I do love Warrants first two albums alot, but in my opinion their best album is their third one Dog Eat Dog. It is a shame that it came out right at the time Grunge music started getting really big. I even love Warrants fourth album Ultraphobic alot also. Jani Lane was a terrific songwriter, lead singer, and frontman big time. I got really lucky back in 1999 when they came to my city to play a show on a Friday night. The night before I went to a strip club with some friends , and out of nowhere the band also came to the same strip club not too long after we did. I lived not even two miles from the strip club and I drove back home to grab my Warrant live CD 1986-1996 since it was the most recent album they had put out at the time. They were very cool and all of them signed it, They thought that I was a new fan because I was 19 back then, and they were very surprised when I told them that I have been a huge fan since their debut album came out at ten years old. They gave me tickets to their show for the next night and I got to see them again after their show. All these years later I still have the live CD , and I always will. They could not have been nicer than they were, especially Eric Turner and Jani Lane. May Jani Rest In Peace he will always be missed.
I totally agree with you about ‘Dog Eat Dog’. It would have been huge had it come out a year or two earlier. Here’s my Warrant story: I saw them with Motley Crue (Dr. Feelgood tour) in Jani’s hometown (sort of - Cleveland. He was actually from the Akron/Kent, Ohio area) and it was just before ‘Cherry Pie’ was released. Jani asked the crowd if we wanted to hear a sneak peek of one of the songs and they played ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. I’ve never seen a crowd lose their minds like that! EVERY FIST was pumping in the air and EVERY HEAD was banging! The roar of the crowd after they ended the song was literally deafening. Warrant just stood onstage for a few minutes, looking at each other with smiles on their faces and saying to each other, “Can you believe this shit?!?!?!” The crowd was freaking going nuts! I’m pretty sure they knew they had a hit on their hands that moment. Lol! Before they were done with their show, Jani told the crowd where they were gonna’ be after the show and so we went. It was a bar called ‘The Shark Club’ in Kent, Ohio (about 15-20 minutes from the venue) and girls were literally chasing Jani around the place. He was having a ball. I got to meet Eric & Jerry but they were preoccupied, looking for some blow. Lol. They were nice though.
I was lucky enough to hang out with the guys on almost a weekly basis in LA back in the day. Country Club, Gazarri’s, Troubadour. They were amazing, and Jani was a gift to the scene, and really to all of us. Unparalleled song writer and musician, with a voice like no other. RIP Jani.
@@WhyTheHorseface Steve Whiteman from Kix really is a great frontman. I saw Kix last year and his singing was just as phenomenal as it was thirty years ago. Two other amazing lead singers that also still got it and are just as great as they were thirty years ago are Phil Lewis from LA Guns and Kip Winger from Winger.
Absolutely agree! Saw them at World Music Theater (Tinley Park, IL) in 1990. Firehouse and Trixter opened the show (it was called Blood Sweat and Beers tour). 32 Pennies was so "heavy" live. Firehouse was amazing too. I walked into the ampitheater as Overnight Sensation was starting. Incredibly tight set they played. Flawless.
I couldn´t stand them at the time, because of the power ballads. It wasn´t until early this century that I found out they had some great rock tunes on their albums.
MetalMan73100 unfortunately that was what bands had to do in the 80s. They've got some great songs other than Heaven. In the sticks, Uncle Tom's cabin,machine gun
Fell n love with their music day 1. Got a chance to meet Jani, circa 2009/10, and much like with Ed Van Halen.......down to earth and cool. In my opine, what Ed Van Halen was to guitar playing..........Jani was to song writing.
That was great, loved hearing from Beau. Warrant are one of my favourite bands ever. Jani Lane was such a talent, pity the Grammys snubbed him the year he died in their in year tributes. Cheers
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This is a great interview. Thank you so much for this. This producer has a lot of respect and appreciation for Warrant and especially Jani. Thank God my friends and I were finally able to see the original Warrant in the early 2000's time period at the Universal Amphitheatre. The band was amazing. Completely separate from music, Jani seemed like he had a good heart and good soul.
I enjoy all these interviews. I feel you get such a more accurate balanced portrayal of things from the producer than from the band members themselves. (I've read quite a few rock biographies, including Stephen Pearcy & Bobby Blotzer)
Absolutely cool! Your interviews and getting into the (mostly) hidden world of A to Z of the music biz is awesome. Loved this interview man. I hope you can continue to bring more of this content out. I find this stuff fascinating. Cheers man. Keep up the great work.
