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Episode 302 – Remembering John Sykes

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Track List:

  1. Streetfighter – She’s no angel (1980)
    • Sykes made his recording debut on the Streetfighter track “She’s No Angel”, which appeared on the New wave of British heavy metal compilation New Electric Warriors in 1980.[6]
    • https://www.discogs.com/release/4230683-Various-New-Electric-Warriors
  2. Tygers of Pan Tang
  3. After leaving Tygers of Pan Tang, Sykes auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne‘s band and was briefly a member of John Sloman‘s Badlands.[5][4] Despite a few shows and Sloman procuring a recording contract with EMI, the group ultimately broke-up.[9]
  4. Thin Lizzy
  5. Whitesnake & John Sykes – Crying in the Rain – Rio de Janeiro 1985.01.19

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  1. Blue Murder
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  4. Sykes-fronted Thin Lizzy

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We discussed John’s final single “Dawning of a Brand New Day” in an after credits segment on the audio podcast.

What Rockers Are Saying About John Sykes:

  • Neil Murray:
  • Glenn Hughes:
    • https://www.facebook.com/glennhughesonline/videos/948649327240433
    • Heaven’s Missing An Angel
    • There are no words to describe how I feel about John’s guitar playing. He was absolutely a phenomenon.
    • Here’s a song that we wrote together called “Heaven’s Missing An Angel”. What an amazing solo on this song & Honored to have John join me on vocals.
    • RIP Dear one. The angel is now in heaven,
    • Love you 🙏 🩵
  • Carmine Appice:
    • https://www.facebook.com/CarmineAppiceOfficial/posts/pfbid02H4QTKV39RFHKDxYr46y1KjPinyiUkUGLSxUhhxz798E6Q6dLL3aPEKvfdwnvfsT3l?ref=embed_post
    • I’m am saddened about the news of my band mate John Sykes . I’m shocked about his passing 🥲 . We played such great music and had such great times together . Check out Blue Murder 1, and The Cry of Love albums. John’s playing, writing and singing were amazing …I loved him like a brother. We lived close to each other when we were in Blue Murder we hung out everyday. He was an amazing guitarist and together with Tony Franklin on bass we had a great rock trio.
    • He will be missed. ❤️❤️RIP brother John . Check out Blue Murder on MTV in 1989 John played great on this.
  • Doug Aldrich
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/DFEEZioS4m9/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
    • I’m so sad to hear the news that John Sykes has passed away from Cancer:(
    • Prayers and Thoughts to his family and fans throughout the world. He’s up there now with Eddie Gary Randy Jimi and a whole lot of our hero’s.♥️
    • I met John several times and I’ll never forget the conversations we had. Was always really nice.
    • He was a funny and cool guy that was fierce on the guitar and sang his ass off.
    • We will miss ya John but thank you for the inspiration💯💕💕
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  • From Rich “Yong-Way” Shailor
    • Got meet him a few times, VERY nice guy. Always had a coffee cup but I’m not sure it was coffee. We were standing next to each other watching Joe Satriani from the side of the stage. As he passed me a beer Roger got me from a cooler I looked over at them and said “I wonder what it’s like to be the other guitar player in Joe Satriani’s band “ he laughed and said I never thought about that before. I said “that’s because you are never the OTHER guitar player in the band” he understood the compliment and gave me a cheers.
  • David Coverdale
    • Just heard the shocking news of John’s passing…My sincere condolences to his family, friends & fans…

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