Quotes from Dusty Hill

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.

Today, there's so many different types of music out there that it's difficult to keep up. Things do change; it's only natural.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

Some people unfortunately don't enjoy what they do at all for a living or whatever. That is unfortunate. We do always enjoy playing music.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

Elvis Presley's Sun stuff - there's an album out in England with just about all those sides on it - you know, the sound of that upright bass slapping away: that's what I like to listen to. That and Richard Pryor, that is.

We got word that Mick Jagger heard our first album and liked it. And he wanted us to open for the Stones in Hawaii. That just blew us away. But the next thing I heard was that Stevie Wonder opened for them here in the States and actually got booed at one show. So I was scared to death.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to.

Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.

Billy's an interesting guy. He's got a lot of varied interests.

My impression of Las Vegas was in the movies and on TV. So we were all gonna go see somebody perform - I can't recall who it was - and we went out and rented tuxedos because I thought that's what you did in Vegas.

Vegas to me is a place like Hollywood or New York where you can walk around and people recognize you but it's like, hey, that's cool, and then we go on with our lives.

I'm a fan of Las Vegas and always have been, on many levels.

We wrote 'Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.