after the surgery, he joined the band to perform in the "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll" music video. According to Simmons, Carr had lost all his hair due to chemotherapy and had to wear a wig for the shoot. After the shoot, Stanley and Simmons persuaded Carr to take care of his health and not worry about the band. Kiss's plan was for Singer to play with the band until Carr was healthy enough to return, but Carr's health continued to decline and he died in November 1991. Kiss officially hired Singer to replace Carr. Composition and recording In December 1991, Kiss and Ezrin returned to the studio to work on a new album. In a surprising move, they sought help from former guitarist Vinnie Vincent. According to Simmons, "Vinnie Vincent came up to me and apologized for causing the band all the grief while he was a member. He wanted to patch things up and wondered if I would consider writing some songs with him. 'Sure,' I said. I wanted to let bygones be bygones. I called Paul and told him that Vinnie had apparently changed. Paul wrote songs with him as well. But before the album was released, Vinnie was up to his old tricks again. He reneged on a signed deal we had made and decided that he wanted to renegotiate. He eventually sued us and lost. As far as I was concerned, he was persona non grata forever." With Dave "The Snake" Sabo of Skid Row, Stanley wrote "Do Ya Wanna Touch Me Now", which ultimately failed to make the tracklist. "It's a great luxury to have an album that's so good that another song is only going to detract from it rather than make it any better," Stanley observed. "As good as the song is, we didn't need it." The two met when Stanley was on the phone with Nikki Sixx, who had Sabo on the other line. They later discussed Stanley's possible appearance for Skid Row's recording of Kiss' "C'mon and Love Me" for the all-covers EP B-Side Ourselves. That was never made, so the two wrote a song in Los Angeles. Stanley also worked with Jani Lane of Warrant on "If You Could See Through My Eyes." The collaboration began before the sessions for "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II" and during the recording of Warrant's most successful album Cherry Pie.