 everybody welcome to the metal voice once again you know this is a kind of show where I wasn't expecting to do and but it was such a I don't know it just heartbreaking and then I get a lot of tech saying you guys got to do something you got to say something you know we all got a sort of come together and say something nice about Steve you know a pair of specs in a way right because I think all of us here in this little chat here we've all sort of known Steve you know before you know here you know he lost his leg and afterwards as well right so Sean Sean Peck's here because I know Sean Peck toured with Steve and Steve was a replacement tremor correct right and now and of course me now and go back really far back with Steve back in when he was trying to reclaim or get back into North America you know after so many years it seems like we're doing these shows way too often these somber RIP shows it's happening way too often these days yeah so Steve Grimmett has died at the age of 62 confirmed by his brother Mark Grimmett and Russ Grimmett and I since I heard the news I was I didn't you know you don't want to believe it Sean what was your take on it this just now I mean I so we were planning on seeing him in November because we're going to be playing a festival on LA and a festival in Tijuana Mexico with them and the Mexican promoter texted me that was the first you know like two minutes after broke on the internet I was like what and then you know I saw Harry had posted something and you know the the guys in cage Casey Trask Sean Elge and the bass player Gamma Ray they were basically going to be his backing band and they were working on it out the new the new Grimmett album the new Grim Reaper album so they have they've been writing songs with him and they have recorded a few there's like three I think that have vocals on it so that as of now or unreleased so you know I'm kind of he like everybody else in the industry everyone's always stealing my musicians was one he liked playing with the guys so much he's like hey why don't you be in my band and so they were working on a new album with him and they were planning on doing the whole Grimmett set for those two shows with them and so it was I called up Casey and said dude did you hear and I told you and I called Sean and they're like no way and all I can do is I can just cherish the you know the time we did that whole tour he was the you know the honorary fourth tremor and he he filled in for Harry you know at the last minute and I just cherish that time we have them because it was I mean it was like we bonded like within like five minutes like funny like hey nice to meet you and like we were just like best friend immediately and you know I'll let you guys talk but we'll get into some of the hijinks that went on on that tour because it was it was a fucking laugh a minute I'm so glad I got to do that with them now looking back it was fucking phenomenal to get to know him and hang out with him and perform with him he's a legend and hear all his fucking stories and learn all about him but nice this guy I mean that's just a fucking sweet art that if you didn't like Steve Grimmett then you had your head up your arse as he would say so go ahead anyways that's Alan do you have the albums there with you yeah yeah I mean obviously the first Grim Reaper and one hero that the third one even so yeah it's kind of in now but it's I get you know we started this show so we can meet our heroes Jim and we've been lucky to meet a lot of them and Steve was definitely one on the list and you know we tried to do a Skype early on in on this website we didn't have as much luck that technology wasn't there and then we had to luckily meet him in person when he came for the tour getting back his feet wet in North America and then not long after the unfortunate incident in South America with his leg that we try to raid some funds and try to get some promotion and to help him with the cost of getting him back home and he's just a fan of the show him and Millie they've been great friends of the show and just condolences go up to the whole family so you know Steve comes to I guess his Canadian tour and US tour and what was that like now it's been like 10 years now seven eight years somewhere around there right Alan but we're there we were time flies and you know he was talking about you know how we wanted to a reacquire the rights to the first three albums which you know you had a lawyer you know an international lawyer trying to reclaim that money from the royalties that he never got paid and you know I think that to this day it hasn't been resolved or at least it's been resolved to a certain degree then he loses his leg in in Ecuador and I was Skyping not Skyping I was Skyping I maybe was Skype with Millie in the hospital in Ecuador and it really you know it was very touching to see how brave he was he told us the story Sean they had a saw sort of sign off his leg in Ecuador and he said you know he told me he goes pilots and soldiers have braved them you know how we're brave in the in the field of battle and what's sawing off my leg compared to what they gave up you know for our freedom around the world so I'm not saying he was happy about it I'm just saying that he was brave about it and that was Steve you know he was he lost his legs and the first thing he thought of it is how am I gonna get back on stage and with that sort of prosthetic or it's not really it's more of a hydraulic leg that he had and it was cut and keep in mind everybody the leg was it was cut above the knee and when it's cut above the knee as Steve told me many times it's very difficult to walk when it's below the knee and you probably know the Sean after seeing him right at the shows above the knee it's very difficult to walk and to get around and that really frustrates him so I don't know you guys want to weigh in on anything else I told him that if it was me I would have put like lasers in the fake leg man I would have had like fucking pyrotechnics and fire shooting that that thing he's like I'm working on it man we'll put fucking lasers in there and shoot flames