Former FireHouse bassist Perry Richardson guests on Episode 227 of the Decibel Geek Podcast to talk about his 35+ year career in rock music. In this hour-plus discussion, Perry shares stories of his early history with bands such as Maxx Warrior and Nantucket. He then moves on to discuss the formation and rise of FireHouse. Other topics include: the success of the singles "Don't Treat Me Bad" and "Love Of A Lifetime", and FireHouse's self-titled debut album selling over 2 million copies. The band won the 1992 American Music Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, beating out up-and-coming Grunge acts Alice In Chains and Nirvana.

While discussing a tour promoting the FireHouse sophomore album Hold Your Fire in support of Damn Yankees and Poison, Richardson recalls a tense run-in with then-Damn Yankees guitarist Ted Nugent: “The Damn Yankees guys were amazing; all except Ted Nugent. God almighty dude, what a freakin’ narcissist jackass. I’m walking on the stage one night and he’s standing on the side of the stage right outside his dressing room; and I’m always screwing around with people so I just hit him on the shoulder real lightly, right? He got all mad, grabbed me, put me in a headlock and pulled a 9mm out of his pants and cocked it and put it to my temple and told me never to touch him again. I have nothing good to say about him.”

Other highlights include Richardson on the almost disastrous band name they narrowly missed having: “We were at the end of our rope. We had gone through a thousand names and nobody could agree on one. Our A&R guy called us and said ‘You guys have gotta be in our offices tomorrow and you’ve got to have a name. Tomorrow’s the deadline. Epic is going to name your band for you tomorrow.’ Do you know what they wanted to name us? Daddy’s Girl. They were going to have pacifiers made to throw out into the crowd.”

Listen to it all via the audio player below.