 Think I'll wait for the call in later. Okay, let's take a look and see if we're live here Yep, here we are Here we are parent What I was just talking to Pat not too long ago. We are live on the metal voice. What is going on North America? The countdown the countdown begins parent. What's happening, man? What's happening? Happy almost new year to you and to everyone out there except for those of you who have already had new years in which case Happy January 1st because we are global So I'm sure a lot of our friends over in Europe and a couple other places have already had their new year Hopefully they're in the early hours of the morning watching us And Jimmy you'll have to tell me is this our first ever new year special on the metal voice or have we done this before? My time is this our first one. This is definitely the first one the first annual the metal voice New year's countdown. So we got us some cool things for you guys today. We got a draw for the fantastic metal voice t-shirt and Coming on soon. We should have members of flotsam and Jetsam Aldo Nova Rick use of sword and Carmine a piece world-famous drummer of so many bands. So You know, we brought out the a-list for the new year special and I talk to them about what they have going on in 2021 Some reminiscing about 2020 and hopefully set you guys up for a way better 2021 than we had in 2020 hopefully some live music some good new releases and a world Slowly but surely getting itself back to normal And we might even talk about that little thing that kiss had going on today in Dubai You know, I'm sure everybody this okay. This is the magic of the metal voice right here First of all I want to say hi to Mike Plata happy new year Terry saying almost three p.m. Here in Sydney So they've already gone through the whole new year. They're well into the New Year's. They're like way well into the New Year's How that's how 2021 looks? Let me show everybody this year All that sorry guys. I'm doing some technical stuff here and Just making sure everything's up and running on the page. I can see all the comments. I Call shot gone on a shirt. Yeah, that's rich. Okay. So here we go guys. So throughout this whole week We've been show the shirt show the shirt The beauty of the shirt it does not Zoom does not give justice to the beauty of the shirt and the body does not come off the shirt You got to put your own body in the shirt. That's right So here are the names that I've collected and here is the famous Expo hat where I put the names in I shake and bake it and then I will pull out a name on the live draw So those of you who have put your name in the draw that means that you subscribe to the metal voice Email list. So that's the catch. There's always a catch there Baron. I'm not just gonna give it away There's a catch we will not sell your email to Sears or whoever But we do need to be able to talk you what's that we do need to be able to stalk them though Yes, Michael Gilbert is waiting in the waiting room and he will be our first guest Michael Gilbert Gilbert the Lead or actually the guitarist of flotsam and Jetson One of my favorite bands one of my favorite guys. He's actually a good friend But before I put him on I want to show everybody the hat The names the draw we got some I'm gonna read through some names right now and put them in the hat and Then at the end of the show, we will draw the hat and see who wins and Jimmy. Let me say I'm a showman I'm a showman parent Jimmy some shows Use an accounting firm We do not use an accounting firm at the metal voice. We use the Montreal Expo's hat for heightened security all right, here we go and As Michael is waiting for us, but it's not his time. He's gonna come on and 11. Okay, Michael has a shirt Michael. Yes, Michael Gilbert does have a shirt Andrew Daily in the hat. There is no cheating. There's nothing nothing in my arms here. Okay, here we go Scott and Josie right here, and I'm showing you the names here. I don't fool around We have Michael Hampton. You see that you see that ain't joking around in the hat We have Richard Cook. There you are. There you are rich We have Michael Garrett right there We have Alexander Mello and Rico. These are people from all around the world pair Global we're global Derek Wilkinson But I boom look at it We have Calvin Messer Look at Calvin Messer Then it just doesn't stop Chuck Fisher To win show this show the shirt show the shirt what I'm doing this Kim Momay right there all the way look at that Look, that's what you're getting that the famous metal voice try Jeff Mendelhal right there right there. You think I'm fooling around huh? Melissa knee Melissa Carlo Leo. Okay. We'll stop right there. They're in the hat. There's no monkey business going on. This is like you said Countries in the world use these famous accounting systems. We use the expo hat I have some more names and I will enter the names and the ballots are handwritten by the hand written Sometimes my handwriting is so bad. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. All right. Let's bring in Michael Gilbert Michael Gilbert from Flotson and Jetson and I know oh he's in his kitchen in his kitchen He probably thinking he's gonna be on at 11, which he's supposed to be I'm bringing him on a little early Look at this. Look what I were but he's connecting. He's connecting You there Jimmy, what's up, man? What's good, look what I did look what I did for the occasion Any shirt you could have worn on New Year's Eve and I told Michael this Michael goes Jimmy I'm gonna give you a shirt and I go you know what I want. I want something sort of Sort of slick but not over overdone You know, I don't like overdone because you can't wear it on special occasions Not I'm saying I Jimmy that is an honor because we got Aldo Nova tonight. We got Carmine opposite tonight We got sword Rick use tonight, but you are wearing the Flotson and Jetson shirt. So Michael is already a winner Michael the parent parents Michael 20 With a bang Hey, what's going on? How's it going man? It's going. It's going good. So I'm having me on tonight for sure very special night It's gonna be New Year's here in one hour. Okay, Eastern East Coast time tell me what you're doing for New Year's Well right now I'm making I'm making mac and cheese So we're gonna have some mac and cheese the neighbors got some pretty good fireworks going on right now have a couple friends coming over a little bit later and Having some cocktails and yeah Watching a sea crest right now. So Michael can have friends over so I'll receive Jimmy and I are in Montreal, Quebec where we are in Lockdown But we cannot have friends over we can only have our loved ones Who won't be our loved ones if we're locked up with them much longer, but you know, we're doing our best So great that Michael can have company Tell me Michael. Yeah, I'll probably have to sneak them in All right, you got to do tell tell me what's going on in the flotsam world. All right. We're in this new album 2021 what can we expect and that's what this shows about to what we can expect in 2021? Will this album see the light of day in 2021? New flotsam out. Oh, absolutely. It was actually supposed to it was supposed to come out in January. We had That was what the plan was so it's it's pretty much It's done everything's done except for the artwork at this point because we knew we weren't going to be able to do a January release And it got pushed back to June. So we kind of you know, we stopped doing the white knuckle Recording and just kind of started taking our time with with the mixes and stuff like that It's it's completed Except for a couple of artwork things that we're going to do and then it'll be