TNT Tony Harnell From here to Norway and back 

What an intelligent man who makes a lot of sense. I always felt the same that there is a saturation period and then it dulls down. Love TNT. I listen to it a lot.❤

Wow,...he really NAILED the explanation PERFECTLY. That's the best summary I have ever heard about this topic

13 minutes of Tony is just not enough 😉

TNT is such a great band. Saw them open for Loudness and Stryper at the Felt Forum in NYC.

10000 Lovers got a lot of airplay on the hard rock station I listened to in Palm Springs. I didn't buy the album until I heard "Everyone's a Star" on Head Banger's Ball. Tony, your vocals on the first verse are epic!

What a great singer Tony is, I support him 100% and wish him the best. TNT fan since the 80's.

I love Tony, always thought he was the best vocalist during the early TNT years. The power and range of his voice is remarkable.

Smart as hell dude and brought up so many good points. Dead on about the 70's.

Huge fan from the start…thankyou for being awesome!

Such a class act. Tony Harnell gives the best answer for the downfall of the late 80’s early 90’s hard rock/metal. Plenty of terrific bands during that era but as he pointed out, they all did begin to sound alike and that over saturation hurt even the big main stream bands.

The 70s were a very eclectic decade. One hit wonders. #1 hits from all types of genres. Big bands and great, great music.

one of my most favorite singers. I love TNT

Him hinting at the grunge era is so sad yet cool, I love how he mentions how the people of the genre hated it yet how he loved it purely because he watched the times move forward Infront of him with all new youth with a whole new sound. I also love how he reassures it wasn't grunges or the bands faults but the labels. Its good he confirms its sad the 80s mix of music died for a trend of copy paste grunge singers, but again like he said the big 4 of grunge and the start of 90s was truly amazing with how many other new sounds were appearing. It kind of stopped though and it was sad because 80s music never came back even in the slightest and music just kept getting subjectively worse. But for Heavy Metal in the 90s it instead went to extremely crazy technicality proven bands or heavy groove/death metal bands... or turned into Grunge ofc. In 1991 Kurt Cobain was such a ginormous figure the influence had already took over the music industry, yet all he wanted to do was make some music not end bands careers, crazy how fast stuff moves on, even 1990 it was pushing it for bands like Poison and Ratt to still be as big as they were, guess thats proof it really was Nirvanas doing lol. Either way TNTs monster energy will not be forgotten and will live on through the Kings of the Seven Seas!

Definitely one of the best, if not the best vocalist of that era. And TNT were criminally underrated. Tony is spot on as to why ‘80s hard rock/metal went away. I remember everyone was getting signed, and most of those bands were virtually indistinguishable from one another.

Man....im loving these interviews

Excellent interview.

Great perspective on things. We were huge (HUGE) fans of TNT (dramatic, darker, European metal), and my wife saw TNT on the Stryper tour. Sharp stuff here...now I gotta look up his solo stuff!

So true, great stuff, thanks for these interviews.

Tony. Really well spoken. Respect sir. Your albums rule!

Tony is a great guy. I still love TNT and I still listen to the albums. His vocals are amazing. How can anybody sing like that?

This was a great interview. Only wish there were more segments coming later. I loved Tony in TNT. Such amazingly insane pipes. Astonishing the high notes he could hit. Wow. Tony was the one singer that I felt gave Steve Perry of Journey a run for his money. I think Tony could hit higher notes than Steve. In fact, Triumph's Rik Emmett had a similar vocal range as Tony did. Although...I think Rik and Tony both could hit some pretty high notes in their heyday. And the band just didn't sound the same without Tony at the microphone anymore when they parted ways.

If I were a Label Executive, I would hire Tony Harnell...

I seen TNT open a show in 87-88. Had No clue who they were but my brother and me sat there and just looked at each other like who the F@#k are these guys!! My bro said his vocals were So powerful he was blow-drying my hair!! Anyway after that I was a Huge TNT fan ( bought All the Albums). If you haven't heard My Religion that came out in I think the late 90s Please check it out. To me it's possibly there Best work. Just incredible songs start to finish.

Well said Tony! Nailed it

I bought the Knights album without hearing it. I saw the cover and knew it would be awesome. I got in my piece of junk 1971 Ford Maverick, no AC, No power brakes, and put the tape in and was blown away. When “Tell no Tales” came out I lost my mind. That band should’ve been ten times bigger than any crappy 80’s metal band. The songs were awesome and the playing was off the charts.

The Westworld debut is still an awesome album. Tony's vocals are stunning on that, great tunes, memorable riffs from Riot's Mark Reale.. What more do you want from a great rock band.

That was some clever editing! I think it was only one camera but it never felt boring.

I saw them with the Rods at a club in Scotia, NY called Radio City!! I was sitting at the bar having a few beer and talking to them. All super nice guys!!

Very big thank-you for the sincere intervie!! For big light historical-legendary dialog!! Rock n roll dear!!! Health Health and Security!! Not surrender!!! In life in sport in music!!! I`like TNT very very too!! Hey?..In Norway?..Hello everybody!! I`love you everybody in Ameeruca too!! Not surrender!! I`very memory and very like Yours Everybody!!! Rock n roll!! Not surrender not one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a great interview & Tony Harnell is spot on with everything he is saying.

