Any crazy tour stories?
Are you kidding? There are SO many crazy tour stories, I can’t really go into it but lets just say that during the first NELSON tour, imagine this...you had two guys with long blonde hair fronting the band, you had a band that was completely supercharged with testosterone behind you, you were going all over the country on a deluxe tour bus...none of you were married at the time...you had the number one record in the world and you had success that was driven by glossy MTV videos. There were chicks absolutely everywhere. What I can say for myself is that it got to the point where just hooking up with a girl here and there got to be boring, so I had to spice it up. And I was looking for “interesting situations” and they got pretty interesting. Maybe we go into that in detail at a later time but I think that's an interview unto itself.
After getting so in-depth into his music, has your opinion of your fathers’ musical abilities changed?
Well, I don’t think it’s really changed, well yeah it has changed because it’s gotten deeper. Our respect for our Dad as a musician and as a songsmith was always very, very strong, but I think, now more than ever, its really interesting to hear how complex the basic rock n’ roll that he began his career with is and how much of an art form it is to make a song sound simple as an end result when it has so many complexities going into the making of it. Even the early stuff like ‘Travelin’ Man and Hello Mary Lou’ has some incredible stuff in it. There actually isn't even a drum sound in the original recording of ‘Hello Mary Lou’, which we never even knew. It’s actually a tenor guitar and you can only find out that kind of stuff when you take a song apart.
What is your favorite Rick Nelson song?
Well, my personal favorite song of our Dad’s is one I don’t even play live and isn't on this record. It’s called ‘Palace Guard’ and its on his Rudy the 5th record. But I think if you were to ask me what my favorite song is on The Like Father Like Sons record, it would be his personal comment to the musical industry and that would be “Garden Party”.
You have a very impressive and well put together Internet presence. What has been the response to your official website and has it changed the way you interact with fans?
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