It's Official: TESTAMENT's STEVE SMYTH Joins NEVERMORE As Touring Guitarist - June 12, 2002
NEVERMORE have officially recruited TESTAMENT guitarist Steve Smyth (also in DRAGONLORD) as a temporary replacement for former touring axeman Curran Murphy, who left the group in order to join Canada's ANNIHILATOR and continue work on his own AGGRESSION CORE project.
Here is NEVERMORE's official statement on the matter:
"We just want to clear up some confusion regarding Steve Smyth's involvement with us. He hasn't left TESTAMENT or DRAGONLORD to join NEVERMORE. He's just helping us out with these upcoming European festivals and US Warped tour dates. We need two guitars players live, so when our previous touring guitarist got himself a full-time gig, we immediately asked Steve. He'd always come out and see us play when we were in town. We'd do the same when he'd come through Seattle. He's really been a great friend of ours for years and we're lucky to get to do some shows with him now. We need to send out special thanks to [TESTAMENT vocalist] Chuck [Billy] and [guitarist] Eric [Peterson] for their support in this and allowing Steve to help us out."
Smyth added: "I've always been a NEVERMORE fan and look forward to playing with them. I want to thank Chuck, Eric, Stevie D, Jon and Lyle for all their support."
(As reported by BLabbermoutn.Net)
Here are the dates so far;BANG YOUR HEAD FESTIVAL
June 28-29, 2002
Messegelände Balingen, Germany
ATHENS ROCK WAVE FESTIVAL
July 01-03, 2002
Athens, Greece
WARPED TOUR
July 20, 2002 - Quincy, WA
July 22, 2002 - Billings, MT
July 23, 2002 - Fargo, ND
That was a hard one not to Blab, 'til it was official!
Looks like Steve's getting a little European vacation, he deserves it, way to go!
NEVERMORE have officially recruited TESTAMENT guitarist Steve Smyth (also in DRAGONLORD) as a temporary replacement for former touring axeman Curran Murphy, who left the group in order to join Canada's ANNIHILATOR and continue work on his own AGGRESSION CORE project.
Here is NEVERMORE's official statement on the matter:
"We just want to clear up some confusion regarding Steve Smyth's involvement with us. He hasn't left TESTAMENT or DRAGONLORD to join NEVERMORE. He's just helping us out with these upcoming European festivals and US Warped tour dates. We need two guitars players live, so when our previous touring guitarist got himself a full-time gig, we immediately asked Steve. He'd always come out and see us play when we were in town. We'd do the same when he'd come through Seattle. He's really been a great friend of ours for years and we're lucky to get to do some shows with him now. We need to send out special thanks to [TESTAMENT vocalist] Chuck [Billy] and [guitarist] Eric [Peterson] for their support in this and allowing Steve to help us out."
Smyth added: "I've always been a NEVERMORE fan and look forward to playing with them. I want to thank Chuck, Eric, Stevie D, Jon and Lyle for all their support."
(As reported by BLabbermoutn.Net)
Here are the dates so far;BANG YOUR HEAD FESTIVAL
June 28-29, 2002
Messegelände Balingen, Germany
ATHENS ROCK WAVE FESTIVAL
July 01-03, 2002
Athens, Greece
WARPED TOUR
July 20, 2002 - Quincy, WA
July 22, 2002 - Billings, MT
July 23, 2002 - Fargo, ND
That was a hard one not to Blab, 'til it was official!
Looks like Steve's getting a little European vacation, he deserves it, way to go!
