"He came over and recorded with me and we toured and I released a CD and we had a great time and he went back to England," said Karp. "Mick is one of those guys who, like a Charlie Parker or like a Robert Johnson, he's so underrated because he's had a bit of an odd career because of popularity or making great career moves but he's insanely brilliant. He's one of those guys you can put in a situation and he'll start to play and he has no idea what he's playing and he just- you just go on this journey with him. He can play a half an hour and never repeat himself. It's pretty incredible.

"Rolling Stone (magazine) came out with a list of Top 100 guitarists and he wasn't on there. That's an indication of what Rolling Stone is now. In all fairness, I think a lot of people forgot about him but he's a brilliant, brilliant (player)."

Karp said he went through some difficult times after the release of The Turning Point and found himself drifting. During that time he came to the attention of two guys trying to start up a new label. Their music credentials didn't impress him but he was willing to keep an open mind.

"They signed an act out of England where four of the guys were Turkish and one guy was British and they put together this huge record," he said. "So they said to me we'd like to sign you to our new label. We have this producer in Turkey we want you to work with.

"I asked the one guy, 'What do you do?' One guy said he worked on Wall Street. The other guy was in investment banking. I said, 'You guys have a lot of money.' They said yes and said, 'Good. You've come to the right place.' I said send me to Turkey. So I packed a duffle bag and spent two weeks in Turkey. I worked with this terrific guy named DJ Kambo in the southern part of Turkey, only about 400 miles from the Iraqi border actually, said Karp. "I stayed in this little town and worked in his house and at the time I was smoking cigarettes and I'll tell you what- that's the place you want to smoke cigarettes, Turkey. Everybody smokes cigarettes and drinks coffee."

Karp was impressed with DJKambo as a producer and his ability to capture and create sounds. They did a lot of demos together, many of which he liked. The two of them shared a bond of music and cigarettes. What they didn't share was a common language.