everyone I’ve talked to, it’s been the same,
and you can gauge your album according-
ly. I’ve done maybe 65 interviews lately,
and not one of them has varied — they all
agree that this is me, but with that same
attitude and energy that I started with. My
son just seems to have pressed my button.
Not that it was gone. But he put the spot-
light on it again. He’d always been a fan of
the music, and I was still going out on a
him playing in the front room, and I said,
“Hey! Wow!” Then he came to me and
said, “I wanna write some songs,” and I
said Okay. I’m not against that if some-
body’s got something good. But I would-
n’t have moved a muscle if it wasn’t good
- I would have just said, “No — this is not
for me.” But he played me something, and
I went, “Hey — that’s got something.”
And the second one we wrote was “Bass
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zillion tours every year. But then he said,
“I want to write something with you.” I
said, “Sure, okay,” and then we wrote
“Don’t Do Me Wrong,” and it worked.
And I kept saying that if we do this, this
has to be not planned, nothing gimmicky,
only organic — whatever each song is, it
will have its own personality, its own rea-
son for existing. So that’s why we’re get-
ting this great response — in these times,
this is a real album with real music.
IE: Had your son gone into music profes-
sionally, too?*
SQ: Yeah. My son always has played gui-
tar; he’s been in several bands, made some
videos, made some albums. And he goes
out with bands now to work. My daughter
sings, she works in radio. But I didn’t
know that (about my son) to be honest —
he’s kind of a quiet guy, and he never
wanted to trade off my name, and he’ll
never say he’s my son unless someone
asks him. So he was quietly getting excel-
lent, and I didn’t know it. Then I heard
Line,” and I salute all the bass players
before me — I actually did a bass solo.
And it’s not a bass solo that’s boring, but
an actual solo in a song.
IE: How were you spending your days
right before this?
SQ: I’ve been working non-stop, to tell you
the truth. I had an album out in 2006, Back
to the Drive, which got absolutely wonder-
ful reviews. Then my last studio album
with Mike Chapman was in 2011, and just
recently I had Quatro, Scott & Powell, and
that went onto the charts in Australia, this
nice collaboration with Andy Scott. And
then it was just time for this one. So I work
all the time — I do about 110 shows a year.
I’ve never stopped. Because I love what I
do. I’m about to do my 37th tour of
Australia!
IE: Tell me you’re coming to America.
SQ: I’m working on it. I just did a gig in
Canada. Two gigs. It was sold out, 5,000
people over two nights. And the crowd
went ballistic, which I didn’t expect, and
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