I do love Warrants first two albums alot, but in my opinion their best album is their third one Dog Eat Dog. It is a shame that it came out right at the time Grunge music started getting really big. I even love Warrants fourth album Ultraphobic alot also. Jani Lane was a terrific songwriter, lead singer, and frontman big time. I got really lucky back in 1999 when they came to my city to play a show on a Friday night. The night before I went to a strip club with some friends , and out of nowhere the band also came to the same strip club not too long after we did. I lived not even two miles from the strip club and I drove back home to grab my Warrant live CD 1986-1996 since it was the most recent album they had put out at the time. They were very cool and all of them signed it, They thought that I was a new fan because I was 19 back then, and they were very surprised when I told them that I have been a huge fan since their debut album came out at ten years old. They gave me tickets to their show for the next night and I got to see them again after their show. All these years later I still have the live CD , and I always will. They could not have been nicer than they were, especially Eric Turner and Jani Lane. May Jani Rest In Peace he will always be missed.

@patricksheppard585

4 жыл бұрын

Great story bro....

@lorimcnally4075

3 жыл бұрын

I MET THEM IN NJ, HAD A GREAT 2DAYS LOL

@michaelfrazia4569

2 жыл бұрын

awesome story...never heard a bad word about Jani lane

@1badjesus

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing👍

@ronwilliams1094

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you about ‘Dog Eat Dog’. It would have been huge had it come out a year or two earlier. Here’s my Warrant story: I saw them with Motley Crue (Dr. Feelgood tour) in Jani’s hometown (sort of - Cleveland. He was actually from the Akron/Kent, Ohio area) and it was just before ‘Cherry Pie’ was released. Jani asked the crowd if we wanted to hear a sneak peek of one of the songs and they played ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. I’ve never seen a crowd lose their minds like that! EVERY FIST was pumping in the air and EVERY HEAD was banging! The roar of the crowd after they ended the song was literally deafening. Warrant just stood onstage for a few minutes, looking at each other with smiles on their faces and saying to each other, “Can you believe this shit?!?!?!” The crowd was freaking going nuts! I’m pretty sure they knew they had a hit on their hands that moment. Lol! Before they were done with their show, Jani told the crowd where they were gonna’ be after the show and so we went. It was a bar called ‘The Shark Club’ in Kent, Ohio (about 15-20 minutes from the venue) and girls were literally chasing Jani around the place. He was having a ball. I got to meet Eric & Jerry but they were preoccupied, looking for some blow. Lol. They were nice though.

Jani was so talented, I wish he was still around today. Such a great song writer. He would have made a fantastic producer for other artists.

Love hearing the behind the scenes on bands from my youth.

@sole__doubt

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, I dont even like Warrant but I love the bts parts.

Warrant was so underrated. This is rad.

@daveg4236

4 жыл бұрын

If they would have come out 84/85 they would've been much much bigger.

@scotabot7826

4 жыл бұрын

I would just say, Jani Lane was really underrated. I never thought there was anything particullary special about the other members.

@TestarossaRocks

4 жыл бұрын

Scotabot I concur

@MetalMan73100

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn´t stand them at the time, because of the power ballads. It wasn´t until early this century that I found out they had some great rock tunes on their albums.

@daveg4236

4 жыл бұрын

MetalMan73100 unfortunately that was what bands had to do in the 80s. They've got some great songs other than Heaven. In the sticks, Uncle Tom's cabin,machine gun

If you saw Warrant from 89-96, when #JaniLane was on his game, there were not many frontmen who could match him.

@WhyTheHorseface

4 жыл бұрын

Smith Hart who?

@johnkatsoudas4767

4 жыл бұрын

@@WhyTheHorseface Steve Whiteman from Kix really is a great frontman. I saw Kix last year and his singing was just as phenomenal as it was thirty years ago. Two other amazing lead singers that also still got it and are just as great as they were thirty years ago are Phil Lewis from LA Guns and Kip Winger from Winger.

@patricksheppard585

4 жыл бұрын

Amen bro

@monicajean37

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnkatsoudas4767 Klaus Meine ,Bruce Dickinson, DIO (before he died had been singing for 50+ years), plus many more.

@TheAtrain76

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree! Saw them at World Music Theater (Tinley Park, IL) in 1990. Firehouse and Trixter opened the show (it was called Blood Sweat and Beers tour). 32 Pennies was so "heavy" live. Firehouse was amazing too. I walked into the ampitheater as Overnight Sensation was starting. Incredibly tight set they played. Flawless.

