As long as there are teenage girls, there will be boy bands. It's a question of how long it takes them to get their music together to come out.
All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.
People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).
I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.
If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.
At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.
Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys. " We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.
I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment. . . some our best work.
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
One aspect of our site that I really appreciate is how I put up as much information as I've been able to keep track of: dates, the venue, the city, the country, the number of people there, the door price, opening bands, that sort of thing. One of the very first comments we had was from a guy who said, "By the way, the opening band in Albany in 1993 was not the Very Nice Neighbors, it was the Very Pleasant Neighbors. " That brought a great joy to me.
I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.
Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places. . . where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. . . . New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.
Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.