Steve Riley Quotes (14 Quotes)

We knew and said six ways from Sunday at the time we were setting the rate, this was our best guess based on the data we have today. We took in more money than we should have.

Our material is all so recognizable that I think the fans are going to love it. One song after another is recognizable. The tour has been going really, really good so far. There's been very little drama on the tour because all the bands get along really w

We were trying to do something to encourage recycling without taking over and making it a town trash department. It's just kind of been there. It's been one of those things that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of attention.

We've got a quirk in our own business license.

I think FEMA's just a little overwhelmed right now. There's not somebody tapping them on the shoulder. I don't think they're looking too much at the reimbursement. Hopefully that will get straightened out in time.

I was in W.A.S.P. for the first four years, '84 through late '87. It was a real exciting time for W.A.S.P. , their peak years. W.A.S.P. was really making a lot of noise then. I thought that it was going to be strange at first, when I heard about the Metal

I really believe Phil Lewis and myself, we are lifers. Before we joined L.A. GUNS , Phil and I had done a lot of stuff other than him just being in GIRL , and me being in W.A.S.P. We are a little bit older than the crowd. We have been playing since the mid-'70s. We are really gypsies there is no doubt about it. We have to be on the move, we have family lives, and personal lives in L.A., but we are two gypsies. I think our families are gypsies now too. (Laughter) That is the secret to L.A. GUNS . It doesn't matter if we are playing a small club, or on a big tour. We have to play, and we have to record new music. I think that is the difference between us and other bands. We must record for ourselves. If we don't do new material there is no point. We love our old repertoire. We have to play a lot of it every night. We just love it all, but we can't live off that. We have to be writing new songs all the time.

We've seen several proposals to try and build in the central and South Forest Beach area. We thought the strand blocks and the covenants already offered protections. ... This most recent one brought it to a head.

Riley and the Playboys are the host band of the festival, playing Friday night and today, as well as yesterday. It does feel kind of weird, ... It's not a downer, because I love what I do . . . but it's not as joyful as usual.

We try to experiment around and really try to make every album a little more interesting than the last,

Our music has been affected a lot by them. With the younger generation, our music has had an effect on them. It's all about the domino effect people have on one another.

(We're) finally trying to nail down some specifics and pick between a couple of the really big options. Let's get on with something let's make something happen.

We feel that we have to write. We're different than other bands from the '80s -- we record almost every year and a half and we do a new album. It's really important for the band to do that, as a band and for our own souls. We're writing fresh stuff all the time.

There's just an equity issue. Every other industry has to have this. We've just been administering ours wrong for a couple of years.