When people say, ‘Your music was the music of the Seventies,’ I say, ‘So was discoteque.’ The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre – they were all alive. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we’ve played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You’ve been listening in minutia, in super-focus. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
It’s what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it’s an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
It’s not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known. Gerry Beckley Read Quote
