Greg walls has the comment section turned off on all of his videos... I just want to say you crack me up..!.. you are a true metal Warrior.! Hats off to you.!
I was at the book signing at the Coronet Theatre. Scott played it cool on stage. Greg said “when’s the last time you saw Greg Walls?” Scott slyly replied, “let me guess, you’re Greg Walls.” But afterward in the signing line I did overhear Scott quietly exclaim in disbelief to Johnny Z, who was also there. Scott acted fine on stage, but in that moment following the program, I got the sense that Scott seemed either stunned or unsettled by Greg’s presence.
@@robertbirchfield5655 That’s his real hair. That was part of the deal with the devil. Scott was allowed to become a famous musician in a metal band, but would have to sacrifice his hair during his heydays in Anthrax and later on in his career would have to deal with being accused of stealing credit from Greg Walls in the beginnings of the band. Walls would have to walk away from the music business and turn in his talents in order to become successful on his own and keep his hair. The art of the deal.
The one thing you can't take away from Scott is, he's one of the tightest rhythm players in the biz. That being said, I have heard stories of people that met him and said he was kind of full of himself. I tend to lean on the side of Greg Walls. I also watched the video he did more recently where he showcased how he wrote 2 of Fistful's tracks. Seems pretty legit, as a guitar player and songwriter also.
I've watched all the clips because I wanted to see if Scott Ian can play a single lead lick. Can't find one. He's been playing guitar since the 70's. 40 something years of playing guitar and there's people who haven't even been playing 1 year who can play circles around Scott
@@bobowrathsovine. Well tbf, Scott was never really a lead player. He was always the rhythm guy. There is one instance I can recall where he recorded a lead on a track. It was for Only and it was a fill between verse lines, extremely basic. One note played a few times and then pick scrape. I did however, just today come across a clip of the original lineup playing a song. It's on Greg Walls' channel. Scott did a tiny bit more lead work but Walls blew him away.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the term "Thrash Metal" came from an early magazine article on Anthrax when referencing the song "Metal Thrashing Mad". If so, then Greg had a bigger hand in Thrash than people think.
Greg made the right choice bailing on the band. I've known other serious musicians who cut people who didn't quite fit. The music business is cruel and forces decent people to do awful things. A lot of them don't make it anyway...
Been listening to Anthrax since the mid 80s love the band and especially the newest album.. this was an insightful look into their past, great interview!
I've been listening to Metallica since 84 & Anthrax since 85 & until today never knew Greg was still in the band when Metallica showed up but really have heard almost nothing about this guy. I just assumed he was there at the very beginning not for long then they got Dan Spitz. Thanks for posting a great informative interview.
Man! that was an excellent excellent and HONEST interview....Great stories...especially when seeing Metallica play for the first time upstairs....that was great. Sad, about the songwriting credits...but Greg seems like a great humble guy.
I love this guy. I watched his original rant about getting ripped off, and at first I was skeptical, but having 30 years of recovery in various 12 step programs, therapy, and 7 years of ACA, adult children of alcoholics, I can totally relate with everything he's saying, and how as a kid he was basically a doormat, and some entitled aggressive kid comes along, and does all these sneaky things behind his back like not keeping everybody up to speed with what's going on with Zazula. His trauma kept him from standing up for himself in anthrax, and kept him from being guitarist from Metallica which if he had more of Scott's ego he definitely would have become Metallica's guitarist, he got along with everybody and was the life of the party, I can totally relate.
"Kept him from being other guitarist in Metallica" 😂😂😂 There's NO evidence that Metallica ever wanted him other than his bullshit claims. He says himself that he never even put himself forward.
I could listen to this guy forever .great talker and very much full of information....he should go back to music im sure he has lots of great riffs in a vault
This exact same thing happened to me. I was in a band me and some friends started, we didnt even have a name for the longest time. I wrote songs and practiced and helped out and tthe bass player would copy my guitar playing at one point he was playing my solos on his bass and i just left the band. I was starting a new job and felt like i didnt need the added stress. Then they get a new guitar player and record an album and its all my songs and the guy playing doesnt even sound right and no mention of me of course. I felt like how Greg says he felt here and this band never amounted to anything so for Anthrax to get big and you helped them get started and they just act like you didnt even exist that is pretty low and how much royaltys or however that works would Greg of made just by being credited? Like if for two songs the album had his name. Would he of made a lot of money???
This guy is cool! He's telling the truth. Metallica seemed like they were destined. Love that story. Met Scott Ian in Honolulu around 2010, yeah he's "entitled".
@@thebigbadbone7238 Yeah,Fistful of Metal has that "true" vibe for me I dunno how to describe it. Turbin nails it with his voice. Then you've got Belladonna... "Cry for the indians" boo hoo the world is full of pain congrats for noticing. Or the chorus of Medusa "Medusa, she's staring at you Medusa, WITH HER EYES" As if you can stare with your elbows or cheeks...fuckin stupid :P I hate dumb fuckin lyrics with a serious topic like that of the Indians or a mythological one like Medusa. But that's just me hehe.
