Alexxis: Absolutely, what about this new con-
test about the video?
Paul: Well, we released the tune put it out on
Spotify and I believe we put it on our website
and people could listen to it and download it.
We just said the person who makes the best
video will win this guitar and we showed a
picture of the guitar that the band has signed,
if we are in your area comeback stage bring
your family and we will party you know. So
it turned out the winner just lived outside of
Houston we were playing a private show in
San Antonio and we told him what we were
doing, so he came out and brought his wife
and daughter and basically just stood back-
stage. We got together with them before and
took a bunch of pictures and gave him the
guitar and gave him a few shirts, hats, drum-
sticks and whatever we got. So then we got
the inside scoop on that and hung out with
them. He went home happy and we went on
to our next gig. It was for the song what's in it
off that same bunch of tapes that Unfinished
Business came from and I went back after-
wards after Unfinished Business was com-
pleted & released and wondered if there were
any more gems lying in there. I got through it
and I heard “Stop The Rain”, I know the vocals
were complete and everything it didn't have
any guitar on it it had keyboard, bass, and a
little bit of drums. I said you know what?, I
think this is Doug's tune, so I made a quick
mix and sent it to Doug and said is this your
tune,and he said yeah that's my song. I said
okay great! is it cool we finish it and put it out there? He said go for it!, so we did. We put it up and we had a few
entries and we thought that the guy with the space aliens I thought was hilarious when I saw it, and I thought it
was really cool, how was it going to end? Will Loverboy get eaten by a five-headed monster, I don't know what
will happen. I'm a big science fiction fan, so it was a no-brainer for me this guy's got a great sense of humor and
is really cool, so everybody agreed management and the band both thought it was cool.
Alexxis: so now, I see pictures of you and I Heart Radio 80s party with Billy Idol ,Boy George, Dave Bozzio from
Missing Persons and a bunch of other 80s artists. It looked like it was a lot of fun.
Paul: Yeah it was we played three songs.
Alexxis: Where was that at?
Paul: It was at the Forum at the refurbished LA forum. I think it was one of the first shows they had since the
redesign. It was great, I mean Billy Idol, Steve Stephens, are you kidding me what a great guitar player. I'm his
biggest fan, he's a great guitar player alive and on record and I had a really cool time one time they came through
Vancouver, before I met them and our monitor guy who runs our monitors was running their monitors Billy
Idol's monitors, so he arranged for me to meet Steve so I came up on stage being his biggest fan like a little kid
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