He is the most clear example of an artist who took the wrong career choices. When he put his wife as his manager and decided he would not get a proper producer and in later years not even a real singer.
@juancarlos-dx1or And musically he wanted to do it all himself. Well they music production is horrible songs the same and his voice not good. I have zero idea what he's trying to prove. Mind you I'm a lifelong fan alway a 1st day buyer of all his albums but the last 10+ yrs not one. He needs some who can write better songs and real producer.
@@kevinstreet220 Agreed! _Alchemy_ had some good songs, but it didn't get played nearly as much as the _Facing the Animal_ album. Cozy Powell definitely had something to say when it came to mixing the album, because that is his drum sound. And Mats Leven is one hell of a vocalist!
@@MrClassicmetal agreed. Alchemy had some great songs on it, however, the production was terrible. This is when everything went downhill due to yjm doing the production himself. Chris Tsangarides produced FTA and that is why it sounds amazing. RIP cozy p.
Well, in all fairness, the reason why Ronnie James Dio left Rainbow in late-1978 was because Ritchie came up to him after they finished the tour for _Long Live Rock and Roll_ and told Ronnie point-blank that he wanted to change the direction of the band to sound a lot more like Foreigner. And, let's face facts, with Joe Lynn Turner, that's exactly what they got (although they still remained harder/heavier than Foreigner). Now don't get me wrong here: This is not a knock on either Joe Lynn Turner or Foreigner. Both are great. It's just that that style is extremely different from how Rainbow started with RJD. But I've always loved Lou Gramm and Joe Lynn Turner's vocals: Rich, soulful and bluesy but also commercial as well. And both are good ol' Italian boys: Lou from Rochester NY and Joe from Philadelphia. Both are Hall of Fame singers, figuratively speaking.
Death Alley Driver from Rainbows 1985? Album is an incredible hard rocking song from Joe and Ritchie to really get you going! Still one of my all time favorite songs!😊
Saw JLT with Deep Purple at Manchester Apollo in 1991 (IIRC) on the Slaves And Masters tour. Cracking gig. Great singer. Some crap from Gillan about "Deep Rainbow" at the time.
I love Joe. I worked ,toured and partied with him alot.. He is the Coolest in every possible way. . One of the best Classic Rock singers ever but not stuck with 80s , his 2022 album , Belly Of the Beast is killer ,stone cold Metal .
In my opinion, one of the best live numbers of the Rainbow days is "Spotlight Kid" - I'm thinking of a performance recorded in Japan, if my memory serves me correctly - it's true Rainbow - in the lineup that included JLT - was quite obviously seeking greater commercial appeal and that turned off some fans - yet a number like "Spotlight Kid" performed live (at least on a Japanese tour - I think) reminded me of DP Mk.2 in terms of explosive spontaneity and cohesiveness and that was due in no small part to JLT's vocals !
I was lucky enough to see the Odyssey tour in Houston, TX. I would fly anywhere on Earth if Yngwie ever had a reunion with the Johannaon Bros., Jeff Scott Soto. Unfortunately Marcel Jacob and Wally Voss is dead so the bass player would have to be figured out.
He sells out 1500 to 2500 seaters! He never was a stadium act unless he was opening! I love his first 5 albums! He’s not listenable these days. His last great album was attack.
I always marvel about how people will fire off a litany of crap about someone, then cap it off with "Yeah but I don't have a problem with them" All that being said, Odyssey was a badass album ✨🤘🏼🙏🏼
A lot of people think Yngwie is difficult, but it is strange that a lot of musicians do not find Ritchie Blackmore that difficult to get along with who were in bands with him: Joe Lynn Turner, Ronnie james Dio, Bob Daisley, Don Airey...suggest Ritchie not that difficult. Joe Lynn Turner and Ritchie Blackmore also factor into the Andrew Aycock situation, the guy who ultimately led to Randy Rhoads' death as Ritchie fired Aycock because his aura was bad
Really like that Joe's got nothing bad to say about Ritchie. There's way too many people who never even met him, dissing him as an a**hole. Joe & Ritchie are both intense people who care about their music. I can easily see how they would get along well.