If Walls could talk. That’s what they say. Walls was the musician, Scott was the investor. They should have given this thoughtful and talented guy some credits on that first album. So glad he made a life for himself separate from the entertainment industry. Greg Walls.....you were good, kid.
Always thought the music writing style from fistful to spreading the disease was dramatically different. One interview had turbin saying he wrote fistful. Maybe when a singer says that , he means vocally and perhaps lyrically?
Danny Lilker wrote the lion's share of music on Fistful. Charlie has written all the music since, with Scott taking care of the lyrics. Dan Spitz left because he was having no creative input other than writing the leads.
Scott said in his book that it was Neil who got rid of Dan Lilker because he didn't like the fact that he was taller than him. So if he lied about that, then most of the other stuff in the book is probably BS too.
whatever the truth is, me personally feel bad that guys like Walls and Mustaine cant let go of the past and have to live in a bitter state of resentment. Thats toxic in my world.
haha, i remember that music building in Jamaica. been there a few times as my friend's band had a room there. this was about 3-4 years after Metallica was there.
ill have to look it up but the singer who was repla ced by Sebastian Bach and Skid Row was also in Anthrax and replaced with Belladonna because I rrmebrr thinking "and I thought my life sucked " I cant remember his name and i'll probably forget to look it up
If its very interesting from an outside standpoint. I can see a certain amount of credibility here. Nonetheless,this interview is priceless with the nostalgia intact.
Interesting interview. Read Scott's first book recently. Greg definitely got mentioned. If really wrote those two songs, then he missed out. Also wonder why he wasn't really heard from until this interview. Greg seemed to enjoy being interviewed, but how much did he embellish?
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A lot. Because everyone else got credited, including Danny and Neil on the second album where they already left, and where not involved
I have to question some of this guys recollection. They played the Hartford Civic Center in ‘83?????? Nope. He was in the band when Metallica was in NY and he played tons of shows with them????? Not so sure about that either, According to Scott’s book Dan Spitz was already in the band by the time Metallica arrived. Can someone fact check these claims please?????
I feel like Scott was put in situations where he had to make horrible decisions. I'm not saying he wasn't at fault for doing some underhanded shit but he definitely was savvy enough to be able to see a path and use good material when it was there. After meeting Metallica who were in the right place at the right time there must have been a sense of urgency to be on the same level. Every band has people who kinda fell by the wayside. I was in a band called 13 Crowds back in the late '80s and there were other members and they wrote one song. lol We (the new members) never wanted to to play the earlier "one song" of "material" because it sounded very ,"typical" and "hacky". Thing is if it wasn't so, everything I said, you can bet that we would have used it. We loved the Misfits, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedy's, The Meat Men, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Black Flag . We knew what good music sounded like and emulated what we heard and we didn't even know how to tune our instruments but we could hear and improvised. The other thing was that our singer would record us and we didn't know it. I listened to a lot of Metal and Industrial and all the stuff I mentioned very open to lots of influences. Later I found out our material was tape traded and even sold all over Western PA and Eastern OH and people knew who we were? So you see the thinking behind bands isn't always cohesive and especially if there is a lot at stake. There was nothing really at stake for us but there was a lot going on and we didn't always know about it. The founder of our band went on to have other other bands. Crowd 13, The Blackouts and Nobody's Hero and continued to use our material but eventually dropped a lot in favor of rerecording on a 4 track and using a drum machine. I always tried to be as supportive as I could even through bad blood with other members and drama and learned a lot about DIY music and production. My point is you never really know how things are going to go and you definitely don't always know what is going on behind the scenes.
In metal everybody loved everybody back in the day, but life has it's own way of doing things, and nature has it's peculiar way of showing everyone's rotten core and tese things set things in motion, the right or the wrong direction, go figure, it's Murphy's law
In a way Greg got slighted. He did help write some the stuff on Fistfull but without contracts it is just academic at this point. Spitz came in as well as Joey and everything before is a minor footnote. Rather than sour grapes Greg should had forged his own Thrash band and maintained some sort of positive relationship with other band members.
Yes, same thing happened in WASP where I guess Holmes wasn’t thinking of it like a business, so he got written in as a hired hand instead of a full fledged band member with royalty copyrights whereas apparently Randy Piper gets his royalties from the first 2 WASP albums because he was a little more alert to the business side of things.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm no. There is another video from 5 months ago where he's saying he's kept quiet about it long enough and he just has to get it off his chest. He started the band with Scott Ian. And Scott ripped off everything from him. He was the one in Anthrax that was recognized as the person in charge. He was responsible for hiring everyone in the band. He discovered everyone in the band. He was responsible for getting Metallica to New York and making sure they were taken care of. And all kinds of isht. He has his own channel. It's his most recent one on his channel. Go check it out.
@@noname-jr1vo I saw it. He said Scott asked him to join the band and it was already called Anthrax. He did say that he got Neil Turbin and some other guys to join the band because they needed real musicians. That's true. He did not say he formed the band, though.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm he's full of sh!t and he's not a very good guitar player. And he wants credit for something that he didn't help build. He wants credit for something that hasn't existed since 1983. He's whack. And the version of Anthrax that he was in was not the one to achieve success. And the fact he said Scott ripped him off and copyright the songs behind his back. He doesn't know how the music industry works. Again. The dudes full of it.
