5/10/2023 0 Comments Vein of stars band![]() ![]() he checked it out, love what we were doing and said, "I'm in!" and that's how he became part of the band. Come to find out that Eric had been thinking about Troy for quite a while already for this gig so we called Troy up and he tours with Gilby Clarke from Guns N' Roses and he had just gotten home from a run and was available. I can't do this but what do you think of Troy Patrick Farrell?" and they're friends so essentially Vik suggested his own replacement. He called us and said, "Guys, I'm really, really sorry. What happened was Eric brought in Vik Foxx from Enuff Z'Nuff to do the gig and he was committed to it and we had scheduled a video shoot for what we had planned to be the first single and that's a whole other part of the conversation but Vik was on board to do the band and at the last minute, right before he was supposed to come down to do this, he had a situation arise in his life that he had to take care of and it called him out of the country. How did Troy (Patrick Farrell, drums) get picked up and brought into the fold?Ĭhris: Troy? Oh, the drummer, the blonde guy.Ĭhris: He's hot and we needed someone in the band who was good looking. So, indirectly, David Bowie is responsible for Angels In Vein. So, that was as core as the core band got for doing that show and like Chris said due to extenuating circumstances the show got postponed and didn't happen but that was how we all came together. I had been in a band in 2000, 2001with Stacey and Vik Foxx (drums) called Supercool so I had Stacey do this core band thing with me and we went to Vik and Vik was interested and then we needed a singer and Stacey said, "I know Chris VanDahl." I asked if he would be interested and we talked to him and he yes and he was in town and wants to do some songs with us. I went to her with the idea and she loved it and said go with it so basically I was trying to put a core band together to learn all the songs because Bowie's songs are definitely not easy songs and we had to learn like twenty-seven of them. Due to extenuating circumstances that show didn't happen but it, sort of, brought us all together and that was really the true formation of Angels In Vein.Įric, with everything going on with the Bowie show that you were looking to put together, was that your main focus at the time? What were you doing at the time when you got hooked up with everybody?Įric Stacy: Yeah, basically I had been doing some shows out here since the end of last year with my own guitar player called the Vegas All-Stars and there was a lady out here that was promoting all the shows so when Bowie passed away in January I went to her and said, "It'd be really cool if we could do a Bowie memorial show." We'd get a bunch of rock stars up there and everybody could do a song or two and we'll also have a main band that would learn all the tunes. But, the last time he called he told me that he'd been talking with Eric (Stacy) and Eric was putting on a special concert honoring David Bowie, right after Bowie had died and they asked me if I was interested in singing for it and I told them yes because I was actually in town at that time. One thing led to another and Stacey Blades and I have been friends for quite a while and he calls me from time to time and says, "Hey man, lets do this and lets do that." and up until recently I always had to say no because I had a contract, I'm going out of town, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. So, I reached out to him and asked if he was interested and the next day he sent me thirteen songs that he'd been holding on to and that's, kind of, how this thing started. But yeah, we started writing this record pretty quietly about two years ago and it was something we started to do because I'd been performing as Steven Tyler in the Legends in Concert all over the world and I wanted to do something that was me, reestablish my identity and get back in touch with what I love about music. We've written and performed together, on and off, since before we were twenty-one. Taz and I are pretty much childhood friends. Chris, my understanding is that you and Taz (Todd Anthony, guitar) had things going first and then the rest of the guys joined the fold, correct?Ĭhris VanDahl: Yeah, Taz and I were dating first. I wanted to start off with the formation of the band. Charred Walls Of The Damned's Richard Christy.
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