 So Monday what time I don't know I think it's 10 30 It will be doing a zoom the zoom with Corey Glover for the new Sonic universe out. Yes, right Corey. Just wow that's soul Experience what a what a wow? I can't say enough about you tonight brother 10 10 30 Metal voice at least we're recording it at 10 30 when you're gonna see it. We'll have no idea Welcome to the metal voice first time on the show. Well on a zoom with on the show We had Kenny who so graciously spoke to you at the comic bookstore, right, which I know you love comics I guess you're a comic connoisseur. I am I was just I was just going through my comics. Um, I Thought I lost something and I realized that they're still here. Let me ask you this as a comic connoisseur that you are What is your most prized possession as a comic book? I have an Avengers from 1966 And I have a few others that are that are pretty collectible. Um, this this particular comic It's my favorite comic. That's my favorite character. So And I actually have two of them and a reissue. So I'm I'm good. I'm good Are you more DC or Marvel Marvel guy? Okay one time I was a DC guy and I had lucked into some Superman annuals That from 1957 at one point and I don't know and I think I sold them for less than they will work And I know they worked a lot more now than they were then but I sold those and No regrets keep going It's always nice to see what other hobbies artists have, you know other than just music, right? Yeah, I'm I've been contemplating which next Convention I want to go to see if I can find some other things that I can Or see like a bar to retrieve it. I don't know what's coming up next. We'll see Alright, so Sonic Universe a great fantastic new project It's it's it is what it is out on May the 10th on ear music, you know, I was like so impressed I was like completely blown away By just so many aspects of this. Well, thank you, you know, I Knew you guys had the goods, but once I heard the whole album. I was like, you know This is in the contender of top 20 top 10 albums of 2024 definitely Well, sorry man, it's the secret to your voice. You're sounding better than ever Well, um, the more you use it the more you get have it, you know, it's for me All I need, you know for my for my instrument. It's it's a it's a muscle literally It's a it's something. It's like a runner. You have to keep doing it in order for it to work Yeah, and and I should mention, you know, the new band, right or the guys who are on this project Michael Orlando on guitar right from adrenaline mob a bassist Booker King The drummer if I mispronounce his name, please don't yell at me. Takwan Jackson. Hey, Kwan. Yes, but that's right Booker has been who was in my solo band for a very long time. He plays with everybody Everybody he's one of those kind of players and Take one is from a band this middle core band called sworn enemy and I'm a big fan of sworn enemy. So I'm very grateful that he's there It's amazing you work with the best musicians all the time I mean, what's the different Vernon Reed is an outstanding guitarist Mike Orlando is an outstanding guitarist Yes, how do you work? Like, I mean, I guess the question is what's the difference when you're working with each one of them? You know, I well Mike is one of the best guitar players I've ever heard my life and death I I say that with some With some authority because I've worked with some of the best guitar players. They're there. They're already know I'm Very obviously I work with George Lynch, you know, I've been in Earl Slick I've worked with a bunch of really really amazing amazing guitar players But I have to say that Mike Orlando is one of the best that I've ever heard in my life. He's the most amazing Most amazing guitar player and he's the best at what he does in my opinion And for the people who know living color, but they have not really heard this album What would you say would be the differences the little differences? Well, it's I think in just in terms of themes It's not as socially bent as it is, you know Emotionally, but most it is an emotional thing about this particular Record, it's not That that is a rare occurrence with living color. How would you describe the musical direction? For someone who's never heard this. Well, it's a sort of a combination of You know Mike's Sort of thing his stuff. He's done with a jail-in-mob and the stuff He's done with his own solo work and and and some of my work that whatever I bring to the table is Is is obvious from you can hear from in my discography. So It's it's a bit of a combination of both of those things Is this gonna be a band that's gonna tour or is this strictly a project? No, we're gonna definitely go out on the road as soon as we possibly can my schedule doesn't particularly It's not there just yet. I mean I got lots more work to do with living color and we're making a new record So When I am free, which will probably be in the fall We'll go out and see what what's out there for us to do It's very exciting for living color. When do you guys expect to come out with an album in 2024 or 2025? 