The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.
It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.
Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.