I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.