Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.
I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.
I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.