Chris Robinson

Look, this is what we are.

And then you're in the grown-up world and you've sold – you've made people tens of millions of dollars.

And I'm hardly a savvy business person.

I never could be.

I never would be.

It wasn't in the cards for me.

And so part of our like being hard about it or being difficult –

Not being compliant was trying to, in our minds, keep this pure thing.

You know what I mean?

And in a way, that still is part of what we are today.

How old were you guys back then?

Oh, in the summer of 89, Rich was 18.

I was 23 when we made our first record.

Yeah, yeah.

Just a young rebel.

Well, you know, the other thing is, you know, you remember rock and roll was culturally and socially its place and its importance and its reverence was a lot different than today.

Yeah.

You know, I think it's one thing I think is cool about hip hop music is the hip hop stars have taken over that kind of attitude.

Which I, when I see their fashion and I see, you know, I mean, there's lots of, hip hop's not one thing, of course.

Right.