We've been together playing for 15 years now. We've been going through different drummers throughout the years ... a bunch of different equipment, a bunch of different problems.

We mix it up to keep it interesting for us and the crowd.

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the recording studio with Phil Spector tops them all. And of course, now he is in prison. I hope to visit him, I still consider him a friend, and what can you say? A terrible way for a guy like that to be remembered.