HOOBASTANK Drew Inspiration From VELVET REVOLVER Tour For New Single

March 3, 2006

HOOBASTANK frontman Doug Robb has told MTV.com that the band's tour with VELVET REVOLVER served as the inspiration for "If I Were You", the first single from HOOBASTANK's upcoming album, "Every Man for Himself", which is due on April 18. It's a song that takes to task those who don't appreciate what they have, especially when so many have nothing at all.

"We were on the VELVET REVOLVER tour, and some of the shows were amazing, but some of them were terrible," he laughed. "The audience was filled with guys who love GUNS N' ROSES and STONE TEMPLE PILOTS and think everyone else should go to hell. People would turn their backs to us the whole time and keep their middle fingers in the air. But they were probably really upset because they found some rust spots on their Camaros, or because they got their mullets caught in the door while tailgating, and they were like, 'Ow! Damn it! I'm gonna go mess with HOOBASTANK!' "

"When we were on tour, we had all that sh-- happening with the audience, and then you have stuff with Scott Weiland, and then you go onto the bus and turn on 'Entertainment Tonight' and you see some [celebrity] bitching about something. It was incredibly frustrating," Robb said.

"So I wrote the song based on all that, about anybody who takes what they have for granted," he continued. "And I've found that that's pretty much everybody."

Robb declined to expand on just what that "stuff" with Weiland entailed, but HOOBASTANK drummer Chris Hesse was more forthcoming when asked about the singer's behavior.

"It was kind of strange, because usually when you go on tour with someone for six weeks, by the end you've become pretty good friends with them," he told MTV.com. "With VR, we felt pretty comfortable with all the guys except for one person, who never said a word to me or [guitarist] Dan [Estrin] or anybody until three weeks into the tour, when he was like, 'Welcome to the tour.' Of course, for three weeks he'd been blowing by us in the halls, yelling at his assistant."

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