So around 1995, I decided that I really
so in 1991, I think, I am not sure the exact year, it could have been 1992, but at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Cream played. They re- formed and played and I really wanted to see that. Well, I had been working with Stephen King at the time, the author, and he invited me and a date to go to that. This made me very happy because I wanted to see it and it was in L.A. So I asked the actress Bonnie Be- dilia if she would be my date because she had just finished doing a Stephen King movie, and she also loves music so I felt like it would be a good date. She accepted and we went there and all of these people that I had known for decades looked at me like I was invisible. All the work I had done my whole life didn’t mean anything anymore. The musicians that were playing spoke
but that was it. This reinforced the choice I made because it was definitely the right one. My life was much happier after 1989 because I didn’t have to deal with those rat-fuck peo- ple that make up the music business. That gave me an inkling of what was going to hap- pen to me for the rest of my life if I didn’t go back into the music business, which is what I definitely wasn’t going to do.
wanted to make another album and realized that I couldn’t get a deal if my life depended on it. It just ain’t going to happen. So I just kind of tucked it in, and felt like if that was the only problem I had from the whole thing that I could live with it. Then in 2003, I toured Japan with my band. It was so suc- cessful, the record company, Sony, who has my catalog, they came and asked me if I would like to make a new album. I accepted and even though it was in Japan with the in- ternet you can get it around. Get a Japanese record into America and people will buy it. Then right after that Steve Vai the guitar player, who has his own label, he came to me and asked to take that record to the rest of the world. That is miraculous for someone who is 60 years old. It’s like a miracle. I quit making solo albums 30 years ago because I got a chance to make an album with a new record company, that had an ad campaign, and got a publicist, they gave me tour support for a three month American tour, with a pretty big band.
I made a pretty good album, so I said if
this album doesn’t do well, then I am going to stop doing this. So here I had a really good album going but it wasn’t selling very well. I had this good album support from this record company, and I said I would stop and I stuck to that. Then after about 20 years I felt like I wanted to make another one, but couldn’t make it for another 10 years, until I got that deal. This one came out even better than I planned on it being. So that was great and for me that was a successful record. When you can fulfill how you think that the record should be. My mantra is if you don’t expect anything, you can not be disappointed. I ap- preciate your criticism and that you get it. Some people won’t get it.
How do you feel that the album turned out?
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