you ever join a band Derringer’s band. It was myself, Trudy Lynn, like Rock, R&B and Country. They based METRONOME: When you first picked up or did you go right to forming one around Steve Krase, Rick Derringer and Kingfish their sounds from the blues. I think that’s the guitar, did it come easy to you? yourself? Ingram. We were all together on the stage why I connect with it so well. I think with everything it takes practice, I put a band together around me. The for this big jam. That’s where I met Steve. METRONOME: If you sang in the church, but I do feel that it came easy to me. I feel lineup I have now has been together for two METRONOME: Does he manage you? you have that gospel background too. like I connect with the guitar well and the and a half years. My drummer and I went to My dad manages me. Yeah. blues. It just resonates well with me and I school together. His name is Elijah Owings. METRONOME: So your dad worked to METRONOME: Did you take formal guitar really love doing it. I think that plays a huge He was a senior when I was a freshman. He put a deal together with Steve [Krase] and his record label, Connor Ray music? tracks on the album. When he’s not touring, think it’s awesome. I love Eric’s keys on that I play a Fender American Strat Deluxe Right. he comes and plays keys with me. He’s one. with a Fishman pickup. I also play a magenta METRONOME: How did you meet Gary amazing. The B3 really gives it a nice sound. METRONOME: Where do your song ideas Gibson Les Paul. Then there’s this company Hoey? METRONOME: “Puppet Show” was come from? called Knaggs that’s building me a custom I love Gary so much. I met him at the a great song. Your vocals and guitar I try to write about what is going on in guitar with a reverse headstock and 3 single Dallas International Guitar Festival where playing really came together in perfect my life or something that will relate to others coil pickups. we were both playing. He was doing a demo unison. How did that tune come about? and to let them know that we’re only human METRONOME: Do you have any big for Fishman. I had won a guitar and I wanted The story behind “Puppet Show” and we’re allowed to have feelings. I think shows coming up this summer? him to sign it. He signed it of course and let portrays a story of taking control of your life that’s why I connect with the blues so well. Yes. We’ll be at Lake O Pines in Texas, me play during his demo. and surpassing struggles that you face. It’s Blues is in everything. July 6 then at the Tall City Blues Festival He’s so nice. He’s one of the most genuine about not letting anyone or anything keep METRONOME: I really liked the tune on July 7 in Midland, Texas. We’ll playing people I’ve ever met. I love watching him you from setting yourself up for success in “Wasted On You.” It reminded me of the Top of The Rockies Rally in Paonia, play and I learned a lot from watching him. whatever you do. That’s what I wanted to something coming from a very rural Colorado, July 21, and then we’ll be in New I’m glad to call him my friend. say in that song and the whole album really. setting yet you brought it in to a modern York at the Cutting Room on August 17th. METRONOME: When it was time to METRONOME: Did the song come easily setting. What was that tune about? There are more dates coming. record the album, did you ask Gary to to you? I played slide on that one. It’s a fun song. METRONOME: What are some of the come and play with you? Yeah. When I have a feeling or an idea, I love playing that live too. awards you have won for your music? Yeah. At the following year’s Guitar Show I don’t ever try to force the song. I just let it METRONOME: How long have you been I’ve won the 2014 and 2015 East Texas I told him I was going to do an album. He come out. playing slide? “Female Guitarist of the Year” award and said, “If you want a guitar player...” I said, METRONOME: I loved the tune “Comfort I’ve been playing for about a year now. I the band has won the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Are you kidding! Yes, I would love for you to In My Sorrows.” It was a great slow blues just got in to it. Live, I play slide on “Devil’s East Texas Music Awards’ “Blues Band of be on my album. burner. Son” and “Wasted on You.” I play slide on a the Year.” It’s cool because the community METRONOME: How did you get Eric I wanted a really strong slow blues tune for few others too, but those are the two main around me votes on it. [Steckel] involved with the project? the album. I thought it would complement a songs. METRONOME: Are you still writing He’s actually a guitar player. A great guitar lot of the songs on the record. I was really METRONOME: Do you change guitars for music? player. He came down to do some shows looking for my own unique sound for this that? Yes. I’m in the middle of writing right now. with me in Texas. He came over my house album. Yes. Different songs require different My favorite thing about being a musician and told me he played piano. He started METRONOME: “Survive” was a funky guitars. Whenever I play a different guitar, is being able to write songs. I really love playing “Little Wing” on the piano while I tune and had a good bounce to it. What there’s always a different approach to