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som just in time for this record put a really big smile on my face. Because I know how bad Steve wanted to get back in the group originally.


Yeah,he had Ghost Riders, which was a cool outfit, but I always felt like he re- ally wanted to be in the Outlaws. He just really felt like he belonged there and sure enough, he did. Yeah, and it was the one venue for him where he had a chance to really sort of stand out and shine. It wasn’t Lynyrd Skynyrd. That proba- bly wasn’t his kinda group, it was more a re- ally good fit for the Outlaws. So when Dale came into the band, Dale and I and Steve and Billy started writing and putting this new album together, ya know it was just very, very rewarding to me to see Steve shine. He just had some very memorable contributions to different songs on the record and I thought he distinguished himself as a signer on a cou- ple of songs on the record. I knew that the creative character of the group had gone about as far as it was gonna go in that other band, the band before Dale joined it, because Billy (Crain) and I were more or less the cata- lyst for It’s About Pride, and getting Dale in the band, Dale and I and Steve worked hard at songwriting. Billy contributed to a few things. Dave was more in the arrangement realm with Randy, but the band is just - God, we were getting into the second half of that album in the studio and it occurred to me that


with all of us, what a great band it is. Bands are more than just musicians playing music, it’s more of a - there’s a difficult part to the equation that isn’t an album credit. More of an unspoken quality that goes into making a band great. The Outlaws were like that com- ing up in the clubs ya know, and The Outlaws this time around in the studio was exactly the same thing. Getting Jaron Sorenson into the band, his playing was just incredibly impor- tant to the group on that record and out there on the road. Back the first time Steve was in the band, it was difficult to be out of vogue and be trying to make a record that had any glimmer of hope in connecting with an audi- ence, because in the mid ‘80’s The Outlaws could not have been more out of style. I don’t know where all the Outlaws fans were in the mid ‘80’s but we played the small audiences and we played just as hard every night in smaller clubs and situations like that, but Steve’s departure from the band was more, I think it came on the heels of some frustration. It wasn’t like he was sick or anything, but when he came back into the Outlaws the sec- ond time, he was like a different person, he was just so happy all the time. His laugh was so infectious, I just don’t think the timing was right for Steve in the band that first time. Even though he contributed significantly to the Soldiers Of Fortune project, it just wasn’t the right time for Steve and really for the Out-


Billy Jones and Henry Paul back in the day.


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