That time Bob Rock told me that “the dreaded David Foster album” was the nail in the coffin for the Payola$

By Steve Newton

Back in 1991 I interviewed famed Vancouver producer Bob Rock, who at the time was flying high, coming off the production work on Metallica‘s multiplatinum Black Album.

At one point in the conversation I mentioned Blue Murder, whose self-titled debut album Rock had produced two years earlier, but which was not a big commercial success.

I asked him if it bothered him when an album he’s produced doesn’t sell as well as others, which led him to explain how bands need a certain amount of success to survive, but that striving for it can sometimes backfire–as it did with his previous group, the Payola$.

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