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Is This Medical Crisis the Real Reason for Cinderella's Shocking Cancellation? (2008 Archive) · Classic Metal Show

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, this is Monty from Galactic Cowboys, and you are watching CMS-TV.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_02: It's a classic metal show right here on theclassicmetalshow.com.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_02: That's one of my favorite bands, Cinderella from the...
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: Heartbreak Station release, and that is the more things change.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: And Chris, can you believe it?
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Cinderella is not going on the road this summer.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Bummer of the summer, man.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Bummer of the summer.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I tell you what, the members of Cinderella, I'm sure they're upset about it.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: And to talk about the cancellation of the tour and...
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: Perhaps being able to see at least one of the members on tour,
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: we've got bassist Eric Brittingham on the phone.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the Classic Metal Show there, Eric.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: Well, thank you for
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: having me on.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what, Eric?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: This is the first time I've actually had you on the show.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: We've been doing this show for about 13 years.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: I've talked to you in person on numerous occasions.
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  SPEAKER_02: In fact, one of our friends is Chuck Miden.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, him.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: That guy.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know Chuck.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_03: Out of Ohio.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_02: I've spoken to you probably a dozen times over the years,
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: face-to-face, but never had you on the show.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_02: So, the unfortunate thing is that Tom blew out his vocal cords
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_02: and you guys aren't going out this summer.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, that was unfortunate.
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  SPEAKER_03: I thought everything was going along great, too.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: We were about three weeks into rehearsals, and...
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_03: The band was tight, and his voice was sounding great.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: As a matter of fact,
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  SPEAKER_03: the last rehearsal we had,
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  SPEAKER_03: we knocked off early, because we had been hitting it pretty hard.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tom said he probably wouldn't sing the next day,
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  SPEAKER_03: and since the band was sounding tight,
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_03: he said,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, let's just take tomorrow off and come in Friday, and hit it again.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_03: And the next day he gives me a call and says, I got to stop over.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, what?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_03: Because he never stops over.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_03: Glad to see you guys are so tight.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he apparently woke up and, you know, could barely talk.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: So he went to see his doctor and he had a blood vessel bulging on his vocal cord.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, he came and he showed me the picture and, yeah, it looked pretty gnarly.
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  SPEAKER_03: So...
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_03: So it was like, that's it, that's the end of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which just threw me for a loop, because I thought things were going along great.
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  SPEAKER_03: When we first started out, it was a little rough.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody was.
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  SPEAKER_03: Once we got cooking, he sounded better than he sounded in years.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: He actually had surgery on his vocal cords a couple years ago after the 06 tour with Boyson.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: He was struggling.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: He had a similar problem,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it was in back of his vocal cord,
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  SPEAKER_03: and no doctor could see it, so they kept saying, there's nothing wrong with you.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_03: So he thought he was just crazy, but there was a problem.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: He got it fixed, and he worked hard and got his voice back.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, he sounded better, and he sounded in years.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, man,
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  SPEAKER_03: this is going to be great, and next thing you know, boom, you get room for a loop.
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  SPEAKER_03: So now we're just kind of in a holding pattern.
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  SPEAKER_03: He went back to see his doctor about a week later.
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  SPEAKER_03: Luckily, he did not rupture the vessel, which is great.
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  SPEAKER_03: So all he has to do for now is just rest up probably about a month for it to completely heal.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_03: And then he'll go back in.
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  SPEAKER_03: This sounds retarded,
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  SPEAKER_03: but once he's totally healed, they want to look at it and make sure he's healed.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then they want him to try to make it bulge again,
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  SPEAKER_03: like sing as hard as he can for three or four days straight,
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  SPEAKER_03: then come back in and scope.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if it's not bulging out, then,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: because these things have a way of just correcting themselves or,
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  SPEAKER_03: like, I guess kind of toughen up.
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  SPEAKER_03: So if it doesn't,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: if he doesn't have a problem,
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  SPEAKER_03: he's good to go,
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  SPEAKER_03: gets back into vocal training, and then we'll think about rescheduling the tour.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_03: But if not, then, yeah, then it's going to be like a long, hard road.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I'm hoping for the latter.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know,
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  SPEAKER_03: like what I said at first,
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  SPEAKER_03: like, you know, everything goes great and we can get right back out.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm curious, Eric,
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: do you ever look at,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know, this,
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  SPEAKER_01: especially this time with this being the second time that Tom has had a fairly,
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: you know, A fairly big scare with his throat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you ever look at it and say, hey, this might be it, man?
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, there's always that possibility.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: And it's scary for us,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it's even more so for him,
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  SPEAKER_03: obviously, because, I mean, he's been working on a solo record.
