PAUL RODGERS Says He Recently Jammed With A Couple Of His 'Heroes'

Paul Rodgers is gearing up for BAD COMPANY's tour of the U.K. in April, but that's not the only thing Paul's been working on. The singer got to have a jam session with some big names in Hawaii.

"I recently jammed with a couple of heroes of mine — Mick Fleetwood and John McVie — when we were down in Maui, and that's not to say, 'Hey, let's get a band together,' or anything like that, but it's just fun to do these things and see where they take you, you know," he told VH1 Radio Networks' Dave Basner.

So if that music sounds really good, would Paul and the FLEETWOOD MAC guys form a supergroup and release an album? "Um…I don't know," he said. "The thing… what we did was just play a lot of blues, a lot of… I'm a big fan of Peter Green's FLEETWOOD MAC. I used to stand there in awe at places like The Marquee and blues clubs around England and listen to them singing so they're kind of my heroes and… who knows. We'll see."

Newly released is "Bad Company: Hard Rock Live". The CD/DVD features the band's reunion concert in Hollywood, Florida on August 8, 2008. Prior to the historic Hard Rock gig, the original surviving members of BAD COMPANY — Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke — hadn't played together in over a decade.

The Pulse of Radio asked Paul Rodgers, who has always focused on the future rather than delving into his past, how it felt being back on stage with the guys reclaiming their legacy. "It is kind of going back in some way — and I was reluctant to do it initially," he said. "We did the show at the Hard Rock. It was kind of cool to be playing back again — we found the old spark, and I think that's what was exciting about doing the DVD. I think there is a certain chemistry. And I know that's a well-used word, but there is with certain bands. And when you come back together, when we did anyway, it was very exciting and the crowd reaction was incredible."

Rodgers says that when putting together a setlist for a band as beloved as BAD COMPANY, you really need to include all the classics in the show. "I think that if I went to see, y'know THE (ROLLING) STONES and stuff, I'd wanna hear the big hits," he said. "And I have to admit that probably the way people feel when they come see BAD COMPANY. They want to hear those big songs. I think, too, these songs — they're from the '70s, a lot of them — but instead of meaning less, they sort of mean more because they sort of gather memories to them. Even when I play them I go through (laughs) so many things 'cause I have been through so much of my life with these songs, so I understand that."