Video

Para não falarem que eu não posto nada dos outros membros do Cinderella e só falo do novo álbum do Tom Keifer (a propósito já estou com minha cópia autografada em mãos e prometo a vocês uma série de posts sobre isso), meu amgo Wagner, do blog John Corabi, encontrou esse vídeo aqui e compartilhou comigo. Nele aparecem três feras, Eric Brittingham, Jeff LaBar e Gary Corbet, além de Mark Slaughter (?????????????????????????????????). Fotos durante a gravação com Phil Monti e John Corabi e em outros momentos.

For those who say that I don't post anything about the other members of Cinderella and only talk about Tom Keifer's new album (by the way I'm already with my signed copy and I promise you some posts about it), my friend Wagner, from the blog John Corabi, found this video and shared it with me. On the video, three monsters: Eric Brittingham, Jeff LaBar and Gary Corbet... and Mark Slaughter (?????????????????). Pictures taken during the record sessions with Phil Monti and John Corabi and in other moments.

Happy Birthday Eric Brittingham

Bom, com um dia de atraso devido a problemas de saúde, deixo aqui meu desejo de feliz aniversário para o grande baixista do Cinderella!

Well, one day late due to health problems, I wish happy birthday to the great Cinderella bassist!

Projetos / Projects - Eric Brittingham

Estamos falando muito sobre o Tom Keifer, mas há uma novidade sobre Eric Brittingham. Ele está envolvido em um projeto - não um novo projeto, quer dizer, o projeto já existe mas é novo para ele - chamado Lost Angels. Já estou sabendo disso há algum tempo, perguntei algo a ele no Twitter e ele foi um tanto quanto evasivo, então preferi não insistir. Mas hoje o site Hair Metal Mansion divulgou que o Lost Angels, que conta com John Corabi (Union, Mötley Crüe, The Scream, Ratt) nos vocais, Eric Dover (Slash's Snakepit, Sextus, Alice Cooper, Jellyfish) na guitarra, Troy Patrick Farrell (White Lion, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gilby Clarke) na bateria e Eric Brittingham no baixo, fará três apresentações na Austrália em dezembro. Segue o cartaz do supergrupo e o link da notícia. Agora vamos aguardar para talvez uma ou duas apresentações do Lost Angels no Brasil. Seria maravilhoso ter o Eric Brittingham aqui!

We are talking too much about Tom Keifer, but there are some news about Eric Brittingham. He is working on a project - not a new one, I mean, the project already exists but it's new for him - called Lost Angels. I already knew about that there are a couple of days, I asked something to him on Twitter and he was a little bit evasive, so I decided not insist. But today the website Hair Metal Mansion spread that Lost Angels, with John Corabi (Union, Mötley Crüe, The Scream, Ratt) on lead vocals, Eric Dover (Slash's Snakepit, Sextus, Alice Cooper, Jellyfish) on guitar, Troy Patrick Farrell (White Lion, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gilby Clarke) on drums and Eric Brittingham on bass guitar, will play three concerts in Australia next december. Following below the supergroup poster and the news link. Now let's wait to, who knows, one or two gigs of Lost Angels in Brazil. It would be wonderful have Eric Brittingham over here!

http://hairbangersradio.ning.com/forum/topics/lost-angels-super-group-announce-australian-tour-dates-for-decemb

Curiosidades/Trivia

Bom, não só o Tom Keifer participou de faixas de outros artistas. Hoje trago a vocês algo sobre o Eric Brittingham. Além de já ter tocado no lugar de Bobby Dall, Eric também tocou baixo em algumas faixas de dois dos maiores álbuns da carreira solo do líder do Poison, Bret Michaels. Segundo o site Heavy Harmonies, Eric Brittingham foi um dos responsáveis pelas linhas de baixo do álbum Freedom of Sound, dividindo essa função com Jamie Laritz. Já o álbum Rock My World, também da carreira solo do vocalista do Poison, também conta com o baixo de Eric, provavelmente por conter músicas do Freedom of Sound, ou vice-versa.
Então, nosso vídeo de hoje não será sobre o Cinderella, e sim uma canção solo de Bret Michaels. Na minha opinião, uma das músicas mais lindas que Bret já escreveu. Chama-se "Raine" e foi feita em homenagem à sua filha, Raine Elizabeth. Está nos dois álbuns que eu citei.

Well, not only Tom Keifer recorded tracks with other artists. Today I'm bringing to you something about Eric Brittingham. Besides replacing Bobby Dall, Eric also played bass in some tracks on two of the most important Poison's leader Bret Michaels' solo career albuns. According to the website Heavy Harmonies, Eric Brittingham was one of the responsibles for bass guitar lines on album 'Freedom of Sound', switching it with Jamie Laritz. And 'Rock My World', also of Poison's lead singer solo career, count on some Eric's bass, probably because it contains some songs of 'Freedom of Sound', or vice-versa.
So, today's video won't be about Cinderella, but a Bret Michaels' solo song. In my oppinion, one of the most beautiful lyrics Bret has written. It's called 'Raine' and he wrote it as a tribute to his daughter, Raine Elizabeth. It's on both albuns I mentioned.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC BRITTINGHAM!!!!

