We got to go into expensive digital studios with expensive, famous producers and while away the hours approaching our songs from totally different angles. That was experimental as far as we were concerned. I don't do quick hits. If you ask a question you will have to hear the answer. The answer is that they happen everyday unknown to you and everybody else.
Culture happens in secret.
Women are allowed into bands because they are accorded the honorary status of men and they are expected to adhere to the rules of a brotherhood. Culture happens at the interface of the moment. As the individual is refined in the furnace of the moment he encourages his brothers. They gather strength and sometimes wisdom and expand the craft together. Whether or not anybody else, on the outside, ever knows is irrelevant.