Inhaltsverzeichnis für Issue 5 in Planet Rock

will forever be my favourite band, and the news of Malcolm Young’s passing as we completed this issue was heartbreaking. His contribution to our world will never be forgotten, the riffs he wrote never bettered. Rest in peace Mr Young. It’s often said that we don’t truly appreciate what we have in life until it’s gone. As they prepare to make their own gradual, graceful exit from a music scene they helped create, it’s high time then that we paid tribute to the legendary, incomparable Deep Purple. With Zeppelin and Sabbath now both out of commission, they’re the last of British hard rock’s three founding fathers still on active service, and as this issue’s epic cover feature attests, their appetite for both music and mischief remains joyously undiminished. As we…

Chuck Mosley BORN 1959 Whom we will always remember for… Adding chaos, colour and charm to Faith No More’s first two albums, most memorably on the spectacularly sarcastic We Care A Lot. Hailed by his former bandmates as “a reckless and caterwauling force of energy”, vocalist Mosley had recently released a new album with US industrial troupe Primitive Race. Michael‘Dik Mik’ Davies BORN 1943 Whom we will always remember for… The whooshes, bleeps and sonic wibbles he brought to space rockers Hawkwind, as the electronics manipulator on their first four albums. Davies also persuaded Dave Brock to let Lemmy join Hawkwind, a decision that would alter rock history.…

Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy will release his debut solo album Year Of The Tiger on March 9. The 12-song concept record was inspired by the loss of his father when Kennedy was a child. Stone Temple Pilots have recruited Jeff Gutt as their new frontman, and will release a new album in spring 2018. Gutt replaces the late Chester Bennington, who had left in 2016 to focus on Linkin Park. Three new species of microbe have been named pseudotrichonympha leei, pseudotrichonympha lifesoni and pseudotrichonympha pearti in tribute to the members of Rush. Joan Jett is the subject of Bad Reputation, a new full-length documentary from acclaimed video director Kevin Kerslake. The documentary will premiere at the Sundance festival in January.…

Shaman’s Harvest These Missouri rockers mix Motown grooves, Southern blues and gritty hard rock riffs on their emotive, powerful Red Hands Black Deeds album, most potently on killer singles The Come Up and Soul Crusher. Find out more at: shamansharvest.com Sons Of Apollo With a line-up featuring members of Trans Siberian Orchestra, Black Country Communion, Mr. Big and The Winery Dogs, SOA own the term ‘supergroup’. Their debut Psychotic Symphony is prog rock nirvana. Find out more at: www.sonsofapollo.com The Amorettes Black Star Riders’ Ricky Warwick and Thunder’s Luke Morley lent their songwriting smarts to The Amorettes’ third album White Hot Heat and you can catch an early preview of album number four at Winter’s End festival in February. Find out more at: www.theamorettes.com…

IN FEBRUARY 1969 Jethro Tull were touring the US for the first time. We flew out rather on spec and the gigs were quite sporadic. When we checked into a Holiday Inn in Boston our manager Terry Ellis told me we needed to keep the pot boiling back in the UK, and he suggested I write a pop single. I was a bit against trying to gain favour with the rank-and-file pop pickers, but to humour Terry I said, OK, I’ll just pop up to my room – I’ll be back with a hit single in an hour. I was bluffing of course, but I twanged away with my guitar and a flute. I shared a room with Tull’s bassist, Glenn Cornick, and he very likely came up with the…

“Back in 1974, 14-year-old me waited for Mills store, the wee music shop in Airdrie town centre, to open, so I could buy this. What a cracking album! So many great songs… Standin’ On The Corner, OK Yesterday Was Yesterday, the classic How Does It Feel… Jump forward a year and I’m 15. I haven’t shaved my bum-fluff for two weeks, I’ve practised my husky voice, and I take my place in the queue outside Coatbridge picture hall to see the Slade In Flame movie. But I got turned away for being underage! I had to wait until the invention of the DVD hire shop to watch it. Glad my parents finally upgraded from Betamax… I did see Led Zep’s The Song Remains The Same at Coatbridge cinema in ’76,…

