I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to very quiet, and SNJO covers those bases.
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.
A good bassist determines the direction of any band.
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.
You can put the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the same category, but the types of music, the colors each band evokes, are completely different. It's the same with Mozart and Beethoven - they express two very different aspects of music.
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.
I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.
We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.
I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
