Adam Schlesinger Quotations

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I think it's going to be really cool. I'm a big fan of the band. They have a lot of cool songs and they pretty much sound the same as they always did.

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I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.

I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He's a great guitar player. We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out on tour with us now. I'm not sure if he'll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he's the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything. He was with the Gigolo Ants before, and he's really good.

We're not one of those bands that ever writes while jamming. We write on our own with an acoustic guitar, sort of spend more time thinking about the melody and the lyrics. The band part of it is just a way to present the songs that we've written.

We were there at 6 a.m. with our own video cameras.

We're going to try to ask a bunch of friends to play on it. They've put out some records (in recent years), but we really want to do something that gets back to sounding like the classic stuff they did. There's a whole bunch of people our age who love those songs even if they don't necessarily know they're by America.

It was originally billed as acoustic but I think we'll do it as a full band, with somebody playing an acoustic guitar.

For lack of a better word, we jammed a bit in the studio, which is something we've never done before. I think the record will end up being a combination of doing it the way we've always done it and trying different stuff like that.

In general, it's a bad idea. The world definitely doesn't need any more Beatles covers.

Chris can sing a lot of different kinds of songs, so we can cover a lot of styles. But even he has limits. We won't be covering Antonio Carlos Jobim and singing in Portuguese anytime soon.