I met and jammed with steven sweet a few times in about 03 or 04... nothing came of it, but he was a super nice guy. Had a house in studio city... one evening i was telling him about one of my favorite bands, sitting in my car, and i introduced him to porcupine tree’s ‘in absentia’. We sat in my car in front of his place and listened to several tracks off that album. I often wonder if he still likes them, but he was impressed at the time.
I remember when they got reduced to rock bars - about 1990ish.....I got to see them at Rock bar and see one of the guitarists at the bar, I walked right up and tryed to be cool about asking for an autograph. got it - on a napkin - still have it. cool
Those solos on Dirty Rotten were absolutely spectacular. I was a senior in H.S. and a bass player and we heard there was a hired gun brought in to do guitar solos turns out it was true. And it was the right call, Mike Slamer was brilliant absolutely nailed those solos with Heaven being the best imo. In all my years as a musician, that solo is in my top 10 all time.
this is awesome stuff always wanted to hear stories like this when i was kid reading metal edge circus hit parader and all the other metal magzines from the 80s
Man, your production/musical knowledge adds SO much to this interview for me. I've heard other interviews with Beau and they just remain pretty surface by comparison.
The first time I ever saw WARRANT, was when they opened for my favorite band, Stryper @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. And I LOVED them! R.I.P. Janie! Rock N' Roll lost a true gem, when you left us!'
I second the "Heaven" story. There are two versions I've heard over the years. I don't remember exactly where and what the difference is, but there is a vocal difference in the two. That's how I noticed it myself. When you get use to singing it one way and then you hear it another one day, you notice it. Best Warrant song in my opinion is "Uncle Tom's Cabin", I love how hard that thing kicks in after the acoustic bit. Speaking of Poison, there's is "Look what the Cat dragged in". It was so much harder than everything else of theirs I ever heard.
Go back to the word "worn". It's a different melody. There are only 2 places where I can tell a change that's one of them. I prefer the record version vs. The radio edit.
I remember the very first time I heard Down Boys. I was driving around and NYC’s WNEW played it, and the intro by the DJ said the song was from a new band called Warrant. The song honestly sounded to me like something from The Cars and it wasn’t till later when I saw the video on MTV that I realized what type of band Warrant were. I like melodic rock so I enjoyed numerous songs from Warrant’s first three records. Years later I saw Jani Lane play live fronting a version of Warrant where he was the only original member. It was still a very good show but I’ve always wished I’d seen Warrant in their prime with the original lineup.
it's funny hearing you guys mention Plain Jane, because yesterday I took a cellphone picture of a copy of their a tape (not released it was just a demo). It was in with some cassettes I am sending to a producer friend to digitize for me. Jani and I go back to his days as a drummer named John in the band Dorian Gray and I was shooting promos for the booking agents and mags. We stayed friends till the end. When Warrant would tour we would hook up, because I was shooting for the major rock rags. Great guy as well as the rest of the guys are really nice and funny! Good interview. I have one on a mini cassette I did with Jani & Joey back in 91 for one of the teen mags. WOW, BOP, 16, Tiger Beat or can't remember. I never transcribed it or sent it in. I am a photographer not a writer. I only did it for the hell of it and I shoot for those mags. Plus I could, so I said what the hell. Funny that tape was with the Plain Jane tape and is about 6 ins from my foot right now. Needless to say it was funny when this interview popped up as a suggestion. Considering I was not looking at interviews or Warrant
This channel has the best hard rock interviews. The owner/interviewer is always very knowledgeable and just asks the right questions. If that person reads this, may I ask your name? I really enjoy what you do here. Keep up the good work. 👍
Perfect description of Jani Lane. Elvis and a Southern Baptist minister. I have seen all the bands and over a thousand shows and the first time I saw Jani walk out on stage it was weird... like the energy level went up 10 fold in a minute. He was so amped that he lifted the entire arena. It felt like someone flooring the pedal in a car when you don't expect it and I will never forget that show for the rest of my life. Warrant was insanely good live. What happened to Jani's career at the end was one of the gravest sins the industry ever committed but I understand how quickly public tastes shifted. He should still be with us putting out great albums. May he RIP!
No disrespect to the other 4 guys but Jani Lane not only wrote the songs he sang them and was a great singer and performer. Warrant now should pay him respect every show they play today and thank him for still having a career
My friends dad was big in a corporation and every xmas they gifted him technology. Big screen tv, gateway computer and a huge shelf stereo one year. We basted Uncle Toms Cabin on that thing and it sounded so damn good!
I saw Warrant at festival hall in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 they opened up for Cheap Trick and the body guard was Andre who has been with Kiss for years now.
I do recall hearing at least 2 different versions of "Heaven" -- one that's on the DRFSR album that sounded very organic and bare-bones, and another that went to radio that had a more keyboard-heavy sound.
