 Here we are on the metal voice and you know parent It just seems like it's happening like every month now, you know another another great phenomenal artist singer Metal church of singers like it's happening like every month. Sorry about that. Everybody has a little glitch It seems like every month another wonderful Personality singer artist is passing away and I guess it's just the sad reality of our mortality We're all getting older and That's just you know, that's the way life goes, you know and Jimmy and the tough thing was Mike wasn't old Mike was a month short of his 56 birthday. So Mike was not old I think it's really important that we ask people not to speculate You know, I already had a person speculate something that really was not very cool Who I shut right down We don't know, you know, some people when they're sick They want to share it and whether it's raise funds or just, you know gather prayers. They do that Some people like to keep it to themselves We don't know if Mike was sick or not There are cases where people just pass away suddenly You know, it could it could be a million things. So, you know, Jimmy and I could both kind of state that We did not know of Mike how being sick This was as big a shock to us as it is to all of you guys. I Was literally one minute, you know working on my pool. Next thing I know Jimmy is Messaging me telling me that Mike how passed away and I was stunned and and here we are just Let's just read this this is the statement. So for those of you don't know It was posted Just one hour ago, I don't know if one hour what seemed like five hours Metal Church's Facebook page says it is with our deepest regrets that we must announce the passing of our brother our friend a true legend of heavy metal music Mike how passed away this morning at his home in Eureka, California We are devastated at all and a loss of words loss for words. Please respect our privacy and The the house family's part of it privacy during this most difficult time So we don't know the cause of death. He was almost 56 years old. He's 55 turning 56. I guess not It's in January. I'm sorry in August next month. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah We could read the comments by everybody out there, you know, your favorite song by Mike how Your favorite album that he played on maybe you have a cool memory of Mike how I mean I've interviewed Mike how twice Gentleman, you know funny Kind polite always accessible to his fans and of course didn't press So maybe parent you want to share a story as I get a load up some comments by everybody out there Yeah, you know, and the first thing I'll say is when a guy replaces somebody else in a band and And and David Wayne who preceded Mike in the band was a very unique character with a very unique voice and And a lot of people hold those first two metal church albums sacred So when Mike came into the band for blessing in disguise album He had pretty big shoes to fill and one thing I found over the years when people have to be kind of the fill-in guy sometimes they almost try too hard and They're a bit dickish sometimes just to kind of stand up to the press or to whoever improve they belong or Sometimes they're almost like too humble and too meek and you just know they're fed to the piranhas and it's not gonna work and you know Mike came into the band and He he made that job his own, you know, even though he was filling huge shoes of David Wayne He started by making a great album Metal church got on a lot of tours at that point. He he delivered live and He never let himself be intimidated. He never let himself be talked down to anyone that said, you know, fuck you David Wayne's the only singer for for metal church He just made the job his own and in making the job his own He was still humble and a really nice guy. So You know, I I didn't interview him in the context that you did I kind of met him as a fan when I was in my late teens and early 20s and You know, I remember Mike touring for for blessing Was walking around before the show was walking around while the other bands were playing and he was always really affable He would sign things for fans and he would actually talk to the fans. How do you like the album? You know what? He wasn't your rockstar type. He was a regular guy He just acted like a regular guy. He really did like I He would walk around the venue while the other bands were playing and People would come up to him and he'd sign an autograph or you know, there weren't cameras back then But he would take a picture if someone had a camera with them. Yeah Sorry and and he was just he just conversed like a fan to a fan. He was not pretentious in the least And then he'd go up on stage and he just do an amazing job filling really big shoes Sang the David Wayne songs and he sang his own songs and he was confident and he was cool He was a nice guy like, you know, you hear the cliche. It happens. It always happens to the wrong people man It's just yeah, that's true. Okay. I'm gonna go read