![]() And I always wanted to have a crack at it. If we were never going to do it, for God's sake, give it somebody else. Plus, "This Guitar," I've been begging Phil, on and off, ever since it was written which is now 19 years ago, for that song to be played somewhere. We really were that open-minded about how this was gonna turn out. But they got poured onto the table as well, as the two songs that I had written on a piano, one song that Phil had written on a ukulele. And Phil had been co-writing with other people just for fun, to see where he might play these songs. And we just threw everything on the table. Things that we decided to change after we gone our separate ways or whatever. We've never done an entire album like that but we've certainly done bits of an album like that. We've dabbled with it in the past, so it's nothing new to us. In 30, 40 minutes on the phone, we came to the decision that we should present to the band the idea of doing this entire record remotely. But as soon as the lockdown thing kicked in, I think so did our collective creativity. Maybe do an EP or hang on to them till after the tour and carry on from there. So, the idea was just to come up with two or three songs maybe, and see what we had. We would never gonna make an album in the time that we had between starting and the tour. So we're talking maybe four weeks, just to see what we're at. And we were due out with the stadium tour in mid-June. ![]() And the plans purely were to just come to my place for a month maybe, because we're talking 22nd of March 2020. But literally the day they were due to fly was the day that they introduced lockdown. But everybody was due to come and do their hamster wheel thing in my studio, which is what we've done on and off, mostly on, since 1989/1990, when I first built the place. Joe Elliott: It wasn't great at the beginning, because obviously we didn't know what was going on. Me and Joe especially, we were just having the best time ever, because there was no restrictions from an artistic point of view. I could be playing a guitar and someone's waiting for me. ![]() You didn't have any restrictions, no travel, waiting around for other band members. Because of the lockdown and everything else we were allowed to really be true artists, to let the flow really happen. Phil Collen: So we had the best experience we've ever had recording and writing. Steve Baltin: Did you guys do this album remotely because of COVID? ![]()
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