Your first single on the new album is the funk song “Put Your Mouth on Me” – a great title, by the way, but your never specify in the lyrics just where you want that mouth placed. When we were writing songs for the album, Narada Michael Walden, who co-produced the record, asked...
“He handed me a stack of lyrics,” Pasqua recalls over Zoom from his home in L.A. “I’m reading through it and he’s talking about Bird [Charlie Parker] and Bud Powell, in addition to everything about JFK. I’m looking at him like, ‘What?’ Then we started pla...
AFFABLE MICHAEL ANTHONY SAYS HE WON’T PURSUE ROYALTY CASE OVER NEW VAN HALEN ALBUM: When David Lee Roth confirmed that Van Halen returned to the band’s vaults in search of old pieces of music and existing lyrics for a much-anticipated new album, it brought up the q...
Dokken: I can’t really speak for that – that was more of a song that Jeff and Mick wrote. That was kind of their baby. I just wrote some of the lyrics. I think it was George’s music, and Jeff and Mick wrote ...