To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
My parents were missionaries – I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That’s what I loved- that’s what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you’re say you’re broke, it’s not the same thing. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
