I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now. Groups like Deep Purple and Black Sabbath had lost the point, if they ever had it, and I thought Led Zeppelin had lost the point too, around the time of In Through The Out Door. And at our very best we could just wipe the floor with the lot of them.
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
It was an album market at the time. So each album reflected where we were, mentally, at the time. We had done a few gigs before the first album,but then we went in and recorded it in a short amount of time. And the second album was actually done while we were on the road, so a lot of that energy comes through. The third album was written during what was, sort of, the first tour break in the band's career.