What We Do Is As American As

Western Ears Have A Hard Time Hearing Anything That Isn't In Four-four Time. A Lot Of Cultures Experience Music In Five-eight, For Example, Five-four.

Yeah, I Think We Have To. If We Want Our Shows To Be - If We Want The Quality Of The Shows To Be Good, And We Want The Energy To Be High, And If We Want To Be In Good Enough Physical Shape To Do Them, And Not Exhaust Ourselves On The Road, And Not Get Stale, We Have To Pace.

Music Is A Universal Language Insofar As You Don't Need To Know Anything Else About A Musician That You Are Playing With Other Than That They Can Play Music. It Doesn't Matter What Their Music Is, You Can Find Something That You Can Play Together, With What Their Culture Is. The Dialect Part Of It Comes Into Play, But Nothing Like The Differentiation That Language Sets Up, For Example.

And The Live Show Is Still Our Main Thing.

There's A Lot There To Enlarge You. That's Part Of The Value Of Being In An Extended Family Is That It Enlarges You. It Makes You Bigger. It Makes You More.