GW The song “My Kind of Girl” sounds like a single to me.
HAGAR [laughs] That’s funny. Joe tried to have me go back and rewrite it ’cause he thought it sounded too commercial. I’m like, “Joe, there’s no such thing!”
SATRIANI Because I’ve succeeded so well at obscurity. [laughs]
HAGAR You know, there’s an old Eddie Van Halen statement: “They call it ‘pop’ because it’s ‘pop-u-lar.’ ” That’s a driving-your-car-fast kind of song. The minute I heard Joe’s music, I had it. I sat down and wrote it and nailed it.
GW The solo you do is very cool, Joe, that one sustained note really works.
SATRIANI I didn’t feel like I had to fill up the space with all these notes. I’m really excited about playing rhythm guitar, and that was a moment in the song where I could do that. It would belittle the song if I did a crazy solo. Less was definitely more there.
HAGAR Musically and emotionally, everybody in this band is very plugged in. The fact that Joe listens deeply and makes those kinds of connection is great. That’s the spirit in this band: everybody is so conscientious and considerate of what the other guy is doing. You can’t do that when you’re a young band. That’s seasoning. It comes with experience; it comes from doing this for a long time on a very high level. If people wanna call us a supergroup, fine, but it’s only because we’re communicating with one another in a way that other bands don’t. It’s about storytelling. It’s deeper than anything I’ve ever been involved in. It’s taken us a while to get here, but I’m so damn happy we made it.
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