September 11, 2025 • 24 mins
SWEET & LYNCH is a brand new band centered around the talents of guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet of Christian hard rockers STRYPER and iconic guitarist George Lynch (LYNCH MOB, ex DOKKEN) along with bassist James Lomenzo (ex MEGADETH, WHITE LION, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) and drummer Brian Tichy (ex WHITESNAKE).
“SWEET & LYNCH was born as the brainchild of Serafino Perugino, President of Frontiers Music”, recalls Sweet. “He asked me to basically sing on this record and then I suggested producing it and co-wrote the songs with George”, continues the singer. Brian Tichy and James Lomenzo were then called in to complete the lineup. Now a complete a band, plans are being formulated to rehearse and book a tour to play the music included on this amazing debut album “Only to Rise” to the fans in a live setting.
“It’s an incredible combination of classic 70’s and 80’s”, tells Michael Sweet. “You will hear some flavors of Journey, Bad Company, Dokken, Van Halen and Stryper. James and Brian are amazing musicians. They tore it up. The drums and bass are just as impressive as the guitars. Everybody really delivered... The musicianship level on this is top notch. It sounds as if we were all in the studio playing together and we were not. Basically, George wrote some riffs about a minute to a minute and a half long. I wrote lyrics and melodies then arranged them. Then Brian and James came out and tracked the drums and bass, as well as some rhythm stuff. We then sent it back to George to add the guitars."
The combination of Sweet’s powerful, crystal clear vocals and Lynch’s unmatched guitar tone, provide the force and drive that the album needed. The result is truly a “state of the art” Hard Rock album, with fabulous melodies played to perfection.
An absolute must for all fans of Sweet and Lynch's musical stylings!
SWEET & LYNCH
Michael Sweet – lead vocals, guitars
George Lynch – lead guitars
James Lomenzo – bass guitar
Brian Tichy - drums
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“SWEET & LYNCH was born as the brainchild of Serafino Perugino, President of Frontiers Music”, recalls Sweet. “He asked me to basically sing on this record and then I suggested producing it and co-wrote the songs with George”, continues the singer. Brian Tichy and James Lomenzo were then called in to complete the lineup. Now a complete a band, plans are being formulated to rehearse and book a tour to play the music included on this amazing debut album “Only to Rise” to the fans in a live setting.
“It’s an incredible combination of classic 70’s and 80’s”, tells Michael Sweet. “You will hear some flavors of Journey, Bad Company, Dokken, Van Halen and Stryper. James and Brian are amazing musicians. They tore it up. The drums and bass are just as impressive as the guitars. Everybody really delivered... The musicianship level on this is top notch. It sounds as if we were all in the studio playing together and we were not. Basically, George wrote some riffs about a minute to a minute and a half long. I wrote lyrics and melodies then arranged them. Then Brian and James came out and tracked the drums and bass, as well as some rhythm stuff. We then sent it back to George to add the guitars."
The combination of Sweet’s powerful, crystal clear vocals and Lynch’s unmatched guitar tone, provide the force and drive that the album needed. The result is truly a “state of the art” Hard Rock album, with fabulous melodies played to perfection.
An absolute must for all fans of Sweet and Lynch's musical stylings!
SWEET & LYNCH
Michael Sweet – lead vocals, guitars
George Lynch – lead guitars
James Lomenzo – bass guitar
Brian Tichy - drums
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hate Zarah and I heard Radio Unplugged and totally encouned
with Michael Sweet from Sweet and Lynch. You guys, this
(00:25):
had to have been a brilliant project for you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It really was. It was one of those things where
we went into it not really knowing what to expect.
It felt less minute. It wasn't, but it felt it.
George and I are so busy, and Brian and James.
It was difficult to start working on the songs as
soon as we wanted to. Once we finally did you know,
we were only a few months away from recording, and
once George started sending me riff ideas, I started getting
(00:49):
a very clear picture as to how great the album
was going to be. I'm very pleased with the turnout man,
and I say that as humbly as I possibly can't
(01:12):
we create. I'll listen to it and I enjoy it,
and I don't always enjoy every album that I record.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know, is that just the perfection is coming out
or do you feel that it was just it was
a moment and you're moving forward.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I think a little bit of both, probably more so
the perfectionists. I mean, I'll listen to everything from a
producer or I would have, could have, should have mindset.