Anthrax is probably my least favourite band of the Big 4. Nevertheless, the interview is great. Keep up the good work! I think the channel has a lot of potential. BTW. Cheers from Ukraine. Nick.
@@morbidcorpse5954 I'm waiting for Ian to come onstage one day with a great big Israeli shoal over his frickin neck speaking Yiddish at the crowd who won't understand a word he says but "throw the horns" anyway
Anthrax was not known for great musicianship, to me they seemed to be fooling around onstage, not very serious. I saw them in the day at L'Amour in Brooklyn, I wasn't impressed at all, even this guy was luke warm. This was at a time that amazing musicians grew on trees. But Anthrax did create something new, I didn't like it, and it never really sold a lot of records, but it a new cross pollination of musical styles. When the rap stuff came out, I tuned out completely. Metallica was a much better band, they sold 100x's the records. This guy was smart to go to school to get the hell out of the business, because they never made much money. For all his fame Scott Ian is worth about $5m, I made more than that and I didn't have to leave my shop. I build guitars, in '82 I was making $150k a year, these guys were broke. Very few musicians made a lot of money, they had no medical, none of them saved any money for retirement. Metallica's members are incredibly wealthy, but for every one of them, there's thousands of broke musicians. I'll bet Greg Walls is better off today than if he stayed in Anthrax.
How can YOU talk about anthrax..?? A dude who makes books about "finger gymnastics for playing guitar better..." You have to be kidding me. Fckng clown.
+horny jesus You have to be very, veRY, VERY slow to not realize how out of his mind greg walls is. He is basically saying everybody joined the band because of him, he wrote the two best songs in the album, he was best friends with cliff burton and dave mustaine was into his guitar playing. I lieterally can not count how many former members of anthrax, exodus and megadeth Ive heard say the exact same thing over, and over, and over. But again, being hated by two guys like you I guess its actually a complement :S:S
@@gabrielp9646 "everybody joined the band because of him" No, he only said he got Greg D'Angelo to play drums for them, and convinced Scott to let Neil in the band when Scott never liked Neil. Never said he was best friends with Cliff Burton, just that he got along with Cliff and James the most. Never said Dave was into his playing, only said he was into Dave's playing more than Kirk's. he admitted never getting close with Dave or Kirk. he claimed credit for a song and a half from a 10 song album. nothing about any of that is implausible, it's true. i wish i could see the comments you were replying to. you have a lot of bravado and not a lot of knowledge.
It's f****** Criminal that they didn't even have the decency to credit this guy on the f****** album liner notes I f****** love anthrax I've always been a fan of their music but this guy is a legit guitar player and an excellent songwriter apparently and to get robbed of your credit sucks I'm sorry for you brother I think Anthrax has had enough success they should help the dude out by bucket at least giving him the credit he deserves
his memory is a little off! lol he also goes on to state that he got to know the metallica guys for a "year or two" but metallica were only in NY for a few months while he was in anthrax.
Ian fronted the money for the band, so he took some writing credit. Sounds like Hesch in the sopranos ha. Maybe Johnny z, cause of dealing with mustaine and royalty stuff, just told the boys, Greg left, don’t give him any credit.
There was a story going around in the 80s that it took Lilker something like 50 takes to get "I'm Eighteen" right, and that was a big reason he was fired. True or not? I dunno.
Everybody knows the stereotype of ) evvs. Scott Ian Rosenfeld worked really hard to strengthen that type. Doesn't matter if banker or musician, always gotta steal.
Going by what he says in this interview and what Scott says in his book it sounds like Scott wasn't that great of a guitar player in those days. I don't get how he became this super tight rhythm player if he never practiced cuz even if you're rehearsing alot with a band you still need to practice a lot on your own.
No guitar player starts out great. Everybody who starts out plays like shit. Period. If you have the drive, you start improving little by little, so Greg Walls probably met Scott when he was in his early stages as a guitarist. One thing is for certain: as rhythm guitar player, he’s UNTOUCHABLE. He may suck as a lead pleaser (reason why he doesn’t do any leads or does them very little). Only James Hetfield or Gary Holt could match Scott as a rhythm player (Hetfield is god… at least he used to be). There are many, many great metal and thrash rhythm guitar players, but Scott Ian is definitely one of them, so he must’ve “practiced” a lot to get to that level. Also, Charlie Benante is an awesome, accomplished player. He should do more playing on Anthrax albums!