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  SPEAKER_03: He has other things that he's pursuing, and
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: that will be devastating for him, but...
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  SPEAKER_03: But knock on wood,
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  SPEAKER_03: he's had trouble for years,
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  SPEAKER_03: on and off, and as soon as he gets one thing fixed, something else crops up.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: I just hope that this was just a fluke now and he can just continue on
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: and we'll be fine because he's very passionate about what he does.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard for me to sit back and watch him have to go through this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Putting it in anyone else's terms,
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: like a guitar player who's having problems with his finger joints.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_03: It would be like, you get one fixed and the other one goes.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, what the heck.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: So hopefully with him, he has all his troubles.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_03: We'll be behind him soon.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, Things were sounding great.
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  SPEAKER_03: I thought we were going to be off and running in about a week and a half,
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_03: and now we're in a holding pattern, which puts me into Naked Beggar mode again.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_03: That's my other band,
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  SPEAKER_03: and we were out touring on our third record,
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  SPEAKER_03: and I kind of shut things down prior to the Cinderella rehearsals,
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: even though they were going to continue on and do a few shows this summer with
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_03: a fill-in bass player.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_03: Right now,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's like I'm stepping back in and got an agent,
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  SPEAKER_03: manager,
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  SPEAKER_03: agent guy working on booking dates for me and kind of getting the summer filled.
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  SPEAKER_03: Got to keep busy.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, with the Naked Beggars,
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  SPEAKER_01: Eric, clearly the Cinderella fan base, I'm sure, is aware of the band.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure that the rest of the country is,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I certainly don't think that's caused by you guys not getting out there
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  SPEAKER_01: and working.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: you guys have actually been pretty road-hungry of a band since you put it together,
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: right?
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we really don't stop touring.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: We're based in Nashville.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: We can hit a lot of areas, like...
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know, traveling, you know, this is kind of centrally located.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_03: So we've hit pretty much all areas east of the Rockies, pretty much.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we've gone as far as like Nebraska and, you know, like western Iowa and whatnot.
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  SPEAKER_03: We've gone to Texas and we've hit all up and down the eastern seaboard,
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  SPEAKER_03: like the Midwest, upper Midwest, like all down south.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we pretty much,
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  SPEAKER_03: like when we go out,
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_03: we'll go out probably at the longest for maybe like a two-week run.
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  SPEAKER_03: But most of the time,
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  SPEAKER_03: we tour like the country artists do since they're mostly based out of Nashville too.
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  SPEAKER_03: We'll leave out on a Wednesday or Thursday night,
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  SPEAKER_03: do three or four gigs, come back, come back home.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then we'll head in like a different direction.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we've been doing that constantly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Since 2004.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's been four years of hitting it really hard and we love doing it.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're gaining fans little by little everywhere that we go.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_03: Unfortunately,
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  SPEAKER_03: we don't have the luxury of the big record company machine pushing us
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  SPEAKER_03: and promoting us.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we're truly doing it our own way.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's rewarding.
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  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't pay a hell of a lot, but we're hoping in the end it will.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_03: But if it's doing nothing, it's making for some good memories.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Eric, Tom has his issues with his vocals.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: A few years back, you suffered a heart attack, didn't you?
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, I've actually had three.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's just bad genetics and me being Irish and stupid and doing all the wrong things.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_03: But I think after my last one, about a year and a half ago, I've kind of chilled out some.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_03: I don't smoke anymore.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_03: Some I watch what I eat,
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_03: even though I'm a huge fan of chicken wings, so I've got to have that one.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm not doing everything by the book, but I'm trying to live a lot cleaner than I used to.
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  SPEAKER_03: So hopefully I'll put some time between this one and the next one.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_03: If there will be another,
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: which I hope not, because they're not the most fun things that they go through.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_03: But I did pretty good.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_03: It had been almost 10 years since my previous one.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_03: So that's not bad.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_03: I'm on tons of medications and crap for that.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_03: But, hey, I haven't been taken out of the game yet, so I must be here for some reason.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Eric,
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: a lot of people who are familiar with Cinderella from the MTV days,
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you went through a drastic...
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: Look change.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_02: First, when you went with the shorter hair and the darker hair and all that,
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't even recognize you when I saw you.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm standing side by side with you.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had no idea it was you.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_02: You may know a girl in Akron, Ohio, by the name of Lori Ludman.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: You know her?
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: She used to work for Mitch Krzyzewski.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well, she pointed you out to me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm standing side by side.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she goes, did you say hey to Eric?
