BLAS ELIAS - Slaughter, Rock Star Movie, Blue Man Group, TSO & everything in between
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Waste a little time with me & Drummer Blas Elias, as he takes us through his career, starting out in Texas to selling Millions of records with SLAUGHTER and winning an American Music Award! From being directed by Michael Bay to co-starring with Mark Wahlberg & Jennifer Aniston! Plus Blue Man Group to Trans Siberian Orchestra, it's all here in this in-depth interview.
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The success here with Blas is what happens when you are talented, a nice person and treat people well. Fact!!! Being the other way, well, you see how that ends up. Great job here!
Some people may have felt that Blas was all flash and no substance due the the image stuff. (Stick twirls etc.) Let me tell you, Blas is a monster. He's really, really good.
The first time my friends and I listened to Eye To Eye on cassette (!!) in the car in high school in 1990, I knew he was the s***. Style and class all his own behind a kit.
@@fuzzo73 I agree 💯
Good to hear hes jamming with Slaughter again ...
I remember when I saw Slaughter, they opened for Cinderella. We didn’t have tickets to begin with, all my friends bought tickets ahead of time. I was with this one buddy, we decided “hey, let’s go check out Cinderella, I think there’s still tickets left”. So we walked up to the tickets counter, not expecting very good tickets. So we walked up to the ticket counter and asked for 2 tickets as close to the stage as you have. The ticket girl said “I have two second row center tickets available if you want them ?”. Apparently, a ticket agency cancelled. It blew my mind what luck we had that night. We were walking in towards our seats and looking up, here are all our friends yelling at us “ hey how the hell did you get those seats !!” from way up in the first bleachers. To top the night off, two of my friends were in the front row, they had backstage passes. I gave my other friend a 5 dollar bill and told her to get it signed by the bands, because I had no paper or a pen. I still have the bill, what 30 years later. Lol
What great memories! Thank you for sharing them, you can never forget a night like that
I had a very similar story with zz top........last minute call to ticket Master hoping there were tickets left. Lady said we had a cancelation and have 2 2nd row center stage seats. I still remember that loud ass show 30yrs later. Haha
Blas is an amazing drummer and such a nice guy. Great interview!
Just saw him tonight, great guy!
Blas has always been one of my all-time favorite drummers! I modeled much of my style of drumming after him - his stage presence and performance are always very engaging. His active and sober lifestyle has been a beacon of hope in my life and my quest for continued sobriety. Also- his birthday is a day after mine :) Thank you Blas!!
He's 54 now and doesn't look it
It's nice to see these videos of old 80s rockers and learn how down to earth they are.
Love the fact he's talking about the guerrilla marketing they would do: postcards to fans, calling them on the phone! Who even does that? But that attitude is what it takes.
He is still so handsome. Obviously he never abused drugs and alcohol. Successful to this day with TSO & other projects. Doting dad and husband. What a guy.
Man I don’t ever watch videos this long but I really enjoyed this. Blas is an awesome drummer and an incredibly genuine, down to earth, humble guy who deserves all the success he’s had. God bless!
Thanks!
I’m glad you stayed with it
@@WasteSomeTimewithJasonGreen I sub’d 👍🏻 and am looking forward to more, I like your style brother. I usually don’t watch stuff like this but you’re a great interviewer and I find it all really interesting! Good stuff!👊🏻
Thank you for this awesome interview
I’m glad you enjoyed it, many more ahead! Thank you
My good friend & I met Blas & Slaughter after a small club gig in Orange Park, Florida back in 1997. They were all so super nice, especially Blas. Friendly, took the time to chit chat and hang out with fans! Awesome memory from my freshman year of college 🎶💙
I remember meeting Blas and the guys at the Mall of America on their 3rd album. Everyone was cool, but Blas stuck out as more personable. He commented to me on how he loved my guitar necklace my mom bought for me as a Christmas gift while I was living in Hollywood in 89-90 a few years prior. I felt that cool connection with him on that. I felt bad because they were fighting the grunge wave at the time and you can tell in their faces at the time they need to win or hang it up. Then Tim died... Much love to Brother Blas and to you, Jason, for a great series of interviews from our musical peers in the greatest generation of music.
