Nazareth: "The Record Companies Kept Telling Us That We Were Too Old To Make A Record; We Decided That Was Not The Case"

Classic Rock Revisited recently spoke with Dan McCafferty, frontman for legendary Scottish rockers Nazareth, about the band's new album, "Big Dogz". An excerpt from the interview is available below:


Jeb: Congratulations on "Big Dogz". This is a real Nazareth album with no filler. The last album, "The Newz" was the same. You are on a roll. 

Dan: "We are really happy with it. The band is going great. Jimmy (Murrison) has been with us seventeen years. Lee (Agnew) joined after Darrel (Sweet) died. We kept writing songs before The Newz but we never really recorded them. The record companies kept telling us that we were too old to make a record. It was all very negative. We decided that was not the case, so we went in and did The Newz, which really, really pleased us. We really liked that album because we don’t like to do albums where the songs are all the same. Jimmy was really coming in as his own as a writer. These guys were really writing great songs. Pete (Agnew) and I were not really that involved in the writing of that album. The songs were very Nazareth. They were scarily Nazareth." 

Jeb: You have an extremely unique vocal style. Your voice is just as ferocious now as it was thirty-five years ago. Is it something you work on? 

Dan: "I think it is mostly just pure dumb luck. The thing is that I don’t worry about it. I smoked for years; I don’t anymore though. I still have a few drinks with dinner. I think too many singers are too paranoid about their voice. They think it is too smoky or that it is not smoky enough. They are frightened that they are going to lose it and they drive themselves insane. Generally speaking, I have been pretty lucky. Years ago, I had something wrong with my vocal chords and I had to have something done to them but that was it." 

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Nazareth - Big Dog's Gonna Howl by Eagle Rock Entertainment

Nazareth - When Jesus Comes To Save The World Again by Eagle Rock Entertainment

Queensrÿche: Michael Wilton in New Audio Interview

Guitarist Michael Wilton of Seattle progressive rockers Queensrÿche was the featured guest on this past Saturday's (June 25th) edition of the"Turn It Up" radio show on WSCA 106.1 FM in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You can now listen to the chat using the player below. 

"Turn It Up" is a two-hour radio show that focuses on new and classic hard rock and heavy metal. 

For more information, go to this location.


Wilton recently released the following statement via the band's official web site:

"In reading the responses to my recent interviews, I feel I would like to clear up what I believe to be a misunderstanding of a few statements I have made.

"Queensrÿche has been a band for 30 years and we all have a great working relationship. I wouldn’t have it any other way. If I have my way, we will be making records and touring for years to come.

"'Dedicated To Chaos' is the next chapter in the Queensrÿche world and I stand behind our effort 100%. There were no other songs that were scrapped or other directions turned down. We all got together and made music and 'Dedicated To Chaos' was the result. It’s a hard rock collection that I believe really shows the band's diversity while still sticking to our rock roots.

"Thanks for all your support over the years for Queensrÿche and I hope to see everyone out on the road this summer." 

Black Sabbath: Bill Ward Discusses "Master of Reality" and "Born Again" in new 62 Min Podcast

On a very special episode of the "Glory Is Noise" online radio show, host Joel Gausten welcomes legendary Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward for a discussion on the upcoming 40th anniversary of Sabbath's "Master Of Reality" record, the recent deluxe re-release of the band's 1983 album "Born Again" and Bill's ongoing work with charities. The 62-minute episode can be heard on this location. 


A founding member of Black Sabbath, Bill Ward played drums on the band's first nine albums before departing in 1980 to begin an ultimately-successful battle against addiction. After briefly returning to Black Sabbath in 1983 for the "Born Again" sessions, he left the band again to pursue a solo project that has so far produced two albums (1990's "Ward One: Along The Way" and 1997's "When The Bough Breaks"). He rejoined Black Sabbath for a reunion of the original lineup in 1997 and has remained with the band ever since. In 2002, he released "Straws", a special CD single sold to raise funds for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the Alice Faith Mittelman Foundation, the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation and the National Veterans Foundation. In addition, Ward has appeared in several music-related books, including Joel Gausten's 2010 release, "From Satan to Sabbath: The Metal Interviews 2000-2009", available at this location.

Yes: Chris Squire and Geoff Downes on Fox News

What´s next for Yes? Yes member Chris Squire and Geoff Downes discuss the concept of the new album "Fly From Here" on Fox News.


"Fly from Here" is the band's first studio album since the release of "Magnification (2001), the longest gap to date between two Yes studio albums. It will also be their first with Canadian singer Benoit David on vocals, who replaced long-time member Jon Anderson. Prior to joining Yes in 2008, David performed as the lead vocalist in Close to the Edge, a Canadian Yes tribute band, for over ten years. He remains the lead singer of the Canadian band Mystery, which he joined in 1999.

Iron Maiden: Puerto Rico IMTV Special

Iron Maiden's official channel IMTV followed the band as they wrapped up the "round the world" leg of "The Final Frontier" world tour with shows in Puerto Rico and Florida. Check out the footage below.

Iron Maiden recently landed at position No. 2 on Billboard.com "Hot Tours" rankings with more than $10.5 million in box office grosses reported from tour legs in both South America and Europe. The band played two concerts in Brazil (April 3 in Recife and April 5 in Curitiba) and a stadium event in Argentina on April 8 at Estadio Vélez Sársfield in Buenos Aires. The concert with the best attendance was in Chile at the 47,000-seat Estadio Nacional in Santiago, the largest stadium in the country. With 43,780 fans in attendance, the performance on April 10 grossed 1.2 billion pesos ($2.6 million US$). At a concert on June 3, Berlin's 17,000-seat arena, O2 World, the band drew a crowd of 12,817, the top attendance reported from the six German arenas on the most recent leg of the tour.

As previously reported, Iron Maiden's April 8 and April 10 concerts in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile, respectively, were professionally filmed and recorded for a future DVD release.