Quotes About Band

I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands.

You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

FNM didn't really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I'd had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

In the studio, we sometimes will add bass or some other stuff, like more layers of the same guitar part that's already there, but ultimately, the sound is about guitar and drums.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

Of all records, Chase, Some Girls! It was in a clutch of the most horrendous crap, J. Geils Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears, the kind of albums you'd use for landfill.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.

Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.