Blas is a super cool dude, seems like the nicest guy ever!! How cool would it be to jam with your son or daughter?? Killer interview!
I’m glad you liked it, Blas is great. Thanks
As a fellow Texan & Slaughter fan I am glad that Blas has had a great career doing what he loves! But definitely glad to hear he's back with the Slaughter guys!
He was from DC
@@timgibbons8717 Blas was born in Kennedy, Tx and went to college at UT.
Blas seems like a super cool guy, and he definitely hasn't aged a bit 🤘
I took in my first TSO show this past weekend. I have to admit (coming from a drummer), Blas caught, and kept my attention, the whole show. Stick twirls and all. He was an incredible showman and helped make it an amazing show. Don't know him from Adam. But he's more than just really good at showmanship. Appreciate his amazing talent (as well as the rest of TSO). TSO spreads a great message! If you listen, you'll hear it :)
Wonderful interview- have met Blas with Raiding the Rock Vault and have seen him play with TSO. Good guy and definite Rock Icon.
In 1998 I met Blas and SLAUGHTER. He was nice! Nice interview! Blas looks 26!
Glad you enjoyed it and yes he does
Great interview and seems like a hell of a nice guy! First time I saw him with TSO, I didn't even know he had joined the group. I recognized his style of performance, leaned over to my wife and said, " That's Blas Elias up there!" Looked it up and sure enough, it was him. Wish I has a fraction of his talent.
I still have all my 80`s Slaughter pics and I'm 50yo!!!!
The slaughter guys always treated their fans great all awesome guys
This was fun to watch. I was one of the fans calling that number on Blas’ kick head.
Nice! Glad you enjoyed the interview
Funny seeing he still has the "This space for rent" kick drum head. Lol
Great guy, great drummer. He let me play that chrome drumset when my band opened for Tenors of Rock. I gave him a maple snare drum that I converted to an electric drum. I wonder If he still has it
I love every single SLAUGHTER member and album as well.
Greetings from Spain ya'll 🤜🤛
He actually mentions it at the 54 minute mark. I don’t think it’s something he’s trying to hide…just didn’t come up much in this interview.
@@jamesthompson2804 MEA CULPA
Yeah you're right,
I kind of missed that.
I feel actually proud of him right now.
You have to listen very carefully because he talks real quick (for my level of English) but yeah, aparently he was part of a book on Spanish people in metal american bands.
Thanks for the insight James I just corrected my comment.
Next time I'll listen more carefully.
We need to hear where he found the fountain of youth...the dude hasn't aged a day in 30 yrs!
I was wondering myself, he didn't age, just looked up his birth date on wikipedia, this guy is turning 54 in August, very youthful look, I can tell, however, he's not been a smoker, maybe subtle facelifts or botox for the interview? Would be awful to accuse him of anything, maybe he's just good genes, that's it!
No drugs and no drinking ever. And I've known him for close to 40 years
It's the good, clean lifestyle! And probably great genes as well!
FR!!
yeah, he's aged really well. hope he keeps it that way. Now Sebastian Bach from Skid Row who used to look like a greek god back then on the other hand...uh.. (Sebastian being a year younger than Blas)
Slaughter was the FIRST band I ever saw live at my first concert ever when they opened up for Poison on their Flesh and Blood tour in Lubbock Texas! I must have been 17 or so and now I'm 47! Time flies but I'm forever greatful for that experience as hundreds of concerts later it opened my eyes and ears to the joy of Live Music!! Great interview and continued success to both of you Jason and Blas!
I seen that tour in Abilene Texas as well...same age too
Caught it in Baton Rouge, La
My band opened up for them in the early 90’s. Everyone in that band were super nice, no egos and genuine good guys. They listen to us play and I looked identical to Randy Rhoads, like his twin, and I played lead guitar and Dana kept saying how much I reminded him of Randy. Randy was my biggest influence and I asked Dana a ton of questions about Randy. He agreed that Randy was the best Rock guitarist ever.
