12/25/2023 0 Comments Anvil band vocalist![]() You can’t tell one of those bands from the other, and to cloud the issue even further, the logos are indecipherable! You don’t even know the name of the band that did the song that you can’t recognise, with the vocals you can’t understand - what are you listening to?! You might as well listen to white noise. ![]() Well, it is interesting with the Cookie Monster singing, not only can you not tell what the singer is singing, you can’t identify it. Talking of singing, I was interested in what you called ‘Cookie Monster’ singing what is the point of writing lyrics if nobody can understand them anyway? What is the point in bringing and paying a fourth member to do what I am doing anyway, especially in the studio? It was just stupid. There is no point bringing in a rhythm guitar, especially on the faster songs where I played all the parts anyway. We didn’t want that we wanted a three-piece player, and because he sings, all the elements are now there. Had we had a second guitar it would have drowned it out. But having said that, the bass player we have now, he plays a much bigger, wider and fuller played bass. The thing is, the second guitar was basically a shadow of what I was playing, and covered for the background rhythms while I was doing my solos. With no second guitar player, is there more onus on your playing? The bass players we had before did backups, but they were not harmonies, and weren’t not really conducive with my voice. Yeah, well actually it took a long time to reproduce what we had originally, which for a live situation was particularly important to have back up vocals. The band has been a three piece for a while now Are the vocal dynamics on stage any different? It should not be pop music the closest we ever came was ‘Metal On Metal’, and that was not much of a chart hit. Who wanted to be above ground? I didn’t want to be like Bon Jovi or Whitesnake that is not metal - Anvil is metal the name is metal. It is not like we failed, and to a greater degree, the idea of never selling out is what kept us from breaking into the big leagues, because for me, the real truth is that that’s not what I want, that is not who I am. Well, it was enough recognition that we recorded twelve albums before the movie. On ‘Metal On Metal’, which you released in 1982, you basically invented thrash metal do you think you got enough recognition for doing that? That was for ‘Hope In Hell’, and the concept of that was Noah’s Ark, or more specifically, Noah’s Ark in Hell. It just became our trademark, our tradition, you know? It’s easy to look at it after and say “ah that’s just silly”, and “that’s easy” - it is not easy there are thousands of alliterations, but what is the correct one? I mean, what am I going to call my album ‘Cheese And Crackers’, and make an Anvil out of cheese, and have a bunch of crackers floating around it? Looking through Anvil’s history, and that singular metal object, the album titles, and the alliteration are all very striking. ![]() Well, it changed everything all my dreams had pretty much come true, in the sense that I am working almost eight months a year with the band, and I don’t have to go to a regular job anymore. Hi Lipps, Croeso y Gymru, or welcome to Wales as they say in these here parts.īefore 2008 you were known around the globe to a few select metal heads how did the film change things for you? ![]()
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