My Interveiws with the COMET!
Recently I met up with two of the members of the
Comet again, John Regan and Richie Scarlet, and this
time I had the chance to sit down and do an interveiw
with them for a cable show that I sometimes
guest host and also for my web site. For those of you
who do
not get the show in your area I have posted my
interveiws here for you
to read.
Here are My Exclusive Interviews with comet
members John Regan and Richie scarlet.
John Regan and myself-
4/26/98
Snowblind- Even though the Frehleys Comet has been
broken up for several years, it seems that after ten
years the comet are still going strong, 12 picks,
Loaded Deck, Return of the Comet, The Frehley comet
reissues,- what would you say that it is that keeps
everybody listening after all this time?
John Regan- I think its the fact
that Ace Frehley is such a great entertainer, and a
great guitarist. Ace Frehley is the main reason it is
still going strong.
Snowblind- I understand you did some producing on
Return of the comet, what songs did you produce on
the cd, and what was your favorite song from the
entire cd?
John Regan- I produced 2 songs on
Return of the Comet, they were the two Richie/comet
in the studio tracks, and my favorite track on the
cd..... , to be
honest with you, is "speedin back to my baby". Cause
they did a complete different take on that.
Snowblind- Has Ace heard Return of the Comet?
John Regan- I dont know, I have no
idea...., I hope so.
Snowblind- Before the release of the first Frehleys
comet album, the line up of the band included Richie
Scarlet on guitars, why is it that he did not appear
on any of the albums until "Trouble walkin"?
John Regan- Well the first line up
was 1984-85, and basically we went our seperate ways
cause we couldnt get a record deal together on time.
We got back together in 86 to do the record, 87, and
Im sure Richie was busy doing something, and
basically, we went into the studio as a three peice
band- Ace, Anton and Myself and thats kinda why
Richie was'nt involved in that one, but he came back
for "Trouble Walkin" and thats a great record, its
probably my favorite record.
Snowblind- Do you see any future collaborations with
you and any of the other Comet members any time soon?
John regan- Id like to, Id like to
go back in the studio with Anton, and Richie, and
Arthur Stead, and do it.
Snowblind- I understand you did some work on the
Rolling Stones album "Dirty Work", what tunes did you
do on that?
John Regan- I played Bass on a
track called "Winning Ugly", the whole track, and I
played a little bit on "One hit to the body" and that
was just like a spectacular experience, those guys
are like the best.
Snowblind- well thats all the questions I have for
ya, thanks very much for your time.
John Regan- Your welcome.
(interveiw was done on 4/26/1998 by Snowblind4 /
A.K.A. Chris Cook.)
Heres my interveiw with Richie Scarlet:
Paul Levasseur,of Snowblinds
Kiss home
pages and Richie Scarlet 4/26/98
Snowblind- When did you first know you wanted to be a
musician? And when did you first meet up with Ace?
Richie Scarlet- uh, when did I
first know I wanted to be a musician.... I dont know,
I just started playin music at a real young age, My
aunts always used to tell me "Richie you have a gift
from God" they used to tell me.. My Irish Aunts(LOL).
But anyway I was really young, I started on drums,
um. I ran across Ace when I was doing my first album,
and since then, and that was in 82/83 and since then
Me and Ace have lived three life times together(LOL).
Snowblind- In 1984-85 you were in the Frehleys comet
line up, why is it that you did not appear on the
first Frehleys comet album, or any of the others
until Trouble Walking?
Richie Scarlet- Because between 85
and 87, I went back to my own group the Seducers wich
was based out of Philidelphia at the time, because I
wanted to get out and play and there was a long wait
before Ace got that deal. But we knew it was in the
cards that we would get back, so, it just didnt work
out in 87 but it worked out in 89 when I came
back.
Snowblind- Can you tell us some of your musical
influences?
Richie Scarlet- Lawrence
Welk..(LOL) Well Jimi Hendrix was,probably is my
biggest inspiration, and I like british Invasion
stuff, The Stones, Yard Birds, Beatles, the early
Who, all that british classic stuff.
Snowblind- I know the fans are behind you...
Richie scarlet-(Getting up from his
chair and looking behind himself laughing) they are ?
Where?
Snowblind- Could you tell the fans your plans for the
future?
Richie Scarlet- I just wanna Rock
man, thats it.
God gave me somewhat of a gift and I just wanna run
with it. Enjoy life. I just want to stay as creative
as I possibly can. I wanna have fun, and when the fun
Ceases to exist, well for me then thats it, I will
hang it up.
Snowblind- Well thats it, thank you very much for
your time, I really appreciate it.
(Interveiw done on April 26 1998 by Chris Cook and
Paul Levasseur of Snowblinds Kiss pages)
Email: sttufcs@webtv.net
