Brian Fallon Quotes

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen festival. It was just outrageous. It was amazing to see the reciprocity between them and their audience.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.

I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

I go and see music all the time.

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.