I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.
It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.
It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!
And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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