My collaborations with my friend Paul Frick continue to work towards a better understanding of, shall we say, “Anti-Rock”, or “music that is not rock\/blues based”. Rock and blues is where we both come from, having listened to classic rock since the\u00a0’60s, and played it ourselves in cover bands since the ’70s. It’s how we think. How we’re wired, musically speaking.<\/p>\n
But we’re making some new anti-rock wires these days, in our explorations of funk, ambient, and dance production and writing. It’s a tough slog sometimes! Every time a new part is added to a song we’re working on, we have to stop, and look at each other and ask, “is this too ‘rock’?” And when the answer is “yes” (all too often!), we then ask “is that what we really wanted here?” And often the answer is “no”. It’s just what came naturally, from our experiences after decades of AM radio, vinyl, and eventually FM, CDs, and lately streaming radio and podcasts. Because we’ve listened to, and performed and written, SO MUCH rock music in our lives. So it keeps slipping in from time to time, like in these tracks (some of our older ones):<\/p>\n