Oi gente!
Sumi por uns dias... Muito trabalho, agora estou fazendo pós graduação... Mas lógico que eu não poderia deixar de postar aqui a minha homenagem ao baixista mais fofo (e sexy) do mundo!
Hoje ele faz aniversário, e eu decidi fazer algo para ele! Fiz um vídeo nos moldes do que faço todos os anos para o Tom Keifer. Espero que vocês gostem!

Hi guys!
I disappeared for some days... Lot of work, now I'm studying for post-graduation... But obviously I couldn't fail and not post here my tribute to the cutest (and sexiest) bassist in the world!
Today's his birthday, and I decided to do something for him! I made a video just like I use to do every year for Tom Keifer. I hope you enjoy!

OVERDOSE - Eric Brittingham - Pte 5

Pra encerrar a overdose de Eric Brittingham, dois vídeos... Os dois do DVD Cinderella Shakes Japan.
O primeiro é um solo conjunto do Eric com o Fred Coury. Tirei a parte do Fred, claro... O segundo não é nada exclusivo dele, mas vale como curiosidade... Eric toca GUITARRA em Nobody's Fool.

To end Eric Brittingham, two videos... Both from Cinderella Shakes Japan DVD. The first one is a bass solo with Fred Coury's drum solo. I cut Fred's part, of course... In the second, nothing exclusive, but just as curiosity... Eric plays GUITAR on Nobody's Fool.

Para poner fin a la overdosis de Eric Brittingham, dos videos... Los dos del DVD Cinderella Shakes Japan. El primero es un solo conjunto de Eric y Fred Coury. Yo corté la parte de Fred, por supuesto... El segundo no es exclusivo, pero lo puse como curiosidad... Eric toca la GUITARRA en Nobody's Fool.

OVERDOSE - Eric Brittingham - Part 4

Mais fotos! More pics! Más fotografías!

OVERDOSE - Eric Brittingham - Part 3

Outra entrevista, essa de 2003/Another interview, made in 2003/Otra entrevista, echa en 2003

I remember at this point in my 2003 project running the table of some high-caliber guests to the point I was convinced I could wrangle up most of the Who's Who from the eighties metal scene. Welp, that ended up being a personal misnomer--sing to the tune of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Knock Me Down" if you like--but I'm still today proud of the participants I'd brought into this venture, as you'll see throughout the year in this series at The Metal Minute.

At this point with Eric Brittingham, I'd just previously interviewed the late Kevin Dubrow and then Ron Keel, both who were total gentlemen. Kevin and I enjoyed two afternoons of conversation and he and Frankie Banali were sending me regular correspondence about Quiet Riot's doings leading to their Rehab album, while Ron Keel sent me an acoustic solo project of his and then we continued conversing by email for a few weeks. We started talking about some of the bigger tour packages of the day and of course we came across Cinderella.

I like to think of Keel and Cinderella in the same mindspace because there was a similar look to them (well, duh, of course) yet both bands emerged to a successful peak then found themselves on the outside looking in quicker than some of their peers. Both Ron Keel and the members of Cinderella opted towards fleshing out some country and blues in their future work which detrimentally added to their waning mass appeal. Both were praised by critics and condemned by many fans, which led to both heading off into the proverbial sunset. At least their musical integrity rode with them. Even I admit back in the day, Cinderella's Long Cold Winter and Heartbreak Station took me for a loop, but today I feel both albums are their watermark pieces.

Cinderella enjoyed more of a commercial success than Keel, albeit both groups have enjoyed a resurrection phase in the 2000s. Fans now remember what they had after it was gone (to paraphase Cinderella) but was suddenly returning back. By the time I reached Eric Brittingham following the Ron Keel interview, it was through Eric's wife Inga, with whom he played (along with Cinderella shotgun rider Jeff Lebar) in Naked Beggars. Cinderella were still putting together reunion gigs at this point in 2003, while Naked Beggars was a large focus of Eric's. Inga sent me out a copy of their album and then set up this interview after I'd reviewed the Beggars album in one of the outlets I'd started out with...sad to say, I've forgotten which, argh!

I look at this interview now and realize much of what Eric and I discussed is old news, particularly the Britny Fox and Jon Bon Jovi questions I raised. At the time I did this interview, Behind the Music was quite the rage on VH-1 and most of the metal books out there now weren't yet. So went my attempt at creating some back story. I laugh at myself now. Good try, Van Horn. I got better later in my career.

