Gibson: You always hear "Sammy had so-and-so over to jam at his club in Cabo," but most of us never get to see that. This album is like that experience being distilled into an album you can throw on in your house.

Hagar: What I wanted this record to be was my life: my lifestyle now. Because in the past when I've went into the studio I've gone in with 15 or 20 songs and I'd record them all and pick the best ones. It was kinda like a business. And this record I wanted to be exactly who and what I am today. So the first thing I thought was, I want to write just lifestyle songs. So I wrote "Father Sun" first, and then "All We Need Is An Island." And then I thought, well, maybe I should call up some of my friends to play on this stuff. And little by little it dawned on me that I was making the record that I really wanted to make but I didn't have a method of doing it. There was no manual to making a record that's who you are. But then I realized what you just said: what I've been doing for the last ten years is going to Cabo San Lucas with different people all the time. I meet Toby down there, I meet the guys from the Grateful Dead down there, I meet Slash, Jerry Cantrell, guys from Metallica. They say "Hey, I'm going to Cabo, are you around?" And I'll say "[Expletive], I'll meet you down there." I have a house, I just go down there and we play this kind of music. This is what we do. Chad Smith and I, we go down there and we play "Going Down." We jam a lot of blues stuff, and this record is exactly who and I what I am. It's what I do.

Gibson: I've always wanted to ask you how you rank yourself as a guitarist. It takes balls to stand up there with Eddie Van Halen or Joe Satriani. I've been lucky to jam with Satriani and Vai, and to a certain point it's intimidating but also at a certain point you've just got to tell yourself "Screw it, this is what I do."