Docteur666, true! I think some of what this guy says is true, but in my opinion from reading all the metallica and anthrax history, this guy is a bullshiter
eh, i wouldn't say so. it's different when you actually live the story instead of knowing about it through reading. it becomes a blur and facts get fuzzy. Greg might have known Dave was on his way out before he actually left and regretted not trying out. also when he says he hung out and gigged with Metallica for a year or two, that's a little off, i'm not sure when Greg left Anthrax but they were probably together around 6 months between spring and fall of 83. it's normal when going by memory especially as long ago as it was
This guy seems credible. Most of the the official stories concerning bands are just creations of their management companies. I find it hard to believe that Kirk was just waiting by the phone for their call. Arrangements had to be made and that takes time. In addition the Scott/Neal problems probably were over a girl. It is usually always over a girl.
Greg posted a video a few months ago called "Anthrax ripped me off: Fistful Of Metal". He struggles to play the guitar & is very bitter & twisted in the whole thing, pretty sad really
@W. he probably didnt give to much of a fuck, but the fact that these fake friends for all these years never gave him credit can take a serious mental toll . Then you get Covid 19 "pandemic" isolating people which probably pushed him over the edge, like it did many people.
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Greg walls has the comment section turned off on all of his videos... I just want to say you crack me up..!.. you are a true metal Warrior.! Hats off to you.!
Yeah those new anthrax history videos got this guys video in the rotation matrix I guess ha
Much respect Greg, thanks for the killer tunes you wrote man.
One song make you cum your pants?
When Greg called Scott by his real last name on his video playing the Anthrax songs I laughed so hard. I liked him immediately.
Rosenfeld ? Jewish name right. Profit before people ..
@@mojopin70 it's a cultural thing.
@@mojopin70 That's antisemitic bullshit. Scott's religious background has nothing to do with anything.
@@RCrooklyn Truth is NOT Anti Semetic, schlomo
@@mojopin70 When someone who isn't Jewish acts that way, they're simply a greedy asshole, but if they're Jewish, it's because they're Jewish, right?
I dont know.... but if the man helped write the the first album, then give him fair credit.
I was at the book signing at the Coronet Theatre. Scott played it cool on stage. Greg said “when’s the last time you saw Greg Walls?” Scott slyly replied, “let me guess, you’re Greg Walls.” But afterward in the signing line I did overhear Scott quietly exclaim in disbelief to Johnny Z, who was also there. Scott acted fine on stage, but in that moment following the program, I got the sense that Scott seemed either stunned or unsettled by Greg’s presence.
Scott probably didn't recognize this fool cuz of his wig.
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That’s his real hair.
That was part of the deal with the devil.
Scott was allowed to become a famous musician in a metal band, but would have to sacrifice his hair during his heydays in Anthrax and later on in his career would have to deal with being accused of stealing credit from Greg Walls in the beginnings of the band.
Walls would have to walk away from the music business and turn in his talents in order to become successful on his own and keep his hair.
The art of the deal.
@@timothya.olmeda7299 That is absolutely true on a spiritual level.
Great explanation.
Peace.
The one thing you can't take away from Scott is, he's one of the tightest rhythm players in the biz. That being said, I have heard stories of people that met him and said he was kind of full of himself. I tend to lean on the side of Greg Walls. I also watched the video he did more recently where he showcased how he wrote 2 of Fistful's tracks. Seems pretty legit, as a guitar player and songwriter also.
I've watched all the clips because I wanted to see if Scott Ian can play a single lead lick. Can't find one. He's been playing guitar since the 70's. 40 something years of playing guitar and there's people who haven't even been playing 1 year who can play circles around Scott
@@bobowrathsovine. Well tbf, Scott was never really a lead player. He was always the rhythm guy. There is one instance I can recall where he recorded a lead on a track. It was for Only and it was a fill between verse lines, extremely basic. One note played a few times and then pick scrape. I did however, just today come across a clip of the original lineup playing a song. It's on Greg Walls' channel. Scott did a tiny bit more lead work but Walls blew him away.
@@bobowrathsovine. What a pointless thing to say. Malcom Young never played a 'lead' either. So what?
@@denizenofclownworld4853 I was never much a fan of ACDC so I could care less either way
@@bobowrathsovine. That doesn't make your argument any less pointless.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the term "Thrash Metal" came from an early magazine article on Anthrax when referencing the song "Metal Thrashing Mad". If so, then Greg had a bigger hand in Thrash than people think.
Robert Di'nero doing a fine interview with Skippy from Family Ties.
I can't stop laughing. Hilarious
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That Skippy actors was also the main character in the movie Trick Or Treat. I remember seeing him host an Evening At The Improv in 1994
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Great interview with Greg! Really dig his honesty..These stories are priceless..Thank you Greg for sharing your time with the band..
Greg made the right choice bailing on the band. I've known other serious musicians who cut people who didn't quite fit. The music business is cruel and forces decent people to do awful things. A lot of them don't make it anyway...
Look at Scott Ian ditching his best mate Danny Lilker because he was scared he'd wind up without a singer. Fucking ruthless!
Been listening to Anthrax since the mid 80s love the band and especially the newest album.. this was an insightful look into their past, great interview!
Incredible interview, great stuff! thanks Greg Walls!
fist full is my favorite album from anthrax
I've been listening to Metallica since 84 & Anthrax since 85 & until today never knew Greg was still in the band when Metallica showed up but really have heard almost nothing about this guy. I just assumed he was there at the very beginning not for long then they got Dan Spitz. Thanks for posting a great informative interview.
