We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
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We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.
We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.
Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
The last time I really got into new music that wasn't heavy metal was probably like... TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That's the last time.
We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
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