You can easily see that Joe admires Ritchie and doesn't think much of Yngwie . Ritchie didn't think of himself as a superstar of Rock , or as the best . Even if he was a superstar of rock . Yngwie lives in a fantasy world where he see's himself as one of the best players of all time . He does the same boring routine musically for 30 years , he can't adapt to anything and you can see this when he covers Deep Purple , or Jimi Hendrix . Can't do it justice how "they" played it . Has to be about him and speed ... Another difference between him and Blackmore , is Blackmore had real hits with Rainbow . Yngwie even with Joe couldn't have the same kind as his playing was over the top . It would never appeal to a wide audience . Just a small group of people who like fast shredding .
I like the Odyssey album. When Steve Perry quit Journey the 2nd time, I wanted Joe Lynn Turner to become the successor. He can write ✍ in adfition to sing. Never happened. 🙄
@@DarksaberForce ➕ he sang backing vocals for Billy Joel 35 years ago 🎂 for the album Storm Front. The recordings split between New York City and Warehouse Studios 🎙, which still is owned by singer Bryan Adams, in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦.
I was a fan of yngwie for his previous work with multiple singers. Despite his guitar prowess, the fact that there's a great band and tremendous singers in his albums that drew me to his work....untill recently. I stop listening to his new work. Still I'm a fan of the good ol record
Joe, Met you at the Power Station with Dennis Feldman about 20 plus years ago! Always thought that all these fast guitarists were bullshit anyway! Listen to Hotel California or Stairway. They are memorable parts! You agreed back then! By the way, I played a part of was working on with my guitar. You liked it, and so did Dennis! Take care! John
After that Odyssey LP, the rest of Yngwie’s material is shite. Saw Yngwie in concert recently and it was shite as well. He’s a soloist who wants to be a complete artist. Which he’s not.
Here's how Joe Lynn explained his efforts to leave Yngwie to me: "I tell Polygram, I can't spend another minute with this guy!" Polygram: "Here's more money." (a month later): "I'm tellin ya, he's a nightmare!" Polygram: "OK, here's even more money." (another month later): "That's it! I'm done!" Polygram: "We ain't given you anymore money." Joe Lynn: "Sayonara!" I paraphrased, but that's what he told me. China Club, Hollywood, circa1990.
Welcome to the next episode of the series : nobody´s interested, JLT answers. This person knocked almost everyone, whom he collaborated with. Nasty person….🤮
Joe is deluded. And so was Ritchie. That song was crap and it flopped. Last album i bought was Difficult to Cure. Never bought anything after that!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flopped? They sold more singles and had more hits with Joe than they did with Dio. That's NOT me saying the music was better, that's a matter of taste, but in terms of "success" that was much better in the JLT years.
@@DevilsDevices666 That's a good reply freind. I grew up on Dio and Bonnet!!! I knew the first Joe Lynn stuff. I LIKED HIM!!!! But i thought Blackmore had lost it!!!!!!!!!!
The tone, color, of his voice is one of my absolute favorites. Amazing singer
As a retired heavy metal singer, Joe always had the IT factor. All around greatness. Soul, rasp, yet clean. 🤘🔥🤘🤠💯
Joe is like Paul Rodgers and Lou Gramm, one in a million voice tone. One of the best natural talented singers of all time. Long live to him
Fantastic vocalist, one of the greatest
Joe is a great singer and a humble dude for sure. I wish him all the luck in the world.
Joe has always been one of the best people in the biz. He is driven to a point his motor is always going. Great guy, incredible singer
Great singer and front man !!
Yngwie needs a singer, his recent five or six albums are pathetic, "you're you're one worst enemy," Joe is looking good with the chrome.
That was the last great album that he made. Can you imagine what the follow-up would have been like? OMG
He's definitely not wrong. I love Yngwie but Joe brought a lot to his music.
Love Joe's personality as much as his vocals!
