"Donna was produced and mastered there down in old Soho.The original tracking done at Colorama Studios with Kevin Knoll producing.I do not like to switch studios in the middle of a session project although sometimes it cannot be avoided.And Colorama was a lot of fun to work at,I will be back there again.But Abbey Road South is a spaceship.Compact yet technically advanced total state of the art.With a grand piano tuned after every session.Geared primarily as a mastering lab but functional as a studio.I am so elated,I started off so inspired later to become so tired,it is a really long haul.I have not been really active for quite a few years.I could not find anything I was comfortable to work with and I don't want to have a band anymore.Man I am just so over that shit.Any band is eventually a bad marriage,for a time it all pulls together and that is great but one day it is going to pull apart and you have to be ready to overcome that.Somehow,I don't know because you are so closely relying upon eachother and co-dependent to exist so when one decides to pull the other way it effects all.In a successful band everyone for a time is pulling in the same direction.That is the only way it works,I am speaking professionally...full time through all of the ups and downs.I did it as the leader of the band for years and years.I had no personal life to speak of.The group,whichever group, came always before that.And I was dedicated to that illusion.It made me very sick but I hung on until I had to walk onstage all by myself because everyone had walked.After they had done all that they could to wreck it.Obvious I did that show in very low spirit until I spoke with Candy the bartender who said "Do you own all of the copyrights to the original material?"I said "yes,I have got that."And she responded "Well then you should be happy tonight because you do not need them anymore and can freely do whatever you want to do without worrying about them." That was such a big relief cause I did have that together,I don't have to go back to anyone and get their approval for jackshit.They will receive their fair royalties but they do not call any of the shots.As a businessman I have got a powerful catalog totally wired.The session people I worked with were paid in full for the sessions.I can generously bonus them as I see fit as they are worthy of that.Yet now I am free just to be an artist.I have no load that I am responsible to carry.No more drama to deal with.I pay my own fare of the moment and that is it.I had to lay pretty low for a couple of years to lick my wounds,do something different to make a living.I did have my son to care for and the band,oh God,how they resented him,especially Marvin,who wanted me to put him into foster care so I could be 100% about the band and not concerned about raising him.That is some fucked up shit my friend,you think I would abandon my only child for the glory of a rock and roll band?After I had fought a battle royal with the state to have sole custody of him?And so often times he,without complaint would take a back seat to the needs of the band yet I wanted him right here with me where he belonged.The young boy wild life that we once use to live as a band was far over,my life was and is all about him.My baby son.I am an adult responsible for my own actions I am free now to be what I am,an artist.Not looking over my shoulder about anything in the dead and gone past.All of that is nothing but a wasteland to me,an expensive one to boot.Very clear and succinct choices were presented to everyone and they made their choice."I don't want to do rehab and free myself of these pills I want to remain an addict."So be it,I can't hang with you anymore,lest I get all fucked up on these poison pills,let the chips fall where they may.I have a new album to do free of any limitations or expectations.I have a lot of things to do and I can't be back there anymore.And now I have to be razor sharp because like my producer "I want to really get into it man."My concerns go far into the future,not one of my artists had concern that their royalties are going to be of benefit to their children one day.For them it was all me,me,fucking me,my startrip..And for most of us it is our children who are going to be required to pay the debt we and our parents created that they do not owe.The catalog as it stands is worthless,new material is needed to fuel interest in previous work.This is about the big picture and so few can envision that,I must complete my mission here before I can go.