{"id":10790,"date":"2013-01-30T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2013-01-30T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:24:24","slug":"blowin-wind-with-john-corabi-i-didnt-want-to-be-the-guy-who-goes-down-in-history-as-being-the-replacement-singer-for-all-these-enigmatic-front-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10790","title":{"rendered":"Blowin’ Wind with John Corabi: “I didn\u2019t want to be the guy who goes down in history as being the replacement singer for all these enigmatic front men.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since hearing The Scream\u2019s album \u201cLet it Scream\u201d in 1991, I have been a huge fan of John Corabi.\u00a0 Since then, John has been somewhat of an unsung hero of hard rock.\u00a0 He was a member of Union with former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick, he was a guitarist for eight years in Ratt, and as most know was the replacement (and upgrade) to Vince Neil in Motley Crue.\u00a0 After all of that, John seemed to lay low for a little while only to resurface in 2012 with his first solo album simply titled \u201cUnplugged.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I had the opportunity to speak with John on the phone from his home in Nashville. John was a really great guy and we talked about his time in Motley Crue, patching things up with his former Scream band mates, and his love and appreciation for music in general. John has a fascinating history and as you\u2019ll see by this interview has plenty to say. This was a really fantastic conversation and I hope you all will enjoy getting to know more about John Corabi.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi, is this John Corabi? This is Don from The Great Southern Brainfart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes it is. How are you doing Don?<\/p>\n

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Man, I wish I could go back in time to 1991 and tell myself I would getting to talk on the phone with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] Well thank you very much Don. I appreciate that people still want to talk to me [laughs].<\/p>\n

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Happy New Year John. I\u2019m glad the Mayans got it all wrong so that we could do this interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] Man, I\u2019m kind of at the point now that even if the Mayans would\u2019ve had it right I would be ok with it [laughs]. Life is good man.<\/p>\n

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So you\u2019re living in Nashville these days right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I\u2019ve been living in Nashville for about six years now and honestly it\u2019s a great town. It\u2019s got that southern charm to it and there\u2019s nothing about LA that I miss [laughs]. I\u2019ve got everything that I want right here and it\u2019s pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

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So has living in Nashville been somewhat of a culture shock to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well actually, I wasn\u2019t born and raised in LA. I was born and raised in Philadelphia and then moved to LA. My first day here in Nashville, all my neighbors go together and left a box on my door step with a bunch of cookies and pies and phone numbers and addresses. I was in LA for like 21 years and never had anything like that happen.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, if someone would\u2019ve left stuff like that on your door step in LA it would\u2019ve got stolen by some starving musician.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] Exactly.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been a fan of yours ever since The Scream album Let it Scream<\/em> came out in 1991. When that album came out, did you know it was going to make as much of an impact on people as it ended up making?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of people I talk to want to sit down and ask me, \u201cDid you sit down and write music with that sound in mind?\u201d We didn\u2019t even think about what the songs were going to sound like. We just loved the riffs, we loved performing them, and we were just excited about what was coming up around the next corner every day. We were just a kind of blues driven band that had a guitar player who was as good as any other guitarist out there. I can\u2019t really explain it. It was just reckless abandonment and we just did what we wanted to do. When we were doing The Scream album, we were just so fucking excited, young, and green behind the ears. Then you throw Eddie Kramer into the mix who was a huge producer who worked with all the bands we grew up listening to. We were just happier than pigs in shit to be there [laughs].<\/p>\n