You know, it's hard for me to enjoy Michael Sweet
or Striper albums because I'm always dissecting them. With the
Sweet Lynch album, I do the same thing, but not
as much. I'm very pleased with how it turned out,
(01:58):
you know, and how it sounds. I'm also very pleased
with no more hell to pay. That's another one I
can listen to and actually sit back and enjoy it
and smile and not pick it to pieces.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Come we change on my.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We How have you been able to preserve that voice?
I mean it really, I swear it's better than what
it was.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, I did a deal with the devil, you know
what I don't know. I mean, I've lost definitely some
of my range. I mean, I can't hit the high
notes like I used to. And I'll be the first
to admit it. I think that I've been able to
Lord willing, retain some of my voice and I can
still pull off certain things. And my voice has dropped
(02:58):
a little bit in range, But I don't think that
sense early a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Did you grow up impersonating the guitar? And the reason
why I bring that up is because somehow, someway you
always become a part of a song already in forward motion.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I try not to over sing. I do over sing,
but I try not to, and I try to approach
it with the mentality of, Okay, let me sing this
for the song, let me sing for the song. Just
like you play a guitar solo, you know, you can
overplay and outplay the song, or you can underplay and
(03:57):
not keep up with the song, or you can play
for and to the song. And I always try to
do that with my guitar solos, with my vocals. I
don't always succeed, but I certainly try, and I give
it my best and not do too much and sing
and play the parts that are fitting for that particular song.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
N didn't do.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Cute.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You've got to be feeling the same thing that we're
hearing on this side of the microphone, that something is
going to break the back of this new age of country.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
This is it, you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I hope, So, I mean, I really hope. So I
really believed this album. It came out unfortunately a little
too late, And what I mean by that is if
it had come out in the seventies, late seventies early eighties.
I think it would have sold This is just my opinion,
(05:10):
doesn't matter, but I'll give it anyway. I think it
could have sold ten million copies, and I think it
would have gone through the roof because it's a really
good album. But unfortunately, the music business, if you even
want to call it that, is struggling these days, and
really it's going down in a lot of ways, in burning,
(05:31):
and it's difficult to figure out how to, you know,
make it survive and how to save it. I think
the first and most important piece of that is to
just write good songs and produce good songs and put
out good quality stuff. Hopefully eventually people will come around.
If you build it, they will come, you know that mentality,
(05:51):
and I hope they start coming.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And doesn't this make you the Picasso again? And the
reason why I bring that up is because he didn't
have the agey didn't have the record companies. It's almost
like that God's given you, guys a chance to say,
all right, you're the artist, you show me the way,
now come we.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Change on my.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Definitely, God's given us chance after chance, and doors have
opened and open and open. And when a door opens,
for me, for Michael Sweet, and maybe this is wrong.
I don't sit there and debate whether I should walk
through it or not. I run through it, you know,
at one hundred miles an hour, because I feel like, well,
you know, that door's open, so I'm going through it.
(06:36):
Some of the people friends of mine and people you know,
my peers and whatnot, they don't have that same mentality.
They kind of like approach everything completely different or they
don't approach it at all. And I think that's part
of the reason why Michael Sweet is so busy these
days and doing a lot of stuff. Because I love
to take on new projects and I love to work.
(06:58):
I love to write, I love to record. I enjoy
(07:27):
what I do. I'm very passionate about it, I think
more than I was when I was a teenager. I'm
not burn out yet.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Taking from the history of Striper and knowing that they
were the first real rock band to cross that line
between contemporary Christian and rock, do you think that's because
that the rock we can call it, Peter, we can
call it John fifteen. That you've got that energy behind you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Absolutely, and I mean I believe this is just me.
