OfficerDoofy

At what part does he start talking about the Houdini House? Anyone have a time stamp? Would be very appreciated.

Yes, they were looking through tons of demos he had made because Rick didn’t feel attached to anything or something. He played different ones. He then said something like ‘’I’m not on some WID shit and if that is what Rick is looking for, like I can’t, that’s all I got’’. People thought he was calling WID shit but he wasn’t. He’s referring to how people felt like MTM needed one last song (Mike said people close to him after hearing the full album) and he went home and wrote it and it became a big hit. He’s saying he can’t do that again, like he’s burnt out basically and he has been working hard with the ATS stuff. That’s all he meant by it.

You’re actually mistaken about MTM and WID. Mike said that when they completed the album, FRIENDS close to him told him that it felt like it was missing a piece, it was missing one more thing. So he wrote it in a night and brought it to the band the next day and Chester quickly laid vocals on it, etc. Read the MTM superbook which has longer song facts and bonus facts all throughout, even longer than the CD/DVD book one. The label actually wanted LOATR as the big single. It was also one of two songs (the other being TLTGYA) that the band sent out to mixers at first, that was confirmed in the MTM super book. Makes sense if they were looking at it as the single at the time. They were also talking about it a lot and Mike said they worked very hard on the song because they knew it would be a single from the beginning, as did Rick Rubin. WID is a fantastic song but it wasn’t the label that forced Mike to write it. That’s been a common thought for a while but it’s not really true, Mike wanted to write it because of what people were telling him. They had full creative control during MTM, just like ATS, THP, etc. And Joe also said once it came out nicely because it sort of bridged the old style with the new. EDIT: Also, a bonus fact. I’ve seen people in the past refer to Mike on the ATS DVD saying ‘‘I’m not on some WID shit’’. He was referring to the fact that he couldn’t just go write a huge song like he did with WID, because he said ‘’that’s all I’ve got’’. Like he had exhausted all options and that’s all he had to work with. Like he worked hard is what he meant. Watch it in the context of the DVD.