BD: I have a bizarre theory about voices, they're like motor car engines. You put so many miles on and that's it, so I don't see any reason why I should get up in the morning and go around yodeling, unless there's a really good reason for it. I know my neighbors don't appreciate it! So, I don't bother. I think once you've gotten to a certain point in singing, or playing any musical instrument for that matter, you can put it down for as long as you feel like it, and you can pick it back up again because it's part of you. For a guitarist, his fingers may be rusty, but his brain knows where to go, and it's the same thing with a singer.
FH: Last year Halford released a solo album and you appeared on the track "The One You Love To Hate," but you also performed that track with him on his "Live Insurrection" album. I wasn't aware you performed that song live onstage with Halford - what concert was that from?
BD: It was a show in England, I was onstage with Halford, and also Geoff Tate did that song as well. There was a project planned with myself, Halford, and Geoff Tate to be called the "Three Tremors," then we were going to name it "Trinity," because we figured they would sue our ass if we called it the "Three Tremors"! I actually came over to LA last February to do some writing for that album with Roy Z, we wrote about three songs but then realized it was going to take us a lot longer than three weeks to write a project with three singers that would work. We wanted to make each song designed to be sung by three different characters as an integral part of the song, not something like; "you sing the first verse, I'll sing the second verse, and he'll sing the chorus." That would be a crap way to do it. But it's a bloody difficult thing to do, to try to make a song with three different voices to get the full benefit out of it. And it takes longer than three weeks, and we didn't have longer than that to do it so I canned it in the end. It's a great idea, everybody loves the idea...we had marketing people salivating about the idea of the Trinity project. But the bottom line is, the thing that is gonna sink it is if the music sucks. So I thought we should can the idea for now since we don't have time to do it. Rob is in the studio doing his new album ("Crucible") and Geoff is writing a new Queensryche album so that was it. It is an interesting idea, and I'm sure the live show would be really interesting, so perhaps in the future it will see the light of day.
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