We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.
But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.
Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.
This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
