{"id":2375976,"date":"2026-04-16T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2375976"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:45:26","slug":"yts-dave-meniketti-says-it-will-be-easier-for-him-to-work-on-new-music-after-recently-moving-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yts-dave-meniketti-says-it-will-be-easier-for-him-to-work-on-new-music-after-recently-moving-to-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Y&#038;T&#8217;s DAVE MENIKETTI Says It Will Be &#8216;Easier&#8217; For Him To Work On New Music After Recently Moving To Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>During an April 15 appearance on <b>SiriusXM<\/b>&#8216;s <b>&#8220;Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk&#8221;<\/b>, <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> frontman <b>Dave Meniketti<\/b> was asked about the possibility of a follow-up to the band&#8217;s latest album, <b>&#8220;Facemelter&#8221;<\/b>, which came out in 2010. He responded (as transcribed by <b>BLABBERMOUTH.NET<\/b>): &#8220;Well, the [other] guys [in the band] would love me to say, &#8216;Okay, let&#8217;s get together and start writing for the next record.&#8217; They&#8217;re secretly \u2014 [or] not so secretly \u2014 talking behind my back and saying, &#8216;That motherfucker.&#8217; [<i>Laughs<\/i>]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Meniketti<\/b>, who recently moved to Italy with his wife and manager <b>Jill<\/b>, continued: &#8220;No. I have been in flux the last couple of years with my life as far as where I&#8217;m living and what I&#8217;m doing. And it&#8217;s a little bit tougher for me to sit down in one spot and just concentrate on writing. Now it&#8217;s gonna be a little bit easier &#8217;cause I have indeed sorted that situation out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Referencing his new home in Italy, where he previously identified the medieval hill town of Gubbio as his ancestral homeland and frequently visited family there, <b>Dave<\/b> said: &#8220;When we first bought this place, my wife and I said, &#8216;We&#8217;re not gonna tell anybody.&#8217; Because first off, I don&#8217;t wanna make it sound like, &#8216;Oh, you bastards,&#8217; that kind of thing. But then everybody comes up to us and says, &#8216;Hey, man, I heard you moved to\u2026&#8217; And I&#8217;m, like, &#8216;Oh, Jesus.&#8217; You you can&#8217;t keep anything a secret. [<i>Laughs<\/i>]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <b>Dave<\/b> told <b>Bill Kopp<\/b> of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metrosiliconvalley.com\/y-t-poppy-jasper-icon-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metro Silicon Valley<\/a> about the likelihood of new <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> music: &#8220;Album releases don&#8217;t mean what they used to mean. In the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s, you made a big release, and it was part of getting airplay and booking a tour.&#8221; And while diehard fans would likely enjoy hearing some new music from <b>Y&amp;T<\/b>, &#8220;Will that sell more tickets?&#8221; <b>Dave<\/b> asked rhetorically. &#8220;And will it make us any money? No, not really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, <b>Meniketti<\/b> didn&#8217;t completely rule out a new <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> single or album in the future, saying: &#8220;It&#8217;s not as simple as saying, &#8216;Hey, let&#8217;s go to a rehearsal studio, get together and write some songs.&#8217; But it&#8217;s absolutely a possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, <b>Meniketti<\/b>, who went public with his prostate cancer battle a year earlier, said that he was in complete remission after receiving radiation.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> was forced to cancel its previously announced European tour in order to allow <b>Meniketti<\/b> more time to recover from the radiation treatments.<\/p>\n<p><b>Meniketti<\/b> discussed his diagnosis and treatment during an appearance on an April 2022 episode of <b>SiriusXM<\/b>&#8216;s <b>&#8220;Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk&#8221;<\/b>. <b>Dave<\/b> said that while prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in men, with one in eight men getting it, it is also one of the most treatable, with a survival rate of over 90 percent after 10 years. &#8220;This is one of those cancers, if you catch &#8217;em early, you can be one hundred percent fixed \u2014 it&#8217;s over; it&#8217;s done; you&#8217;re sorted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, sure, it could come back at some point, but even if it does, they can treat it again. You usually outlive this cancer, if you get it early enough. So, luckily, I <i>have<\/i> gotten it early enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Meniketti<\/b> is the only surviving member of the <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> lineup \u2014 then known as <b>YESTERDAY AND TODAY<\/b> \u2014 that recorded the band&#8217;s self-titled debut album.<\/p>\n<p>Original <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> rhythm guitarist <b>Joey Alves<\/b> died in March 2017 at the age of 63. Two founding <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> musicians \u2014 drummer <b>Leonard Haze<\/b>, 61, and bassist <b>Phil Kennemore<\/b>, 57, who both had left the lineup \u2014 died from complications of lung cancer: <b>Kennemore<\/b> on January 7, 2011, and <b>Haze<\/b> on September 11, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><b>Y&amp;T<\/b>&#8216;s current lineup is rounded out by guitarist <b>John Nymann<\/b>, drummer <b>Mike Vanderhule<\/b> and bassist <b>Aaron Leigh<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Facemelter&#8221;<\/b> came out in May 2010 via <b>Frontiers<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>An EP featuring acoustic arrangements of <b>Y&amp;T<\/b> classics, <b>&#8220;Acoustic Classix Vol. 1&#8221;<\/b>, was made available in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v11.0&#038;appId=135550159971166&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" nonce=\"VbNNtGBA\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source blabbermouth.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an April 15 appearance on SiriusXM&#8216;s &#8220;Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk&#8221;, Y&amp;T frontman Dave Meniketti was asked about the possibility of a follow-up to the band&#8217;s latest album, &#8220;Facemelter&#8221;, which came out in 2010. 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