You Can't Please Everybody, Man.

There Are Plenty Of Minutemen. People Willing To Be Minutemen. Where Are The People That Want To Be George Washington? Where Are The Benjamin Franklins? Where Is Sam Adams? Where Is John Adams?

I've Been Practicing For Years, Trying To Figure Out How To Record An Entire Band Live.

You Spend So Many Months And Years In The Studio, And You See The Clock Ticking And So Much Time Spent On The Minutiae Of Technical Things. And I Just Thought It'd Be Fun To Do Something Extremely Fast And Get That Rush Of Something That Had Some Energy, Something That You Weren't Tired Of When You Finished It.

When You Work With Somebody For A Long Period Of Time, You Develop A Shorthand With Everything.

The Only Way I Was Allowed To Play Was By Convincing Bands To Let Me Do A Few Songs While They Set Up. That Went On For Years.