K!: When did you begin work on the TDTH?

PD: We started properly in May '97. We hired a house in LA and recorded about 20 ideas there. Then we had two studio sessions in San Francisco and LA where we sifted through different ideas and pieced together the good ones. Our producer, Jerry Harrison, acts like a fifth pair of ears to help us sort out the good songs from shit.

K!: Describe the sound of the new album.

PD: It's more upbeat than the last one. SS was a dark record, we had to exorcise some demons there, but the new one is like the best of both worlds between albums two and three. We've recorded 20 songs, so I'm sitting here right now trying to figure out which 13 should make the record.

K!: Can you give us some titles?

PD: "The Dolphin's Cry" will be the first single in the US. We've also got [???] which is an upbeat song we've had since the TC tour. 'Voodoo Lady', which is a dark, moody song with sequencing added by a friend from San Francisco; 'Fishes', which is one of our trademark soft-verses-big-chorus anthems; and 'Run to the Water' which is a mid-tempo ballad along the lines of LC or TMH. After, that we're still deciding.

K!: With all this talk of dolphins, fishes and water, have you developed some sort of aquatic obsession?

PD: Ha, I guess we've spent too much of our time off on the beach or in our swimming pools.

K!: Were there any memorable nights in the studio?

PD: We were trying to record RTTW for a whole week in LA and we just couldn't nail it. Eventually Chad Gracey said 'I give up, I can't get this', and we went out to dinner to forget about it. After a couple of bottles of wine we came back and I said, 'You know what, we're going to cut the f**king song. I'm getting naked and so are you.' So we stripped to our birthday suits and when we played it half-pissed and naked we got it down in one take. We were tempted to go back and re-record everything pissed and naked.

K!: What's next for Live?

PD: We're going around the world in 80 days again: touring and touring -- because that's what we do best. We'll tour the US from Sept. to Nov. and then we're back in Europe for a proper tour. On New Year's Eve, we'll be playing a show in Hershey, PA in front of all our hometown friends. Yee-haw.