Jeff Summers (ex-Weapon): "Fights, rows, drink, fun, music and parties were everyday occurrences"

Well, what can I say? Jeff Summers is just a top class musician and a real gentleman. This is my third interview with him and he has alway been very kind to me and provided full answers to my numerous questions (check out the interview about Wildfire, for example). This time I decided to try him out about the story of Weapon, on of the pioneers on NWOBHM, the band that along with Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, Sweet Savage and some others influenced early Metallica. This interview was done almost 6 months ago, but due to infamous personal reasons I was unable to post it earlier. 

John Phillips (Lautrec, Megaton, Weapon, etc.): Fanfare for the humble man

There are musicians who happened to play a gig or two with some well-known bands and they live off of this legend for the rest of theit lives, telling the same story again and again and adding "ex-memeber of ..." to the posters of their shows at bars. And there is drummer John Phillips who have played with at least three very respectful NWOBHM bands and with Kenny Driscoll's Lone Star, auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne and Waysted. Never heard of this man? I'm not surprised as he is a very humble guy, and I even had to convince him that his memories are important for the history of NWOBHM. I also want to apologise: the interview was done in 2018 right before the blog went on hiatus and I kinda forgot about it for a few years. I'm really sorry for this, mr. Phillips! Here it is at last.   

Pure Steel Records переиздадут альбом Weapon UK "Rise Up From The Ashes"

Лейбл Pure Steel Records объявил о готовящемся переиздании альбома "Rise Up From The Ashes" группы Weapon UK, который в 2014 году был издан силами самой группы.