Carmine Appice's Blue Murder Tribute: Honoring John Sykes

0:00On April 4th, Carmine Epise is pushing for a tribute album to Blue Murder, the bluesy hard rock band fronted by the late John Sykes. He wants the bringing guest musicians to make it happen, calling it an interesting way to honor the group. Blue Murder formed after Sykes got fired from White Snake in the late 1980s. They dropped two studio albums and one live record before splitting in 1994. Early on, they tried out singer Ray Gillan from Black Sabbath and Badlands, but he only did demos. Epise has nothing but praise for Sykes, who passed away in January 2025 at 865 after fighting cancer. He highlighted Sykes' jazz influence playing, killer scales, sharp image, and how he stepped up as the band's singer, much like cream set up. Sykes shown brightest co-writing, White Snake's 1987 self-title album, which sold over 8 million copies in the US alone. It hits like, here I go again, and is this love? Made it a massive crossover success.

1:00Sykes later left in Lizzie in July 2009 to focus on his own music. With Epise's tribute idea gaining steam, fans might hear fresh takes on those classic riffs soon. That's your update for music news today, powered by AI.