What do I gotta be, a guitar player to come out of a band?” You know, I was playing with Edgar Winter and I was doing Ted (Nugent) and Rod (Stewart) and Blue Murder…but I couldn’t get a solo deal. and then I noticed that Jeff Watson came out of Night Ranger, and even in that climate, he got a solo deal. We used the name Zeus,we used this or that. So we were trying to find a name for the band. But in those days guys like that were just dinosaurs because the grunge thing was king. I hadn’t gotten it at that point and I was playing with Jeff Watson, Bob Daisley and Joe Lynn Turner. By the time 92 came, I was still trying to get a second solo album deal. “The Guitar Zeus records, these records I’m just releasing, I actually released them everywhere around the world, except here (America) in 95 and 97…25 years ago, Grunge was king. Was on the Ed Sullivan show in February of 68.” It’s was July of 67 when we hit the charts with You Keep Me Hanging On with Vanilla Fudge. And now, I haven’t been on the charts in ages, really, but my career’s still going. In July, it will be 52 years since I had my first hit single. I mean, I’ve been in the business 52 years now. On being in the music business for over 50 years Probably in a couple of months, we’ll do more, next month, you know, we’ll schedule three days, come in and we do it.” Yesterday we did some overdubs and our singer Jimmy KKunes came down and we’re working on vocals…So I’m going to the studio today, cuz it’s the last day…So, we’re gonna have seven tracks down. We’re going to put the bass down on the last three tracks we have, that we just wrote a couple of days ago. “I’m in the studio with Cactus the last three days.
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