released I think we're gonna be releasing a video here pretty soon a lyric video for the first single really so Maybe February look for that in February or maybe maybe March Okay, and and and typical question. What's the sound gonna sound like what direction are you guys going in? What what have you decided as the direction? Musically well, this is this is the absolute perfect follow-up to chaos We couldn't have planned it any better. We just we all basically put on our our Our work our work boots or whatever and we started writing and it ended up coming out It's like the end of chaos on steroids basically. Oh It's yeah, I think you guys are gonna love it man. Can you hear that? Can you hear my neighbors over here? What's your neighbors doing? They're blowing stuff up, which I I like that as long as I'm just not blowing up like my car or anything The kiss show today everything is blowing up. Yeah kiss that a few fireworks in Dubai today. It looked like Hey Michael so how Optimistic or not optimistic. Are you about maybe being able to tour at least in the latter half of 2021? We had you up here in Montreal at the famous Fuffin electric. I think I guess it must have been 2019 What are the chances we we see you back here? Maybe in the back end of 2021? How are you feeling? well, we started looking towards maybe October of 2021 but I don't know, you know, I don't even know if that's gonna be a possibility, you know at this point, so You know, I think we're gonna have to actually start looking at 2022 the beginning of 2022 and hopefully gonna start opening stuff up that the last thing we want to happen is to be Out on the road and then all of a sudden, you know, what we're doing, you know six days six shows a week and then to find out that we can only do three shows when we're out there or just be kind of kind of devastating Tour wise, you know, it's just wouldn't be a good financial Can you show us can you show us show us what's going on? On the roof, it's all good Okay, come on. Take a little tour of my backyard Arizona, baby. Oh We got snow and ice here. We don't have snow and ice in Arizona Look at that. Can you guys even see that? Is it too dark? Yeah. No, it's good. We see it's perfect. Yeah, look at that Wow, so is he just like doing fireworks for the sake of doing fireworks or is he actually celebrating like two hours from now? New Year's I Don't know that's a good I have some fireworks here, too We're gonna blow some stuff up tonight as well, but that's gonna be in a couple hours Okay, I got I got like the the the cheap fireworks. I didn't get the You know, we've got like here's what we got. You get the kiss fire. That's what you're saying The cool cats got to have these And then okay, don't Yes, and I've got sparklers So you've got the pirate or whatever, right? but Yeah, and then that you know The M80s and stuff. I'm not gonna show you guys that right now would maybe I'll do a Video of that me blowing some stuff up in a little while. What do you guys want to see me blow up? Whatever you want Okay, maybe a sparkler or something. I don't know. I'm not really that, you know All right, we're Canadian We don't get too crazy We don't get too crazy. Okay, so Michael getting back to Flotsam. All right Are you ready to take that vaccine and hit the road and you know, I mean, it's your living, right? Are you gonna like are you anxious to get back? And if you do get back is Vaccine an option for you. Some people are for it. Some people are gains it and I'm I'm okay both ways I'm just saying what are your thoughts? you know, I don't know I'm on the fence about this because Like normal vaccinations It takes what seven years to figure out if it's you know, what day after fast are gonna be and this happened It only took them a few months to do this one. So I don't know. I'm a little skeptical about that I kind of want to see you know, I was reading something today where a person had they got the they got the vaccine and nine days later or whatever it is seven days after they still got COVID. So Doesn't really work. I don't know. I need it. I could help you on that part So my my my cousin's an infectious disease doctor and he says that any time you take a vaccine It takes two weeks before it actually you start developing the antibodies like you could get a cold you get sick right away So don't be scared about that part. I agree with you. It needs a little more time. I'm not pro or against I'm kind of like you wait and see right, but I'm not scared of it though Yeah, Michael, what about the fact? I mean we talked about this a few weeks ago that you know live nation was kind of saying that They might not let people into their venues unless they have proof of vaccination or if they'll take a rapid test You know on site or whatever it might be and you'd think that might apply to artists as well Who they're gonna allow into their venues? So just you know because that's when it traipses over into your livelihood to a certain extent if venues are gonna say Not only can people not come to the shows that they can't prove vaccination But that might go for you guys getting into the venue or being able to play that particular venue as well so What do you think about that this crossover between kind of our medical choices, but being able to work so to speak if we're still at that point when we go when we tour again when we set back out there on the road then We probably don't have any business being back out there if it's still spreading and You know if we have to have proof of vaccinations and stuff like that. I just I don't I don't think we should be out there I don't think anybody should be in any venues and and You know being close to each other if if that's the case Yeah, so because this is the big question for 2021 Yeah, I think all of us music fans have missed our shows I mean we look forward to all the new releases or so many great new releases coming in 2021 Some bands have held on to them some bands have kept you know working, but we're all dying I think you know Jimmy and I in addition to our top albums of the year We usually do our top shows of the year I saw one show this year in February and that was it and Jimmy you probably not much more than that So we're just dying to see you and so many people out there You know, that's probably the biggest question mark We offer 2021 is will we get back to live music and what do we have to do to make it happen? Yeah. Oh, yeah We're chomping at the bit we we want to get out there. I mean that's what we do You know and being on the road. That's that's our home It's great being home, but not for like home home where I'm at now But for a year and just man it gets a little it's a little stir crazy. We're just not used to it You know, we're uh, it's it's in all of our blood to be out there running around and on the road like an act I'm like 15 year old kids, you know, so let's wrap it all up a Video possibly in February correct Late February or early March. That's what we're looking at right now a lyric video the band the the album is in the can Right. It's ready to go. Yes artwork. How about the artwork? Is that done? Uh, it's 95% done. Okay, we're just gathering our credits and our thanks list and Our sponsors and stuff like that. Okay, so and and the sound and the musical direction is Hard hitting harder than the last album Yeah, yeah, it's it's gonna be Brutal for a flotsam record. It's gonna be it's a step above chaos for sure. All right Do I have the album in front? I cannot wait for you guys to hear it. Well, I'm curious and I'm anxious and I thank you so much Happy new year Rotating gas next up is a Carmine Right parent. It's Carmine right next. Yeah, super