“ We decided to make the lyrics speak, and that’s what heavy metal was in that period. The Rods were born in 1982, because it is precisely in the year that the album ‘Wild Dogs’ (their third album actually) was released. The band managed to gain true visibility with that album. At the time we didn’t even have the money to have breakfast, but we understood what our mission was: to fill the clubs where we played! In this we were good and a little ’ at a time the fruits began to bloom. I always believed that if we hadn’t really started from the bottom we would never have been able to emerge in the right way. At the time in New York people listened to disco music and Bee Gees, while our music was just a punch in the stomach!”