I don’t know if we have that many comparisons with the other bands on the bill, but I have to stop thinking that we are unlike anyone else and just get out and play.NEW PHOTOS FROM FILM DEBUT OF L.A. I really want to give people good value, and it’s very creative marketing. You’re touring with AC/DC until mid-July, then with Ratt, MSG, Vixen and Contraband. I’ve always taken photographs and I’d like to put them together in a book with poems and songs, and some illustrations by Maxine Miller, who does illustrations for our albums. I had to play a druggie rocker from L.A., ironically enough. I did that for a while and it was quite easy. I was in a troupe and we went around Europe – France, Holland. I was kind of a troubadour/actor when I was a kid.
I would just love to continue to be creative. I try not to dwell in the past too much and I suppose I should think more ahead. Lewis : I’ve had to concentrate on what’s happening right now. He’s a very understated guy, a great guy, and a very good producer. “You should do this one.” “Oh, okay.” Now it’s like “This is the way we want to do it.” We had this attitude and a handful of songs and that was about it. I know my way around a studio and a song so much better than I ever did. You know more of what you want, you have more confidence, you can trust your instincts more. But in this business, and making this album, I’ve learned there are a lot of compromises, and if you’re smart about it you can generally be happy with the end result.ĭoes the recording process get easier each time you go into the studio? I would like to still be working on it right now.
If you are a real artist you can just go on forever. One of the things they taught me in art school is that you never finish a painting. In any piece of work, you always think about what you could have done. I’m happy with it overall and I hope it doesn’t come across like our arms were twisted to do these songs. We had so many good songs of our own, and everyone kept coming up with that magic word “variety.” Time was getting short, and I just wanted to concentrate on our own stuff. I didn’t think too much about it when I was working on my music, but when they started bringing in the Jim Vallance stuff it got really tough. We are not a progressive band, we just experiment.ĭid you feel pressure to have to top Cocked and Loaded? We did that on Cocked and Loaded too, we can basically put anything on an album because no one expects a certain thing from us. Lewis : When I work on an album I always envision people listening to it in their car, and I want it to be interesting for the whole tape. If it was up to me I’d put out “Over the Edge.” I hear every single track on this album as a potential single. “Big House” is Iggy Pop meets Velvet Underground, dark and gloomy, one for the Scrap Bar. “I Found You” is a love song, about people that have found their partner in life. It’s a fun song, a gambling, sex kind of song. He came in with the riff and we wrote the words together. They also wrote “It’s Over Now.” I like it now, but I fought like a tiger not to do it. It reminded me of Free, “All Right Now,” a summer Venice Beach kind of song. Mick went up to Canada and did some work with Jim Vallance, and came up with this piece of music that I thought was incredible. Mick and I came up with “Wild Obsession.” “Dirty Luv” was always called “Fire,” and that was the first song we wrote for the album, while we were on tour. For me, it has this childlike innocence, like a father looking at his perfect daughter growing up. I don’t really want to interpret what it’s about because I like people to have their own interpretation of songs but it seems to be something like how a person would feel on delivery of their first child. I try to get the, to concentrate and be quiet and it was really hard, but they did a great job. When we get together we are loud and crazy and noisy, we shout and scream. It was agony for me to bring in a song of that sensitivity. “Crystal Eyes,” that one of those agony songs. I just wanted something that was killer groove-y, I wanted a cool song. That was our desperate attempt to be black. If the band plays it and it feels right, I’m happy with it. “Kiss My Love Goodbye” was originally called “Biggest Breasts in the West.” Mick wrote the music and finished it with Steve Diamond. The first thing you come up with is always the best. Unless you feel strongly about changing something always stick with your first instincts. He also came up with the riff on “Rip and Tear.” We had three different choruses on “Some Lie 4 Love,” At the last minute we decided to go back to our original idea. “Some Lie 4 Love,” Mick came up with that riff.
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