Heavy Metal Bebop is a series of in-depth conversations about the intersection of jazz and heavy metal, featuring prominent musicians from each of these worlds. Your host is writer and musician Hank Shteamer. Published in web Q&A form for seven years, HMB re-launched as a podcast in February 2019.
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Heavy Metal Bebop is a series of in-depth conversations about the intersection of jazz and heavy metal, featuring prominent musicians from each of these worlds. Your host is writer and musician Hank Shteamer. Published in web Q&A form for seven years, HMB re-launched as a podcast in February 2019.
In this series, I've spoken with many musicians who have a serious appreciation for heavy metal, and some who have plenty of experience playing it, but Vernon Reid is in another category altogether. He's a genuine legend of the genre whose band, Living Colour, achieved household-name status with their 1988 debut, Vivid. Both before Living Colour and alongside it, the guitarist and songwriter has worked on the cutting-edge of jazz, playing with artists such as drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson and pianist Geri Allen, as well as in the project Spectrum Road, a tribute to the Tony Williams Lifetime that featured Jack Bruce, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman-Santana.
In this episode, Vernon discusses the Decoding Society's unique musical DNA, how he came to work with Jack Bruce, what makes the power chord essential to his musical arsenal, why the Mahavishnu Orchestra foreshadows Meshuggah and much more.
Heavy Metal Bebop
Heavy Metal Bebop is a series of in-depth conversations about the intersection of jazz and heavy metal, featuring prominent musicians from each of these worlds. Your host is writer and musician Hank Shteamer. Published in web Q&A form for seven years, HMB re-launched as a podcast in February 2019.