Buddy go blow some stuff up my go. Happy new year. Can't wait to see you again in Montreal. We will talk soon, man Have yourself a great one Happy new year guys. Thank you very much. Thanks, man. Thank you Okay, let's go. Oh good timing Guess who's waiting for us Do we do smooth transitions here or what? You know what rich said any any any flotsam reissues. All right, so let me let me give everybody before I bring Carmine on Carmine's coming on then Aldo Nova's coming on then Rick Hughes is gonna blow it up into the new year All right, let's bring him on the man Darius can here he is The legend the legend Can you hear us Carmine? We had you Can hear us now Mike Jack. Oh, yo, what's going on? I'm just hanging out Like all of us listening to fireworks going on outside really already Yeah, it's like Here in Florida, that's what they do. I guess We just had Michael Gilberts out in Arizona. They're doing the same thing That's my first year here. I'm like I'm hearing and I'm seeing fireworks all around now not not Not the kind that go, you know from a house and I'm talking about like you know Big fireworks and kiss like kiss fireworks like yeah, I guess that's some big fireworks in Dubai today So maybe just a notch below that Yeah, it's it's definitely and then you go to store here. You see You see if you can buy fireworks in the store Yeah, and in the grocery store and I go, what are they selling fireworks when I say, what is she fireworks? They must do that and it's sure enough Here fireworks all night. So so tell us what? What new projects are you doing in 2021 music? You're always doing something Non-stop. Well, I got you know, I got a new cactus album coming out. I've been working on an instrumental album mm-hmm, it's a With a guitar player from From LA he plays bass and guitar. Okay, it was Fernando Podomo. It was really really great player And then I got all my drum books to be in re-released in 2021 instructional books I have Like eight drum books that are being released and some of them haven't have not been out for a while And we're revamping and redoing it. It's coming out on modern drummer publications. Perfect. Okay, so that's all pretty cool vanilla fudge fudge supreme Vela fudge is you know, we had a bunch of gigs that have slowly been revamped and rescheduled So those will be happening in 2021 we don't know when yet. I'm also doing an auto exhibit. I do art with With a friend of mine at heck. I do Everything's made of drums. If you go my Facebook, you can see what it looks like But we're doing an auto exhibit now online and we're going to do one in March and Sarasota at art gallery and Yeah, we're just trying to You can I got a studio here on my new house in Florida So I'm able to go in there and record and practice and do all that stuff. So happy about that How about you and your brother any more gigs or any albums you're gonna recent with Vinny? So you got Vinny you and Vinny you're gonna do any of that sort of the drug I mean, we'll do gigs if they stop booking gigs again You know, we we had we had just finished the run of about five gigs February and we were planning some more and then the Yeah, the virus hit and I was the end of that How optimistic are you Carmine about that? We were just talking to Michael Gilbert and he said he's thinking maybe fall You know, he's hoping he can get his band back out on the road. So what are you? Realistically thinking about if you can get back on the road Yeah, I think June Because you know that that's when they're predicting everybody's gonna have the virus the vaccine Yeah, I think that's probably realistic and that and they're thinking of doing a cactus Pat Travis and Rick Derringer tour together Awesome, we love Pat Pat's a Canadian from Ottawa not too far from here. Yeah He's awesome He's a real good friend. Well, but they're both of them are real good friends of mine. I know Rick longer than Pat I know Rick since the 60s You know when he was with Johnny winner and Back in the days of 1969, you know, Carmine I just lost a friend who was who was I knew him the longest of anyone in the business. Yeah, Leslie West Yeah, I was gonna ask you about that like Leslie. I was saying to Jimmy I wanted to ask you because you had some really nice words to say about Leslie Yeah, amazing player a funny guy as a really dark crazy sense of humor and You know He's a great great player. I mean an amazing player. Yeah, I think The kid and he just kept going the tone his tone was just so remarkable that you know You always have to admire somebody that when you hear him You just know who it is right away no matter what he's playing on and Leslie was one of those guys and yeah It was I didn't you know, obviously after he passes no one's gonna say anything negative But there were so many people coming out last week and had so many great things to say And then I noticed that you had said that you had known Leslie kind of since I guess what the late 1963 wow Wow, I was in a an R&B funk band with horns and everything And he we played the same club opera to see opposite each other half on half off The drumming from the vagrants use my drums and he broke my pedal you know and then We did that for about a month. I knew these guys quite a bit and then I didn't hear about them for a couple of years And that when I joined vanilla funds, we're called the pigeons They were the vagrants out in Long Island and joined 2,000 people to my manager's club and I Said wow unbelievable then we hooked up with it again And we talked about the the fact that we played that club together. That was one of their first gigs you know and Really really good and then I played with Leslie 1975 Was me Mick Jones who ended up being a foreigner Kenny Aronson and Leslie what a great band it was, you know There's a There's some video on YouTube. I did a solo in Mississippi Queen. There's a video on YouTube of Us Playing you hear the last like a couple of chords of Mississippi Queen then you see my solo and the funny thing is There was nobody in the audience The place was empty Because the way we flew in to do this thing was Don Kirsch is in concert Fluent to do it. I use a secondary drum set I had in LA and You know, I'm doing the soul I get people clapping their hands You know to myself and they superimposed all the hand claps and everything you never you never saw the audience Would you heard him? Comments it was pretty funny. Yeah It was just a crazy year in terms of the people that we lost obviously with Eddie Van Halen and Frankie Benali and Neil Peer to the start of the year and Pete way and we have Rocco Rocco from Rocker woodman What is hip Taua Paua? Yeah bass player great bass player. He's gone to it. Yeah Lee Kerslake the Kerslake members of sweets. I mean just It was a tough one Leslie was just the latest and hopefully the last I would say but This 2020 was probably, you know a tough year for a lot of reasons, but we just lost so many greats in 2020 and My buddy Tim Bogarton bad shape too. So it's really terrible to hear That's a hard one. You know, he's like my brother back poker for an embassy. Yeah, we have a new album Hopefully it'll be out in 2021. It's called BBA live at the London Rainbow 1974 it's got seven new songs and Three of the originals from the first album So already really You might do something so you might have some cactus coming out. You're gonna have Beck Bogart and a piece coming out You might Album and I just wrote a Christian song. We just finished that might be hopefully we'll get a deal for that So, you know, I'm just doing what I normally do, you know, just Record and only thing that's different. You're kidding tour, you know, is what's the book