YES, Tom Jones would hate me. But could I resist it? No, I just had to count how many pairs of knickers were thrown on stage. After all, the name Tom Jones and knickers are kind of synonymous in the world of showbiz.
This was, of course, after he told me how it used to bother him when writers would let the underwear overshadow his singing or his performance.
But there was no danger of anything overshadowing that booming Voice at the Sydney Entertainment Centre where Jones played to two full houses of 9,500 people each last weekend.
No matter that the first pair of white panties went sailing on to the stage only 15 seconds into his opening number.
'The media has always been shrouded by the sexiness and the underwear. It was something that had never happened before; women taking their underwear off and throwing them,' the hearty singer said in his dressing room, before the show.
'I was having fun with it, thinking everyone knew how well I could sing. I didn't think anything could blemish that. The voice was there and I thought that people would have to hear that.' He found out he was wrong when time and time again, reviewers would be more preoccupied about the underwear than with his performances.
'People who hadn't seen me would think, 'well, this guy is just going on stage and leaping about, singing a few songs and having underwear thrown at him', ' Jones said.