I have a fascination for well-produced '70s and '80s rock with a lot of harmonies. AOR bands like Journey, Jefferson Starship, Toto, Kansas, Boston.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.
The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
I've obsessed over a lot of bands in my time, and I'm sure I'll become infatuated with a lot more in the future.
A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.
A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.
FNM didn't really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I'd had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.
I really don't like it when members of bands slag each other off in the press. If you've got a problem, you should sort it out without going public.
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.
My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.
There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'
My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There's too much great stuff out there.
I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
I love different eclectic bands. I love Phoenix and Kimber.
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.
People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.
But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.
Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.
I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.
I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of testosterone badge of courage.
I grew up listening to the alternative rock music from the '90s. Some of my favorite bands included Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, and Cobra Verde.
As we've gotten older, we've used resistance bands more and more.
Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.
As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.
At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
Black-metal is my favourite. Mayhem are one of my favourite bands. But whenever Slayer comes to town, I am going to that show.
You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.
All kinds of things have gone into my shows - cajun and rock bands, Bollywood, Kraftwerk tributes, effects and so on. As long as it services the comedy, everything is up for grabs.
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people.
B-52's are one of the most unique bands, not just sonically but aesthetically, too. When you look at them, you know it's the B-52's.
We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.
I'm becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way as we were influenced by other people.
I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.
I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.
There should be a lot of bands like the Go-Go's out there, but there aren't.
Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.
I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.
It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.
Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music, though.
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk
I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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