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ROB Thomas and INXS will hit the studio together in Melbourne tomorrow. The Matchbox Twenty lead singer is in Australia promoting his solo album, Cradlesong.
INXS took the opportunity to have Thomas lay down vocals for two songs on its greatest-hits-with-different-vocalists set while he was here, the Herald Sun reports.
Thomas will sing Original Sin and Never Tear Us Apart.
"The only other version I've heard was Brandon Flowers (from the Killers) doing Beautiful Girl, and I've heard they're going for a French girl to sing Need You Tonight - in French, which would be really sexy," Thomas said.
Thomas doesn't subscribe to the theory that the Aussie rockers should have called it quits after the death of frontman Michael Hutchence.
"It's hard when that's what they do - they want to continue to make music. This is just from me, this isn't coming from them, but I get the sense that once they do this, they can move forward - and do it this time without a circus attached," he said, referring to the Rock Star: INXS talent search that saw Canadian singer JD Fortune win a temporary run as frontman.
"It was probably more untimely for him than for me," Thomas joked.
"When I heard about it, I was like, 'If the first three are Michael Jackson and I'm No. 4, then I'm kind of ipso-facto another No. 1 - I'll take it. It was a victory for me. Listen, you can't beat the King of Pop."
Thomas is in town until Saturday, and will return in February for two solo shows.
INXS took the opportunity to have Thomas lay down vocals for two songs on its greatest-hits-with-different-vocalists set while he was here, the Herald Sun reports.
Thomas will sing Original Sin and Never Tear Us Apart.
"The only other version I've heard was Brandon Flowers (from the Killers) doing Beautiful Girl, and I've heard they're going for a French girl to sing Need You Tonight - in French, which would be really sexy," Thomas said.
Thomas doesn't subscribe to the theory that the Aussie rockers should have called it quits after the death of frontman Michael Hutchence.
"It's hard when that's what they do - they want to continue to make music. This is just from me, this isn't coming from them, but I get the sense that once they do this, they can move forward - and do it this time without a circus attached," he said, referring to the Rock Star: INXS talent search that saw Canadian singer JD Fortune win a temporary run as frontman.
"It was probably more untimely for him than for me," Thomas joked.
"When I heard about it, I was like, 'If the first three are Michael Jackson and I'm No. 4, then I'm kind of ipso-facto another No. 1 - I'll take it. It was a victory for me. Listen, you can't beat the King of Pop."
Thomas is in town until Saturday, and will return in February for two solo shows.
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