Yngwie’s best album was with JLT! Joe made it great with his amazing vocals & song writing!
"Dreaming" an amazing vocal..
And JLT WROTE that song. Didn't just sing...
Odyssey was the best Rising Force album IMHO. 🙂
The one after “Odyssey” called “Eclipse” is my favorite.
outstanding musically and JLTs best I think
Eclipse with Goran Edman also was a standout IMO🤘🤘🤘🤘
Solid album for sure. I do like _Marching Out_ a bit more, but that's a personal thing.
Marching out, Odyssey,Eclipse and Attack are four great album with four different singers
This man CAN sing🤘
Saw Joe on the Straight Between the Eyes tour, and I'm happy to say, his voice holds up live. Not like Dio, but then, no one is.
Joe + yngwie= amazing best music
Odyssey was the best yngwie album with no doubt.
Joe lynn turner is one of the best hard rock vocalists in history...
So true Yngwie hasn't done anything well in years!!
Last good album was Facing the Animal 97 with Cozy Powell .
He is the most clear example of an artist who took the wrong career choices. When he put his wife as his manager and decided he would not get a proper producer and in later years not even a real singer.
@juancarlos-dx1or And musically he wanted to do it all himself. Well they music production is horrible songs the same and his voice not good. I have zero idea what he's trying to prove. Mind you I'm a lifelong fan alway a 1st day buyer of all his albums but the last 10+ yrs not one. He needs some who can write better songs and real producer.
@@kevinstreet220 Agreed! _Alchemy_ had some good songs, but it didn't get played nearly as much as the _Facing the Animal_ album. Cozy Powell definitely had something to say when it came to mixing the album, because that is his drum sound. And Mats Leven is one hell of a vocalist!
@@MrClassicmetal agreed. Alchemy had some great songs on it, however, the production was terrible. This is when everything went downhill due to yjm doing the production himself. Chris Tsangarides produced FTA and that is why it sounds amazing. RIP cozy p.
Joe's right about the Street of Dreams solo, I could hum it right now.
Well, in all fairness, the reason why Ronnie James Dio left Rainbow in late-1978 was because Ritchie came up to him after they finished the tour for _Long Live Rock and Roll_ and told Ronnie point-blank that he wanted to change the direction of the band to sound a lot more like Foreigner. And, let's face facts, with Joe Lynn Turner, that's exactly what they got (although they still remained harder/heavier than Foreigner). Now don't get me wrong here: This is not a knock on either Joe Lynn Turner or Foreigner. Both are great. It's just that that style is extremely different from how Rainbow started with RJD. But I've always loved Lou Gramm and Joe Lynn Turner's vocals: Rich, soulful and bluesy but also commercial as well. And both are good ol' Italian boys: Lou from Rochester NY and Joe from Philadelphia. Both are Hall of Fame singers, figuratively speaking.
Yes, it's easy to forget just how strong the pressure to create more commercial sounding music existed in those days.
Death Alley Driver from Rainbows 1985? Album is an incredible hard rocking song from Joe and Ritchie to really get you going! Still one of my all time favorite songs!😊
Some of the very best metal songs ever have Joe Lynn Turner on vocals!
Live in Leningrad🤘🏼💫🎵🎵🎸🎤🎼🏆
Saw Joe with Yngwie on the Odessey tour in Germany Great lineup and a favorite album.
Saw JLT with Deep Purple at Manchester Apollo in 1991 (IIRC) on the Slaves And Masters tour. Cracking gig. Great singer. Some crap from Gillan about "Deep Rainbow" at the time.
I love Joe. I worked ,toured and partied with him alot.. He is the Coolest in every possible way. . One of the best Classic Rock singers ever but not stuck with 80s , his 2022 album , Belly Of the Beast is killer ,stone cold Metal .
