I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.
I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.
What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.
I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
The idea of 'raw' music, to me, is honesty: getting people to feel you with the least amount of production possible, the shortest distance traveled emotionally, sonically.
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.
Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be - they're adding a lot of samples on things, or effects or whatever - and we just wanted the drums to be raw so you could really hear what Brooks Wackerman is capable of.
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can't we? Something's been lost in music. It's all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed.
