The latest guests for Talking Metal Episode #454 include Leather Leone from CHASTAIN, Will Wallner from WALLNER VAIN and WHITE WIZZARD and Chip Z’Nuff from ENUFF Z’NUFF.

Topics in the Chip Z’Nuff interview include Mancow, Donnie Vie, Steven Adler, Derek Firgo, Ricky Parent, Rick Nielsen, Johnnie Roten Jr., JAKE E. LEE, Blue Island, IL, Vikki Foxx and Johnny Monaco. A small portion of the interview with Chip has been transcribed below. The full 35 minute interview starts 58 minutes in to the podcast.

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Some excerpts from the Chip Z’Nuff interview:

On the current status of Enuff Z’Nuff and the new covers album: “We put together a nice record of us doing Prince, Nirvana, Queen and Cheap Trick. It is quite a good record and we’ve just been selling it on the road, on tours. We didn’t want to put it up on iTunes yet because we wanted our diehard fans to get it first. It was a nice little taste for the fans when they come out and see the band play to hold them over until we can do another studio record. Donnie stopped touring with us at the end of March or April after we did a tour over in the UK and he took a little break after that. He wanted to do a solo album and in the meantime we wanted to continue to play so we are out there as a four piece. Myself, Johnny Monaco, who has been singing with us and playing guitar for years. Randi Scott from SILVERMAN and Troy Stroffregan.”

On Jake E. Lee touring and coming back into the spotlight: “I would like to see it happen for him. He’s been sitting idle for a long time; he’s the Howard Hughes of rock. He is living out in Las Vegas. In fact the last time I saw him after he played on the Enuff Z’Nuff Dissonance record, about a year later I got a call from one of the agents that wanted to bring Enuff Z’Nuff over to Japan because we always had a good presence there so I reached out to Jake E. to see if he’d be interested in going over there plan a couple of songs, not the whole set but for a few tunes we do off the Dissonance album live. He basically said he wanted to go over there on his own and do a solo tour as himself which I respect that and I just found out recently that the same agency out of Los Angeles, Big-Time Entertainment signed him up. He’s got a little solo band and he is going to go out and do a 30 city tour this year. It is nice to see Jake E. out there. He’s got that Les Paul. He plays like you wouldn’t believe. He’s just a wonderful musician. He doesn’t even look like he’s playing when he’s playing. His technique is so unorthodox. On the Enuff Z’Nuff album he came down and bashed out all the songs. No one told him what to play. He did everything on his own He showed another side of himself. He is a six trick pony. He can play different styles of music. He is a very melodic player He still looks great. It’s funny; when I talked to him last he had a broken leg. He was chasing down an ice cream truck out in Las Vegas and slipped, and tripped over the curb, fell in the street and broke his leg. He does love his sweets. He has healed up fine and he’s gonna be out there on tour. I’m sure he’s got a great band. I love him and it was an honor to play with him. And that’s the only thing he’d done for a long time was the Enuff Z’Nuff album. It’s nice to see him go on his own again and get a chance to play some of the songs he helped write that he never got credit for with OZZY OSBOURNE. People want to hear those songs.”

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