PHILIP ANSELMO's Ode To Rock And Roll (Video)

Music is not just a free data file on your computer. Music is something that was created. With blood, sweat and tears.

A one-and-a-half-minute ode to rock 'n' roll, narrated by Philip Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN) and supported by Germany's Visions magazine can be seen below. The clip was directed by Tom Schlagkamp and produced by Rainer Spix.

Transcript (by Bon Scott and George Young, 1975):

I tell you folks, it‘s harder than it looks
Hotel motel - make you wanna cry
Lady do the hard sell - know the reason why
Gettin' old - gettin' grey?
Gettin' ripped off - underpaid?
Gettin' sold - second hand?
That's how it goes - playin' in a band
Gettin' robbed - gettin' stoned?
Gettin' beat up - broken boned?
Gettin' had - gettin' took
I tell you folks, it‘s harder than it looks??
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll

Anselmo will release his career-first solo album, "Walk Through Exits Only", on July 16 via his own Housecore Records (MRI/Megaforce). "Walk Through Exits Only" will be available digitally, on CD and on vinyl.

Produced by Anselmo and Michael Thompson, and recorded over the past couple of years at Philip's New Orleans studio, Nodferatu's Lair, with his band THE ILLEGALS — guitarist Marzi Montazeri (ex-SUPERJOINT RITUAL) and drummer José Manuel Gonzales (WARBEAST) — "Walk Through Exits Only" is abrasive, aggressive, anthemic and 100% Anselmo. The album's eight songs are as unstrained as it gets, from "Battalion Of Zero" to "Usurper's Bastard Rant", to the album's title track that goes against the grain and right through the exits. Brash, brutal guitars cut through punishing percussion as Anselmo screams with uncompromising ferocity and uncontainable fire.