Coverage of the 2012 Classic Rock Roll Of Honour will premiere on Sky Arts 1 HD on Tuesday February 12 at 8pm. Make sure you tune in and take a look at the event, hosted by Duff McKagan and featuring an amazing special live performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Tom Keifer: frightened and excited to finally A newly remastered be flying solo. 40th-anniversary Riches from the edition of David rock underground Bowie’s Aladdin Sane is released on April 13 via Parlophone. Bowie’s sixth album, Tom Keifer Blues Creation it was the last to feature the line-up The Cinderella singer talks about the band, his first solo Demon & Eleven Children, of guitarist Mick Denon Records, 1971, up to £800. Ronson, bassist Trevor album and the health issue that threatens his career. Bolder and drummer Some of the hard- Mick Woodmansey. rock albums that History might lump Pennsylvania’s positives to us getting played on MTV, but came out of Japan in Tommy Aldridge has Cinderella in with the 80s glam-metal huge negatives too. It took the fashion of the early 70s have rejoined Whitesnake scene, but that might be unfair. The our decade and turned it into something become legendary, as replacement for down-home, mascara-free influences that maybe people made too much out among them Brian Tichy. Aldridge, on vocalist Tom Keifer’s first solo album, of. Some people listen to music with their barnstormers by the widely travelled The Way Life Goes, place him worlds eyes, not their ears. the likes of Far Out, former Back Oak away from the LA Strip. But, as he tells Mops, Too Much Arkansas/Ozzy Classic Rock, it’s been a long road and he’s What’s the status of Cinderella now? and, of course, Flower Travellin’ Band. Osbourne/Pat Travers received his share of life’s punches. We toured hard the last three years so we One of the most charismatic is this Band drummer was decided to take a break. And the timing 1971 heavy blues rock monster from previously with the You’ve certainly kept everyone lined up perfectly for me to make this Blues Creation. Everything about Demon group from 1987 to waiting for your first solo album. album. We’ll still tour, but as for new & Eleven Children has a certain charm, but 91 and 2002 to 07. The concept started in the mid-90s, but got music, every time we’ve tried there’s been what makes the album stand out is the put on the back-burner a roadblock. blues-based proto-metal assault from when Cinderella got guitarist and band leader Kazuo Takeda. back together to make You’ve described With the band having previously a record. Then when “Some people your album as released an album of cool-sounding, that fell apart we autobiographical fuzzed-up blues classics/covers a couple got involved in legal listen to music and observational. of years earlier, it’s safe to assume they hassles with Sony and That’s the place I’ve then added some Sabbath and Led Zep everybody started with their eyes, always tried to write to their listening habits. drifting apart. I finally not their ears.” from. The title track Having beefed up their sound and started recording this is about the irony of articulated their sonic attack, here in 2003. life. So many times Blues Creation rock like hell on tracks Due to be released you think something’s going to last later this year, the Why did it take so long to finish it? forever, then life gives you a left hook. new album from Cinderella tours took me away from ‘It’s an avalanche of Michael Schenker it for months at a time, but provided You’ve had your share of them, (pictured) will be objectivity. The beauty of Pro Tools is particularly with the ongoing infectious riffs with called Bridge The Gap. that you come back, hit a button and problem with your vocal cords. everything’s right there as it was. I woke My left vocal cord is partially paralysed. a series of acid jams.’ Guitarist Rob up one day and felt it was finished. It was But the bottom line is I was told I’d never Caggiano has joined like Sooner Or Later and Just I Was Born, a lot of fun but a labour of love. sing again, and I’ve done seven successful Danish band Volbeat tours with Cinderella and made this coming across like a mix of very early just weeks after It’s a proper Nashville album in parts. record. For 20 years it’s been a daily battle, Pentagram and Sir Lord Baltimore with leaving Anthrax. Ask Me Yesterday in particular has the and always will be. But I’m always going to an Oriental twist. Interspersed with the Volbeat’s upcoming feel of a timeless country ballad. sing. I can’t imagine doing anything else. avalanche of infectious riffs are a series of album, Outlaw It definitely has that flavour. I was first acid jams which portray a very fluid band Gentlemen & Shady introduced to country by the Rolling So some 30 years after forming in action; tight rhythms, grinding bass and Ladies, is due for Stones – Far Away Eyes, Honky Tonk Women. Cinderella, you’re finally going killer guitar solos. Singer Hiromi Osawa release on April 8 I’ve always been into American roots solo. How does it feel? has a convincing voice, but it does seem via Universal Music. music and blues big-time. My ability to It’s definitely exciting and scary. to drop in and out of key. However, his express that has grown progressively Cinderella’s a comfort zone for me. I love character and enthusiasm sit perfectly Grammy-winning from the first Cinderella album. We were those guys and always have a ball when with the exhilarating musical madness. group The Mars Volta so green then. But you learn as you go. we go out and play, and we have our thing The name was later shortened to have split up. Singer down pat. But this is all new, man. It’s Creation and had they had a working Cedric Bixler-Zavala Did you resent being associated with frightening and really exciting. GM relationship with Felix Papalardi, but says it’s due to the the glam-metal scene in the 80s? the raw spirit of Demon & Eleven Children refusal of guitarist I try not to think about that. I’m really The Way Life Goes is released in April was never recaptured. LD Omar Rodriguez- proud of Cinderella. There were huge on Merovee. Lopez to take part 22 classicrockmagazine.com in a US tour.

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