I love the business talk; and the production talk, and the music talk and the personnel talk...

I was lucky enough to hang out with the guys on almost a weekly basis in LA back in the day. Country Club, Gazarri’s, Troubadour. They were amazing, and Jani was a gift to the scene, and really to all of us. Unparalleled song writer and musician, with a voice like no other. RIP Jani.

Great interview with Beau Hill i always love to hear the story behing the albums

RIP Jani Lane. You are missed.

@TheBigMclargehuge

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus every single KZread video that makes any mention of anyone who isn't alive has an unsolicited eulogy in the comments

@peepawghost

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBigMclargehuge you’ll get over it.

Jani Lane, my favorite singer/songwriter. He was so talented.

That was great, loved hearing from Beau. Warrant are one of my favourite bands ever. Jani Lane was such a talent, pity the Grammys snubbed him the year he died in their in year tributes. Cheers

I absolutely love this producer and your interviews with him, he really needs to write a book! Thanks for the great content on your channel❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Fell n love with their music day 1. Got a chance to meet Jani, circa 2009/10, and much like with Ed Van Halen.......down to earth and cool. In my opine, what Ed Van Halen was to guitar playing..........Jani was to song writing.

I am REALLY enjoying these interviews - thanks for the great series!

Thanks so much for this. Warrant has always been one of my favorite 80’s LA rock bands.

jani lane was the best! amazing interview man, thanks

Great interview! Love the full length ones you put up. Keep em coming!

Great interview. Thank you!!

What a fantastic interview! Thank you!

Love these, keep up the good work!.

Man, what a great interview... always love to hear the behind the albums...

Best music channel on KZread. Great idea. Keep doing exactly this.

This is a great interview. Thank you so much for this. This producer has a lot of respect and appreciation for Warrant and especially Jani. Thank God my friends and I were finally able to see the original Warrant in the early 2000's time period at the Universal Amphitheatre. The band was amazing. Completely separate from music, Jani seemed like he had a good heart and good soul.

I saw Warrant open up for Mötley Crüe on the Dr. Feelgood tour and was totally blown away! The first 3 albums are fantastic! PLAY LOUD!

@stonefreeblues

2 жыл бұрын

same

@lfh1973

2 жыл бұрын

I did too! At Rosemont Horizon!

@goodmorningsundaymorning4533

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Cleveland .

@terryrollins1973

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Indy. Also saw them open for Poison a year later and they blew Poison away 🙌💗🔥

Absolutely cool! Your interviews and getting into the (mostly) hidden world of A to Z of the music biz is awesome. Loved this interview man. I hope you can continue to bring more of this content out. I find this stuff fascinating. Cheers man. Keep up the great work.

@fullinbloom

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Bruce, glad you dig it. More is on the way.

@strivingx67

4 жыл бұрын

@@fullinbloom BTW, Just heard that Steve Priest, bassist for SWEET passed away today. Great band that lead the way for future rock.

I just wanna say that your interviews are the absolute best man. You are the perfect interviewer. Thanks for all your hard work.

@fullinbloom

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, my friend. Thank you for listening.

Loved the band! Enjoyed the interview!

I really enjoyed this interview!

This was a fantastic interview. I wish there were more full shows on the channel rather than clips.

I enjoy all these interviews. I feel you get such a more accurate balanced portrayal of things from the producer than from the band members themselves. (I've read quite a few rock biographies, including Stephen Pearcy & Bobby Blotzer)

Thank you for doing this! Would love to hear him talk about the cherry pie album too!

@fullinbloom

4 жыл бұрын

Already recorded. Not sure when it will be up, though.

@TestarossaRocks

4 жыл бұрын

full in bloom yessssssss. Thank you!

Warrant was the only major group in that time I didnt get to see. Friends that did say they were blown away

I absolutely love hearing these behind-the-scenes interviews with the guys that helped create the albums that I grew up with.

Around 15-18 years ago I emailed Beau a few questions about Warrant. Much to my surprise he replied and had answered all my questions. Nice guy.

Excellent interview!

Great interview! Beau is a legend!

So fascinating. Love these.

