But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd love to do something where I played a musician.
My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?
I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.
I did everything I could to not be a musician.