how writing. sang. This was at the same time I was doing inspired that? you play it. METRONOME: Do you have any videos my album. I said, Would you want to play B3 I wanted to write a jam track for the Everything I play live, I used on the album for your music? on my new album? He said, “I would love to album. At the very end we decided to add because I wanted to represent what I’m Yes. There’s some live video of us playing do that.” He laid down keyboards for three that jam section. That was Steve’s idea. I going to sound like live. on YouTube. You can watch them at my web METRONOME: What is your main guitar? site: www.allyvenableband.com/videos The Time Machine Cream Photo circa: 1968 (in New York city) Band Members L to R: Eric Clapton (vocals & guitar), Ginger Baker (drums), Jack Bruce (vocals & bass). Musical Achievements: Cream was formed in 1966, when Eric Clapton met Ginger Baker, then the musical leader of the Graham Bond Organisation. Each was impressed with the other’s playing abilities, prompting Baker to ask Clapton to join his new, unnamed group. Clapton agreed on the condition that Baker hire Jack Bruce as the trio’s bassist. Impressed with Bruce’s vocals and technical prowess, Clapton wanted to work with him in a band situation. During their brief time together, the band released 4 critically acclaimed albums: Fresh Cream (1966), Disraeli Gears (1967), Wheels of Fire (1968) and Goodbye (1969). A well chronicled rivalry between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker created tensions in the band leading to the dissolution of Cream in November 1968. Eric Clapton felt that the members did not listen to each other enough. Clapton also commented that Cream’s later gigs mainly consisted of its members showing off. In February 2006, Cream received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their contribution to, and influence upon, modern music. Where are they now?: Eric Clapton went on to play in Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie and Derek & The Dominos before embarking on a successful solo career. Jack Bruce enjoyed a brief solo career before playing with Gary Moore in BBM (oddly enough with Ginger Baker) and Robin Trower before passing away in October of 2014 at age 71. Baker went on to form a jazz-fusion ensemble from the ashes of Blind Faith called Ginger Baker’s Air Force, featuring Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Graham Bond and Denny Laine.

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Liz Bills is one of those rare vocalists called If We Were Saints. and Brothers. His energy is so uplifting. He pigeon holed into one genre. It’s also nice that comes along and knocks your block off METRONOME: Do you play any makes me feel like my songs are special. to have two bands on two totally different after listening to her sing. Citing favorites instruments? I met Dalton when he opened for Analog spectrums. This way I can really explore the as varied as Billy Joel and Hanson to Led Yes. I play piano, guitar and ukulele. I Heart with his rock band Top Down. Dalton more in your face rock and roll side, while Zeppelin and Adele, Bills has absorbed all also teach all of these for a living. is a super positive dude as well and being also finding a balance in more vocal driven those artists and made a powerful sound METRONOME: Do you have your own very talented. folk/pop/alt country music. all her own. You may not know this talented band? Regarding Analog Heart, I met Jesse METRONOME: Tell us about your new gal right now, but it give time. She’s got the Yes, I just formed my new solo project through the internet 8 years ago. He’s now self-titled EP. Is it your first CD release? makings of being a prominent name in the band called “Liz Bills and The Change.” one of my best friends. We found Eric on the My self-titled EP “Liz Bills” has 4 songs. world of music... I’ve also been playing with my rock and roll internet about two years ago when we had “Bomb Song” is about me following my band, Analog Heart for 8 years now. to replace our first drummer. He’s become dreams, but I made it into a story about a METRONOME: Where are you from METRONOME: Who’s in The Change and such a great friend as well. Austin and Eric girl stuck in a situation much different from originally? what instruments do they play? have been friends forever, so it was easy to my own. If I’m being totally honest though, Liz Bills: I’m from Haverhill, MA. Liz Bills and The Change is Amy Dorian convince him to join the adventure. it’s about me being afraid to leave my METRONOME: Did you grow up in a and Jess Olson on Backup vocals, Dalton METRONOME: How would you describe hometown and venture off to Nashville or musical family? Delima on drums, Santiago Saenz on bass your sound to someone who has never California. I did. My grandma played the piano and and Ben Goldbaum on lead guitar. heard you before? “Werewolf” started out on piano as a song sang and my aunts and uncles are about my close friend who passed still in bands. My mother sings but away from a heroin overdose. It never had the confidence or interest somehow turned into a song about to pursue it. a werewolf... METRONOME: What made you “Born To Wonder” is a story I want to be a