gabrels recalled that early on, they weren't sure who they'd work with. they discussed working with terry bozzio on drums and percy jones on bass. but bowie, who had run into tony sales in los angeles at a wrap party for his glass spider tour, convinced tony to call his brother hunt so they could work together again, as tony and hunt had performed with david bowie in support of iggy pop in the late 1970s. tony recalled that bowie was "thinking about getting a band together — "something" together. he didn't know exactly what he wanted to do, but he wanted hunt and i to meet reeves and maybe we could all write together, come up with something."