Greg left in summer of 1983, Also there was a guy named Bob Berry in between Greg and Dan Spitz.
Man! that was an excellent excellent and HONEST interview....Great stories...especially when seeing Metallica play for the first time upstairs....that was great. Sad, about the songwriting credits...but Greg seems like a great humble guy.
He’s pretty well composed here, but go look at his own videos. He loses his shit often. It’s hard to tell whether or not he’s being honest.
I love this guy. I watched his original rant about getting ripped off, and at first I was skeptical, but having 30 years of recovery in various 12 step programs, therapy, and 7 years of ACA, adult children of alcoholics, I can totally relate with everything he's saying, and how as a kid he was basically a doormat, and some entitled aggressive kid comes along, and does all these sneaky things behind his back like not keeping everybody up to speed with what's going on with Zazula. His trauma kept him from standing up for himself in anthrax, and kept him from being guitarist from Metallica which if he had more of Scott's ego he definitely would have become Metallica's guitarist, he got along with everybody and was the life of the party, I can totally relate.
"Kept him from being other guitarist in Metallica" 😂😂😂 There's NO evidence that Metallica ever wanted him other than his bullshit claims. He says himself that he never even put himself forward.
that's one great interview TMV - thanks..... great to finally get an Anthrax interview from Greg
I could listen to this guy forever .great talker and very much full of information....he should go back to music im sure he has lots of great riffs in a vault
Check out his channel. He has tracks up from his Walls of Sound project and the riffs are pretty great.
Fantastic interview. Thanks so much for this.
very interesting to hear a brand new perspective , on early ANTHRAX ...
Now I see where all the SOD songs came from...Greg Walls
Greg's solos on the '82 demo are shred, pick melting, relentless, chaotic excellence! NEVER get tired of those! Fuck yeah!
This is a great interview. I really feel for Greg..... not fair leaving him off the album....total BS.
Great insight to the days of a great band .
This exact same thing happened to me. I was in a band me and some friends started, we didnt even have a name for the longest time. I wrote songs and practiced and helped out and tthe bass player would copy my guitar playing at one point he was playing my solos on his bass and i just left the band. I was starting a new job and felt like i didnt need the added stress. Then they get a new guitar player and record an album and its all my songs and the guy playing doesnt even sound right and no mention of me of course. I felt like how Greg says he felt here and this band never amounted to anything so for Anthrax to get big and you helped them get started and they just act like you didnt even exist that is pretty low and how much royaltys or however that works would Greg of made just by being credited? Like if for two songs the album had his name. Would he of made a lot of money???
This dude is cool....I could listen to him for a long time.Good story teller 😷
This interview is the best! Fucking awesome
This guy is cool! He's telling the truth. Metallica seemed like they were destined. Love that story. Met Scott Ian in Honolulu around 2010, yeah he's "entitled".
worked hard and smart for that entitlement though........good on him.
I Also met him seemed like a great bloke.
I love Greg & Neil they are the best and sweetest guys ever! 🤘❤️🔥🤘
Man that was good! I'm an old Metalhead!love these storys.
Great interview. Thank you so much! Sub!
So this is why I pretty much only like the first album of Anthrax...go figure.
Dude same, I always found it weird that I only liked fistful of metal. Their other stuff didn't 'feel' the same.
@@thebigbadbone7238 Yeah,Fistful of Metal has that "true" vibe for me I dunno how to describe it. Turbin nails it with his voice. Then you've got Belladonna... "Cry for the indians" boo hoo the world is full of pain congrats for noticing. Or the chorus of Medusa "Medusa, she's staring at you
Medusa, WITH HER EYES" As if you can stare with your elbows or cheeks...fuckin stupid :P I hate dumb fuckin lyrics with a serious topic like that of the Indians or a mythological one like Medusa. But that's just me hehe.
@@ginjordom6065 among the living is a jam though.
@@ginjordom6065 The lyrics to Medusa was written by Jon Zazula.
@@Billinois78 Well doesn't change that they suck,even worse,makes Anthrax look like they couldn't write a decent song by themselves.
I wonder what it would be like if the original lineup of Anthrax reunited
If Walls could talk.
That’s what they say.
Walls was the musician, Scott was the investor.
They should have given this thoughtful and talented guy some credits on that first album.
So glad he made a life for himself separate from the entertainment industry.
Greg Walls.....you were good, kid.
Walls is a bad ass guitar player . Dang ….
dan spitz has the same beef with the band, charlie claimed he wrote a lot of anthrax solos and it was a lie.
There's literally evidence of charlie soloing on youtube and it's no where near those sound from the records completely bullshit when he claimed
Greg nice to see Robert Di Nero interviewing you 😁
Taxi Driver Bobby D interviewing Goodfellas Bobby D! 🤣🍻🥸
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Robert Di'nero doing a fine interview with Skippy from Family Ties.
