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TIM “RIPPER” OWENS TO SING FOR YNGWIE MALMSTEEN!

 Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 4:58pm by

Tim “Ripper” OwensI hereby promise this will be the last of an unprecedented run of three posts about Yngwie Malmsteen within the past week; but unscrupulously ousted ex-Iced Earth singer Tim “Ripper” Owens has been tapped to front the band of the fur-coat-wearing, orchestra-conducting King of shred, Yngwie himself. After being ditched by Iced Earth late in 2007 in favor of original singer Matt Barlow at a point when the band seemed poised for a great comeback run, Owens was left down and out. Keep in mind this is the same dude who recorded and toured with his favorite metal band of all time, only to have his life bastardized and turned into a really shitty movie — AND be fired when that lead singer, some dude named Rob Halford, wanted to come back to his old band too. So needless to say, the dude deserved a break.

And he’s gotten it. While a gig with Yngwie may not be as cool as the Anthrax gig Axl suggested, it’s certainly something. No word yet on whether fur coats will become part of Owens’ repertoire.

-VN

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  • http://www.hibernum.net Hibernum

    Interesting. I wonder how long he’ll last with Yngwie. Nobody lasts long with Yngwie.

  • Padraig

    Eh, Rip’ll be there until YJM decides to re-re-hire Jeff Scott Soto.

  • Andres

    Ehh, really interesting, I wonder how it’ll work out.

    Anything is better than the singer Malmsteen has had for the past years…but THIS is a top notch quality singer…

    Cant wait to hear what the combination sounds like.

  • http://metalmark.blogspot.com/ Metal Mark

    It seems like Ripper just seems to continue to fall down the ladder. If he ends up in one of the version of LA Guns then we will know he has hit rock bottom.

  • http://idiotaignorante.splinder.com ZillionDollarSadist

    What a waste of talent. Malmsteen is totally idiot talentless fat shredding spastic guitar gay, Tim deserves much better. I’d love to see him with (for example) a band featuring Zakk Wylde, Jerry Cantrell, Joey Vera and Vinnie Paul. That would rule! Malmshit… uuuurgh…

  • Dude Manbro

    When is Alcatrazz getting back together? Rising Farce, anyone?

  • GuitarEclipse

    ZillionDollarSadist you’re so stupid. You don’t know what is playing guitar. Sure you can’t play a single note like Yngwie. It is so clear that you have a lot of problems in your head. Try to connect your ears before saying this shit. And… Zakk is nice, but Yngwie has double of his talent. Yngwie created a new way to playing the guitar, that had influenced a lot of guitarists during the ’80, ’90, ’00. So try to understand what is playing guitar instead of whistling songs under the shower.