Tim Commerford Quotes

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we've got a lot of melody.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

I think if there's any one band that every member of Sons of Apollo has been influenced by, I think Van Halen is the common ground for all five of us.

A band which plays songs such as 'Death Knell' or 'Prime Mover' can't just stand on the stage with a shirt and jeans-jacket. It must be more awesome than that.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.