I believe that if it wasn't for good and what
He's put in my heart and placed in my heart,
I wouldn't have that energy when I do get down
(08:12):
on myself or I don't feel like doing something. You know,
I will read scriptures, i will say a prayer, I
will keep the faith, I will you know, call on God,
and instantly, like in a split second, that energy is
just shooting right through the roof again. So God definitely
sustains me and it gives me that motivation absolutely because
(08:33):
I realize why I'm doing this and what I'm doing
it for.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
A lot of the modern day churches are starting to
bring in some rock. I honestly could see strengthen numbers
being played on campuses or.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know what, It would be pretty awesome to see that.
I never say never, and I'm just I'm thrilled that
what's going on and that I had the opportunity to
write and record song that's one of my favorites. I
don't know why it's become I thought it was going
to be a quote unquote B side, and it's actually
become one of my favorites, and I think a lot
of people's favorite. It's got something special about it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, it's got that edge of an anthem, but at
the same time it says, sit up straight, let's walk
through this mountain.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Music is going to live well beyond the two of us.
And what I mean by that is is that we
both have to live this age of rediscovery where somebody's
going to be on Google and they're going to rediscover you.
Are you ready for that?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I am? I mean so far, I've done fairly well
at accepting that. I mean, there, we go to shows
and we perform, and I always ask the question, how
many people have seen stripper hands go up? And I say,
how many people have never seen stripper hands up? And back?
Ten years ago, eleven, twelve, thirteen years ago, most of
the hands were people who have Now most of the
(10:08):
hands are people who haven't. So it's people discovering the
band and not just rediscovering, but just discovering us for
the first time. And that's just mind blowing to me.
Here we are in our fifties, been going for thirty
one plus years, and it's astonishing original lineup that there.
You know, we still feel relevant in today's world, and
(10:32):
you know, it's amazing, it's mind blowing. To me.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
See, it's almost like we have discovered the fountain of
youth where music is what keeps us young.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh yeah, absolutely, music keeps us young. I mean I
you know, I have people say to me all the
time there's no way your hear how old you are,
And I say, well, yes, they're so way. I feel it,
believe me. But I'm young in spirit, young in heart,
young in mind, and music is certainly to blame for that.
I mean I love to crank up and makes the
(11:02):
boogie stack and let the hair blow back, and that
definitely keeps me young for sure. It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You find your.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You guys be picking up album covers too, because you know,
there was that age because I was in radio when
you guys first came out and to hold that album
and to stare at that album, and before I'd even
(12:01):
played on the radio, there was still that connection between
the jock, the listener and the artist. And it's like
nowadays it's an MP three, it's if we don't get
back to where they can physically put it in their fingers.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah. I was talking about this last night with somebody
and it's very it's a double edged sword. I mean,
obviously with today's technology, the convenience of going and downloading
a song is pretty awesome. You know, I want a
song right now, I go to my computer, I downloaded
I have an incident. I don't have to get in
my car and go buy blah blah blah. But the
(12:35):
downfall of it is there's a band that just spent
two hundred thousand dollars in six months making twelve songs,
and you just downloaded one because you don't care about
the other eleven. And that's where it's out of control.
In my opinion. It's not that you can force people
(12:56):
to buy something, but they never should have made it
just one song available to me. I just use an
example of imagine this. A builder builds you a house
and you walk in and you say, I just want
the bathroom. Now, well you got to buy the whole house.
Well I don't want to. You know, this new company
is allowing us to just buy rooms. I'm going to
(13:17):
cut out the bathroom because that's my favorite part, and
I'm just buying the bathroom. I mean, it's really sad
for that builder who just spent two years building the house.
Right that, there's a lot of great stuff to come
(14:02):
from it, and there's a lot of bad stuff to
come from it. I think what we need to do
is figure out a way to merge the two, you know,
and make it work a little better than it's working.
You know, it's working great for the fans, it's not
working so well for the bands.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'd be shocked if people don't go out and buy
the first album after they've heard you perform live.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, you know, Striper' is one of those bands. We've
always been a live band, and our albums have never
really been able to capture one hundred percent the energy
that the band has live and you really have to
see it to believe it and experience it. And there's
just something about seeing Stripper that's really cool. You know,
everyone puts on their show, it has their own personality
(14:45):
and whatnot. It's almost like going to church, you know.
