I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.
We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.
They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous.