Saliva	Tim "Ripper" Owens

Saliva

Biography

Josey Scott - Vocals
Wayne Swimmy - Guitar
Jon Montoya - Guitar
Dave Novontny - Bass
Paul Cosby - Drums

In every life, there are moments of revelation.Some are tragic, like near death experiences or divorce. Others are joyous, such as birth, new love or a career breakthrough. But both kinds leave indelible stamps on the individuals experiencing them.

For gold-selling Memphis turbo-rockers Saliva, the past couple years of their decade-long career have brought an ocean swell of such change. One or more members have had children, stopped drinking, ended longterm relationships, gotten married and/or left the group, and each instance has been accompanied by a new sense of clarity.

As a result, Saliva's fifth album, Blood Stained Love Story, resounds with a previously untapped level of passion, energy, sincerity and diversity, not to mention an undeniable melodicism that will endear the band to anyone that feels any sort of connection between reality and music.

"I think we've all been through a blood stained love story of one type of another," says frontman Josey
Scott. "It's kind of a metaphor for how things can be a certain way for so long, and then within a day, they just change and you're on this whole other path."

Blood Stained Love Story in an album of growth, a realisation that there are more important things in life than cover stories, photo shoots and big Hollywood parties. But while it may be more mature than Saliva's past efforts, it's no less turbulent.

"These songs are about waking up after the party and your wife is gone, your money's gone, your cars are gone and you go, 'What the fuck just happened?'" explains Scott. "It's about trying to get all that stuff back, having a second chance and starting again."

It's also about returning to the fray after three years with something to prove. Blood Stained Love Story opens with the ringmaster vocals and mid-paced guitar chug of "Ladies and Gentlemen" before slipping into surreal Beatles-y vocals and call-and-response chorus. "Broken Sunday" seesaws between bittersweet reflection and raw frustration combining head-in-hand sorrow with angry, lunging punches. And "Going Under" is a portrait of beautiful sadness - a textured amalgam of delicate piano, spare guitar picking and world-weary vocal harmonies.

"I wanted to go back to the nuts and bolts of Saliva, with the emphasis on nuts," Scott says. "I wanted to capture that musical diversity, that heaviness, but in a really catchy way. And that meant going back to [producer] Bob Marlette, who produced our first two Island Records™ albums. He really knows how to get the best out of the five of us."

Saliva started writing for the album in early July 2005m but at the time he was in Hollywood working on "Wanted", and the show's gruelling schedule kept him from getting much done for Saliva. Around the same time the show wrapped, Scott and his wife Kendra discovered they were going to have a baby, and suddenly the creative floodgates opened up. Almost exactly nine months later, the songs for Blodd Stained Love Story were finished. "The baby was really my second chance in a lot of ways," Scott says. "I had the chance to raise a child and be a better man and those feelings and emotions gave me all these ideas for songs."

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Releases

	Cinco Diabo Release date: 16 December 2008 Family Reunion My Own Worst Enemy Best of Me How Could You? Hunt You Down Judgement Day Forever and a Day I'm Coming Back Southern Girls So Long
	Blood Stained Love Story Release date: 23 January 2007 Ladies and Gentlemen Broken Sunday Never Gonna Change King of the Stereo One More Chance Going Under Twister Black Sheep Starting Over Here With You
	Survival of the Sickest Release date: 11 August 2004 Rock & Roll Revolution Bait & Switch One Night Only Survival of the Sickest No Regrets (Vol. 2) Two Steps Back Open Eyes Fuck All Y'all I Want You Carry On Razor's Edge No Hard Feelings
	Back into your System Release date: 12 November 2002 Superstar II Weight of the World Always Back into your System All Because of You Raise Up Separated Self Rest Storm Holdin' On Pride Famous Monsters
	Every Six Seconds Release date: 27 March 2001 Superstar Musta Been Wrong Click Click Boom Your Disease After Me Greater Than/ Less Than Lackluster Faultline Beg Hollywood Doperide My Goodbyes

Tour Dates

Tim "Ripper" Owens

Press Release

SOLO DEBUT BY TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS "PLAY MY GAME" out in May 2009
Sensational recording line-up featuring members of
WHITESNAKE, QUEENSRΫCHE, DIO & MEGADETH and many more

Following his spectacular enlistment by exceptional Swedish guitarist, Yngwie Malmsteen, and his awesome vocal performance on the most recent Malmsteen album, Perpetual Flame (2008), American metal vocalist Tim ´Ripper` Owens (Beyond Fear, ex-Judas Priest, ex-Iced Earth) is set to surprise the public with the release of his first solo album, Play My Game, in May 2009. The offering consists of around a dozen brand-new tracks that Owens composed himself or together with renowned friends, such as Bob Kulick, Chris Caffery (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Mike Callahan (ex-Earshot) and John Comprix (Beyond Fear, Ringworm).

The list of guest musicians featured on Owens solo debut is even more spectacular: along with Bob Kulick and Chris Caffery and the others, he was supported by the guitarists Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), Michael Wilton (Queensryche), Jeff Loomis (Nevermore), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), bassists Marco Mendoza (ex-Whitesnake), Billy Sheehan (Mr Big, ex-David Lee Roth), Dave Ellefson (ex-Megadeth), Rudy Sarzo (Dio, ex-Ozzy Osbourne, ex-Quiet Riot), James Lomenzo (Megadeth), Tony Franklin (ex-Blue Murder), Dennis Hayes (Beyond Fear) and drummers Simon Wright (ex-AC/DC, Dio), Vinny Appice (Heaven & Hell), Ray Luzier (Korn), Bobby Jarzombek (Riot, ex-Halford), and Brett Chassen. Fans and experts alike will love this sensational all-star line-up and may rest assured that the haunting songs will effortlessly live up to this illustrious cast of musicians: Tim Ripper Owens has never sounded more impressive, melodic and multi-faceted!

"I've gotten better as a songwriter," Owens explains. "And I also write songs that the fans can really get into and get their fist pounding in the air. I've always been a great fan of the Black Sabbath line-up featuring Ronnie James Dio, and I love Judas Priest. Both bands delivered records that are straight forward and go directly to the bloodstream – which also happens to be my compositional approach."

Release Dates for "Play My Game" on Steamhammer / SPV:

• Germany / Austria / Switzerland: May 15th
• UK / rest of Europe: May 18th
• USA / Canada: May 19th

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