some tweets I'm gonna go read some Facebook comments. I'm gonna read some YouTube comments So, you know, my good friend Todd Latore, you know, who was a friend a good friend of Mike house And of course he he performed with them and he did a music video with them. He says rest in peace my sweet friend I have no words for that his this loss love and respect to you always a Shocker to many many. Did you see any other artists? Yeah, no Chris Caffery who's really well known obviously a big part of sabotage and You know trying to sub your in orchestra and Chris's work with so many people Chris actually did a Tour as a fill-in with Mike with met with metal church when Mike how came back So Chris Caffery just posted on his Facebook page and in social media completely speechless in 2016 I was giving the opportunity to play guitar on a tour with metal church This was their tour with the return of a legendary Mike how on vocals Not only was it an honor to play with this band It was a complete pleasure to tour with Mike and listen to him sing every night in 2019 had the opportunity out again to share the stage with him on a tour playing with Doro This tour I just had the opportunity to watch and perform since I was playing guitar with Doro But I spent a lot of time talking to Mike and want and wandering some of locations together. I Thank you all for your kind words and friendship with our time together on the road Rest in peace Mike how Heaven's band of legends just got another amazing singer and he posts Some pictures of the metal church crew when he was on on tour with them All right I'm gonna read some comments off of YouTube and try to see on Facebook if there's any other artist out there It was sort of giving a you know a Thumbs up to the life of Mike how okay, Johnny Alexander Gonzales Lagos. I met metal church Thanks to an album called blessing in disguise And to this day I consider it together with the dark and their debuts masterpieces So I guess he's commenting more on you know metal church in general, right? I Imagine that Wayne would have already received it with we received him with open arms You know and for those of you who don't follow metal church as much You know the first two albums were done by David Wayne who did pass away later on And now this is the second singer that has passed for metal church Which is a huge blow for a huge bad Kenny saying He tried to interview him, but you know in Pachimsi You know, I know Kenny is a huge huge fan of of my cow a metal church Marcy saying when we seen metal church Chris Caffery was playing with our and that's exactly what you just Mentioned that overkill has just chimed in overkill just posted So overkill and I'm guessing this is from Bobby go ahead shocked and saddened to learn the incomparable Mike Howe of metal church unexpectedly unexpectedly passed away this morning There will never be another like him rest in peace brother. So that's what that's Bobby Blitz from overkill. Yeah Yeah, great stuff, you know very very sad Yeah, the guys the news is really just just getting out. So just you know anytime I refresh my phone There's either a posting from a band or someone texting me So when I know if I know what happened and and again, no, I don't know what happened It's it's a shock Chad is saying on YouTube that blessing and human factor are huge albums for me. This one hurts Tom is saying only one person could have replaced David Wayne and that man was Mike how that's Tom Petrassik on YouTube Mark Jarmillo saying blessing in disguise his masterpiece The Prague power USA festival, which is one of the biggest, you know metal festivals in the US and going for a number of years Just posted shocking and terrible news regarding the passing of metal church vocalist Mike. How What an amazing talent and super nice guy, which all of us pretty much all of us are reiterating that Mike was a really nice guy rest in peace and that's another one Producer Max Norman, you know another friend of the show Horrible news about Mike how my colon condolences to family friends and band members rest in peace Mike Perj, anything else? I'm going back and forth. I mean, it's all over the place. I mean Unleash the archers and our churnation just rest in peace Mike how of metal church We had such a great time catching up with him on the monsters of rock crews 2016 and again in 2019 Our deepest condolences to the family So unleash the archers Let's see what else we got on YouTube. Literally guys. I honestly every time I refresh Doral Sad news Mike how would sentimental church left us at 55 years old? Yeah, a lot of Buck and dicks believe our friends in Europe are just you know waking up in the middle of the night or waking up to this It's crazy. Mark Lopes from Ross the boss band singer Rest in power brother. I have no words all hail What a great folk could vocalist and altogether dude was such a pleasure to share the stage with such a legend Thank you for that metal Giles is just chimed in so I guess the news is made at the germany