singer? made up about a wandering man I think I knew I wanted to be who can’t be tied down. I just loved a singer when I decided to go to the line “Born to Wander” and wrote Berklee College of Music at age 25. the entire song around it. I wrote It was an extremely hard decision the song when I met my current to make because it’s scary to pay boyfriend about 6 years ago. Now 40 grand a year for an education the song seems to be about him in music. I went to Berklee for one which I find interesting and funny. year and then I couldn’t afford it I wrote “My Man” as a joke of anymore. However, I work full time all the things I would want in a as an independent music teacher man. My boyfriend definitely comes and have over 30 students! So in close (laughs). I find some people the end it all worked out. I would are offended by the song while have graduated if I could but I others laugh or feel empowered. It’s can’t justify spending 160,000 on interesting to be okay with the idea an education in music. Currently I of not being able to please everyone. see an amazing vocal coach once a The EP release is my first as a solo week and I take private guitar and artist and I feel I am still trying to find piano lessons on and off. Far less myself and going through a lot of expensive. growing pains and self doubt to be METRONOME: Who are some of honest. They say when you’re going your musical idols/influences? through something you’re going It all started with Hanson and Billy somewhere. Now that I’ve planted Joel. These days my biggest influences The lineup in Analog Heart is Jesse Cohen Liz Bills and The Change is still trying to this seed, I must water it and let it grow. are Grace Potter and Brandi Carlile. I am on lead guitar, Austin Magnant on bass and find our sound. We are so new, but Ifind Analog Heart started in the same vein, but also very inspired by Lenny Kravitz, Led Eric Simpson on drums. inspiration in Brandi Carlile and Delta Rae. we eventually found our footing and took off Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Heart, Sia and Adele. METRONOME: How did you all meet? We’ll seehow it unfolds. running. I’m sure I will do the same with METRONOME: When did you start writing For Liz Bills and The Change, I met Amy on I need to start listening to more folk type The Change. I just have to get comfortable songs? craigslist and Jess at a singing competition. bands for inspiration and guidance. being uncomfortable again. Around 10 years old. My father started It’s so awesome to finally work with women Analog heart is a rock and roll band. This is not my first CD release, I have me on the piano when I was 8. I picked up in music. I find our bond is so strong and I’ve been compared to Janis Joplin and released an album and EP with Analog the guitar at 13. special. I love these girls so much already Grace Potter a ton throughout the years. Heart. Analog Heart will be releasing an METRONOME: Who are some of the and it’s only been 6 months. We definitely have an ecletic sound ranging EP on June 23rd at Thunder Road. Then I earlier bands that you sang with? I’ve known Ben for over ten years and he is from pure rock and roll to funk to jam band will go back into the studio in the Fall for The first band I was in was called The one of my favorite people and best friends. type songs. It’s all over the place, but it my next solo recording. This time I’ll record Love Cell. I was also in a pop punk band Santiago is in Ben’s other band, Sisters works really well. It’s nice to not have to be everything live. I am so excited. METRONOME: Where did you record the relationship and into a healthy relationship wrote all of the mandolin parts. bad dreams I’m dreaming/It must be just EP? with my current boyfriend. The song is METRONOME: You really turn up the heat a dream/But there’s bones in my teeth/ I recorded them at No Boundaries kind of a joke song because of course I on “Werewolf.” What is that song about? Something’s happening when I sleep/And I Studios. don’t expect my boyfriend to live up to all The song started when my good friend know it ain’t a dream.” METRONOME: Who engineered the those high expectation. It’s also meant to passed away from an overdose. In a way I had nightmares after she passed. I project? empower women it’s about her was also just playing with songwriting and Chris Piquette of No Boundaries. and men to think and her addiction thinking of what would happen if I did turn METRONOME: How long did it take to about what they taking her and into something else at night. It was far less record? really want in a then taking me painful to write in this mindset. Only a few weeks. relationship and to emotionally. I METRONOME: Tell us about your band METRONOME: How did the songwriting never settle. wasn’t ready to Analog Heart. process work for you? Personal? METRONOME: talk about these Analog Heart is a genuine rock and Observational? Off-the-wall? You’d never things in such roll band. We believe strongly in catchy It was personal. I chose my strongest expect it from a blunt way, so instrumental hooks along with great vocal solo songs that I wrote alone. Ben wrote all the title, but your it was easier to hooks. You don’t hear instrumental hooks the lead guitar parts and