Guitarist Mick Mars recently talked to “The Rocker Morning Show” of Kalamazoo’s rock station 107.7 WRKR, where he discussed the sound approach of his solo album ”The Other Side of Mars”.

Mars said:

”I think that me being on my own really doesn’t give me any boundaries or any restrictions or stuff. I can take it to wherever I would like to have it. My album is pretty diverse. It shows different sides of how I write or how I approach music, just a lot of different things. […]

“Some of the ideas I had for a while, but it took me a good four years to get out what I really wanted to. ‘Cause I listen back to some of my older stuff and I go, ‘Ugh’, and I get rid of it. ‘Cause it sounds dated. I didn’t wanna sound like, ‘Here’s an old rocker that’s playing 1980s music still.’

”And not that that’s a bad thing, but I couldn’t stay there. I needed to get something different or something people wouldn’t really expect from me.”