There are some good ones out there. A few of my favorites came from those cocky boys from Glasgow - the Reid Brothers: Jim - "The best thing that could have happened to the Rolling Stones was if they'd have met Charles Manson in '69 and he could have hacked their heads off with a chainsaw." "I'm embarassed to tell people what I do with my life, to think that what I do is the same as what Eric Clapton does. He's raping it, he's puking on it, he's pissing on it. For that reason I don't want to be a part of it." "We were making records for a year before we realised what a guitar tuner was for," adds Jim, proudly. "We've just never concerned ourselves with all that stuff. I started playing guitar in 1985 and to this day I still don't know what the chords are all called, and I only know about five of them. But I don't care about all that - I can do things with a guitar Eric Clapton probably hasn't even had a f---ing nightmare about. Who cares? William - "I think success isn't necessarily a good thing. Look at U2. What will they ever do to top Zoo TV? And look what happened to Kurt Cobain. That guy should've been a bus driver. He would've been alive until he was 87." - CMJ: New Music Monthly, January 1995
I wonder if Charley Watts loses sleep ove Jim Reid's opinion of his band? Was it John Lydon who said "Soundchecks is for pooftas and Willie DeVille"?
They sound like a bunch of wannabe wankers to me. And I'm not even a fan of the Stones, Clapton or U2.
Not so much snarky as one that's just stuck with me. Billy Duffy Re: the harsh treament they got from the Music Press: "If it hadn't been for the Alarm, I would've killed myself."