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_02: And I go, where is he?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: And he goes, he's standing right here.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: I know.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of funny because I still get that.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: And now at this point, it's been eight years.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like, okay, I've had this look like longer than like,
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: Then back through the heyday of Cinderella's career, back through the 80s.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like, okay, because we're talking 86 through about like 91, 92.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like about five or six years, everyone knew like the long blonde hair.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_03: Now I've had like the shorter black hair.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, well, and people still don't recognize me.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't know.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe I'm just not a very recognizable person.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of funny being known as the blonde-haired guy.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_03: There are several billion of them in the world.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: I really don't see a big deal with it.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: I just found that the older that I got, the blonde hair wasn't doing it for me.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: I would look at pictures,
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: and it's like,
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: yeah, you look kind of pale and washed out, and I'm not much for the sun anyway.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_03: So when you're younger, I guess that's not a big deal.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: When you get a little older, it's like, and the black kind of works better.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_03: And my wife likes it, so that works for me.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: I always kind of thought of you as the guy that threw his bass around his back.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I remember you as.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there you go.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_03: And occasionally it went flying to other places too.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_03: I recently did that.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: I think it was on the Rock Never Stop store a few years ago.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's the first time they ever came off this way because normally
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_03: when it comes off,
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_03: the screws rip out or something because I bolt the strap on very well
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_03: but sometimes they just rip right out And I've had that happen several times,
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: but this was the first time I think it was operator error,
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: where I threw it so hard,
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: I just literally threw it right off of myself instead of spinning it.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_03: And I was standing there like a jackass.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, great.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_02: Very nice.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Eric,
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: obviously,
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: man, you do The Naked Beggars with your wife, Inga, who is the vocalist in the band.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: Is that a comfortable scenario or an uncomfortable scenario?
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: And that's not even asking about can she sing or not.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: She obviously can sing.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's more that question of how much time can you put in with your wife at home
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: when you're working, et cetera, before it gets to be a real pain in the ass.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't really get to be a pain in the ass.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_03: I think,
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know,
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: I wasn't so sure about the working relationship either,
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: but we've been doing it for years, and it seems fine.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_03: I guess we just kind of developed a natural,
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: instinctive way to kind of separate the two,
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_03: I guess,
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_03: because when we're working,
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: We can be very vehemently arguing with each other and stuff,
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_03: and then later on be watching a movie and slipping to the nasty.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, whatever.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't really come into play.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: I tell her that her freaking lyrics suck for that song, and later she's not going to...
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: She's not going to give me any, you know, we separate it.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: I guess it beats the two-toothed groupie in Nebraska, right?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Huh?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I guess it beats the two-toothed groupie in Nebraska, right?
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there you go.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's like, you know, it's kind of, you know, it works.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: You know,
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: on the road,
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: it's kind of tough because we're obviously not like,
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_03: you know, On that level, we've done touring and tour buses and whatever.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: Right now, the best way for us is van and trailer.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: We're very proud of it, but you don't get much alone time.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_03: When that old funny feeling comes along, you have to get creative.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: But then again, we've been married for seven years, so that old funny feeling ain't too often.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: She's sitting right here, so I'm kind of busting her balls.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Eric,
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: at what point after you were married did you decide you guys could actually have
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: a band together?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Well, she was already writing songs with a guitar player, Chris.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_03: Even before we met and before we got married.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: I guess early on,
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_03: they were writing songs or whatever, and they were going to demo some songs.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: I said, well,
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_03: instead of paying some studio for $35, $40 an hour to do it, I'll record the demos.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: I had a little digital recorder,
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: so I started doing that,
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: and before you know it,
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: I started playing bass with them, because their bass player was Mr.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: Happy Fingers, and it wasn't quite working for me.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, geez,
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to record these demos and produce them for them,
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: and it's like, what this guy's playing is not going to work, you know?
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, I mean, like,
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: they're playing,
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: like, you know, like a Stones-y kind of song, and he thinks he's Geddy Lee on it.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, it ain't working, you know?
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, so I just, you know, I just resigned myself to just cut the bass line.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: So I was cutting bass tracks and, like, whatever.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: And then, like, they were gigging.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_03: They were doing, like, some local club stuff.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: And, you know,
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: and then next thing you know,
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_03: I started playing live with them,
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: and And then about a year later, we got more serious.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: Instead of just demoing the songs, we were like, you know what, let's just record a record.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: So we got serious and we did the first record.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: And Jeff actually played a solo or two, I think, on the first CD.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: Just as fate would have it, Cinderella was going to go out in 04, decided not to.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: And we just finished the record.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_03: We had one guitar player.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_03: Most of the record had two parts on it already.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_03: So I asked Jeff if he'd be interested in playing with us, and he said, yeah.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_03: So he came on board, and that was 04, the summer of 04.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: So we were off and running.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_03: And we did a second record with Jeff in the band.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: And then we parted ways with him.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_03: God, it's been, what, a year and a half now?
