8. The Rolling Stones Frank ZappaIt’s Only Rock ‘n Roll
We have to put a Stones record in there too for good measure. The times I drove down to LA in ‘84 I probably listened to that song 75 times – probably a lot more actually – on my little ghetto blaster in my car. It was kind of the soundtrack to my life that year, again it was another record that got me through a big sea change in my life. There are lots of good Rolling Stones records but that one was given to me at the right time in my life.
Playing with them was a big thing of course and we were really built up way beyond what we wanted to be. I was just happy to be opening for The Rolling Stones in any way at all, but someone in the LA Times wrote it up and had a picture of us like we were going to be the next Rolling Stones. It was ‘88 or ’89, we were young guys and how do you handle that? Imagine that pressure, if you’re 24 years old you just want it to go away. And I was thinking, "I hope none of the guys from the Stones see this article saying we’re going to be the next Rolling Stones…"
