Billy Idol

Somehow putting it all together was a hell of a lot of fun.

If you're a guitarist and you admire the person you're working with, that's all you need.

You can't help but be proud of it.

Right on.

The band you were in.

Sort of had a development deal with O'Coin at the time.

And I left the band that I was in.

We had an ill-fated record that was never released.

But I stayed with the coin management.

And Bill called me, I don't know, you know, at some point and said, hey, you ever heard of Billy Idol?

And by then, Dancing With Myself was being played, you know, five times a night in every club.

I went, oh, yeah, Generation X. And he said, well, he's moved to New York.

We're managing him.

You guys should meet.

Wow.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I went up to the office.

First of all, they sent over a copy of the Gen X record, and there were songs like Revenge on it and John McGeehan.

who had played guitar on it was doing all this kind of inventive guitar stuff.

And I went, I went, Oh, he's looking for someone who can really expand on the guitar, create textures.