 Jimmy K here metal voice look at this the metal voice shirts are now on sale Just go to a video description to find out on how you can purchase one Hey, it's KK the metal voice man this street and I am in the monster museum with one of my favorite people in the world the emperor of rock and roll Richie's skull Hey Frank, what are you doing Frank? Hey Frank Here with the metal voice KK. All right, so be quiet Okay, go ahead. Hey Richie. It's been a long time. I haven't seen you in about a year since February since the chance Yeah, he's been a long crazy year hasn't it well, uh, sorry about your friend Leslie West Yeah, you know quite a few losses lately Leslie Leslie West was one hell of a guitar player and certainly an influence on me As a guitarist as well as most thousands other guitar players, you know, he just had that gorgeous vibrato and just played with two fingers and made every note count and Certainly a big loss one of America's great great guitar players. So and you played with him for what eight ten years Yeah, I was in mountain for eight years. I also played in a solo band and we toured Europe a lot Leslie West band and so a lot of a lot of great memories there and Of course we lost Tim Bogart recently from the vanilla fudge and cactus and I saw him play with Jeff Beck Back Bogart and after that. Yeah, the fell form underneath Madison Square Garden and got to know Tim pretty good through the years because Mountain and vanilla fudge would do a lot of shows together, you know and Carmine a piece you know I've known since I was a kid really and You know just one of the great legends of rock and roll. So Timmy Bogart's gone and surveying surveying recently Yeah, you know and You know, New York Dolls had to be the coolest band we come out of New York City and You know They're all gone now except for Johansson, but Definitely growing up in New York to New York Dolls for You know Johnny Thunders. I mean You know that that's about as rocked out as you could get good and bad I say that's a queen boy. Yep. Yep. So yeah, so, you know life goes by fast man. So Enjoy it while it's here. That's for sure Speaking of enjoying it. I have a new single out with you Kat man. How did you get Peter Chris to join you? well, I've known Peter for many many years and I had played on a record of his quite a few years ago. I played bass on it and it hasn't been released But it's pending at some point and long story short I I was in Hollywood back in I guess 2019 and His wife Gigi Who handles all his affairs invited me to go see him at a his convention and we got to talking and he was telling Me about you know his record might be seeing the light of day one of these days the record I played on and then I told him I was doing a new record and I Asked him if he'd be interested in playing on a track and he said he'd be honored to play on a track So it's a great track by the way. Yeah, well, I will slice it. I originally had another song from the play on and and time was going by going by and then finally One day I came into the museum here and picked up the guitar and all sudden, you know this song came out of me And I it just the words just came out, you know Katman the emperor of just left the building Well, no one's off to Brooklyn. The others just chillin This thing just kind of came together and I made a demo of it at Louis Spagnola's studio and sent Peter the demo and Then went down to his mansion and just Peter and I recorded it together in a room and then Tarek Solanci who engineered that We brought it back up to Luis and I had John Regan who of course played with everybody under the Sun including the Rolling Stones On their dirty works record. Yeah, Frampton stone and Frampton and John Wait and Dave Edmonds and ace freely ace freely Many years, of course So I was very honored to have John come in due to base. He locked right in with with Peter's drumming and Sal Soka did the backup vocals for the record and it's called the Catman and the Emperor and It's doing really well. I'm really happy with it. Okay, and can't wait for it to come out I yeah, it's I wanted it. It's it's coming in February. Yeah, you can download it now But the mind of myself is coming out Hopefully the end of February It's coming out on purple and green vinyl and It's really doing well all over the world and so it was a great honor No, Peter Chris, you know one of the last things or the first things he's played on in a while Yeah, you know, I don't even know if he ever played drums on somebody else's record before and I know it's been quite a few years Since he actually played on a record a kiss record or whatever. I went to see his last show at the cutting room in In New York City a few years back and he retired but Fortunately, I was able to pull him out of retirement So and with great results I'm very excited about the Catman and the Emperor and the flip sides called God the Devil and me and that features Mike Altori from the loving spoonful on drums and Sal Soka did the vocals and backgrounds on that Chris Matarano did incredible piano and strings on that track. That's a great song Yeah, that's the B side and Tarak Solange He also engineered mixed and produced that track so and Louis Bagnola did the bass on God the Devil and me So I'm in good hands with this new record and a lot of good people on it and I'm excited about it. So there you go. It's a great song. It's a slice of New York. Yeah, it's very New York It's like a New York City 70-ish kind of rock and roll song. You know, I see you bouncing around every once in a while you you did a Quarter the Crimson King. Yeah, that's right. You had my neighbor Mark Rivera on it You know, I've never met the man Mark Rivera, but I know he's been with Billy Joel forever And I always heard of how cool of a guy is and he ended up on the record because of Mike Clevanna did the Melotron on that song and Clevanna is Billy Joel's piano techs. He also works for the Rolling Stones, but he's a great keyboardist in his own, right? So Mark Rivera happened to be over there And it was something I put together that Crimson Quarter the Crimson King thing after about four months of being You know because of COVID locked off being quarantined There you go. I just reached out to Sage Wilson and He put the