JOE LYNN TURNER On BIG NOIZE: 'I Like To Think Of It As The Originals Doing The Originals'

Legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) recently spoke to the Artisan News Service about BIG NOIZEJoe's new "supergroup" collaboration with drummer Vinny Appice (HEAVEN AND HELL, DIO, BLACK SABBATH),guitarist Carlos Cavazo (QUIET RIOT),bassist Phil Soussan (OZZY OSBOURNE, BILLY IDOL) and keyboardist Teddy "Zig Zag" Andreadis (GUNS N' ROSES).

"People ask us, who are we? What do we do? Are you a tribute band? Well, if we are we're a tribute to ourselves," the singer said. "Are you a cover band? Well, we do our own songs, so I guess we cover ourselves. I like to think of it as the originals doing the originals, so BIG NOIZE. And the name actually came from Vinny, who you can probably hear in the background doing a soundcheck, he said, 'Yeah, we'll get a manager and we'll get an agency and we'll go out and make a big noise.' And I went, 'There's your name,' and he went, 'What?' And I said, 'Big Noise' and he went, 'Great.' And we stuck with the n o i z e. We were referring to the QUEEN song anyway with 'We Will Rock You', 'buddy make a big noise.'"

Cavazo, who took the place of Randy Rhoads in QUIET RIOT, talked about stepping into the shoes of some of rock's great guitarist like Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, and Jake E. Lee, among others.

"Oh, I think about that a lot," he said. "I could never match what Blackmore did. I wouldn't even try to. He's my idol. I love the guy. I just do my own interpretation of what he did. I think we're all doing that to everybody's respective parts. We're not trying to copy it exactly. All the best parts we'll do that we have to hear and then we'll do our own interpretation on top of that."

Watch Artisan News Service's report on BIG NOIZE at YouTube.