A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.
I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Musicians are impossible.
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.