With his acoustic guitar and portable tape recorder as a constant companion, the journey continued between NYC, London, and LA where he began slowly assembling the New Radicals. In NYC he lived the downtown life, sleeping on floors, doing pep pills and dancing all night while simultaneously spending entire days in Central Park writing songs and busking. Eventually the new songs took hold. What You Give was scary and fanatical. New Radicals, rocks newest contenders were born overnight.
Music is the most immediate medium mankind has.
We need to use it for something useful instead of just making money for the man. Making closed minds, sexism, corporate greed, economic and educational separation of the races, homophobia, and fat people phobia a thing of the past. Keep dreaming kid. Make mass media instigated middle and working class idealization of the systematically, short of a fluke, unobtainable American dream of being a heartless, faceless, corporate millionaire a shameful act. We werent born yesterday, were aware some cynical people might be laughing their ass off reading this, but making light of real issues by those who should know better, is exactly what stops it from being a gradual reality.