Ex-TNT singer Tony Harnell, who has been in and out of the group several times throughout its four-decade existence, has told “The Chuck Shute Podcast” that he doesn’t rule out a renewed collaboration with his former bandmates.
“[Guitarist] Ronni [Le Tekrø] and I, contrary to popular belief, we talk often,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “Ronni‘s not a big technology guy, but he really loves FaceTime video. And it’s kind of annoying, because I love him, but he’ll call me early in the morning, ’cause he’s overseas, so he’ll call me early in the morning [for a] video chat, and I’m, like, in bed. But I love the guy. Whatever happens, we’ll be on a beach someplace when we’re in our 70s, laughing and hanging out.
“Most of the things that pushed us apart — again, contrary to popular belief — are business related,” he continued. “I’ll just leave it at that.
“‘Never say never’ is a good way to put it [regarding a possible new TNT album]. And there might be a time and a place.”
Harnell‘s most recent split with TNT took place in October 2017, less than a year and a half after he rejoined the group. He later described his relationship with TNT in an “Unphiltered” interview as “a very long marriage. I’m here [in New York], they’re there [in Norway] — they’re across the pond really far away. It’s a very difficult situation to be in without having a very unified business organization, and no matter what I did, I could not get the thing unified. We were just on two totally separate not only continents physically, but mentally, psychologically, we were on two different continents as well.”
Harnell said that he “really, really wanted” his latest collaboration with TNT to work out. “In my opinion, this was gonna be it — we were gonna stay together until I didn’t feel like singing anymore,” he said. ‘I was gonna do other things and do other projects and so forth, but my goal was that TNT would be my band for at least another five years, maybe 10 years or whatever, until it ran its course. So this was kind of an unexpected thing.”
In a 2019 interview with “80’s Glam Metalcast”, Le Tekrø said that he was still on good terms with Harnell. “Definitely,” he said. “We talk regularly and we’re even discussing making a kind of Page/Plant album, a Harnell/Le Tekrø album, which could maybe lead into something in the future. But I think me and Tony Harnell — I’m speaking not on behalf of him, but on behalf of myself — we need a different playground to do more extensive hard rock with other ideas, whereas TNT is more limited to a [specific] sound. You see what I mean? So, we’re definitely buddies, and that will last forever. We don’t hate each other, and we never did. That was never the [case].”
TNT‘s latest studio album, “XIII”, came out in June 2018 via Frontiers Music Srl. The band’s thirteenth LP was TNT‘s first to feature new vocalist Baol Bardot Bulsara, who replaced Harnell. Baol is a Spanish singer whose debut with TNT happened in front of 8,000 fans in November 2017 when the band opened for German hard rock legends the SCORPIONS in Oslo, Norway.