mandolin. Eric and vocals are very make it into a in modern mainstream music anymore I decided on the djembe parts together. sweet on the song. and we fight against that. We’re full of METRONOME: Did you have any musical pop hit, “Bomb “I fell in love energy and passion and I love jumping and guests on the EP? Song.” They with you and your screaming on stage. I’m very shy off stage, I did. The EP is meant to be stripped work in perfect evil grin/ The way so I absolutely love that I can break free of down and more acoustic. I do have djembe harmony with the you danced with being so quiet and timid and transform into on the record thanks to Eric Simpson of mandolin playing. me/The way you this superwoman. It’s helped me open up Analog Heart. All the lead guitar work and How did that tune let me in/And an extroverted side. Now I’d say I’m equally mandolin was done by Ben Goldbaum. come together? though it was only introverted as extroverted. The rest was done by myself. For the next This tune was for a little while/ METRONOME: How often do you record, I definitely want The Change to one of the easiest I’m a little too perform play live under your name and come into the studio with me. to put together late/ And the bite with Analog Heart? METRONOME: You have a little bit of honestly. I write it made you wild/” It depends. This year not as much with Janis Joplin and Pat Benatar going on all of the songs on my guitar and then I I’m talking about the times I spent Analog Heart because Eric and Jesse just in your voice. Did singing always come bring them to the band and we work out dancing with her at my shows and how the welcomed baby boys into their families. But naturally to you? arrangements with other instruments. drugs took her in the end. In the chorus I we typically play at least twice a month. Yes. Singing has always come natural, “Bomb Song” just screamed mandolin. Ben sing, “Somethings happenin’ when I sleep/ As a solo artist, I’m trying to tour and however, I’ve had to work incredibly hard on Goldbaum laid down the amazing mandolin When I wake I have dirty feet/And my throat perform more full time these days. I’ve been technique. I have a disorder called muscle on the record and also plays it live. Ben also is so sore from screaming/Must be these touring as a solo artist for a year now. I was tension dysphonia which has been a blessing terrified to tour my whole professional career and a curse. It is a blessing because it has up until about a year ago when I decided to forced me to look deep within myself and face this fear. It isn’t always easy touring, ask why I am experiencing so much physical but it feels incredible to face fears and to do pain. It has also forced me to work very things that push my limits and help me grow hard on correcting my singing techniques. stronger and more confident. MTD can be a very tricky disorder because I’m planning a one month tour across the it stems from many different things- poor USA this July and I’ll be gigging in California singing habits and/or over singing, poor for the first time. posture, over or under exercise, stress, METRONOME: Do you have any big emotional health, etc. It took doctors about shows coming up this Summer? 5 years to correctly diagnose me. I am Yes. We have our EP release show forever grateful for the Mass General ENT coming up June 23rd. We’ill be releasing 6 team and their amazing speech therapist for songs. The EP is titled For Me This Time. I’m helping me get a handle on this condition. also very excited to be playing in California My chiropractor has also been a life for the first time. savor and the only other doctor to help METRONOME: Have you shot any videos me manage my pain. It has been a curse for your songs? because of pain of course. My pain is much I have tons of videos for lots of different better these days and I’m very grateful. songs both with Analog Heart and solo. If METRONOME: “Born To Wander” is a you search YouTube, they will come up. funky folk number and a great album Liz Bills and The Change just shot our opener. What inspired that tune? first music video titled, “The Train Song.” I was at Berklee at the time and exploring Analog Heart released “Not Good Enough” writing stories within songs. The song a little while ago and we released “For Me seems to be about my boyfriend these days, This Time” in mid May to support the EP a free spirit and a mountain man. It’s funny release. “Werewolf” is also on YouTube. I how the song has evolved from a story into recorded the audio live. my real life. METRONOME: Where can people go to METRONOME: Does “My Man” hold any find out more about you on the internet? special meaning for you personally? For Analog Heart they can go to: www. I wrote the song after my good friend analogheartband.com. You can find me at: called me crying about her boyfriend. I’d www.lizbills.com and at www.facebook. just gotten out of an emotionally abusive com/lizbillsandthechange Metronome Madness

