I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.
I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.
When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free. " -Vergere
A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.
A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.
Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.
I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.
I've always toured solo acoustic.
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
When I'm representing my music live I think of it very much in a rock band sense. When I first started doing festivals in the 90s there really weren't other DJs playing the stages I was playing. So I felt I was being afforded an opportunity to kind of make a statement about what DJ music can be live. In the 90s, if you were a DJ you were in the dance tent, and you were playing house music and techno music. There was no such thing as a DJ - a solo DJ - on a stage, after a rock band and before another rock band: that just didn't happen.
When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.
I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland