What was it like supporting U2 on their Zooropa tour around that time?
I remember that I didn’t have my Telecaster. I had a ’70s white Strat, which got thankfully stolen from me [laughs]. So I was playing the wrong guitar, and with that strange line-up it was never going to gel in that big way. Things weren’t fitting, that’s what I think. Any other band that would’ve toured with that band [U2] – whether they were gelling or not – would’ve managed to use that platform to go onto greater heights. But that wasn’t going to happen for us. I think there were some forces working against us, to be honest. I think the fact that we were on the same label as the Beasts of Bourbon really worked against us. Had I had my time over again I would have maybe cut it off at the Axeman’s Jazz, and not done any more time with that band, or maybe just done the first three albums. Just being on Polydor, they just made all these decisions that just worked against us. It was quite clear they didn’t really want us. As an example, The New York Dolls were offered a deal with the sam
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