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I was working with this amazing guitar player called Anthony Vargas and he turned me onto Mario. We did this video in Las Vegas with all these different people in it and then we sent it to our friend Mario, who´s a tremendous editor. That video was awesome, man! With the album, we do everything via the internet and then we send it to Michael Voss in Germany and he mixes the hell out of it. We´re very happy with how it came out and then we went and did the video and that was a lot of fun. He was out of touch, but he ended up at the very end, getting back in touch so we brought him back in and he ended up being on the rest of the record.
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Mick came in at the end, again, because we couldn´t get a hold of him. Dave did most of the work on “Deep river”, and “The crunch”.The three of us worked really hard on the album. Johnny Rod came in with a lick and some riffs that ended up being the second song on the album, “Knock ém dead”. We had different song ideas coming from different people, but in the end it was pretty much me, Paul and Dave. It was like who had this and who had that. I put that groove down and Dave (Michael Philips) loved it and then we started writing the song with it. I have an old drum set that sounds awesome in a room that´s like a combination of a gym and a music room. The song “When the hammer comes down” started off as a drum groove I put down in my room here in Connecticut. I gave them to the guys and they screwed around with them and came up with that. Songs like “Hell on wheels” and “Running wild” started off on my iPad. It took a little longer to record this album than the first one and with the end product, I think you really can tell the difference.ĭid you start fresh with this album or were there songs left over from the other album?Ĭarmine: We started fresh actually. (laughs) All the lyrics on this one are more fine tuned and more of “Let´s tell more of a story!” and “Let´s make them the best lyrics we can make!”. Like with the club Vamp´d in Vegas where you go to have a good time and pick up a tramp. This time, even if we had a good time, if you listen to the lyrics, they all tell a story. The last album we did it fast and with corky energy and wrote kinda good time lyrics. I think it´s better because we put more time into the production, the song writing and a lot more time into the lyrical content. How would you compare this album to the previous one with Paul Shortino?Ĭarmine: I think it´s actually a little better. He left because he wanted to sing more pop stuff and then he went beyond that and turned into a woman. He never really wanted to be heavy rock and that´s pretty much what I´ve done all of my career.
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Mark Free was a great singer but he always wanted to sing pop stuff, like Bryan Adams and that kinda stuff. He´s a monster singer, a nice guy and I wish we had him in the 80´s.
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It creates a little bit of talk and with Paul in it, I think he really made a great addition to the band. We looked at that one as the first one and we already had “III” and we never released a “King Kobra II” album, so it might be interesting to call it “King Kobra II” and everybody would be asking that question. What happened was that since we never really had albums that had just the name like “King Kobra” or “King Kobra I”, we looked at the last album we did with Paul Shortino and that was the first album with him and also the first album on Frontiers and the first album with the band back again. Tell me about the new King Kobra album and why the title ”King Kobra II”, since you´ve already released “King Kobra III”?Ĭarmine: Well, that´s the interesting question, isn´t it? “King Kobra III” was released in ´97. Vi snackade bl a om nya plattan, projektet med Joe Lynn Turner och när hans spelade in med Pink Floyd. Han hade avlsutat en session med Drum wars tillsammans med sin bror Vinny och var på väg in till det stora äpplet för middag med bror och flickvän. Jag ringde upp Carmine nyligen och fick tag på honom i Connecticut utanför New York. Paul Shortino sköter sången och som vanligt sitter legenden Carmine Appice bakom trummorna. King Kobra lever och frodas igen sedan några år tillbaka.