In my opinion, one of the best live numbers of the Rainbow days is "Spotlight Kid" - I'm thinking of a performance recorded in Japan, if my memory serves me correctly - it's true Rainbow - in the lineup that included JLT - was quite obviously seeking greater commercial appeal and that turned off some fans - yet a number like "Spotlight Kid" performed live (at least on a Japanese tour - I think) reminded me of DP Mk.2 in terms of explosive spontaneity and cohesiveness and that was due in no small part to JLT's vocals !
I usually don't agree with Joe and I don't like his singing style but I think he's spot on on his opinions about Yngwie and Ritchie.
So, what else do you actually disagree about then? JLT is always quite clear with that he says. No flip flop...
What a cool interview!
I was lucky enough to see the Odyssey tour in Houston, TX. I would fly anywhere on Earth if Yngwie ever had a reunion with the Johannaon Bros., Jeff Scott Soto. Unfortunately Marcel Jacob and Wally Voss is dead so the bass player would have to be figured out.
Yngwie is still selling out and is one of my favorites til this day 🎉
He sells out 1500 to 2500 seaters! He never was a stadium act unless he was opening! I love his first 5 albums! He’s not listenable these days. His last great album was attack.
Selling out small clubs?
Perpetual Flame was Yngwie last truly great record maybe yngwie and Joe could do another album Odyssey was fantastic
You’re right, Yngwie is a sell out!
Try 50 seaters.
I am surprised that Joe Lynn still has his East coast style of talking “it is what it is. Fuhgetabbouit.” 😂❤
He's from Jersey!
That’s the east coast.
Would like to have heard more about Ingrid's infamous 'you have unleashed the fury' drunken rant on the Tokyo flight in the 80's.
I always marvel about how people will fire off a litany of crap about someone, then cap it off with "Yeah but I don't have a problem with them"
All that being said, Odyssey was a badass album ✨🤘🏼🙏🏼
A lot of people think Yngwie is difficult, but it is strange that a lot of musicians do not find Ritchie Blackmore that difficult to get along with who were in bands with him: Joe Lynn Turner, Ronnie james Dio, Bob Daisley, Don Airey...suggest Ritchie not that difficult.
Joe Lynn Turner and Ritchie Blackmore also factor into the Andrew Aycock situation, the guy who ultimately led to Randy Rhoads' death as Ritchie fired Aycock because his aura was bad
Joe has still got it. Check out his stuff with Sunstorm, great Melodie’s.
JLT one of best metal singers . 🤘
Really like that Joe's got nothing bad to say about Ritchie. There's way too many people who never even met him, dissing him as an a**hole. Joe & Ritchie are both intense people who care about their music. I can easily see how they would get along well.
Yngwie has always been the embodiment of narcissism, nothing has changed! 😈
You can easily see that Joe admires Ritchie and doesn't think much of Yngwie . Ritchie didn't think of himself as a superstar of Rock , or as the best . Even if he was a superstar of rock . Yngwie lives in a fantasy world where he see's himself as one of the best players of all time . He does the same boring routine musically for 30 years , he can't adapt to anything and you can see this when he covers Deep Purple , or Jimi Hendrix . Can't do it justice how "they" played it . Has to be about him and speed ... Another difference between him and Blackmore , is Blackmore had real hits with Rainbow . Yngwie even with Joe couldn't have the same kind as his playing was over the top . It would never appeal to a wide audience . Just a small group of people who like fast shredding .
If you chat to Joe again, ask him about his album with Jan Holberg, Sense of Time. It's a phenomenal piece of work.
The solo from “Street of Dreams” soars
Love Joe
best vocal album I think JLT. then Slaves and Masters.
I have the Brazen Abbott Live DVD with another Neo classical Blackmore clone - Nikolo Kotzev :-)
Is there a longer Interview of this?
Yngwie and reasonable are not compatible.
I like the Odyssey album.
When Steve Perry quit Journey the 2nd time, I wanted Joe Lynn Turner to become the successor. He can write ✍ in adfition to sing. Never happened. 🙄
Before joining Deep Purple, Joe was offered jobs for Foreigner and Bad Company. Dude was highly in demand back then.