out it's a fucking wonderful idea he had a thing that he sent me a patch he made these patches 72 in 72 meant a lot to him so much so that he made a patch of it with the number 72 I put it on my battle vest and it was doing a 69 but when you stick three fingers in our arse that was his that was one of his favorite things and that was a you know every time we get we were message each other back and forth we would end it with 72 that would be our like we would send the 72 back and forth so what can you say man we did I can just talk about you know Sean yeah see you in hell the vocals right just the vocals I mean did that every we did that every night together he when we did the tremors tour so he would get up and sing see you in hell and then I would I would kind of go with walk up at the very end with them and we'd sing it and I'd do the super high one at the end and he fucking loved it I'm like I don't want to you know steal your thunder he's like nah fuck it dude just like so but it was so fun to get up there and the crowd would go fucking ate shit when we would play that and so I think we're gonna do we're gonna perform see you in hell at these two festivals you know as a tribute to him and see if we can get everybody up there doing it and yeah man he was just he was a trooper he I mean one time we were we were at this cabin like a cabin like our buddy in in Stockholm but I got a lake house you guys just guys from stand we drove found it middle of nowhere it's like a scene from a horror movie driving down a dirt road like fuck where is it you know and thinking we're gonna get murdered or something it ended up being this killer house right on the water might start from stormburner killer singer and so we're there drinking getting fucked up of course and that he just face plants into the fireplace dude just like like no hands to block the fall nothing just into the logs oh he's like oh fuck and then like he's laying there and he goes I'm alright it looks much worse than it is just give me a moment here to collect myself and so we just did back we're like fuck okay we just kept drinking well he laid face down on the fireplace and he slowly rolled over and got up and fucking kept drinking he was he was a beast there was all kinds of crazy shit happening you know we're we're going on tour with this guy you know the songs are really complicated with three different guys trying to sing no rehearsals we just went up and did the first show of not no practice like fuck here it goes and he and he did a great job and I remember him saying like he's like this is really good for me you know and I go why because he goes I was fucking getting lazy you know because we're me and ripper up there like going fucking haywire you know so he had that we really pushed him and he really appreciated the fact that you know and he got up there and he was hitting some fucking notes and singing his ass off and sounded fucking great and it was really cool and we had him on the track frailty in the last three tremors record he's saying that whole song and he's in there I think we might go ahead and just release a whole mix of that now that you might as well yeah we have a whole song so here's another album you know that that Steve played on you know in search of sanity with onslaught yeah yeah which was very popular at the time right the album and still popular to this day pick it up there's some live songs there too martin pop off ways in our buddy martin pop off brutal guys so sorry to hear this great guy in talent Alan I guess we're getting a lot of comments there in a comment section do you see them sure is there a comment section there's a comment section so we're live on youtube there's a comment section all right everybody your favorite song by Steve Grimmett I know most people are gonna say see you in hell and for me it's dead on arrival you mean he's he's singing that song so high you know it's it's just wow what a track and I first heard that as a young kid young lad I was so impressed I go wow this is the album when the first album came out it was my friend's cork his younger brother that that picked it up and we were all listening to it for me it was the show must go on is the one that really seemed to stand out on that when it was released at that time and you know you're listening to it and the production is what it is but I mean you could not deny the vocals prowess of Steve Grimmett on that album and on the subsequent albums as well I mean he was he was a top top tier vocalist in the early 80s for on the heavy metal scene that's for sure so uh the blue pato Tato says the show must go on like you Alan Martin Popov says yeah dead on arrival like me Chris says rock you to hell parent says fear no evil Michael says salute sir the show must go on it is a great song the show must go on isn't it and motion says welcome to dying is my favorite and there's a lot more comments so everybody wants to put on their text in their favorite album text in their favorite song by all means or band he played in right he didn't only play grim raper the Steve Grimmett band those two I think he has two albums out personal crisis if I remember correctly that's that's a great album that's a great sounding album great music great vocal yeah yeah lion's heart right he had one two three four five albums I think on slot one grim reaper and then of course Steve Grimmett's grim reaper right he did so the last two times he came to munch you all you know I love about Steve I go hey Steve you know we finished an interview you know we chat a bit he goes come back stage and we're just sitting there and the three bands opening bands are playing we're just chatting for like I don't know two three hours and he gets on stage and sings after chatting for three hours which is you know pretty impressive but the last time he came you know what he said he was suffering for a lot of a lot of the post a traumatic stress from the loss of his leg right he he just said you know what at first it was sort of he was running on adrenaline trying to get back into it but then it kind of sunk in and you know he was really having