ANGUS YOUNG “As his brother it is hard to express in words what he has meant to me during my life, the bond we had was unique and very special. He leaves behind an enormous legacy that will live on forever. Malcolm, job well done.” PAUL STANLEY “The driving engine of AC/DC has died. A tragic end for a sometimes unsung icon. One of the true greats. RIP.” TONY IOMMI “I’m sorry to hear about Malcolm Young, a fine player.” ALEX LIFESON “Finally, peace comes to Malcolm. His guitar playing will endure for generations to come and that is a worthy legacy.” BRIAN MAY “Feeling very sad about Malcolm Young. Without a doubt one of rock’s greatest ever rhythm guitarists, and also pivotal writer, creator, icon. My condolences to his…

FIVE YEARS IN, Planet Rockstock – Planet Rock’s very own bespoke gathering – has become one of the highlights of the rock calendar, but it’s a festival that nearly never was. The inaugural event in Great Yarmouth in 2013, headlined by Uriah Heep, Hawkwind and The Temperance Movement, came within an inch of getting flooded, with a full site evacuation on the eve of its opening. Thankfully, at Rockstock’s new location at Trecco Bay Holiday Park in Porthcawl, on the coast of South Wales, proceedings have run far more smoothly, with the likes of Rival Sons, The Darkness, Black Stone Cherry, Steve Harris’ British Lion and Michael Schenker headlining rambunctious, sold-out weekends. Then there are all the other little things that make for a truly memorable bash, from the legendary…

Electric glam rock, stomping Southern-fried R&B, open-hearted piano ballads and a celebration of life after death… INCE MÖTLEY CRÜE brought the curtain down on their 34-year career on New Year’s Eve 2015, their erstwhile leader, bassist and main songwriter Nikki Sixx has been far from idle. In addition to hosting his nightly radio show Sixx Sense and recording with his band Sixx:AM, the 59-year-old Californian has found time to revamp his best-selling 2007 memoir The Heroin Diaries for a 10th anniversary edition and is now preparing for his first photographic exhibition and a move into TV production. Sixx professes to be “infatuated” with rock’n’roll, but he has some issues with modern music. “When did everybody get so fucking safe?” he asks. “My friends say to me, ‘You know Nikki, not…

DEEP PURPLE’s In Rock is one of the undisputed pillars of heavy rock, a bold pageant of granite-hard riffs, telepathic jamming and muscular intent. In the first part of our Purple extravaganza, JAMES HICKIE meets founder members IAN GILLAN, ROGER GLOVER and IAN PAICE in Sweden to hear about the album’s genesis, involving clandestine sackings, vandalised mixing desks and a conductor dropping the C-bomb. IAN PAICE HAS A SOMEWHAT BEWILDERED LOOK ON HIS FACE WHEN HE ENTERS ROOM 390 OF STOCKHOLM’S GRAND HÔTEL… …AN OPULENT 1870S EDIFICE that, as well as hosting legendary rock bands, is famous for billeting Nobel Prize laureates and guests whenever they bowl into town. Paice’s eyes are wide beneath frameless, lavender-tinted glasses, a result of the extraordinary spectacle he’s just witnessed. It’s not the impressive…

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY No Cross No Crown NUCLEAR BLAST The long-awaited return of the Southern rock metallers’ classic line-up. WHAT’S IN a name? For North Carolina veterans Corrosion Of Conformity, theirs has afforded them the ability to switch line-ups and genres in utter defiance of industry standards as well as fan expectations. Starting life in the early ’80s with the core line-up of Woody Weatherman on guitar, Mike Dean on bass and Reed Mullin on drums, the trio carved a reputation as purveyors of a thrilling hardcore punk/thrash metal crossover sound. One decade and two vocalists later, out went Dean and in came New Orleans native Pepper Keenan on second guitar, with the addition of Karl Agell on vocals and Phil Swisher on bass. That line-up’s only release, 1991’s Blind,…

RUSH A Farewell To Kings – 40th Anniversary UME/ANTHEM/OLE Triple-disc celebration of the Canadian power trio’s landmark 1977 album. IT WAS the unmitigated success of their 1976 dystopian hard rock colossus 2112 that freed Rush from interfering record company bods – and a good job, too. In June 1977, had any artist and repertoire person visited Rockfield Studios in South Wales to check how the follow-up to 2112 was coming along, they’d likely have had a seizure. Birdsong, mock-baroque intros, and producer Terry Brown gravely intoning about “the black hole of Cygnus X-1” on said song’s intro do not, on the face of it, a hit rock album make. But Rush had never been ones for artistic moderation and weren’t about to start now. Cue the twin double-neck guitars of…

