Bassist Billy Sheehan (NIACIN / DEVIL'S SLINGSHOT / STEVE VAI) is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited. A couple excerpts appear below:

Ryan: Devil’s Slingshot is a true power trio in every sense of the word. Can you tell me a little bit about the genesis of this project? Tony was the catalyst behind it correct?

On Devil's Slingshot:

"Tony (MacAlpine) and Virgil (Donati) put this together, of course we all played together with Steve Vai on the tour where we recorded the Live At The Astoria DVD. Virgil went his own way and left the band soon after that. Tony and I had played together a lot so they contacted me about doing some stuff on the record. Although I didn’t play on the whole record I did play on a bunch of tracks. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately with budget cutbacks and everything these days records are often put together piece by piece. To get everybody together in the same spot can get expensive and time consuming. So they sent me the stuff to listen to and check out and I laid some bass down on it. It’s mostly Tony and Virgil’s vision musically – often when I play on someone else’s record I’ll ask them and give them the option if they want me to do my thing, or should it be 50-50, and this kind of worked out that way. They gave me the basic foundation, which had certain boundaries and then I also had the opportunity for me to do what I felt would be the correct thing in there as well. It was an interesting challenge because the music has a lot of exotic twists and turns so it definitely challenged me. I had to dig deep into my bag of tricks to come with some ways to fit things in [laughing], but it was cool."

On Niacin and his solo work:

"Niacin will be starting to write pretty soon for the next record and probably right after the holidays we’ll be putting it together. My new CD which will be my third solo record is called Holy Cow. It has some amazing guests on it and it will coming out in February or March on Mascot Records. Ray Luzier plays drums, he’s playing with KORN now and just did a Stone Temple Pilots tour. He’s a great, great drummer and played on Cosmic Troubadour as well. Tony did a classical piano piece over a Bach bass thing that I did. Doug Pinnick came in and sang a track amazingly, he just killed it. Paul Gilbert from Mr. Big did an amazing solo on one track, and last but not least Billy Gibbons laid some guitar down on another song I wrote with him in mind. He’s a genius and a living legend. It’s one of the greatest honours I’ve ever had in my life to have him play on my record. He just kicked ass, it was awesome [laughing]."

Go to this location for the complete interview.