When you see Stripper, there's that incredible spirit that overwhelmingly
(15:07):
takes you over, and you know, you can't get that
onto an album and record that. So we have the
opportunity to make that attempt with Live at the Whiskey
most recently and get people a real good taste of
what we're like live in a small setting. At the
Whiskey A Go Go, of course, and that just came
out not long ago. We're pretty proud of that.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Do you feel that in your life the reason why
you are so creative is because you are strengthening your brother.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think so I do, and you know I want
in strengthening. When you say strengthening your brother, I instantly
think of all the people in the world. You know.
I've been given a platform to go out and encourage
people through song. And when I write a song and I,
you know, go into studio and record it and release it,
(15:57):
it's an opportunity for me to encourage somebody. And as
you said, that strengthen your brother, your sister, and that's
just incredible. I don't ever want to take that for
granted or treat it as some throwaway. You know. I
consider it a gift and I cherish it, I honor it,
and I thank God for it.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's almost like the intro of the song me without you.
It's almost like a meditation moment, and you really come
into that as if you've stepped away and said, hey,
I just heard something while I was in prayer and
I want to share it with you.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No doubt about it. That's a very emotional song, very
emotional song. And you know, that's the way I want
any song that I'm involved with or a part of
to be. I wanted to touch people. I wanted to
move people, inspire people, encourage people. I give my best
to do so with any song that I write or
that I'm a part of, or that I perform on,
(17:06):
even if I don't write it, you know, if I'm
just singing on it or what have you. When I
was touring with Boston and singing those songs live, I
tried to sing them with conviction and in the hopes
that maybe someone would feel something out there when they
were listening, you know, and some people did, because they
would come.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Up and tell me, so, did you feel Brad dealt
(17:45):
at all when you were playing with them live?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh my gosh, you know, that was amazing, I mean,
because that was the celebration tour of Brad's life. We
were celebrating Brad's life, and you know, tragically he took
his own life, and I just can't still can't even
believe it. But to have the opportunity to step in
and celebrate the man and his music and who he
(18:09):
was in his heart and whatnot. It was incredible. I'll
never forget the first time I walked in for the rehearsals.
I looked down and the pedal board I was using
in the amp I was plugging into it had a
big piece of tape on it that said Brad delp
So it was his rig, you know, And that was
that was a little odd, definitely a little.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Lot to be a part of that stage. You're still
that kid inside there, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Of course. I mean I walked in there. I'm a
huge Boston fan, and I walked in there just thinking
to myself, trying to, you know, restrain myself of becoming
a fanboy, you know, because I'm a big, huge Boston fan.
Grew up on that stuff. It really shaped me a
lot as a musician. Nice. I really keep believing that
(19:27):
someday it's all going to turn around. And you know,
a lot of these guys who for whatever reason made
to call them not play it, are you going to
have some regrets? I would at least love to think that.
(19:59):
M you can't deny good music, man, you just can't.
I don't care what genre it is, country, R and B, pop,
whatever doesn't matter. A good song is a good song.
(20:19):
And when unfortunately this style of music that I do,
hard rock, classic rock, metal, whatever you want to call it,
when it gets denied and it's just a really good song,
it's really sad, and it's not just Streifer. It's so
many bands out there from that time period, and hopefully
it's going to come around full circle and you're going
(20:39):
to hear it all over the airwaves again. You be
(21:03):
a smile.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Why selves ye say.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I was lost?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Card a Wild, Sitting, Long.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Sails and the Start.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Tell you, I mean.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
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Speaker 3 (22:15):
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(23:36):
just thick out time, the space space
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Every dream, talk talk at any people be able to
talk about, to do anything anything,
Hate Zarah and I heard Radio Unplugged and totally encouned
with Michael Sweet from Sweet and Lynch. You guys, this
(00:25):
had to have been a brilliant project for you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It really was. It was one of those things where
we went into it not really knowing what to expect.
It felt less minute. It wasn't, but it felt it.
George and I are so busy, and Brian and James.