METALLICA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2017 O2 Arena, London METALLICA MAKE a habit of bulldozing through boundaries. Over four decades and ten studio albums, the thrash metal quartet have shifted millions of records with their singular blend of stirring melodies and full-throttle guitar grind. It’s an extraordinary feat not lost on their frontman James Hetfield. “After 36 years we’re so happy to still be kicking ass with you,” he says, at the close of his band’s second, sold-out night at London’s O2 Arena. Hetfield has every right to feel chuffed. This dedication to pounding rock has paid long-term dividends, the results so far including an induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009 and, somehow, a 2014 headline slot at the generally metal-sceptical Glastonbury Festival, their appearance paving…

WIN! A SIGNED VINYL COPY OF PURPLE’S NEW ALBUM… …Plus Ian Gillan’s handwritten lyrics to the In Rock classic Child In Time, a heavy metal lodestone if ever there was one… ENTRIES IN BEFORE FEBRUARY 16, 2018 How to enter Got a pen? Good. Now fill in the answers in the grid opposite and whack over this page – or a photocopy – by snail mail to Planet Rock Magazine, Queen Crossword, Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1 7DJ Terms and conditions One entry per person. Entries must be received before December 21, 2017 or will not be valid. The winners will be selected at random. Competition promoted by Bauer Consumer Media Limited t/a Planet Rock (“Planet Rock”). Planet Rock’s choice of winners is final and no correspondence will…

The Wildhearts, Reef and Terrorvision are joining forces for the Britrock Must Be Destroyed tour in May. “We are honoured to be a part of this legendary tour,” comments Wildhearts frontman Ginger. “Mainly because it means that we’re still alive…” Pearl Jam have launched an online baseball game to mark the release of their Let’s Play Two concert film. Swing your bat at http://8bitbaseball.pearljam.com/ for the chance to win autographed Pearl Jam swag. The Answer frontman Cormac Neeson will travel to Nashville in January to record his debut solo album White Feather, with Bob Seger guitarist Blue Miller producing. Neeson is currently seeking funding for the album via PledgeMusic, with a £50 singing lesson among the ‘rewards’ offered.…

GENE SIMMONS BORN August 25, 1949, Haifa, Israel. OCCUPATION Vocalist Bassist Author Actor YEARS ACTIVE 1970-present ASSOCIATED ACTS Kiss Wicked Lester 6’ 2” MONOLITH GENE SIMMONS STRIDES INTO a room at the Soho Hotel in the West End of London and offers Planet Rock an enormo-knuckled fist bump and a “Hey, how ya doin’?”. Even at 68 years of age, he cuts an imposing figure. His voice is a deep, laidback burr: part Elvis Presley, part Johnny Cash. As he parks himself down in a chair, he stretches out his titanic frame and rests his feet on the sofa opposite him. The tiny silver baubles on his black cowboy boots jingle. The Kiss star is in town to talk up The Vault, his suitably colossal solo box set – limited…

THE SONG Everything’s The Same from Girlschool’s Legacy album contains one of the strangest cameo performances in rock history. It’s the sound of their ex-guitarist Kelly Johnson’s ashes being shaken. Kelly, who died in 2007, left some of her remains to her old bandmates. Guitarist/vocalist Kim McAuliffe believes she’d be thrilled by this ghostly appearance. “Kelly would have laughed herself silly,” she insists. “She always was a great person to have a laugh with.” Girlschool will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2018. Yes, 40 years. In that time, there has been laughter, tears, highs, lows, and band members coming and going (and sometimes coming back and going again). Kelly Johnson is no longer with us, but three quarters of the original – and ‘classic’ – line-up are: McAuliffe, bass player…

“THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE…” …BOOMS IAN GI LLAN. He’s on-stage at Annexet, a venue that looks more like a school gym than an arena, located in the Johanneshov district of Stockholm. With a 4,000-odd capacity, it’s less than a fourth of the size of London’s O2 Arena, which Deep Purple will play in a few weeks’ time, but the relative intimacy doesn’t stop the singer from entering a trance like state, arms held out like a zombie, incredible voice soaring. He appears galvanised not just by an enthusiastic crowd, which includes Opeth singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, but the numinous playing of the four men sharing the stage with him. There’s guitarist Steve Morse and keyboardist Don Airey, indulging in a spot of playful sonic jousting between their respective instruments; there’s…

PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS The Age Of Absurdity NUCLEAR BLAST Motörhead’s quiet man returns with a brand new band, if not sound. BY THE time Lemmy ascended to that great aftershow in the sky in 2015, Phil Campbell had been a member of Motörhead for some 31 years. Answering an ad posted in the music press (with no contact details), the Welshman made his debut playing Ace Of Spades in front of millions of viewers on the cult 1980s BBC comedy The Young Ones. In the intervening years, as Lemmy’s first lieutenant Campbell has weathered times both good and bad, from the point in 1992 when Motörhead’s stock was so low that the group were forced to cancel a UK theatre tour, to their elevation this century to…

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Spectres CBS, 1977 THERE ARE two things everybody knows about Blue Öyster Cult. One is their timeless hit single (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. The other is that they once had the greatest gothic logo of all time. Sure, Motörhead’s came close, but B.Ö.C.’s took first prize, umlaut and all. Blue Öyster Cult’s logo also came with a cryptic symbol, based on the astrological sign for Kronos, apparently. If you spotted that squiggly image on a badge in the ’70s or early ’80s you knew its owner was a rock fan of distinction and taste (and probably a dreadful smart-arse too). B.Ö.C. rode high for several years, seemingy oblivious to punk and the NWOBHM, then they played Castle Donington in August 1981. And no logo, umlaut or cryptic…

QUEENS OF The Stone Age’s November UK tour attracted a number of high-profile guests, with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Hollywood Vampire/Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp among those in attendance at the quintet’s brace of London shows. The LA band have also announced their own festival in the capital in 2018, with Iggy Pop and The Hives lined up to support Josh Homme’s crew at their biggest-ever headline show, which will take place in Finsbury Park on June 30.…

What food would you cook on a good night in? Maybe something from the sea, something from the land and then some strong drinks in place of dessert. I have a recipe which combines my Italian father’s amazing shrimp dish and my Singaporean mother-in-law’s spicier version of it. You need olive oil, chopped garlic, red chilli flakes, black pepper, a touch of salt and sugar, flour and some really fresh, super-clean large shrimp. First you heat the garlic until it’s just barely golden in the olive oil, then add the shrimp – dusted with the flour, chilli flakes and sugar – for a second. You add in four bunches of parsley, chopped up really fine, and move it around quickly, and it’ll reduce and get dark and crispy. You can…

Knuckle-draggers who resent “their” bands becoming successful – would they rather the musicians were outside the venue selling The Big Issue? Any rock star who thinks they are a bloody politician! People and bands who assume it’s just blokes that like rock music, totally missing out all of us female rockers. Stadium gigs. You end up so far from the bloody stage the band look like performing fleas! Booking and handling fees on gigs tickets – especially when you print them yourself! Songs I’ve heard too many times – Freebird, Paranoid, All Right Now, etc. [TV presenter] Gregg Wallace, who wanted to put live music into Room 101. Hologram tours, followed closely by any band who do more than one final/ farewell tour. Prog. Overblown, pretentious nonsense! People who think…

DATE OF BIRTH: 1983 WHEN RETIRED: 1986 WHERE FOUND: Altrincham, Greater Manchester “I’d always get nods of approval from fellow rockers when I wore this to gigs at the Manchester Apollo in the ’80s,” says Dr Rick Makin. “I brought it out for a fancy dress party a few years ago and it sparked lots of discussions. People were asking me, ‘Is that where you practise your stitching?’ I think my three-year-old son has his eye on this, he’s already stomping around to AC/DC…” IRON MAIDEN “I remember queuing up overnight outside Manchester Apollo to get tickets for Maiden’s World Slavery Tour show. The gig was fantastic, but then Maiden never disappoint, do they?” BLACK SABBATH “I’ve always been a Dio-era Sabbath fan more than an Ozzy-era fan. I loved…

