I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that. — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going. — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War,… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
