I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.
It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.
The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.
I create a guise or a band that I can operate within, and within each one of those bands, I've got an M.O. or a set of rules and parameters I can work within.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.
A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?
Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