@@nickfuller20 Thats who He looks like. Skippy. hahahaha great stuff fellas
Always thought the music writing style from fistful to spreading the disease was dramatically different. One interview had turbin saying he wrote fistful. Maybe when a singer says that , he means vocally and perhaps lyrically?
Danny Lilker wrote the lion's share of music on Fistful. Charlie has written all the music since, with Scott taking care of the lyrics. Dan Spitz left because he was having no creative input other than writing the leads.
Great interview.
What an interesting interview.Right the fuck on.
THX for watching
Scott Ian chewing his nails....
I love the awesome guys you interview.
Scott said in his book that it was Neil who got rid of Dan Lilker because he didn't like the fact that he was taller than him. So if he lied about that, then most of the other stuff in the book is probably BS too.
Man, if you write a book I’ll be the first in line in the bookstore buying it 👍
whatever the truth is, me personally feel bad that guys like Walls and Mustaine cant let go of the past and have to live in a bitter state of resentment. Thats toxic in my world.
I agree with the dave part, but greg its just telling how it is he's right🤷♂️
I think the reason this video does not have enough views is all the original Anthrax fans stopped listening or following any Anthrax news
haha, i remember that music building in Jamaica. been there a few times as my friend's band had a room there. this was about 3-4 years after Metallica was there.
ill have to look it up but the singer who was repla ced by Sebastian Bach and Skid Row was also in Anthrax and replaced with Belladonna because I rrmebrr thinking "and I thought my life sucked " I cant remember his name and i'll probably forget to look it up
Great interview
There's always 1 in every popular band
Greg Walls awesome!!!!!!!!
I know! And he is my close friend! He is awesome!
If its very interesting from an outside standpoint. I can see a certain amount of credibility here. Nonetheless,this interview is priceless with the nostalgia intact.
Interesting interview. Read Scott's first book recently. Greg definitely got mentioned. If really wrote those two songs, then he missed out. Also wonder why he wasn't really heard from until this interview. Greg seemed to enjoy being interviewed, but how much did he embellish?
A lot. Because everyone else got credited, including Danny and Neil on the second album where they already left, and where not involved
He wrote the riffs not the lyrics and left in like 1982
I have to question some of this guys recollection. They played the Hartford Civic Center in ‘83?????? Nope. He was in the band when Metallica was in NY and he played tons of shows with them????? Not so sure about that either, According to Scott’s book Dan Spitz was already in the band by the time Metallica arrived. Can someone fact check these claims please?????
Greg Walls left in Summer of 1983
Very cool interview. Thx for looking Greg up.
freaking awesome. ..
Cool interview
“70% note, 30% noise”…at 2:10 please elaborate.
he probably meant sloppy playing. not muting other strings ect.
He was ahead of his time for grind!!! .)
I feel like Scott was put in situations where he had to make horrible decisions. I'm not saying he wasn't at fault for doing some underhanded shit but he definitely was savvy enough to be able to see a path and use good material when it was there. After meeting Metallica who were in the right place at the right time there must have been a sense of urgency to be on the same level. Every band has people who kinda fell by the wayside. I was in a band called 13 Crowds back in the late '80s and there were other members and they wrote one song. lol We (the new members) never wanted to to play the earlier "one song" of "material" because it sounded very ,"typical" and "hacky". Thing is if it wasn't so, everything I said, you can bet that we would have used it. We loved the Misfits, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedy's, The Meat Men, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Black Flag . We knew what good music sounded like and emulated what we heard and we didn't even know how to tune our instruments but we could hear and improvised. The other thing was that our singer would record us and we didn't know it. I listened to a lot of Metal and Industrial and all the stuff I mentioned very open to lots of influences. Later I found out our material was tape traded and even sold all over Western PA and Eastern OH and people knew who we were? So you see the thinking behind bands isn't always cohesive and especially if there is a lot at stake. There was nothing really at stake for us but there was a lot going on and we didn't always know about it. The founder of our band went on to have other other bands. Crowd 13, The Blackouts and Nobody's Hero and continued to use our material but eventually dropped a lot in favor of rerecording on a 4 track and using a drum machine. I always tried to be as supportive as I could even through bad blood with other members and drama and learned a lot about DIY music and production. My point is you never really know how things are going to go and you definitely don't always know what is going on behind the scenes.
Great memories dude! Thanx for sharing!
fuckin guy played strip clubs with metallica, what crazy shit went on there!
at 27:40 why you cut off?
there was some bad language i did not think was cool, the story did not chnage
I never knew Robert De Nero had a TH-cam channel.
In metal everybody loved everybody back in the day, but life has it's own way of doing things, and nature has it's peculiar way of showing everyone's rotten core and tese things set things in motion, the right or the wrong direction, go figure, it's Murphy's law
Nice !
In a way Greg got slighted. He did help write some the stuff on Fistfull but without contracts it is just academic at this point. Spitz came in as well as Joey and everything before is a minor footnote. Rather than sour grapes Greg should had forged his own Thrash band and maintained some sort of positive relationship with other band members.
Oh I agree. Greg should had been compensated more relatively but unless you copy right youre works Anyone who hears it can use it/ steal it.
