Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.
Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.
