THE COMPLETE ROCKLINE BROADCAST:
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Rockforever.com Member Artists Mickey Thomas, John Cafferty, Bobby Kimball, Pat Travers, Glenn Hughes, and Joe Lynn Turner appeared as guests on the Rockline Radio show and internet broadcast Wednesday from Rockline studios in Los Angeles, CA. It was an extraordinary smorgasbord of questions, answers, jokes and GREAT LIVE spontaneous performances! If you missed it, here are only a few of the highlights.

Mickey Thomas started the proceedings by outlining some of the great features that fans can expect on rockforever.com. Most memorable was his statement about how the mission of The Voices of Classic Rock and rockforever.com has, "brought a lot of the magic back for me."

The show started out with a call for John Cafferty. A fan asked about "Wild Summer Nights" and "Tender Years" and Cafferty explained that apparently the tracks would be available via a re- issue on Volcano records.

We were no more then 10 minutes into this nationally-broadcast radio program and Joe Lynn Turner was asked the inevitable question (editor's note: JLT must have this answer memorized by now, he has been asked this question so often in the last 15 years)"Who is more difficult to work with? Ritchie Blackmore or Yngwie Malmsteen?" To paraphrase Joe's eloquent response, basically he said, "Blackmore and Malmsteen...both were challenging ...Ritchie demands perfection...and so does Yngwie but Ritchie was more mature at the time so he was easier to write with where as Yngwie was going 'over the top' a bit [when I worked with him]."

I was pretty impressed when a call came in to the show very early about the Glenn Hughes CD "A Soulful Christmas." Being the proud owner of this rare CD myself, I was surprised that a fan called up so early in the show and asked Glenn about it. After many of the Voices chimed in about how brilliant the CD is (editor's note: it TRULY is a magical piece of work!) Hughes humorously quipped that "it was recorded last August in 110 degree heat." He also mentioned that indeed he and Joe Lynn would also be working together on an album this summer.

Pat Travers has been dubbed the "new recruit" with the Voices, since his affiliation was formally announced on Rockline this past week. How did Pat get together with the guys from VCR? He joked, "I had the same travel agent. (laughs all around)." Actually, Pat admitted that he did a show with VCR and enjoyed it so much that he decided to become a part of the venture.

Both Travers and Turner were asked about some albums in their past, including Joe's first solo LP "Rescue You" which came out in the mid-80s. Joe smirked that while it originally came out on "Neglectra records" (a play on words; the label it was actually released on was Elektra) that "the ball was dropped" with regard to promotion of it but it can still be found as a Japanese import in CD form.

Joe also fielded a question about the rumors on all the internet newsgroups...is he working with actor Robert DeNiro on a film project? He said he was working on some music for a film and that Robert was involved but he "didn't want to let the cat out of the bag" about it at this time.

Of course, it was no surprise that Turner was also corralled with another question that he gets all too often in interviews (but this time it had a unique twist). "Will Rainbow reunite with or WITHOUT Ritchie Blackmore?" Joe mentioned that Rainbow would not be Rainbow without Blackmore but admitted that last summer when a few of the former members of Rainbow tried to contact Blackmore about possibly re-forming the band for a tour, etc, that "the fortress was locked" and that they were really not able to talk (at length) about it.

Bobby Kimball was asked about a possible upcoming solo project. He said he planned to release it very soon here in the states and that a lot of future material will be available right here at rockforever.com

Glenn Hughes had a question thrown at him about his work with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. Glenn said that he has a "great relationship with Tony," and emphasized that his work with Sabbath was not "quite a Black Sabbath album (in the purest sense) but a great moment in the studio."

Guitar-man, Pat Travers talked to a fan about the differences (or lack of) in the guitars he is playing now and those from his past. He said that he looks for the same thing in guitars nowadays that he has always looked for: "When I plug in a Les Paul I want to sound like a Les Paul and when I plug in a Strat it needs to also sound like what it is."

Cafferty was asked a second question by his fans about how to get a hold of stuff that is unavailable. He responded with, "different things happen to all of us. People cannot find stuff (we have done) and it is disappointing," but he outlined that "this was one of the main reasons that we have this (rockforever.com) project. It all started out with a few of us having fun playing golf," and he then went on to say that now with this Voices of Classic Rock project and the digital label, rockforever.com we will finally be able to get this material to the fans.

Mickey Thomas was asked a rather unusual question about former Starship bandmate, Grace Slick's daughter becoming a wrestler and about whether or not he hangs out in online chat rooms and speaks to fans in that way? With regard to the wrestling question, Thomas smirked, "I think you are rattling my cage," but revealed that while he does not participate in online chat, now, that he will probably consider doing special chats at rockforever.com in the future.

Glenn Hughes recalled fond memories of singing with David Coverdale back in their Deep Purple days and talked about some recent live work with David that was very special. He also mused about his good times with guitarist Gary Moore. Glenn said that he and Gary were "good friends in the 80s."

Overall, it was obvious when listening to the Voices of Classic Rock on Rockline this past Wednesday evening, that there was no shortage of camaraderie among these legendary performers and a sincere lack of superstar ego. This attitude is one of the hallmarks of this project and is part of what makes it so unique. Even Rockline radio host, Bob Coburn (who has literally interviewed almost everyone who is anyone in rock and roll with his 15+ years as the show's host) was obviously blown away, you could hear it in his voice! If you missed the Rockline show this past Wednesday, you did not get to hear some of the amazing live performances that took place. However, we at rockforever.com can assure you that those are the kinds of things that you will soon find available RIGHT HERE at this web site in the very near future!