BERNIE TORME IS A GREAT GUITARRIST THAT PLAYS GUITAR WITH PEOPLE SO IMPORTANT LIKE IAN GILLAN AND OZZY OSBOURNE.
What's your principal influences in music?
The beauty and freedom of music. Everything from medieval music to folk music is beautiful to me, i love it all. Blues and irish folk music have been very influential, and they are not entirely different. As regards musicians, jimi hendrix was my greatest inspiration: he was a world apart. In terms of other guitar players, Jeff Beck, Clapton playing blues, Davy Graham, bert jansch, gary moore
Who is your favourite musician and why?
Of those living, Jeff Beck and Keith Richards. Also Steve Earle. But Jimi Hendrix more than anyone.
How is to work with IAN GILLAN?
fantastic as a person, chaos as an organiser! but an amazing singer, just fantastic night after night onstage. Unbeatable, it was a real priviledge to work with ian.
Your 5 favourites albums in history are...
Are You experienced/Jimi Hendrix
Black and Blue/ Rolling Stones
5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion/ Incredible String Band
Feel Alright/ Steve Earle
John Mayalls Bluesbreakers feat Eric Clapton (known as the Beano album)
these five change from time to time, but all of those I've come back to again and again and the just fill me with joy and awe everytime.
How is to work with CLIVE BURR?
great, clive was a lovely fun guy, aways laughing, and just great fun to jam with, we had great times together, we were on the same wavelength and loved each others playing. We used to spend hours jamming on hendrix tracks, clive was a big fan of mitch mitchell.
How is to work with OZZY OSBOURNE?
The OZZ man! It was a real honour to stand on stage with Ozzy and feel the love from the audience, that was wild, it was so strong you could almost plug your amps into it! Ozzy is just the salt of the earth, a man of the people, but a true prince, and a very funny guy, always have you laughing.
You are now in GMT witn Mc Coy and Guy, a group really good for me, based in a classic hard rock, What projects have you got in future?
We are planning a third album hopefully to come out next year, and we are currently mixing a live album recorded on the last tour, some of it is really wild. Hoping to tour a lot next year too.
I'm also hoping to get a solo album in the bag sometime next year, though that obviously has to fit in around what GMT are doing, GMT is the priority, but its all good!
Dee Snider is one of my favorites singers since he was in T. Sister, what is your opinion about him?
Dee is a really great guy, a real friend, a stupendous front man, and really an incredible singer, he often does not get credit for that, I think its because he's so good at everything else! A really great performer and a great all round guy.
You are whith Ozzy after the Randy death, which is your opinion about Randy like guitarrist?
Randy was fantastic, hugely original. I think he was one of the all time greats and I am forever in his debt for what it taught me having to battle to learn his incredibly clever parts off dodgy cassettes! He had a stunning technique, but apart from that his use of scales was just mindblowingly clever: the fact is that most of us knew those scales from spanish and flamenco and even eastern pieces, but for me he was the first guy who ever made them work on electric and made them fit seamlessly into rock n roll. That was true genius, he made them work, and that stands as a totally separate achievement to his technical greatness. The guy really was a genius.
Who are your favourites guitarrists in history?
Probably too many to mention: some of them would be Keith Richards, Hendrix, Jeff Beck, definitely Randy Rhoads, also people as diverse as BB King, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy, Django Reinhardt, Paco Pena, the Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers combination on those early Chess recordings, loads of others. Its of no interest to me that someone plays 3 million notes per second, its the sound that matters to me. All of the guitarists I love because I know who it is immediately because of the sound, its like a voice, a being, a personality, someone you recognise. Theres millions of people nowadays who can play so fast, and they all sound the same, they don't exist, they are not expressing anything about themselves other than they want to show off how clever they are that they can do and sound the same as some other very clever player with no identity. Pointless.
I think that in this moment, there are not too much bands like GMT that make classic rock, only some old glorys, but young bands who practice this type of music are in anonimate. What is your opinion about that?
No opinion really, you've got to do what you want, I like doing what GMT does, but it takes a certain amount of experience to do. What we do maybe does not have that familiarity to younger musicians, but younger audiences definitely like it. I suppose younger bands play what seems natural to them to play, we are probably just the last of the Mohicans! But it rocks so who cares.
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