stick it? Is that your your drum is that's my order? That's more autobiography Okay, that's the the sex drums and rock and roll. Oh, yes. Yes. Okay. That's what it's all about, you know And if you could just get back on the road you could have all those things again Well, you know, I'm a bit old for that No, you know, I'm Get back on the road. It'd just be great to play, you know, walk with my studio here You know, I just put up my old 1971 bass drum from Cactus days in the studio to see what it sounds like sounds great. And I got an old 1924 Ludwig Black Beauty snare drum, which is really sounds good So, you know, I've been doing that. You know doing the studio It's also a combination studio and a little bit of a gyms. I work out in the gym and Try and stay healthy and Today I actually went to a movie He's in Florida so in Florida you can do those things we can already you can do that and There was six people in this big stadium theater have the big comfortable chairs. It was awesome I really like going there in the loud sound I have a bag of popcorn and a soda Enjoy myself simple pleasures How about you and your brother and you've been talking about doing a new album? Well, we we've been talking about we got some some half-done demos Doing sessions and doing stuff that he does and you know a singer is we could do an album now because we all have a studio It would be easier to do an album or before everybody Well, we didn't we didn't use the band that we had would use different people Yeah, this time we're going to use the band that we travel with, you know So and everybody has a studio so We have one song that's in two parts we we kind of did the guitar bass and Guitar bass and vocal on one of them Part one we got to do the drums on it But you know, it's hard to get Vinny Motivated, you know, I know Jim cream now. Is he singing on it? Yeah, Jim Jim singing on it and he did a good job big plug for him. He's a good guy, man It's a good guy great voice Where are you guys at munch? Y'all munch y'all can't Yeah, yeah, I think we had you and Vinny up here I don't everything sounds like it was last year, but it was probably like three four years ago Yeah, right it was I just uh, I just saw a movie or something that had Montreal in it Oh, maybe it was uh It was a man I don't know something some movie I don't know Someone on Netflix or know what you do is watch Netflix or that's my video or apple tv or You know any all that stuff. I've seen so many series and movies at home in the last 10 months ridiculous Yeah, we're all binge watching we all want to get back to seeing live shows But while we're in it's either read a book or watch Netflix Yeah, there you go, but the creative juices are flowing. I mean a lot of people are completing those albums a lot of people are finishing those books A lot of people are getting around to the things they haven't been able to get around to on another sort of angle, right? I've been doing that and other things Like we you know, we did a bunch of commercials for amazon for for my instructional books you know, and uh It's the first time I've ever gonna have a big push on my instructional books and and a couple of them are really So I'm looking forward to getting that done Is there anything else I'm gonna I'm gonna get going because I gotta watch dick clocks Absolutely, my friend. Thank you for jumping on That's like a tradition. Yeah, it's on in a few minutes on New Year's Eve We really gonna be interested because they're doing it and they're doing it in time square with no people. Yeah. Yeah How weird is that? All right, guys, thanks man. Thanks for jumping on. All right. Happy new year. Happy new year We hope to see you in the new year. Ciao. Bye. Bye. Take care Here we go. All right. That was cool. All right. All right. We got Michael. We got Carmen and uh Coming up soon. We're gonna have kind of the more of the local content Yeah, in about eight minutes and in those eight minutes first, I'm gonna read the comments that are coming in Marcy saying I uh, what is she saying here? My dog has seizures from the fireworks All right We'll keep the dog. I like Sean Peck. Buddy Sean Peck New New Year's resolution to start drinking Another one new year's resolution to start looking for a job. I guess get a real job New year's resolution to stop giving my friends corona beers New year's resolution to really get serious about the death part of death to false metal and uh Rick is a little too early But it's okay. We'll let him come on later Who's that? Rick. I got Rick there waiting in the waiting room. All right. Rick is eager. Not yet, but not yet, but not yet And uh, let's see, uh Sean Sean Black is saying Hello, happy new year's and metal ben the last flotsam and jetsam album kicked so much ass I can't wait to hear the new album Jay Carmine rock trimming royalty Rich any flotsam reissues? I should have asked but I forgot And Matthew Lee wears rick hues rick hues will be back at 11 45 Okay, rick will actually ring in the new year with us. He will ring in literally the new year with us and um As we are waiting for our next guest. I'm gonna finish up on this ballad stuff here All right. You ready? You got there. All right. We got got Valerie we got uh This was like an email address vernomadic at something or another but Can an email address can an email address win a shirt jimmy. That's right. Okay Craig Morehouse right there. You see that Galermo Right here. You see that And mark bulurchi Well, look at that. There. Can you see that? I recognize a lot of these names first from our judas priest Aren made in pole last week and now from our metallica megadeth pole Yeah, so I got all the names in here and I will pull out a winner right before this new year's I want to see if my clock works now. Okay. Hang on. Hang on everybody. I want to see if my my clock works This is the official metal voice new year countdown clock Here we are There's the clock folks 34 minutes and 34 seconds. Do you see that? 34 minutes. That is the countdown and there'll be an explosion I know perrin. You can't see it I'll take your word for it. You will take my word for it. Okay All right, so jimmy speaking of explosions because I think we got a few minutes for al donova comes on Yeah, there are a few explosions in dubae today Yeah, would you think about that? Hold on. Let me just tell rick 1145 just to make sure we're all in tune here Jeff clark is saying happy new year's all right. So kiss. Let's talk about kiss in the few minutes that we have I saw the kiss feed I was just kind of on the internet on facebook and I saw someone was filming it from their balcony in dubae and they just Everybody was watching So that's how I saw it. I really didn't want to see it But I kind of came across it. So I watched it Gene Simmons will be suing that person by tomorrow. I would think yes. Yes. Yes. I didn't do it I didn't do it. I wasn't there in dubae. I wasn't filming. I was just watching it was there I was watching and I have to say that The whole show was your typical kiss show the blood The drum solo, you know, of course, there's a couple of little sort of like Paul was like on an island, you know Outside of the pool sort of thing But the thing that blew me away that I was completely blown away by was the explosion So they're doing rock and roll all night So the Guinness world record guy comes on and says I'm gonna you know, you guys are getting the record for this and that And you have one more record to break the most explosions or the most pyrotechnics At a rock show at a rock show He comes off the stage. It starts things start blowing up. They're playing rock and roll all night You can't even hear the