It just seemed like we wouldn't get anywhere without a new record, and we couldn't afford to pay the kind of money we paid before. It just sort of dragged on and on, like most things do with this band. Sometimes it feels like we haven't even got started. There's certain bands that were together for 10 years before anybody ever heard of them. Maybe we're one of them.
Musical comparisons are difficult.
Songs tend to mutate frequently, and arrangements have been known to stretch into 25 minutes on stage. As impatient to get the record out as any fan, he adds he's gotten over his concern about what music happens to be popular during any given week. It doesn't matter how well you play. Music is a spirit that you have to trap and not something you can make out of armloads of technique. It has to be inside you in a lot of ways.