In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.
New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.
The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
I'm a one-man band!
People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it's so apples and oranges that it's retarded.
My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.
Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
One indisputable fact is that whatever has happened to, and with, the Allman Brothers Band, we've persevered.
I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'
And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
