"If someone told me at 19 years old, when I wrote 'Her Bullets Energy,' that Robby Krieger would be playing on it, I would have told them, 'You're out of your mind and go jump in a lake,'" says John Garcia, the voice behind bands like Kyuss, Vista Chino and Unida, referring to the closing song on his self-titled solo debut.
Although Garcia recorded his vocals on last year's Vista Chino record through microphone that the Doors guitarist owned and Jim Morrison used, he tells Rolling Stone that his union with Krieger on John Garcia was more fortuitous than anything else. His producer, Harper Hug, listened to the song and said, "I'm hearing a Spanish, flamenco guitar on this track." When Garcia asked him who would be a good fit on the track, Hug suggested his acquaintance, Krieger. "I pretty much fell over from my chair and said, 'Do you think he would do it?'" Garcia says.
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