You know John Stamos has become a friend through Scott and the association there and he is a music lover. It's fun to see John and Scott perform together.
I've seen some of those videos on your site. They're awesome.
Yeah, that's just us goofing off. Just being idiots. Just having fun. It's a blast. It's always a blast.
We're really anxious to get back to it, but I won't see him until August. He wanted me to go over to London with him for awhile, but you know, I got six kids and twins on the way. I couldn’t leave my wife.
Oh my. You're busy just with your family aside from everything else you have on your plate.
[Laughs] I'm bored a lot. But yeah, I just couldn't go. So, I won't see him until August or September, but that doesn't mean we couldn't write. We've done that a lot. I've only lived in LA since late '04 so a lot of our writing was done during trips I took out here, or over the phone, or back in the day through fax machine. We sent ideas that way, if you can believe that.
Wow, yeah. With the technology we have now, it seems that would be very hard to do.
Yeah! Yeah, it was back in the day.
"Did you get my fax?"
"Yeah, did you get mine?"
"No."
Yeah, so now it's all about MP3 and video-phone.
Is the only songwriting you do working with Scott or do you do your own or collaborate with others?
I do my own too. I used to not and the same with Scott. There's something about the writing partnership. A lot of it is that we feel so comfortable together because we know each other so well. When you write it's very personal and you have to let your guard down a little bit and expose yourself.
Scott is my main songwriting partner, but I'd like to do some writing with Joe McIntyre (New Kids on the Block) for one – he's a buddy of mine. I've done it with other people, but there's this comfort zone with Scott. We finish each other's sentences.
That's a great trait for friends, but to be able to take that to a creative level, where you're on the same wavelength and can keep each other on the path, that is special.
That's exactly how we feel about it.
I have written solo stuff, as I said. I did a lot of that when he was making Band of Brothers because he wasn't around to work on anything with me. So, it turned into some solo work. That was pretty rewarding there, but there's nothing like being able to work with your partner. I prefer that.
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