There’s a billion great guitar players on this planet. I’ve met 15 year old kids that could play as good as any player I’ve ever known. I quit idolizing these guys because they are not worthy of idolizing if they are crazy ego freak assholes. I’ve met and been around guys like Paul Gilbert and Guthrie Govan and they can play Vinnie under the table and they are nothing but cool, laid back, and very humble and grateful for every bit of success they have had! Don’t idolize some asswipe that played in a band like Kiss, idolize someone worth giving your respect and money to!
"That Time of Year" is a really beautiful song. Vinnie wrote a bunch of those. "Love Kills" is another one. Kiss treated him like shit. Vinnie himself then treated his own band members like shit. People treat each other badly. It seemingly never ends. Human nature is flawed like that.
He wrote a beautiful ballad called More than Friends on his very first solo record. I couldn't believe it was not George Harrison! Fantastic song writer.
I wonder if Vinnie was far too accommodating with KISS, which made him an easy target for being jerked around. He probably should've politely made his exit, and said "I'm getting on with my life, call me when you're serious." Being too nice does not get you treated well. Just makes you a target for opportunists.
I saw a pre-fame Vinnie in a store on 48th. St. Pick up a random like 60's L.P plug in a random vintage amp, turn it to 11 and casually start playing "truth" era Beck type licks like he was Jeff's secret weapon like it was nothing, little faint smile (literally concert level volume)in this tiny space. My buddy was the local hot shot,(very good rock player) our jaws were on floor, we walked out of the there like "who the fuck is this guy?'" a year or two later kiss gets new player. "That's that fucking guy from NY that time. Vinnie's playing was absolutely SHOCKING at that time.
no surprise.., new haven,ct.s own vinnie "vincent" cusano is an awesome player who was dropping jaws around here before KISS......., ct. has spawned some amazing guitarists ....., chris impellitteri, blues saraceno, chris risola from steelheart, jimi bell from joined forces , house of lords and autograph and david dipietro from TT quick......., all ct. natives , all amazing.., ALL ITALIAN...,, fuckin A.......
Vinnie fascinating character and very talented. Can't deny the guy has superb sense for great melodies if you listen to That Time Of Year and all his other songs including stuff he wrote for others (Kiss, ...) He's an original...huge shame he couldn't get it together throughout his career especially in The Invasion what he always wanted in his life, his own band and being acknowledged and respected. Big loss and waste actually..
I like it, when Vinny basically admits that they just were posers and followers with the whole glam thing, and then Mark two seconds later, says that you got a “be yourself, be who you are” 😂🤣😂🤣
Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Adele, Whitney Houston, Kelly Clarkson and every twelve year-old girl in the world, has a deeper, huskier more masculine voice than your girl, Mark. LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😄
i'll never understand just how one man could have managed to have done so much to completely obliterate any semblance of a career he could have had. there was a time when Vinnie could have transcended the rock Gods themselves with his sheer writing brilliance let alone his immense guitar playing. he worked hard to destroy it all and he did accomplish that.
@@sandycis2 He disappeared from the music scene when his second record deal fell through before he could complete his and release his third album "guitars from hell". This was in 1990 or 1991. He disappeared after that but reappeared at a Kiss expo in 1996 and released an EP called Euphoria, which are songs from the guitars from hell session (Perhaps with one new song). He completely disappeared after that and came back in 2018
He did manage to reach a level success that very few people experience. I mean playing for Kiss and then embarking on a solo career and releasing two albums that sold 350,000 copies each.
I remember having such a crush on Vinnie (and Mark). Looking at this video now its so clear he was swinging for the other team... Or at least both teams.
Vinnie's youthful guitar style & song writing gave KISS a pathway into the 80's . I don't care what ANYONE says . By 82, everyone was already moving on to Motley , Metallica , Judas for that real heavy metal shit . Vinnie gave them that sound & a new breathe of life .
The only issue i see is that there seems to be a misconception that Vinnie singlehandedly saved KISS from making more albums like Dynasty, Unmasked, and The Elder. Paul and Gene came to the realization on their own that they needed to make drastic changes to their sound and fast, and Vinnie was the right guy at the right time. Creatures and Lick It Up would have still happened, but they probably wouldn't have been as good and Lick It Up might have ended up being the last KISS album. Taking off the makeup wasn't enough to revive interest in KISS, it simply drew attention to the album, which Vinnie was a big part of both as a guitar player and songwriter. They say he was terrible, and yet they tried to continue on in that style for Animalize and Asylum. They began to slowly go downhill again starting with Crazy Nights, which was a lot more pop-sounding and nowhere near as good as All Systems Go.
Then why is Mark sitting there in CROTCHLESS women's tights WITH HIS LEGS WIDE OPEN ? He seems rather comfortable to us. Your buddy, Mark, wasn't forced to be there. No. In fact that talentless Loser, Mark, was simply USING Vinnie for an opportunity to get his otherwise TALENTLESS ass, a foot in the music scene. Your buddy, Mark, is a USER.....JUST LIKE ANY COMMON TRAMP TRYING TO MOVE UP IN ANY SOCIETY !!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE VINNIE VINCENT, SAVIOUR OF KISS !!!!!!!!!!!
This is 1st time ive seen vinnie vincent invasion i like im a music fan from the 80s never had seen them, thought i knew rhem all dont know how i missed them oh was putting together a band wow have to look for vinnies music! Big kiss fan never saw v v with them where was my head? Fueled with things. Not going to mention oh well! At 61 still love heavy groups like rhis!
If this was from 1988, Vinnie talks about the tour ending in Phoenix. It never made it that far. The bands last show was in August in L.A. I never knew until last year that the show I saw them, at on that tour, at the Omni in Oakland would be the next to the last show the band did. It would have been great to see them do at least a couple more albums at the time. One good thing did come out of that band and that was Slaughter with Mark and Dana. Now that Vinnie is back on the scene, it will be interesting to see what he does. He is a talented musician so I hope he puts something cool together...