I'm going to write something I've said over the years but will probably be controversial to some. Warrant was a band that exploded onto the scene essentially following a hairband template for success. To the contrary, a band like Metallica wasn't something you heard on mainstream radio but had quite a following as they played their own brand of music, getting more airplay once "One" was released. It sort of broke the mold a bit for them, musically, and opened them to a new audience (that's certainly when I jumped on them.) Around 1990 - 1991, these two bands had something of divergent paths - because of, or in spite of, grunge. Warrant lost the radio airplay and thus began a shift to a harder, more authentic sound. Dog Eat Dog is an example of this, followed by Ultraphobic. The audiences dwindled, but the musicianship grew and they were able to retain something of a cult following as a result. Some of their best work can be found on those two albums and it's a shame they never got some of the recognition thereon and seemed haunted by the entire "Cherry Pie" bit as a defining moment. Whereas Warrant fell from the mainstream and became more internally-focus with regards to their music, Metallica reaped huge success with their Black album and many felt they sold out as a result. They suddenly were played at sporting events and wherever else you turned. Black, indeed, is a great album. Load - not so much, and it sounded like it was crafted for radio. Metallica, in essence, we're now something akin to the Warrants of the 90's whereas Warrant were in their own regard becoming - not the equivalent, mind you, of Metallica in the 80's... not by a longshot... but musically and with the lack of mainstream success one can see how these two bands crossed paths and diverged in opposite directions. It's hard for me to not listen to some of Warrant's music during the early to mid 90's and think, wow, these songs are actually harder than what Metallica is putting out. How did this happen? One review, perhaps it was Allmusic.com, noted Warrant's Ultraphobic sounded like a band pissed off at losing millions of dollars in record deals. On the other hand, Metallica's Load (and Re-Load) sounded like a band settling into complacency and wanting to make radio-friendly shifter units. Sure, they still rocked, but they lost their edge whereas Warrant found theirs. Finally, Metallica's response to this and the entire Napster ordeal of the late 90's and early 2000's was to put out an album, St. Anger, that tried so hard to put them back in the harder edge - but unfortunately it was as if they made an album nobody WANTED to download, legally or otherwise. Don't get me wrong - I'm still a fan and have appreciated their last couple of albums (despite whatever production issues people have noted over the years), but I've always found that particular time in both their and Warrant's career an interesting one where two bands were heading in opposite directions, for better or worse, both artistically and musically.
Really liked your post and I agree with it. I think you are spot on with Metallica, Load and Reload to this day do nothing for me. St. Anger was an absolute bomb not a single good song on the album. No great guitar solos and the drumming sound is so bad it should only be given to inmates in Prison. I never heard Warrant's 3rd and 4th albums but I do like their sound off of first 2 albums. I'll have to search for them at Goodwill or in the bargain bin.
@@bartsullivan4866 search for them on RUclips, I'm sure the full albums are uploaded. They did an album in 96 as well, but it was very different - more arthouse. A few good songs on it, including Letter to a Friend, but it's very, I don't know, coffee-house-ish and experimental to some degree, but still has a hard sound.
Great interview, i loved Warrants first two records despite being more into the sleaze bands. Faster Pussycat was always a favourite of mine from that era.
I would love to hear Beau talk about his experience making the Unruly Child album. I remember hearing that Beau had some intense conversations with Mark Free, who of course is now Marcie Free. Could be an interesting interview, plus that was a great album.
So I think you might be correct about reach for the sky being the album he was working on. Warrant opened up for ratt on that tour after releasing DRFDR!
I'm no one. I have been doing interviews for over fifteen years, but I just recently launched the podcast. I'm glad you enjoy the interviews. Comments like yours always give me hope. Thanks for taking the time, Robin.
@@fullinbloom And your song that you play at the end of each interview full in bloom I guess it’s called did you write that or who wrote that that’s a great song
@@robintaylor7355 Many ways. PR firms - sometimes they contact me. For example, a PR person contacted me when Don Dokken was doing press for his latest release and asked if I would be interested in doing an interview with him. Again, I've been doing this for over 15 years.
I think FiB confused DRFSR's release date. He was saying December 31st '89 but it came out January 31st. Great interview though, I found the whole music biz side of it fascinating. The things we as fans and listeners don't know about what went in financially and how the negotiations went which led to the creation of these albums we've all been hearing for decades.
Very mature of Warrant Guitar guys to not cause a stink about not playing the solos. Its just business. They both are great guitarists. And ive witnessed it. They play it live. Well.
