Classic Rock Revisited with Phil Collen
I want to focus on your new band at the very beginning of this interview. I get a ton of emails from a ton of bands I have never heard of asking us for coverage. I got a message about a band called Man-Raze. I had never heard of this band and I didn't even know they existed. At first I started to delete it. But for some reason I clicked on the link and I saw your name. I checked out the MP3s and I loved them. I usually know what is going on in the classic rock scene but I didn't even know this was happening. You must have kept this pretty secret.
We kind of did. We just got together and we just started recording. It was great - especially the rehearsing part. It just worked. Now we are ready. We have 12 songs that are in different stages of mixing.
Where did the name of the band come from?
At first we were going to call it Fay Raze - you know the girl from the King Kong movies. Simon wasn't into it and he was right as it was a bit limp. We kept the raze and called it Man-Raze. Man Ray was a photographer from New York. He died and was buried in France. It fit us really well. He was very surrealist.