Fantastic interview! Blas is an upstanding man! He looks so great because if his clean living!
Damn what a nice guy. I guess I will now go listen to the first Slaughter again.
Great interview Jason,and damn,what a super nice down to earth guy Blas is,really enjoyed this!!
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it, more to come!
Amazing Talent!Seen him on the kiss our back in the 90's ...Great Interview Than you!
Cool to hear from Blas. Fun fact: I was the 86th person to join the Slaughter fan club (having been in the VVI fan club, I jumped on board before the album was out)
He is an amazing drummer. Gorgeous as hell also
Killer interview! Can't wait to catch Slaughter live soon! What a chill and cool guy Blas is. He obviously has his act together.
Jason, love these interviews, really wish you would dig into the recording aspect of some of these guys hit songs so we could here about what it was like inside of the studio & how these songs came about
Hi Hudson,
I’ll try to do that when it fits, if you watch some of my interviews, you’ll see a lot of people don’t remember or don’t want to talk about it lol
But I will keep trying
Glad you like the interviews
Thank you
Great interview.
Saw Firehouse and Slaughter in the early 90's and Blas did his drum solo with ChemLite drumsticks. Was amazing.
Thanks , I remember that too
@@WasteSomeTimewithJasonGreen yeah. A friend and I skipped graduation and drove 2 hrs to see them. Was not disappointed.
Met Blas, Tim and Mark at one of the house parties in Denton, TX about 8 months later.
Great drummer most importantly great human on heart love the Slaughters took time to take Pictures at the old Birch Hill Club in NJ
Yes great guy, cool memory at legendary venue
Great interview. Watched every second. Blas has a time machine somewhere.
This was cool ..loved slaughter in the day ..🎤🎸😎
I jammed with Blas lots of times in Houston before he went out to LA. Several recording sessions too. Super nice guy, very professional, and easy to work with. Wish there were a lot more musicians like him.
Believe me I wish there were more like him too
@@WasteSomeTimewithJasonGreen He and Marzi Montazeri would come to my shows the very early 80s. 80-81. I think I'm a year older than they are. We all hung out at Hole in the wall studios. Lol
Great interview!! Great guy Blas. Love the Slaughter guys 👍
I just watched Rock Star again last week!! Love it
Blas hasn't aged at all ..great interview
Great interview Blas is such an amazing talented drumming legend! Rock on Blas!!!
Thanks and I agree about Blas
AWESOME! What a great fella. One of the best interviews ever
I’m glad you liked it, hope you subscribe & check out the others, thank you!
Blas is a class act!
Met him in Vegas. Great guy!
I love Blas! He has always been down to earth and an all round decent guy!
Great guy!
class act drummer & human being! Great interview!
Was my favorite band back then along with the Scorpions!
Another great interview, i loved Slaughter back in high school!!
Thank you, I’m glad it brought back memories
Everyone needs to hear Blas @ 26:00 talk about MTV.
MTV was the most revolutionary thing to hit rock since Les Paul.
MTV RULED EVERYTHING IN THE 80S. Most casual rock fans do not know (or were too stoned to remember) the 80s and how MTV influenced it all.
This is why the hard rock bands of the 70s made the pop rock stuff of the 80s.
Great interview. I would love to see another Sin City Sinners show again. Always a great show. Now I think I'll go watch Rock Star.
Blas I think the same way u do , Stay young for our kids
Blas sounds like a great guy, and it's great to hear his rock'n roll career has been a great success.
Another cool show keep it up Peace
Great interview! I really enjoyed listening! Thanks for doing it! ❤️💙💜
Thanks Tina, I’m glad you enjoyed it
Blas is a great guy. I enjoyed this interview.
Blas was and still is my idol an inspiration for drumming I'm still to this day looking to build the all chrome Ludwig it from up all night or the wild life album very first concert of my life kiss slaughter an danger danger the hot in the shade your I was amazed by his stage presence thank you for a awesome interview an hope one day to meet the legend himself🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Hi Donald, I’m glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing your memories
Great drummer!!
