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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.

In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.