song because there's just so many explosions You've been to sort of like these firework shows, right? Yep Things are just going off And even when they finished the song, it was like a war zone Literally a war zone. I've never seen so many fireworks go off at the same time I don't think anybody died, but somebody could have died. It was insane. So hats off the kiss For having one of the greatest firework displays in dubai So So Jimmy hats off the kiss and I'm I'm a kiss apologist usually but I'm still feeling kind of weird about this show in dubai and pay-per-view and The band surrounded by a giant swimming pool and You know, I don't know how many people of anybody were there if it was really just about the live stream But it just seemed the parts I saw I guess nothing's weird when it comes to kiss, but it just seemed weird It just seemed that I mean the band playing on the biggest stage I have ever seen but like Nobody there or seemingly nobody there compared to the grandeur of the stage So it just seemed I don't know a little I mean again, maybe nothing should surprise us kiss anymore But uh, and if any band was going to try this why not kiss? But it just seemed a little bit, uh Like I want you're saying they're not feeding off the audience, right? That's what you're saying Yeah, I mean and it makes me worry like is this what we have to look forward to If shows at the beginning when they come back in 2021 If they're distanced and you only have A thousand or two thousand people in a 15,000 person arena and you can't cut it off because there needs to be space What's the vibe and the ambiance going to be at like at big shows? If there could only be a small amount of people In big venues and I guess don't get me wrong I'll take it right because right now I'm just itching to see a show But it just seemed so weird to see kiss And in front of this nothingness and it was really more about the broadcast than it was about playing in front of anybody so You know makes me worry a bit about what might be ahead You know, I'm a kind of lazy guy. I'll be honest with you You want to sit back in four seats and uh, like I kind of like the distance Maybe when I was younger I kind of wanted to be you know front row general admission But I'm kind of like I just want to really sit I first of all, I love shows. Don't get me. I love live shows. Don't get me wrong But I'm kind of like I want to sit down and enjoy it. I don't really want to stand for two hours I'm getting old Right and I want a nice view. I want to sit You know, I want to eat something or drink something And watch kind of like a movie and but live I love live. Don't get me wrong again Do not get me wrong. I just kind of like I like that spacing I don't like to being squished with people but I get why people want to be you know jumping around Washing around touching feeling, you know, I get that. Don't worry. I get that I get that completely. All right. Here we go Guess number three The man, let's put him on There he is The legendary there he is Hello, hey, what's up, man? We're all in quarantine in Montreal Doing nothing. Yeah, we're all alone except for our families But apparently florida is outside partying everybody's partying and having a good time in the rest of the world except for us We just had some american friends are on and they're Blowing a lot of stuff up and gathering and having good times Yeah, you were talking about kissing Dubai. They're blowing stuff up over there, too Yeah, I think we saw that from outer space. I think you could have seen all those Yeah, no in florida. You're gonna blow anything up on your next tour. What's the plan? Whatever is the next tour. I'm just like I've got a great band and you know, it's just like being dressed up with nowhere to go I mean, it's like I think I got a great band and I've got no no place to play No, you know, no place to tour. I mean, you know, that would be great to be out there and actually Tour and play but in the meantime sitting at home doing my covet videos and having a ball doing that also Yeah, they're great. By the way A lot of news and everyone's been talking about the the kind of souped-up new version of blood on the bricks That was great. How'd that come about? Uh, blood on the bricks. I was I'm actually working on the Oh jimmy knows this I was working on under the gun and I've got that that's my next one is under the gun another souped-up version and I'd just been working on a blood before and then all of a sudden it got finished I got the drum track in and then I started working on that and it just was like Was the choice between under the gun or something newer with that blood on the bricks and blood on the bricks rocked a lot more So I figured I just want the rocks. So I put that out I think it was a good choice, man under the gun It's got a rock out too. It's got to be hard and heavy and Oh, no, no, it's hard. It's hard and heavy. Don't worry. It's got to be hard Let me just tell you something. I want to tell you something this Aldo always goes to me. He goes, you know, jimmy We always joke around we always joke around. I like that. We joke around But the reality is he just likes to make fun of me. That's what It's just like a one-way street making fun of me all the time. I go, yeah, yeah, but I mean you always make me fun Of me, but it's all good. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding So Aldo tell us about your band then tell us about this new band heart-hitting band Oh, heart-hitting band is me On guitar vocals and keyboards Billy Carmassia drums Timothy Timothy games on bass from striper and if i've got some monsters and Jack Frost on guitar from seven witches and sabotage and so that's the basic core We have a keyboard player that we're talking to now. His name is charlie cab and So he wants to do it. So hopefully we're gonna get out there in the air and tour And how did you hook up, you know, in particular, you know with with jack and and tim who are kind of newer playing with you I guess and You know, I guess Savatage or seven witches aren't the kind of bands or maybe even striper are necessarily the bands that they would associate Aldo nova with and then you have this great kind of Witchers brew players coming together, you know, someone who you've played with for a long time But also some new blood for your band So so how did this all come about because I thought it was really interesting the the combination of guys who got playing with you now Well, first of all the guys that have to play with my dad and really have to have like a lot of chops Which means that to be able to play and have stage brothers But it's funny the way i'm at tim uh him was I got a um I was gonna ask somebody for a friend request and now on the bottom of the Facebook page says people you may know and there was this tiny little picture about like that of tim if you games and a bunch of other people but Tim was playing bass and I just something told me that guy was a serious bass player so I clicked and I asked him for a friend request and he accepted and then we started, you know, messaging each other and I sent them an album to 2.0 and He's we started talking he was really interested in the project that's back when 2.0 came out in 2018 and then we Remained his friends and then I the first time I met Tim Was the night before we shot that I'm a survivor video. Which is like a used production Video, I think it's a $5,000 video and I never met him before When I picked him up in the airport was the first time I met him So that's how I met tim and to keep in touch He plays like the player when I was sitting down on my record and he plays on the bottom of the bricks COVID