Did the reunion tour function as a real catalyst for the new music?
I actually thought we’d record before the tour [Laughs]. Due to the fact that rock records don’t sell the way they used to and there was definitely a market for STP live shows, we toured for quite awhile—a couple years on and off since 2008. We just played the hits. Even when I was in Velvet Revolver, it was my feeling that STP really wasn’t ever finished and we never officially broke up. If you look at it like a bookshelf with book ends, there was a book end missing. The story wasn’t completely told yet. From the beginning, our whole purpose and desire wasn’t to own Maseratis that go 185, it was to create a legacy. Mainly, we’re influenced by the greats of the past—The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin as well as what was going on in the late ’80s and early ’90s. That was the last time and, maybe, the only time that there will ever be a real movement in rock ‘n’ roll shook and woke up the youth. It woke them up in a social way and a political way. If you think about it, it
