The History and Making of
Fighting to Stay Alive live in Detroit in 1987. “Making music with (David) Chastain is just second nature to me. He found me when I was young and had no clue what I was doing but had an idea of where I wanted my vocals to go! He cultivated that spirit within me and allowed […]
“Well, I have a feeling of pride with what we accomplished and created. And I’m truly amazed that there is still an audience for it! From my perspective, Fifth Angel was in limbo for a very long time….sort of like the story of Rip Van Winkle….so then, we awake years later to find out that […]
“We never thought of what was going on at the time as monumental success. We had goals that we were trying to achieve. There wasn’t a whole lot of time to get overwhelmed. We just stayed focused on doing our best to sound good every night. We were out on the road working (with very […]
“Well actually, I never make these distinctions between heavy metal, power metal, whatever metal… I never liked that. For me it’s all heavy metal. I think when we started we didn’t really know what we were doing; we were just doing what we liked and never thought about creating something. We knew we sounded kind […]
“I hope it (the album) does okay. All we’re trying to do is put some excitement back into rock ‘n’ roll. It seems like a lot of people are old enough to be our daddies and they sound like it or they act like it. They seem energy-less. It seems like they forget what […]
