Page Hamilton thinks a lot of journalists are sick of him being honest. These are rock records that influenced me as a young man. Lennon just has this sense of urgency in his voice. Helmet have a cover of this on Seeing Eye Dog. We did a couple of versions.
We did their perky drumbeat, and then we did a slower moshy kind of beat. Black Dog was one of the first. This was the first Led Zeppelin album that I got. I got two copies of the same album, so I went to the Pay Less drugstore where I used to buy my albums.
I actually tried shoplifting there a couple of times. In fact I did shoplift there a couple of times when I used to hang out with this hood named Rob Gibner. But only things like candy, when you were a kid. I loved the cover. My hand just gravitated towards it. I was supposed to meet them many years ago but Helmet got a call for a big tour.
I finally got to see them play and it was amazing. The first time I heard Highway to Hell I was Back then, speakers were the size of cars and there was the sound room, with sliding glass doors. He had the vinyl, we closed the door and put it on and cranked it. The song is not tuned to concert pitch. Is that what makes it so evil, creepy and scary? That voice, for me, is the number one rock voice. Bon is it. I just crapped myself. I listen to rock music. I memorised the lyrics.
I also met Pete Thomas and kinda made an ass of myself. We were all going to go to lunch but Pete decided to stay and work on a drum part. I was just waking up and powering on my computer on my hands and knees under my desk and in walks Pete Thomas through my living room. We exchanged numbers. I was going to give them a VHS of show a London show of theirs that he had never seen. But we never got it together. A genius band, though, which made me start thinking about rock music in a different way.
