I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
From Butch Trucks
Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
We did 300 shows in our first two years.
There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.
We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer questions.
A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.
'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that's the way it went. That's what we'll always do. I think if we ever stop doin' that, we ought to quit.
Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.
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