It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.
I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
One cannot manage too many affairs; like pumpkins in water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
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If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
