Drummer Chad Royce agrees. Indeed, the band hosted a crucial major-label showcase gig at a downtown club's transvestite night, complete with hardcore videos and drag queens. We don't want to be predictable. Nowhere is predictability more a problem than in the guitar-band wasteland of the late '90s. It's desperate right now . . .
Music is so categorized.
You're a groove band, or you're a melodic rock band, or a dance band where the lyrics don't matter. I don't see why you can't have all these things in a song - attitude, melody, power, drama . . . Without wearing influences on their sleeves. McCarron claims to never sit down and listen to music for pleasure, taking inspiration instead from extra-musical sources, like comics and outrageous television evangelists. By that I mean that comedians are usually manic-depressives.