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They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing. (Tom Kiana)
Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo. (Tom Kiana)
And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. (Tom Kiana)
Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music. (Tom Kiana)
I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band. (Tom Kiana)
I was starting to produce a little bit, and write for other people before I got the call to play for A Perfect Circle. (Tom Kiana)
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. (Tom Kiana)
No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too. (Tom Kiana)
So playing with A Perfect Circle is kind of a different thing. They've started as their own. It's their own band. (Tom Kiana)
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. (Tom Kiana)
The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot. (Tom Kiana)
We've been doing it for 10 years, so we're not about to pay attention to what's popular now to change our sound. (Tom Kiana)
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band. (Tom Kiana)
“Definitely a scenario of musical chairs. Anybody who's the last guy sitting can be champ that day.” (Tom Kiana)
I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it. (Tom Kiana)
“There's that feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving” (Tom Kiana)
“Led Zeppelin album without the pleasure principle.” (Tom Kiana)
“But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.” (Tom Kiana)
“As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.” (Tom Kiana)
“I would like to go out with 50 Cent.” (Tom Kiana)
"If theres going to be 5 guys.... It should be 5gether. I don't know about you guys but I'm calling myself somethin different."~Chad (Tom Kiana)
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