But yeah, I still have them, the white one and the black one. They've got all the scratches and everything on the back of the guitar. We just got them, so they're sort of hot off the press. As a matter of fact Axe Heaven just made a mini guitar of the black Hamer. Speaking of that era, do you still have that Hamer Explorer-style guitars you played onstage with the Runaways?įord: I do. That’s when we learned, and we just had a blast playing all of ‘em. You know, we just had a great time playing all those Runaways songs. So was “Waiting for the Night.” It had a good riff. Besides, “Cherry Bomb,” what’s a Runaways song you loved playing back in the day?įord: “Wasted” was fun. You also do a great version of “Cherry Bomb,” a Runaways classic everybody loves. It's so much fun playing those harmony guitar parts and the intro and we just rock it out. The Runaways were into a lot of crazy stuff, so the song fit, and I know the Sex Pistols redid it and Guns N’ Roses, so it's kind of made his way through rock ‘n’ roll history. Something cool about your live show is in addition to your material you do some great covers, like “Burn” by Deep Purple, “The Bitch is Back” by Elton John and “Black Leather” by the Sex Pistols.įord: Well, “Black Leather” was written for the Runaways by Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols. So I think it's all how you use a keyboard instrument or a synthesizer.
The stage rattles and the whole building just vibrates and it's just badass. Ross and when he hits that intro for “Kiss Me Deadly” the whole place shakes. But then when we play the Las Vegas, Los Angeles area, we bring out our keyboard buddy Michael T. And when we play live now, we don't have a keyboard or a keyboard player with us usually, so Patrick and I usually start the song together – he plays it on guitar, and I sing. And you don't know if that's a keyboard or some grungy Strat, it’s just so badass. If you look back at some of the some of the earlier bands like Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, say for instance, their keyboards were nasty. I mean, keyboards, it just depends on how they’re used, I think. The synth sounds awesome on there but since your music had pretty much always had a hard edge to it, were you hesitant at all to have synth so prominently on there?įord: Nah. I was curious about the use of synthesizer on the intro huge single “Kiss Me Deadly” from that album. You mentioned the Lita record and it’s a stone-cold classic, kind of like a perfect album. Everybody comes in and it’s just like, “Oh my god…” They’re all family, these guys, and we just had a really great time making that record. The Cheap Trick guys were there, and Dave Navarro and Billy Sheehan. And while we were recording, a whole bunch of people came in.
I’d met him during the making of the Lita record and George was just so great at the studio. I went in the studio with George Tutko, who was a fantastic engineer.
I thought they were great recordings and the public need to hear them. I really like the songs “Where Will I Find My Heart Tonight” and “King of the Wild Wind.” Were there a couple of those Time Capsule songs you were particularly stoked to finally get out there?įord: Yeah. Your 2016 album, Time Capsule, featured some very cool unreleased archival material.
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