Former MÖTLEY CRÜE and present THE DEAD DAISIES frontman John Corabi, who launched two standalone solo singles within the final 4 years — 2021’s “Cosi Bella (So Lovely)” and 2022’s “Your Personal Worst Enemy” — has shared a brand new video message during which supplied an replace on the recording classes for his upcoming solo album, tentatively due in 2026 through Frontiers Music Srl. John is as soon as once more working with Marti Frederiksen, a songwriter-for-hire who has beforehand collaborated with AEROSMITH, DEF LEPPARD, Jonny Lang and Sheryl Crow, amongst many others. Corabi mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I am getting again within the studio with Mr. Marti Frederiksen and ending up — lastly — a solo document that I have been speaking about doing eternally. I type of took somewhat little bit of a break ‘trigger I do not perceive all this streaming, Spotify, iHeartRadio stuff, no matter. However I did launch, clearly, ‘Cosi Bella’, I launched ‘Your Personal Worst Enemy’, and now the remainder of the document is sort of completed. I signed with Frontiers, Sony, The Orchard, I assume, and I offers you guys updates as we go. Hopefully I can get some video within the studio with Marti once I get again.”
He continued: “We have a bunch of killer songs collectively. It is eclectic as a result of I grew up in an period or in a time when there have been no labels on something. So it wasn’t uncommon for a man like me to go see [BLACK] SABBATH on a Wednesday after which James Taylor on Friday, after which YES on Saturday and GRAND FUNK RAILROAD on Sunday. So we have been in every single place. There was no labels, which I am very a lot taking pictures for. So that is gonna be a really eclectic [album]. So hopefully you guys will dig these items. It’s extremely eclectic. It is somewhat little bit of the whole lot. It is all of the stuff that I grew up listening to. However I am actually, actually happy with the stuff that Marti and I’ve been placing collectively, and with the assistance of his son Evan, it is gonna be superior.”
Recognized for his highly effective voice and wealthy legacy with bands like MÖTLEY CRÜE, THE DEAD DAISIES, UNION and THE SCREAM, Corabi guarantees an natural Nineteen Sixties-Nineteen Seventies-style document and may’t wait to get again on the street with a proficient solo band that includes his son Ian on drums, and some nice pals.
Corabi is a journeyman singer-songwriter and guitarist who burst on to the music scene with Hollywood Data recording artists THE SCREAM in 1991. Touring extensively all through the US on the power of their songs “Man In The Moon”, “I Consider In Me” and “Father Mom Son”, John attracted the eye of radio, MTV, followers and critics alike.
MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s Nikki Sixx reached out to John after the departure of Vince Neil in 1992 and requested him to hitch the band for the writing and recording of their 1994 self-titled document. Throughout the recording technique of the follow-up “Era Swine” album in late 1996, Neil returned to the band, and John began the band UNION with former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
UNION headed right into a studio to document its debut self-titled album in 1998. With UNION, John launched three albums between 1998 and 2001. Afterwards, John left UNION to hitch the band RATT on their 2001 summer time tour, dealing with guitar and backing vocal duties. Touring always from 2001 to 2008, John finally left the band to exit on his personal.
John launched the acoustic album “Unplugged” in 2012 and a reside album, “Dwell 94, One Evening In Nashville”, in 2018, in addition to a number of unique and tribute singles. John acquired a telephone name in 2015 to hitch the all-star collective known as the lifeless daisies, and has since recorded the albums “Revolución”, “Make Some Noise”, “Dwell And Louder”, “Burn It Down”, “Mild Em’ Up” and a lately launched blues covers document “Trying For Hassle”.
For the final ten years, with THE DEAD DAISIES and as a solo acoustic artist, John has toured extensively in Europe, the US, Japan, South America and Australia, taking part in all the foremost festivals and promoting out reveals to a rising, loyal fan base.
Together with his 2022 autobiography “Horseshoes And Hand Grenades” and 19 full-length information below his belt, spanning a 35-year profession, John is anxious to launch document quantity 20, and play the brand new songs reside.
Corabi beforehand mentioned his plans for brand spanking new solo music this previous Might in an interview with Shawn Ratches of Laughingmonkeymusic. He mentioned on the time: “I feel, actually, I wanna do one thing completely different. My outlet for heavier stuff, I can do with THE DAISIES. However I wanna experiment now. I’ve gotta be trustworthy with you, recently I have been on a kick of CREEDENCE, John Fogerty. I believed that CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL stuff was fucking good. One other man that I noticed a bazillion instances once I was youthful, [and I] had no thought who he was till he grew to become a family title, who I nonetheless to this present day love, is Bob Seger. So Bob Seger had some rock shit, however he was only a nice storyteller, nice songwriter. So, I do not know, man. I’ve actually been listening to numerous that stuff, however I am not worrying about it.”
Corabi continued: “I instructed my supervisor — initially I used to be, like, ‘I wanna do a Bob Seger-type document.’ My supervisor’s, like, ‘Nice. If anyone I do know can do it, it is you.’ However then the extra I thought of it, I am going, ‘I simply wanna write. Let me see what I provide you with.’ After which Marti and I [have been writing together], and I’ve acquired a few different buddies that I began some songs with right here in Nashville… I am simply gonna write 10, 15, 20 songs after which I will choose the perfect eight or 10, no matter, and put ’em on a document. I am not gonna fear about it. I am not gonna overthink it. I am simply gonna write. However I do wanna write one thing that is simply natural and really… I miss the ’70s. I miss that entire eclectic, all-over-the-place, no-boxes sort of shit that we grew up listening to. So I simply wanna go for it. The one factor I can let you know guys, it is gonna be eclectic.”
Corabi in 2016 mentioned that he would keep away from speaking about MÖTLEY CRÜE sooner or later as a result of he did not need his feedback about CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx to descend right into a feud.
In an interview with Sweden Rock Journal, Nikki mentioned that writing the “Mötley Crüe” LP with Corabi was a chronic and troublesome expertise. He went to name it “a really unfocused document” that was “painful for me, as a result of John Corabi cannot write lyrics, and I needed to do all that work.”
In February 2018, Corabi launched a reside album of his efficiency of MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s whole 1994 self-titled album, recorded on October 27, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. “Dwell ’94: One Evening In Nashville” paperwork the album in its entirety together with the bonus observe “10,000 Miles”, which was initially launched as a bonus observe on the Japanese model of the “Quaternary” EP.
Corabi‘s autobiography, “Horseshoes And Hand Grenades”, got here out in June 2022 through Uncommon Chicken Books. It was written with the assistance of MÖTLEY CRÜE historian/writer Paul Miles. The e book’s description promised to element the singer’s “life from the imply streets of Philadelphia to the Sundown Strip.” It featured tales from Corabi‘s tenures in MÖTLEY CRÜE, UNION, RATT and THE DEAD DAISIES, in addition to private tales together with “his dad and mom’ troublesome divorce, his household’s darkish historical past of abuse [and] his run-in with a serial killer.”