@@DarksaberForce ➕ he sang backing vocals for Billy Joel 35 years ago 🎂 for the album Storm Front. The recordings split between New York City and Warehouse Studios 🎙, which still is owned by singer Bryan Adams, in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦.
Just listened back to that solo on Street of Dreams...underwhelming!
Yngwie the maestro one of the best 🎸🤘
Yngwie live at Sundance Bayshore NY. 7/29/88
Odyssey was a great album. Yngwie should not sing. He has to understand that on some level. All of his vocalists have said the same thing.
JLT without a wig for a change
Nearly every fan of Yngwie prefers the albums he has done with a vocalist
Hey Joe Lynn Turner. Let´s do something. Got 2 albums and coming EP as a soloartist.
I was a fan of yngwie for his previous work with multiple singers. Despite his guitar prowess, the fact that there's a great band and tremendous singers in his albums that drew me to his work....untill recently. I stop listening to his new work. Still I'm a fan of the good ol record
Joe,
Met you at the Power Station with Dennis Feldman about 20 plus years ago!
Always thought that all these fast guitarists were bullshit anyway! Listen to Hotel California or Stairway. They are memorable parts!
You agreed back then!
By the way, I played a part of was working on with my guitar. You liked it, and so did Dennis!
Take care!
John
After that Odyssey LP, the rest of Yngwie’s material is shite. Saw Yngwie in concert recently and it was shite as well. He’s a soloist who wants to be a complete artist. Which he’s not.
Saw Joe sing with Ynqwie at a bar in 1987 on Long Island. Frank Cariolias Sundance, Bay Shore NY. Full tape of show on TH-cam
I don' t know why he lost his hair . So Strange . Is someone out there can tell me about it ? Thank You .
He was wearing a wig all thoses decade, he had allopecia, its a sickness.
Love Joe but Yngwie did his best two lps with Goran Edman.
Love Eclipse and Fire and Ice.
What was said was said as he continued saying it 😝
Yngwie and Vinnie Vincent should tour together
nah...this dude took blackmore down
the pop-rock road...same with yngwie...
i was always glad to see him go.
Blackmore did that himself. Graham Bonnet came in after RJD, and has hits like Since You've Been Gone and All Night Long before JLT.
@@jimbyrne2328 wig wearing band wrecker
Here's how Joe Lynn explained his efforts to leave Yngwie to me:
"I tell Polygram, I can't spend another minute with this guy!"
Polygram: "Here's more money."
(a month later): "I'm tellin ya, he's a nightmare!"
Polygram: "OK, here's even more money."
(another month later): "That's it! I'm done!"
Polygram: "We ain't given you anymore money."
Joe Lynn: "Sayonara!"
I paraphrased, but that's what he told me. China Club, Hollywood, circa1990.
diary of a madman 🤣🤣🤣
JLT is looking exactly like Dee Snider
is he going on vinnie vincent or freddy mercury
Ohh Joe!
Nooooooo
All those years with the wigs, and now he has a mouthful of fake porecelain veneer teeth.
There's a word kids love: cringe.
After odyssey album . all of yigwie's music was disaster.
Welcome to the next episode of the series : nobody´s interested, JLT answers. This person knocked almost everyone, whom he collaborated with. Nasty person….🤮
Holy crap, when was this interview done, twenty years ago? That's a crap Internet connection you guys have.
I thought this was supposed to be Joe Lynn Turner. Why the hell are you interviewing Howie Mandel?
No Lenny Kravitz shirt...poor!
Joe is deluded.
And so was Ritchie.
That song was crap and it flopped.
Last album i bought was Difficult to Cure.
Never bought anything after that!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flopped? They sold more singles and had more hits with Joe than they did with Dio. That's NOT me saying the music was better, that's a matter of taste, but in terms of "success" that was much better in the JLT years.
@@DevilsDevices666 That's a good reply freind. I grew up on Dio and Bonnet!!! I knew the first Joe Lynn stuff. I LIKED HIM!!!!
But i thought Blackmore had lost it!!!!!!!!!!