Great interview!

it's funny hearing you guys mention Plain Jane, because yesterday I took a cellphone picture of a copy of their a tape (not released it was just a demo). It was in with some cassettes I am sending to a producer friend to digitize for me. Jani and I go back to his days as a drummer named John in the band Dorian Gray and I was shooting promos for the booking agents and mags. We stayed friends till the end. When Warrant would tour we would hook up, because I was shooting for the major rock rags. Great guy as well as the rest of the guys are really nice and funny! Good interview. I have one on a mini cassette I did with Jani & Joey back in 91 for one of the teen mags. WOW, BOP, 16, Tiger Beat or can't remember. I never transcribed it or sent it in. I am a photographer not a writer. I only did it for the hell of it and I shoot for those mags. Plus I could, so I said what the hell. Funny that tape was with the Plain Jane tape and is about 6 ins from my foot right now. Needless to say it was funny when this interview popped up as a suggestion. Considering I was not looking at interviews or Warrant

I love these interviews. Incredible

This channel has the best hard rock interviews. The owner/interviewer is always very knowledgeable and just asks the right questions. If that person reads this, may I ask your name? I really enjoy what you do here. Keep up the good work. 👍

Hell yeah!🤘Thank u

Man, your production/musical knowledge adds SO much to this interview for me. I've heard other interviews with Beau and they just remain pretty surface by comparison.

@fullinbloom

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear. Have you checked out my Beau Hill / Ratt Out of the Cellar & Invasion interviews yet?

this is awesome stuff always wanted to hear stories like this when i was kid reading metal edge circus hit parader and all the other metal magzines from the 80s

I met and jammed with steven sweet a few times in about 03 or 04... nothing came of it, but he was a super nice guy. Had a house in studio city... one evening i was telling him about one of my favorite bands, sitting in my car, and i introduced him to porcupine tree’s ‘in absentia’. We sat in my car in front of his place and listened to several tracks off that album. I often wonder if he still likes them, but he was impressed at the time.

Great interview. Jani was a giant of a musician and person it sounds like. RIP Jani. Taken too soon. 😭

Just found this channel. Very interesting interviews. Good stuff. 🤙

@fullinbloom

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Welcome aboard.

Those solos on Dirty Rotten were absolutely spectacular. I was a senior in H.S. and a bass player and we heard there was a hired gun brought in to do guitar solos turns out it was true. And it was the right call, Mike Slamer was brilliant absolutely nailed those solos with Heaven being the best imo. In all my years as a musician, that solo is in my top 10 all time.

great interview!!

I remember when they got reduced to rock bars - about 1990ish.....I got to see them at Rock bar and see one of the guitarists at the bar, I walked right up and tryed to be cool about asking for an autograph. got it - on a napkin - still have it. cool

Love this shit! Keep it up FIB!

Excellent interview.

Im excited bout this !!!!! Now im goin to listen

I second the "Heaven" story. There are two versions I've heard over the years. I don't remember exactly where and what the difference is, but there is a vocal difference in the two. That's how I noticed it myself. When you get use to singing it one way and then you hear it another one day, you notice it. Best Warrant song in my opinion is "Uncle Tom's Cabin", I love how hard that thing kicks in after the acoustic bit. Speaking of Poison, there's is "Look what the Cat dragged in". It was so much harder than everything else of theirs I ever heard.

@jeremyplumley9165

11 ай бұрын

Go back to the word "worn". It's a different melody. There are only 2 places where I can tell a change that's one of them. I prefer the record version vs. The radio edit.

I think this KZread channel is going platinum

Saw them open for Motley Crue on the Dr Feelgood tour 1989 best opening band I ever saw

this is a great channel

I remember the very first time I heard Down Boys. I was driving around and NYC’s WNEW played it, and the intro by the DJ said the song was from a new band called Warrant. The song honestly sounded to me like something from The Cars and it wasn’t till later when I saw the video on MTV that I realized what type of band Warrant were. I like melodic rock so I enjoyed numerous songs from Warrant’s first three records. Years later I saw Jani Lane play live fronting a version of Warrant where he was the only original member. It was still a very good show but I’ve always wished I’d seen Warrant in their prime with the original lineup.