because Giles is posted Mike. How is that damn this sucks You know, so Giles is just uh I If we wanted to wake him up or not Well, actually I did wake him up. I sent him a text. He said he was like lying in bed And I I know he's a huge metal church fan. So I asked him to jump on but I get it. It's late there. It's all good Yeah, brave brave words is posting tim henderson. Of course, obviously knew him very well blabbermouth. It's just posted so uh Yeah, it's uh, yeah the news is definitely going mainstream now. Unfortunately, I'm just looking for More. Oh my god. It's just all over the map now Uh A cheeto is saying bad lines was one of my go-to songs in the middle school and still rules Bad lines is an incredible song. What can I say, right? It's it's again that album, you know, you look think about it the metal church debut And uh and the dark were regarded as such You know underground early thrash classics and there was so much buzz around the band and then david wain leaves And then you figure it's over And then next thing, you know, we see this new band and we see mike howe and we see the badlands video And then then, you know, probably on the strength of the badlands video you go out and you buy the album And what's the first thing you hear on the album? You know fake You know fake healer, you know We pray upon the morbid fear of terminal how Of terminal disease if if that's what happened, I mean and And then the net actually actually that's the song that toddletorio Yeah, they did a great great you at You had a story of this, you know, the titanic song was on that album Uh rest in pieces and anthem to the estranged I mean what honestly got if we did a show about the best replacement singers in metal And who took over and you know leave the brian johnson's and the sammy hagar is whatever out of it But you know, we talk about metal and thrash, you know There's not a lot of examples of a guy coming in and doing such a great job And it wasn't just that album, you know the next album, uh, you know, just You know the human factor just amazing amazing amazing and and you know Honestly mike took metal church to another level. They got on operation rock and roll They they did some bigger and bigger tours. I mean, uh, and you know And they didn't get some tours because a lot of bands were afraid to have them on tour because this band was pretty damn ferocious live You know, here we go Here's denis parent is saying company of sorrow killer song Martina is saying oh my god, this is devastating Kenny of course is saying fake healer rules, which it does Jim Sykes thanks for his respectful discussion jimmy and parent. I met mike after a show and he was an incredible nice guy I'm absolutely devastated um no Mike rest in peace brother. That's from robin rim Guys everybody who's watching just tell us I prefer, you know, tell us your favorite song or if you have like a shared memory Because everybody's got their own favorite songs, right? And that's how we remember him his music will last Forever, right rob Rivera of the band nonpoint Devastated to hear about mike house passing always loved his vocals of metal church rest in peace metal brother And here we go. We got um Anthem to the estranged. Yeah, that sleeps betray me Jerry brandt is saying my favorite metal church song with mike is date with poverty. Yeah Yeah, that's actually a great song. Yeah. Yeah, yeah Yeah, you know, we're not we're talking about the bless a blessing in disguise quite a bit But the human factor was a great record. Actually I was telling jimmy, you know the video shoot For the song in harms way, which might be my favorite song with mike on vocals uh was filmed here in montreal, so On the night off between the second to last and last date of operation rock and roll Everyone remembers that tour with jude's priest alice cooper motorhead metal church in dangerous toys The second to last show was montreal and the last show was toronto and on the off day between metal church invited everybody Uh to a local club la bric For a free show So they shot the scenes if you look at in harms way There's like churches and things like that and that was filmed here in montreal And then the live sequences were all filmed at a club here called the bric in montreal And I was at the video shoot for in harms way just a great great song So if your knowledge is really just lies with the blessing Uh, yeah, I would encourage people to check out the human factor the next record because it was just fantastic You know and even the one after that hanging in the balance gets a really bad rap You know bad album cover, but I mean I would even put it further. You know like, you know 2016 album What is it 11 and damned if you do? Yeah, I damned if you do is a great album You know damned if you do the black things by numbers I thought it was it's probably one of their You know, I would say, you know, it's it's in their top the top tier albums up there You know great sound great riffs and great singing right metal church