Yes, same thing happened in WASP where I guess Holmes wasn’t thinking of it like a business, so he got written in as a hired hand instead of a full fledged band member with royalty copyrights whereas apparently Randy Piper gets his royalties from the first 2 WASP albums because he was a little more alert to the business side of things.
I'm just imagining a photos of Metallica with Greg Walls. He definitely would have written better solos, which would have also affected sales.
I certainly hope Greg's personality is NOT like Scott's.
Was searching up vids of scot improvising even rythmn but found nothing I wonder if he can write a riff on the spot
This dude 5 months ago just dropped a video saying that Scott Ian ripped him off and that Anthrax was a band he started.
He didn't say he started the band. He said he was the first lead guitarist.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm no. There is another video from 5 months ago where he's saying he's kept quiet about it long enough and he just has to get it off his chest. He started the band with Scott Ian. And Scott ripped off everything from him. He was the one in Anthrax that was recognized as the person in charge. He was responsible for hiring everyone in the band. He discovered everyone in the band. He was responsible for getting Metallica to New York and making sure they were taken care of. And all kinds of isht. He has his own channel. It's his most recent one on his channel. Go check it out.
@@noname-jr1vo I saw it. He said Scott asked him to join the band and it was already called Anthrax. He did say that he got Neil Turbin and some other guys to join the band because they needed real musicians. That's true. He did not say he formed the band, though.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm he's full of sh!t and he's not a very good guitar player. And he wants credit for something that he didn't help build. He wants credit for something that hasn't existed since 1983. He's whack. And the version of Anthrax that he was in was not the one to achieve success. And the fact he said Scott ripped him off and copyright the songs behind his back. He doesn't know how the music industry works. Again. The dudes full of it.
@@noname-jr1vo Yeah, well, he was there and you weren't so I'll take his word over your's.
Love this guy's accent and he sounds like Johnny Brennan from the Jerky Boys. Alright there Bottlenose
Is that his real hair?
Anthrax is probably my least favourite band of the Big 4. Nevertheless, the interview is great. Keep up the good work! I think the channel has a lot of potential.
BTW. Cheers from Ukraine. Nick.
Thx ans Cheers from Canada
Like a couple tunes never gave much of a shit about them
@@TheMetalVoice you look like Robert denero
I agree. Testament should have taken Anthrax place.
The only Anthrax song I ever liked was Inside Out. Great track. Everything else I can't get into.
Overrated band because of their j'ishness.
@@AgeofReason Yeah, never saw the big deal with them. Music is terrible and broish
@@morbidcorpse5954 I'm waiting for Ian to come onstage one day with a great big Israeli shoal over his frickin neck speaking Yiddish at the crowd who won't understand a word he says but "throw the horns" anyway
Got any reviews you are working on. I can recommend albums.
Yes lots of new albums coming out, our reviews will be coming over the next few days, which ones did u have in mind?
The Metal Voice Metal Witch - Tales from the Underground and you might like Seven Sisters self titled album.
Greg smith he great guitarist
The j couldn't even pay the 35 dollars to get into the book event of Scott's!!!
Anthrax was not known for great musicianship, to me they seemed to be fooling around onstage, not very serious. I saw them in the day at L'Amour in Brooklyn, I wasn't impressed at all, even this guy was luke warm. This was at a time that amazing musicians grew on trees. But Anthrax did create something new, I didn't like it, and it never really sold a lot of records, but it a new cross pollination of musical styles. When the rap stuff came out, I tuned out completely. Metallica was a much better band, they sold 100x's the records.
This guy was smart to go to school to get the hell out of the business, because they never made much money. For all his fame Scott Ian is worth about $5m, I made more than that and I didn't have to leave my shop. I build guitars, in '82 I was making $150k a year, these guys were broke. Very few musicians made a lot of money, they had no medical, none of them saved any money for retirement. Metallica's members are incredibly wealthy, but for every one of them, there's thousands of broke musicians. I'll bet Greg Walls is better off today than if he stayed in Anthrax.
How can YOU talk about anthrax..?? A dude who makes books about "finger gymnastics for playing guitar better..." You have to be kidding me. Fckng clown.
+horny jesus You have to be very, veRY, VERY slow to not realize how out of his mind greg walls is. He is basically saying everybody joined the band because of him, he wrote the two best songs in the album, he was best friends with cliff burton and dave mustaine was into his guitar playing. I lieterally can not count how many former members of anthrax, exodus and megadeth Ive heard say the exact same thing over, and over, and over. But again, being hated by two guys like you I guess its actually a complement :S:S
@@gabrielp9646 "everybody joined the band because of him" No, he only said he got Greg D'Angelo to play drums for them, and convinced Scott to let Neil in the band when Scott never liked Neil. Never said he was best friends with Cliff Burton, just that he got along with Cliff and James the most. Never said Dave was into his playing, only said he was into Dave's playing more than Kirk's. he admitted never getting close with Dave or Kirk. he claimed credit for a song and a half from a 10 song album. nothing about any of that is implausible, it's true. i wish i could see the comments you were replying to. you have a lot of bravado and not a lot of knowledge.
