In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
So it’s one of those things where we have to – our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don’t want to burn the audience. And we don’t want to be excluding anybody.
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
Don’t tell me this town ’aint got no heart.
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They’re going to start to count for something. Because there’s only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
The sun will shine in my back door one day...
Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be – if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
Stuff that’s hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don’t know what it does.
Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
I’m shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
And the live show is still our main thing.
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.