Why play so many different types of music?
Actually, as far as the stuff I’ve been involved with, they’re not that different from each other, if you think about all the different music styles out there. They all fall within “rock music” in the broad sense. But that’s a cheap way of avoiding the question which is sometimes asked in any of these forms: • Why doesn’t record ‘X’ sound like record ‘Y’? • What happened to Leif and the bluesier material? • What happened to ‘X’ and the ‘Y’-ier material? • Why do you keep switching musical styles? You must like musical style ‘W’ the best, but when you play musical style ‘Z’ I think you’re selling out. • Are you a whore now, or were you a whore then? (also see here) There are certain questions like this that are very difficult to answer in a way for non-musicians (i.e. listeners) to understand. If your fourth record doesn’t sound like all the other ones, does that mean that you hated what you did on the three first ones? Or does it mean that you’re “selling out” with this one? Which styl