never put out a bad record They're one of those bands, you know, we talk about it's funny When we talk about bands that their latter day output is very strong We talk about saxon and riot and death angel and a few other bands Jim and I talk about sometimes they're really kept up. There's level of excellence And I said this because I think the celebration of masterpiece was a couple weeks ago And we had a thread about it and metal church never made a bad album And whether it was david wane or whether it was mike how and even ronnie munro Replacing mike for a little bit well more than a little bit. They never made a bad record You know, it's true really really strong output. And you know, I'm sure we'll hear The band made a statement. I'm sure probably by tomorrow. We'll hear from kurt van der hoof Who's another really thoughtful and sensitive guy? And I'm sure you know, kurt will have a lot to say about mike Uh, but right now, you know, and we and we should definitely send our condolences to the guys in the band who've uh, you know, the band was Resurrected a little bit with mike back in the band. They got a lot of festival bookings and a lot of great things were going on And obviously cold to shut that down and now we'll never get a chance to see You know what comes next they put out a great live record They put out a great, you know, some studio tracks and some remakes except the remake or fake healer. So Just just, you know So milwaukee tom just kind of hard to swallow. You see mike looks fit healthy. I know that's not all that matters But man It's just terrible Careless whisper gods of second chance is their heaviest song and my favorite Black and blank something like that blessing in disguise is such a killer album a total masterpiece Fake healer is running through my mind right now. Love this vocals may mike rock on in the beyond And then a tat 4 music hanging in the balance is perfection from start to finish Sydney you banks my favorite songs bad lines fake healer watch the children pray Well, watch the children pray. I think you redid that right? That's yeah, that's david wane But again mike did those songs justice I I I you would be hard-pressed to find a replacement vocalist in metal who did such justice And and mike had a lot of respect for david wane too, you know, I have to say that like I said mike mike was so graceful in in And taken over and like I said he he wasn't humble He wasn't a dick he just was himself and He made the job his and did such a great job and I had so much respect for the guy and it's really Really really ashamed to hear this it really really is I got oh my god like the comments are coming fast and if I uh, you know, I miss your comment And I know my lighting is like really dark here and bizarre and yellow creepy ish, but it's not on purpose It's just you know the time of day um Jay bohn can't believe it such a perfect match for a metal church rest in peace you know what When I did the interview with mike how like I did two interviews with him. I did one when he returned And one afterwards on you know the second album that he released like post You know when before he left like after he left, sorry I'm trying to remember from the interview. I think I asked him what his favorite song was I'm trying to find the interview here the metal Yeah, we should share it on the site tomorrow. Just as a I mean I asked him some cool questions And I'm trying to remember what his favorite. I think I asked him something like what his favorite non Like like his songs he always said he always liked to sing new music. He always wanted to be relevant He didn't want to look in the past. He always wanted to sing new music and that was key for him um Jeff scott soto just uh chimed in another you know friend of ours and another great singer So jeff is just so had so sad to hear the untimely passing of mike how of metal church Uh, I finally met on the block. That's what it is. I just looked it up. It was beyond the block I asked him what's your favorite non Mike house on to sing and he goes I love singing beyond the block and it's a great song. I mean jeff You know jeff scott soto posted a recent picture of him and mike just in april which isn't that long ago And again, you know mike looks super fit and healthy like tom said. I mean He'd be hard pressed actually to find a guy 55 Lean and fit looking like mike is you know So uh, yeah jeff scott soto just posted a current picture of him and mike and Sends along his condolences tracy another amazing vocalist. I'm very sad and rock and piece mike Uh careless whisper again mike was a total gentleman Zekyll Vargas anyone know why he left the band years ago? Well, I could tell you why he left the band years ago He left And I'll tell you this is like his first like that's when he departed Hanging in the bounce was very difficult for us because it was the beginning of the end all the things that we're going To get in our way to dismantle the band Sorry, all the things that were going going against that