People have seen the European Summer Tour, and the US Fall Tour which only ended up in Seattle the other day. Mark: The album out here today, it’s already the 30th September down here in Australia. I put new chords in the chorus and it ended up being the first single. Mark: That’s definitely something I’d like to see you come back to in the future!ĭoug: I know, right! One of the earliest riffs was ‘Radiance’.ĭoug: That might have been the first one. So some of those songs that were part of the concept didn’t really fit with a straight up rock record so we wrote another six songs and we went in and recorded 13 in total. So we decided to make a record, but not to do the concept record. And then we were planning on going to Europe and touring in February, and that got yanked at the last minute. We did some really substantial demos that we were very proud of and we thought were really cool, and then it kind of went away – we got busy in promoting the album – that’s when we both spoke to you. And then that led to some music, he called me, I came down and we started working on that stuff and a bunch of ideas came out. We were actually talking about doing a concept album and he’d started thinking about lyrics and stuff like that, and what his ideas would be for our concept. I ended up going down to Glenn’s house – Glenn said he had a couple of ideas. So it got to be the Summer time and things started to cool out a little bit, you know you could get out a little bit, but people were still worried about Covid. We weren’t sure when we were going to tour to support ‘Hold Ground’. Mark: Where did it all start? What was the first thing you put down for the record?ĭoug: I would say it all started, because we’d finished ‘Holy Ground’ and then the pandemic hit and all of sudden we didn’t have anything to do. So it was a different process, but it’s always fun to be in the studio. Previously we recorded at a Chateau in the South of France, that was incredible. Mark: I imagine the process was quite different to the last record?ĭoug: Yeah it was different because we couldn’t go anywhere because of the pandemic so we were recording and working out at home. It’s definitely putting the foot to the floor, there’s some wonderful guitar work in there.ĭoug: Thanks so much, we had a good time making it, It’s always fun to be in the studio. Mark: (laughs) You’ve been in some great bands over the years and the hallmark of your involvement has always been quality, ‘Radiance’ is a wonderful rocking album. And in band years that’s like dog years, so it’s a lot! We’ve a little Anniversary today in that it’s the tenth time over the years we’ve caught up about various different projects and also interestingly ten years since The Dead Daisies were formed.ĭoug: I know and it’s been six years for me coming up on seven in the band. Mark: (Laughs) Ah! It’s one of those days! It marked our tenth interview with Doug who we first caught up with as a member of Whitesnake way back when, strap yourself in for another trip to Daisyland.ĭoug: Hey Mark, Good morning, Good afternoon, good evening! We caught up with Doug at the start of a few weeks off at the end of the US Tour to talk about the album and also about the recent Dio documentary. #Grand funk railroad albums full#‘Radiance’ is the second full length with Glenn Hughes taking on bass and vocal duties, and another quality release sure to be fighting for end of year honours. The Rockpit has been along for the ride with The Dead Daisies since day one and it’s always great to catch up when there’s a new album or Tour in the offing so we checked in with Doug Aldridge on release day for the wonderful new album ‘Radiance’ ( Check out our review).
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