Nieuwe opnames van wijlen Cozy Powell
Artist news 30-10-2005 15:32
De overleden drummer Cozy Powell (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Whitesnake) is te horen op "Scream", het tweede album van voormalig Black Sabbath-frontman Tony Martin.
"Actually, I play a lot of stuff myself, I play the bass on everything, I play some guitar but my son Joe plays most of it, I play violin, Geoff plays most of the keyboards although I had a part played by John Taylor, who is a great player but unknown to most. I also kept a guitar solo part played by Pedro Howse, who is Geezer Butler's [Sabbath bassist] .... nephew I think? He helped with 'Bitter Sweet'. (...) Mostly that's it, I didn't really intend on doing most of it myself but as I was writing it and I needed a part playing I just picked up the intrument I wanted and did it, then the other guys went over what I had done in parts to make it better. Apart from the drums!"
De drums vormden de grote uitzondering. Cozy Powell overleed op 5 april 1998 en liet diverse drumtracks na. Omdat overleden muzikanten hun partijen niet opnieuw kunnen inspelen, moest Martin gebruik maken van moderne computertechnieken om alles passend te krijgen. Tony Martin vertelt:
"The original drum track was not bad but I needed to get a chorus into a different place in one part and the cymbles were a little distorted in places so I had to repeat parts of the drum track to get what the song needed. It took a long time to acheive, mostly because it was important to keep the integrity of the drum track, and also his name. But apart from that! I also had to try and match the Cozy track to the rest of the album, in fact I neded up matching the album to Cozy's track, 'Raising Hell' became the benchmark for the rest of the songs. So it took a long time to finish."
Volgens Martin zijn er nog 22 bruikbare tracks waarop Cozy te horen is.
De zanger brengt zijn tweede solo-album op 18 november uit via MTM Music.
Tony Martin gaat in November door Europa touren. In zijn begeleidingsband zit Danny Needham op de drummkruk.