a hard time with it but he didn't manage to get out of it but he did manage to have he did suffer from post traumatic stress I mean you know you wake up one day you realize shit I lost my friggin leg you know it's it's it's you know it's deep right Sean any other cool stories well I mean we were um I'd say Rocky to hell is my favorite I mean I I remember when I first got into metal and we we were on vacation Hawaii when I was like junior and high school we met all these other metal kids and like dude this guy had the grim reaper tape and I was like what the f***ing looks crazy what's that he played in we was like oh this is insane so I remember like the first time and that's that's a way back memory that I was exposed to it but um he you know on the tour that we did you know I was I wasn't familiar with this discography so he was playing me all these tracks line was it lion's heart was it yeah probably yeah yeah and uh showing me videos and stuff and telling me about the stories about the video so it was um I got a real good education and hearing all the killer songs that he had and um he uh what's that I'll tell you one thing when me and Alan interviewed him years ago he told us that he looked like the greek president of Greece remember that Alan or the prime minister you remember that dude he goes I got a lot of people from Greece commenting that I looked at like the greek president at the time you know and I remember his name so he had great hair I mean he had some of the breast hair and rock and roll I don't know I don't know how he got such hot he's such a hot wife but you know somehow he pulled it off it must have been that that rock star thing his but she was a doll she came to the shows and you know we met her and so when we went back and did the three tremors tour all through the UK we had the regular lineup he came out to a show and sang with us and we presented him with his official three tremors best was embroidered said reaper on the back all the patches reaper on the front said we had the ripper the reaper the hell destroyer on the tyrant and he was so stuff I thought I was like yeah it's a fun thing and he was like no this is an honor for me he was actually like it was a big deal I fucked it I just thought it'd be you know something fun but he was totally into it and we videoed it it's the videos out there somewhere and also I'd like to point out to everybody when made grim reaper a more mainstream back in the day was beavis and butthead and he told us the story of beavis and butthead how they you know remember they used to comment on bands and such right yeah and and that's what sort of brought grim reaper to sort of a mainstream audience I don't know beavis and butthead is mainstream but more of a larger audience and did it for danzig too but like broke the danzig song like five years after was released I just heard that on serious xm radio so grim reaper got the danzig treatment on that that was good so I'm gonna answer one question that a lot of people have been asking is you know how did he die all right so we don't know how he died nobody knows how he died but he did die in his sleep okay and here's the here's the here's another that's the best way to go I guess if you're gonna go that's the most peaceful way to do it right I think it's this you know second best way well the first one that's better he's talking about terrian lannisters way how he describes it on the game of thrones I don't watch a game of thrones but I do watch star trek look it up okay all right but I want what I want to say is he passed away in asleep and here's the sad part of it all so Kathy Holmes chris holmes wife and manager she sends a message saying is it true that he passed away we spoke to him yesterday so they spoke to him yesterday so that's even it makes it even more depressing you know I was kind of really hurt I mean this really hit home with me I don't know just because so many years me and Alan would been like talking to him and interviewing him and hanging out with him and you know I mean I mean Millie you know when he when he had his leg amputated I mean she took us right into his recovery room right yeah yeah we did the interview with him in bed in the recovery room so you know you don't get to do that every day and it was a you know a part of his life that was really changing and we just we just wanted to get him back to Europe so back home to England and we also tried to do an all-star charity produced by Chris sorry about produced by Chris Sangaritas however after that was getting it everybody was trying to get that together Chris Sangaritas dies it's crazy you never know you know every day is a gift you got to cherish every freaking moment yeah I have relatives that talk to him one day hey okay later and then they die in their sleep than that night you're like what the fuck I was just talking about yeah yeah anything can happen uh go get your arteries checked out because that's the main way people go is the clogging and the yeah here he is the Greek politician was a vengate evangelos vesilos so in Greece they kind of looked at him as wow this guy looks just like the you know the politician so that was and that was a story that he talked about with us in the past right he did come out with a live album just so you guys know not too long ago um people might want to check that out as sort of like a final hurrah and I guess you got some tracks there with the steve right uh Sean yeah I just talked to Casey like I said they were writing a bunch of stuff he said he said they have three that he sang on uh and then like I said we'll probably release the one now that he's gone we'll probably have to I'm gonna call Dave and say hey dude mix up that version of the song frailty where he sang the whole thing um he was you know in one of the best tone vocal tones in heavy metal I mean there's there's you know the technical singing and then there's just when your voice just sounds good singing like anything like a yorn or something you know where you just got that tone and it just sounds like grim it not really many people really sounded a lot like him and