LAST IN LINE L-R: Andrew Freeman, Vivian Campbell, Phil Soussan & Vinny Appice – Photo: Jim Wright
“I Don’t Go for That Sh?t, If you Got Something to Say, Back it Up.”
— Andrew Freeman to his former band-mates in Last In Line
June 1st 2026 — Rock drummer Vinny Appice shared details in an interview in recent months that LAST IN LINE had parted-ways with vocalist Andrew Freeman.
Rock Celebrities shared news in early April that Appice told the Denim and Leather podcast; “We’re looking for a singer for Last In Line,” Appice said. “So, Phil [Soussan, current Last In Line bassist], Vivian and myself, we’re on the lookout and listening to different singers.”
The word traveled fast and soon enough multiple outlets had picked up the news.
Now Freeman has went on the offensive and shared his feelings on how things unraveled and he’s not holding back, essentially putting his former band-mates on full blast with F-bombs included.
Freeman was a guest on the Hard Rock History Show and in the near 2 hour interview which was just released earlier today, the singer unloaded a few feelings that seem to put Vivian Campbell, Phil Soussan and Vinny Appice all in the singer’s cross-heirs.
The New York native isn’t short on words when his former band becomes part of the conversation which was transcribed and shared by Blabbermouth who quoted the following: “I’m surprised at how it went down… But that’s those guys. That’s the three of those guys. They can’t do anything face to face… But all of this stuff could’ve been fixed with a conversation. It’s plain and simple. And I’ve had arguments with Vinny on the phone over the years. But he’s from Brooklyn; I’m from New York. You’re shout talking. You’re shout talking, and then it kind of, like, ‘Look, this is what I mean.’ And we always had [the kind of] relationship [where we] could get through stuff, because he’s talked me off the ledge sometimes and I’ve talked him off the ledge sometimes. He was a good friend, and maybe he still is. I don’t know. I don’t hear from him. But you don’t really hear about Vinny talking shit about people when he does interviews, but he’s talking shit about me now. And I don’t go for that shit. If you got something to say, back it up. Call me. Fuck, call me. We’ll talk it out. Even if it doesn’t fix the band, we’re still in business together.”
Outlining his contributions to LAST IN LINE in the 13 years that he had been in the band, Andrew said: “I created that branding for that band, I toplined all those songs, I wrote all those — more than 50 percent, sometimes, of some of those songs, and gave away publishing so it was like a VAN HALEN split, where everybody gets 25 percent of what happens, even though 50 percent, if not more, happened in this room [in my home studio]. The vocal tracking, the arranging happened in this fucking room. With no hesitation I’ll tell you I did more work on those records than any of those guys did. And they can fucking say whatever they want, but they’re full of shit. Because when you walk in and put maybe three or four days to track a record, and then you leave and you don’t come back to it, and then you leave it to somebody to make these fucking things songs, that’s not an easy task. And somebody’s gotta be able to do it, and I was the guy who did it.
Circling back to the way he was fired from LAST IN LINE, Freeman continued: “But, yeah, I’d rather just have a conversation about it and get it done and keep it out of this. So when a guy who doesn’t talk about anybody else all of a sudden gets a bug up his ass because, for whatever fucking reason, it’s hard for me to kind of get my brain around that because, again, I did the songwriting, I did the branding. All the merch designs I did. I’m a partner in the company. I’m not a hired guy. I’m a partner. So I have to resign from the company in order for them to move on.”
After the interviewer noted that as a partner in the LAST IN LINE business, Freeman is still “owed a piece of the action”, Andrew concurred. “Of course I am,” he said, adding that he expected his LAST IN LINE bandmates to treat him with more respect. “Just be cool. If you’re not happy with what I’m doing — believe me, I’m not super happy with you guys either, because you’re affecting my career. And getting back to [when I was briefly in] GREAT WHITE, there was a guy [in LAST LINE] who called the agent and said, ‘Why are you trying to poach our singer [for another band]?’ Like, trying to poach our singer? What are we doing? Should I call DEF LEPPARD‘s manager, and be, like, ‘Hey, why are you poaching our guitar player” — referring to Vivian Campbell — “for our dates? Why is our guitar player leaving in the middle of a U.K. tour and flying back to L.A. to announce a MÖTLEY CRÜE/DEF LEPPARD mega tour while I’m sitting in a hotel for four days waiting to go back on the road, not getting paid?’ We’re supposed to be patient for each other, we’re supposed to work together, especially on a project that is a glorified side project. It was a full-time job for me, doing the web site and doing the social media — like, all of that shit is me. So you’re gonna get rid of me? Cool. Write me a check. Cool. Be cool about it. Say, ‘Hey, we wanna work something out.’ Don’t just give me a letter, like, ‘Don’t worry. We’ll send you a release that you can sign.’ Like, fuck you. Fuck you. I don’t have to do anything. It’s gonna cost you more money. So that’s fine. Whatever. Anyway, I’m probably saying too much.”
Freeman is now part of a Dio tribute called Dio Rules which features Freeman on vocals, Angus Clark, Mark Klett, Winston Roye and Matt Starr.
Ready, Set, Ronnie.
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