RICH WARD Has No Problem Being ‘The Number Two Guy’ In FOZZY

In a model new interview with Darren Paltrowitz, host of the “Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz”, FOZZY guitarist Rich Ward spoke about his love of legendary VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth. He talked about (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I really feel David Lee Roth is among the greatest frontman that rock and roll has ever seen, and I really feel you could possibly probably merely make that argument. And I really feel Bruce Dickinson [IRON MAIDEN] is throughout the argument throughout the Excessive 5. ‘Set off there’s people who they’re merely… There’s 5 unbelievable or 4 unbelievable musicians nonetheless it’s possible you’ll’t stop making an attempt on the one particular person. That’s once you perceive…

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“I did a band known as ADRENALINE MOB for, like, a yr. And I take into consideration myself an A-lister entertainer on guitar; I grew up with my heroes… And I like Flea [RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS bassist]; I like these people that when you see it, it’s equivalent to you’re watching merely chaos inside the kind of a musician. And after I used to be in ADRENALINE MOB, it was almost as if I was invisible; they [the fans in the audience] had been having a look at [drummer] Mike Portnoy your entire time. It didn’t matter how crazy I went or what I did, it was like I was a show display door [laughs] that was making an attempt straight to Mike. And I merely realized there are people that merely have a gravitational pull — which could be merely such a selected artist, not merely musically nonetheless merely what they’re or what they create to the effectivity that’s so extremely efficient. In any case, I obtained some peripheral imaginative and prescient love, nonetheless when it received right here all the way in which all the way down to it, it’s the an identical issue.”

Rich continued: “I really feel Steve Harris [IRON MAIDEN bassist] is a particularly magnetic entertainer and he’s such an unbelievable stress of nature, nonetheless he’s on stage with Bruce Dickinson. And the an identical with Eddie Van Halen. It’s exhausting to say a guitar participant that had additional charisma and had additional magnetism — apart from he’s standing subsequent to David Lee Roth. And it’s unfair for these of us who take into consideration ourselves… Equivalent as [GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist] Slash. Slash is an apex predator, and he’s subsequent to the apex predator, Axl Rose. And it’s the an identical issue with me and FOZZY. As soon as extra, I’m standing subsequent to Chris Jericho. He’s top-of-the-line frontmen in irrespective of he does; he’s unbelievable. And so that you just start to be taught your place is, like… Hey, there’s nothing unsuitable with being the amount two man. Randy Rhoads [late OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist] was a amount two man. He stood subsequent to Ozzy. It’s, like, he was always gonna be a amount two man. Nevertheless you start to be taught, like in every band, there’s a pecking order and the place is your home. And that’s what makes an superior band. Not everybody would be the quarterback; not everybody would be the pitcher. A terrific group learns the place everyone’s positions lie they normally be taught to easily settle for that place and be top-of-the-line they’ll at it. Like, there’s a complete lot of supporting actors and actresses. They cannot all be Tom Cruise; they can’t all be The Rock. Nevertheless do you have to’re an unimaginable supporting stable, it makes the movie increased. And I really feel that’s the lesson in life, is that when David Lee Roth‘s on stage, your most interesting place you’re gonna uncover is amount two.”

FOZZY‘s new album, “Boombox”, is due on Would possibly 6. The LP, which contains the best 10 singles “Nowhere To Run” and “Sane”, was as quickly as as soon as extra produced by Johnny Andrews.

FOZZY simply currently launched the “Save The World” 2022 U.S. tour. The trek, that features explicit mates GFM, KRASHKARMA and THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR, will start on March 31 in Detroit, Michigan and wrap on Would possibly 16 in Sauget, Illinois.

Ward and Andrews as quickly as as soon as extra did “the lion’s share” of the songwriting for the model new FOZZY album, which was recorded primarily in Atlanta, Georgia.

This earlier January, FOZZY parted strategies with longtime drummer Frank Fontsere and altered him with Grant Brooks (THROUGH FIRE).

Fontsere was a founding member of FOZZY, having formed the group in 1999 with Jericho and Ward.

When FOZZY launched Fontsere‘s departure, the band talked about that he was “stepping all the way in which down to provide consideration to his family and totally different initiatives.”

FOZZY is Chris Jericho (vocals), Rich Ward (guitars, vocals), Grant Brooks (drums), Billy Grey (guitars) and P.J. Farley (bass).

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