{"id":13266,"date":"2014-06-16T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2014-06-16T07:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:39:57","slug":"blowin-wind-with-black-star-riders-ricky-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13266","title":{"rendered":"Blowin’ Wind with Black Star Riders’ Ricky Warwick: “You should go on stage and be awesome every night. That\u2019s part of your job. Your job is to be fucking awesome and if you can\u2019t do that you\u2019re in the wrong job.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The spirit of Thin Lizzy is alive and well and being carried on by the members of Black Star Riders. Long time Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham and his band of top notch players have been carrying the tour of Thin Lizzy but doing so as their very own entity. Refusing to be written off as a mere extension or tribute band of Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders put out one an absolutely stellar album of material that showcased their ability to write songs that are so good that they can stand tall and strong on their own in a setlist littered with some of the most iconic, classic rock n\u2019 roll songs ever written.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Star Riders have been out on the road supporting their All Hell Breaks Loose album and this leg of their tour finally brought them to Atlanta. I had the honor to sit down backstage pre show with lead singer\/guitarist Ricky Warwick and it was such a treat to just have a great conversation with him once again. We talked about why it was so important for Black Star Riders to put out solid material, his upcoming solo records, the upcoming change in the band\u2019s lineup, and he even offered up some sound advice to all the writers out there.\u00a0\u00a0 Enjoy interview number 2 with the great Ricky Warwick.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ricky, welcome to Atlanta my friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks so much, Don. It\u2019s great to be here.<\/p>\n

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When was the last time you were here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh the last time I was here was about six or seven years ago when I opened up for Cheap Trick as a solo act. It was at a small theater.<\/p>\n

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I know you do a lot of press so I have to ask you this. What is the one question you get asked so much that if you get asked it again you\u2019ll scream?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] Um, I\u2019m getting pretty sick of being asked about what happened with the whole Thin Lizzy\/Black Star Riders name change. I mean, at this point it\u2019s been a year and a half and if people haven\u2019t done their homework I\u2019m just like, \u201cReally? Do you not go online and read stuff?\u201d That starts to get a little bit laborious. I didn\u2019t mind explaining it for like the first six months or a year but you know; you can explain something to death. If it\u2019s a new country, that\u2019s fair enough but everybody should know at this point. It\u2019s very well documented.<\/p>\n

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You really keep your cool when doing these interviews. How do you keep your composure in interviews that you feel aren\u2019t really being done well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, when people ask lazy questions I tend to give lazy answers. If someone\u2019s going to ask me a stupid question or a question that\u2019s just generic, I try and be polite because I want my band to be seen and heard but it makes it hard. I mean, I would never dream of going on stage and doing a half assed show. I think if someone\u2019s going to interview me or anyone else in Black Star Riders they should be coming to do an interesting interview, be well read up on the people they\u2019re going to be talking to, and be prepared. I mean, that\u2019s the way I would do it if I was doing that and that\u2019s how I go into it playing live.<\/p>\n

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Last time we talked you mentioned how you\u2019d love to see \u201cGot to Give it Up\u201d added to list. Did Scott Gorham hear your plea?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No and we still haven\u2019t put it in. We\u2019re going to back to Europe again and we\u2019re going to have to change the setlist around again because we\u2019ve already been there a couple of times. I\u2019m going to throw that one into the mix again and see how far we get with it.<\/p>\n

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Black Star Riders have been touring behind All Hell Breaks Loose. Last time we talked I asked you if there was a particular long you ever got tired of playing but this time I want to know, are there any songs that maybe you didn\u2019t love so much in the beginning but find yourself loving even more now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I mean the Lizzy songs I\u2019ll always love. I just said to Damon the other night that the one song I never get tired of playing is \u201cJailbreak.\u201d I just love that song so much but as for the Black Star Riders stuff, seeing the song \u201cKingdom of the Lost\u201d grow in two years from Damon and I sitting backstage in the middle of nowhere at some Swedish festival trying to piece it together to see how it\u2019s evolved into a classic song that\u2019s in our set. That is a love affair right there. You\u2019ve just watched something that you\u2019ve nurtured and see it blossom and grow. That\u2019s really cool and that\u2019s what I get a really big buzz out of.<\/p>\n