Mike Tramp on Being Accused of Not Sharing Songwriting in White Lion, Interview

This is a full in bloom interview with White Lion singer Mike Tramp.
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Mike talks about the making of the album Fight to Survive, Vito Bratta, getting signed to Elektra in 1984 and songwriting issues within the band.
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Outro by FOOL OF FATE
#whitelion #vitobratta #miketramp #mötleycrüe #bonjovi

[@carriesitar9155]

Love White Lion and their music always and forever Mike Tramp and Vito Bratta made Awesome writing partners miss White Lion and guys forever love their music

[@user-ob7vn3kz6p]

My husband was the Tour manager in 2007...He loves Mike

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Vito is an absolute beast of a guitar player. He has always been one of my favorite musicians.

[@markherring3513]

The "Wait" solo is probably one of the greatest guitar solo's ever. I put it up there with Edward's "Beat It" solo.

[@safelyanonymous5717]

that solo is legendary

[@RS-qo1rb]

@@safelyanonymous5717yes and live he did it perfectly. I sat there in awe.

[@rmartin9426]

I wish KZbin would stop jacking up their ad’s sound volume relative to the content. Really annoying.

[@YtuserSumone-rl6sw]

Everything about YT has gone out of control, even how they do control you.

[@jimmycampbell78]

Get a free Ad Blocker. It’s a shame for the content creators but I have had enough of KZbin’s ad policy.

[@asylumrecordingstudios]

Ad blocker takes care of that

[@irocitZ]

How about right in the middle a song, a crappy add pops up. It really couldn't happen at a worse time, it's most likely done on purpose. To be honest I couldn't remember any of the adds on here even if you paid me, not a single one. I'm much to busy mentally blocking them out, seems to be working.

[@rattyguitars]

It’s one of the methods of Nicola and dime in the consumer. If you don’t like it, they make you pay for it for no commercials. Just like Amazon prime now is charging three dollars a month if you don’t want to see commercials. WTF!!

[@kevbev1524]

I bought their cassett in 86' probably, loved the music. Never knew about the original

[@Mikey_Sea]

Saw them open for Ozzy in '89 or '90 at Red Rocks. It was raining, and Mike Tramp came out prancing around in his spandex and slipped and fell on his ass. The crowd was brutal, man. Chanted 'OZZY' through their entire set.

[@Jakob-zs1qu]

Fight to survive is underrated. I actually have it on vinyl the imported copy. Love the last statement Tramp made. So true

[@kennethhacker3014]

This is one of two hair bands I liked.. every guitarists in the 80s had the same sound except white Lion and bullet boys..the lead guitar on waiting gives me goosebumps

[@abefroman70]

That first BulletBoys album hets played at least a few times a month. Not one thing even slightly bad is on it yet goes unnoticed. Freakshow is really good but sounds too polished in my opinion. Za Za was ok but everything after sounded like a demo tape. Crank up some Hell On My Heels dude!🤘🏼

[@paulthompson8642]

Thanks again

[@rustysilk685]

This band was absolutely great they should have been top dog

[@scottwhite2757]

Excellent !! ✌️

[@dalepiwek]

🤘

[@drummmmerfish]

i wasn't really into w.l. back then. i liked the hits but they were too lite for me at the time. however only recently i heard w.l. demos and they're much heavier and it changed my whole perspective on them. "if my mine is evil" is the heaviest song they're done. ahh what could have been...

[@fredfox3851]

There are a ton of great musicians who couldn't write a decent song to save their own lives. Often while they are out partying or whatever, the writers are home tearing their hair out to bring a song into existence. When that song is brought to the band the other members might write their own part but they are not the songwriters any more than studio musicians like Hal Blaine or Carol Kaye (who got zero songwriting credit though their parts might be major hit making hooks). Riding on the bus is different than driving the bus.

[@seagullpoet]

Fight To Survive - was wonderfully unusual at the the time. Wish I had seen them in concert - but no. Never happened.

[@psychopoison]

I wonder If Mike still in contact with Vito, Are they still friends ?

[@YY-mi9rf]

I never knew Mike (Danish?) had such a strong accent, after all these years, lol.

[@kaudsiz]

Schwarzenegger always has had a thick accent but Mike’s only seems to get thicker over the years

[@series3113]

This is my safe space. What are you doing here? 😎

[@MichaelKerr71]

"30 years later, where are their songs?", Umm isn't that the point of the other band members though?