Any chance getting Beau to comment on Steve Steven's amp setup on Atomic Playboys? That tone is just out of this world, especially on Slipping Into Fiction. Oh btw, thank you for this interview!!!
One time I saw a Warrant concert and waited till the very end outside. A girl came by walking a dog. I asked if I could pet the dog and she said yes so I bent down and I pet him.
@Smith Hart I'm not much up to anything. Kind of out of the game. Dean cramer is doing well and gigging and I really don't see the kix guys anymore. Cheers
I listen to these candid discussions of how much the Great Big Music Machine profited from giving bad loans to bands and am thankful it died the watery death that it did. I wish more fans would discover Bandcamp, it's the exact opposite split that Beau Hill describes: 85% to the artist, 15% to the house. Now granted, Bandcap isn't giving you a $500k advance to record your album at Ocean Way over 3 months, but that's just the way it goes. The DAW has democratized music for better and worse, but largely the better. And I say that as someone who worked as a professional engineer during the last happy days of the Great Big Music Machine. It had to die.
I wouldn't doubt a lot of 80s bands albums sales have been selling consistently. I cant tell ya hiw many times ive had to re-buy due to scratched CDs or Cassettes that got eaten up in the tape player. All of us 80s fans got busy working n raising families during the grunge thing. Now that our kids are all grown n out on their own we have more money n time to see concerts n buy albums. I always knew the 80s would catch another wave. Theres too many talented artists from that era.
I do love Warrants first two albums alot, but in my opinion their best album is their third one Dog Eat Dog. It is a shame that it came out right at the time Grunge music started getting really big. I even love Warrants fourth album Ultraphobic alot also. Jani Lane was a terrific songwriter, lead singer, and frontman big time. I got really lucky back in 1999 when they came to my city to play a show on a Friday night. The night before I went to a strip club with some friends , and out of nowhere the band also came to the same strip club not too long after we did. I lived not even two miles from the strip club and I drove back home to grab my Warrant live CD 1986-1996 since it was the most recent album they had put out at the time. They were very cool and all of them signed it, They thought that I was a new fan because I was 19 back then, and they were very surprised when I told them that I have been a huge fan since their debut album came out at ten years old. They gave me tickets to their show for the next night and I got to see them again after their show. All these years later I still have the live CD , and I always will. They could not have been nicer than they were, especially Eric Turner and Jani Lane. May Jani Rest In Peace he will always be missed.
Great story bro....
I MET THEM IN NJ, HAD A GREAT 2DAYS LOL
awesome story...never heard a bad word about Jani lane
thanks for sharing👍
I totally agree with you about ‘Dog Eat Dog’. It would have been huge had it come out a year or two earlier. Here’s my Warrant story: I saw them with Motley Crue (Dr. Feelgood tour) in Jani’s hometown (sort of - Cleveland. He was actually from the Akron/Kent, Ohio area) and it was just before ‘Cherry Pie’ was released. Jani asked the crowd if we wanted to hear a sneak peek of one of the songs and they played ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. I’ve never seen a crowd lose their minds like that! EVERY FIST was pumping in the air and EVERY HEAD was banging! The roar of the crowd after they ended the song was literally deafening. Warrant just stood onstage for a few minutes, looking at each other with smiles on their faces and saying to each other, “Can you believe this shit?!?!?!” The crowd was freaking going nuts! I’m pretty sure they knew they had a hit on their hands that moment. Lol! Before they were done with their show, Jani told the crowd where they were gonna’ be after the show and so we went. It was a bar called ‘The Shark Club’ in Kent, Ohio (about 15-20 minutes from the venue) and girls were literally chasing Jani around the place. He was having a ball. I got to meet Eric & Jerry but they were preoccupied, looking for some blow. Lol. They were nice though.
I was lucky enough to hang out with the guys on almost a weekly basis in LA back in the day. Country Club, Gazarri’s, Troubadour. They were amazing, and Jani was a gift to the scene, and really to all of us. Unparalleled song writer and musician, with a voice like no other. RIP Jani.
Jani was so talented, I wish he was still around today. Such a great song writer. He would have made a fantastic producer for other artists.
Love hearing the behind the scenes on bands from my youth.
Exactly, I dont even like Warrant but I love the bts parts.
If you saw Warrant from 89-96, when #JaniLane was on his game, there were not many frontmen who could match him.
Smith Hart who?
@@WhyTheHorseface Steve Whiteman from Kix really is a great frontman. I saw Kix last year and his singing was just as phenomenal as it was thirty years ago. Two other amazing lead singers that also still got it and are just as great as they were thirty years ago are Phil Lewis from LA Guns and Kip Winger from Winger.
