When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
I started playing drums in the 4th grade.
When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.
I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.
I formed my first band when I was going to Valley Torah High School in Los Angeles.
Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.
My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.
I was in two very horrible bands.
I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.
I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.
They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.
I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