“YOUNG TURNED PLAYING RHYTHM GUITAR INTO AN ART FORM.” ON NOVEMBER 18, I heard that Malcolm Young had passed away. I found out the same way I heard about the deaths of Rick Parfitt and Lemmy: a friend’s post on social media. A few minutes later, I turned on the car radio to hear Hell’s Bells and It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll) pumping out, back to back. It was a fitting tribute to AC/DC’s rhythm guitarist. Those two songs were released five years and two lead singers apart, but there was one constant: Malcolm Young’s brutal right hand. Part metronome, part jackhammer, it was as endemic to AC/DC’s sound as his brother Angus’s flurrying solos, as vital a cog in the machine as Bon…

LED ZEPPELIN Stone Gossard was “weaned” on Led Zep, Jeff Ament “wanted to be in a band that could do anything, like Led Zeppelin”. While their peers borrowed liberally from Sabbath, Zep ruled for Pearl Jam. Key Ten Track: Oceans Jimmy Page’s influence shines throughout Ten, but the guitar on Oceans could have been lifted directly from Houses Of The Holy. JOE STRUMMER Eddie Vedder wore his punk rock influences on his sleeves, sometimes literally when scrawling band names on his arms on TV. PJ later covered The Clash’s Know Your Rights and Strummer’s Arms Aloft in concert. Key Ten Track: Once “I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode,” warns Vedder on the album’s feistiest track. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Mike McCready describes seeing the Texan blues…

Take It All Away (on Demolition, 1980) Girlschool’s debut single froths with youthful exuberance. Straight outta Wandsworth! Race With The Devil (on Demolition, 1980) Admit it: you can’t listen to the original by ’70s beardy rockers Gun ever again after hearing this. Please Don’t Touch (on St Valentine’s Day Massacre EP, 1981) Headgirl’s re-worded cover of the Johnny Kidd classic never grows old. Great rhyming of “motel” with “Eskimo Nell”. C’Mon Let’s Go (on Hit And Run, 1981) Beats the Ramones and Adam And The Ants at their own game with its joyful chorus and tribal drums. Everything’s The Same (on Legacy, 2008) Thunderous tribute to the late Kelly Johnson, complete with her shaken ashes.…

IRON MAIDEN The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter IN ONE important aspect, Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls tour was an unqualified success even before Britain’s biggest metal band walked on to the stage of the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida on February 24, 2016. For the tour’s opening night marked Bruce Dickinson’s return to the stage following a testing 2015, when the singer underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour on his tongue. Over the course of the next 18 months, Iron Maiden would play 117 shows in 36 countries across six continents in support of their 16th studio album, their most extensive campaign since Somewhere on Tour three decades previously. This time, the band’s own Ed Force One – a customised Air Atlanta…

ELECTRIC WIZARD Wizard Bloody Wizard SPINEFARM Dorset stoner Satan-worshippers’ ninth unholy offering. Those who’ve lately lamented the passing of AC/ DC’s Malcolm Young, not to mention Black Sabbath, but who can’t find it in their hearts to supplant them with any of contemporary metal’s big-hitters, should surely be directed to the gates of Electric Wizard. This elusive THC-imbibing troop were formed in Wimborne, Dorset in 1993 by one Jus Oborn, the remorseless spawn of occultist Wessex biker hippies. Across such monolithic double-albums as Come My Fanatics… (1997) and Dopethrone (2000) they quickly came to define the stoner-metal sound which burgeoned post-grunge. Yet, they’ve also nurtured a rare mystique – borderline arty and actively beyond the law, as Oborn’s rap sheet (for torching a car right outside a police station, etc)…

ROYAL BLOOD/ AT THE DRIVE IN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2017 Alexandra Palace, London AS THE new millennium dawned, At The Drive In were being tipped as rock music’s Next Big Thing on the strength of their brilliantly fractious Relationship Of Command album and a succession of incendiary live shows. That 17 years on the El Paso, Texas quintet are playing second fiddle here to rock music’s newest Next Big Thing illustrates that life doesn’t always work out as planned. Truthfully, given the amount of crack, heroin, cocaine and LSD frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López smoked /snorted/swallowed following their band’s implosion in 2001, it’s a minor miracle that they’re here at all. But both this year’s in·ter a·li·a album, and the newly released Diamanté EP, are far, far better…