BUCKCHERRY Guitarist Talks 'Drunk' Leak, Unreleased Pre-VELVET REVOLVER Recordings

HardRockHideout.com recently conducted an interview with BUCKCHERRY guitarist Keith Nelson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

HardRockHideout.com: When it comes to writing is everyone involved or is it you and Josh [Todd, vocals]?

Keith Nelson: Everyone is involved, every song ultimately ends up in the room with all five guys weighing in regardless of where it starts. A lot of times Josh and I will come up something, get it pretty much completed, take it in and start rehearsing it. I want to hear what the other guys in my band think of it and see if they have any ideas.

HardRockHideout.com: Is there a story behind the title "Black Butterfly"?

Keith Nelson: Not really, well I guess the only story is there was a song called "Black Butterfly" that we all loved but ultimately didn't make the record. Not because it was inferior to anything else but in the big picture of the record that piece just didn't seem to fit, we loved it and certainly it will see the light of day at some point. But when we were coming up with concepts for the cover the image of the black butterfly was kind of stuck in my head so I proposed that as the title of the record and everyone seemed to like it.

HardRockHideout.com: Was the band surprised by the reaction of "Too Drunk…" when it was leaked?

Keith Nelson: You know it is crazy how that all went down cause we actually finished mixing the record on a Sunday and 3 or 4 days later we left to start Crüe Fest, while that was all kind of going on while we were out of the road. Obviously it is in our best interest to present our record in a very structured, you know thought out way and with all the songs being passed around to different people for mastering, remixing, and what not unfortunately that song leaked. In this day and age we just kind of make the best of what we got so once the song was out there we just kind of had to follow it but it wasn't our first choice for what the single was going to be.

HardRockHideout.com: After "Time Bomb", BUCKCHERRY went on hiatus and you and Josh end up recording some songs with the guys from VELVET REVOLVER. The story goes there were 10 or so songs recorded is there a chance they will ever be made available to the public?

Keith Nelson: Well what happened with those songs is they were actually live recordings that we would make in a rehearsal room, they were multi-tracked. We didn't make a record but we did do a very detailed recording of them in a live situation. They do exist, I do have them but they will never see the light of day.

Read the entire interview from HardRockHideout.com.