The Winery Dogs (Portnoy, Sheehan, Kotzen) - The Winery Dogs (2013)

6/1/13 10:44PM

Here's another new track. Damn, I'm loving the guitar solo. Verrrry bluesy.


5/30/13 11:30PM

while the Japanese edition was released a couple of weeks ago, the North American edition has been confirmed to be coming out on July 23rd.

http://knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=9511

5/15/13 9:23PM
Stream another new song "We Are One"

And/or go to their homepage and sign up for their email list and get a free download of it.
http://www.thewinerydogs.com/

Nice guitar solo. This new song might be the best of the 3, thus far.

Tracklist




01. Elevate
02. Desire
03. We Are One
04. I’m No Angel
05. The Other Side
06. You Saved Me
07. Not Hopeless
08. One More Time
09. Damaged
10. Six Feet Deeper
11. Criminal
12. The Dying
13. Regret


5/13/13 5:36AM

new track "Desire"..not bad, groovey.

4/22/13 11:45AM

New song/video "Elevate"..haven't heard it yet (and I have no idea it was put up online yesterday).

3/23/13 6:47 PM

More here:

http://www.bravewords.com/news/201030



http://www.twitter.com/thewinerydogs

3/11/13 9:33AM

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This is the much talked about project from Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan and Ritchie Kotzen (originally with John Sykes), that is supposedly very Led Zeppelin, Cream, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Heart? Classic Hard/Blues Rock based.

And according to that link, the debut album is due out in May.

As far as the name, it's fitting I guess. Not something too repulsive and sounds sort of Power-Trio and even a little 70's Classic Rock-ish. Although I'm sure with the word "Winery" it may be subject to some jokes, but I've seen much worse. And if the music is good, the name doesn't mean so much to me.

Some other good news is that the new cd with Billy Sheehan, Mike Portnoy and I is officially finished!
We are now in the mix stage of the process and Jay Ruston is doing an amazing job with that!
I can’t wait to share the new music with you! We are hoping for an early May release date for the CD!

I wonder though, seeing it there, if Mike Portnoy would have wanted to break the news of the name and other info himself. But he probably will soon, with the album stuff, etc. I should bump this when he or that stuff comes out soon.

Some previous entries:

Mike Portnoy + Billy Sheehan + Ritchie Kotzen - TBA (2013?)
Mike Portnoy + Billy Sheehan + Richie Kotzen (2012?)

Mike Portnoy + Billy Sheehan + Ritchie Kotzen - TBA (2013?)

This now is finally happening, with instead of John Sykes, Ritchie Kotzen. I forget if/when that was confirmed, although I thought at least 1 rumor was Guthrie Govan to replace Sykes. But so be it. I'm pretty curious about this, Portnoy-doing heavy retro Classic Rock kind of stuff. I suppose it'll come down to the writing and maybe the vocals. I honestly don't know Ritchie Kotzen well, certainly not his vocal work with Poison, and Mr.Big maybe 1 or 2 of the radio hits at best.

But if the writing of the vocal lines don't suck, the odds are, the actual songwriting will factor more for me.

Odds are, I'll enjoy this project more than Adrenaline Mob, and Ritchie's voice more than Russell Allen. So, immediately, it's got more intrigue for me. But at this point, that doesn't mean a ton.

Based on the fact they are just now hitting the studio, 2013 seems like a more realistic release year, but any news that is given still should be worth passing along. And if in fact it's out next year, 2013 keeps looking to have a ton of potential (but that's nothing unusual, for each given year).


mp.com link

Late last year, Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB, FLYING COLORS) and Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH, TALAS) tapped Richie Kotzen (MR. BIG, POISON) to be the guitarist/vocalist of their new project following a split with John Sykes (WHITESNAKE, BLUE MURDER, THIN LIZZY).

Although Portnoy and Sykes demoed a dozen or so songs at a Los Angeles studio last year, their vastly different work ethics and conflicting schedules were solely to blame for the dissolution of their collaboration.

During an interview that aired on this past Friday night's (July 13) edition of Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York'sQ104.3 FM, Portnoy said, "I love John personally, and we get along great — he's a sweetheart of a guy — but I need to keep moving. I can't sit still and kind of wait to make an album over the next three years, I need to put things on the calendar and move forward and get them done, and John's kind of just a 'wait, wait, wait' guy. Sadly, it kind of just stopped in its tracks, and Billy and I said, 'Look, let's do something.' And you [Eddie] were the one, actually, that suggested Richie Kotzen and I thought it was a brilliant suggestion, because he's an unbelievably underrated talent, not only [as] a guitar player but a phemonal singer, and just an amazing songwriter and artist. I think people just kind of lump him, or write him off as the guy that was with POISON and MR. BIG. I think they have no idea what he's really capable of."

He continued, "Me and Billy have already done two writing sessions with Richie, with the three of us, and we have about eight songs done and written and we've got another handful that are ready to go, so we're gonna start the album next month."

When asked to describe the musical direction of the project, Portnoy said, "It's a classic-rock kind of power-trio sound. If you picture the classic-rock bands of… the classic ones — [LED] ZEPPELIN, CREAM, [JIMI] HENDRIX, GRAND FUNK [RAILROAD] — if you take that classic-rock power-trio sound of the early '70s, and then you sprinkle it on top with some of the modern kind of sounds of SOUNDGARDEN and ALICE IN CHAINS or BLACK CROWES or LENNY KRAVITZ… It's in that vein; it's kind of a [mixture] of all of those bands. But on top of it all you've got the phenomenal playing that Richie and Billy do, and I could play a couple of things on the drums as well [chuckles], so... And all three of us are singing — Richie is the lead vocalist, obviously, but me and Billy are also singing."

As previously reported, Portnoy and Sheehan, guitarist Tony Macalpineand keyboardist Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, PLANET X, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION) will join forces this fall, embarking on an extended tour of Europe and Asia. The virtuoso band will play an all-instrumental set consisting of material from each of their solo records and their previous collaborations as well as classic instrumental covers and extended solo spots.