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe two years?
• 19:21
  Mm-hmm.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like,
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: we parted ways with him before we started recording the Triple X record,
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: the third one.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, so now we're actually full circle.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's me, Chris, and Inga, and the original drummer, we had Dustin Delore.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_03: So he's back in the band, and we're, you know, and we're...
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: We're gearing up.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to do a crap load of shows now.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: Over the summer,
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to book as many shows as we possibly can because we really need
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: to pay bills.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: That's what everybody in the band does.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to keep really busy for the next few months.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_03: I'm still holding hopes that Cinderella will be out sometime this fall.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_03: Otherwise, it'll be a long,
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_02: cold winter, huh?
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_03: And it's not like we're looking at, well,
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_03: most likely even if Cinderella goes out or if we're still out doing shows,
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: things slow down just before Christmas and most likely that's
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: when Beggars will start doing a fourth album.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: Excellent.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: So we never stop.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: It's like we record, tour, record, tour, do a Cinderella tour, tour, record.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_03: And we get creative.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: Every time Cinderella has gone out, we've made the best of it.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: I think on the Rock Never Stops tour, we had just finished recording the Spit It Out record.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_03: It wasn't done yet,
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: but what I did,
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_03: I quickly threw together three songs, and we printed up 30,000 sample discs.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: And we got street team members to come out to the Cinderella shows
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: and pass out sample discs for the upcoming Naked Beggars CD.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: So we've made good use.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: And then the following tour, Inga and Chris went out as an acoustic version.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: And we kind of crisscrossed paths,
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: and they would do ticket and passes, giveaways at their shows.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: And stuff for the Cinderella Show.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, it's just finding creative ways, like, just to keep busy.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: But, you know, do I have to say, like, Beggars is a really hard-working band.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, you know, and we really haven't stopped, like, you know, in four or five years now.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, Jeff.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_03: Well, the dark-haired thing.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone would call Fred Jeff and Jeff Fred.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: They both, like, hate it.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: Now I'm getting pulled into it just because I have black hair.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe I'll just go blue or something.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Eric, people can find out about Naked Beggars over there.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_02: They're your website at nakedbeggars.net.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, .net or .com.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: We have both domains.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: But for more up-to-date info, just go to our MySpace.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's slash nakedbeggars.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: And that's more up-to-date.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: I think our website...
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: Which we sell our merchandise on our website, and you can get through that.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: You can direct it there through our MySpace.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: And that's pretty much all we have a website for,
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: because I don't even think it's been updated since March.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: So if you're looking for updates, just go to the MySpace slash Naked Beggars.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Eric.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well,
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_02: we appreciate you taking some time to talk to us here on the Classic Metal Show,
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: and People need to go over to themyspace.com slash naked beggars,
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: find out all the updated tour dates for you,
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: and come out and see you since Cinderella is sidelined for the time being.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: And before we let you go,
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: we need to ask you the traditional classic metal show question,
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: and being that you're a bassist, you'll probably have a good answer for this.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_02: How has Lemmy from Motorhead influenced your career?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Lemmy, um...
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_03: It hasn't really influenced my career.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't really discover Motorhead until I was probably about 20 or 21,
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_03: and so I was well into it.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: I've been playing bars since I was like 11,
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_03: so I always knew what I wanted to do, but I really love Motorhead.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: I respect immensely what he does.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_03: He's a great bass player.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_03: Great singer, even though you either love his voice or you hate it.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's great.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's just ballsy.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_03: He's the epitome of not giving a fuck what anybody thinks, which is great.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good credo to live by.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Excellent.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Eric.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: Well, as a tradition here, we always let our guests pick a departing song.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_02: And is there some song you'd like us to play,
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: be it Cinderella or Naked Beggars or anybody else's song?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_03: Well, hell, since we're on the subject of Lemmy, how about the Ace of Spades?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_02: All right, and anything you like?
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_03: And if you want to,
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_03: if you want to get a little on the obscure side,
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_03: you can follow that up with Ace of Spades by Drain SDH.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, excellent.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_02: That chick band.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_02: If you have that.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_03: You may have to dig a little bit.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_03: But it's an awesome version.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, go out to myspace.com slash the naked beggars.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_02: Find out where Eric is going to be playing this summer and go see him and rock out.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: So by request of Eric Brittingham himself, here it is.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_02: This is Motorhead with the Ace of Spades exclusively here.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: On your classic metal show.