American - Musician | July 17, 1966 -
Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.
Lou Barlow
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The Music Machine is my favorite rock band ever.
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A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.
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I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.
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I've never been good at playing live in front of people.
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I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.
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At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.
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After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.
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It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur.
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Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.
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If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.
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I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.
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