I think the house truly dictated a lot what the album sounded like.

This really communal living and youвЂ™re out on this beautiful 100В acres. It lends itself to what is happening musically. It was very, very communal, which can be really, really cool. We were in this house on 100В acres and just basically lived and wrote and recorded this record in this house. The four band members lived there with a couple of crew members to help out. She found us the property, and it was literally this house that enabled all of us to live there. We had this lovely woman by the name of Bobby. He suggested that maybe we go to Santa Ynez and make a record. Robert was spending a lot of time up in the Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Valley at the time. What are some of your favorite memories of that time period? This is the 25th anniversary of Tiny Music, which was such a groundbreaking album from your band. So yeah, we were all kind of playing - although we were a continent apart in one end of the state from one another, we were all kind of doing it. Scott, of course, was tinkering around a lot too with different bands and different things down in Southern California. So thatвЂ™s kind of where Eric was coming from at a very young age. Those guys were kids, and they were playing a lot of really heavy fusion stuff. But Eric was really playing with some extraordinary musicians. Scott and Eric, with Eric coming down from the Bay Area, I got to see some of the cats that Eric played with, a guy by the name of John Wedemeyer and Andy. Robert was 15 or 16 years old, and we were playing all over. We were cutting our teeth on the Jersey Shore and all of those different places to play down there. Well, I mean, if you want to go back before that, Robert and I were still in New Jersey. But you guys were gigging for a long time before that. ThereвЂ™s a lot of folks that their first memory of STP is that they get the album in вЂ93. What year was it that you got signed then? We were just really having a great time, a great night and lo and behold, Tom Carolan from Atlantic Records was there and saw us. I remember playing it that night instrumentally. We didnвЂ™t have any vocals or anything to it yet, but we loved it so much. I remember we were so excited when Robert brought forth the song вЂњSinвЂќ on the first record. We had just been writing a lot of the stuff that actually appears on Core. We just played like it was going to be our last day alive. WeвЂ™re playing at this place, and again it was one of those nights where there was no one there. When youвЂ™re on the stage, the wall literally felt like it was 30 feet in front of you. It was not very deep, but it was very wide. We ended up doing one show in particular at the Shamrock out on Vermont and Western, kind of out in East L.A. It was those days where we played, and if there was eight people in the place, six of them worked there. I think by 1988 or 1989, I was in the band and we were off and running, gigging anywhere and everywhere we could, between Bakersfield and San Diego. They said, вЂњHey, do you want to be in the band?вЂќ It wasnвЂ™t too long after that they asked me. I played a couple of solos, and I think it was then and there where Scott really took a look at what he wanted the future to be and what the realm of guitar in what he was doing wanted to be. Robert suggested to the guys, вЂњHey, letвЂ™s have my brother come up - I was in San Diego at the time - heвЂ™ll play on them.вЂќ I think the studio was in Hollywood. ThatвЂ™s when I got the call because the guitar player at the time couldnвЂ™t quite lay some solos down. вЂњHereвЂ™s a few thousand bucks, go in and cut a few things, letвЂ™s hear what youвЂ™ve got.вЂќ

Around вЂ87, they were kind of gigging around Los Angeles, wherever they could play, quite honestly. Scott had a band with some of his longtime friends that he went to school with and stuff. I think Robert might have moved to California from New Jersey in вЂ84. Mighty Joe Young, the initial band you all formed, starts taking shape pretty quickly after that. Our sister site Loudwire does a thing called ' Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction,' and Wikipedia says that you and Robert met Scott in 1985 at a Black Flag show.

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