video and Jack Jack Just contacted me by email one day And he just kept emailing me and emailing me and emailing me until I finally looked about And went this and that and then I suddenly he said call me at this number and I called him Which he was like you called me and I went yeah, so We started talking and talking and talking and we realized that we had a We were brothers from a different mother and we really got along really well So it's great chemistry. So the guys already play well. Like I said, they sing well Great stage presence. So it's gonna be great Yeah, well, let me say I I was living in san francisco in the early 2000s and I saw Savatage play at a small club probably was the last us tour they ever did And jack frost was playing guitar for them then and this guy in a small club in san francisco played And had the stage presence of a guy playing in an arena Yeah, I can't wait to hang out there with you because I I remember this was just it was about a week after 9 11 So we're talking about Holy cow like almost 1920 years ago and I remember this vividly Because jack was a gunslinger on stage and he was playing a small club in san francisco As if he was playing the Montreal forum a big arena. So I think once we see you guys live It's going to be really cool to see it. It's got to kick serious. That's just me. We're not even worried about that I mean if I can You know kick some butt just doing by myself with the guitar in the bass, but to a track I like, you know, it's all these tracks for the fantasy or blood or all these things So imagine with the whole band, it's going to be like pretty terrifying I can't wait to go out whether it's just a headliner Or whether it's as an opening act for a big act. I mean, whatever gets me out there I mean, you know, so so just everybody knows Go to the Aldo nova youtube channel And you'll see fantasy like a remixed not redone version of fantasy, right? That's what you put just which is amazing, right? You've done blood on the bricks you've done Fooling yourself fooling yourself, which is another great track These are all like sort of pandemic covid videos that you've been doing and we're doing other stuff heart to heart I did God's Quite a few paradise. I did ball and chain acoustic It's quite a bit. Which one Sylvie? I got my wife there. We're ready to Give you your cues And and you know what? Let's not forget. I am a survivor off of Aldo nova 2.0 Which is probably one of the greatest songs that everybody should know about It's just the video the song It's like an instant hit. It should have been like on all the radio stations playing all the time. It is a phenomenal catchy Great song. It's just a well-written song that people should know about And a very after poll for today We're leaving 2020 going into 2021 and we survived 2020 and again, you know, but we're going into 2021 and you know We're going in leaving 2021 leaving 2020 into 2021 It's like just crawling into it. It's not like a big bang. You know, hopefully this year is going to be amazing You know everything and go back to normal with the vaccine and you know, everything is going to go back But I think it's going to be slow about rolling out. What do you guys think? Yeah, well, I was I was reading up on it and they said by the way the rate that they're sort of giving the vaccine You're looking at June October. That's when everybody who wants to be vaccinated will be vaccinated Yeah, and we were just talking to Carmine Apasey and to Michael Gilbert and you know Carmine was saying he's hoping to do some shows in June And then Michael from Flotsam and Jetson was saying he doesn't know if they're going to get booked for shows until October so We're all fans here, right? We just want to see you and we want to see other bands that we love out there touring But it sounds like booking agents and people like that are talking about booking shows more in the second half of 2021 booking agent so I'd be like a little bit wary because there's no time frame on this not just starting mutations and Like I said, everybody's out though. Like I said before the best way to put it is that I'm all just stuck with nowhere to go I mean, it's like Like I might as well put a text on him. I put a text on him at home In my house and then I can't go outside because it's like COVID everywhere. So it's like Same thing with the band can't do it. Yeah, uh, Eddie Gage Eddie Gage is on hold. I was gonna put a I'm putting out an EP probably March or Probably March or April. I'm doing that and I'm in the process of doing a mini documentary on how it was done and the parts and So just just back up just back up and tell everybody about Eddie Gage really fast fast, you know It's a concept album a rock opera For those who don't know Yeah, that's a rock opera. It's about this young musician called Eddie Gage and boosters It's about light and light and dark. It's about good and evil. It's about the music business the bass side of the music business The actually the bass side of the music business. There is no good side of the music business I was just playing on stage. So that's the way his his life's easy from this his standpoint So that's there's just 23 song album. It's an hour 56 minutes long So, uh, you know the people that complained that 2.0 only has seven songs This one, hopefully a size 5 Then they'll complain the opposite way that it's Never make them happy pickle fans All right. Well, that's pretty much it. Aldo buddy. Um, happy new year Tell your wife what any uh and to all your family all the best Thank you very much, Jimmy Later, but I'll be new to your Aldo Okay, and which that leaves us with our last guest That's good. That was a cool dude, man We're getting all kinds of inside scoop on what all the rock stars have coming up. It's good stuff so far tonight I'm trying to stay awake there, uh, parent So we still have the hot All right, so we talked about kids You can still stay up for now. All right. So before we bring on 12.01 as soon as we get off the air. All right, so I'm just going to throw out some anticipated albums Of 2021 I'll just toss them out there before we bring Rick on except to mean to die January 15th on nuclear blast Todd Latore Which the first track sounds amazing coming out in February the 5th Michael Shanker January the 8th on nuclear blast 2021 KK's priest Is coming out with a new album Uh in 2021 they just mentioned that Al scooper. Detroit stories February 26 halloween summer of 2021 ashes of varies which is matt barlow's band 2021 And another artist that's coming out in 2021. You know what that is? It's rick hues rick hues rick hues bring him on What's that in command in command and we're gonna bring on rick hues right now All right rick Is no longer dancing on the ceiling he is the right way I'm right here guys rick. What's happening, man? Everything's fine. Am I am I loud and clear? You are loud and clear. You are loud and clear 17 minutes to midnight Perfect. Perfect. What a way to start the new year, right? Yeah, let me I'm gonna show the clock. I'm gonna show the clock again I don't know if you could see this rick or not. It's the clock. There's 16 minutes and 33 seconds. Okay 16 minutes And 33 seconds. All right rick tell us In command What's the reaction so far? What a song first single off the new album the new sword album that's coming out in I think 2021. What was the reaction like? Amazing everywhere. There are day-to-day reactions amazing and listen what I like the most about a sword's uh Latest project is that every song is so totally different from one to another I mean in command Is the trashier song of the album? Then then you get you get a song Which will remind you