ION INDIE MAGAZINE March 2016, Volume 22 | Page 70

RD: Listen, we can’t make the same record over and over again. So, I did try some new things on the “Stuck”
album, on the EP release, on the new release…I wrote more with the band. I tried to get more of an organic
feel. When the grunge era broke, it was because NIRVANA was sitting in the garage writing together and I
tried to have some of that magic. Unfortunately, a lot of our success came from a different way. Earlier in the
days, I used to sit and write the songs and I used to write the songs with friends I was comfortable with, or
even by myself sometimes. Those seem to be the songs that led the pack for our career…the hit songs. I have
to find a blend of trying fresh new things and getting in there and jam with my band, but I also have to
continue to do the things that got me here. I thought we could have had that with the “Stuck” album, but
there was so much friction with the label at the time and it just bled over. Some people may have felt we
were having a bit of an identity crisis on that record and we did. We were fighting with an entity that was
telling us to abandon our Rock ‘n’ Roll roots. Virgin Records on the “Stuck” album did not want a Rock
album. They wanted to put all Pop songs on that album and we fought with them over it and you can tell. The
energy on the record was bad. There are songs on that album that are some of my favorites. There are also
some that we missed with. When I listen to that album, there’s about 5 or 6 songs I listen to and a few I skip.
You don’t wanna have songs that you skip.
JP: Out of the albums you’ve released are there certain ones that stick out to you creatively or musically?
RD: Obviously, the first and second records are what b V