When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people. — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused. — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
