CHRIS: Yeah. Gary and AC/DC had the same manager [Stewart Young]. I don't remember meeting Mal, I possibly did, but he saw me and got me the audition. Everyone and their uncle auditioned for AC/DC at that time, including Simon Phillips. He was on the day before me. They must have auditioned a hundred drummers. And they were all the top guys. I thought I'd just done so badly, I really did, because Simon is so quick at picking things up. I'm not that quick. Usually at auditions I can detect whether I'm doing OK or not. I'd really thought I'd blown it. By the time I got back home, because I got lost getting back home, Stewart Young had phoned through saying I'd got the gig. He told my wife, and when I got back, she told me. It was a fantastic gig. It was so much fun to play with those guys. And Mal is such a great rhythm player, it makes my job so easy. Really nice guys.

DAVE: Asia would seem like an odd turn from your previous musical directions. How did you come to be involved with them?

CHRIS: I'd stopped playing for a while, and went to Art College for the last three years. I couldn't draw five years ago, and I taught myself to draw. I took it as far as I could, and I thought, "I've got the time. You'll really regret it in your old age if you don't do this." I dropped out of the music business. I got this letter one day when I'm sitting around doing nothing, and this letter comes through the door. They [Geoff & John] didn't have my phone number, but they found my address from somebody. I move a LOT - about nine times in the past fifteen years, so they didn't have my phone number. This letter came through the door, and I thought "These guys are serious." It said, "Come down, we'd really like to meet you." I thought these guys are serious to take the trouble to write a letter. So me and Sir Harry [Cowell] arranged to meet, and we came down to the studio. Geoff and John introduced me to people and they were just the friendliest guys.