Et encore avec de la chance j'ai l'impresion, on a posé la question a Caffery, il est très très evasif

Vampire-Magazine.com: An often heard complaint is that there are two CHRIS CAFFERY albums, one DOCTOR BUTCHER re-release and a new album coming up, a JON OLIVA'S PAIN album… Where's the new SAVATAGE?

Chris: "I really don't know! … SAVATAGE will hopefully have something out in 2007… I cannot force this to happen and really have no control over the situation. I will continue to make music for my fans and hopefully pick up some new ones along the way."

Read the entire interview at http://www.vampire-magazine.com/interviews/chris_caffery/39479_chris_caffery_my_heavy_metal_face.html

On n'a pas fini d'attendre, ouin

chaque année, la sortie de l'album est repoussée d'un an supplémentaire.
C'est à se demander si il va vraiment sortir un jour

Il va finir par sortir après Chinese Democracy

franchement je n'y crois plus guere, l'envie n'a plus l'air d'y etre chez Oliva

Savatage est mort en 1993.

Comme les Guns en fait ?

Savatage est surtout mort depuis l'arrivée de Paul O'Neil

Ah ben non vu que Paul O'Neil est arrivé pour Hall of The Mountain King.

En plus j'ai toujours boen aimé les concepts de Paul O'Neil (Wake of Magellan, Poets And Madmen, Beethoven's Last Night notamment.

Par contre on peut quand même garder un petit espoir pour 2007 vu que ce sera l'année des 25 ans du groupe et qu'a priori Jon a prévu de fêter ça.

Mais c'est vrai qu'être obligé de se coltiner des tas de sous-Savatage entre les albums solos de Jon, Caffery et Zak c'est frustrant: à chaque fois c'est pas mal mais il manque un truc (et à chaque fois les meilleures chansons sont celles ou l'un des autres membres du groupe a collaboré (notamment chez Circle 2 Circle)

mais un DVD s'annonce enfin!!

Chris Caffery, guitarist for SAVATAGE/TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA and solo artist, recently spoke to Metal Asylum just before rehearsals started for the TSO tour about his latest CD, "Pins and Needles", and the future of SAVATAGE, among other topics. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Metal Asylum: What is the album called and how would you compare it to "Faces"?

Chris: It's called "Pins and Needles", like when your foot falls asleep, and I don't think you can compare the two. It's like when your sitting there and your foot gets numb. It's kinda like sometimes in life you keep taking the same crap and dealing with the same things so much that after a while you become numb to it, ya know?!

There's a focus and maturity with this record. When I recorded "Faces", I had so much material I wrote over the years to go through, I had no idea what people were going to like, I never sang before and basically I was like a kid in a candy shop as far as what I wanted people to hear. Now with "Pins and Needles" there is a set direction and its definitely not what people are expecting. I am very looking forward to people hearing it.

Metal Asylum: Recently some pro shot video footage of SAVATAGE when Criss Oliva was in the band during the "Streets" era, along with footage from your time with the band during the "Wake of Magellan" tour have surfaced online. When it is time to compile footage for a SAVATAGE DVD, will footage of this nature be included?

Chris: Yeah that's the plan. The idea is to make a special compilation DVD with all the videos, classic live footage from when Criss Oliva was still alive and Jon Oliva was still the lead singer, some candid stuff, plus a new live concert with everyone involved who has recorded with SAVATAGE. I know there is one concert from the Dynamo festival with the "Mountain King" lineup that had a pro shoot, actually that week they asked me to re join the band for "Gutter Ballet" was when they were flying over for the show two days later and if I had a chance to rehearse with the band at all in time I would have been part of it too. I have a copy of that show and its about an hour or so and it's the only real pro shot footage that includes Criss Oliva at all.

Metal Asylum: Can you predict the possible future of SAVATAGE and who will be involved in the band?

Chris: Well, I really could not tell you exactly. I know we are going to do something for the anniversary. Maybe we will do one big huge concert, record an album including all the past and present members of the band, maybe a big European festival tour. If we do a special concert tour it will include SAVATAGE's original drummer Wacholz playing the older music and probably include Alex Skolnick doing some stuff. It's just a matter of everyone getting on the same page, ya know. I'm up for anything. I think the fans want to see more than one show, I know I do.

Read the entire interview at www.metalasylum.net.

Ca serait bon ca, un vrai gros double bien rempli a la "fur immer" de doro.

Ouais je sais le titre fait marrer mais y a peut être de l'espoir

C'est violent comme revival quand même.

Pour rester sur le message de noise, si c'est fait serieusement et pas des gens compétents, des versions "soft" des morceaux les plus broadwaysques de Savatage... ça me tenterai bien. En plus il a dit Motown !

j'igonre si cela verra réellement le jour, mais j'aime quand on me fait miroiter des trucs pareils. de toutes façons on me marque 'gutter ballet' sur n'importe quel spectacle, je prends...
mais ces gus ont le sens du spectacle, ça ne peut être que bien.

Un petit best of en attendant



MUSIC/Edel Records has set a March 2 European release date for "Still The Orchestra Plays: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2", the official anthology from the legendary U.S. metal act SAVATAGE. The collection contains remastered classics plus three new, previously unreleased acoustic recordings. The limited edition of the anthology comes with the complete "Japan Live" show from 1994, which appears here for the first time on DVD.

"Still The Orchestra Plays" will be followed by the re-release of SAVATAGE's complete catalog — remastered and featuring bonus tracks as well as newly recorded audio commentary.

"Still The Orchestra Plays: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2" track listing:

CD1: Greatest Hits Vol.1:

01. Power Of The Night
02. Hall Of The Mountain King
03. 24 Hours Ago
04. Legions
05. Gutter Ballet
06. Summers Rain
07. When The Crowds Are Gone
08. Ghost In The Ruins
09. If I Go Away
10. NYC Don't Mean Nothing
11. Edge Of Thorns
12. All That I Bleed

CD2: Greatest Hits Vol.2:

01. Handful Of Rain
02. Chance
03. One Child
04. I Am
05. Anymore
06. Hourglass
07. The Wake Of Magellan
08. Morphine Child

Bonus tracks (recorded by Jon Oliva in 2009):

09. Anymore (acoustic)
10. Not What You See (acoustic)
11. Out On The Streets (acoustic)

DVD - "Japan Live 94":

01. Taunting Cobras
02. Edge Of Thorns
03. Chance
04. Conversation Piece
05. Nothing Going On
06. He Carves His Stone
07. Jesus Saves
08. Watching You Fall
09. Castles Burning
10. All That I Bleed
11. Stare Into The Sun
12. Damien
13. Handful Of Rain
14. Sirens
15. Gutter Ballet
16. Hall Of The Mountain King

Un best of de Savatage sans Believe ?

Il n'y a que le dvd qui m'intéresse... depuis le temps que je l'attend.
Mais je suppose qu'ils sont foutu de ne pas l'éditer indépendamment du bestof (toute pourrite la tracklist).

Il y a "When the crowds are gone", comme il y a un passage identique ("I never wanted to know, Never wanted to see, I wasted my time, Till time wasted me…"), fallait choisir je pense.

Comme Ziggy, c'est surtout le dvd qui m'intéresse.
J'espère d'ailleurs que la qualité est bonne.
Y'en a qu'ont déjà vu ce concert ?

Ouep, excellent concert en formation réduite, pas mal filmé pour les normes de l'époque.



J'ai mis Sirens parce que j'aime bien cette version mais il y en a d'autres sur youtube... Suffit de voir Handful of Rain par exemple, pour voir la forme de Stevens et Skolnik.