He seems to hate talking about anything other than himself. Anytime he talks about a song, video, tour its all me. He never says we. He doesn't even try to act like it's a band, lol
Wow...the amount of disrespect shown to Vinnie on this board is insane. The guy comes across as calm, cool, and professional. Vinnie is a generational talent on guitar, and actually had his hands recorded for posterity while playing. He has a unique “double-picking” banjo style that is very unique. Give him the credit he deserves for rescuing Kiss from themselves too....Kiss STILL plays songs from the VV era, which speaks volumes about the quality of the songs he created.
Respect is something you have to earn and if you look at what Vinnie has done over the years it's not that big a surprise that people have little respect for him. - A Kiss show is a tightly rehearsed event, it HAS to be. So elongating his solos to ridiculous lengths so they were jeopardizing the Timing of those said shows is NOT going to make you any friends with both the band and the crew who are in charge of setting off the pyro and other special effects which are Kiss' bread and butter. - Dana Strum, in addition of being VVI's bass player , was the VVI's behind the scenes guy, he arranged the Contract with Chrysalis records, got Bobby Rock in the band and over saw the recording of that first album. Not nearly three years later in the interview for Kerrang magazine, Vinnie described Dana as being "A Hanger on who doesn't even play an instrument!" - Bobby Rock described recording the drum tracks for the fist VVI album as sheer hell, go here to read why. bobbyrock.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/welcome-to-hell-recording-drums-for-the-first-vinnie-vincent-invasion-album-part-1/ - When he popped up in 1996 at Kiss conventions, he was talking about a CD box set which would have rare outtakes and demos, the fans eagerly ordered theirs in advance. Vinnie took their money and ran with it. To this day, there never has been any box set and it won't be coming out anytime soon. - Around ten years ago Vinnie was arrested for domestic abuse and the police found several dead dogs on his property. - When he emerged at that convention in Nashville that wanted a Vinnie Vincent Invasion reunion concert. They didn't have much money, but they had volunteers, so the deal is, he gets 100% of the door, 100% of the merch and 100% of the VIP packages, but no money up front. He waited until he thought it was too late to cancel and then asked for a guarantee. They thought: 'okay, he hasn't changed, and if we say yes to this, there will be more nonsense', and then they cancelled. - In recent interviews he states that Mark Slaughter ruined the VVI, hold on, this is the guy who enabled the VVI to go on tour in the first place and without Mark, that fabled second album wouldn't have been recorded. Why should I show respect to such a complete and utter ASSHOLE?
@@RastaSaiyaman The box set scam is what makes me think there's truth to Paul Stanley's accusations that VV stole some equipment right after they hired him, and later sold a generic guitar to a KISS fan for more than it would cost in a store even though he didn't have permission to sell KISS merchandise. I honestly don't understand how his fans can go on defending him knowing what they know: It's one thing to enjoy the music he made a long time ago, it's another thing to excuse acts of theft, assault, animal cruelty, and narcissism.
@@Supertron1 Go and visit the official Vinnie Vincent website, you will find that it; s nothing more than a "Get your autographed Vinnie Vincent guitar here." The guitars them selves are the cheapest variant of Jackson's Randy Rhoads model which because he autographed them all of a sudden must cost five times as much.
@@xrmarty2005 Before Vinnie KISS did songs like Nowhere to Run, The Oath, Rocket Ride, She, Watchin' You, Strutter, Deuce, before KISS Vinnie did Treasure and Dan hartman.
@@Iceis_Phoenix Vinnie used to rip Mark to shreds before and after shows on the first VVI tour, saying he would fire him for singing so poorly. They hated each other almost from the beginning.
I'd forgotten just how incredible these guys were. I got the albums on vinyl, and loved 'em! But, that was over twenty five fuckin' years ago!! Jeez! Still got them, but not listened for a long time. That's my bad! 'Boys Are Gonna Rock' is BLISTERING!! BTW good interview. Despite all that went on with Gene & Paul, (which i don't feel is my place to judge, either way), Vinnie comes across as intelligent and down to earth. His talent as a musician/songwriter/guitarist is unquestionable - even Gene still gives him credit for his talent, to this day. It's a shame it all worked out the way it did. Either way, i love Vinnie, and i still love Kiss. It is about time Vinnie put out some new shit, tho... \m/ (:o)
The video for Boys are Gonna Rock looks like a comedy skit rather than an actual music video. Can't believe it actually got approved by a record company. Vinnie just ovderdoes everything to the point of being a satire of an 80s glam metal band. There is such a thing as going too nuts with a guitar and Vinnie Vincent is it.
4:35 watch VV when Mark is talking. He looks so mad that Mark is actually talking instead of him and VV cuts him off. Wow. VV has been talking for 4 minutes and cant even let the other guy say a sentence.
Metalfan 86 ok....well that's good to know. thought maybe you were hating on his skills. but people need to remember when you join a band with someone name on it...just stfu and sing. vinnie is very calm and discussing and answering questions.
Vinnie tracking Mark was a lie though. Dana asked Mark to come to the studio and ended up having Mark sing some songs and realized that Mark was a better fit than Robert. (I don't know if it was Dana who called Vinnie or if Vinnie was there) but Vinnies first reaction to Mark was "oh he sounds like shit!". The dude was a time bomb who couldn't handle himself.
mrepicchickenman the only reason Mark got the gig wasn't cuz he sang better than Robert.....he looked more glam than Robert, people say Vinnie was all about the music but that just shows otherwise
Vinnie Vincent Invasion gets a lot of laughs because of their style early on but one of my favorite groups that sadly couldn’t keep it together, but thank goodness the record label saw potential in Mark and Dana and Slaughter was born
I saw Kiss on the Dressed To Kill tour in NY when I was 17. Just before Alive 1 came out. They kicked ass. I saw Vinnie with Kiss in the early 80s. I never heard of him at the time. I thought he was alright. Even though he was no Ace Frehley on guitar. Ace had feel. Vinnie was all flash. But he was ok on guitar that night. I think people are a little hard on him after all these decades. I never got to see Kiss with Bruce or Tommy. But from the videos, Bruce was good. Tommy? I'm sure he's a good player but....Remember this people. Nobody played Ace licks like Ace. Just put on the first three albums again. frankny65yroldwhitekid rockfan
If they were that great, record sales and concert attendance would've reflected it back then. It didn't. The band was dropped like hundreds of other going nowhere LA bands. Vinnie was a dime a dozen. Took a shot, not enough people liked his music.
