Mike Reno, vocalist for multi-platinum Canadian rockers LOVERBOY, is featured in a new interview with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited discussing the band's new album, Rock N' Roll Revival An excerpt is available below:

Jeb: The album has three new songs on it and the rest are remakes of the classic Loverboy hits. Why not do an entire new album?

Mike: "Here’s what really happened: I was talking to Frontiers about doing a new record. We put out a new record in 2007 and nobody bought it. Before that, all of our records sold millions of copies. I guess it is the computer age where people don’t buy records anymore. If that is the case, why should I go spend one hundred thousand dollars to make a record and never get it back? I was really disheartened.

A couple of months ago, I talked to my friend, BRYAN ADAMS, and he told me that all people want to hear is 'Summer of 69' and that they don’t give a rats ass about new music. I realized that is kind of true. However, we were working on some new stuff. We can’t help but work on new stuff, even if we don’t have plans to put it out because that is what we do. With Frontiers, things were different. We had a bunch of live tracks from one night that we recorded and we were on fire. We knew we wanted to release them to allow the fans to hear how the songs have changed a little bit, here and there, over the years. They are not remakes, they are actual live versions.

We had these three new songs and Frontiers said that we should give the fans these new songs. They offered us another chance. They provided great service to us and we are glad to do this record, I just hope people will support it. People ask why we don’t do records anymore and the answer is that nobody buys them and they are still expensive to make."

Jeb: So, these songs are live tracks without the audience cheering.

Mike: "That is exactly what they are. We have some different arrangements of the songs. One of the songs, 'Hot Girls in Love', has a huge jam in the middle of it. We just happened to record these songs one night when everyone was playing amazing. We thought it was an interesting concept to do it this way and we think people will dig it."

Jeb: Some bands are doing this so they can get more money from commercials and movies. Is that part of what is going on?

Mike: "It never entered our minds on this record. The deal for me is that I don’t want to cut the head of the snake off. If Camry wants to use 'Working For The Weekend' then we end up making a lot of money off of that. EMI has promoted that song all of these years, so we get a cut and they get a cut and everybody’s happy. I would never want to cut them off, as we have had a thirty year relationship with those people. I would never try to cut Sony or EMI out of a project because I think that is bad business. Some bands have good reason to do it, as they signed horrible deals. We never got caught up in that, as our managers negotiated really good deals for us."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Loverboy Rock 'N' Roll Revival track listing:

'Rock 'N' Roll Revival'

'No Tomorrow'

'Heartbreaker'

'Turn Me Loose'

'Working For The Weekend'

'Lovin' Every Minute Of It'

'The Kid Is Hot Tonight'

'Lucky Ones'

'Always On My Mind'

'Queen Of The Broken Hearts'

'When It's Over'

'Hot Girls In Love'