Band Development Quotes

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a poppier sound - like a heavy pop sound. For 'Rocket to Russia,' we'd sort of reached our pinnacle. We'd gotten really good at what we were doing, so that's like my favorite record - that's a really good record. It's just great from beginning to end.

I'm sad for younger bands that don't have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to be around that they know they can hang their hat and know that they'll give 'em three, four, five albums to develop.

We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

Once you start out, you are kind of finding out who you are, and then by the time you get to the second album or you've been touring a lot, doing live shows or whatever, the sound starts to shift slightly to something that is more the true essence of what the band really is.

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message.

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.

Piper took me one step further in that it got my first real recording contract but the band just didn't quite mature. It didn't break things open, but it got me to the door.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Our music is becoming more mature.