um that only could he hit great notes and do just about everything that you needed um his voice just sounded good and you know he never all the shows we did he's never like oh fuck my voice is fucked today or like yeah I don't know he didn't give a fuck he just got up there he had a stool up there he stood and he sat he wore his kilt on stage that's right you know we you know having to like okay okay we're gonna go do this tour now like he's like okay well I got a little you know motorized chair and I got you know he had all these things you had to work around it wasn't just like yeah let's go on tour you had like he had to have a room you know with a tub and we had to be able to get his chair some of those venues were fucked trying to get him down there and shit we're like oh maybe stairs but I remember we took a ferry somewhere and um the freaking elevator closed on his little his little motor scooter and it broke it and like this is like second night of the tour we're like fuck and so we're on this ferry I can't remember where the hell we're going I don't know if this might have been in Sweden or something and so Dave Garcia the guitar player he's like let me look at this fucking thing he flips it over dude he's got tools and he's getting tool and he and Dave like MacGyver's the whole thing back and like fixes the whole thing like 18 style yeah so so Grimm it was really grateful that Dave MacGyver the thing back because we thought it was like a disaster like fuck his scooter broke the first like what are we gonna do but um just part of just part of the road tour but he met you know he didn't complain he just managed and that that's what he didn't do and that's what I said about when they cut his leg off he didn't complain he managed he was brave there was you know there was there was never any uh like oh you know this sucks or I feel sorry for me never no man he loved performing and yeah like I said we became like instant like bros with this guy we just met this dude and it's been like he's been in the band for 20 years there was a total blast we were making jokes we could tell each other to fuck off like no problem and you know hear this and hear that it was he loved making jokes and being funny and he was funny yeah yeah yeah I think we you know poop today shirt came out when we were in the early 80s when Grimm Reaper came out you know they were guys we can relate to they were like every man right you know they they weren't the glamorous guys and they're the makeup the old up guys like Motley Crue I mean these regular guys that can play great music and Wasted Love Wasted Love gets my my vote for a great song from Grimm Reaper so here's Todd Latour years I'm looking at the tweet feed tweeter feed awful news to hear about the passing of Steve Grimm it from Grimm Reaper what a voice a super kind person my sincerest condolences to his wife million family and friends um there's like go ahead yeah I do say we we often talk together about like man we're lucky we're in heavy metal because the uglier and older you are the more the better it gets like the more middle you are in the more street you have like thank god we didn't pick another genre of music we'd have been done at age 30 but uh we we we laughed and cherished the the pure essence of heavy metal that you could be all gray fat and ugly and people don't love you more than ever like man we we dodged a bullet on that one that was one of the things that we always talked about together I'm just looking at everybody else also Kenny when uh he went to New York Kenny the man on the street for the metal voice in New York Kenny had a barbecue for Steve and his band and Steve was so grateful uh you know for Kenny going out of his way picking it up you know he's on a little scooter he's he's you know in a sense where he's candy capped right Kenny made him food I mean he had a whole bunch of pictures and I think it was like a birthday cake for either Steve or someone else in the band can I remember and uh he was always appreciative he was always funny he was always kind and he was a super smart guy um I know my uh my guitar player uh Stu Marshall from Death Dealer you know he hosted Steve and Millie in Australia and he was their backing band when they did a they did a Steve Grimmett Australian tour and so they you know stayed stayed at his house drove him around so he became really close with them and he hit me up and he was just like dude I'm here you know I'm crying this is horrible so but you know we just talked about like we're just lucky you know totally random you know that three tremors thing last minute Harry's like I can't go like literally two weeks before the tour or some shit and uh I remember Grimmett had hit me up he's like hey man I'd really like to be involved you know if you ever and then I call him I'm like hey you want to be involved can you be in blah blah blah it's like I'm in I was like you know without him yeah this the fact that you know so lucky to be able to have spent that time with them random occurrence I would have never met him probably you know would have never got to have that that brief part of his life it's just funny how life works but you're just just great being around him you know great time I do have one other story though the when he played San Diego the promoter told me that they were arguing about money and he said all right just give me a bottle of Jack Daniels and the promoter gave him bottle of Jack Daniels from the bar supposedly he like doesn't like most of the bottle like drank it in like seconds or so and the promoter guy was like going dude like he was unbelievable like you know hours before the show supposedly he crushed a bottle of Jack Daniels in like a minute or something he was very impressed with his drinking prowess so okay that's a good to know I also like to say this is this album cover is one of my all-time favorite metal covers of all time you know there it is oh yeah yeah it's it's beautiful it's just beautiful artwork and that's probably better than any Judas Priest album cover ever yeah yeah yeah yeah Steve Grimmett you know um Allen any final words