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ever since I saw him in Badlands.

Now he's in Kiss.

It's like, incredible.

I don't ever try to play like somebody, per Se,

but you want to at least be...

Be reasonably respectful to the part.

People think just because I wear,

make up that was associated with

Peter Criss as the original drummer,

all of a sudden they think, automatically, that I'm

trying to act like him and play

like him. It's, like, "No.

Gene and Paul never said,

Oh, Eric, we want you to watch videos.

We need you to play more like Peter.

You need to do some..."

Never once!

It's so ridiculous that people say that.

I don't play like him at all, actually.

The only thing that I do in common

is I wear that cat make-up.

That's where it stops.

And the irony of the whole thing is that,

Peter and Ace didn't care about the make-up.

They sold the rights to Gene and Paul

because they thought it was worth nothing.

Hey, who wants to sit out there and play in clubs

and struggling their whole life? I don't.

All I ever wanted to do was play

in a big band since I was a kid.

That's what I dreamed of doing.

And that's what I've ended up doing,

and I'm very proud and happy about

all the things I've gotten to do.

I think it's cool.

The Alice Cooper Five finger death punch transition,

it really all comes down to my

relationship with Jeremy Spencer.

I was out there touring with Alice Cooper,

and he was in LA playing the clubs.

And they were starting to pick up

heat and momentum quite quickly.

And when I would come off the road with Cooper,

I would go see them play in the clubs.

And I remember sitting there

watching them play, going,

"I don't want to be left out of this.

This sucks."

Jason, you know, he was supportive from day one.

He was at our showcase that we got signed,

and he was at our first gig we played.

And we were starting to have

problems with our guitar player.

So, I'm like, "Hey, man, there may be

an opportunity for me to get you in this thing

if you're serious about it."

[Hook] And he was like, "Well,

I just wanted to let you know.

We can't afford to pay you Alice Cooper salary."

And I was like, "I don't care about that.

Money will come.

Money can be earned in other ways.

It's not about... it's about grabbing,

the right wave.

The one that you believe in,

and have a great time riding it to the shore."

Everybody was, like,

"You really understand what you're saying, right?"

Like, "Do you really wanna go do that?

Do you really wanna travel around in a van

and eat bologna, and play heavy metal?"

I was like, "Yes, I do.

Absolutely, one hundred percent."

Because I knew their potential.

I had arranged to speak with Alice.

And he was so cool,

he was just, like, "You know,

I always encourage my guys

to swing the bat, man,

go out there,

take your best shot."

All these guys leave with my blessing.

"Go, and be a big star."

Jason took that step and now he goes,

and jumps into a band that's

just on the cusp of making it.

And he puts that final...

That final touch that makes it happen.

So Jason had joined Five finger, I'm thinking,

"Okay, you're joining on the trajectory

on the way up, so there's...

You're taking a shot that this

thing is gonna win big."

And I tell you, you gotta hand it to him, man,

because he signed in at the exact right time.

[Spencer] A lot of the core ideas

of some of our radio hits,

have been from Jason...

and you know, I'm really grateful that he's

has the ability to do that.

Six years later,

you have seven gold records,

one platinum single,

five number one songs,

and we're embarking on the

biggest tour we've ever done

headlining arenas.

[Kael] Death Punch is one of the last few

hard rock metal bands

that is actually able to make the

amount of money that we're able to make

and have the huge audiences that we have.

I mean, people are still buying our records.

In a time when nobody's buying records

we're still going gold,

as a hard rock heavy metal act

with songs called Burn Motherf***er.

Five hundred thousand copies of Burn Motherf***er?

Very, very fortunate.

[Hook] it's like,

your whole life you are writing songs

trying to perfect the craft of making music,

try to develop your skill.

And when you finally get a chance to do it for real,

and people respond to it,

to the point where they're willing

to show up at an airport for,

and wait for eight hours for your plane to arrive

just so they can see you in person.

That's...

You can't pay for that.

For years I've been like, "I don't

wanna be a side guy anymore."

And even if my band remains underground

I'm cool with that.

I can do sessions playing on cool records,

meet cool people,

and do my own band.

But, how the f***,

do you say no to Bon Jovi?

I love making music.

And if somebody calls me up and says,

"I have $200

and I really, really would love you to do,

guitars on this track."

And I'm, like, "Send it to me."

And they send me the song, and the song's good

and the person was really sweet,

I'll do it for nothin.

But if somebody sends me, "I have $300,

and I want you to play on this. I

know you'll take it to the next leve."

And I listen to it,

and I can't stand the song,

"I can't do it."

I feel like I'm nickel and diming my soul.

Because, when you pay me 300 bucks,

you're not getting Phil X for three hours.

You're getting what it took me my entire life,

to cultivate into these hands in this heart.

I can't play on a piece of sh*t for $300.

["Sunny days" playing]

One eye on your shaker One ear to the ground

Your doctor says you got

A mult-personality disorder

The choice is in your hands

Your voice on my dic-taphone

I got me some evidence And the girls sing

Wop wop doo wah

Sunny days Were made for you

Oh oh but everything you do

Downward spirals into blue

All I can say is Pound for pound the b*tch Crazy

Pound for pound the b*tch crazy

She's out of her Goddamned mind

[Rudy] I made the decision to go

from the biggest band in the world,

Ozzy Osbourne,

to the total unknown Quiet Riot.

It wasn't even really a leap of faith because,

I mean, I have faith in Quiet Riot,

that we could sell maybe 50,000 records a year

and make a living, play, you know...

We didn't aspire for anything bigger than that.

We just wanted to make another record.

So, we have Metal Health finished.

Ready to be released.

And we couldn't find a manager.

We would say, "Listen to this record."

"Eh, I don't know, that kind of music

I don't think is really ever gonna come back."

So, our beginning with Quiet Riot

was very, very humble beginnings.

We were driving ourselves in a station wagon,

playing up and down the pacific coast.

And by the time the tour ended,

we were in Denver and the promoter Barry Faith,

who was actually booking

the acts for the US festival,

needed a band for the metal day

because somebody,

was out of the line-up and they had a gap,

so, it's like they asked us to do it.

So, we say, "Yeah, we'd love to do it."

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