Vintage Molly Hatchet Interview 1983, Jacksonville, Florida

I left the band after the disaster album and went on a solo venture and I had some success with the solo, you could hear I had some success with it, but you know, Hatchet made two albums between the time I left and just we decided to. To put it back together, you know it worked really well, so you're pretty much Molly Hatchet's background or you were at that time with your vocal style and your whole stage presence and that really shaped Molly Hatchet as well as the three guitars. attack, well you know it different, it's really like an old southern barbecue sauce, you've taken away one or two ingredients and it just doesn't taste the same, okay, and you know we're comfortable again.

I've got some new members in the band Barian riff and they're all excited you know we're having a good time the album is getting it all over the country and I'm not turning it on yeah you're always excited okay Dave as for Filling in at that time when we had Danny Joe, which you should do as a solo artist, and of course Jimmy came in to take over the lead, if there was any question about keeping the Molly Hatchet name and continuing. out there and trying to do it towards the end of the second album with Jimmy, honor Doolittle, the lead vocals, we take no prisoners that we might have to change in a day, yeah times were getting a little thin right, We were getting a little thin in the skin, yeah, all but Jimmy, you know, that's Jimmy Rave, you listen to Jimmy, you know, come on, we gotta eat, you certainly did, but what happened is we still got like Jimmy, he's a good guy from Georgia, but the thing is, it might have been different if he had started with us from the first album, yeah, um, but I don't know if it was a real letter.

Did you find out that it didn't happen? The audience just couldn't accept Jimmy versus Danny Jones, but they turned off our band like you turn off these stage lights, I mean, a little faster, at least like the electricity lingered a little, so they ran away into the room. night and that's why we ask you to do this in a few. We've always felt like we could go on stage with almost anyone. I mean, we never have been. I was afraid. I came out and it turned out that we had very good direction from management. We went in and they put us in. with tours that were compatible, you know, we did a lot of shows with the outlaws, we won that Aria Speedwagon and our music, would you know we even did a lot of shows that worked well with another script?

I imagine not, you know, like UFO. even yeah, we are and then situations would arise and we could play with Charlie or we could play with Blackfoot or 38 or AC/DC and see and things just worked out. Did you know that the album speaks for itself? We went out and had good tours normal so it was nice it was very easy it was very long we were gone for nine months that woman who makes up album titles as far as they say yes by Rory I really come from all the questions Yes, yes, it's just interesting because you read them, of course, the first one says it all Molly Hatchet and then you start flirting with disaster right after that first album, it's almost like you say, well, let's try it again and then go to number three, get over the odds, okay and then, okay again, try again, yeah, but it's interesting how all these titles flow together and then you have this one right here, without prism that takes-no-prisoners and then the subsequent work, that It's the one that I like that cover, that cover was interesting, I must admit it was kind of good in its entire life now, but I was like, hey, they put on some crazy overtones to get yeah, no beer, nothing. you know, it just works, I'm never alone and then you get to this album right here, which is the newest one, there's a lot of light on it, okay, no guts, no glory, no problem, the only problem would have been. they'll put us back on their horses the next day triple guitar work how you deal with egos that obviously doesn't really affect you what the other two guitars tell you we had a good time it works very well for us hey you know song, You know, I think it has something to do with there being no problem, that's because each of these guys plays very differently anyway until it's time to calm down and they all do a three part harmony, this guy , You know?

Dumb man of this guy. mild and that's a snowstorm there, so it all goes together, it's snowing here in Jacksonville, some of Hedley's vocalist's other Jacksonville groups and have let other band members pick up some tracks from time to time. while in some rooms it just adds a bit of diversification to the sound, is there any of that in the future? It's basically going to be you and then the harmonies back to the apartment ego? Here we see, I don't know, we are. bring maybe maybe I made a solo album when I left Molly Hatchet after flirting and the keyboard player who was in my band, so he will join Molly Hatchet and they are in his future John Galvin from Detroit and John's singing. riff sings and Dave even sings on it a little bit in the new show, you know, so, yeah, I'll get some backup for a long time.

He had a reputation, particularly in the beginning, as a pretty rough house type of band, well, that's what. what the professor said, that's what the press release says, no, you have a great PR guy or it's going to be the last year of us and we've taken on another big business, yeah, okay, so what I mean It's just that it has a tone. a little less than it was with LEM Give him two to a quarter Jack a week you know, big deal, okay, new album Molly Hatchet no guts no glory and they're back Danny Joe Brown Dave Lubeck Duane Rowling new drummer BB boring riff right West and Steve Holland's new bassist, all Molly Hatchet, thank you very much and you better get it on the air.