Vocalist Jeff Scott Soto discusses the new W.E.T. album, also featuring ECLIPSE guitarist Erik Martensson and WORK OF ART guitarist Robert Sall, in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt is available below.

CRR: What brought you guys together: the W, E and the T?

Jeff: "Well, it mainly started with Serafino (Perugino, Frontiers Records president-C.E.O.) It was a little brainstorm to get these two guys to write together, to write songs in this sort of AOR vibe. I think Serafino wanted me to do an album like this after my stint in JOURNEY. It was the last thing I wanted to do. I already had my Beautiful Mess thing — my last solo album — in the works the previous year. I just never had the chance to finish it. Once I left Journey, it was my passion to get that done. So the last thing I wanted to do was kind of chase those AOR kind of coattails. And I told Serafino we’ll have to wait on it."

"But it wasn’t until after I got Beautiful Mess done and out of the can that we started talking about the W.E.T. project. I said, 'OK, let’s discuss this thing. Send me some songs and let’s see what we’ve got here.' It was one of those immediate things when I heard the first two songs, I said these two guys have something special here."

CRR: As hard as you try to escape your AOR origins, they just pull you back, huh?

Jeff: "Well yeah. It’s in the blood. It’s pretty much where I’ve got my core fan audience. And that’s all fine and dandy. It’s not necessarily the only side of me that you know. As an artist, you want to grow. You want to change yourself, but you also want to tap into the influences and resources that made you want to be an artist in the first pace. I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of QUEEN and Freddie Mercury where they didn’t have any walls or barriers or boundaries. AOR’s a good thing to come back to and revisit once in a while."

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