{"id":37746,"date":"2019-04-16T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=37746"},"modified":"2019-04-14T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T05:48:23","slug":"keri-kelli-of-a-new-revenge-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2019\/04\/keri-kelli-of-a-new-revenge-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Keri Kelli of A New Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe have a record out and we\u2019re very proud of it and we hope the rock and roll people and community are digging it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: Supergroup is a term that has been diluted over time. Throwing a bunch of people from other bands into a new project doesn’t automatically make them Super, but their bio’s will tell you otherwise. It’s time to seek revenge and reclaim that word! A New Revenge is the very definition of a supergroup. One who’s members have more than earned their legendary statuses but also remain humble enough to let the music do the talking and not actually rely on the term.\u00a0 So who is out for A New Revenge? Featuring one of the finest voices in metal of all time, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens (who’s voice is all over albums from Judas Priest, Iced Earth and Yngwie Malmsteen), one of the most versatile and name checked guitarists in rock Keri Kelli (Slash’s Snake Pit, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil Band and a hundred more) the most iconic bass player in heavy metal history, Rudy Sarzo (who’s work with Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Whitesnake and many more has earned him an almost revered status in heavy music) and long time Scorpions drummer James Kottak (also from Montrose, Warrant, Kingdom Come & more).<\/p>\n

In California after doing some shopping, we gave Keri Kelli a call to talk about his newest band A New Revenge, their new album ‘Enemies & Lovers’, song writing, touring, Night Ranger, and much more…<\/p>\n

So I know you\u2019ve been asked this a lot but let\u2019s pretend it\u2019s the first time you\u2019ve heard it, after playing together before as Project Rock tell us how did this group come back together to form \u2018A New Revenge\u2019?<\/strong>
\nYeah you know, that\u2019s kinda how we started the band was it was just what we call a jam band we were all playing songs from bands we had been associated with, but as we did that we just had fun, everyone has home studios these days so we started writing some songs here and there and kinda just developing it as we went. We really took it slow it wasn\u2019t anything where we said hey we\u2019ve gotta write twenty songs real fast and put a record out, I mean when we were writing these tunes and sending them back and forth to each other, I live in California, Ripper lives in Ohio and we were just sending ideas back and forth and developing them it was just like for the love of doing it and creating music. We had no record deal, no anything, we were just writing music, and it just developed and then we had enough tunes that we thought were kinda cool for a collection for an album and then we were lucky enough to run into the Golden Robot guys and they said \u201chey we want to put this out it sounds awesome\u201d and here we are today. We have a record out and we\u2019re very proud of it and we hope the rock and roll people and community are digging it as well.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re essentially introducing a new band to the world what\u2019s the process like putting together the songs that people will use as their introduction to A New Revenge?<\/strong>
\nYeah like I said we kinda just did this whole thing for the love, it\u2019s a band but it was basically just guys that knew each other obviously and played together and had fun doing it, we all had home studios and stuff and once you have an album worth of songs and somebody wants to put the album out and unleash it on the world you\u2019ve gotta do a little photo shoot and all that stuff, but we just tried to have fun with the whole thing and like I said we just kinda developed it and did it one step at a time, it wasn\u2019t some calculated venture or anything like that. I\u2019m just hoping people dig the music because that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n

What has being in this band allowed you to do that you feel you haven\u2019t been able to do with any of the other 746,000 acts you\u2019ve worked with?<\/strong>
\n*laughs* Well you know that\u2019s a good question actually, I think that I mean I\u2019ve been able to play with a lot of great bands or musicians or whatever with Alice and Slash, whoever, \u00a0Vince Neil and stuff like that, but when you\u2019re writing songs or riffs or instrumental stuff for those kinds of bands even like my current band Night Ranger, or Alice or stuff like that you\u2019re kind of already in that vein, you think of it subconsciously or whatever, what would Alice do? Or how would he approach these songs? We\u2019ve got to write something in that wheelhouse for instance, but with this project it really allowed me personally to just do whatever, it was awesome, it was like the ultimate freedom to just write riffs and stuff that\u2019s how we did the record. I have my home studio and I would just write cool riffs that I thought were cool or drum loops and things like that and I\u2019d send them over to Tim in Ohio and he would kind of go \u201chey I like that song number two\u201d or \u201cthat third song you sent me was cool\u201d and then he would kind of take it from there, but I was just writing anything that I thought sounded cool and then kinda filter it through Tim. So that\u2019s really the coolest thing about this project, like it wasn\u2019t like I was trying to write something in the Alice vein or in the Night Ranger vein or things like that, it was just whatever and that\u2019s what we came up with.<\/p>\n