sort of thing, right? And we broke up in the perfect storm the last star was the album cover of hanging in the balance, right? It was a very big sticking point for me. I did not like the album cover. It was embarrassing for me It was forced upon us. So basically music was sort of the the band was not being a successful And then you throw in a terrible album cover and everybody a lot of in fighting And then you just decided to leave and he did come back and they come back He came back when kurt Sort of persuaded him, you know to come back and to convince him to come back And we're going to do some new music and he told me that he loved the demos so much That he really wanted to put his voice on them So you could see the metal voice interviews if you really want to get a feel for who mike how was It's just on the youtube channel. Check it out great interview Uh, what else we got? Jackie long, what a huge loss rest in peace mike. Jeremy literally just came across this. I'm shocked He was a brilliant singer and frontman Lisa JD this is unreal. We are devastated godspeed mike Jay bone their video from the last few years are incredible. He looks so happy and he did Not only was he happy like you you could just sense he was a working a blue collar musician if you want Yeah, I honestly like you see pictures of him on the on the you know, the all the different metal cruises and stuff like that Like he's always out there like I said my experience in 1989 when I first met him was he was out there with fans And recently you see pictures of him on the cruises and stuff and same thing He's out there with the fans taking pictures conversing Sorry about that. It's okay. You could see his life Yeah, the greek say that what you're saying is true when you sneeze isn't that a greek consuming? So uh, I'm telling the truth I'm telling the truth. Um, so so what happened at heavy munch y'all metal church was supposed to play And uh, I was going to interview mike how in person and of course curt And then it all went to crap and I think last second they had to bail. Do you remember that? Yeah, I mean well the thing is again You know the finances of touring are never easy and I think to make the show in munch y'all They were doing a show at the rock pile in toronto and they might have had a and then and then I think you know It's kind of if one show falls through They all fall through because it's not economical to come to this You know part of he's in california Some other guys might be in seattle to come all the way across the continent for one show Just doesn't make sense if you could do a fly in and do two three shows around it the economics make more sense and I think Uh metal church was supposed to do some shows in the northeast and then when they fell through they couldn't do heavy munch y'all And it was unfortunate because I remember being really actually tomorrow was the anniversary of heavy metal 2019 Heavy munch y'all 2019 and we were there together jimmy the whole metal Metal voice crew was there put up a picture. Yeah, and we were all looking forward to seeing metal church and unfortunately their their show fell through and uh You know sad to say I haven't seen metal church Probably since operation rock and roll. I I you know, I I saw them in 86 I saw them in 89 and then I think I saw them again in 91 Uh, so that's at least three times that I saw metal church and that might be it You know here we go d snider. I didn't know the man, but I'm very sorry to hear for this about this Uh, I'm just looking at the twitter feed now There's just a lot there's there's just I'm just trying to find you know people that we know and uh A lot of fans a lot of comments a lot of people just posting and and I guess it's just going to get heavier as time, you know, there's just I guess the biggest thing is I I think the biggest shocker is and I think you just talked about it right at the beginning was He seems healthy tom said this too. He seems healthy You didn't see a problem. You didn't hear about any problems. So it doesn't mean people don't have problems But you don't you don't picture this guy, you know, he's not like a heavy drug user at least we don't know right He didn't seem that way. He didn't seem like he was ending his life. He was depressed all the time and we heard stories about depression and I don't know. You just seem like a happy go lucky guy with very Appreciative of life, you know Yeah, I mean look news will come out or it won't and that's going to be up to the family if they want to talk about whatever we found out happened and uh, you know, and You know today isn't really a day to speculate. Today is just a day to uh Celebrate what a good duty was and the great music that he made and I'm sure all of us are going to be listening to Metal church tonight and tomorrow and just being like, you know, wow Wow, you know, all right. Let's see some more comments on youtube Sacrario official mic was a great vocalist legendary fabio. So sad c empty productions. This one