[@heavi-armed-infadel]

Did Mike Tramp have a stroke or something? He sounds like Mary Jo Buttafucco

[@bb-gc2tx]

mike tramp stole billy squiers girlfriend and married her billy wrote song about it called love is a 4 letter word

[@TranceMasterJack]

How dare he!!!

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@TranceMasterJack her name is fleur thermeyer she was out fit designer for a lot of 80s bands and she was oilivia newton johns best friend

[@jimmycampbell78]

She probably got worried when she saw that MTV music video Billy made for one of his songs and started to wonder which side of his toast Billy preferred to butter. Can’t blame her

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@jimmycampbell78 lol probably shes the one who suggested the director to him kenny ortega she was friends with him he plays for other team lol he directed high school musical

[@anthonylove821]

Guess that’s why he’s a tramp lol😂 Vito looks like he’s done a ton of coke His nose is so puffy in the one pic on here He’s also been with Jessica Hahn who probably slept with all the 80s guys in the wild thing video. So that probably explains why his accent has changed over the years. She’s had so many nationalities in her anybody’s accent is going to change lmfao. Imagine if she screwed il divo back in the day, Mike would be singing opera in the theater lol😂

[@Powermad-bu4em]

I don't know who has the dorkiest Danish accent. Mike or Lars?

[@mg-ThisHandleIsSoStupid]

Definitely Lars

[@ncmetalmusic]

One of the wussiest of all the 80's bands. Crap like White Lion is what made it so easy for alternative rock to take over.

[@mandomendez5618]

I totally agree with you,u had these guys looking like chics running around in their spandex playing that cheesy pop metal music while you had black dudes playing that hard core rap music talking about the struggle 😂😂,a lot of those kids started listening to rap also

[@Amp_Expert]

@endez5618 - So says you guys living in moms basement and will never make it while Mike is worth $8M and Vito $5M driving around in Lamborghini's back in the 80's!! Why, we're going to listen to you and take your nobody opinion seriously!! LOLROF

[@mandomendez5618]

@@Amp_Expert I'm sorry but I grew up on real rock music,bands u probably never heard of, bands that put out some gd rock/ metal, bands like UFO,Riot,Moxy,Legs Diamond , Judas Priest,Rush,that Poison, Cinderella, White Lion,crap, that's just pretty boy music, Maki a joke out the rock music

[@mandomendez5618]

@@Amp_Expert bands like lron Maiden and Megadeth never got played on MTV and they're worth way more than 8/10 million

[@ryanjacobson2508]

​Maiden did get some MTV airplay.

[@acidburn1969]

Never liked them, light rock 😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@jerryallenvideographer7796]

Hey full Bloom, how about Reign in Blood engineer, Andy Wallace?

[@fullinbloom]

GREAT IDEA! I've hit him up about 5 times over the last few years but never got a response. By any chance, do you know him?

[@jerryallenvideographer7796]

@@fullinbloom I don’t know him personally but I’m a huge fan of his work with Slayer, White Zombie, Sepultura etc. I love his snare tones and overall production. I’ve looked on KZbin for interviews with him but all I find are professionals who show you how he achieves his sounds. Maybe he’s shy and doesn’t do interviews. I just discovered your channel and I’ve been really enjoying many of your interviews with guys like Beau Hill, Randy Burns and others. Well done sir.

[@fullinbloom]

I'll keep trying to land an interview with him. He's amazing. I love all those bands....I'm a HUGE Reign in Blood fan. We have a new channel on KZbin called full in bloom plus. I am going to post a lot of the engineer/producer longform interviews on there in the near future. I should start in the next month or so. Thank you for taking the time to listen, Jerry!

[@jerryallenvideographer7796]

@@fullinbloom nice! Yeah, the 3 albums he recorded for Slayer are their best. I love Reign, South of heaven and Seasons. Hell awaits would have sounded so much better even though I love Bill Metoyer as well. Wallace’s snare tones and overall crunchy production are my favorite. Even more so than Andy Sneap. Good luck. I hope you manage to lock him down. I’d love to video interview him for Tales From The Pit. I’ve gotten Randy Burns, Michael Rosen and a few others but Andy would be the holy grail of recording engineers.

[@fullinbloom]

Those are my favorite Slayer albums as well. I got to see them on the Seasons tour. I LOVED Show No Mercy. I have an entire LONG interview with Bill that I still haven't posted, where we talked about the making of Show No Mercy. The audio kind of sucks on it, but I'll release it at some point. I think I posted some clips, maybe where he talked about Hell Awaits or the EPs. What's Tales from the Pit?