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1980s Musician Autobiographies: in terms of the effort he put into his craft and The US Heavy Metal Years only ever really dissipated his resources on buying cars he could barely afford while his With Punk having largely fizzled in the family collected welfare at the beginning. U.S. at the end of the 1970s, Rock & Roll The changing cast of characters is also needed to find itself in the 1980s as New reasonably well described. Wave didn’t really sell that well outside of The Van Halen years are of course a certain college dorms. Record sales declined from highlight as an era, but the descending 1978 onwards and didn’t start to recover fortunes of the declining brothers contrast until about 1984. Even the mighty Kiss with the ever optimistic Red Rocker. jumped the shark with their 4 solo albums Hagar has partaken in the odd chemical and only Van Halen kept up the momentum indulgence, but has apparently not become at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the a prisoner to this lifestyle. Sammy Hagar new decade. admits to the odd groupie indiscretion, With Van Halen at the lead, Los Angeles but he puts more effort into explaining his was fated to witness the rebirth of heavy complex and sometimes tormented family music with all the glamorous excess you life, which does however include a happy could think. Other cities soon followed with end. their own bands and scenes. The 1980s Interestingly, Hagar was quite the were the second to last really big decade businessman with property, mountain bikes for record sales and the business model and then his Cabo Wabo Tequila brand that you a perspective. He also didn’t believe in Shattered Rock Star in 2008 on the basis encouraged huge tours and self-indulgent earned him more than music ever could friendship, which sees him wandering the of his 1987 diaries. As the founder and lifestyles. The rock stars became larger than have. Despite all that, he returned to music decades solo for the most part and most of mastermind of Mötley Crüe, Nikki Sixx life and unfortunately also believed their every time with his own little bands and the persons mentioned are one dimensional profoundly changed the course of Heavy own press releases while the music labels some really difficult VH reunions. Hagar also at best. While he acknowledges the Van Metal Music by blending in Punk, Glam could afford a vast infrastructure. There got a inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Halen brother’s skill on guitar and drums, he and unfortunately an unhealthy dose of was money to burn, and burn it did. Still the Fame and actually managed to play at the sees himself as the architect of the sound, Heroin chic. The troubled young man with a industry signed a lot more bands than they event, in contrast to the other VH members having early on insisted on music that could proclivity to try anything, and that to excess, could actually handle, whether or not they who all wimped out. He does conclude be danced to and so called “girl friendly” developed a taste for opiates after crashing actually had any talent or songs. that the music industry, as we knew it, is guitars, which suited his extracurricular his Porsche and receiving heavy duty pain As history is written by the winners, their activities besides selling lots of records. killers. contribution and that of decent second tier Eventually he takes a break on the Selling millions of records simply fueled contenders such as Faster Pussycat and LA narrative in order to impart his wisdom his appetite for self-destruction and led to Guns remains undocumented so far. Bon on touring, visiting places, mountain his world being reduced to his walk-in closet Jovi relies on external authors however. climbing, some esoteric subjects and band shooting gallery where he came up with the Punk and New Wave music became Indie shenanigans. Roth’s 1985 resignation from idea to start this diary, often with a gun in Rock and soldiered on in the underground Van Halen disappointed a lot of fans, but his mouth. It is essentially a transition year via tiny labels, pressing of about 1,000 the solo success at the time validated the as he overdosed and temporarily dies after units, fanzines and club gigs until breaking decision, though you only read some of the coming off tour just before Christmas 1987. big time at the beginning of the 1991. Many highlights. He eventually rationalizes his For a pathetic junky, Sixx is remarkably Indie artists such as Hüsker Dü, R.E.M. and selective view of the storyline. While the eloquent; though I’m glad the text is printed Sonic Youth delivered seminal records that book makes for a decent read, it’s difficult not in drug addled handwriting. He also are still classics to this day, and even Seattle to deny Roth’s narcissistic tendencies. added loads of lyrics from published or was already on the map during the 1980s. Roth and Van Halen have since reunited a unreleased songs to augment the content, Yet, even the alternative stars copied the number of times and even got inducted into though the music seemed to have come excess of their bigger competitors, though the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. short during the year. Still the Girls Girls without as many enablers. Indie however Girls album was a really big hit which shows saw significantly more participation by published Red: My what a band on autopilot and a decent women and promoted diversity to a greater Sammy Hagar Uncensored Life in Rock