Ian tells RocksVerige: "Like everything there's good and bad to it. I think about when I was a kid - if I could have sent a message to Steve Harris, and he'd written me back, even just to say, 'Cheers, thank you!' that would have been the coolest thing in the world.

"I'm still like that when I get an email from Gene Simmons or somebody. I save all those because I think it's cool that I have an email from Gene Simmons."