I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.
All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.
Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