The coolest anecdote to this interview with Eric was he, Inga and their family were in a mall waiting to catch a movie, so you can hear the echoes behind him on the tape and Eric's family milling around him. Being a father myself now, I'm really warmed by this. It's a rare catch of a rock personality outside of his normal element. Like the time I recently interviewed Lita Ford and Jim Gillette while Lita was cooking for her family, having a solid twenty with Eric before he was about enjoy some downtime with his clan...well, you get the picture.

RVH: Cinderella was born in Philly and what’s interesting to me is how deeply-rooted the music scene is up there. I've always look at it as kind of an unheralded hotbed for heavy music. How do you remember the Philadelphia scene before Cinderella moved on to the west coast?

EB: Actually, when we first got together the scene really blew. It was all cover bands--and new wave cover bands at that--so that’s why Tom (Kiefer) and I got tired of dealing with having to play covers. So we just did our own thing. It was tough getting gigs in the beginning, but once we started going out a few times, we quickly got a following and started packing places. Eventually club owners wised-up a little, like, ‘Wow, we don’t have to pay any ASCAP and BMI shit!’ (laughs) So we kind of changed the tide for awhile and so in Philly every live music club kind of turned into all-original music, so that’s kind of cool. Back then when we started, we played at The Galaxy in Jersey and the Empire Rock Room in Philly; they were the main two places. Even though they went towards originals, most of your bigger clubs in Philly were catering to bands like The Hooters, kind of like pop rock or new wave rock at that time.

RVH: It’s almost forgotten that Britny Fox is an extension of Cinderella with Michael Kelly Smith and Tony “Stix” Destra rolling out of Cinderella in ’85. In essence they kind of mirrored you guys to the point of “Dizzy” Dean Davidson having the same grainy vocal patterns as Tom Kiefer. I can only imagine what was going on in the Cinderella camp at this breaking point...

EB: It’s kind of funny, because Dean was actually a drummer; he auditioned for it (in Cinderella) after Tony and Mike left and he didn’t get the gig, so after Cinderella broke and I’d heard that Tony and Mike had put a band together that had Dean singing, I was like ‘Well, that’s kind of strange!’ Then they got signed and I saw the first video and I was like, ‘Man, he does a good Tom Kiefer!’ (laughs) I think one of our bus drivers ran into them and he was like ‘Damn, I just saw a band that had a Tom, a Jeff (LaBar, guitarist) and two Erics!’ (laughs) That’s kind of funny.

RVH: (laughs) I used to rag on Bon Jovi back in the day for setting heavy metal on a commercial course of no return, but when Jon Bon Jovi discovered you guys, you might say he kind of put a Midas touch onto Cinderella as Night Songs slowly became a hit. I always laugh at the funny faux rivalry you guys have with Jon and Ritchie Sambora at the end of the “Somebody Save Me” video. Tell us about this association with Bon Jovi and how do you feel it affected Cinderella’s path?

EB: When Jon came out to see us, he was recording his second record in Philly and he basically went back to his A&R guy at Mercury and told him he should go down and check this band out in Philly, so that was the extent of his involvement. From there we eventually got signed, but I think one misconception a lot of people have is to say ‘Oh, Bon Jovi discovered them!’ Well, Bon Jovi were not very big at that point. They had had one single with success, which was “Runaway,” and they were on their second record (7800 Fahrenheit) which didn’t do all that great. Then their third record Slippery When Wet, which is their huge record, actually didn’t break until Cinderella’s first record was double-platinum! (laughs) So it’s kind of funny; everyone’s like, ‘Bon Jovi had his influence,’ well, no, actually he was a struggling artist at the same time. He was only on his second record and hadn’t really broken huge yet.

RVH: I figure that’s been a pain in the ass over the years trying to rationalize this to people?

EB: (laughs) Yeah, I know! People have this picture that he (Bon Jovi) could get anyone signed. It’s not like he really got us signed. He didn’t shop the band; he simply came out, saw the band and liked it and told the A&R guy who signed him.

RVH: I find it ironic a lot of the east coast rockers in the eighties were eventually forced to get in line with the L.A. neo-glam scene like Poison--who also came from Pennsylvania--Hanoi Rocks, Faster Pussycat, Autograph and Motley Crue during Motley's Theatre of Pain album cycle...so to my eyes, in order to make your mark in eighties heavy metal, glam was the fastest way to do it. Your thoughts to that?

EB: Yeah, I think it’s like with any era and any band that breaks big, the record label is going to be in a hurry to sign a lot of artists that look or sound like whatever’s hot at the moment. That’s what happened back then. When we came out, Poison’s album (Look What the Cat Dragged In) came out at the same time as ours, and actually their album didn’t break for about a year after and Night Songs had already had success. Once Cinderella’s album went platinum, all of these other bands started popping up like weeds, you know? The same thing happened through the nineties and it still happens today. You have one band that comes out that does something a little bit different that has success with it, and suddenly you have twenty more just like them!

