Musician and composer Paul Taylor, best known for his work with WINGER, recently revealed during an interview on the “Sonic Dorms” podcast that he has spent “the last couple of years” working with MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars on his long-awaited solo album.
“That one, I wrote most of the record with Mick and [Alabama musician] Jacob Bunton, who sang with [former GUNS N’ ROSES drummer] Steve Adler,” Paul said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “Me and Jacob have written a lot of stuff for TV together. I’m really excited to have that come out, and that, I think, is gonna be towards the end of the year.”
Taylor also mentioned how impressed he was with Mick’s musicianship and songwriting abilities.
“Mick is so awesome, and just the endless cool things he comes up with and the palette of sounds,” he said. “There’s days I just go, ‘Is that guitar? Is that you doing all that?’ [It’s been] really fun. I’m very excited about that.”
According to Taylor, he worked with Mars and Bunton on Mick’s solo album “for a good year and a half. And Mick doesn’t really want me to say too much about it,” he explained. “But he said it’s okay just to say it’s a heavy record — it’s definitely heavy — and it very versatile. I feel really lucky that I got to sit and work with him and turn these things into songs. I think it’s gonna blow some people away. It’s really cool.”
Mick Mars has been working on this solo release for a good six to seven years now. The original sessions for the effort were produced by Michael Wagener (OZZY OSBOURNE, ACCEPT, SKID ROW) at Blackbird Studio in Nashville.