It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.
I love the guitar because you can bring it everywhere, and you can start a jam wherever you are.
When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.
With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.
That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.