of the Hurly days of black Sabbath, you know with with a bit of deal and a bit of ozzy and some some Motorhead in there and ah, no man. Listen. This is just the tip of the iceberg and I really mean it All right. It's a great album. Is there gonna be a second like are we got do we have to wait for the album? Are we gonna get a second single? It's gonna get an early question I I hear you loud and clear, you know, I I hear you because you you are Music lovers you truly are So you're anxious to to to hear the rest of the material but The pandemic as as as as all our plans Have been struck down by the pandemic, you know, everything was ready to go in march of 2020 We were good to go. We were about to go We were talking tour with uh with big boys from the u.s. No, that's not mentioned names because it didn't happen But we were talking tours and everything Everything was was was underway and then the 13th of march happened and and we had to Everybody went into their caves and kind of sheltered for like what a couple of months at least so Never mind calling the office Is the record still coming out? What is there anybody at the end of the line? No, nobody's at the end of the line Because now now there's an appetite, right? Everyone has heard in command You know on the metal voice we have people from canada the u.s. Europe south africa We have people all over the place and everyone's talking about it So now the appetite is there, right? So everyone's wondering when do we get the next course that's gotta and then you know, so we You know, we're gonna push. No, you got another single Farron we're gonna push real hard right right right on As soon as the ball drops in 2021 because You know, we have to be we have to be Uh good musicians and then we have to be gentlemen's and and we have to act accordingly, you know And right now it was not the time to push anybody's button So we were asked into the situation as everybody else so Again, you know what I did all summer long I drove my Harley motorcycle bike my chopper right here With sword album playing I would stop on the side of the road To to to start the album again and and and hit on the road and just listen to the sword album Over and over again because it was it was staking me like, ah man to new horizon So it's such a great album to listen to right while riding a Harley motorcycle. Believe me Hey, uh rick, you also had a live album, right? That was released On was the combat I can't remember you had a live album sword live, correct? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, when was that released? That was released as soon as we signed the deal with combat record because it was it's like a I won't I will not get into the details of the contract But the alive album was in the contract And it was early recordings from the 80s 87 Tour with a mortar head in the uk So we we did 27 shows in 33 days 27 shows 33 days. That's the way we ran things back then There was no there was no rest for the wicked. Let me was a machine He would never he would never go to sleep and when he would go to sleep. Yeah, man That's a good apprenticeship to the business. I guess right like one of your one of your first overseas tours is uh with lemmy Locked in a locked in a room of lemmy for six weeks Imagine that I had that Opportunity in my life. I did that and when I was 20 I toured the uk opening for mortar head and became friends with lemmy Phil cambo and filthy animal tailor Imagine that became you become friends with those guys, you know, and you're in your 20s They teach you how to behave Water Teach you what not to do It was the best man. We were we were Let me tell you one thing I I've I've traveled a lot and I found That the people that resemble us a lot Around the globe are the england people from england resemble people from cobec a lot Okay, one. Yeah. Well one they like their sports Two they like their beers and their pubs And what the beef That's what the beef, you know, they're they're friendly. I I swear to god, man Being in england was like being at home with those guys Except for the accent And you're like, what did you say? Which I don't have By the way Who am I to who am I to speak about accent anyways? Yes, Rick I don't know if you've heard phil Campbell's work right now, but phil Campbell has a band with his yeah Of course Campbell and the bastard sons Yeah, the new album came out probably about six weeks ago. It was one of my top 10 albums of the year So for you or for anyone who hasn't heard with phil Campbell phil Campbell's doing a pretty good job carrying on the motorhead tradition it could obviously never be motorhead without lemmy But uh, he's doing some pretty cool stuff. So uh, and he's such a great guy, man He's such a deserving artist musician Call it what you want. This guy's the real deal You know Lemmy is considered the real deal, you know, like the the true rocker musician slash Name it what you want and who was by his side all that time phil Campbell phil was there, man and and When I was there in 87 he was there and he was there till the end He was a big lemmy fan. You could see it when they were on stage. You would play his guitar, but his pride For being The site, you know The right-hand man to lemmy's Motorhead was was was palpable Well, uh, that's someone if you guys do some dates I'd love to see you if phil makes it to north america if you guys are here That'd be a great match. I would think would love to see you out there with phil You want to hear an amazing phil Campbell story? So I'm invited in 2011 at the kiss concert at heavy montreal kiss was there. Remember 2011 or 2012 So I'm invited the same day of the show. So I go, you know and mortarhead was doing the opening so So it's a split stage, right? There was mortarhead on the big stage and and and kiss was ready to go right after the show on the other stage just beside it So I'm with kiss entourage, you know, I with dog McGee and gene Simmons and Some friends and we're with with the with the band, you know, we're with the band Especially with gene Simon's we're with him all night So I'm on stage I you know, I haven't seen phil Campbell since 1987 we're in 2012 So I'm I'm check him in play and I'm you know, I'm backstage. I'm on right on stage with him And and he's looking at me the show finishes He passes me by and he gives me that that tip of the hat, you know, and I go to speak to him. I said Phil, I don't know if you remember me, but uh, I just as I'm about to continue he goes sword You weren't with sword It was an amazing night. It was an amazing I had a nice that with him that Back after the show, you know after kiss the show because he was that When when we're about to leave he was sitting with with his girl His girlfriend and and and he took time to present me his girlfriend He says this guy He's the singer for a band that we toured with man. I remember him. I remember you. I did I was It was unreal man unreal You've you've you've you've you've toured with some great people. I mean there's David Elfson, right? I mean while he was a fan of yours before you even knew he was a fan of yours, right? They're playing your song as they're driving around on tour It's crazy. David Elfson is the best. Yeah, come on. This guy's a legend This guy, I mean mega that come on, you know, and he's like a preacher, you know When he talks he talks, you know, and and when he walks he walks. I love this man. He's he's he's he's like the The guardian angel of sorts come back. So so What what what more can I say, you know? Yeah, yeah, I love the man. Yeah, I agree. I agree. He's a good guy, man I wish them all all the continued success mega that and especially Since we're we're