Zitat des Tages von Eric Burdon:
Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.
I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.
One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.
My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.
The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.
I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.
You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.
Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.
From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.
I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.