really hurts 11 was one of the best come up comeback albums of 2010 rest in peace mic such an amazing talent Texas guitarist. I just heard I can't believe it rip my cow um, Mustafa is Mustafa saying he is one of the last Great 80s metal singers James Lawrence rest in peace mic metal bends chronicles We know metal bend. This is very sad news another tremendous vocalist and talent taken from us rest in peace my cow I'm trying to read as many comments as possible because I know people want to share the grief right share A tribute to the man What a great vocalist he was and just some kind words, right? And it's such a shame because like you said to lead off the show jimmy, you know, we're we're You know, we're getting to an age and our heroes and our friends are getting to a certain age where You know, it feels like, you know, uh, you know, again I was just reading about tom hunting from exodus who thankfully is cancer-free But he also had a huge procedure and you know last year was such a last year was such a kick in the gut with So many legends passing away. Uh, you know, uh, the ufo guys francky banali, of course eddie van helen and it just It just kind of feels that like, you know, every Little every once in a while every month we hear about somebody who's sick or someone who's passed away and it's really really tough the process Yeah, well keep your comments coming everybody. Well, we're gonna be going staying on for another five ten minutes I'm just looking at again going through Uh pictures Going through comments now on facebook Oh, jeez what happened there? I'm just finding people posting videos Okay, here we go going back Juan Sebastian Sanchez arrest in peace a legend of thrash metal scott mcmanon, I saw metal church on their first and only australian tour in 2019 I got to hang with mike after the show. He was a total gentleman. He was amazing vocalist and he will be forever missed by all I read fist another metal legend gone to soon the powers that be is one of my favorite songs Deon mike how is one of my favorite vocalists? He will be missed Dale lamers and mourning has always Been one of my favorite mel church songs Even I think every song on the blessing in disguise album has now been named. So I think you know This show is how deep that record is because I think literally every song has been name checked Yeah, I mean you might as well just read the whole album right at this point. Uh, let's keep going here The comms people are still typing Metal music from across the world met mike how five years ago such a genuine soul an iconic vocalist rest in peace mike how raul Taveras A huge loss in metal community rest in peace mike and be rich in such shock right now James mclean. Hey james. What are you doing, man? So sad one of my favorite memories from when they played 70 k 70 tons of 30 tons of metal. I guess he was so friendly with the fans Jackie, you know, here's a band that opened for them ravage We played with metal church a couple of times at small gigs and ran into mike while unloading after the show And he was very nice and accommodating guy. He loved hanging with fans. He was one of the best live metal singers I've ever seen he sounded exactly like the record spot on every time and he could sing every era of metal church stuff well Yeah, I think that was key. Yeah, I think that was yeah And I think again all these unrelated people from every corner of the world saying how great he was with the fans And how great a singer he was Uh, you know, you know again people who worked with them Fair tack stave sad news james taylor blessing the disguise was my second Metal church album wasn't sure about the new singer, but I've been a fan ever since mike will be missed terribly. Thankfully He got new music. We got new music recently Max norman sends his condolences. Yes. Yes, we we spoke about max. I saw your post max Uh, thank you very much We read your post just before Andy I'm a huge fan of metal church since blessing in disguise and mike how is the best singer of metal May you rest in peace. I've been waiting for him to return to the fold after years which he did now. He's gone Sleep betrays me. Thanks again today, by the way The by the numbers was a funny view of mike. He was a ham in that video DM Lee One two two. Oh, I met mike how a couple years ago Back when metal church was doing a show with doro. He was extremely nice back to the doro thing back to the third Hua is I am heartbroken Um, you know, it's interesting so we're getting all this love from So many people with so many strange names, right different names I'm curious to see where everybody just please just tell me the country you're in. Let's see how far Metal church and mike reached, right? Just tell me which country you're in or what state you are in the u.s Um, I'm curious to see there in canada too right there Tell me where you're from and we heard someone's we heard australia just a few minutes ago. You read one so that's uh We've covered some extremes there canada on austra