Mike Exeter

Well, they've done the resume, and it's not going out, going very well.

Um, right now the only person left in, from the original band is the singer, Mike Love.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and before they took their hiatus, he was standing, he was talking, he was telling stories.

But, uh, Stamos wrote as part of a, a message to Facebook, he said, "While I always knew there would eventually come a day when things would change, I never really allowed myself to imagine what that day would feel like.

I'm not saying tonight is the end, I hope it isn't.

But there's a part of me that wonders if this could be the last time I get to stand behind Mike, play those songs, and watch him work an audience, and feel that indescribable magic that happens when those harmonies fill a room." Stamos has been with him for 41 years.

I know.

bit more unique from your perspective.

Yes, and also sometimes when there's a sentence and it maybe sounds a bit weird or Mike Exeter, the producer, he would sometimes push the talkback button in the studio and he would say What did you just say? What does it mean? And then when I explain it, oh, I get it.

That's brilliant, that is, he would say sometimes.

Other times he could say, it's not something you would say in England, for sure.

and so yeah

so i spoke to yeah i did ask that um So it was the producer, Mike Exeter.

He's just been keeping his eye out for bass players.

Well, they all have been, but he says he follows musicians that he comes across and just to see what they're doing in their career.

And that, yeah, that built an audience.

And then eventually it did kind of go through to the right people.

It went through to Hank Sherman for Merciful Fate, and it got through to Mike Exeter for Tony Omi.

And I think once you then are seen, well, those people trust you, so... maybe we can trust you for this.

The album's musical lineup features John Land on vocals, Becky Baldwin on bass, Carl Brazil on drums, and of course, Iommi on guitar.

Produced by Iommi and Mike Exeter.

No word on any type of solo tour.

Iommi is 78.

Um, and they were all super nice.

Uh, and so I sat down with, uh, yeah, the manager and Tony and, uh, the producer, Mike Exeter.

And yeah, they just like played me.

One of the songs was like, I haven't listened to this.

And Becky, I wasn't familiar with Becky.

I met her again through Mike Exeter, who's worked with me.

And he's playing bits of keyboards on the album as well.

And he mentioned about Becky and I went, I don't know Becky.