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UG: Scott Ian said to me recently, If you go back and listen to Persistence of Time, it has more in common with the Sound of White Noise than it does with State of Euphoria. Thats where we were going and we just felt like we needed a new voice to go where we were going because we were trying at the time to move forward with Joey and we were hitting a wall. How do you respond to that?
Joey Belladonna: To me, I think its a crock myself to be honest with ya. I think they just wanted something different. Period. I dont know what I wasnt doing that wasnt fitting their style. Granted they went down a new road like anyone else does [to do] something different. If thats what you want to do, be different but it dont mean I wasnt able to do what they would have liked to have done or could have accomplished. You know what I mean? They can argue with it too all day long but my view is they went and got somebody different to fit the new style of what was happenin in the 90s or whatever. I was too melodic; the vocals were too high or whatever. I dont knowwhatever you want to call it. All the stuff that I was doing, it was working and that doesnt seem to work in their style? And then all of a sudden if you look back now and you wind up right to this point, were right back where I could have done anything really.
You would have felt comfortable singing on the Sound of White Noise album?
There wasnt anything they did on those recordsand forget John [Bush] for a minutetheres nothing on those records that I couldnt have accomplished something that would have been comparable to anything weve ever done before that. I just dont see it; I just dont. I have never even really had this conversation with them nor do they want to go there because (A) they probably dont want to debate it and (B) and its just something no one wants to dispute. I dont knowwho knows?
More of the interview here
I love that Joey's putting Scott and Charlie in their place