“For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, beca...” — Jim Capaldi Quote

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

Having an image was really important to us and that was kind of contrary to the bands in L.A. that we had grown up with: you know, the Laurel Canyon kind of scene, the Joni Mitchells.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.