It's f****** Criminal that they didn't even have the decency to credit this guy on the f****** album liner notes I f****** love anthrax I've always been a fan of their music but this guy is a legit guitar player and an excellent songwriter apparently and to get robbed of your credit sucks I'm sorry for you brother I think Anthrax has had enough success they should help the dude out by bucket at least giving him the credit he deserves
Hartford civic center in 83??
his memory is a little off! lol he also goes on to state that he got to know the metallica guys for a "year or two" but metallica were only in NY for a few months while he was in anthrax.
Ian fronted the money for the band, so he took some writing credit. Sounds like Hesch in the sopranos ha. Maybe Johnny z, cause of dealing with mustaine and royalty stuff, just told the boys, Greg left, don’t give him any credit.
Holy shit!
Shameful letting Dan go like they did.
There was a story going around in the 80s that it took Lilker something like 50 takes to get "I'm Eighteen" right, and that was a big reason he was fired. True or not? I dunno.
Everybody knows the stereotype of ) evvs. Scott Ian Rosenfeld worked really hard to strengthen that type. Doesn't matter if banker or musician, always gotta steal.
My 6,000,000,000 uncredited sales!!!!!
Going by what he says in this interview and what Scott says in his book it sounds like Scott wasn't that great of a guitar player in those days. I don't get how he became this super tight rhythm player if he never practiced cuz even if you're rehearsing alot with a band you still need to practice a lot on your own.
No guitar player starts out great. Everybody who starts out plays like shit. Period. If you have the drive, you start improving little by little, so Greg Walls probably met Scott when he was in his early stages as a guitarist.
One thing is for certain: as rhythm guitar player, he’s UNTOUCHABLE. He may suck as a lead pleaser (reason why he doesn’t do any leads or does them very little). Only James Hetfield or Gary Holt could match Scott as a rhythm player (Hetfield is god… at least he used to be). There are many, many great metal and thrash rhythm guitar players, but Scott Ian is definitely one of them, so he must’ve “practiced” a lot to get to that level.
Also, Charlie Benante is an awesome, accomplished player. He should do more playing on Anthrax albums!
He got better.
@@booshting3520 yeah no shit....
first Metallica 4life
killer!
Kirk came to NYC the same night or the day after Dave was kicked out.
Docteur666, true! I think some of what this guy says is true, but in my opinion from reading all the metallica and anthrax history, this guy is a bullshiter
eh, i wouldn't say so. it's different when you actually live the story instead of knowing about it through reading. it becomes a blur and facts get fuzzy. Greg might have known Dave was on his way out before he actually left and regretted not trying out. also when he says he hung out and gigged with Metallica for a year or two, that's a little off, i'm not sure when Greg left Anthrax but they were probably together around 6 months between spring and fall of 83. it's normal when going by memory especially as long ago as it was
creepingthrash: I totally agree with this. Good points.
Docteur666
I wonder if Scott had any influence on Dave getting canned from Metallica.
This guy seems credible. Most of the the official stories concerning bands are just creations of their management companies. I find it hard to believe that Kirk was just waiting by the phone for their call. Arrangements had to be made and that takes time. In addition the Scott/Neal problems probably were over a girl. It is usually always over a girl.
Greg posted a video a few months ago called "Anthrax ripped me off: Fistful Of Metal".
He struggles to play the guitar & is very bitter & twisted in the whole thing, pretty sad really
Dude you would be bitter too if somebody copyrighted your songs gave you no credit and used them for a springboard into superstardom
@@deadcenterarts29 Yeah, ask Dave Mustaine about certain Metallica songs.
I watched two videos Greg posted from his time in Anthrax and they sound more like Judas Priest so I don't think he's very believable in all honesty
Well those songs are were recorded and are on the first album, so... What don't you believe lol
Ok so Anthrax did pretty well after Wall was kicked from band right? Give me a brake. Sour grapes 🍇
Wow. I didn't know that about Scott.
Rosenfeld...JEWelry sellers...SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
Sol Rosenberg is real?
“ a lot of people got to know who I was” no one knows who you are boyo
Ok, so why wait until now to cry about it?
It sucks that he got ripped off, but do your REALLY want to be the guy who takes credit for writing Fistful of Metal?
This dude is just mad because he wasn't in the band when they got big. If was good song writer he would have started a new band and had some success.
@W. I was thinking the same thing. Seems like a butthurt individual!
@W. he probably didnt give to much of a fuck, but the fact that these fake friends for all these years never gave him credit can take a serious mental toll . Then you get
Covid 19 "pandemic" isolating people which probably pushed him over the edge, like it did many people.
I had no idea Mustaine went to NY with Metallica. Hmmm.
There's were he got fired. Very close to be on the first record.
He has writting credits on the first album they went to NY he was a bad drunk they fired him and moved Kirk in 2 days after they fired DM
This dude's butt-hurtedness puts Mustaine's to shame...lol
Shut up groupie
LoL
Who is this lady and why does she have issues with Anthrax?!