I like how Mark says in any industry you just gotta be yourself fresh off him lip syncing Roberts parts in Boys Are Gonna Rock video, as he sits with dyed blonde hair and sitting next to Vinnie wearing a wig 😂😂😂
@@lewhitey2544 ....TBH I liked him in Slaughter being himself. VV put Mark in a weird position having to be fake in the video and then being fake with the look etc lol. So in that way I dont blame Mark. And yes when he was himself doing his own songs it was way better 4 sure.
10:17 "I mean, this guy's hot. He discovered Randy Rhoads and Jack E. Lee." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what tools the MTV hosts usually were. It's JAKE E. Lee. Hey, Vinnie, let Mark talk a LITTLE.
He says "out of 200 drummers he was the one." as if he actually had 200 drummers come over to audition! More like he made 200 calls to drummers until one called back and said they'd do it!
So, what happened? I mean, you got amazing players on each instrument. Mark has insane range and skill, Vinnie is way better than he had to be in this band and the drums are "Rock" solid (okay) and you have a guy in the biz on bass. Did Vinnie just implode or something? Maybe they didn't have enough hits?
As time has shown, the makeup apparently absorbed below skin deep. Plus, Vicky Vincent is an egomaniac. Sad how he’s played ‘him’self out as a narcissistic drag queen. What he’s done to his fan base has cemented ‘his’ legacy as an @sshole.
I honestly think that Vincent is not making any more great music ..thank God we have those 2 amazing albums with top notch song writing and outrageous guitar playing better than nothing
Mark Slaughter talked about this period on "Three Sides of the Coin" podcast. Just after the Elm Street movie came out the band was often announced as Vinnie Vincent Invasion featuring Mark Slaughter, which must've pissed Vinnie off. He treated Mark like shit anyway.
what are you talking about, Whisper? VV is crazy and just accept it. he wrote some awesome songs but he is his own worst enemy. Vinnie proved that again in 2018 with his awkward cancelled concerts after promising his fans he has changed, blah blah blah
Vinnie couldn't handle not being the center of attention at all times. Vinnie once called Mark a talentless piece of shit. Well we all saw how their careers went, Mark & Dana formed one of the great bands from that era. Vinnie drifted to nowhere.
I will never understand why Vinnie Vincent said that he hated how Mark Slaughter sang...Mark did a great job...too bad that Vinnie Vincent is such a selfish weirdo and very strange how he looks like a woman now is bizarre...it's unlikely that Vinnie would ever reach another pinnacle of success. That Time of Year is a great song and Mark sang it killer.
As a Guitarist myself I enjoyed Vinnies unique playing style . But since his recent appearance back on the 80's rock circuit with the Kiss vault crap ( not a big Kiss fan ) . His hatred of Mark Slaughter is a bit stupid after all these years and his insults come off as jealousy imo . Slaughter the band was a better band overall and their run was much longer then VVI band was . So stop insulting Marks vocal abilities he did help with VVI success as much as Vin's playing ...
When Vinnie chose to let Mark and Dana go and then heard they would continue making music without him, i think he thought they would fail. Seeing them succeed probably drove him into denial and resulted in him coming up with the story of how Mark and Dana went behind his back and stole his record deal. The reason their label let Vinnie go is because he burned through the entire recording budget doing dozens of takes and re-recordings (this was also the reason his third album never materialized).
He was definitely jealous, but I can understand how frustrating that situation must of been. He hires these guys, the band doesn't take off as expected and then the guys he hired gets his record deal have a huge hit album.
@@Supertron1 The reason his 3rd album didn't materialized was because he was trying to land a better contract with another label and they found out about it.
@@nostalgicyoutuber5684 na Vinnie's was the best, wig or not. Love how they incorporated those extensions or whatever that is in there. He's got it in the videos too. With the makeup he almost looked like Sandra Bullock lol
Vinnie was jealous of everyone Mark especially...if Vinnie had a clue about being humble he would have been huge this lineup alone would have put him at the top for years Mark Slaughter, Dana Strum is rock royalty and Bobby Rock is a beast!!! Perfect example guy mentions Dana and Vinnie has NO accolades for him does not compliment anybody else but me me me that is why they are all more successful then him I wish Bobby would have joined Slaughter with Mark and Dana literally just saw Slaughter in Dania Bch Florida 2 days again and the were so f**king good STILL!!
mrepicchickenman Yeah Vinnie didn't like Mark, he wanted a Swedish singer (name escapes me) for Fleischman's replacement, he could sing more like Fleischman.
@@lrn_news9171 the swedish singer is Göran Edman, very amazing singer who actually DID record demo tracks with Vinnie. Lots of the tracks are out illegally (bootlegs and lo-fi quality digital format have been floating around the web for a long time). Find them and thank me later
Dana and Mark states: that they form slaughter with the remaining money from the label that vinnie wanted to blow with long solos and long songs in Invasion 3 record and the label decided to let him go and keep moving forward with the mark and Dana thing.
Well whatever the issue is between Mark and vinnie in the past, I guess there's a reason why vvi broke up. If it vvi didn't broke up, there wouldn't be no slaughter with stickittoya I guess it's great that slaughter was formed. They have phenomenal success with their first 2 album
Some people say that Yngwie's playing has no soul, which I tend to disagree with personally, but either way, Vinnie here, has him beat, hands down. He has to be the # 1, most soulless metal guitar player my ears have ever heard, and I've heard a lot. The guy is not even a great shredder, period. Just picks at a thousand miles per hour, hitting notes everywhere. I can understand why Mark and Dana got the hell away from the guy. Don't know exactly how long this solo was, but if it was 50 seconds, that was 45 seconds too long. Don't get me wrong, the SONGS are good, but the soloing....Anything Tim Kelly or Jeff Blando has played for the Slaughter band, is MILES better than anything I've heard from this girl.... I mean, guy...er, whatever.