Amen bro
@@johnkatsoudas4767 Klaus Meine ,Bruce Dickinson, DIO (before he died had been singing for 50+ years), plus many more.
Absolutely agree! Saw them at World Music Theater (Tinley Park, IL) in 1990. Firehouse and Trixter opened the show (it was called Blood Sweat and Beers tour). 32 Pennies was so "heavy" live. Firehouse was amazing too. I walked into the ampitheater as Overnight Sensation was starting. Incredibly tight set they played. Flawless.
Great interview with Beau Hill i always love to hear the story behing the albums
I love the business talk; and the production talk, and the music talk and the personnel talk...
Warrant was so underrated. This is rad.
If they would have come out 84/85 they would've been much much bigger.
I would just say, Jani Lane was really underrated. I never thought there was anything particullary special about the other members.
Scotabot I concur
I couldn´t stand them at the time, because of the power ballads. It wasn´t until early this century that I found out they had some great rock tunes on their albums.
MetalMan73100 unfortunately that was what bands had to do in the 80s. They've got some great songs other than Heaven. In the sticks, Uncle Tom's cabin,machine gun
@0:27: The Ratt album was "Dancing Undercover"
Jani Lane, my favorite singer/songwriter. He was so talented.
Fell n love with their music day 1. Got a chance to meet Jani, circa 2009/10, and much like with Ed Van Halen.......down to earth and cool. In my opine, what Ed Van Halen was to guitar playing..........Jani was to song writing.
Thanks so much for this. Warrant has always been one of my favorite 80’s LA rock bands.
That was great, loved hearing from Beau. Warrant are one of my favourite bands ever. Jani Lane was such a talent, pity the Grammys snubbed him the year he died in their in year tributes. Cheers
RIP Jani Lane. You are missed.
Jesus every single RUclips video that makes any mention of anyone who isn't alive has an unsolicited eulogy in the comments
@@TheBigMclargehuge you’ll get over it.
I absolutely love this producer and your interviews with him, he really needs to write a book!
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This is a great interview. Thank you so much for this. This producer has a lot of respect and appreciation for Warrant and especially Jani. Thank God my friends and I were finally able to see the original Warrant in the early 2000's time period at the Universal Amphitheatre. The band was amazing. Completely separate from music, Jani seemed like he had a good heart and good soul.
I am REALLY enjoying these interviews - thanks for the great series!
It was Paul Stanley and their manager Bill Acron.
Great interview! Beau is a legend!
beau, thanks for being gracious and doing these interviews
I saw Warrant open up for Mötley Crüe on the Dr. Feelgood tour and was totally blown away! The first 3 albums are fantastic! PLAY LOUD!
same
I did too! At Rosemont Horizon!
Me too. Cleveland .
Me too! Indy. Also saw them open for Poison a year later and they blew Poison away 🙌💗🔥
jani lane was the best!
amazing interview man, thanks
Man, what a great interview... always love to hear the behind the albums...
I just wanna say that your interviews are the absolute best man. You are the perfect interviewer. Thanks for all your hard work.
I appreciate that, my friend. Thank you for listening.
I enjoy all these interviews. I feel you get such a more accurate balanced portrayal of things from the producer than from the band members themselves. (I've read quite a few rock biographies, including Stephen Pearcy & Bobby Blotzer)
I absolutely love hearing these behind-the-scenes interviews with the guys that helped create the albums that I grew up with.
Around 15-18 years ago I emailed Beau a few questions about Warrant. Much to my surprise he replied and had answered all my questions. Nice guy.
Absolutely cool! Your interviews and getting into the (mostly) hidden world of A to Z of the music biz is awesome. Loved this interview man. I hope you can continue to bring more of this content out. I find this stuff fascinating. Cheers man. Keep up the great work.
Thank you, Bruce, glad you dig it. More is on the way.
@@fullinbloom BTW, Just heard that Steve Priest, bassist for SWEET passed away today. Great band that lead the way for future rock.
Warrant was the only major group in that time I didnt get to see. Friends that did say they were blown away
I met and jammed with steven sweet a few times in about 03 or 04... nothing came of it, but he was a super nice guy. Had a house in studio city... one evening i was telling him about one of my favorite bands, sitting in my car, and i introduced him to porcupine tree’s ‘in absentia’. We sat in my car in front of his place and listened to several tracks off that album. I often wonder if he still likes them, but he was impressed at the time.
Thank you for doing this! Would love to hear him talk about the cherry pie album too!
Already recorded. Not sure when it will be up, though.
full in bloom yessssssss. Thank you!
