'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.
Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.
A record is a message, timeless.
Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.
A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!