It was difficult to start working on the songs as
soon as we wanted to. Once we finally did you know,
we were only a few months away from recording, and
once George started sending me riff ideas, I started getting
(00:49):
a very clear picture as to how great the album
was going to be. I'm very pleased with the turnout man,
and I say that as humbly as I possibly can't
(01:12):
we create. I'll listen to it and I enjoy it,
and I don't always enjoy every album that I record.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know, is that just the perfection is coming out
or do you feel that it was just it was
a moment and you're moving forward.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I think a little bit of both, probably more so
the perfectionists. I mean, I'll listen to everything from a
producer or I would have, could have, should have mindset.
You know, it's hard for me to enjoy Michael Sweet
or Striper albums because I'm always dissecting them. With the
Sweet Lynch album, I do the same thing, but not
as much. I'm very pleased with how it turned out,
(01:58):
you know, and how it sounds. I'm also very pleased
with no more hell to pay. That's another one I
can listen to and actually sit back and enjoy it
and smile and not pick it to pieces.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Come we change on my.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We How have you been able to preserve that voice?
I mean it really, I swear it's better than what
it was.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, I did a deal with the devil, you know
what I don't know. I mean, I've lost definitely some
of my range. I mean, I can't hit the high
notes like I used to. And I'll be the first
to admit it. I think that I've been able to
Lord willing, retain some of my voice and I can
still pull off certain things. And my voice has dropped
(02:58):
a little bit in range, But I don't think that
sense early a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Did you grow up impersonating the guitar? And the reason
why I bring that up is because somehow, someway you
always become a part of a song already in forward motion.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I try not to over sing. I do over sing,
but I try not to, and I try to approach
it with the mentality of, Okay, let me sing this
for the song, let me sing for the song. Just
like you play a guitar solo, you know, you can
overplay and outplay the song, or you can underplay and
(03:57):
not keep up with the song, or you can play
for and to the song. And I always try to
do that with my guitar solos, with my vocals. I
don't always succeed, but I certainly try, and I give
it my best and not do too much and sing
and play the parts that are fitting for that particular song.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
N didn't do.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Cute.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You've got to be feeling the same thing that we're
hearing on this side of the microphone, that something is
going to break the back of this new age of country.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
This is it, you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I hope, So, I mean, I really hope. So I
really believed this album. It came out unfortunately a little
too late, And what I mean by that is if
it had come out in the seventies, late seventies early eighties.
I think it would have sold This is just my opinion,
(05:10):
doesn't matter, but I'll give it anyway. I think it
could have sold ten million copies, and I think it
would have gone through the roof because it's a really
good album. But unfortunately, the music business, if you even
want to call it that, is struggling these days, and
really it's going down in a lot of ways, in burning,
(05:31):
and it's difficult to figure out how to, you know,
make it survive and how to save it. I think
the first and most important piece of that is to
just write good songs and produce good songs and put
out good quality stuff. Hopefully eventually people will come around.
If you build it, they will come, you know that mentality,
(05:51):
and I hope they start coming.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And doesn't this make you the Picasso again? And the
reason why I bring that up is because he didn't
have the agey didn't have the record companies. It's almost
like that God's given you, guys a chance to say,
all right, you're the artist, you show me the way,
now come we.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Change on my.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Definitely, God's given us chance after chance, and doors have
opened and open and open. And when a door opens,
for me, for Michael Sweet, and maybe this is wrong.
I don't sit there and debate whether I should walk
through it or not. I run through it, you know,
at one hundred miles an hour, because I feel like, well,
you know, that door's open, so I'm going through it.
(06:36):
Some of the people friends of mine and people you know,
my peers and whatnot, they don't have that same mentality.
They kind of like approach everything completely different or they
don't approach it at all. And I think that's part
of the reason why Michael Sweet is so busy these
days and doing a lot of stuff. Because I love
to take on new projects and I love to work.
(06:58):
I love to write, I love to record. I enjoy
(07:27):
what I do. I'm very passionate about it, I think
more than I was when I was a teenager. I'm
not burn out yet.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Taking from the history of Striper and knowing that they
were the first real rock band to cross that line
between contemporary Christian and rock, do you think that's because
that the rock we can call it, Peter, we can
call it John fifteen. That you've got that energy behind you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Absolutely, and I mean I believe this is just me.
