ROBERT CRAY BAND R ETURNS to R IDGEFIELD P LAYHOUSE Back After a Sold out Show in and Soul That First Drew Attention Admiration for Cray Led to a Writ

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As always, I like to get the bad news out of after the release of the album the band is overall, with producer Andy Sneap in the UK. City on June 17th and the Toyota Oakdale the way first and this news is tragic. Reed Mullin, expected to play select shows which will feature Biff reported that the NWOBHM legends are Theatre on June 24th. Support comes from The drummer and co-founding member of the a set list of Priest songs. reportedly going out on the road for a very Sword and Wolfmother on both shows. extremely influential and diverse Corrosion of There are two fantastic metal festivals coming special multi band package tour in 2021. Conformity, passed away on January 27, 2020. up in 2020, one that is somewhat close and the Reed formed C.O.C. with bassist Mike Dean and other that is the other side of the country. First guitarist Woody Weatherman as a hardcore up, the full lineup is finally revealed for the punk band way back in 1982. While punk and Psycho Las Vegas 2020 festival and holy smokes, hardcore were their earliest influences, their it is insane! This enormous festival will be held love of Black Sabbath eventually shone through on four stages over three days at the beautiful and over time, their music took a decidedly Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas more metallic turn. When guitarist Pepper from August 14 to 16, 2020. I was in attendance Keenan took over lead vocals, the band created for the massive 2019 show and was just LES CLAYPOOL OF PRIMUS a stoner classic with their breakthrough hit completely blown away; there was no way I was record Deliverance in 1994. Unfortunately, in going to miss this show. I mentioned last month that Nightwish was recent years Reed Mullin missed shows tours due DON JAMIESON releasing its new studio album, Human. :II: to health problems related to alleged issues with Nature on April 10th. They have a massive alcohol. Ross The Boss has a new record coming out, amount of tour dates booked for 2020, but are Born of Fire , on March 6th via AFM Records. This only coming to North America for a quartet of is the fourth full length album from the former shows. While it hasn’t been announced yet, I Manowar guitarist and his new band, the new suspect that Nightwish will come back to the record features 12 brand new tracks. The states for a proper U.S. tour in 2021. Anyway, previous Ross The Boss record was 2018’s By the only east coast show for Nightwish for 2020 PHILIP OF DOWN Blood Sworn . Ross The Boss recently previewed is on sale now, you can catch Nightwish at Just some of the acts at Psycho Las Vegas some of the new material along with a ton of Terminal Five in New York City on September include Danzig doing a special one off killer Manowar tracks at the Chance in 15th. performance of the entire Danzig II: Lucifuge LP. Poughkeepsie, be sure and check this new album Korn, Faith No More, Daron Malakian and King Diamond will reunite with his original out! Scars on Broadway, Helmet, and more will head band, the legendary Mercyful Fate and will be Egyptian obsessed death metallers NILE have out on a 26 city U.S. tour later this year. Shows in playing their only North American show for 2020 announced their “Vile Nilotic Rites Part II” tour, the area include the PNC Bank Arts Center REED OF CORROSION OF CONFORMITY at Psycho. Norwegian kings of black metal which is going to kick off this fall. It’s a massive September 2nd, Barclays Center in Brooklyn on I personally was able to meet and interview Emperor will also be playing their only show 43 city North American tour that includes a few September 3rd and upstate at the Darien Lake Reed Mullin several times, it was always a stateside for the year here. Philip Anselmo will local stops. Nile will be at Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ Amphitheater in Darien, NY on September 6th. pleasure to speak with him, his enthusiasm and be reuniting with Down and playing the 25th on September 30th and the Kingsland in Other upcoming shows include Vessel of Light, love for music of all kinds was definitely anniversary of their NOLA album, Sweden’s At Brooklyn, NY on October 1st and 2nd. On the this show is a do not miss and it’s at Olive’s in contagious. C.O.C. have been one of my favorite The Gates will also be celebrating a quarter back end of the tour they are hitting the Nyack NY on March 8th. Pro-Pain is at the bands for many years and Reed Mullins playing century and be playing their massively Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park, NY on Chance on March 19th. Doyle and All Hail the on the album Blind is absolutely incredible. That influential Slaughter of the Soul LP in its November 7th. Yeti are at The Chance in Poughkeepsie on April album has been in my personal top ten records entirety. Norway’s Watain and the mighty 9th. I believe that All Hail the Yeti is working on of all time since 1991 and is my