Max Webster

Within months of releasing his first album with Symphonic Slam, David Stone was invited to join Rainbow to replace Tony Carey for the making of the Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll album. Mick Burgess called up David Stone to talk about his early days, his time in Rainbow looking back over 40 years later and how he co-wrote most of “Gates Of Babylon” but remains uncredited, as well as working with RUSH and Max Webster and coming right up to date to talk about his life in music today and what his plans are for the future. 2020 has been a strange year so far. How has Covid 19 been affecting you over the past few months? Every single musician that I know is currently out of work. There’s absolutely no work at all. I was really quite busy before Covid hit so I’ve managed to be able to keep working but I’m probably working at 40% of what I was doing before this all happened. Fortunately, I’m working with a young engineer wizard, Tyler Christiaens, who set me up with a home recording studio, now everything runs through my laptop and he can record me remotely. It’s amazing stuff so I’ve been able to do some studio work, with my bands around the world. I’ve also been recording extensively with the band AraPacis for the last three months. How did you first become involved with AraPacis? I was working in a studio in Vancouver called Alchemy Sound and Jerry, the leader of the band, found out and he got a hold of me as he thought I was the right guy for the job. What was it about their music that attracted you? I like all types of music but what I liked about AraPacis is that it was …READ MORE