Don Airey Interview

GUITARIDOL5682 · Post by **GUITARIDOL5682** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:19 pm

wareagle wrote:oh woooooooooow lol, id love to hear the recordings or randy saying that, awsome interview! never herd one from don! i find it insanly creepy that when he took final pics of randys guitars along with aldridge they were blurred. i find that just haunting. i mean what was it foggy inside? were both cameras lenses fogged?? creepy.

Yeah i think it would be just the lenses condensing up. It seems too much of a coincidence for it to happen to Don's and Tommy's cameras. But it must of been weird seeing those photos for the first time.

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:48 pm

bernie used randy's amps??? anyone have a boot of that concert? thatll show u how the person effects the tone!

GUITARIDOL5682 · Post by **GUITARIDOL5682** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:49 pm

I posted another Don Airey interview up about a year ago.This was funny and one of Don's most embarrassing moments on stage.

What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you on tour?
Playing with Ozzy at Madison Square Gardens in 1984 to 17,000 people. The keyboards were on a hydraulic lift complete with fake organ pipes. I used to appear for the second song playing the intro to "Mr Crowley".
That night as the riser started its ascent, the power cable got caught in the mechanism and was yanked out, bringing the whole contraption to a sudden halt.
The keyboards went off and there was total silence in the packed hall. My roadie, Bobby Thompson, froze.
Looking over the rail I shouted to him, "Bobby, put the plug back in!" No effect, so rather louder, "Put the f****** plug back in."
Large sections of the audience picked up on this and in true New York style all took up the cry, "Yeah Bobby, put the f****** plug back in!"
In went the plug, the riser lurched back to life, and I completed the intro, the keyboards now horrendously out of tune.

randys roadie · Post by **randys roadie** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:53 pm

whoopiecat wrote:Were they even still in the southern states at that point? Didn't Bernie wind up playing through Randy's amps and using his chip pan on the first gig in Bethehem, PA? I'm just guessing they would have sent all of Randy's gear home at the same time.

T.

bernie did use randys chip pan but Im not sure about the stacks. I think Bernie did a q&a for ultimaterhoads a while back perhaps he mentions about the stacks in that?

whoopiecat · Post by **whoopiecat** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:24 pm

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:41 pm

whats a chip pan?

whoopiecat · Post by **whoopiecat** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:54 pm

RhoadsRockPhotographer · Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:50 am

Look forward to his (Airey's) book.

Thanks for posting both interviews. I hadn't read either one before.

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:12 am

he got to use his pedal board?? his pedals or just the acctuall board? thats acctually insane. and funny b/c i heard it ws mad hard to work and only one who could use it was randy and his guitar seter upers

whoopiecat · Post by **whoopiecat** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:22 am

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:51 am

wow. very cool

and yeh technician bit of a mind blank there.

whoopiecat · Post by **whoopiecat** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:53 am

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:33 pm

hmmmm....ruht roh rooks rike we gots a ronster!

whoopiecat · Post by **whoopiecat** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:13 pm