single most fun Satyricon are coming in for one off shows as new material now. This would be the follow-up album to play “air drums” to. Corrosion of well. Not convinced to make the trip out to to their 2018 record, Highway Crosses . The Conformity will undoubtedly carry on, but this is Vegas yet? Well there’s also Obituary, Ulver, sludgy groove metal Los Angeles based band a truly devastating loss. Reed Mullin was just 53 Katatonia, Crowbar, Exhorder, Wolves in the make for an interesting pairing with the years old. Throne Room, Boris, Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, sometime Misfits guitarist, should be a good Speaking of Black Sabbath, last month I Immolation, Repulsion, Midnight, MGLA, Wino, time for sure. Possessed and Pestilence are at the mentioned that Ozzy Osbourne was suffering Bombers, Blue Oyster Cult and many more! Trust Market Hotel in Brooklyn, NY on March 27th from Parkinson’s disease and has already me; you want to be there for this. For tickets and at Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park, NY canceled his North American and European tours and information go to www.vivapsycho.com . KYLE AND VINNIE OF EXHORDER on March 29th several times now, but had rescheduled dates to Quite a bit closer to home is the Decibel German metal legends Accept have a one off start in May of 2020. Ozzy did release his first Magazine Beer and Metal Festival which is only Old school thrashers Exhorder, who reunited show on May 1st at Mulcahy’s in Wantagh, NY solo album, Ordinary Man , on February 21st but a few hours away in the city of brotherly love. with two founding members of the legacy with special guests Jake E Lee’s Red Dragon now, as expected; Ozzy has officially The dates are April 3rd and 4th at the Fillmore version of the band, are now down to just one. Cartel. Angel and Starz are at the Chance on “postponed” all 2020 shows on both sides of the in Philadelphia and they also have a lineup Founding guitarist Vinnie LaBella have parted May 2nd, Doro is at The Chance on May 3rd. Atlantic. that is just incredible. Acts include Napalm ways with the band, but they are moving Now in previous columns I outlined how it Death, Mayhem, Abbath, Midnight, Converge, forward and are heading out next on the Over would be virtually impossible for Judas Priest to Pig Destroyer, Satan, Haunt and much more. Kill tour. Vocalist Kyle Thomas is the only take their 50th anniversary tour to the states in The best part is, besides the bands, is that yes, original member of the band. Mourn the 2020 because they had months of touring lined they offer a “beer and metal ticket.” Of Southern Skies the band’s first album in 27 years up in Europe with Ozzy. Now that the Ozzy course, this includes all the live metal you can was released in 2019. You can see Over Kill, tours are off, Judas Priest’s schedule is freed up handle, but yes, all the beer you can drink! I Exhorder, M.O.D., Demolition Hammer and and as such their “50 Heavy Metal Years” Tour went last year; I remember drinking quite a Hydraform at the Wellmont Theater in will hit our area in the fall. You can see Judas bit! The show is amazing, do not miss it. For Wellmont, New Jersey on March 14th. Priest, with special guests Sabaton, at the Nassau more information on this show go to Fu Manchu are hitting the road in celebration Coliseum in Long Island on September 11th, in www.decibelmagazine.com. of their 30th anniversary. Unfortunately they CHRIS OF BLACK STONE CHERRY Ledyard, CT at the Foxwoods Casino on Saxon front man Biff Byford released his first have only one show in our area on this run, September 12th and at the Prudential Center in solo album School of Hard Knocks on February which is at the Bowery Ballroom on May 7th. Fu Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry and Saint Newark, NJ on September 15th. 21st via Silver Lining Music. The first single, Manchu will be playing cuts from their entire Asonia, are at the Paramount in Huntington, NY Many people were questioning if former “Scarborough Fair” was famously covered by catalog including their most recent, the 2018 on May 6th and the Starland Ballroom in Judas Priest founding member K.K. Downing Simon and Garfunkel many moons ago. Biff album, Clone of the Universe . That release Sayreville, NJ on May 7th. Hellyeah, All That would be part of that 50th Anniversary Tour. announced a solo tour for the UK in April and featured a very rare appearance by RUSH Remains, Butcher Babies, Saul and Deepfalll are Well the answer is a resounding no as Downing May. 