Gerald Casale
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I'm said, that's great.
This is great.
Because when you ask that question that you just asked and the crux of it's very serious, we weren't trying to roll anything back and go back to the Beatles.
We were trying to project a way forward when music had stultified and, and gotten,
rancidly self-involved with guys with, you know, platform shoes and big socks in their crotches.
You know, the whole... The cliche was so disgusting and stupid to us.
We were trying to show people a way forward.
Did they all?
Yes, they did.
Did they tell you about it or did you hear about it?
I mean, we'd hear about it indirectly, but I remember one meeting with, who was it?
Todd Rundgren.
Remember that?
When we were summoned to his studio in San Francisco and we went to this meeting, he goes, are you guys just trying to shock people or do you want to be successful?
It was hilarious.
And we're like, it was like 1977.
And we're like, what?
Well, we're doing what we do, you know.
Yeah.
He was really upset.