I agree. First of all, I think Yngwie is one of the most melodic players on the planet, and with the best vibrato of all shredders. However, Vinnie Vincent was a "try to play fast as you can" type of guy. You can hear that he was even sloppy on most of his solos, and with no "meaning". Don't get me wrong... he plays guitar very well and has great songs, but he wasn't in the "reign of shredders" as others in the eighties (Yngwie, Gilbert, Becker, Macalpine, Vinnie Moore, etc.)-
I was told in 1995 at an acoustical kiss show that vinny had gotten a sex change.Not at the expense of his guitar playing or his fantastic vocal chords!!!
Vinnie should have just stuck to the songwriting and the band would have been better off. He's such a talent yet he's obviously haunted by some kind of demon.
10:11 Vinnie looked like the interviewer took a dump in his lap when he mentioned Dana. I have heard before that Vinnie actually introduced the late Randy Rhoads to the Osbournes. Who knows.
I'm french so sad, je ne comprends nothing a l'interview of Vinnie speak about ? please help me , thank you 👍yes it's a good guitarist and sexy man I think.
I've actually never heard anything from VVI, despite growing up in the 80s, probably due to no internet, and no friends who owned VVI albums. Despite thinking this song was going to be bad, it's not... I won't be buying it off of iTunes, but it's its OK.
Doesn't matter what anyone says about Vinnie Vincent. He played a sick guitar.
Period. End of story.
There’s a billion great guitar players on this planet. I’ve met 15 year old kids that could play as good as any player I’ve ever known. I quit idolizing these guys because they are not worthy of idolizing if they are crazy ego freak assholes. I’ve met and been around guys like Paul Gilbert and Guthrie Govan and they can play Vinnie under the table and they are nothing but cool, laid back, and very humble and grateful for every bit of success they have had!
Don’t idolize some asswipe that played in a band like Kiss, idolize someone worth giving your respect and money to!
Chaotic Scott Paul Stanley said it was like puking
this video at the end is a testament to their badness.
yep....here here
"That Time of Year" is a really beautiful song. Vinnie wrote a bunch of those. "Love Kills" is another one.
Kiss treated him like shit. Vinnie himself then treated his own band members like shit.
People treat each other badly. It seemingly never ends. Human nature is flawed like that.
griiseknoen yeah my boss did the same thing people think they can use people like garbage then throw them away
That's too bad!
Just listening to this, it's somewhat apparent that VV has some kind of OCD.
He wrote a beautiful ballad called More than Friends on his very first solo record. I couldn't believe it was not George Harrison! Fantastic song writer.
I wonder if Vinnie was far too accommodating with KISS, which made him an easy target for being jerked around.
He probably should've politely made his exit, and said "I'm getting on with my life, call me when you're serious." Being too nice does not get you treated well. Just makes you a target for opportunists.
I saw a pre-fame Vinnie in a store on 48th. St. Pick up a random like 60's L.P plug in a random vintage amp, turn it to 11 and casually start playing "truth" era Beck type licks like he was Jeff's secret weapon like it was nothing, little faint smile (literally concert level volume)in this tiny space. My buddy was the local hot shot,(very good rock player) our jaws were on floor, we walked out of the there like "who the fuck is this guy?'" a year or two later kiss gets new player. "That's that fucking guy from NY that time. Vinnie's playing was absolutely SHOCKING at that time.
Great story!
no surprise.., new haven,ct.s own vinnie "vincent" cusano is an awesome player who was dropping jaws around here before KISS......., ct. has spawned some amazing guitarists ....., chris impellitteri, blues saraceno, chris risola from steelheart, jimi bell from joined forces , house of lords and autograph and david dipietro from TT quick......., all ct. natives , all amazing.., ALL ITALIAN...,, fuckin A.......
That's great turn to 11 and play Speed Ballth-cam.com/video/_zbySCllgmg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fP65JDZLrQQDUL10
You don't have to lie to us man.
Vinnie fascinating character and very talented. Can't deny the guy has superb sense for great melodies if you listen to That Time Of Year and all his other songs including stuff he wrote for others (Kiss, ...) He's an original...huge shame he couldn't get it together throughout his career especially in The Invasion what he always wanted in his life, his own band and being acknowledged and respected. Big loss and waste actually..
yeap he is so fascinating that she is an old granny now
That time of year is one of my favorite tracks off All Systems Go, the video was a staple on Headbanger,s Ball.
God I miss HeadBangers Ball!
I miss Headbangers Ball! I would stay up late to watch this video. Love both albums from Invasion. This song is my favorite.
Love this song.
I loved the 14 seconds that Mark spoke
😂
I like it, when Vinny basically admits that they just were posers and followers with the whole glam thing, and then Mark two seconds later, says that you got a “be yourself, be who you are” 😂🤣😂🤣
Its crazy how Mark can change his voice so much from song to song.
salozmen29 Not anymore
@@angelcrusher420 what are you talking about, he sounds great.
Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Adele, Whitney Houston, Kelly Clarkson and every twelve year-old girl in the world, has a deeper, huskier more masculine voice than your girl, Mark.
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😄
I fr thought that was a woman at first😭
I think he also changed his name from Mark to Robert on that last one 🤣
i'll never understand just how one man could have managed to have done so much to completely obliterate any semblance of a career he could have had. there was a time when Vinnie could have transcended the rock Gods themselves with his sheer writing brilliance let alone his immense guitar playing. he worked hard to destroy it all and he did accomplish that.
What happened to him? Why did he disappear?
@@sandycis2 He disappeared from the music scene when his second record deal fell through before he could complete his and release his third album "guitars from hell".
This was in 1990 or 1991.
He disappeared after that but reappeared at a Kiss expo in 1996 and released an EP called Euphoria, which are songs from the guitars from hell session (Perhaps with one new song). He completely disappeared after that and came back in 2018
He did manage to reach a level success that very few people experience. I mean playing for Kiss and then embarking on a solo career and releasing two albums that sold 350,000 copies each.
Lack of empathy.
Thanks for the insight Vinnie 😂
I remember having such a crush on Vinnie (and Mark). Looking at this video now its so clear he was swinging for the other team... Or at least both teams.
Vinnie's youthful guitar style & song writing gave KISS a pathway into the 80's . I don't care what ANYONE says . By 82, everyone was already moving on to Motley , Metallica , Judas for that real heavy metal shit . Vinnie gave them that sound & a new breathe of life .
