How did you end up landing Iggy Pop in the first place?
We’ve met up a couple times working out of The Hit Factory in Miami, and Chris Carroll has worked with Iggy and is good friends with him. He’s one of my idols, and we crossed paths a couple times, and it’d always been something in the back of my head. I really wanted to get that done this time and asked if he was interested. He was really interested, so I wrote a little part for him. CHRIS BARNES – VOCALS You mentioned “Bastard” – it’s a very interesting choice – a Mötley Crüe song, of course. What made you pick that song above all the other Mötley Crüe songs? It really just spoke to us on a level that felt right. It sounded like a song that could easily fit into our style and our vibe. I’m a big fan of SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, and I was a big Mötley Crüe fan back in the mid-eighties. It felt like we could do it justice and lend our style to it. Like I said, that’s another song that keeps things going. Just like the other tidbits on the record – the little flavorful bits. Iggy Pop’s thing i