RVH: For sure; case in point, everyone seems to be following Lamb of God and Shadows Fall in today’s scene.
EB: Yeah, I’m not saying we were trendsetters; it’s just the way shit happened, you know?

RVH: True. Everybody, regardless if you were a thrasher, a glammer or just a regular rocker, we all had the hots for those twins in the early Cinderella videos! (laughs)

EB: (laughs) They were different people who played those parts each time.

RVH: That’s what I thought!

EB: Yeah, it wasn’t the same girls.

RVH: Still, they had their own little cult thing going on.

EB: Yeah!

RVH: I remember on Beavis and Butthead when they’re watching “Somebody Save Me,” they yell out “Butt! Butt! Butt! Butt!”

EB: (laughs)

RVH: The point I’m making is that for men having to dress effeminately in their bands, in order to show off their alpha masculinity they obviously needed to bring in hot women. Nothing’s changed, obviously, since you can watch any rap video today and find twice the amount of bouncing girls as there were in the eighties metal videos. More than a few times, I’m sure the phrase “sex sells” crossed your guys’ minds?

EB: Absolutely, and if it doesn’t, it’s still fun! (laughs)

RVH: I have to give big kudos to Cinderella for having the fortitude to drift away from the sure thing that was Night Songs with the following albums Long Cold Winter, Heartbreak Station and Still Climbing, which took you guys further from the sleaze rock element to the more rootsy stuff with blues and country. What did you see going on musically at the time that pushed you guys in that direction?

EB: Well, Tom’s the main writer, so I guess he was just exploring new directions and I guess he was on a self-discovery kind of search, which is fine since we all pretty much had the same musical backgrounds. It was cool and fun just pushing the boundaries and sometimes we’ll still do it with Naked Beggars. It’s actually kind of cool with that band because we take things even further; we can go a lot more pop and we can go a lot more heavier, and it’s fun.

RVH: In retrospect, do you feel having such integrity ostracized Cinderella from the spotlight? I know the sales of Long Cold Winter were really solid, but it’s always a risk to play music with conviction where not every soul who was there before is necessarily going to “get.”

EB: Yeah, with the Heartbreak Station record, critically it was the most exciting record that we had done to-date, and it sold about a third of what the first two records sold, so yeah, there’s a cost by going in that direction, but I would rather have a useful integrity than to just sell out, writing music for the mainstream or the money, you know? Money’s nice, but you know... (laughs)

RVH: I can imagine how mind-blowing it must be when one day you wake up and your band is not fashionable, your label has kicked you to the curb in light of cyclical change, then to have infrastructure change such as Fred Coury (drummer) temporarily leave the band, and then Tom one day momentarily unable to sing. How did you cope with such a beyond-your-control collapse all at once?

EB: I don’t know, you just deal with it and you struggle to get a lot of the crap off. Back in ’95 when the Still Climbing record came out, we went out on tour and we played in Seattle at the height of the grunge era and we couldn’t even buy advertising time on the radio stations! (laughs) I was like, ‘Man, talk about being harsh!’ But the fifty people that were there had a good show! (laughs)

RVH: (laughs) Obviously, you and Jeff (Lebar) have hung together in Naked Beggars, so do you feel all of this fighting to survive in the rock trenches has fortified the bond between you?

EB: Yeah, I think it’s easy for so many people to try and change with the trends, and we’ve always stayed true to what we like doing musically and now it’s paying off. We have a new band and we’re starting to gain some popularity and fans and we’re being true to what we like to do. It’s very rewarding.

RVH: Tell us how it feels playing a footloose, no-rules rock unit like Naked Beggars versus Cinderella, which I’d think that, despite your efforts to be true to yourselves, was probably stifled by label pressure to keep the fires hot, so to speak.
EB: Well, actually, no. With Cinderella, in our record deal with Mercury, we retained full artistic freedom!

RVH: How’d you get away with that?

EB: We just demanded it. We could’ve put out a freaking polka record and they couldn’t have said a damn thing about it, so we just did what we wanted to do and that was that. The difference between Cinderella and Naked Beggars today is that Cinderella is very regimented. We do everything by the book; we work out a show, we hone it down and we go out. It’s like a production, whereas with Naked Beggars, it’s more spontaneous and we just fly by the seat of our pants at shows. I change shit up constantly. If we don’t feel like doing songs, we don’t do them. If we want to throw in songs we just learned the day before, we’ll just do it, you know?

RVH: Ron Keel went to Tennessee to explore his country roots after the original metal scene died out, and now he’s returned to some of his rock elements. You're nestled in Nashville, which I’ve been to only once, and it’s naturally a different culture than Philly or L.A. What adjustments, if any, have you needed to address living there?