I believe that if it wasn't for good and what
He's put in my heart and placed in my heart,
I wouldn't have that energy when I do get down
(08:12):
on myself or I don't feel like doing something. You know,
I will read scriptures, i will say a prayer, I
will keep the faith, I will you know, call on God,
and instantly, like in a split second, that energy is
just shooting right through the roof again. So God definitely
sustains me and it gives me that motivation absolutely because
(08:33):
I realize why I'm doing this and what I'm doing
it for.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
A lot of the modern day churches are starting to
bring in some rock. I honestly could see strengthen numbers
being played on campuses or.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know what, It would be pretty awesome to see that.
I never say never, and I'm just I'm thrilled that
what's going on and that I had the opportunity to
write and record song that's one of my favorites. I
don't know why it's become I thought it was going
to be a quote unquote B side, and it's actually
become one of my favorites, and I think a lot
of people's favorite. It's got something special about it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, it's got that edge of an anthem, but at
the same time it says, sit up straight, let's walk
through this mountain.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Music is going to live well beyond the two of us.
And what I mean by that is is that we
both have to live this age of rediscovery where somebody's
going to be on Google and they're going to rediscover you.
Are you ready for that?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I am? I mean so far, I've done fairly well
at accepting that. I mean, there, we go to shows
and we perform, and I always ask the question, how
many people have seen stripper hands go up? And I say,
how many people have never seen stripper hands up? And back?
Ten years ago, eleven, twelve, thirteen years ago, most of
the hands were people who have Now most of the
(10:08):
hands are people who haven't. So it's people discovering the
band and not just rediscovering, but just discovering us for
the first time. And that's just mind blowing to me.
Here we are in our fifties, been going for thirty
one plus years, and it's astonishing original lineup that there.
You know, we still feel relevant in today's world, and
(10:32):
you know, it's amazing, it's mind blowing. To me.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
See, it's almost like we have discovered the fountain of
youth where music is what keeps us young.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh yeah, absolutely, music keeps us young. I mean I
you know, I have people say to me all the
time there's no way your hear how old you are,
And I say, well, yes, they're so way. I feel it,
believe me. But I'm young in spirit, young in heart,
young in mind, and music is certainly to blame for that.
I mean I love to crank up and makes the
(11:02):
boogie stack and let the hair blow back, and that
definitely keeps me young for sure. It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You find your.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You guys be picking up album covers too, because you know,
there was that age because I was in radio when
you guys first came out and to hold that album
and to stare at that album, and before I'd even
(12:01):
played on the radio, there was still that connection between
the jock, the listener and the artist. And it's like
nowadays it's an MP three, it's if we don't get
back to where they can physically put it in their fingers.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah. I was talking about this last night with somebody
and it's very it's a double edged sword. I mean,
obviously with today's technology, the convenience of going and downloading
a song is pretty awesome. You know, I want a
song right now, I go to my computer, I downloaded
I have an incident. I don't have to get in
my car and go buy blah blah blah. But the
(12:35):
downfall of it is there's a band that just spent
two hundred thousand dollars in six months making twelve songs,
and you just downloaded one because you don't care about
the other eleven. And that's where it's out of control.
In my opinion. It's not that you can force people
(12:56):
to buy something, but they never should have made it
just one song available to me. I just use an
example of imagine this. A builder builds you a house
and you walk in and you say, I just want
the bathroom. Now, well you got to buy the whole house.
Well I don't want to. You know, this new company
is allowing us to just buy rooms. I'm going to
(13:17):
cut out the bathroom because that's my favorite part, and
I'm just buying the bathroom. I mean, it's really sad
for that builder who just spent two years building the house.
Right that, there's a lot of great stuff to come
(14:02):
from it, and there's a lot of bad stuff to
come from it. I think what we need to do
is figure out a way to merge the two, you know,
and make it work a little better than it's working.