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“MASTER BASSIST” LOU LA PIETRA we formed Rattlin’, a very different band con- Facebook.com/RattlinRocks centrating on high energy, guitar oriented Interview 12/07/19 rock. We like to kid around and say that this band has a lot more “rattle” than “hum” Roger Zee : Who inspired you to pick up the which is why we shortened the name to guitar and bass? “Rattlin’.” Lou LaPietra : Probably my Aunt Vera. Twelve years older than me, she grew up in the sixties and always had the coolest records. We came from a first generation Italian-American household that all lived in the Bronx in two attached, three-family homes with a backdrop of Enrico Caruso and other traditional Italian music. As a five-year-old, I loved going next door to hang with my seventeen-year-old aunt who listened to all this cool rock and roll — The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Fats Domino. Fast forward to a few years later when I entered sixth grade. Singer-songwriter Kenny Rogers advertised a product on TV called the “quick pickin’ fun strummin’ home guitar course.” My classmate, Carlo Fragnito, the lead guitarist in my current band Rattlin’, saw the same commercial and we both man- aged to convince our parents to buy it for us. In addition, after a lot of begging, my dad bought me a very low-quality, Stella harmony RZ : Tell me about your favorite and/or most acoustic guitar from Lennox Loans Pawn Shop unusual gig. on Fordham road in the Bronx. LL : In high school, Carlo and I played in a band RZ : How did you come to play bass with FDR called “Deuce” named after the recently Drive? released “Kiss Alive.” We got invited to play a LL : I played guitar steadily in different cover sweet sixteen party in the basement of a high- and original bands until 1984 when my dear rise apartment building in the Pelham Bay friend Tom Londrey asked me to fill in on bass section of the Bronx. Our singer at the time, as a last minute replacement at an Italian John Savaugi (R.I.P.), made his own fire music festival in Astoria, Queens. This hap- blowing apparatus. He would take rubbing pened even although A) I never played bass; alcohol, light it on fire, and blow it through a B) I didn’t know a single Italian song that they homemade aluminum foil cone. This resulted would play; and C) I was terrified because they in his blowing the flames right into the were expecting 1000 people! Somehow I got sprinkler system which utterly ruined the girl through it which led to my playing bass in dif- party. After which the girl’s father told us to ferent wedding bands for the next fifteen pack our gear and get out! Ah the memories-. years. Performing a huge variety of music We got a lot of laughs from that one! But hey, ranging from Italian pop, traditional ethnic Rush’s Neal Peart once said, “Adventures suck songs to standards and whatever else they while you’re having them!” threw at us forced me to become a real bass RZ : How do you see the future of the music player, as opposed to a guitarist playing bass. business? Two very dear friends of mine, Neal Francese LL : The future of the music business seems to and Tom Londrey, both from our old Bronx lie in live performance. Nobody buys albums neighborhood in the Belmont section, started anymore. For a while, people downloaded FDR drive around 2006. FDR was, and still is, a music for 99¢ a song on iTunes. But even that’s great band playing mostly funk, R&B, hip-hop gone the way of the dinosaur. Now people and disco. We worked together for many stream music either paid or free. You can years working all sorts of gigs, parties, wed - pretty much listen to whatever you want dings, you name it. The FDR band turned me whenever you want. So I don’t think folks will on to some great bass players like Louis spend money on music except for going to see Johnson, James Jamerson, Lee Sklar and gave someone live in concert. As far as the local me a whole new respect for the instrument. music scene goes, it appears that we keep RZ : How did Rattlin’ come together? holding on to a bygone era. From the fifties to LL : Interestingly, Rattlin’ came out of a very the early nineties, “going out” meant seeing different five piece band called Rattlin Hum, live bands play big, packed clubs. No more. primarily a U2 tribute group which also cov- The huge rooms with giant crowds and large ered bands like The Fray and Elton John. PAs have fallen by the wayside. Frankly, it Rattlin’s drummer Johnny G and the lead feels like the current generation doesn’t have singer Gary Troy came from there. Anyway, the attention span to actually sit and watch a around 2007, someone told me they needed a live act play an entire set. If you listen to DJs bass player. I auditioned and they offered me in clubs or even smaller bars, most of their the gig. Back then, the band’s keyboard mixes involve mash-ups. Rarely do they play a player, Frank Squillante, taught music to both song all the way through. I think that people my kids, Michael and Nicole, at Ardsley Middle today live for instant gratification as in School. Around 2008, the original guitarist, “what’s next.” Live bands, to the extent that Louis Mottola, left the band. I reached out to they want to survive, have to evolve and my “quick pickin fun strummin” grammar address that. As working musicians, we need school classmate Carlo to see if he wanted to to meet the challenge of keeping it join. He did! Rattlin Hum lasted for a couple interesting. We can’t just look back. If we do, of years until it dissolved around 2013. In 2016 we may miss what’s right up ahead.

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