here to talk about the new years and and and giving our our best wishes and isn't that our best wishes to Dave Mustaine then for his out and to make sure that he stayed strong Yeah, yeah, we're hoping look they're so they're supposed to be here in Laval in July, right? Obviously the show was supposed to be in the fall And now technically the show is still on for I think june or july at Place Bell in Laval Megadeth and Lamb of God and In Flames and Trivium And it'd be nice to see sword added to that if it happens. So, uh, yeah, we're we're hoping that we can get Megadeth Let's start a petition Yeah, guys. Oh, I have my vision rick. I have my vision of the shows come back and if heavy Montreal, I don't know about 2021 but maybe 2022 and Who better if you guys have your album out to be on the bill at heavy Montreal the next time we do it then sword Mark my words We're not at one o'clock in the afternoon not at one o'clock in the afternoon like last time or whatever about it like Eight o'clock at night when it's getting dark and everybody has had some beers and is ready to rock That's when we want to see sword and heavy guys. I'm doing a time check guys. I'm doing a time check We have it's all gonna happen. It's all gonna happen four minutes and 33 seconds That's what the time check is. We have four minutes. Tell us tell us when it's two minutes to midnight. I will tell you That's right. That's right Two minutes So rich Yes, rich cantino says happy new year. Cheers guys. Matthew Lee saying this is what Matthew Lee saying I'm watching this and the bye-bye at the same time Strange coincidence that rick hughes appears at the same time as eric can appoint on the bye-bye So did I Not you it's eric la point. He's on bye-bye and you're here. So Strange coincidence. No, but maybe they're talking about the stuff I did with him this summer and and I went It went fucking the media went crazy with it We were just riding our bikes. Yeah, and we stopped we stopped in and this old village at Near drummondville and and this guy bought the church and he built A garage for for more for early Davidson motorcycles a repair shop garage And and a big restaurant and it's it's it's a really nice place Insanity feeling Imagine that so listen to this guys listen to this so we're we're in our uh Our closed corridors for like months and months and months all our shows are canceled We go for a ride for a bike We stop there. We're outside Everybody's standing far from us And and everybody's respecting the guidelines, you know Somebody puts a guitar in my hand and I started to sing everybody goes crazy and people are happy and i'm happy that people are happy And some guy puts that on the net and then it's front page news of journal la morale the next day Yeah, I know that eric can't cross the street about being front page journal la morale, I guess No, but this one I had to go on then you live I can explain that this is not what everybody think it is It's not it's not when we we didn't And nothing was done on purpose. Everything was done illegally, you know But it was all shown from an angle where what time is it? All right It's chicken time. I got three minutes to midnight. Okay. Matt quickly Uh Melissa's saying happy 2021. I'm watching this and twilight zone So people seem to be watching this and something else at the same time Matthew Lee's also saying I also want to know what happened to the song slow train Will it appear on the news sort album the song slow train? That's I guess you played it live. Is that we did that's No, it's the song I wrote days days and years ago and it's it's in the junkyard right now Maybe someday I'll take it out of the junkyard and put some New welding and stuff, but for now it's this hardcore Matthew is one of our viewers and he's hardcore man. He knows more about us than are you guys? We know about ourselves All right, look, I'm gonna pick a name now this this we have two minutes to midnight Because somebody has to win the somebody has to win the shirt. I have a contest here. So in the expose hat You see that the expose hat. It's a it's a beautiful t-shirt by the way. Yeah, thank you Someone's gonna get you one not this one, but and here we go. Here comes the names guys It's three minutes to midnight. I'm gonna put the clock actually before you do that It's one minute. I'm gonna pick a name. Okay. I'm gonna pick a name I'm gonna pick a name right now right before. Okay. Here's the name Alejandro Melo Enrico. You just won yourself a free t-shirt metal voice t-shirt. There you go metal voice All right, let's go to the clock. Let's go to the clock and let's just see how much time we have left Here we go We're on the clock. It's 34 seconds guys. This is the google clock So it can't be wrong 29 seconds because google runs the world So, you know Get your fireworks ready folks 20 seconds. Is everybody ready here? Is that the official kiss flamethrower jimmy or what do you got there? I'm getting things ready here parent I'm getting things ready. I just 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Kaboom Happy new year. Happy new year. Happy new year. Happy new year and before And guys Yes, this is the pyro I brought today. You ready? I just can't get it going don't try this at home. Do not Kiss had pyro, but I got big time pyro here. Hold on And then I'll get this going. Kiss this pyro work better than yours Oh, here we go. Here we go Bring in the new year Bring in the new year once in the giz and the Guinness Book of World Records today. This one. There it is Bring in the new this is live. This is look at this All right, don't burn you know what you already did. You know what I did. I brought an oven mitt I brought an oven mitt just in case This is the precautions we take during the covid years Look at that. There's bring in the new year Bring it in. You like that, eh? I go all out when I do a show rick. I go all out We spare no expense that the metal. I go there. It is the flame has burned. We are in the new year And to celebrate one more time I brought out No expense The dollar store The dollar store there it is Orlando. Happy new year's metal ben happy new year's now happy new year's raul happy new year And uh, let's see what happy new year guy. We have the best fans on the metal voice Every debate we have they're in there representing their point of view. They love the music. So uh We love you guys. We love you guys a little bit a little bit crazy stuff here. You guys want to see this? Here it is You see that? Look at that. That's a new year's antennas Usually the lights go off on this but the lights aren't working. So what's wrong with the props? You like the oven mitt? This is for safety safety first safety. We're gonna get you more budget next year jimmy All right guys, it's been a pleasure It's been fun and thank you everybody. We should go kiss our wives now That's right. That's right. Rick's already gone. Rick. He's still there. I have to go kiss his wife It was little that was trying to give me a cause probably to talk about the new year She didn't know I was I was doing this I guess Well, we all have to go wish our loved ones a happy new year. I hear my wife and my teenagers upstairs. So Hey guys, thanks for the invite. It's always a pleasure seeing you and talking with you. I really enjoy it Yeah, we'll do it again. My friend. We will do it again I want to do something in person like an interview in person But we got a lockdown hardcore lockdown. So anyways, there's time. There's time one day Soon, we hope all right. Have yourself a wonderful But any new year everybody happy new year, Rick. Yeah, I've been new years guys. Happy new years. Take care. All right. All right