Ronnie Vannucci Quotes

I don`t know if I`m allowed to say or not, but I think we`re going to do the album with (producers) Flood and Alan Moulder. We`re playing around with a bunch of different ideas, and we`ll never really know what anything will sound like until they`re done. I don`t think one would be expecting to have another `Somebody Told Me` on the record. But who knows? It`s not done yet.

We`re just looking forward to getting home, but it`s not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can`t wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

(Writing in 120 degree temperatures in the garage that became their rehearsal room provided a suitably intense hot-housing effect. And when they couldn`t get into the garage they`d use Ronnie`s spymaster knowledge to gain mid-night access to the facilities available at his University`s music school.) There was about 2000 sq ft of luxurious practice space complete with drum sets, marimbas, cymbals, pianos etc'¦ So, for about a month or two we lugged a Marshall to sing out of, a Deville to play the axe through, a Bassman for the keyboard, a bass cabinet for Mark and I used the UNLV pep drum band set, ... Though I`d like to make clear that no instruments were mistreated during this time as we are, and continue to be, respectful, professional and, last but not least, resourceful musicians.

I used to go back there with my poker-playing friends and eat really good food.

You Can`t Spell `Star` Without A&R.