EB: None, really. I started coming down here in ’98, because that’s when Cinderella got back together and Tom and Fred had separately moved down here. They both have studios, so when we got together it made sense that we come down here to rehearse, to record, whatever. I truly like it here. I think the people and just the pace of life is a little more laid-back. I’d gotten separated at that time and I ran into Inga at the mall, so we hooked up and became friends and eventually started dating, got married, and we settled here.

RVH: Knowing that Cinderella has seen the top and you guys still get together for reunion gigs, when you take the stage now as Naked Beggars, given your musical journey to this point, what are some of the thoughts that cross your mind?

EB: I think we’ve learned a lot of things not to do, you know? (laughs) With Naked Beggars, we’re very hands-off. We do things a hell of a lot different than Cinderella does, and I think a lot of the people that we deal with when we’re playing live are actually taken back, because we pull up and Jeff and I get out and we open up the trailer and unload the gear and set up. (laughs) It’s all like we’ve never done in Cinderella before when we had roadies and assistants and shit, so that takes people by surprise, but you know, I think it’s really healthy.


Transcript (c) Ray Van Horn, Jr.

From http://rayvanhornjr.blogspot.com/2010/03/headbangers-2003-interview-sessions.html

OVERDOSE - Eric Brittingham - Part 2

PICS!



Guitar, Eric? WTF?



OVERDOSE - Eric Brittingham - Part 1

Gente, desculpem pela demora! Tive uns probleminhas aí... Começa hoje a Overdose de Eric Brittingham... Hoje a mulherada morre! kkkkkkkkk

INTERVIEW!

Cinderella, the band from Philadelphia discovered by Jon Bon Jovi in 1985 would become a true Cinderella story. Things like health issues with vocalist Tom Keifer's throat, a stroke with Eric Brittingham in 2006...Well, the band made it through and 25 years later they are, in my humble opinion, the best damn Hair Metal Band ever! Bar none. Don't even try to say otherwise...Just don't.

Hey Eric..How you doing?

Pretty good. How are you?

Can't complain. So, did you ever think, that 25 years later you'd be here still doing this?

No, I thought we'd be running the world. (laughs) That's your goal but I thought maybe going back to college. We're fortunate enough to be able to out and do shows, pay bills...

Is there any, one defining moment in the history of Cinderella that you will never forget?

I don't know, there are lots of good memories but, the early days. It was like everything was like a whirlwind. I wish it would of happened a little bit slower so I could have taken it in. It was like, the early days of MTV, we did a video and it just exploded. Our record had been out for just a few weeks and it went gold, it was crazy. So if there was any "defining" moment, you didn't have a chance to bask in it.

I pretty much took the ride with you only from the fans stand point. Any good stories from your early days hanging with people like Bon Jovi, or bands like Poison?

Yeah but most of them I can't tell. But it was like our very first time around, our first arena tour and they were a little rough on us. I guess it's like anybody else, it's like a competition. We got messed with like cutting our lights down and all that crap but we found a way around everything, that's the funny thing. We always hung out with the Motley Crue guys, and they would always kinda compensate, but we always got along with all the bands we toured with. We always had a blast. I can tell ya we would always do barbeques on our days off, we would circle the buses and we'd be out by the pool.

That's a nice look inside. From the exterior, we never saw any animosity or ill will within the band...as far as I could tell.

We had plenty of that but we don't air our laundry. It's more like brothers, like you yell and stuff like that because it's more like a family. We could read each other pretty well.

With that being said. What kind of roles does each member of the band play? Maybe start with Tommy. Is he a businessman, comedian, or what?

He basically manages the band. We have a manager, I don't know why but...Fred is more of the "clown" and he's the youngest and Jeff and I are like the middle children I guess. Jeff's more of the hell raiser I guess, or always was. I was the kid that always got hurt.

What is something you or one of the guys likes to do that might surprise us?

Outside of the bands?

Yeah, like, hypothetically speaking of course, maybe someone likes to go our dressed up in girls' clothing while roller skating.

I don't think I would go there.

Skydiving?

No. Screw that. I don't like to do anything that is actually like, life threatening. I don't like messing with animals that could actually eat you. It's like...Why mess with an alligator? You see guys like, hmmm, let me stick my hand in it's mouth, fricking stupid. I'm not the daredevil at all. I guess I'm a real practical kind of person. I'm like 51 years old and I have two young daughters, so it would be like...What are you thinking? It's like geeze, you were out of the woods.

Well even if you didn't get back with Cinderella you went back in the woods with Naked Beggars with your wife.

Yep, we did that, I guess we did that for about 4 or 5 years. We did 3 records but never really got it off the ground. We were just slepping around trying to build a fan base, it never really met the expectations that we had. You know, the clock was clicking, so we decided to have a couple of kids but we are still writing and recording some things, and she still wants to do another record, so...

Cool. So you were originally raised not far from here in Salisbury?