canada in australia Yeah, and I think we're going to hear everything in between Yeah, I'm just looking again. I'm going on all the feeds here and it's I'm trying to see something if there's any sort of new information in terms of you know about his personality Uh that we can share All I know is everything I read talks about what a great guy he was what a great singer he was Now they're coming in really fast. Okay, who is from mawai, hawaii minnesota jackie long jerry's from pennsylvania michigan new york city australia I guess we're on a strip munchall canada. Well, yeah me and baron Uh, columbus texas norway Are you still awake in norway? toronto My prayers go out to him his family friends and fans. That's andy avanov sasile ohio steve ohio stormbringer chicago sackville new brunswick canada Be cool or be podcast out new jersey chicago texas near baltimore I like that near baltimore. We're hitting every corner of the states. We're hitting every corner of the states. That's for sure And b says the nicest guy true true true Uh, let's look at the feeds a little more here. I'm going to go on twitter now And check it out There's a lot of fan postings. How's that a lot of fan postings? And basically everybody's written it's reiterating what everyone's saying right now Okay, let's go back here West minister, I guess that's in the uk. Is that it new mexico? indonesia zetro zitro is from Here that heard heard the sad news from indonesia. Wow, boston, of course melissa Buenos Aires, argentina You know That's that's the most amazing thing how music is so it's so it's so global today and how we can sort of You know talk about somebody and the whole world is actually at the same time sort of interact Sonic perspectives the first time I listened to blessing in disguise I was living in cuba came over to the u.s. To live met the guy who was so humble and authentic rest in peace eric san paulo brazil uh Careless whisper listening to waiting for a savior You can take over my voice is getting tired there parent. Yeah, i'm just trying to see like I said things are coming out us really fast Let's see what else who else is chiming in? Metal church we already read that Like literally every metal site from every part of the world is reporting this now So I mean it's it's definitely jumped to the uh The top of the news. I don't know what why don't you guys tell us about The first time you saw mike how like I said for me which tour? Yeah, so for me it was 1989 And yesterday was just the anniversary. It was that tour where It was kind of the replacement vocalist tour, right? Well, it was it was wasp touring for the headless children with except touring for eat the heat with our friend david rees on vocals Uh with metal church. So if mike how on vocals and actually david rees He and I have exchanged messages Not today, but about this in the past and he said that mike and all the metal church guys were Great to hang out with on that tour. It really sounded like wasp were kind of on their own And except the metal church would hang out on that tour And I know david had a couple nice things to say when I posted about that tour about mike and about metal church So I think so the first time I saw mike was on the blessing in disguise tour in 89 playing with uh with metal church with uh with wasp and with Except and actually sword our buddy rick use was on that bill too. So You know rick use who knows might have a have a recollection of them as well Stephen I think they started their reunite They started the reunion mike howl toured here in maine when they I guess he's trying to say Stephen's trying to say when they first reunited again. They saw them in maine And then steven c saying saw metal church in dallas in 2017 I guess right Uh listening since 86 that's cat marten Um By the way, thank you for doing this guys very tasteful class. He was always love you guys You're welcome Rest in peace mike from jerry racing 89 in oakland Amazing show tom just saw this just saw him saturday april 20th Okay 2019 in tempi Yeah, yeah, yeah, because when claire burton died we had to wait for the news from europe the internet brought us together That's a good point too. You know The internet it's so instantaneously, right? Uh, you know what parent? I think we've kind of like said everything we could say And I think yeah, I think people are in shock And I think I think you know a lot of people have commented And I think a lot of people are in shock and look some people might not even have the news yet The news is just starting to travel around the middle world Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I guess we'll get a lot more on this Yeah, like I would expect in the coming days. We'll hear from the family. Maybe we'll hear from kurt van der hoof Yeah, yeah, and I guess that's the next one And you know, and I'll say this jimmy, you know if following mike a little bit on his pages Mike would even stay in touch with the guys who weren't in metal church anymore Mike actually posted not too