The only issue i see is that there seems to be a misconception that Vinnie singlehandedly saved KISS from making more albums like Dynasty, Unmasked, and The Elder. Paul and Gene came to the realization on their own that they needed to make drastic changes to their sound and fast, and Vinnie was the right guy at the right time.
Creatures and Lick It Up would have still happened, but they probably wouldn't have been as good and Lick It Up might have ended up being the last KISS album. Taking off the makeup wasn't enough to revive interest in KISS, it simply drew attention to the album, which Vinnie was a big part of both as a guitar player and songwriter. They say he was terrible, and yet they tried to continue on in that style for Animalize and Asylum. They began to slowly go downhill again starting with Crazy Nights, which was a lot more pop-sounding and nowhere near as good as All Systems Go.
His band he can talk all he wants!
Vinnie’s favorite words: Me, I, my, myself 😁
Vinny has blossomed into a delightful elderly lady and that just proves dreams.do come true
This interview was obviously BEFORE he transitioned, (or maybe DURING) but yeah!!! 😂😂
You can literally see Vinnies face decompose when interviewer starts talking about Dana Strum
Boyz are gonna rock is so over the top ass kicking balls Rock n Roll.......I LOVE IT!!!!
Vinnie is Vinnie’s best friend
When Slaughter sings those notes at the end, and holds out that final note. That's what it's all about. It helps release that pain we all feel inside.
Vinnie was so cool. Man, his sound kind of saved KISS there in the early 80s!
@@justinclark8867 Give me a BREAK! If he's so talented then why did his career flame out in a few years and Kiss is still on the road.
@@whataboutrob442 Lol. I rather listen to Paul's backing track he lip syncs to than Vinnie's guitar playing.
@@ericjohnson2543 I hear ya!
@@whataboutrob442 Justin Clark must have deleted his reply lol
@@ericjohnson2543 I just noticed that.
The music industry is a haven for flakes of every kind.
Mark looks so uncomfortable being alone with Vinnie.
Vinnie's Gonna Fuck Mark....Lol
@Rick Fortine Meaning?
Then why is Mark sitting there in CROTCHLESS women's tights WITH HIS LEGS WIDE OPEN ? He seems rather comfortable to us.
Your buddy, Mark, wasn't forced to be there.
No. In fact that talentless Loser, Mark, was simply USING Vinnie for an opportunity to get his otherwise TALENTLESS ass, a foot in the music scene.
Your buddy, Mark, is a USER.....JUST LIKE ANY COMMON TRAMP TRYING TO MOVE UP IN ANY SOCIETY !!!!!!!!!!!
LONG LIVE VINNIE VINCENT, SAVIOUR OF KISS !!!!!!!!!!!
who does not?
Wow I didn't think anyone could talk more than Paul but vinnie is non stop 😕
Vinnie treated Mark the same way Gene and Paul treated him.
Thanks for posting the interview.
So weird seeing this NOW after knowing how they felt about each other in this interview.
This is 1st time ive seen vinnie vincent invasion i like im a music fan from the 80s never had seen them, thought i knew rhem all dont know how i missed them oh was putting together a band wow have to look for vinnies music! Big kiss fan never saw v v with them where was my head? Fueled with things. Not going to mention oh well! At 61 still love heavy groups like rhis!
Ego is a tough mountain to climb ....i guess we where all young back then!
Vinnie looks really irritated every time Mark opens his mouth.
Frrr😂😂😂😂 like wtf is his problem😂😂
Yeah he looks like he's annoyed by mark,almost like he regret it having mark in the band
Chrysalis kinda pushed Mark on Vinessa when Robert Fleischman baled. Mark had "the" right look and did a reasonable Fleischman impression.
The fact that he named the band Vinnie Vincent is all you need to know. Egomaniac.
Now he knows how Gene felt.
Much Music was the best music
channel ever!!
Wow Tosin Abasi here interviewing VV and Mark Slaughter
Lol
If this was from 1988, Vinnie talks about the tour ending in Phoenix. It never made it that far. The bands last show was in August in L.A. I never knew until last year that the show I saw them, at on that tour, at the Omni in Oakland would be the next to the last show the band did. It would have been great to see them do at least a couple more albums at the time. One good thing did come out of that band and that was Slaughter with Mark and Dana. Now that Vinnie is back on the scene, it will be interesting to see what he does. He is a talented musician so I hope he puts something cool together...
10:27 look at Vinnie's expression when the interviewer calls Dana Strum a great songwriter and producer
Very true 😃
He seems to hate talking about anything other than himself. Anytime he talks about a song, video, tour its all me. He never says we. He doesn't even try to act like it's a band, lol
Vinnie is like cockeyed faced 😬…. Mark knows what’s up and lowers his head. Hahah. Then tries to downplay…. Hahahahha….
And the first time Mark gets to speak Vinnie totally cuts him off and takes over the conversation
Wow...the amount of disrespect shown to Vinnie on this board is insane. The guy comes across as calm, cool, and professional. Vinnie is a generational talent on guitar, and actually had his hands recorded for posterity while playing. He has a unique “double-picking” banjo style that is very unique. Give him the credit he deserves for rescuing Kiss from themselves too....Kiss STILL plays songs from the VV era, which speaks volumes about the quality of the songs he created.
Respect is something you have to earn and if you look at what Vinnie has done over the years it's not that big a surprise that people have little respect for him.
- A Kiss show is a tightly rehearsed event, it HAS to be. So elongating his solos to ridiculous lengths so they were jeopardizing the Timing of those said shows is NOT going to make you any friends with both the band and the crew who are in charge of setting off the pyro and other special effects which are Kiss' bread and butter.
- Dana Strum, in addition of being VVI's bass player , was the VVI's behind the scenes guy, he arranged the Contract with Chrysalis records, got Bobby Rock in the band and over saw the recording of that first album. Not nearly three years later in the interview for Kerrang magazine, Vinnie described Dana as being "A Hanger on who doesn't even play an instrument!"
- Bobby Rock described recording the drum tracks for the fist VVI album as sheer hell, go here to read why.
bobbyrock.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/welcome-to-hell-recording-drums-for-the-first-vinnie-vincent-invasion-album-part-1/
- When he popped up in 1996 at Kiss conventions, he was talking about a CD box set which would have rare outtakes and demos, the fans eagerly ordered theirs in advance. Vinnie took their money and ran with it. To this day, there never has been any box set and it won't be coming out anytime soon.
