Post by Edward Baggett on May 30, 2009 23:42:36 GMT -6
After laying low and singing on other people's bands and project (also divorced and spending more times as a dad to his kids) Tony started to write 'Scream'. The original idea was a trio of albums Clean, Mean, and Scream but Scream singled out. The album was made at Tony's house with Tony playing drums, bass, violen. Joe Harford which is Tony's son played guitar while Geoff Nicholls laid down the keyboards. He also helped to craft Rasing Hell, Field Of Lies, Bittersweet, Where Ever You Go. 'Gone but the music lives' on is a saying said about those who have passed away. Much like Elvis and Jimi the saying is true for Cozy Powell. As Tony Martin was with Cozy in 1992 he had him record some drum tracks so he could write around them. There is 22 tracks in all from what Tony has said. One drum track that was also used during the demos for Dehumanizer had become Raising Hell. Much like the other Tony Martin albums this is made without much hassel (well with him as writer, plays 3/4 of it himself, producer, what hassel could there be) November 2005 Scream is released by MTM Records and distributed by NEH Records in the US. MTM is celebrating 10 years and the album is printed on a special gold disc. For the tour Tony is joined by Rolf Munkes - Guitar (who joins after him and Tony complete their next album in 2006), Joe Harford - Guitar (Martin's son), Geoff Nicholls - keyboards,, Jamie Mallender - Bass, Danny Needham - Drums. Also joining in is Fabio Cerrone who played guitar in the band Twin Dragons with Tony. Mallender had played with the Bailey's when Martin sang for them. (Found this out in Mallender's interview for this site.) The tour basically last from 2005-2007. With some shows in 2008. And band goes on to make severial tv appearences. Most noted is playing 'Headless Cross' twice on two seperate shows. Then in 2006 Tony and band played with Helloween on the track Headless Cross at the Bang Your Head Festival in Germany. And then performed a warm up club show. Some of this late show was released of the festival's dvd of that year. (See the Video Bootlegs sections of 'Scream' & 'Raven Ride' for more details and a link to watch these performances.)