Zitat des Tages von John Otto:
When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
I've always liked funk and rock and everything.
We've got many different sides of music to us.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.
I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