- Around ten years ago Vinnie was arrested for domestic abuse and the police found several dead dogs on his property.
- When he emerged at that convention in Nashville that wanted a Vinnie Vincent Invasion reunion concert. They didn't have much money, but they had volunteers, so the deal is, he gets 100% of the door, 100% of the merch and 100% of the VIP packages, but no money up front. He waited until he thought it was too late to cancel and then asked for a guarantee. They thought: 'okay, he hasn't changed, and if we say yes to this, there will be more nonsense', and then they cancelled.
- In recent interviews he states that Mark Slaughter ruined the VVI, hold on, this is the guy who enabled the VVI to go on tour in the first place and without Mark, that fabled second album wouldn't have been recorded.
Why should I show respect to such a complete and utter ASSHOLE?
I know what you mean. Before Vinnie, kiss was doing songs like Shandi (total crap imho). Vinnie pumped blood into Kiss music
@@RastaSaiyaman
The box set scam is what makes me think there's truth to Paul Stanley's accusations that VV stole some equipment right after they hired him, and later sold a generic guitar to a KISS fan for more than it would cost in a store even though he didn't have permission to sell KISS merchandise. I honestly don't understand how his fans can go on defending him knowing what they know: It's one thing to enjoy the music he made a long time ago, it's another thing to excuse acts of theft, assault, animal cruelty, and narcissism.
@@Supertron1 Go and visit the official Vinnie Vincent website, you will find that it; s nothing more than a "Get your autographed Vinnie Vincent guitar here."
The guitars them selves are the cheapest variant of Jackson's Randy Rhoads model which because he autographed them all of a sudden must cost five times as much.
@@xrmarty2005 Before Vinnie KISS did songs like Nowhere to Run, The Oath, Rocket Ride, She, Watchin' You, Strutter, Deuce, before KISS Vinnie did Treasure and Dan hartman.
My gosh. Me, I'm, I, mine, me, me, me, me, mine, me, my...
Mark: Can't wait to branch off and take Dana with me
the body language says it all, these two hate each other ...
Not true at all at the time.
@@Iceis_Phoenix Vinnie used to rip Mark to shreds before and after shows on the first VVI tour, saying he would fire him for singing so poorly. They hated each other almost from the beginning.
Vinny’s ego is so big, he talks about VVI like they were the first hair metal band to ever play.
Max Headroom his stupid ass crappy solos ruinned the whole album
@@Iceis_Phoenix you are wrong
The most insanely funny guitar video I've ever seen. The end is a charade in cheesiness! :-D
If he took his med's it would be more tasteful "LoL" ...he 'had' potential at one time !
hennck u nailed it man
I'd forgotten just how incredible these guys were. I got the albums on vinyl, and loved 'em! But, that was over twenty five fuckin' years ago!! Jeez! Still got them, but not listened for a long time. That's my bad! 'Boys Are Gonna Rock' is BLISTERING!! BTW good interview. Despite all that went on with Gene & Paul, (which i don't feel is my place to judge, either way), Vinnie comes across as intelligent and down to earth. His talent as a musician/songwriter/guitarist is unquestionable - even Gene still gives him credit for his talent, to this day. It's a shame it all worked out the way it did. Either way, i love Vinnie, and i still love Kiss. It is about time Vinnie put out some new shit, tho... \m/ (:o)
The video for Boys are Gonna Rock looks like a comedy skit rather than an actual music video. Can't believe it actually got approved by a record company. Vinnie just ovderdoes everything to the point of being a satire of an 80s glam metal band. There is such a thing as going too nuts with a guitar and Vinnie Vincent is it.
Lol. Have some fun sourpuss.
Listen to some later interviews with Vinnie. It’s like a rambling old lady complaining about the cost of doctor visit co-pays and prescription drugs…
Nitro - Frieght Train : Hold my Beer and My Four neck Guitar.
@@kidwaryodproduction Yeah the 4 neck was pretty satirical.
I went to a VVI show once and Vinnie opened the show with a guitar solo! An absolute nut job but great player and song writer
Songs come easy to Vin, but not explaining himself. Lol
Brilliant guitarist and songwriter
4:35 watch VV when Mark is talking. He looks so mad that Mark is actually talking instead of him and VV cuts him off. Wow. VV has been talking for 4 minutes and cant even let the other guy say a sentence.
cause slaughter is a. bafoon...he was on that metal show and mark came off way worse of a prick and a dumbass then vinnie.
Metalfan 86 ok....well that's good to know. thought maybe you were hating on his skills. but people need to remember when you join a band with someone name on it...just stfu and sing. vinnie is very calm and discussing and answering questions.
Vinnie tracking Mark was a lie though. Dana asked Mark to come to the studio and ended up having Mark sing some songs and realized that Mark was a better fit than Robert. (I don't know if it was Dana who called Vinnie or if Vinnie was there) but Vinnies first reaction to Mark was "oh he sounds like shit!". The dude was a time bomb who couldn't handle himself.
mrepicchickenman the only reason Mark got the gig wasn't cuz he sang better than Robert.....he looked more glam than Robert, people say Vinnie was all about the music but that just shows otherwise
Vinnie supposedly hated Mark and never wanted him in the band and always treated him like shit. Mark has spoken about it.
"Oh so you wanna do another solo, huh....well not here, pal!"😎🤘🎶
Vinnie looks are like Prince in Metal version
I blame the interviewer by not directing some of his questions towards Mark which kinds sucks
Vinnie was way too good for Kiss
Vinnie Vincent Invasion gets a lot of laughs because of their style early on but one of my favorite groups that sadly couldn’t keep it together, but thank goodness the record label saw potential in Mark and Dana and Slaughter was born
I saw Kiss on the Dressed To Kill tour in NY when I was 17. Just before Alive 1 came out. They kicked ass. I saw Vinnie with Kiss in the early 80s. I never heard of him at the time. I thought he was alright. Even though he was no Ace Frehley on guitar. Ace had feel. Vinnie was all flash. But he was ok on guitar that night. I think people are a little hard on him after all these decades. I never got to see Kiss with Bruce or Tommy. But from the videos, Bruce was good. Tommy? I'm sure he's a good player but....Remember this people. Nobody played Ace licks like Ace. Just put on the first three albums again. frankny65yroldwhitekid rockfan
It's too bad they could not make this work. An incredible band. Great songs.