I don't know what else you want to say oh like I said it's another sad day we're all getting older our heroes are getting older and unfortunately we're doing these shows way way too often like I said earlier we lost just so many great great people and to sad every time we do a show like this though yeah and it was you know usually when there's a somebody dies of cancer you're kind of getting used to the idea right but this was like just happened you know and you know he's not that old 62 years old too young too young yeah it was really putting me on a downer uh Sean I think I think we if Keith Richards dies we really gotta worry that's the one where that's gonna be the art sign of the end times like when he kicks it we're like oh fuck he's gone now that's gonna be the one that's gonna be definitely warning sign but but Steve uh all kidding aside and you know Grimmett would have liked this kind of conversation he would have liked the lightheartedness he would have liked making jokes telling him about a 72 patches um you know him rolling around in the chair oh I remember let me finish with this one this go ahead yeah we're in we're playing in the underground in London and we just played and we're all waiting outside and some drunk maniac comes up and starts like flipping shit to Steve and uh Steve was ready to fight him with one leg he's like took his cane he's like I'll wrap you up with a fucking head you won't see the light I mean and we're just like he was a big guy man dude we had to step in like Steve was ready to full on throw down with this dude and like uh I almost did it I almost I flared up I almost stepped in and threw a punch this guy and I'm like I didn't want to get kicked out of the country on the first night of the tour whatever but he was he was uh you know fiery and ready to throw down even his condition we were pressed like look at the grim it man he's ready to freaking go with this dude bring it on bring it on I said one of us with two full legs step in and handle the situation you know another highlight was um when he finally got his hydraulic or prosthetic leg whatever it was called and he stepped on stage for the first time I can't remember which festival it was I was there I was there and you know I was sent the footage and let me tell you man there's footage of that I had banger festival I don't know what it was called a camera was it no it was I'm sorry it was bang your head it was bang your head festival that's it and you know that was like the first time he made an appearance and let me tell you and you can see the footage it's there you know I videoed and I streamed it some of my footage was the one of the main footages that went out and and he just kept it he went up there with his leg and just killed it man the whole crowd was going nuts yeah yeah it was a good it was a great moment it was definitely a great moment and what a trooper he was you know anyways there's lots of interviews that we've done and you could check them all out and you get a more of an idea of who the man was his humor his intelligence his musical talent his voice perseverance perseverance yeah you know I just courage and like Alan said we were there sort of in the trenches as he was you know sort of going before going through the leg issue and afterwards so that was you know we felt like you know we were part of that journey you know that whole story was amazing those updates well they think they can do this and then like they kept it was it kept changing and evolving so much if we were all watching it in real time you know like you guys were I know that was just un it's just it's like it sounds like a living nightmare and then he just comes out with a smile and yeah we're gonna do another tour make another album and so you guys know I had problems he was working on a book you know that he was working on a book he was he told me that the book was supposed to be about his sort of his experience you know losing his leg because he had a sore from diabetes and somewhere in Ecuador and it kept getting worse and worse about his about what they did to his leg removed his leg about the recovery and getting back on track that's what the book was supposed to be about I don't know where he was at I kept asking him but he goes well I kind of fell into a depression so I couldn't really write anymore but there must be some content written you know hopefully you'll see the light of day would be very fascinating to read his you know his his diary of the the events right I gotta look I gotta dig up some of the videos that I took on the tour and put something together I'll tell you I'll tell you Sean the most for me I gotta tell you it should you know watch go to the metal voice and Steve Grimit in Ecuador we were there live with him on the hospital bed that's gnarly and Millie only had 30 minutes a day internet so we were there and it was and you could see him at you know what he was so friggin brave I would have been a coward you know I get a little cut and you know and you know we're calling the ambulance right this guy was so friggin brave all right on that note Alan final words gonna head downstairs slap the vinyls all the grin and reapers listen to that open up a cold one and just enjoy Grim Reaper and Steve's voice of course Sean final words that's a great idea heavy metal has lost an absolute giant I mean I don't hesitate to call him a legend at all he was uh he was a vocal icon in heavy metal as far as I'm concerned one I think one of the greats I'm a singer and I put him up there all of the best and not only that but a great songwriter too and uh he loved heavy metal and he loved all of his fans and he will be greatly missed it's a sad day but always you know cherish the people that are with you man you don't know when the last minute is you're gonna talk to them the last time you're gonna see them yeah everybody get a health check up gets your freaking arteries checked diet and eat right and and try and stay healthy and and love one another that's all we gotta say all right thank you guys all right thank you everybody for watching rest in peace Steve Grimmett