in 2012 together producer can do with loyal fans. The book extent while still remaining a white boy’s with Joel Selvin. While Hagar reached the is also massively decorated with loads of hobby. pinnacle of success in Van Halen, he is a disturbing drawings, doodles and photos. product of the 1970s were he made a solid Many of his contacts at the time provided David Lee Roth, vocalist of van Halen, pretty much broken and that only his large impression in Montrose and then rose to testimonials that allow a perfect 360 degree published Crazy With The Heat in 1998. alternate fortune allows him to occasionally prominence as a solo metal artist. view of the unfolding drama. At the end, Sixx Roth gives you plenty of source material take part when it suits him. The language of He follows a chronological style and delivers 20 more pages of his largely clean of why he doesn’t suffer fools gladly, but the book is very lively with a lot of dialogue. starts with his difficult childhood and then life since this time, which suggests that a also how he practically willed himself to Sammy Hagar wins your sympathy without progresses to music in various starter bands full autobiography isn’t forthcoming. The 10 succeed. The polarizing character spends seeming to put on an act. in the late 1960s. He gives you a reasonable year anniversary edition just came on the quite some time discussing his somewhat amount of detail relating to his songs and to market. Nikki Sixx donated the proceeds of uptight yet reasonably privileged youth as Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe published some of the recording, such as the famous, the book to the charity Running Wild in the well as his view on pop culture just to give The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a “I Can’t Drive 55.” He was quite disciplined Night. Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe published Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen with Mike faults and makes a point of establishing Tommyland with Anthony Bozza in 2004. Sager in 2010. Neil and his ghostwriter his independence and solo career all while The mercurial drummer already had a larger give you a longish intro which establishes effectively being financially dependent than life profile from his musical career which exactly what caliber a player Neil still is, on one more reunion tour. Neil includes he managed to keep on the boil into the new based on Ferrari or Lamborghini ownership millennium thanks to his quite scandalous and other secondary evidence. It becomes marriage to TV and Playboy Star Pamela pretty apparent the book is nothing more Anderson. Tutorials on book writing usually than another cash machine as the singer recommend a lot of dialogue; so to keep basically only sacrificed a week’s worth the tone below the belt line, Lee begins with of time talking into a tape recorder. Other a dialogue with his dick and a discussion people then had to clean up the passages about his expertise with the birds and the and check the facts for this Mac Memoirs. bees. Only then does he proceed with a Still you get a reasonably coherent amount somewhat normal chronological order from of flavor for the decadence and debauchery his childhood in a Greco-American family. Of as well as dysfunctionality within this course you get a reasonable band history, seminal glam metal band in a reasonable but his private life is more at the forefront, chronological order, though you already despite leaving out much of the substance knew about this from The Dirt. use and abuse. Much was covered in The Vince gives you all you will ever need to Dirt anyway. know about his drinking, womanizing, DUI The relationship with Heather Locklear will vehicular manslaughter of Razzle the Hanoi interest some while the fairy tale romance Rocks drummer and other sordid details. with Pamela seems almost overdone. He was a mean drunk until growing up in Tommy feels rather sorry for himself in jail the new millennium. His many marriages after the forced separation from Anderson, are also included for good measure. He despite getting the royalty treatment. didn’t have much to do with the songwriting but light on depth. Even if the song writing, Still the book flows nicely thanks to the but thinks highly of himself as a highly recording and playing isn’t a priority, you emotional ebullience of the author, which competent singer. can vicariously enjoy the Rock Star lifestyle can sometimes turn to aggression, until While Neil is largely unemotional yet from the safety of your arm chair within the he too decides to include testimonials at impulsive, there won’t be a dry eye in the pages. the end. You won’t find a good word about house when he recounts the passing of his a number of testimonials from relevant

Vince Neil, though. daughter Skylar from cancer. He praises parties in the book, just not his band mates. of Mötley Crüe published Tattoos In the end, this is the most readable Vince Neil the useful facets of his band mates, but You only need to own this for the sake of & Tequila: To Hell And Back With One Of direct Mötley Crüe autobiography so far, never misses a chance to harp on their completeness. Classifieds

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