I remember when they got reduced to rock bars - about 1990ish.....I got to see them at Rock bar and see one of the guitarists at the bar, I walked right up and tryed to be cool about asking for an autograph. got it - on a napkin - still have it. cool
Love these, keep up the good work!.
What a fantastic interview! Thank you!
This was a fantastic interview. I wish there were more full shows on the channel rather than clips.
Those solos on Dirty Rotten were absolutely spectacular. I was a senior in H.S. and a bass player and we heard there was a hired gun brought in to do guitar solos turns out it was true. And it was the right call, Mike Slamer was brilliant absolutely nailed those solos with Heaven being the best imo. In all my years as a musician, that solo is in my top 10 all time.
Saw them open for Motley Crue on the Dr Feelgood tour 1989 best opening band I ever saw
this is awesome stuff
always wanted to hear stories like this when i was kid reading metal edge circus hit parader and all the other metal magzines from the 80s
Great interview! Love the full length ones you put up. Keep em coming!
Man, your production/musical knowledge adds SO much to this interview for me. I've heard other interviews with Beau and they just remain pretty surface by comparison.
Good to hear. Have you checked out my Beau Hill / Ratt Out of the Cellar & Invasion interviews yet?
The first time I ever saw WARRANT, was when they opened for my favorite band, Stryper @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. And I LOVED them! R.I.P. Janie! Rock N' Roll lost a true gem, when you left us!'
Great interview. Jani was a giant of a musician and person it sounds like. RIP Jani. Taken too soon. 😭
Excellent interview!
So fascinating. Love these.
Great interview. Thank you!!
I second the "Heaven" story. There are two versions I've heard over the years. I don't remember exactly where and what the difference is, but there is a vocal difference in the two. That's how I noticed it myself. When you get use to singing it one way and then you hear it another one day, you notice it.
Best Warrant song in my opinion is "Uncle Tom's Cabin", I love how hard that thing kicks in after the acoustic bit. Speaking of Poison, there's is "Look what the Cat dragged in". It was so much harder than everything else of theirs I ever heard.
Go back to the word "worn". It's a different melody. There are only 2 places where I can tell a change that's one of them. I prefer the record version vs. The radio edit.
Loved the band! Enjoyed the interview!
I really enjoyed this interview!
I love these interviews. Incredible
I remember the very first time I heard Down Boys. I was driving around and NYC’s WNEW played it, and the intro by the DJ said the song was from a new band called Warrant. The song honestly sounded to me like something from The Cars and it wasn’t till later when I saw the video on MTV that I realized what type of band Warrant were. I like melodic rock so I enjoyed numerous songs from Warrant’s first three records. Years later I saw Jani Lane play live fronting a version of Warrant where he was the only original member. It was still a very good show but I’ve always wished I’d seen Warrant in their prime with the original lineup.
Best music channel on RUclips. Great idea. Keep doing exactly this.
it's funny hearing you guys mention Plain Jane, because yesterday I took a cellphone picture of a copy of their a tape (not released it was just a demo). It was in with some cassettes I am sending to a producer friend to digitize for me. Jani and I go back to his days as a drummer named John in the band Dorian Gray and I was shooting promos for the booking agents and mags. We stayed friends till the end. When Warrant would tour we would hook up, because I was shooting for the major rock rags. Great guy as well as the rest of the guys are really nice and funny! Good interview. I have one on a mini cassette I did with Jani & Joey back in 91 for one of the teen mags. WOW, BOP, 16, Tiger Beat or can't remember. I never transcribed it or sent it in. I am a photographer not a writer. I only did it for the hell of it and I shoot for those mags. Plus I could, so I said what the hell. Funny that tape was with the Plain Jane tape and is about 6 ins from my foot right now. Needless to say it was funny when this interview popped up as a suggestion. Considering I was not looking at interviews or Warrant
Great interview!
What a dude. Could have listened to him talk shop all fucking day.
Have you listened to his Ratt interviews yet?
@@fullinbloom yep today. Great stuff.making way through a lot of your interviews.
I think this RUclips channel is going platinum
Love any album with jani lane on vocals and he was one of the best songwriters ever .all warrant albums were killer.
This channel has the best hard rock interviews. The owner/interviewer is always very knowledgeable and just asks the right questions. If that person reads this, may I ask your name? I really enjoy what you do here. Keep up the good work. 👍
Perfect description of Jani Lane. Elvis and a Southern Baptist minister. I have seen all the bands and over a thousand shows and the first time I saw Jani walk out on stage it was weird... like the energy level went up 10 fold in a minute. He was so amped that he lifted the entire arena. It felt like someone flooring the pedal in a car when you don't expect it and I will never forget that show for the rest of my life. Warrant was insanely good live. What happened to Jani's career at the end was one of the gravest sins the industry ever committed but I understand how quickly public tastes shifted. He should still be with us putting out great albums. May he RIP!
