J-The next time I remember seeing you was in the band Nitro. How did that come
about?
B-I actually never officially joined that band. I was friends with (singer) Jim
Gillette and (guitarist) Michael Angelo and they asked me to play on
their debut record. We had a blast recording it, of course. They just wanted
everything over-the-top, which was cool with me.
And they were cool guys to hang with.
J-And
what happened with that?
B-Well, I just wound up doing that first record with them, then I got tied up
with a bunch of other projects.
J-After that you were in Nelson.. how did you hook up with the brothers?
B-I had met them a few years prior at the MTV awards and we would run into each
other from time to time thereafter. Then, once they were signed and ready to
put the band together, I ran into them at the "Whiskey" in LA one night and it
was like, "Bobby, what's happening? What have you been up to? Why don't you
check out what we've been doing?" and so forth. And that was pretty much it.
We started hanging out and doing some playing and the next thing I knew I was in
the band.
J-What was
it like in that band?
Any good road stories with them?
B-It was actually a very
cool experience. They put together a monster band; everyone could play their
asses off and we all got along really well. I have a lot of good memories with
Nelson and, yes, it's safe to say there were a lot of good stories from back
then.
J-How
many albums of Nelson did you play on?
B-Three or four, I believe. All of the first one, most of "Imaginator" half
of "Because We Can" and, if I'm not mistaken, a little bit of one of their
Japanese releases.
J-And why did you guys break up?
B-More than anything else, it all just kind of rode off into the sunset. There
was never a point where we all said, "Okay, it's officially over now."
Circumstances led us apart...
J-Still talk to any of the members?
B-Of course, all the members.
