As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.