If they were that great, record sales and concert attendance would've reflected it back then. It didn't. The band was dropped like hundreds of other going nowhere LA bands.
Vinnie was a dime a dozen. Took a shot, not enough people liked his music.
@@monty4336 the band wasn’t that well known and nobody in the band was a success already. They needed a couple records under their belt.
Slaughter is actually really down to earth grounded guy
WTF! WOW!!!! I Remember this! Thanks!
So much respect for Vinnie
Great interview...still have the first album by V V I. I hope he comes out someday to meet his fans and release new material.
Vinnie is a female now.
He did come out...literally...now a female
I like how Mark says in any industry you just gotta be yourself fresh off him lip syncing Roberts parts in Boys Are Gonna Rock video, as he sits with dyed blonde hair and sitting next to Vinnie wearing a wig 😂😂😂
Why do you not like him though?
@@lewhitey2544 Because he was fake and didnt sing as good as Robert thats why.
@@rocknroll6396 fair enough. I do enjoy Slaughters first two albums though.
@@lewhitey2544 ....TBH I liked him in Slaughter being himself. VV put Mark in a weird position having to be fake in the video and then being fake with the look etc lol. So in that way I dont blame Mark. And yes when he was himself doing his own songs it was way better 4 sure.
Who is the interviewer? Haven't seen many black dudes who were into the haie/glam rock thing
Mike Williams one of the original VJ's on Canada's Much Music ... he was a very knowledgeable and hip dude
10:17 "I mean, this guy's hot. He discovered Randy Rhoads and Jack E. Lee." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what tools the MTV hosts usually were. It's JAKE E. Lee. Hey, Vinnie, let Mark talk a LITTLE.
Love Vinnie!!...he and Brent Muscat are identical twins lol
Oh, you know Brent, great! I've already thought about this. Brent nowadays looks like Vinnie did in his twenties/thirties. Love them both
5:59 omg, this must be Brent
He says "out of 200 drummers he was the one." as if he actually had 200 drummers come over to audition! More like he made 200 calls to drummers until one called back and said they'd do it!
LoveNotLabels He had to make it sound good to sell them cassettes shooooot
17:08
"Girls gonna rock, gonna rock.... take ya to the top "
I met them around this time OMG
I got to kiss Mark and Vinnie slid his fingers across my cheek putting his mark on me yaaas.
Vinnie loves himself and his own voice.
Dude can talk. Totally interrupts Mark, shuts him down.
So, what happened? I mean, you got amazing players on each instrument. Mark has insane range and skill, Vinnie is way better than he had to be in this band and the drums are "Rock" solid (okay) and you have a guy in the biz on bass. Did Vinnie just implode or something? Maybe they didn't have enough hits?
@Daniel Welch No, not at all.
Is that a real question?
Vinnie was an arrogant delusional control freak who was his own worst enemy.
Vickie Vincent lost his mind
Holy crap I didn't even notice it was the great Truth Surge!
Brother you are an amazing guitar player, much respect!
As time has shown, the makeup apparently absorbed below skin deep. Plus, Vicky Vincent is an egomaniac. Sad how he’s played ‘him’self out as a narcissistic drag queen. What he’s done to his fan base has cemented ‘his’ legacy as an @sshole.
Gees this is amazingly interesting.
Vinnie is so high on himself
God, I remember rhat VJ from my youth.
Wow much music watched it on satellite out of tx
I honestly think that Vincent is not making any more great music ..thank God we have those 2 amazing albums with top notch song writing and outrageous guitar playing better than nothing
WHAT? That music is cheesy AF lol. Horrible lyrics.
Rock 'n' roll needs to be central to our culture again
No rock n roll or rap in heaven
Glam metal will rise once again!
Mark Slaughter talked about this period on "Three Sides of the Coin" podcast. Just after the Elm Street movie came out the band was often announced as Vinnie Vincent Invasion featuring Mark Slaughter, which must've pissed Vinnie off. He treated Mark like shit anyway.
That's terrible!
Vinnie was the best guitarist in that time in the metal world.
slaughter is like am i even hear lol.
Lonnie Bean here*
I want Marks gloves too. I only had All Systems Go in my music collection, I couldn't stand Vinnie Vincent Invasion before or after that album.
Vinnie was doing the trans thing way before anybody else. Talented songwriter.
I wish Vinnie wasn't crazy. I'd have liked to have seen how VV would have evolved.
Mr. VonMarsten also he could've had a career in kiss
Mr. VonMarsten Mark Slaughter would have had be in the band in 86 instead of Robert Fleischman, remember the Boyz are gonna rock video?
what are you talking about, Whisper? VV is crazy and just accept it. he wrote some awesome songs but he is his own worst enemy. Vinnie proved that again in 2018 with his awkward cancelled concerts after promising his fans he has changed, blah blah blah
Mark is HOT!!!!!!!
I got to make out with him 😆 weeee
@@Iceis_Phoenix Sure you did! No really??
Vinnie couldn't handle not being the center of attention at all times. Vinnie once called Mark a talentless piece of shit. Well we all saw how their careers went, Mark & Dana formed one of the great bands from that era. Vinnie drifted to nowhere.
I will never understand why Vinnie Vincent said that he hated how Mark Slaughter sang...Mark did a great job...too bad that Vinnie Vincent is such a selfish weirdo and very strange how he looks like a woman now is bizarre...it's unlikely that Vinnie would ever reach another pinnacle of success. That Time of Year is a great song and Mark sang it killer.
The way Mark laughs at Vinnie's BS at 3:00
Vinnie vincent looks like my step sister madsion Hughes 🤗
Obviously. As seen here. Vinnie is what he is.
Good on you Mark.