Touring wise you\u2019re heading out on the road but I do have to ask do you think we might see you in Australia?<\/strong>
\nWe hope, man, we\u2019re hoping towards the end of the year we can get some dates over there like maybe in the fourth quarter or something like that so that\u2019s what we\u2019re targeting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What does A New Revenge show look like?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a good question *laughs* since we haven\u2019t done it yet so we don\u2019t know\u2026 I would think that we\u2019re probably going to play a majority of the record, I mean there\u2019s twelve songs we actually recorded so there\u2019s a couple of bonus songs like on iTunes and things like that. So probably the majority of the record but I would still think that we\u2019d play a few tunes like how we started the whole band, like whether it\u2019s an Alice song or a Judas Priest song for Tim, or Scorpions obviously for James, so we\u2019ll throw a couple of those in just legendary songs that all the guys have been associated with or affiliated with, but just having a good time with friends and that\u2019s it, hopefully everybody comes out and comes to the party and has a good time with us.<\/p>\n

Over time it can be easy to say what\u2019s changed, but what\u2019s the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same over your time making music?<\/strong>
\nHmm\u2026 it all kinda stays the same to me, it\u2019s like I\u2019m living in a bubble or something. I don\u2019t know, to be honest with you I just keep doing the same thing I\u2019ve been doing for decades, I really try to keep it simple so I don\u2019t really pay attention to too much of what\u2019s been happening with all the other stuff, like I listen to new bands when I hear them on the radio or on Spotify and things like that, but it seems to be all the same to me, man. It\u2019s all guys in various different bands or whatever the project may be just going up and plugging their guitars in and grabbing drumsticks and yelling into a microphone and hopefully having some fun while you\u2019re doing it. So it all seems pretty much the same to me, man, but maybe I\u2019m unaware I\u2019m in my own bubble.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re obviously with Night Ranger at the moment but is there anything else happening musically in the world of Keri Kelli?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s basically it right now, we\u2019ve got this record out now, Night Ranger is very busy they\u2019re awesome guys they love playing, they don\u2019t stop and a few of the guys in the band have been playing together for about forty years with Jack Blades on vocals, Brad Gillis on guitar and Kelly on drums, they had another band before Night Ranger called Rubicon believe it or not and played together for years and they love it. We\u2019re playing together over the summer and I know we have a little tour with Sammy Hagar this summer and then some dates with Foreigner and some other stuff like that. So, a lot of Night Ranger and hopefully some new Night Ranger music this year coming up as well, we had a record that came out about two years ago and then a live record and a DVD that came out about three years ago, but hopefully some Night Ranger comes out this year and then we\u2019ll get back onto A New Revenge and start working on more New Revenge stuff also, so it\u2019s all the same thing, man, you just wake up and keep going, like a shark, keep moving.<\/p>\n

Night Ranger is another band that\u2019s never been to Australia so can you get in their ear and tell them to come down?<\/strong>
\nYeah I\u2019m with you on that, we\u2019ve talked about it, I swear I\u2019m not even kidding you, we\u2019re gonna be going to Japan the first week of October like the 1st<\/sup> through the 7th<\/sup> or something like that and I did hear some talk about Australia since a lot of bands in that region or territory try to stop over in Australia if they can, so I did hear about that, I don\u2019t know about any dates but I\u2019d love to get back over there, I think Australia\u2019s awesome, I love the people and they love rock, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve said over the years you\u2019ve worked with a lot of people but I wanted to ask if I could if you have an awesome Jani Lane story, that guy was a hero of mine\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah, not really any great stories, I mean there\u2019s tonnes of stories and there was always a story with him *laughs* we had a lot of great times together and sometimes you never knew what you were really gonna get with him *laughs* but we had a lot of fun and some of my coolest memories with him was not really playing live but when we were writing music and hanging out at my house and developing songs \u00a0and things like that because it was really natural and easy and fun and cool and he lived in Northern LA and I lived down in San Diego and I think he liked to come down to get away from LA and we\u2019d go out and have sushi and stuff like that so it was a little escape for him when we were writing the songs we put together. I think we ended up writing about thirty or forty songs, a lot of them are still unfinished to be honest that I have on my Pro-Tools system. That\u2019s kinda the coolest memories just hanging out and working on ideas or writing songs and going out and having a good meal, Mexican food he loved a lot and sushi. I mean I miss the guy I\u2019ve gotta tell you, same as you I guess.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, by the end of 2019 A New Revenge wants to\u2026<\/strong>
\nCome to Australia and play, how about that? *laughs*<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> USA<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Tim \u2018Ripper\u2019 Owens \u2013 vocals, Keri Kelli \u2013 lead guitar, Rudy Sarzo \u2013 bass, James Kottak \u2013 drums<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anewrevenge\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Enemies & Lovers (Out Now \u2013 Golden Robot Records)<\/p>\n

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