Crawdaddy!: What convinced you to rejoin the band?
Williamson: It’s kind of a complicated thing. Ronnie died in January 2009, and I got a phone call from Iggy—I’d already heard about it by then, but I got a phone call from Iggy, and he was trying to make sure that I was aware of it. We talked mostly about the funeral arrangements and things like that. But it wasn’t very long—maybe a month or six weeks or something—that he called me back because he had some gigs. All these festivals get booked between six months and a year in advance, so he had some shows that were already scheduled to be played, and he asked me, “Would you want to play?” At that point I was still working for Sony, so I had to say no. I was flattered that he would ask me, but we had a couple of problems; one was that I was rusty as hell after 35 years, and two was that I had a job. So it wasn’t going to happen, and we left it at that. But it wasn’t much longer after that that Sony started giving out early retirement packages, and they were voluntary, but they were very attractive. So I ended up taking one and called him back and said, “You know what? I’m available.” And that’s how it happened.
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