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.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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.
The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy.
We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
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