"We're used to rolling with the punches, so we did our best anyway," muttered vocalist Warrel Dane, fighting off pneumonia at a local homeless shelter. "When they said we had to use [Queensryche/Dokken producer] Kelly Gray, we were all a little skeptical because we'd never worked with him before. But he actually took a pretty 'hands-off' approach to our sessions - so hands-off, in fact, that we just called him from a pay phone in the parking lot, and if he was home and not too busy, he'd give us some advice, or listen to a few seconds of a song before hanging up on us."