drums down in his studio Lenny Lee put the bass down on in his studio sent the files to Mike Clevanna Mark Rivera Just a little sacks in the intro. I do the 21st century Schizoid man is the intro and then it goes into the court Yeah, but mainly Mark's contribution to that song is all the background Vocals vocal. Yeah, so it was a nice surprise to they sent the file over to Spagnola's Dirty Brook studios And I went in and did the electric guitars and vocals and Louis bag played acoustic and Jeff Waldo One of my oldest pals in the world my power pals did credible flute on it. So that track everybody did it in a different studio and it came together and Louis mixed it and I'm glad you brought that up because you know Listen, I that came out one morning as I'm a terrible day at work and I saw it pop up I think Lisa put it up and yeah Lisa Marie Antony filmed Jeff Waldo and I and She had a lot to do with the whole video putting it together and and all the photographs are by Lisa Marie Antony So she's a big part of their record also And I'm really good. Yeah. Thank you. And if you see Mark Rivera, I'll thank him Yeah Now one other thing I saw this week John Regan and said there might be a live Return of the Comet album coming out. Do you know anything about it? You know, I don't know a lot about it KK But I do know that we recorded a live show in Sellersville, Pennsylvania at the Sellersville Theater You know a year ago or so and I I don't I'm a little bit in the dark about it, but I there's word that it's coming out or and You know, I I actually haven't heard it yet, but if John Regan thinks it's good enough to put out That's good. I'll be good enough because you know Regans the man and Todd Hallworth You know what a great singer and just you know had budgie Steve budgie Warner on drums You know, we were just kind of hitting our stride when the covert thing happened We had some cruisers lined up for that show and so this record Hopefully I'll know more about it in the near future, but it's really just Fun tour to do with Return of the Comet and the last show we did was in Miami back in October of last year and We just had a great time, you know, it's a great combination of people and You know, it's just fun and that's what it's all about man You know, if you're in a project or a band or you have to have fun Whatever you do in life, whether you're a race car driver or an artist or you know You have to enjoy whatever it is. You got to enjoy it and have fun and You guys look like you haven't fun. We watch at the beeshoe the opening night. Okay, we hit the chance We put a couple of those. Yeah, we did Fox the chance was definitely wow But it's that you could see the difference of three four weeks me. Yeah. Yeah, you know Or you start to become You know, like a finely oiled machine if you're playing four nights in a row for or five nights in a row for a number of weeks You start to just know things. It's just you know, the most of the time was a good other times It could be a train wreck, you know, it could be But you know in most bands cases when you you play out from city to city, you know And you're you're you're in there together in the trenches on the road It all kind of comes out on stage, you know, and it gets tighter and and so that's what happened with that act and You guys even played with a stand in Florida. Yes, we did came up and played a few songs he did the encore songs with us and And yeah, so a lot of villains with ace everything's Yeah, you know, it's your brother. Yeah ace and I have been you know, I did three lines of duty with ace freely and You know, it was always You know, it's just a lot of great times, you know All right, rich. I think we have a show coming up. Yes, we do. I do have a About January 30th at the Bowery Electric. Yeah, and that's a live stream. That's a live stream show it's gonna be Saturday night January 30th at 8 o'clock and It will be with a New York City band called 10-ton Mojo very good bands Yes, very cool band my buddy Chris Laubus. I know Chris and I have done musical things throughout the years together I think I've caught them open for you before I played on a bunch of Chris's records in the past and yeah They we did a show together a Brian's yeah in Miltown, New York And you could get the tickets for that at Well, you can read it 10-ton Mojo Richie Scarlett 132,021 Rolling live studios That's where you can purchase tickets for the live event. It'll be Saturday night, January 30th Bowery Electric and Lower East Side Manhattan great place. Yeah, so that's the 30th and I'm looking forward to that And just you know, even though there's not gonna be anybody there just to actually be standing on a stage You know after a year will be there and I go crazy if I'm not on a stage in like after three weeks It's been over a year. It's been a course that goes for everybody. That's in the arts and I just music But we know whatever you do, but you know These live stream things a lot of these places are going under so by supporting these live stream shows and buying tickets Not only for my show, but all these different venues that are doing it. You're helping to keep You know our stages So that's it Thanks so much and it's great talking to you Richie. I love you Metal zone guys of metal voice. Where is that? And that's up in Canada Montreal Richie always great to see you. I'd say something in French, but I don't but Thank you for the interview. Thank you for thank you for having us Yeah, and you know go out and pre-order that that's getting James Let's do the reversal that old okay So all right go Okay, James I want to also tell everybody out there that they can pre-order the single Catman and the Emperor from the Prudential music group which is on Facebook You go to potential music group and they have a store you click it on and they have different packages Green vinyl purple vinyl purple and green vinyl CD and a CD package so Certainly go to there and order the record and if you don't like the record You know what James if you don't like my new record it makes a great frisbee or coca for beer It's great. You know people are gonna love it. Hopefully you'll like it So thanks again metal voice and James great job on the film and the camera work KK and Everybody thanks so much