It was actually Berlin, just outside of Ocean City but was born in Salisbury. Where are you out of?

We're out of Baltimore.

Oh, that's where I'm at right now.

Yeah, I'll be there to see ya tonight, not sure why we had to do this on the phone but...So let's rap this up with a couple of rapid fire questions. Tell me the first thing you think of when I say...Lita Ford.

We just did a show with her about a week ago. I met her and she was really cool, I had no expectations but she was really nice. She still sounds great.

Yeah, she played the M-3 Festival the year after you did and we sat down with her. She's like the Godmother of Metal "Hair" bands.

Yeah it was cool, I was like playing outdoors and it was hot, and I wanted a beer, and I didn't have any time and I'm like playing and out of my peripheral vision I see something and it was Lita Ford bringing me a beer. Unfortunately I needed both hands to play guitar so she just poured a drink in my mouth and she gave me two thumbs up and walked off.

Favorite car?

Lotus Turbo III

Favorite color?

Probably white or black. In a car, white, in clothes, black.

Which reminds me, you switched hair color. Which one is natural, white or black?

The white. I'm naturally blonde, now I'm gray...black. So white or black, I'm just not ready to go gray.

Favorite food?

Chicken wings. But since I'm in Baltimore, I definitely gotta go to Phillips for Crab Imperial, gotta do it.

Alright, first thing you think of when I say Ozzy Osbourne?

Ummm, crazy. (laughing) In a good way.

Yeah of course. Axl Rose?

Prima-donna. I'm sorry but...You know. You think you are Guns and Roses

(Oh yes, I do know, first hand) I got stories I could tell ya but...Dio?

Like, awesome. He's like the definition of Metal.

Rap music?

(laughs)I guess I just answered that with a laugh.

Hey be careful, Queensryche has a "Rap" song out now.

Well there you go.

Favorite TV show?

Probably CSI.

 

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Cover

Achei este vídeo por acaso, enquanto pesquisava o cara mais complicado do Cinderella, o Eric Brittingham, e gostei. Tratam-se dos irmãos Gibbs, Brent & Brandon, da The Gibbs Brothers Band (que teve álbum produzido pelo Rikki Rockett, batera do Poison), tocando em um clube, não sem onde, uma cover de Heartbreak Station, com participação do próprio Eric. Não se vê muito bem nosso baixista preferido, mas ele tá lá...
Quem quiser conhecer mais da banda, visite o perfil deles no MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/gibbsbrothersband
Eu, particularmente, gostei da cover. E vocês?

I found this video by accident, while I was searching about the most complicated Cinderfellow, Eric Brittingham, and I liked it. It's Gibbs brothers, Brent & Brandon, from The Gibbs Brothers Band (which album was produced by Poison's drummer Rikki Rockett), playing, in a club I don't know where, a cover of Cinderella's Heartbreak Station, featuring Eric. We can't see our favorite bassist so well, but he's over there...
If you'd like to learn more about the band, check their MySpace profile out:
http://www.myspace.com/gibbsbrothersband
I specially liked this cover. What about you?

Encontré este video por accidente, encuanto buscaba cosas sobre el hombre más complicado de Cinderella, Eric Brittingham, y a mí me encantó. Son los hermanos Gibbs, Brent & Brandon, de la Gibbs Brothers Band (que tuvieran su álbum producido por Rikki Rockett, de Poison), tocando, en un club, no sé donde, una cover de Heartbreak Station de Cinderella, con la participación de Eric. No se puede ver muy bien a nuestro bajista predilecto, pero él está allá...
Si quiera saber más sobre la banda, mira su perfil en MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/gibbsbrothersband
Me gustó la cover. Y a ustedes?

Fotos/Pics - Eric Brittingham

Incrível como as coisas mudam hahahahahhahaha

Amazing how the things change LOL

Increíble como las cosas cambian jajajajajajajajaja

Aniversário de Eric Brittingham / Eric Brittingham's Birthday

PARABÉNS, ERIC!
É com uma imensa alegria que parabenizo o Eric por seu dia! Que ele possa viver muito mais, e trazer coisas boas para nós, tanto no Naked Beggars como no Cinderella.
Obrigado pelo seu baixo impecavelmente tocado em todos os shows, e às composições e co-produções de álbuns do Cinderella... VOCÊ É FODA, ERIC!
Curta seu dia com sua esposa e sua princesinha! Mas não se esqueça de nós!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIC!
It's with a huge happiness that I wish Eric a happy birthday! I wish he can live lots or years more, and bring us great works, as with Naked Beggars, as with Cinderella.
Thanks for you aweasome bass in all concerts, also for your compositions and co-productions of all Cinderella albuns... YOU REALLY FUCKING ROCK, ERIC!
Have a nice day with your wife and little princess! But don't forget about us, your fans!

