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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.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

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.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.