The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. Arto Lindsay contexteducationguitar Change image and share on social
I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close. Arto Lindsay closeconsciouslyextreme Change image and share on social
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. Arto Lindsay abstractafricanasian Change image and share on social
I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot. Arto Lindsay bandcallfriend Change image and share on social
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music. Arto Lindsay addbackgroundclassical share on social
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one. Arto Lindsay agodnaitaly Change image and share on social
It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. Arto Lindsay idealotpoint Change image and share on social
Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. Arto Lindsay careercountrycover share on social
It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all. Arto Lindsay dnainterestknowledge Change image and share on social
It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place. Arto Lindsay bandcloseform Change image and share on social
