We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.
In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.
Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.