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I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they're lovely, I've seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.
Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?
You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.
Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
I've loved football since I was in the marching band of junior high and high school and was the water girl for my high school's team.
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
I've actually done bands where it was my band and it was never fun and it wasn't the right place for me and, whatever, it felt weird.
I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.
Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.
As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.
They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.
Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.
I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
I try not to mix the politics as much with the band, per se, because my political views are my own; they're not necessarily the band's.
I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
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.
Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.