As a Guitarist myself I enjoyed Vinnies unique playing style . But since his recent appearance back on the 80's rock circuit with the Kiss vault crap ( not a big Kiss fan ) . His hatred of Mark Slaughter is a bit stupid after all these years and his insults come off as jealousy imo . Slaughter the band was a better band overall and their run was much longer then VVI band was . So stop insulting Marks vocal abilities he did help with VVI success as much as Vin's playing ...
When Vinnie chose to let Mark and Dana go and then heard they would continue making music without him, i think he thought they would fail. Seeing them succeed probably drove him into denial and resulted in him coming up with the story of how Mark and Dana went behind his back and stole his record deal. The reason their label let Vinnie go is because he burned through the entire recording budget doing dozens of takes and re-recordings (this was also the reason his third album never materialized).
I loved Mark's vocals!
He was definitely jealous, but I can understand how frustrating that situation must of been. He hires these guys, the band doesn't take off as expected and then the guys he hired gets his record deal have a huge hit album.
Vinnie didn't like Mark's singing from the get go
@@Supertron1 The reason his 3rd album didn't materialized was because he was trying to land a better contract with another label and they found out about it.
Oh my God look at mark slaughter' hair. What the hell were we thinking back in the 80's?
MrThomasreed He had the best hair of the band.
Luv it
I wish guys looked cool. Like this now instead of little P-----s!
Millenials have made boys into girls.
@@nostalgicyoutuber5684 na Vinnie's was the best, wig or not. Love how they incorporated those extensions or whatever that is in there. He's got it in the videos too. With the makeup he almost looked like Sandra Bullock lol
I saw VV with Kiss on the Lick it Up tour in Austin. Queensryche opened.
Vinnie was jealous of everyone Mark especially...if Vinnie had a clue about being humble he would have been huge this lineup alone would have put him at the top for years Mark Slaughter, Dana Strum is rock royalty and Bobby Rock is a beast!!! Perfect example guy mentions Dana and Vinnie has NO accolades for him does not compliment anybody else but me me me that is why they are all more successful then him I wish Bobby would have joined Slaughter with Mark and Dana literally just saw Slaughter in Dania Bch Florida 2 days again and the were so f**king good STILL!!
People don't realize how good of a guitar player Mark is and could have sounded even better with both of them playing
I love how narcissistic Vinnie is. He even makes up a story on how they got Mark, when it was actually Dana who got Mark.
mrepicchickenman Yeah Vinnie didn't like Mark, he wanted a Swedish singer (name escapes me) for Fleischman's replacement, he could sing more like Fleischman.
@@lrn_news9171 the swedish singer is Göran Edman, very amazing singer who actually DID record demo tracks with Vinnie. Lots of the tracks are out illegally (bootlegs and lo-fi quality digital format have been floating around the web for a long time). Find them and thank me later
That's the story the record company told him to tell. He had to search the globe to find someone as amazing as Mark.
@Frank Filthyfinger what's he going to say, he sucks buy we hired him anyway?
@@allsystemsgo8678 Lmao yeah
mark wants to punch vinnie but he can't
I see that as well.
he wouldn’t survive a punch with how frail he was
@@SuperFlyingGlydon74lol fr
Dana and Mark states: that they form slaughter with the remaining money from the label that vinnie wanted to blow with long solos and long songs in Invasion 3 record and the label decided to let him go and keep moving forward with the mark and Dana thing.
Why is that lady sitting in the background talking?
Well whatever the issue is between Mark and vinnie in the past, I guess there's a reason why vvi broke up. If it vvi didn't broke up, there wouldn't be no slaughter with stickittoya
I guess it's great that slaughter was formed. They have phenomenal success with their first 2 album
What’s the hosts name?
Michael Williams
You're the woman Vinnie! (Still, I mean)
it's a shame but there is a reason nobody could stand him Paul Stanley was warned by Vinnie appice that he was difficult
Some people say that Yngwie's playing has no soul, which I tend to disagree with personally, but either way, Vinnie here, has him beat, hands down. He has to be the # 1, most soulless metal guitar player my ears have ever heard, and I've heard a lot. The guy is not even a great shredder, period. Just picks at a thousand miles per hour, hitting notes everywhere. I can understand why Mark and Dana got the hell away from the guy. Don't know exactly how long this solo was, but if it was 50 seconds, that was 45 seconds too long. Don't get me wrong, the SONGS are good, but the soloing....Anything Tim Kelly or Jeff Blando has played for the Slaughter band, is MILES better than anything I've heard from this girl.... I mean, guy...er, whatever.
No. The songs suck too.
I agree. First of all, I think Yngwie is one of the most melodic players on the planet, and with the best vibrato of all shredders. However, Vinnie Vincent was a "try to play fast as you can" type of guy. You can hear that he was even sloppy on most of his solos, and with no "meaning". Don't get me wrong... he plays guitar very well and has great songs, but he wasn't in the "reign of shredders" as others in the eighties (Yngwie, Gilbert, Becker, Macalpine, Vinnie Moore, etc.)-
I was told in 1995 at an acoustical kiss show that vinny had gotten a sex change.Not at the expense of his guitar playing or his fantastic vocal chords!!!
So what? If it made him happy who are we to judge?
Yep he is now a she...even here he looked like a chick...
Mark like ok Vinnie your talking too much..! Slaughter coming..lol!
Vinnie should have just stuck to the songwriting and the band would have been better off. He's such a talent yet he's obviously haunted by some kind of demon.
Carlos Ramirez q
The demon known as Ace!
Yeah. Estrogen. Lol
10:11 Vinnie looked like the interviewer took a dump in his lap when he mentioned Dana. I have heard before that Vinnie actually introduced the late Randy Rhoads to the Osbournes. Who knows.
OMG that video at the end was so bad and cheesy. LOLOL
I'm french so sad, je ne comprends nothing a l'interview of Vinnie speak about ? please help me , thank you 👍yes it's a good guitarist and sexy man I think.
A lot of me's and I's coming from Vinnie.
I've actually never heard anything from VVI, despite growing up in the 80s, probably due to no internet, and no friends who owned VVI albums. Despite thinking this song was going to be bad, it's not... I won't be buying it off of iTunes, but it's its OK.
That band ain't shit without Mark Slaughter
Vinnie won't even look at Mark.
Yes he does.