If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people.
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
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