Whereas many followers might acknowledge Tommy Henriksen as one of many unimaginable guitarists in Alice Cooper’s band and a member of the Hollywood Vampires, he’s elevating his title to new ranges with the mission generally known as Crossbone Skully.
“I am at all times simply attempting to do my finest,” Henriksen advised Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights on Wednesday (Nov. 1). “Keith Richards, Angus Younger, all my heroes. You combine all that stuff up and go.”
It is his love for Younger that basically drove Henriksen to launch Crossbone Skully. Whereas soundchecking at previous reveals, he and his bandmates would jam AC/DC tunes — and apparently, they sounded so good that others got here to him and stated, “When are you gonna do that for actual?”
“I went house two weeks later and I used to be like, ‘You recognize what? Let me sit down,'” he defined. “The onerous factor about while you’re writing AC/DC type music, all people thinks it is easy. That stuff is so complicated as a result of it is easy. It takes a genius to simplify and an fool to complicate.”
The primary music Henriksen wrote was “The Growth Went the Growth.”
“That changed into different songs and the following factor I do know I bought like 17 songs. I by no means thought I used to be going to do that, it simply occurred.”
Mutt Lange Got here Out of Retirement to Work With Crossbone Skully
As stunning because it was to Henriksen that he ended up with so many songs, there was one thing else that appeared to maintain occurring that left him much more humbled: Folks stored telling him how good these new songs had been.
Ultimately, famed producer Mutt Lange stated the identical factor to Henriksen.
“I used to be simply gonna put it out, launch it, after which I stated to [producer and songwriter] Tommy Denander, ‘Why do not you ship this to Mutt, see what he thinks.'”
Denander did and the following factor Henriksen knew, Lange referred to as him.
“He does not like to speak about plenty of stuff — it is like Struggle Membership stuff,” Henriksen stated. “He referred to as me up and he stated, ‘I believe there’s one thing right here.’ And that is once I went, ‘Oh my god.'”
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Henriksen admitted to Chuck that he cried tears of pleasure many instances in entrance of Lange, who ended up serving as govt producer of Crossbone Skully’s debut album, due in 2024.
“It is by no means been about cash with me or something — it is in regards to the music. When Mutt referred to as, you understand what? That made my life full.”
What Else Did Tommy Henriksen Focus on on Loudwire Nights?
- What position photographer Ross Halfin performed within the improvement of Crossbone Skully
- What Henriksen has realized from Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and others
- How he bought Def Leppard’s Phil Collen to contribute to “The Growth Went the Growth”
Hearken to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Under
Tommy Henriksen joined Loudwire Nights on Wednesday, Nov. 1; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in dwell each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you too can see if the present is accessible in your native radio station and hearken to interviews on-demand. Stream “The Growth Went the Growth” at this location after which pre-order the 7-inch for the music.
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