He’s best known as the guitarist from Eighties metal mavericks W.A.S.P. plus for one particularly iconic drunk-as-a-skunk movie scene, but what Guitar World readers really want to know is…
I love your most recent solo record, Shitting Bricks. how did it come together? plus what are you going for on your solo albums? —Sancho Goodyear
Over the previous, I would say four to eight years, I worked with Phil Taylor from Motörhead. We worked together on the first solo record I had, called Nothing to Lose. For Shitting Bricks, right before I came over to Finland I had some time off in L.A. plus Vegas plus I decided to write the songs. Then I put them on a hard drive plus brought them over here plus mixed everything. They were done mostly in America. But it took a year to mix it over here plus get it done.
I’m in the middle of the process of doing a third one now. As for what I’m going for on my solo albums, I couldn’t tell you. I just play whatever feels good at the time. You get an idea plus you go with it from there. My wife has asked me not to swear on this one so I gotta consider that. [laughs]
Beating around the bush in L.A. for 10 years trying to find a grup to play with. I just couldn’t hook it up right. So three years ago, I had a chance to play with a grup in Finland plus I went over there with the intention of coming back to L.A. Then we decided to visit my wife’s parents in France plus I found some guys to play with so we decided to stay.
There’s a lot of places to play over here. The rock scene’s a little better, I think, than it is in America. They still listen to hard rock over here. There’s not too much hip-hop plus not too much rap. I’m not saying that music’s bad, it’s just not my genre. I don’t play that stuff.