When I was a little shithead, I would listen to KISS and Van Halen and sometimes get scared. It was because of the low growls of Greed $immons and the high pitched wails of David Lee Roth.

They sounded like animals, foreign creatures I had not encountered yet. I sat mesmerized by their vocals. I was convinced Greed and DLR were wolves. So much so, I went as a werewolf to my 3rd grade Halloween party and howled like David Lee Roth. I also tried the sexy swagger, but I couldn't pull that off.

Everyone laughed at me including you Brian Adams (no relation to the Canadian singer). You and James Dempsey beat me up. "That is not a wolf's howl, you pansy. You are a girl for dressing like that. And what the hell are you doing with your hips, why are they shaking all the time?"

The point of this? In a recent interview with Wolfman's director Joe Johnston, he heard the same things I heard as a child.

Is it true that Gene Simmons does his howl?

Well, when we were designing his howl, we were going off in a lot of different directions. We tried a lot of things to see what would work and be interesting. We listened to every wolf howl ever done on every film. We listened to all of them. And you'd be surprised how unconvincing most of them are. Some were just wolves, but some were men going, 'Aoooooooo!'

Like a choo-choo train.

We didn't get a lot from our research in what's been done before. We were looking for this great pure tone—we knew we were going to process it and overlay elements to it, but we wanted that great foundation. We tried Gene Simmons and one of Gene Simmons' howls is in the movie. I don't think Gene Simmons would recognize it, but it's in there. We had David Lee Roth come in and do a few howls...

No way!

That was a blast. We had opera singers come in and howl, we had animal impersonators. Gene Simmons and David Lee Roth were pretty near the end of the process. By then we knew what we were looking for, we were homing in on it. And their stuff became the most useful stuff that we did. Like I said, I don't think they would recognize it after what we've done to it because we've digitally processed it and added cool overtones and all that stuff. We were basically just looking for a wolf howl you'd never heard before. What we realized is that everybody in the audience knows what a wolfman sounds like. Even if it's from their imagination, it's all pretty much the same thing. We just wanted our howl to be the best version of that howl. And I think we've come up with something that's definitely spine-tingling, and at the same time it's familiar enough that the audience is going to recognize it—it's what they expect, with enhancements.

My mental image of your howl auditions is amazing.

It was great. These guys, they're not only singers—they're comedians. Hilarious sessions. You can imagine Gene Simmons and David Lee Roth in there howling with the picture on the screen. And they would do it, crack a few jokes, and try it again. Even if it hadn't been useful, it would have been fun just to do it.

I didn't really want to see this movie, but I definitely will now. I will attempt to figure out which howls are Greed's and which ones are David's.

And I have a special message to James and Brian....."you can suck each other off, just because your gay."

Here is the rest of the interview, which talks about Jurassic Park 4, if you are into dinosaurs.