Where is punky meadows from angel

You know, they went out to a nightclub, and they wound up at Bogeys, and we were playing. And Gene and Paul and Ace came in. I thought it was so cool. I used to do this move where I hold my hand over my head and play with my other hand.

They thought we were so great. So we kind of had a bidding war with management teams and stuff. So we wound up going with Toby Organization back in California. Those guys wanted to see palm trees, I guess. And then it was time to find a label.

Gene and Paul and Ace had come down to see them when they were back in DC and said that they were great. Kiss are playing out in Anaheim this next week. And so he was going to sign us right away to a seven album deal. But we actually did play for him a couple weeks later. He came down to the rehearsal hall and we played for him and he just loved it. And I stayed at a hotel up there. We all get together and we record and I did some of the guitar tracks down here in Charlotte.

And basic tracks up in New Jersey. But back to Felix, Felix is a very talented musician. I mean, and he can play guitar well too. So I wanted Felix on this album because just because of his talent, his pure talent. Nobody knows what a great musician Felix really is. He used to intimidate Gregg. When they did the live album, people had seen them live, and it blew up. Back then, the radio stations were only playing Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton; really soft kind of stuff.

Also, MTV came around just after we broke up. I think if we had been around for MTV, I think it would have exploded because we were primed for that kind of thing; videos and stuff. I remember we were playing on the West Coast and a big riot ensued in San Diego. One of these security guards started throwing these young girls around because they were rushing the stage.

Next thing you knew, all the house lights came on, a brawl ensued. So, Frank had to go to jail for the night and we got him out. Anyway, up and down the West Coast after that, they had police in the front of our stage with billy clubs, and we got labeled a Punk band. Then we broke up as MTV came out. If we had just stuck together for that, I think it would have been a different story because then you could be seen 24 hours all over the place.

Andrew: While the first two albums may have garnered the most acclaim, I think that Sinful is a completely underrated album and perhaps the strongest of the Angel catalog. I always loved Power-Pop music; I just do. I love a great melody. For me, melody and rhythm will always live on.

I love Pop music, man. To me, music is music. I love music and I love melodies. It just makes you happy as shit. But at the same time, I love Zeppelin and Hendrix, you know what I mean?

So, I had all that shit going on and I like to utilize that stuff. It beat out all kinds of big bands and stuff. I got the inspiration for that from The Beatles.

I love that kind of stuff, but I also like Progressive stuff, too. So, I like to dabble in all that kind of stuff. It is an Angel song! Some of the greatest songs in history are ballads. I mean, I love nothing more than a good tear-jerker. I like to hit all emotions when I write songs. Andrew: Your nuance and diversity as an artist really shine through on Fallen Angel and Risen. Outside opinions are irrelevant; you wrote what you felt and what sounded good to you and refused to compromise.

Punky: Yeah, exactly. I put out there what I happen to like and enjoy and hope that they like it, too. That was a great album. Why did those opportunities never come to fruition? So, we put this band together and were getting ready to shop a deal. KISS and Gene, those guys all loved me so much; they always raved about me. And I loved them, too.

Gene and Paul were in the studio recording and Barry Levine was their photographer. He was in the studio with Gene and Paul, so he calls me up one day. I guess you heard that KISS is looking for a guitar player. Any side. It was just Paul and Gene; Eric Carr was on the drums. So, I walked in and I plugged up and played. It went great; sounded great. You got the gig.

Gregg and I are getting ready to shop a deal. I have to talk to him first. They stormed out. So, he got us an audition to play for a record company, so we rehearsed down there. All these record companies heard the demo and came down to see us.

We would have signed another big record contract. It was the weirdest thing in the world. We just played two instrumentals and that was it. We blew that. Well, Fergie blew it. We understand. I think he played with Toto at one point, too. So, that was the end of that.

Then, Aerosmith, David Krebs called me up. Of course, you know, Joe and Brad had left. Unfortunately, I was loyal, which turned out to be a mistake, in the end, I guess. But David and I stayed in touch for a long time after that; he tried to get me to play with Michael Bolton at one time. So, I was thinking about doing that, too, but that never came to fruition, either. Andrew: Following the disbanding of Angel, you remained largely off the grid for more than three decades.

You embarked on various business ventures, but could you elaborate on how you spent your time away from the limelight? Punky: This is a crazy story. What happened was, I got fed up with the whole music scene. I lived in L. So, I had left the music business, basically.

Barry Levine, the music photographer, was managing Frank and Barry and they wanted me to come back out to L. They tried to; they had other guitar players and stuff, but nobody wanted the band unless I was in Angel. I got out to California and stayed at this house with some people. At that point, I just totally got fed up with it. I came all the way back out there, and then these guys were not dependable.

