“I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.” HardStoriesRocksBandSongwritersRock BandsHard Rock Author:Art Alexakis
“SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.” TogetherEnergySpeakAbilityTroubleBandMusicianOriginalsSingersLoadImpressedSongwritersArrangementsSinger SongwritersHighlightsDexterity Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.” WritingYearsFeltPlayerBandGuitarSingersCracksSongwritersGuitar PlayerWriting PoetryVocalist Author:Paul Banks
“I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.” WantTryingKidsFiguresBandPunkSongwriters Author:Ezra Furman
“I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.” WantFeelsHandsSongLessonsBandComfortableSingingGuitarSingersSongwritersMarvinWedding Band Author:Jack Johnson
“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.” FirstsKindSeemsSchoolRocksStageHugeBandHigh SchoolSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersLameRock Bands Author:Tyler Hilton
“I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard to come by-stuff by the Special Interest Group and the Zobo Funn Band. The Zobo Funn Band was a big Northeast cult band. We had about a billion skirmishes with the big rock industry.” HardBigsStuffInterestGroupsSpecialRocksIndustryBandSingersBillionsBunchSongwritersCultGuitaristSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:David Torn
“In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.” PeopleKnowsSelfStrongSoundBandOriginalsIntentionProductionsLimitationUniformsSongwritersJacketsLeatherDerivativesLeather JacketsInstrumentationReally Inspiring Author:Tamaryn
“It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.” RecordsProduceBandLabelsSongwriters Author:Rivers Cuomo
“You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.” KnowsWayNeedsLooksBandSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersPalette Author:DJ Spooky
“The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.” WritingDifferentDoneUsedStuffRocksProduceIndustryLuckyBandSingersUsed To BeSongwritersSoloMusic IndustryRock BandsGood Bands Author:James Iha
“I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."” ThinkingIdeasGuyBandWork OutSongwritersClosetsGreat IdeaWrong Guy Author:Sammy Hagar
“Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.” NeedsTryingTwoCausesBehindsStyleBandConflictMusicianJazzSingersTunesSongwritersSinger SongwritersBallads Author:Van Morrison
“I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.” WritingFilmSongPlayerProduceTvsBandInstrumentsGuitarBonesSongwritersTouringSixteenComposingGuitar PlayerLeading MeDemos Author:Danny Jacob