Rummaging through The Voice Of Rock's trash, we found pizza boxes, garbage bags full of Japanese fan mail imploring him to play 'Burn' next time he comes to Osaka, and finally, this to-do list...

1. Release my next solo album.

"Yes, I just finish recording it and it comes out sometime in the summer. I'm going to step out on a limb and say it's the best record I've done as a solo artist. And I suppose everybody is going to say that about their latest work. But the clarity and the history of what I've done, where I am right now in the rock genre... it's the clearest record I've done. But I've been cursed with this... I feel real comfortable playing rock, pop, soul, funk and jazz and it's a little confusing to some people. But if you have a really good painter, I think it would be kind of crap if he wasn't allowed to paint in all styles. Whereas a lot of my peers, bless them, have performed within one kind of music and they can kind of feel comfortable doing that. I feel comfortable in expressing myself in many forms. But as a rock record, I think this is a really good piece of work. I think it's the most acoustic record I've ever done. When it rocks, it certainly rocks, and when it's acoustic, it's acoustic, and when it's soulful, it's soulful. There are all those elements of Glenn Hughes in there. It's really got a great vibe to it. I'll give you a few songtitles: 'You Can't Stop The Flood', 'Big Sky', 'Don't Let It Slip' and 'Beyond The Numb'. And funny enough, I've re-recorded 'Highball Shooter' from Stormbringer for it."

2. Put Hughes Thrall album on backburner.

"Funny enough I spoke to Pat last week. You see, Pat's in New York and I'm here in L.A. He's really busy doing his editing. He edits a lot of people. I've been to see Pat in the last 18 months three times and we've recorded nine songs. The album I'm making with Pat is really good. It seems that I really can't see it coming out this year. But I'm really trying to get it out by next year."

3. Put the album with Pat Travers on the other backburner.

"That's not going to happen right now. We recorded three songs. His schedule and my schedule are really quite crazy. Although one of the songs we're recording is going to be on my album. It's a cover song of Rare Earth called 'I Just Want To Celebrate'."

4. Buy new stove. Install. Put next archival album on backburner.

"No that's not coming out. The thing with that, Martin, is that I put a couple of records out on my label and this is an exclusive to you, I think I might hold off on the next release simply because there is so much coming out on me right now. There is Nostradamus next week, there's my new record in the summer. I'm doing a record with Joe Lynn Turner which will come out in January. There is just so much coming out, I don't want to flood it too much."

5. Play Europe. Try tolerate requests for 'Burn'.

"I just booked three dates in the East which is really great. And yes, I'm going to start my European tour May 25th, in Madrid, and we go through Spain, the U.K., the Netherlands, France, Poland, Sweden, Germany, and Finland."

6. Play with geezers, for geezers, many of who will request 'Burn' as well as 'Mississippi Queen'.

"I'm involved with an organization called The Voices Of Classic Rock, which is myself, Bobby Kimball, Mike Reno, Joe Lynn Turner, Mickey Thomas, Pat Travers, Leslie West, Edgar Winter, Chuck Negron, and we go out and do gigs. And a lot of them are corporate gigs. It's a thing in the industry called industrials and we play all over the world and it's really a lot of fun. I call it strength in numbers. It's more or less six singers at a time, but I get to play all the shows because I'm playing bass. I've just joined; I've only done two shows but I'm going to tell you right now that this is a fantastic show. So yes, it is playing for big companies but there are gigs where people can pay to see us. If you go to rockforever.com, you can check it out. We're playing a show in Mobile in two weeks where Leslie West will be playing. We record every show and you can download them."

7. Crap all over the Nostradamus project.

"I'm going to give you another exclusive. To me, Joe and my performances, and the other guys and gals, is really good. But for me, it's just bloody Spinal Tap. I'm the kind of guy who gives good promo and I'm a really good interviewee. I'll do great stuff to sell things. But at some point I have to step up to the plate and say, you know something? That project is just too God damn Spinal Tap for me. I'd like to give you just a little spin on that because a lot of interviews I do, I'm really upbeat and I'm in a great mood today, but I just got the God damn package today and for me, it's just B minus. Bloody awful, Martin. You'll get a promo package and to me it just smacks of early '80s shite."