Mitch Perry & Ron Keel on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 462 - Mitch & Ron

Couldn’t think of a clever title this week so I’m going with Mitch and Ron cuz that’s who’s on the show this week Mitch Perry and Ron Keel. Yep we finally have one of the guitar greats, Mitch Perry on the show talking about the new Mitch Perry Group release “Music Box”. 

We also welcome back the metal cowboy Ron Keel to talk about the latest Ron Keel Band release “South x South Dakota”.

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Author James Curl Talks Dokken on This Weeks Bonus Episode of Focus on Metal

Episode 461SE - Into The Fire

We’ve had author James Curl on the show before when he released his great Dio book. Well he’s back again and the occasion is the publication of “Dokken: Into The Fire And Other Embers Of 80s Metal” 

So lots of Dokken conversation on this bonus episode of Focus on Metal.

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Revisiting Hurricane's Slave to The Thrill With Doug Aldrich & Tony Cavazo on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 461 - Slave to The Thrill

30 years ago this coming July Hurricane released their third studio album “Slave to The Thrill”. The band wouldn’t put out another release until 2001’s “Liquifury”. This week we talk with bassist Tony Cavazo and guitarist Doug Aldrich about their memories of this release.

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Carl Canedy Returns on This Bonus Episode of Focus on Metal

Episode 460SE - Warrior

On May 8th Carl Canedy released his latest solo effort under the name Canedy with “Warrior”. Warrior is 10 tracks of the kind of classic metal we’ve come to expect from Carl. Beside Carl there’s also Mike Santarsiero on vocals. Charlie Russello handling guitars and synth stuff. Tony Garuba handles bass, takes some vocals duties and also throws in some metal cello. Head over to CanedyBand.com for your own copy.

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The Rebirth of Hair on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 460 - The Rise of Hair

This week we are joined by author Christopher P Hilton. In March he published The Spectacular Rise, Fall & Rebirth of Hair Metal. As a self professed fan of what is now known as hair metal Christopher is uniquely positioned to write a book like this. Find out all about it on this weeks FoM.

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Anthem: Rush In The '70s- Martin Popoff (ECW Press)

There's no shortage of Rush books from Martin. He did Contents Under Pressure with the co-operation of the band, a couple of years ago he followed that up with beautiful coffee table books Rush: The Illustrated History and Rush: Album By Album featuring guest reviews of all their releases. In other words a wealth of reading and opinions. So after all that what is really left to tell? That is why I approached this book with caution, I thought it would be rehashed material bound in a new cover. How wrong I was.

For those who don't know Martin was involved with Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen at Banger Films on the documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage. We all know how good that was, in my opinion it was superb. Award winning. With something like that there are edits and lots of them, some interviews make the bonus features of the dvd, most are never used. So Martin got access to all of it to flesh out the story. Think of this book as holding the unedited script of the documentary. Or the finished version with 20 hours of bonus extras. None of it crap.

This is the first book in a trilogy and is all about the band's beginnings up to Hemispheres. It features contributions from all three band members, their family members, manager Ray Daniels, producer Terry Brown, road crew members, Cliff Burnstein and many more. Each album is given a chapter, the band's early years over 60 pages and the debut album over 100!

You learn how friendship, loyalty and determination made the band and how touring nearly killed them. The real ingredients to the songs. The work back then was insane, no time off. Album tour album tour album tour in dodgy vehicles yet they somehow made it all work. You also find out what bands were nice to them when they opened (Kiss) and who were not (Aerosmith) and the lessons they learned when it came to their treatment of openers when they headlined.

All the text is housed in a beautiful leather bound hard back book with two color photo sections. If you are a fan of the band this is a must read, I loved the book and this is shaping up to be some of Martin's best work. It's released on May 12th and you can get it at the links below. The next installment of the story Limelight: Rush In The '80s is released in September and that is my favorite era of the band, the closing Driven book to finish the story is out in April 2021.

Richie.

http://www.martinpopoff.com/html/bookslist.html

https://ecwpress.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Popoff-ebook/dp/B083W2QWVB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=martin+popoff+rush&qid=1589048011&sr=8-1

Michael Alago Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 459 - Breathing Music

Honestly any one of the three phrases on the the cover of the new book “I Am Michael Alago” would have made a great episode title but Breathing Music seems to sum it up best. This week we talk with the A&R guy who most famously signed Metallica to Elektra records. But he has done, and has lived through so much more. So listen to our chat with Michael Alago and then do yourself a favor and get a copy of his book. It’s a worthy way to spend your quarantine time.

Here's quick interview clip from London Real TV

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Martin Popoff Guests on This Weeks Bonus Episode of FoM

Episode 458 SE - Denim and Leather

Yep, another bonus episode. This time we sit down once again with author and perennial guest Martin Popoff. Martin always has a steady stream of hard rock and metal titles rolling out and this time we focus on the two latest ones.

First we look at the first one in his upcoming massive Rush trilogy “Anthem:Rush in The ’70s” which looks at the early years. After that we get to his first book focusing solely on Saxon, “Denim And Leather:Saxon’s First Ten Years” which focuses on the band through 1989.

These will sell fast so grab your own copy direct from the source at MartinPopoff.com

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