Author: Charley Crespo
Date: unknown
While
Savatage was in New York putting finishing touches on their latest album,
we found the opportunity to sit around their manager's luxurious New York
office and watch a little MTV with guitarist Criss Oliva and bassist Johnny
Lee Middleton. Both said they rarely get a chance to watch videos, and
besides, most of the stuff they like doesn't come on video --- Criss likes
Mozart and old Rush, and Johnny likes Steely Dan and "jazzy kinds of things."
So we caught up with some videos and talked a little bit.
LOVE REARS ITS UGLY HEAD, Living Colour
Criss: I always like Living Colour. Anything they do is good.
Johnny: It's in the buzz bin. I love this band.
ICE ICE BABY, Vanilla Ice
Criss: I just have no comment.
Johnny: Mine is a negative 10 on the Richter scale. What is this
world coming to when you can rip off some David Bowie and get away with
it? Is that David Bowie? He ripped off somebody. But the girls look good;
the Oriental girl with the ice cream cone is my favorite part.
Criss: I'd rather listen to Chet Atkins for the rest of my life
than listen to this.
YOU'RE IN LOVE, Wilson Phillips
Johnny: I love these chicks. I'll give them a 10.0. Nice
outfits. Great pop music; they only sold like 3 million copies.
Criss: Are you going to force me to say something about them?
HEARTBREAK STATION, Cinderella
Johnny: Now that's a cool train. I like this, this is great.
Well done video, great song, great band.
Criss: They'll be around for a long time.
FLY ME COURAGEOUS, Drivin' N' Cryin'
Johnny: Who are they? Cool song, the song is great. They'd
pass the test.
Criss: Bizarre. I like it. We have to like anyone close to home
to us; they're from Georgia and we're from Florida.
SILENT LUCIDITY, Queensryche
Criss: One of my favorite bands. I want to tour with them.
Nothing but good here. Good, good, good, good, good!
Johnny: Cool. Check out the drums. The cymbals are great. I have
their CD in my player and I never manage to take it out. I listen to it
a million times. It's hard to tell from the video what the song is about,
but it has something to do with dreams. I give it a 100 on any scale.
Criss: Ditto.
RICO SUAVE, Gerardo
Criss: We already rated one rapper. Coffee break.
SPEND MY LIFE, Slaughter
Johnny: Oh, no. It's Slaughter. We can turn the volume off
and just look at the girls. They're not my cup of tea. Actually, I'm just
jealous; I want a bass like his.
Criss: I don't mind Slaughter. Johnny's ripping them, I'm not ripping
them. I like it, it's good.
EASY COME EASY GO, Winger
Criss: This was done in my hometown, St. Peterburg, Florida.
Johnny: Home of the nearly dead.
Criss: And the newly wed. They're on the same record lable and endorse
the same guitars. What a band.
RIDE THE WIND, Poison
Criss: They always cut out the good stuff.
Johnny: That was a guys butt, dummy.
Criss: I like live video's. I might like to do one myself. The bass
player's from Florida.
Johnny: We like that video. I always like Poison for some reason.
ONE IN A MILLION, Trixter
Johnny: Oh, no, don't put us through this, change the channel,
quick my hormones are raging. I wonder if they shave yet. Thank God this
is one in a million; I couldn't handle another Trixter video.
Criss: The New Kids of rock. Hey, there's our old sound man. Doug
Cook. I hope they're taking care of you, you dude; we didn't.
GAMES, New Kids on the Block
Johnny: New Kids on the Rap. That's it, I'm jumping; we're
only on the 28th floor, I'm jumping.
Criss: I've got some good songs. You wanna buy them from me?
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