You're great, Adam. How come you don't post more content?
No disrespect to the other 4 guys but Jani Lane not only wrote the songs he sang them and was a great singer and performer. Warrant now should pay him respect every show they play today and thank him for still having a career
I was never a huge hair metal fan, (Some groups I really loved) but I bought this album as soon as I heard it!!!
Just found this channel. Very interesting interviews. Good stuff. 🤙
Thank you. Welcome aboard.
My friends dad was big in a corporation and every xmas they gifted him technology. Big screen tv, gateway computer and a huge shelf stereo one year. We basted Uncle Toms Cabin on that thing and it sounded so damn good!
I saw Warrant at festival hall in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 they opened up for Cheap Trick and the body guard was Andre who has been with Kiss for years now.
I love how Beau how explains the whole music industry is all about. 👍👍
Love this shit! Keep it up FIB!
I do recall hearing at least 2 different versions of "Heaven" -- one that's on the DRFSR album that sounded very organic and bare-bones, and another that went to radio that had a more keyboard-heavy sound.
Dog Eat Dog is one of the most underrated hard rock albums of the 90s
Nothing will ever beat the Party that was LA on the Sunset Strip in the 80's ever !
Hell yeah!🤘Thank u
I'm going to write something I've said over the years but will probably be controversial to some. Warrant was a band that exploded onto the scene essentially following a hairband template for success. To the contrary, a band like Metallica wasn't something you heard on mainstream radio but had quite a following as they played their own brand of music, getting more airplay once "One" was released. It sort of broke the mold a bit for them, musically, and opened them to a new audience (that's certainly when I jumped on them.)
Around 1990 - 1991, these two bands had something of divergent paths - because of, or in spite of, grunge. Warrant lost the radio airplay and thus began a shift to a harder, more authentic sound. Dog Eat Dog is an example of this, followed by Ultraphobic. The audiences dwindled, but the musicianship grew and they were able to retain something of a cult following as a result. Some of their best work can be found on those two albums and it's a shame they never got some of the recognition thereon and seemed haunted by the entire "Cherry Pie" bit as a defining moment.
Whereas Warrant fell from the mainstream and became more internally-focus with regards to their music, Metallica reaped huge success with their Black album and many felt they sold out as a result. They suddenly were played at sporting events and wherever else you turned. Black, indeed, is a great album. Load - not so much, and it sounded like it was crafted for radio. Metallica, in essence, we're now something akin to the Warrants of the 90's whereas Warrant were in their own regard becoming - not the equivalent, mind you, of Metallica in the 80's... not by a longshot... but musically and with the lack of mainstream success one can see how these two bands crossed paths and diverged in opposite directions.
It's hard for me to not listen to some of Warrant's music during the early to mid 90's and think, wow, these songs are actually harder than what Metallica is putting out. How did this happen? One review, perhaps it was Allmusic.com, noted Warrant's Ultraphobic sounded like a band pissed off at losing millions of dollars in record deals. On the other hand, Metallica's Load (and Re-Load) sounded like a band settling into complacency and wanting to make radio-friendly shifter units. Sure, they still rocked, but they lost their edge whereas Warrant found theirs.
Finally, Metallica's response to this and the entire Napster ordeal of the late 90's and early 2000's was to put out an album, St. Anger, that tried so hard to put them back in the harder edge - but unfortunately it was as if they made an album nobody WANTED to download, legally or otherwise. Don't get me wrong - I'm still a fan and have appreciated their last couple of albums (despite whatever production issues people have noted over the years), but I've always found that particular time in both their and Warrant's career an interesting one where two bands were heading in opposite directions, for better or worse, both artistically and musically.
well written bro...pretty spot on.....
That's really interesting. I've never thought of that point of view before. Thanks.
Really liked your post and I agree with it. I think you are spot on with Metallica, Load and Reload to this day do nothing for me. St. Anger was an absolute bomb not a single good song on the album. No great guitar solos and the drumming sound is so bad it should only be given to inmates in Prison. I never heard Warrant's 3rd and 4th albums but I do like their sound off of first 2 albums. I'll have to search for them at Goodwill or in the bargain bin.
@@bartsullivan4866 search for them on RUclips, I'm sure the full albums are uploaded. They did an album in 96 as well, but it was very different - more arthouse. A few good songs on it, including Letter to a Friend, but it's very, I don't know, coffee-house-ish and experimental to some degree, but still has a hard sound.