This was cool, thank you 👍👍🤘

I love you Tony!! Come to Brazil

I just found this channel, and I am glad I did. These are nice precise interviews. Thanks. Subscribed. 🤘

One of my favorite singers and band.

I was fortunate to see TNT on the Intuition tour in a 300 person capacity club. Best show I've ever seen - honestly.

Greatest voice in hard rock and metal. I've always agreed with his assessment. There were WAY too many Poisons in the late 80s/early 90s, and it's a shame, because some absolutely killer bands were lost in the shuffle and never got their due. And with the death of 80s metal, most people forgot about TNT and missed some phenomenal albums. I still listen to Firefly and Transistor consistently.

I met Tony at a record store called BLEEKER BOBS in New York when knights of the new Thunder had just come out on Vertigo records and was absolutely blown away by his vocal range which he had been flexing with a band called the Jackals at the Rising Sun in Yonkers N.Y. he had the singer that T.N.T. Prior to him had absolutely no range on a song called HARLEY DAVIDSON.

What an eloquent man. Man.

I couldn't name you one TNT song. But I like this guy .

Bought this album based on the cover alone….. great album!

The labels have themselves to blame. They signed too many bands that fit the "hair metal" mold. The first single was an up tempo rocker followed by a power ballad. I saw TNT at an outside venue as they toured in support of their breakout album in the USA. Tony had a fantastic voice.

He makes a great point. Copying a 'fad' was a no no way back when. The 70s rock bands were all unique. It was a magical time, that will never be seen again

Tony always had the biggest baddest thick 80s hair

Harnell nails it. Hard rock killed itself however it did come back just not as much in the public eye!

why hasn't oversaturation killed Rap and Hip Hop?

87 the platinum year for hard rock

Hi Good morning. Good to see you I had a stroke. 1 yr I have trouble speaking , but i can understand you. Thankyou, goodbye.

FINALLY the blame lands where it should..it aint Nirvanas fault, but the record companies who signed so many bands on their looks and flooded the market. And musical style will only last so long in the mainstream publics eye. Of course 80's metal had a time limit (like disco, nu metal, etc..etc..). And the record companies didn't help it any be forcing sounds, instead of like what Tony mentioned in the 70's letting bands be themselves mostly. How many of us have bosses that think they can do our jobs better than we can... great interview and damn Tell No Tales was on my turntable a ton and still is. The good thing is no one forces us to listen to anything..we can still support all these artist as much as we want even though there is no more MTV and airplay.

Great interview! I’d love to sit and chat with this dude. Every interview on this channel is great! The music industry, like Hollywood and almost every other industry has been hi jacked by evil people trying to manipulate culture. It’s coming apart though. Massive changes on the way, we just need to weather the storm. 🙏💕

Great interview! I've always loved TNT and T.H. question, does anyone know of any re-releases of "Tell NoTales" or "Intuition"?

To me there was always what was deemed popular. There were a lot of great bands that were playing some great stuff that wasn't being put on MTV which was really the way things went at the time. It was rare for a group like Helloween, Victory, TNT, and others to be played. Instead they played a few bands to death.

For me my favorite Tony Harnell album is not even a TNT album. The very first Westworld album he did with Mark Reale of Riot is AMAZING

Awesome singer 🤘

There are no bands I love more than my favorite 70’s and 80’s metal bands. And there are no bands I hated more than the generic, late 80’s bands that ruined it all. I won’t say any names because I’m sure most of those artists had their hearts in the right place and admired the same bands I do. But those groups made a joke out of anything metallic that existed in the mainstream. Thank God for thrash and extreme metal in all its forms for keeping metal alive after 1991. But I wish the bad, over saturated hair metal never happened so groups like TNT would have had the room to grow and respect from contemporary audiences. Tony definitely knows what he’s talking about and he is one of the best Rick vocalists of his generation. Hope he’s going well, living his best life.

Am i the only one who is seeing yellow lines behind tony or is it there really some yellow line background?

The labels and MTV killed hair metal back in the day. Nirvana did not have the skill and talent TNT had but labels were looking to sell something new and open up a new market. I would love to see Starbreaker Dysphoria on vinyl. Really good stuff!

Chuck Barris was the singer of TnT?

Not sure what he means that "Realized Fantasies" was done with the wrong producer. The album sounds great - heavy and polished. Unless he's referring to the choice of songs; but even there I think the songs are well written and executed. The album was simply too late in the game - the scene was over.

Van Halen killed it

Buffoonery videos and band killed that scene. The constant "hey we party and bang chicks" songs and videos got old and stupid. I couldn't relate to those bands. I actually like that stuff now but back then it was a joke to watch then jump around, hang all over each other, blonde swimsuit models in every video, etc etc. I listened to Iron Maiden, Metal Church, Slayer,Motorhead, Overkill etc because they were musicians in jeans. Oh well, I like alot of those bands now though I always did like TNT 1st album and Stryper was good and White Lion had a few good ones as well....just my two cents

It seems like Childs Play

Not really familiar with his band but he spoke a lot of sense here,could have listened to him for a lot longer

He isn’t wrong about he over saturation, a lot of good bands were overlooked. I have gone back and found some good ones.