I love how Beau how explains the whole music industry is all about. 👍👍

No disrespect to the other 4 guys but Jani Lane not only wrote the songs he sang them and was a great singer and performer. Warrant now should pay him respect every show they play today and thank him for still having a career

I'm going to write something I've said over the years but will probably be controversial to some. Warrant was a band that exploded onto the scene essentially following a hairband template for success. To the contrary, a band like Metallica wasn't something you heard on mainstream radio but had quite a following as they played their own brand of music, getting more airplay once "One" was released. It sort of broke the mold a bit for them, musically, and opened them to a new audience (that's certainly when I jumped on them.) Around 1990 - 1991, these two bands had something of divergent paths - because of, or in spite of, grunge. Warrant lost the radio airplay and thus began a shift to a harder, more authentic sound. Dog Eat Dog is an example of this, followed by Ultraphobic. The audiences dwindled, but the musicianship grew and they were able to retain something of a cult following as a result. Some of their best work can be found on those two albums and it's a shame they never got some of the recognition thereon and seemed haunted by the entire "Cherry Pie" bit as a defining moment. Whereas Warrant fell from the mainstream and became more internally-focus with regards to their music, Metallica reaped huge success with their Black album and many felt they sold out as a result. They suddenly were played at sporting events and wherever else you turned. Black, indeed, is a great album. Load - not so much, and it sounded like it was crafted for radio. Metallica, in essence, we're now something akin to the Warrants of the 90's whereas Warrant were in their own regard becoming - not the equivalent, mind you, of Metallica in the 80's... not by a longshot... but musically and with the lack of mainstream success one can see how these two bands crossed paths and diverged in opposite directions. It's hard for me to not listen to some of Warrant's music during the early to mid 90's and think, wow, these songs are actually harder than what Metallica is putting out. How did this happen? One review, perhaps it was Allmusic.com, noted Warrant's Ultraphobic sounded like a band pissed off at losing millions of dollars in record deals. On the other hand, Metallica's Load (and Re-Load) sounded like a band settling into complacency and wanting to make radio-friendly shifter units. Sure, they still rocked, but they lost their edge whereas Warrant found theirs. Finally, Metallica's response to this and the entire Napster ordeal of the late 90's and early 2000's was to put out an album, St. Anger, that tried so hard to put them back in the harder edge - but unfortunately it was as if they made an album nobody WANTED to download, legally or otherwise. Don't get me wrong - I'm still a fan and have appreciated their last couple of albums (despite whatever production issues people have noted over the years), but I've always found that particular time in both their and Warrant's career an interesting one where two bands were heading in opposite directions, for better or worse, both artistically and musically.

@patricksheppard585

4 жыл бұрын

well written bro...pretty spot on.....

@tuffteddy1446

3 жыл бұрын

That's really interesting. I've never thought of that point of view before. Thanks.

@bartsullivan4866

2 жыл бұрын

Really liked your post and I agree with it. I think you are spot on with Metallica, Load and Reload to this day do nothing for me. St. Anger was an absolute bomb not a single good song on the album. No great guitar solos and the drumming sound is so bad it should only be given to inmates in Prison. I never heard Warrant's 3rd and 4th albums but I do like their sound off of first 2 albums. I'll have to search for them at Goodwill or in the bargain bin.

@wassupinlasvegas9735

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartsullivan4866 search for them on KZread, I'm sure the full albums are uploaded. They did an album in 96 as well, but it was very different - more arthouse. A few good songs on it, including Letter to a Friend, but it's very, I don't know, coffee-house-ish and experimental to some degree, but still has a hard sound.

What a dude. Could have listened to him talk shop all fucking day.

@fullinbloom

3 жыл бұрын

Have you listened to his Ratt interviews yet?

@user-yk4gd1fl4z

3 жыл бұрын

@@fullinbloom yep today. Great stuff.making way through a lot of your interviews.

Nothing will ever beat the Party that was LA on the Sunset Strip in the 80's ever !

Perfect description of Jani Lane. Elvis and a Southern Baptist minister. I have seen all the bands and over a thousand shows and the first time I saw Jani walk out on stage it was weird... like the energy level went up 10 fold in a minute. He was so amped that he lifted the entire arena. It felt like someone flooring the pedal in a car when you don't expect it and I will never forget that show for the rest of my life. Warrant was insanely good live. What happened to Jani's career at the end was one of the gravest sins the industry ever committed but I understand how quickly public tastes shifted. He should still be with us putting out great albums. May he RIP!

I was never a huge hair metal fan, (Some groups I really loved) but I bought this album as soon as I heard it!!!

