We became good friends with Galactic as well.
If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.
We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.
We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.
We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.
Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.
We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.
We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.
There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.
It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.
We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.
You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.
It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.
