Kennedy, who embraced riffs as a teenager after witnessing Metallica perform at the epic Monsters of Rock show at Joe Albi Stadium in 1988, is all about the potent twin guitar punch that hits fans in the gut. We felt that the riffs Mark and I came up with were so strong that we didn’t have to sprinkle what we call in the industry as ‘fairy dust’ on the songs since the riffs themselves carry the tunes.” “We told Elvis (producer Michael Baskette) that we wanted to rein it in and have less of the layers and textures that we normally have on our albums. “Our intention regarding the production was for us to have a lack of production,” Kennedy said. The project is refreshingly raw and filled with big riffs. “I knew we would be back eventually.”Īlter Bridge, which also includes guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips, reconvened in 2022 to write and record “Pawns and Kings.” The seventh Alter Bridge album, which dropped in October, is arguably the band’s most muscular. “It was a drag since we were only halfway through our tour cycle, but I just hunkered down with (his wife) Selena and my dog, Mozart, and worked on songs every day,” Kennedy said. Aside from keeping Kennedy off the road, lockdown didn’t change much for the inveterate writer. So Alter Bridge ended its tour and Kennedy started writing songs for his solo album, “The Ides of March,” which was released in 2021. “We knew that something was out there, a virus, but we had no idea that we were about to be shut down,” Kennedy said. However, within two weeks of the date at the Knitting Factory, Kennedy was back at his South Hill home at the start of a long lockdown. “We were very much looking forward to all the dates we had since we were so excited about showcasing ‘Walk the Sky.’” “We had so much ahead of us,” Kennedy said while calling from Houston. The hard rock group was supporting its latest album, “Walk the Sky” with a jaunt that ran through spring of 2020. After performing in front of an enthusiastic capacity crowd at the Knitting Factory in February 2020, Alter Bridge vocalist-guitarist Myles Kennedy was thinking about the back end of his band’s ill-fated tour.

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