Eric Brittingham

Eric Brittingham, anos 80

Eric Brittingham nasceu em 8 de maio de 1960, em Salisbury, Maryland. Foi um dos fundadores do
Cinderella, juntamente com Tom Keifer, que conheceu em uma noite de Halloween. É o segundo compositor do Cinderella, porém assina poucas faixas, tendo maior destaque como produtor (foi co-produtor do "Long Cold Winter"). Não há muita informação sobre ele disponível na internet, além do fato de que seu website está fora do ar há algum tempo.
Atualmente tem um projeto em associação com Jeff LaBar, o Nakked Beggars, banda da qual sua esposa, Inga, é vocalista.
Em dezembro de 2006, sofreu um ataque cardíaco leve, mas sem complicações posteriores.
Substituiu Bobby Dall, do Poison, na turnê de 2009, quando o baixista original da banda ficou doente.
Foi casado e teve 2 filhos, porém atualmente está com Inga Brittingham.

Eric Brittingham, hoje

Obs: acabei tendo que escolher este vídeo pois há muito pouca coisa sobre o Eric na net... Como ele sempre foi o mais quieto de todos, o que falava menos, e nessa entrevista ele fala tudo e o Jeff praticamente não abre a boca, resolvi postá-lo aqui. Reparem no menininho que aparece no meio da entrevista: reconhecem este perfil? Não? Trata-se do filho de Tom Keifer!

Once upon a time...