At that time, I was just so depressed. I had lost my girlfriend through all that, too. And that was actually at the forefront of the whole DJ scene; all the Rap music came in and the House music and stuff. I was a pretty damn good DJ, and I did that to make money for about six years, then I decided I had enough of that. Then I decided to open a tanning salon.

I had gone tanning at this place one time in the wintertime; this little dumpy mom and pop place with these really old rickety metal beds and shit. What if I opened up a really nice place like that?

I went out and looked at the demographics first; I went to the supermarkets on the weekends to see what kind of people were there, if they had money, that sort of thing. And so, I did that, and I opened up a really nice place that was very modern and all computerized. It was a really nice place with state-of-the-art equipment. For me, back then, looking at tanning beds was like looking at guitars and cars.

They were souped-up and shit, you know what I mean? I opened up the first really high-end tanning salon, and I wound up putting all the other tanning salons out of business. I just had this vision, you know? I was the first person to do that in tanning salons, make it a real high-end place because I was in a real high-end neighborhood. As soon as I opened the doors, there were lines all around the block; people were sitting on the walls waiting to come in.

Spring and summer. I really got into the business because I loved it; it was exciting; it was fun. All these beautiful girls would come in there and tan and stuff, and I had a lot of guys come in, too. So, I had all these memberships going on. The first night, I made a bunch of money, and I remember driving home in my car and was euphoric. I was very proud of that place. The first year, I worked with myself because I had to build my clientele up. Then I started hiring weekend managers and that sort of thing.

But I did really, really well in that business; I did it for 11 years. Every year, they had these awards they would give out — best restaurant, best movie theater — and I would get the award every year for best tanning salon. I put those plaques up in my windows. I remember when I got my first hundred clients, I was excited. But by the end there, I had 30, clients that came through that door. I really got into the business; I took courses on it and I had my employees take courses and do tests to learn about the business.

But people found out who I was eventually, anyway. I used to have fans who would come down there from all over the world and visit me in there. Andrew: Adapting to the drastic shift of the music business following an extensive hiatus would appear overwhelming on the surface, so what motivated you to test the waters after decades of silence? Punky: During that time at the tanning salon, Frank and Barry came back into the picture and they were trying to shop a deal. I am not interested.

I could care less. In fact, I had a guitar down at the tanning salon, behind the counter. So, when it would be quiet in the mornings, I would have the Country station on the TV and played along with that stuff.

What a guitar player he is! I would always play my guitar in the tanning salon and was always writing music. I never stopped playing. It had been a long time. Then we went into the studio and recorded the songs. I was successful, I was having fun, and all that shit was off my back.

I was happy to get away from all that stuff. I never stopped playing because I love music. I did the tanning salon thing and I also bought properties; I bought a townhouse and plus I had another home and I got into the stock market.

Then, after 11 years in the tanning business, the tanning salon business caught up to me and started making all these fancy tanning salons and becoming franchises. So, I saw the writing on the wall — they were starting to pop up everywhere around town. Then, the housing, it was a buyers market down here and a sellers market up in Virginia. I put that money into my stock market funds.

And then the stock market crashed in Before that, for three years, man, I was retired and just doing whatever I wanted to do; I made a beautiful garden on my land out here and all kinds of stuff. Then I got a job working for my neighbors; It was actually a white-collar job. I was behind a computer; we would send consultants out to doctors and dentists to do trainings on the laws of OSHA and Hippa.

What happened with Danny was, when I had the tanning salon, Danny came down one time with a friend. And Danny had sent me some correspondents through letters a couple times because he told me he was sculpting and stuff. Anyway, he came down when I had the tanning salon, and he brought me some Angel artifacts, like a truck and some other things.

He was just such a big fan and the nicest guy in the world. Then, of course, Facebook came around, and we would message and talk and stuff. Let me think about it. Then I got excited about it. Danny came down and we met for the first time in several years.

I have a music room downstairs, and he came in and we sat down and started playing. I met him when I did my solo album, Fallen Angel. Charlie is another one who does a lot of business stuff for us too. There are no big egos in this band. Everybody is easy to get along with. He is great. FD: I think he captures the essence of Barry, when he was with us in our formative years. It is great to have Billy with us. I love the way he plays.

FD: He is another one who is a great addition to the band. He is one of the pieces that brought the rhythm section together. All the guys in the band are really great to work with. PM: Steve is also great showman on stage. It is important to give the audience a great time. That is another one that Danny brought to the table. It was easy for me to write the melody and lyrics for that one. We worked it out as a band at rehearsal.

PM: There are a lot of bullies in this world and Frank did a great job on the lyrics to make this an inspirational song. It is very sincere, encouraging the listener to stand up and rise above the issues. It is an exciting track and when we were recording it, I think we knew it was going to be exciting. We definitely will be playing that in our concerts.

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