Patriarchs In Black Cover Led Zeppelin’s “Friends”

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There’s a human keg of dynamite that came out of Paramus High School in Bergen County. Hades and Non-Fiction may be the two bands that cemented Dan Lorenzo’s rep but the dude’s a renaissance man of major-league proportions. Last summer, Reach For The Scars by Patriarchs In Black—with Lorenzo’s Iommi/Page/Wylde guitar and ex-Type O Negative/current Quiet Riot drummer Johnny Kelly—melted walls. Now comes “Friends,” a Led Zeppelin cover. Guest vocalist Militia Vox of Judas Priestess spews it on out like hot lava from a volcano. This deep track off Zep’s third album—“one of the most evil-sounding songs I’d ever heard,” says Lorenzo—is perfect for Vox.

“As a singer,” she tells The Jersey Sound, “I love the freedom to work with a variety of different artists I adore to float between styles. Last year I got to work with supergroup Bad Penny and one of my heroes, Rob Halford, for the song `Push Comes To Shove.’ I’ve known Johnny and Dan for years so this is special. My father raised me on Zeppelin so it was long overdue for me to record `Friends’ in such a unique way—serving the original while making it our own.”

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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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