... em 1983, o multi-instrumentista Tom Keifer e o baixista Eric Brittingham, ambos da Pensilvania, tiveram a brilhante ideia de sair da banda na qual tocavam, a pouco conhecida Deep Freeze, e iniciar um projeto... que se tornou uma das maiores bandas do cenário hard rock dos Estados Unidos.
O nome? Escolhido pela falta de identidade com o rock pesado... "Cinderella", era de torcer o nariz. Na busca por membros, a história do Cinderella topa com nomes como Michael Kelly Smith e Tony Destra (que depois de dois anos abandonaram a banda e formaram o Britny Fox), e com o carismático Jeff LaBar. O mais curioso da história do Cinderella foi a escolha do vocalista. Simplesmente ninguém se encaixava... portanto, o próprio Tom Keifer assumiu os vocais, caracterizando a banda por seu drive rasgado, e se tornando sua principal identidade. Além dos vocais, Keifer sempre foi o maior destaque da banda por tocar solos de guitarra, piano e saxofone, e principalmente ser o compositor de todas as músicas de autoria da banda.
Até então, o baterista, logo após a saída de Destra, era Jim Drnec, que, mais adiante, foi substituído por Jody Cortez. No mesmo ano de 1985, em um club em Nova Jersey, Jon Bon Jovi assistiu a uma apresentação da banda, e ficou impressionado, não só com a banda em si, mas também com a presença de palco de Keifer. Bon Jovi apresentou uma fita demo do Cinderella à Mercury Records, que não deu muita atenção. Bon Jovi insistiu para que prestassem atenção e, após assistir a uma apresentação da banda, os executivos da Mercury deram o braço a torcer. Nesse meio tempo, entra na banda o incrível Jeff LaBar. E, finalmente, é gravado o primeiro album da banda: "Night Songs", lançado em Junho de 1986. Cortez deixou a banda, sendo substituído por pelo talentoso Fred Coury.
Inicialmente, "Night Songs" não foi tão reconhecido e, após uma razoável batalha, conseguiram obter cada vez mais o merecido sucesso. O primeiro single, "Shake Me", não vendeu tanto. Porém, algo inusitado ocorreu: o segundo single, "Nobody's Fool" - uma balada, sim UMA BALADA! - foi o que tornou o Cinderella mais conhecido, atingindo o 13o. lugar das vendas em fevereiro de 1987. Isso, aliado à divulgação do vídeo-clip de mesmo nome na MTV, impulsionou as vendas do "Night Songs". Além de tudo, após uma turnê abrindo com o Poison para o Loudness um ano antes, o Cinderella merecia mais! E teve seu reconhecimento, abrindo para David Lee Roth e seus padrinhos, o Bon Jovi, o que abriu as portas do cenário internacional para a banda, que excursionou pelo Japão e Europa. Outras faixas de destaque deste álbum foram "Somebody Save Me", "Push Push" e "Back Home Again".
Em julho de 1988, o Cinderella lança seu segundo álbum, entitulado "Long Cold Winter" (na minha sincera opinião, o melhor!). A primeira música de trabalho deste álbum, "Gypsy Road", recebeu inicialmente maior destaque pelas rádios, mas a gravadora deu um golpe de mestre, investindo na balada - sim, mais uma vez uma BALADA! - "Don't Know What You Got ('Till It's Gone)", que foi a responsável por impulsionar as vendas e dar à banda duplo álbum de platina. Mas o destaque deste álbum foi, na realidade, a influência do blues para Keifer, observado principalmente nas faixas "Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams" e "Long Cold Winter", que se tornou outro cartão de visitas da banda, além dos drives e do talento do vocalista. Outras faixas de destaque são "The Last Mile", a balada "Coming Home" e "If You Don't Like it". Inicia-se então uma longa turnê, que incluiu o lendário Moscow Music Peace Festival, onde a banda tocou ao lado de Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe e Scorpions.
A banda entra em estúdio novamente, para lançar o seu terceiro álbum, "Heartbreak Station", lançado em novembro de 1990. Abandonam de vez o estilo glam (que já estava mais light durante a turnê do "Long Cold Winter") e assumem uma postura ainda mais influenciada pelo blues. Em janeiro do ano seguinte, recebem o disco de ouro e, em fevereiro platina, pelas vendas do novo álbum. "Shelter Me" e a balada "Heartbreak Station" impulsionaram as vendas deste álbum.
No entanto, problemas internos começaram a ocorrer. Fred Coury deixou a banda e se juntou a Stephen Pearcy, vocalista do Ratt, em um novo projeto, sendo temporariamente substituído Kevin Valentine e depois por Kenny Aronoff. Após o fim da turnê americana, enquanto se preparava para excursionar pelo Japão, em uma manhã qualquer, Keifer acordou e percebeu que simplesmente não podia mais cantar. Havia perdido completamente sua voz. Nenhum médico conseguia explicar o que estava acontecendo, até que um especialista finalmente conseguiu: Tom Keifer foi diagnosticado com cistos e nódulos em suas cordas vocais, além de paresia do lado esquerdo de sua laringe. Para um vocalista que era muito mais que o cérebro da banda, e sim sua marca registrada, praticamente uma sentença de morte. Após algumas cirurgias e um extenso tratamento, Keifer volta a cantar, mas nota-se uma certa dificuldade.
Em 1992, o Cinderella toma novo destaque, incluindo uma música sua, "Hot and Bothered" na trilha sonora da comédia "Wayne's World" (no Brasil: "Quanto mais Idiota Melhor"). Mas a mídia, a esta altura, estava iludida com o movimento grunge de Seattle, e sobretudo a MTV inicia um movimento (disfarçado, é claro) degradando o Glam Rock, o que acabou atrapalhando muito a divulgação de seu novo álbum, "Still Climbing", de 1994. O Cinderella sumiu por uns tempos, depois, visto que o estilo musical não vendia mais (algo revoltante...).
Em 1996, a banda reaparece. A Mercury Records, que dispensou a banda, lança a coletânea "Once upon a..., que contém os maiores sucessos, além de duas faixas inéditas: "War Stories" e "Move Over". Fred Coury se une novamente à banda, para reiniciar uma turnê, que culminou com um fantástico show no Key Club de Hollywood, dando origem a um novo álbum, "Cinderella Live at the Key Club", mas que não foi lançado imediatamente devido a problemas com a gravadora. Este álbum só foi lançado em 1999 pela Cleopatra Records. No mesmo ano, a banda chegou a assinar com a Sony, mas o contrato foi cancelado antes do lançamento de um novo disco. O Cinderella cai na estrada novamente em 2000 e 2002. Em um projeto paralelo, Eric Brittingham inicia seus trabalhos com a banda de sua mulher, Inga, a Naked Beggars. Jeff LaBar parte para um projeto diferente, inicia um programa de rádio pela internet, enquanto Fred Coury monta um estúdio e passa a produzir outras bandas. Tom Keifer inicia o projeto de seu álbum solo (que até hoje não foi lançado), além de compor para outras bandas.
Em 2005, participam de um festival do VH1, juntamente com Quiet Riot, Ratt e Firehouse. Em 2006, iniciam uma turnê com o Poison, para celebrar 20 anos do lançamento dos seus primeiros discos.  Em 2008, prestes a iniciar uma nova turnê com Warrant, Lynch Mob e Lynam, o Cinderella se vê obrigado a cancelar seus compromissos novamente devido a uma hemorragia nas cordas vocais de Keifer.
LaBar inicia um projeto juntamente com Frank Benalli (Quiet Riot), e Eric passa a se dedicar mais ainda ao Naked Beggars, a partir de 2008.
Em 2009, de acordo com o Message Board do site oficial do Cinderella, a voz de Keifer teria voltado ao normal. Embora isso parecesse surreal, devido a tudo o que aconteceu, o Cinderella volta a excursionar no final do mesmo ano, realizando diversos shows. Em julho de 2010, Cinderella abriu shows para Bret Michaels. Em Setembro, abriu para o Scorpions em Bogotá, Colômbia. E, no último dia 11 de novembro, tocou em um cruzeiro que partiu de Fort Lauderdale, Florida, o "ShipRocked", juntamente com Tesla, Vince Neil e outras bandas.

Cinderella Official Web Site