2025 Are there are you guys like almost done or are you working? No, we're not even close to done We're still we're still in in in the phase of what this is gonna be so it's gonna take a minute before we get to To where we want I think I first time I saw you guys was on our senior hall You're doing cult of personality. I was come and I think you started jumping singing in the stands. Do you remember that? Yes, yes, yes, I walked up into the audience. I was so blown away by your performance I was so blown away by the musicianship of the band. I was just It was sort of like that's that was my love for the band from that point on. What do you remember? Were you nervous going on that show? I mean, it was a big show or a senior back in the day. It was it was and You know, there's a lot of You get you get nervous when you get there You know, you sit there and then you wait Then you wait and then you wait some more And then the nervousness sort of starts starts to die down Then then once the audience gets into the room it comes back And then you have to temper what what you're feeling and how long you've been sitting there together to figure out what you're doing It's and and then the reaction afterwards It's usually pretty good, you know, um audiences, you know that particular audience I don't know if they they knew of us You know at that particular by the time we got on to our senile We were on mtv all the time. So there was always somebody There who who knew what we were doing. They weren't they had never seen it done live though So it was a bit of a shock for some people to see it see us doing it live Always curious curious about the middleman the song the lyrics the theme What was that all about if you don't mind me asking? Um In hindsight it was just about enjoying where you are about you know You don't have to At that point in that particular point in my life. It was about staying where you were and Enjoying that that place where you were somewhere in the middle. You weren't on top. You weren't on the bottom But you're somewhere in the middle and you enjoy being there uh now it it's sort of a song of You know in a particular climate that we live in now It's just somewhere That you're it's a very observant sort of spot space that you're in that you can watch What's going on everywhere good and bad? And in between actually so you just trying to figure out what's there And you're and that's how you how you take take care of yourself and the world around you Right open to letter to the landlord if you I'm gonna if you don't mind me asking Is it more relevant today than it was back in the 80s with the It's it's much much more relevant now than it was then I think Although it's really good was a good, you know was It was about gentrification more than anything else and to to know that That idea still pervades and has and has been weaponized and so in certain cases Um, it's still a part of this whole thing I was also reading about which I didn't know about this as I was going your background the show living color Which we all knew back in the day and living color in living color in living color. I'm sorry in living color There was there was some sort of head budding right back in the day of of the name. Yeah, well basically um Before the show had even Been greenlit to go on network television Um, the producers had called us and asked us If we wanted to be a part of it and we politely declined And we thought because that we declined the use of the name That they would change that and they didn't And fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it the show became a big success and its success sort of for us Made made some sort of confusion in the marketplace And as you say when you say living color, they think oh you took out from the tv shows like no We were around before the tv show. This is not about the tv show. This is not this is these aren't these aren't jokes Yeah, we had a very serious and very We had something to say and we wanted wanted to be taken very wanted to be taken seriously with what we had to say And it took it it was it could be difficult It could be difficult and we we negotiated and and Made some sort of concessions and they made some concessions And you know the tv show is a classic And I think living color is a classic. So Let's let's call it a day Was there anything in the in the living color? History that you would have changed or you would have done differently and sort of the trajectory of The band no no no regrets No regrets none We have you know what we've done and what we're doing is is going to continue and We have no reason to stop Okay, all right. I do want to say anything else about the uh, Sonic universe and the band the album. Sonic universe is it is an amazing record. I think people should go out and listen to me and Buy it and stream it and download it and Get as much of it as you possibly can and hopefully we'll see what's out on the road And we'll be playing it and you'll see how it really says Any um biographies books movies about your life living colors life or um Documentaries, you know, like a lot of bands are doing that And yeah, we're planning on We're planning on doing a documentary Pretty soon again, I don't think that's going to happen. That's not going to come out until next year or so Okay, you're at the negotiation stage. I guess no no We're just trying to figure out where we're going to do it and how we're going to do it and what we're going to talk about I think it'll be a great documentary. I agree On that note, I know you got another interview Uh, it is what it is on may the 10th Ear music a pleasure to have you chorey after all these years living colors sonic universe and so much more You're you're even going out. You have another uh, I believe you have another You're living colors playing soon. Is that correct? We're going we're playing in rock the rockville music festival um, we're doing a bunch of stuff in Are we doing some spot dates next month? We're going back out on the road. We're going to europe in the end of june into july We go back out with extreme in september and then we're going to south america in in october That's amazing Anyways, look forward to seeing you on the road. Look forward to the new music and thank you. It's been a pleasure. Thank you