The wasted cover art is a depiction of the Rodney King beating. This painting is my favorite L/H cover. I painted it during my self-important period. Understand when you have a little success, there are plenty of people who are more than willing to blow smoke up your ass and tell you how brilliant you are. Stupidly, I believed them. One thing L/H was really good at was running up a bill. So when Sony offered to rent us a loft in the lower east side of Manhattan in New York city for 4 months to record Wasted, we packed our bags. Our loft was a sprawling 3 story monument to the pursuit of drunkenness.

I'm not exaggerating; our parties were legendary. We took great pride in our hospitality and if I may be so bold, at the time the New York rock crowd loved us. Recording Wasted was a truly painful experience, every day hung over in the studio. The parties had precedence; recording was a nuisance. In retrospect, I'm surprised we had the energy to work at all. Wasted came out in 92 to excellent reviews L/H was big in the U.K. and we did a killer tour of England, opening up for Skid Row in Arenas; wow that tour was fun. The recording budget for Wasted was $250,000 The record sold approx 200,000 world wide, but L/H's debt to Sony was closing in on 2 million.

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