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t was only last year that The Dead body’s going to be getting back together record, mix and master the record.”
IDaisies released their second album, again, so they’re talking about a tour.” Enter So the full line-up of The Dead Daisies is
‘Revolución’. But after having signed to a new Doug Aldrich. We’ve all known Doug forever. I now John Corabi, Marco Mendoza, David
label, SPV, they’re back with ‘Make Some think Marco and Brian have both played with Lowy (who originally formed the band), Brian
Noise’. And the noise we make upon hearing Doug in Whitesnake and some other projects. Tichy and now Doug Aldrich. John says, “I’ve
it is rapturous applause. The Dead Daisies are I’ve known Doug since we were teenagers in definitely found it’s a very cool band. I don’t
making US feel more and more alive. Philadelphia but I’d never played in a band think I’ve ever been in a band that actually
There’s a slightly new line-up to The Dead with him until now. So Doug came in in Janu- writes, and… at the end of the day everyone is
Daisies in 2016. John Corabi, speaking on the ary. We had never played a note of music to- a great player; Doug Aldrich, Marco, David
phone to Black Velvet from his home in gether. We all just got together in Nashville, Lowy, Brian Tichy, they’re all amazing players,
Nashville, tells us, “If you saw us last year, TN, where I live and we went into a studio and they’re all incredibly gifted songwriters, and
you’ll know that we had Richard and Dizzy in we just started writing, because we didn’t re- the thing that amazes me is that they’re all so
the band. They were very cool to give us a ally have any songs or anything. We started fast at it. This record, we went into the studio
nice heads up. They said “Guys, there’s a January 25th and we were done March 1st, I and we didn’t have one song. Bringing a new
good possibility that Slash and Duff, every- think. It took us about five weeks to write, guy into the mix and we have no songs, we
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