You know, it's working great for the fans, it's not
working so well for the bands.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'd be shocked if people don't go out and buy
the first album after they've heard you perform live.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, you know, Striper' is one of those bands. We've
always been a live band, and our albums have never
really been able to capture one hundred percent the energy
that the band has live and you really have to
see it to believe it and experience it. And there's
just something about seeing Stripper that's really cool. You know,
everyone puts on their show, it has their own personality
(14:45):
and whatnot. It's almost like going to church, you know.
When you see Stripper, there's that incredible spirit that overwhelmingly
(15:07):
takes you over, and you know, you can't get that
onto an album and record that. So we have the
opportunity to make that attempt with Live at the Whiskey
most recently and get people a real good taste of
what we're like live in a small setting. At the
Whiskey A Go Go, of course, and that just came
out not long ago. We're pretty proud of that.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Do you feel that in your life the reason why
you are so creative is because you are strengthening your brother.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think so I do, and you know I want
in strengthening. When you say strengthening your brother, I instantly
think of all the people in the world. You know.
I've been given a platform to go out and encourage
people through song. And when I write a song and I,
you know, go into studio and record it and release it,
(15:57):
it's an opportunity for me to encourage somebody. And as
you said, that strengthen your brother, your sister, and that's
just incredible. I don't ever want to take that for
granted or treat it as some throwaway. You know. I
consider it a gift and I cherish it, I honor it,
and I thank God for it.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's almost like the intro of the song me without you.
It's almost like a meditation moment, and you really come
into that as if you've stepped away and said, hey,
I just heard something while I was in prayer and
I want to share it with you.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No doubt about it. That's a very emotional song, very
emotional song. And you know, that's the way I want
any song that I'm involved with or a part of
to be. I wanted to touch people. I wanted to
move people, inspire people, encourage people. I give my best
to do so with any song that I write or
that I'm a part of, or that I perform on,
(17:06):
even if I don't write it, you know, if I'm
just singing on it or what have you. When I
was touring with Boston and singing those songs live, I
tried to sing them with conviction and in the hopes
that maybe someone would feel something out there when they
were listening, you know, and some people did, because they
would come.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Up and tell me, so, did you feel Brad dealt
(17:45):
at all when you were playing with them live?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh my gosh, you know, that was amazing, I mean,
because that was the celebration tour of Brad's life. We
were celebrating Brad's life, and you know, tragically he took
his own life, and I just can't still can't even
believe it. But to have the opportunity to step in
and celebrate the man and his music and who he
(18:09):
was in his heart and whatnot. It was incredible. I'll
never forget the first time I walked in for the rehearsals.
I looked down and the pedal board I was using
in the amp I was plugging into it had a
big piece of tape on it that said Brad delp
So it was his rig, you know, And that was
that was a little odd, definitely a little.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Lot to be a part of that stage. You're still
that kid inside there, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Of course. I mean I walked in there. I'm a
huge Boston fan, and I walked in there just thinking
to myself, trying to, you know, restrain myself of becoming
a fanboy, you know, because I'm a big, huge Boston fan.
Grew up on that stuff. It really shaped me a
lot as a musician. Nice. I really keep believing that
(19:27):
someday it's all going to turn around. And you know,
a lot of these guys who for whatever reason made
to call them not play it, are you going to
have some regrets? I would at least love to think that.
(19:59):
M you can't deny good music, man, you just can't.
I don't care what genre it is, country, R and B, pop,
whatever doesn't matter. A good song is a good song.
(20:19):
And when unfortunately this style of music that I do,
hard rock, classic rock, metal, whatever you want to call it,
when it gets denied and it's just a really good song,
it's really sad, and it's not just Streifer. It's so
many bands out there from that time period, and hopefully
it's going to come around full circle and you're going
(20:39):
to hear it all over the airwaves again. You be
(21:03):
a smile.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Why selves ye say.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I was lost?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Card a Wild, Sitting, Long.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Sails and the Start.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Tell you, I mean.
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the Sit and to SI and Time come to manyse
record disease, sty comtas.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm telling you, I'm just you may read you just
take at Time'll tell you I'm just you. Pray to
(23:36):
just thick out time, the space space
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Every dream, talk talk at any people be able to
talk about, to do anything anything,
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