Hardrock Haven: How did you meet Jason Bonham?ĭaniel: “At the time Chris Michaels, a D.J. How did your involvement with the band come about?ĭaniel: “I had started out taking guitar lessons from Terry Baker, the band guitarist, then eventually I began singing for the band, we all had a good chemistry, oh and we showed up for rehearsals.” I figured at the time, as well as James Brown, mother said this could not be as I was not black, my dad tells me of times when at five I would be jumping up and down in the backseat of the family wagon, shouting out “hey dad play black dog again”, “play black dog again”, as he was fond of Led Zeppelin, among others whom influenced me, he was as well fond of Marty Robbins, Roger Miller, Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart, so as to defining moments john you might find these amusing.” Hardrock Haven: Is there a defining moment that set you on your path to become a singer?ĭaniel: “My mother reminds me of singing into the vacuum cleaner, between the ages of 3 to 5 as I was going to be one of the Jackson Five. Hardrock Haven: What bands were you into growing up?ĭaniel: “AC/DC, Ozzy Ozbourne, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Doors, The Who, again some here are solo artists, but you get the idea again, too many to mention.” I also had a few uncles who played guitar and sang, one uncle in the family used to play the Horse Shoe Tavern in downtown Toronto for a span of thirty years, my dad knows the details on that more than I.” Hardrock Haven: Were you raised within a musical family?ĭaniel: “Apart from what I listened to as to what my parents, John Stewart MacMaster, Lorraine Carol MacMaster were playing as I grew. Hardrock Haven: Who inspired you to become a musician?ĭaniel: “Jackson Five, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvyn Gaye, Billie Holiday, Rod Stewart, Terrence Trent ‘Darby, Freddie Mercury, Seal, Robert Johnson, Sun House, Mississippi Fred McDowle, …there are so many artists, I have only named but a few here.” Heroes of the night – A Tribute to KISS’ Creatures of the Night (2008) w/ Emerald Monkey Revisited : Daniel MacMaster 2003 Interview with Hardrock Haven.Rock Bonham…And The Long Road Back (2005) solo.The Disregard of Timekeeping (1989) w/ Bonham.MacMaster left behind a wife and two children, Kaleb and Aryanna. Plans to release an album and play live shows were cut short when MacMaster died on March 3, 2008, from complication of a Group A streptococcal infection at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada. His first solo album featured seven new songs that were written by MacMaster and included four unreleased songs that were recorded during his days in Bonham.Īt the time of his death, MacMaster began working with Connecticut-based singer/songwriter Jimmy D (Emerald Monkey). MacMaster was off the musical map until ’03, when he returned and released a solo album called Rock Bonham … And The Long Road Back in ’05. The band only recorded one studio album, No Thanks, which was released two years after Mad Hatter in 1994. Prior to joining Bonham, MacMaster was in the band Scorcher, a Blues-based hard rock outfit.
The Disregard of Timekeeping, produced by the acclaimed Bob Ezrin, went gold and delivered the band two hit singles, “Wait For You” and “Guilty.” The success that followed kept the band on the road touring and promoting The Disregard of Timekeeping for three years before returning to the studio to record Mad Hatter. 38 on the Billboard charts) and 1992’s Mad Hatter. Bonham released two albums: The Disregard of Timekeeping in 1989 (which peaked at No. Daniel MacMaster, born in Barre, Ontarion, Cananda, in 1968, tasted success in the late ’80s as the vocalist for Jason Bonham’s band Bonham.
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