VIVIAN CAMPBELLs LAST IN LINE Signs With FRONTIERS LAST IN LINE — the band featuring DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell alongside fellow founding DIO members Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Claude Schnell, plus singer Andrew Freeman, who has previously fronted HURRICANE and LYNCH MOB — has inked a deal with Frontiers Music Srl. The groups debut CD will be released in the spring of 2015. An audio snippet of an unmixed version of the song Devil In Me from LAST IN LINE can be streamed on the LAST IN LINE Facebook page at this location. The track was recorded with producer Jeff Pilson, an acclaimed bassist who has played with DIO, FOREIGNER, DOKKEN and T&N, among others. Asked by Tickets There how the new LAST IN LINE music is sounding and how the band can avoid DIOs legacy hanging over it, Vivian said: Its obviously always going to sound a bit like DIO. Were playing those songs that we wrote and recorded. The difference is that Andy doesnt sound anything like Ronnie [James Dio] and thats actually what motivated me to go out and do some gigs. If hed come in there being a Ronnie clone, Id have been very disinclined to go any further with it, because I dont want it to just be a tribute to Ronnies voice. Furthermore, I think that Ronnie is a really, really tough act to try and duplicate. He had such a unique-sounding voice. So the fact that Andy didnt sound anything like him really appealed to me. The reason for that was that it put the focus on the songs and the original band. The focus goes to the guitar, the bass and the drums, and therefore the guys that made the records. He continued: Not only did we make those records, but what a lot of people dont even realize is that we wrote the songs… obviously, including Ronnies input, which was monumental, but there was a real sound that we had. The fact that Andy didnt sound like Ronnie somehow resonated with me that it was OK to go out and play those songs and have the focus somewhere else. People then started asking me, Are you going to start making new music? At first, I said no because it was never on my field of thought, but then it became more apparent that for LAST IN LINE to move forward and to be taken to that next level, thats what we needed to do. We got into the studio just a few [months] ago, in early January and started writing. Just Jimmy, Vinny and myself, and it was so effortless the way we came across new music, it just fell out of us like it did on the first record, on Holy Diver. It was so easy for us to come up with musical ideas. We act as great springboards for each other. Like when I play something for the guys, they instinctively know where to go and vice versa. We came up with a half a dozen song ideas in a matter of days. Then Andy came in and we exchanged vocal and melody ideas. Vivian Campbells former SWEET SAVAGE bandmate Ray Haller filled in for Jimmy Bain at LAST IN LINEs October 20, 2013 performance at the Loud Park festival at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Campbell and Ronnie James Dio worked together on the first three DIO albums — 1983s Holy Diver, 1984s The Last in Line and 1985s Sacred Heart — before Irishman Campbell left to join WHITESNAKE in 1987.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:43:08 +0000
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