Occupation: Musician Birth: March 14, 1965
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes..
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio..
Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer..
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels..
I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of ….
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what ….
Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your a….
So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's ….
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic..
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada..
I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get ….
So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it a….
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy..
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination..
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records..
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other..
I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries..
I have always enjoyed different kinds of music..
So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well..
Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about..
I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but ….