Great stuff Jason, really enjoying your work on this channel! Just finished this and the jizzy pearl chat 🤘You can tell Blas is a chilled out professional guy, with his head screwed on the right way, he deserves the success (and his healthy alleged net worth)!
Thanks Jason for such an awesome and informative interview with the great Blas Elias! I have followed Slaughter from the beginning and I'm hoping they'll reunite again for some shows in the near future.
Really great interviews Jason. Everyone should add this to their social media sites to bump up the subscribers.
Thank you very much.. and I agree!
Slaughter is classic rock
He seems like a really down-to-earth dude.
That was a tough interview just because of music genre change Rock to Grunge and the loss of guitar player. But great stuff I always wondered about Blas being a drummer myself.
Awesome down-home soul......
Great interview Blas is a good Drummer very good video .☮️🎸
Damn. He is one cool dude. Kind of guy you feel like you have known forever. Great interview bro
Thank you !
Blas is the best
another very interesting IN DEPTH history class! I love it
I forgot about Blas acting in the ROCKSTAR movie.
Love him always
Great interview
“If you wanna make it in this business, you gotta write your own tunes, bro!”
It took me a second.
@@BajaSnoopy2024 😂😆😂
Another really down to earth solid guy. Good to see he's doing well
There is a drum video of Blas here on TH-cam and everyone needs to check it out. He is one kickass drummer!!!
Blas had the coolest style of show off rock drumming of any hair metal drummer! He looked the coolest! Hands down.
The songs were catchy but as a drummer, it was his playing and showmanship that really drew me in. I tried copping some of those moves. I even had a chrome Pearl Export kit to try and capture some of that coolness. Lol
@@fubar1217 that’s cool ! Ya I am a drummer as well and I did the same thing ! I had a huge tama super star kit with 24 inch kicks and giant Tom’s. He was the man!
One of my fave drummers. Jason, Zoltan is freaking awesome! Slaughter needs Blas but Zoltan is a beast on drums! I like him in Vince’s band.
One of my top 5 drum heroes!
Glam and 80’s rock hung on until about 93. By 94 it was dead, but Skidrow had the number 1 album in 92, Poison had a few hits in 92, other 80’s bands were still selling millions of albums.
Being from Cincinnati...I was surprised and amused when you spoke about Sudsey Malone's Rock n' Roll Laundry.. Was a great place to catch a show....and do a load of laundry. Great interview...enjoying your content.
Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
I actually never got to visit Sudsey, but heard about it from friend on the road
Fear No Evil is such a great record!
It’s my favourite
Thank you for this, saw them in G.R Michigan
Well done - two class acts talking about the great lives they've had. You both could've bitched about the past, but you didn't, and that takes class. Thanks for a great interview! And yeah, funny about them 'net worth' sites! Crazy........
Thank you
This is the third Jason Green show I have watched and I really like them. Jason if you monitoring this please tell me more about your background? I tried to look you up but there was a lot of Jason Green's LOL thanks and WELL DONE!
Thanks, I appreciate the nice words! As for my background I’ll have to put an intro video soon to explain it all
Blas Blas Blas Elias, King Of The Wild Frontier
This is so awesome! Thanks! Blas.....do you remember being in Middletown Ohio back in the day?
I meet him at a mall in Texas just walking around
Grettings my friend neighbor in Las Vegas. Blas Elias🤙🥁🤙👍🤘
this was really cool Jason! Can't wait to have time to watch more videos!
Blas alias,one of the few living metal vampire on earth!!!great drummer!!!ageless icon!
Great guy! And looks great still too
Hey Blas! Ray Soliz down in Houston. Good stuff man. Hope to have you back in Houston again soon. Peace RS
thanks blas ur a really cool
Blas has such a cool style with his drumming.
No mention of Burning Rain with Doug Aldrich?
I absolutely adore Blas we were born in the same year as me
Great interview with a legend.
Thanks, Blas is great!
Again Jason cool interviews
Thanks Luis!