United Rock Nations recently spoke with former WHITESNAKE and VANDENBERG guitarist Adrian Vandenberg about "MK II", the new album by his current band VANDENBERG'S MOONKINGS. You can watch the entire chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvl836lyAEs
Excerpt regarding Lyme disease below from the video above (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):
On the three-year gap between MOONKINGS' eponymous debut and "MK II":
Adrian: "It started, unfortunately, with me having caught Lyme disease. I gotten bitten by one of those little ticks in my garden. That took me about a year and a half to feel normal again, because it makes you feel really tired, and you have, like, a flu-type of feeling all the time. It's very shitty. There's no real cure for it. You get antibiotic treatment — during six months, I had five treatments — and finally, it got a little bit better. It took a long time. In the meantime, we were also doing the last part of the tour, so I started writing already. I had a lot of songs ready, but since I didn't feel the way I should, I wanted to perform, and not just play like this [imitates robotic strumming]... I feel really blessed that I actually pretty much got rid of it, because some people have it the rest of your life. It's really hard to predict what's going to happen, but in my case, I'm fine." http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/adrian-vandenberg-says-new-moonkings-album-was-delayed-after-he-contracted-lyme-disease/
There's a little new rocket fueling Adrian Vandenberg these days -- as evidenced by the new MK II, the Dutch guitarist's second album with his new band the MoonKings, that's debuting in its entirety exclusively below.
Vandenberg's first album with the MoonKings, a self-titled effort in 2014, brought the onetime Whitesnake axeman out of a 12-year hiatus during which he spent time painting and raising his daughter. But the quartet's debut and its subsequent tour made Vandenberg hot to get the band into the studio again for a follow-up.
"When the first album came out I didn't dare to expect anything," Vandenberg tells Billboard. "I basically wanted to make an album I would go out and buy with music that comes from my heart and comes to me naturally when I put a guitar in my hands and start noodling a little bit. So I was really pleasantly surprised and moved a lot of times by the response and the loyalty of people who like my music and followed my career. But apparently quite a number of people seemed to think the first MoonKings album was a one-off and I would disappear again, so I wanted to show what more we could do."
And Vandenberg is confident the 12-track MK II, coming out Friday (Nov. 3), shows how much he and the MoonKings have developed during the three years since the first release.
Vandenberg joined WHITESNAKE in 1987 and played with the group for ten years. In addition to playing on the studio albums "Slip Of The Tongue" and "Restless Heart", he performed the guitar solo in the group's best-known song, "Here I Go Again".
Moonkings new album "MK II" was released on November 3 via the Mascot Label Group.
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