Interviews
A few years ago I came in contact with Laurent Biehly, the admin of the Official Neil Stubenhaus Facebook Page. At that time I frequently post Neil’s sessions on my Facebook Page Sessiondays and he asked if I could share them in his group too. No problem to me, actually I was honored. Neil is […]
For quite some time I got in touch with Blaise Tosti who re-released his album American Lovers in 2016. Apparently it was requested many times by the Toto fans at the address of Fred Mollin, who produced this album. Shortly before that Fred Mollin also released his Fast Company soundtrack. Who knows what else is […]
May 18, 2016 Jimmy Keys had this exclusive interview with one of the best drummers; Simon Phillips in club “Spirit of 66” in Verviers (Belgium) during the Protocol European Tour 2016. We had a nice chat about Protocol, Toto, Tama, drums of course! And a lot more. Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is an English jazz, […]
May 2016 Jimmy Keys had an interview with CWF in Zoetermeer, just before they went on stage for another concert during the 2016 European concert. CWF is for…med by Bill Champlin (Chicago), Joseph Williams (Toto) and the great sessionguitarist Peter Friestedt. Thanks to Bill, Joseph and Peter for this great chat! More about CWF at www.peterfriestedt.com/cwf/ […]
Michael Riesenbeck is a Dutch musician who has been active for thirty years, mostly in the hard rock, melodic rock and AOR scene. In 1987, he played the drums in a hard rock cover band called Fingers Crossed. After Dawn he started the band Alibi (Dutch melodic hard rock). His debut album “Shouting Silence” was […]
In his rehearsal room / studio Raymond Herveille spent every day to study with the aim of controlling as many different styles which later proved necessary as a studio session drummer. In 1995 he was a guest of Joe Porcaro, where he studied as a guest student at the PIT to Los Angeles. Contact with Joe Porcaro […]
A few months ago, during my research I contacted Kerry Chater. I was searching for his first album Part Time Love Jeff Porcaro, David Hungate, Lee Sklar and Dean Parks to name a few. More info can be found here. A few weeks later I received a signed copy of that album. I loved it! […]
February 3rd, 2015 Michael Kratz will release the first single (This Town Is Lost Without You) of his new album featuring Steve Lukather. I came in contact with Michael and started an interview about his early career, the start and process of his upcoming album. As mentioned on his website: Michael is very influenced by […]
During my research of the recording sessions of Toto I discovered an album by Dwayne Ford – “Needless Freaking”. I contacted Dwayne to do an interview a couple of weeks ago. He agreed and we began by talking about his book: “Rock This Kitchen”. It tells stories about his solo works, the friendship with David […]
First of all: thank you Melanie Carlston (www.billchamplin.net) for the help and for editing the interview with Bill Champlin. Your role as background vocalist and as a composer was quite huge these days. I am keeping a database that is growing bigger every day and lost count how many times I saw your name. You […]