I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.
I always had kind of a baby face, and when I started playing people didn't take me seriously.
All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.
I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.
You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.
Billy's an interesting guy. He's got a lot of varied interests.
We got word that Mick Jagger heard our first album and liked it. And he wanted us to open for the Stones in Hawaii. That just blew us away. But the next thing I heard was that Stevie Wonder opened for them here in the States and actually got booed at one show. So I was scared to death.
We wrote ‘Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.
Elvis Presley's Sun stuff - there's an album out in England with just about all those sides on it - you know, the sound of that upright bass slapping away: that's what I like to listen to. That and Richard Pryor, that is.
I'm a fan of Las Vegas and always have been, on many levels.
We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.
We record a lot of our shows, we record our soundchecks.
Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.
I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.
We all write the lyrics together, but Frank really shines on 'em pretty good.
We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.
We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.
Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band… easy to listen to.
I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.
Usually we're always working on something with this band a tour, making an album or a video or whatever. I don't have any desire to do anything outside this band, except play a movie part or something.