Excellent interview.
great interview!!
Cold sweat one my best songs of all time along with every other drfsr songs
Warrant was so awesome!!!! Love Jani...
Great interview, i loved
Warrants first two records
despite being more into the sleaze bands.
Faster Pussycat was always a favourite of mine from that era.
I would love to hear Beau talk about his experience making the Unruly Child album. I remember hearing that Beau had some intense conversations with Mark Free, who of course is now Marcie Free. Could be an interesting interview, plus that was a great album.
We did another interview today and we flipped a coin on that album or another. We chose the other but it will happen.
I remember my friend and I trying to find all the hidden items on the album cover. So fun
That full in bloom song trumps the interviews. Great sound!
So I think you might be correct about reach for the sky being the album he was working on. Warrant opened up for ratt on that tour after releasing DRFDR!
Im excited bout this !!!!! Now im goin to listen
A band that actually liked each other?
I never even imagined such a thing in my wildest dreams. :)
this is a great channel
Your RUclips channel is phenomenal who are you where do you live and how do you meet all these people to get them to do these interviews?
I'm no one. I have been doing interviews for over fifteen years, but I just recently launched the podcast. I'm glad you enjoy the interviews. Comments like yours always give me hope. Thanks for taking the time, Robin.
@@fullinbloom How do even get in touch with these people to interview them that’s what I can’t figure out?
@@fullinbloom Who is your first interview that you did and how did you get that going I bet you were nervous?
@@fullinbloom And your song that you play at the end of each interview full in bloom I guess it’s called did you write that or who wrote that that’s a great song
@@robintaylor7355 Many ways. PR firms - sometimes they contact me. For example, a PR person contacted me when Don Dokken was doing press for his latest release and asked if I would be interested in doing an interview with him. Again, I've been doing this for over 15 years.
No their was No MTV Video for "32 Pennies" I loved "Down Boys" and still do !! As far as I'm concerned it's their first single!
I think FiB confused DRFSR's release date. He was saying December 31st '89 but it came out January 31st. Great interview though, I found the whole music biz side of it fascinating. The things we as fans and listeners don't know about what went in financially and how the negotiations went which led to the creation of these albums we've all been hearing for decades.
I saw The Bullet Boys, Winger and Cinderella together once, probably around 89-90, Knoxville Tn
Very mature of Warrant Guitar guys to not cause a stink about not playing the solos. Its just business. They both are great guitarists. And ive witnessed it. They play it live. Well.
I def was 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 a fan of Warrant, but it is undeniable that J. Lane had the it factor.
Released: January 31, 1989
I know, I had a brainfart.
I was 10 & a half
My 14th birthday!
Interesting what he said about publishing. Steve Vai said he always kept his publishing.
Jani was an excellent front man, he made the Warrant shows alot of fun. He would come out after the show and party with the locals as well 🍻
Any chance getting Beau to comment on Steve Steven's amp setup on Atomic Playboys? That tone is just out of this world, especially on Slipping Into Fiction. Oh btw, thank you for this interview!!!
I would like to see video footage of that recording sessions
One time I saw a Warrant concert and waited till the very end outside. A girl came by walking a dog. I asked if I could pet the dog and she said yes so I bent down and I pet him.
Jani was a friend of mine. btw Slammer played on a KIX record too
Your friend was a major talent! 🤟
Wasn't it Midnight Dynamite?
Eddie Trunk said CC Deville played solo on Cherry Pie.
@@paulthomasbranda7591 thats not a secret
@Smith Hart I'm not much up to anything. Kind of out of the game. Dean cramer is doing well and gigging and I really don't see the kix guys anymore. Cheers
I listen to these candid discussions of how much the Great Big Music Machine profited from giving bad loans to bands and am thankful it died the watery death that it did. I wish more fans would discover Bandcamp, it's the exact opposite split that Beau Hill describes: 85% to the artist, 15% to the house. Now granted, Bandcap isn't giving you a $500k advance to record your album at Ocean Way over 3 months, but that's just the way it goes. The DAW has democratized music for better and worse, but largely the better. And I say that as someone who worked as a professional engineer during the last happy days of the Great Big Music Machine. It had to die.
I wouldn't doubt a lot of 80s bands albums sales have been selling consistently. I cant tell ya hiw many times ive had to re-buy due to scratched CDs or Cassettes that got eaten up in the tape player. All of us 80s fans got busy working n raising families during the grunge thing. Now that our kids are all grown n out on their own we have more money n time to see concerts n buy albums. I always knew the 80s would catch another wave. Theres too many talented artists from that era.
My favourite member was Eric Turner
Jani sang incredible live