long ago a picture of him and duke ericsson duke ericsson was the longtime bassist Of a metal church who hasn't been at the band for a while, but I know mike stayed in touch with craig wells and and with And with duke ericsson kirk arrington and you know, so there is there is still Respect between, you know members and ex-members of the metal church family. Well, you know what? I'll give you a little more information this year at the metal hall of fame Was it this year? I think it was this year we inducted well because now it's been like a year and a half, right? It's been 20 Yeah, I guess it'll be 20 20 20 metal church was inducted into the metal hall of fame Of course we invited kurt and mike, but you know, it's not easy, you know that time of year And you know, I think it was arrington that actually showed up and And they accepted but i'm trying to say my point in all of this is Metal church has been inducted into the metal hall of fame and mike howe was as well, you know As as the singer as well as everyone else And there's probably no infighting between that, you know like look you can you can speak better about this than anyone else But sometimes with the metal hall of fame or the rock and roll hall of fame or anything You know, there's war there's warring factions between members and ex-members and they don't want to be inducted Or they don't want to be together and and I just know for a fact All of the guys of metal church from the different generations. There was mutual respect there That's right. That's right, which is maybe why which made it easier to induct them into the metal hall of fame because You know, they're all cool of each other it was kirk arrington and I'm trying to remember who the second person was that was there It was their current drummer Well, if it was I try to remember it was oh, they were step pollen. That's who it was So yeah, yeah, that's all it's bad for a good amount of time too That's what it was. That's who it was and that's where I met step So so mike posted this of him and duke ericsson not that long ago that they had got together and I Because then duke hasn't been in the band for a long time Uh, actually, I wonder if step has said anything I should look I'm friend. He did he did he did You know step has had his battles as well. So he knows better than anyone kind of how hard stuff can be Yeah, I'm gonna take a look right now Have a look I'm gonna just look at the comments here Yeah, I don't think I didn't see anything on step's Facebook page just yet, but he could have been posting elsewhere Oh bed for kebek Raphael so sad saw them in st p florida. That's james Michael carpenter just saw this absolutely stunning and torn my favorite metal church singer Uh, thanks for going live to mourn for me. That's andy. You know andy I'm gonna tell you something a lot of people say well, why are you doing this so quickly? I don't know. I people are texting me Do a show do a show because people want to I think this is the new way of mourning in a sense, right? It's a global mourning for the metal community. Everybody just kind of we're all on the same page We're just sort of the conductor here, you know, and you guys can sort of we can read your messages and you can leave your comments and We we have a pretty significant comments just uh from an ex-member of sabotage. So jeff plate The we played drums of sabotage Uh sabotage and then metal church and then transevere and orchestra. So jeff plate who was in metal church Uh, I just received the horrible news that we lost mike how I have no details This is a surprise to everyone when I first met mike in 2016 upon his return to metal church It was as if I had known him for years Kathy and I would spend as much time with him as possible a true pleasure to be around He was one of those gems you meet along the way one of the good ones one of the good guys I'm not the only one that feels that way. He was adored by people around the world rest in peace friend And we have pickers of jeff plate mike how and jeff's wife with mike how So, you know, that's significant that uh, you know, again an ex-member of sabotage of metal church chiming in Well, you know what? parent, you know, I've had a long day and uh, I appreciate everybody jumping on and you know, I'm fumbling on my words right now Yeah, and I apologize. My voice is giving out. So, uh, we're gonna leave it at that People could continue to leave their comments feel free You know tells your favorite songs favorite albums What you remember, maybe your favorite tour, maybe your favorite moment Uh, but you know, it's 945 here in in montreal canada And uh, we're gonna all wish you a good night and rest in peace mike how uh lead singer of metal church And uh, you know, I to his family our condolences to his family and friends Yeah, make sure you hug those people close to you tight tonight everybody because you know, unfortunately You just don't know what's around the corner. So, uh, yeah, thanks for joining us and rest in peace mike how