He looks like Mark Hamill

Pretty interesting, but I wonder why he left out the fact the band continue to record in the mid to late 90’s. They tried to evolve, they released Transistor in 97’, and on that album they tried to sound like Tool lol. It didn’t work. In my opinion there were room for both classic rock and grunge to sell records, but again the record companies and the media fucked all the bands even their money cow Seattle bands

One thing, it's kurt cobain... TNT rock and I love them...

Everything Explained..

Just imagine if you couldn't sing and had to rely on your skateboarding............Who's Tony Hawk?

TNT Yngwie vs world of the dumb-down.

Nope , mtv killed it , period , they market to the 13 yr old, so they decided grunge was the next marketing cycle , both could have existed. The proof... mtv continued to allow Aerosmith and metallica ,and both bands remained successful thru the grunge era. Metallica was certainly not a hair band , but they were not grunge either

great voice - just don't look

I'll give a shout out to Van Halen Edward Van Halen one of the greatest guitarists of all time

He's completely right hair bands were a reaction to the skinny tye bands you could become like Duran Duran or motley n I was a rocker but it got silly after awhile.. you don't wake up n go okay guitar player your gonna have this length of hair n you drummer have it this long..it was a reaction to the times.. that's it he's right over saturation

Stop take a look deal with the moment ..

Overkill, not the band, definitely played a part but the masses are easily lead by the latest trend. Grunge was ok but I didn’t dig it for the most part and it definitely was a big factor in the downfall of party rock.

Hair Metal killed metal. Everyone was sick of the hairspray lipstick look. Too bad some really good bands were sucked into that category

Dude looking rough.

Kurt with a C cause it was curtains for y'all LOL

Nirvana poisoned hair metal music, grunge music sucked, people needed anti depressants listening to that crap

Why did didn't any of these guys just keep playing Japan? Make a living playing music to adoring fans...only American hair rockers would allow their pride to get in the way of their making a decent living. Trying to force the USA to love that style of music again, which by the way, never has since, is foolishness.

The best voice of this era. And he’s still got it

Great interview with Tony Harnell.

Tony is such a talent, and here we see he's also knowledgeable on the scene and it's history. Told it like it was, and is. He is the real deal.

One of my all time favorites. I have every album/band he's sang for. And even his solo stuff.

10,000 Lovers in one!!

Tony's explanation of the downfall of 80's Hard Rock was incredible I don't think I've ever heard an artist from that era put it any better

Great interview. It's hard not to love Tony. Clearly an intelligent man, tremendous talent, and somebody who appreciated the music that came in during the change from 80's rock to 90's grunge era. TNT is an incredible band.

Great job. Man he had some great perspectives on things. One of the best hard rock voices of that era.

Incredible Musician/Vocalist and a Stellar inspiration

Great video! His perspective and sincerity are admirable.

Realized Fantasies is my favourite TNT album. You make Norway proud 🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻

Forgot to mention all the crap/rap music they threw at us. So it was hard for young fans to get into all that cool rock/metal music because criminality gangster music started to poison the youth. At least now a days a lot of younger people are getting into all the classic rock!

It was very interesting observation of his on "the death of 80's metal". He is right. The market was so saturated with similar sounds. Ironically, grunge had even shorter life span.

Love Tony“ The Voice” he can still sing anything

When at age 10 I discovered Knights Of The New Thunder I was f***ing blown away by Tony's vocals (which were like nothing else I had heard before) and the cold, gloomy atmosphere of that album. Plus, they sang about vikings and guitar playing was awsome and intriguing to my young ears (Klassisk Romance). Personally, a breakthrough album back in the day.

Tony knows what's up- his timeline for the arrival and saturation of cheez whiz bands is spot on.

Great interview! Tony's descriptions of the band really took me back to when I was hooked and rocking the vibe. I had stumbled onto Intuition at the perfect time in ny life. Then I got Realized Fantasies when it came out, and went back for more and discovered Tell No Tales. Wow! I knew TNT were different and loved them for it. Sadly, it had to end. Thank you Ronni Le Tekrø, Morty Black, Tony Harnell, and Diesel Dahl. Everyone's A Star! ⭐

Tnt made some great albums and Tony Harnell made a great couple with master guitarplayer Ronni Le Tekro.

great interview :)

It's like I said all along when the radio suddenly moved on pop metal / radio metal in all of its forms had literally no more promotion but word of mouth and if it wasn't grunge it was going to be some form of alternative rock for sure that completely ate it. Then the alternative became mainstream and needed a second form of alternative music enter alt and a second pivot and complete homogenization of the genres for in my humble opinion remixing and we play everything station formats, Ben, jim, jack, mike, joe, etc. Also now 20 years makes a classic good luck with that. Yes you're right Jimi Hendrix is going to be played next to twenty one pilots because radio doesn't know how to make a musical transition anymore.