The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.
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We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.
Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.
I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
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