By Now All Rock Bands Are Wise

Im Busy Doing My Job, And Being A Loudmouth Doesnt Appeal To Me As Much As When I Was Younger And Had The Youthful Delusion That I Was Smarter Than Everybody Else.

Record Labels, Which Used To Have Complete Control, Are Essentially Irrelevant. The Process Of A Band Exposing Itself To The World Is Extremely Democratic And There Are No Barriers. Music Is No Longer A Commodity, It’s An Environment, Or Atmospheric Element. Consumers Have Much More Choice And You See People Indulging In The Specificity Of Their Tastes Dramatically More. They Only Bother With Music They Like.

A Lot Of Musicians Are Good Cooks, And A Lot Of Cooks Are Musicians, But I Think That May Just Be A Result Of The Creative Impulse Finding Several Means Of Expression. Probably An Equivalent Number Are Visual Artists, Woodworkers Or Compulsive Liars.

I'm Only Interested In Working On Records That Legitimately Reflect The Band's Own Perception Of Their Music And Existence. If You Commit Yourselves To That As A Tenet Of The Recording Methodology, Then I Will Bust My Ass For You.

In 1980, I Moved To Chicago, And I Recorded Demo Tapes For My Friends' Bands, And In 1981, The First Big Black Record - The First Thing I Did That Was An Actual Record.