Dog Eat Dog is one of the most underrated hard rock albums of the 90s

The first time I ever saw WARRANT, was when they opened for my favorite band, Stryper @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. And I LOVED them! R.I.P. Janie! Rock N' Roll lost a true gem, when you left us!'

Love any album with jani lane on vocals and he was one of the best songwriters ever .all warrant albums were killer.

I remember my friend and I trying to find all the hidden items on the album cover. So fun

A band that actually liked each other? I never even imagined such a thing in my wildest dreams. :)

I saw Warrant at festival hall in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 they opened up for Cheap Trick and the body guard was Andre who has been with Kiss for years now.

Any chance getting Beau to comment on Steve Steven's amp setup on Atomic Playboys? That tone is just out of this world, especially on Slipping Into Fiction. Oh btw, thank you for this interview!!!

One time I saw a Warrant concert and waited till the very end outside. A girl came by walking a dog. I asked if I could pet the dog and she said yes so I bent down and I pet him.

Very interesting!

I would love to hear Beau talk about his experience making the Unruly Child album. I remember hearing that Beau had some intense conversations with Mark Free, who of course is now Marcie Free. Could be an interesting interview, plus that was a great album.

@fullinbloom

4 жыл бұрын

We did another interview today and we flipped a coin on that album or another. We chose the other but it will happen.

Warrant was so awesome!!!! Love Jani...

Jani was an excellent front man, he made the Warrant shows alot of fun. He would come out after the show and party with the locals as well 🍻

I do recall hearing at least 2 different versions of "Heaven" -- one that's on the DRFSR album that sounded very organic and bare-bones, and another that went to radio that had a more keyboard-heavy sound.

So I think you might be correct about reach for the sky being the album he was working on. Warrant opened up for ratt on that tour after releasing DRFDR!

I would like to see video footage of that recording sessions

I think FiB confused DRFSR's release date. He was saying December 31st '89 but it came out January 31st. Great interview though, I found the whole music biz side of it fascinating. The things we as fans and listeners don't know about what went in financially and how the negotiations went which led to the creation of these albums we've all been hearing for decades.

@0:27: The Ratt album was "Dancing Undercover"

No their was No MTV Video for "32 Pennies" I loved "Down Boys" and still do !! As far as I'm concerned it's their first single!

Cold sweat one my best songs of all time along with every other drfsr songs

Great album !

That full in bloom song trumps the interviews. Great sound!

Lol i'm 24, I remember when I was around 9 and getting into hard rock, I discovered online Warrant and i loved the song 'dirty rotten filthy stinking rich' (and the clip) one day I asked my dad what it meant (i'm not native english) and he took a look at it for 5 secs and scold me, he was like 'what in the hell are you listening to I don't want you to listen to this' maybe he was scared that I would grew up a communist or something. It surprised me because he was the one who showed me bands like Iron Maiden and ACDC

It was Paul Stanley and their manager Bill Acron.

I always wondered how did those two guitarist from Warrant came up with such a bad ass riff (wether you like the song or not) on Cherry Pie? He says in the interview that they played all the rhythm guitars for the first album, but I’m not sure if that’s the case on the second album. I’d be great to know?!

At around 20 min mark when he says " they drugged him and "went to town" on him I lost my sh*t. I laughed at that for days. The delivery was amazing. So unexpected!

Release the other half broski was listening in work there sickened it ended lol

WARRANT BEAU HILL = GREAT!!!

Very mature of Warrant Guitar guys to not cause a stink about not playing the solos. Its just business. They both are great guitarists. And ive witnessed it. They play it live. Well.

Interesting what he said about publishing. Steve Vai said he always kept his publishing.

Jani sang incredible live

I saw The Bullet Boys, Winger and Cinderella together once, probably around 89-90, Knoxville Tn

I never understood why Beau got shit from people he worked with. He produced many multi-platinum records and was all around good guy.

I wouldn't doubt a lot of 80s bands albums sales have been selling consistently. I cant tell ya hiw many times ive had to re-buy due to scratched CDs or Cassettes that got eaten up in the tape player. All of us 80s fans got busy working n raising families during the grunge thing. Now that our kids are all grown n out on their own we have more money n time to see concerts n buy albums. I always knew the 80s would catch another wave. Theres too many talented artists from that era.

Anyone ever notice that "Down Boys" is the same song as "Bye Bye Love" by The Cars?

My favourite member was Eric Turner