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The Melvins are grunge.

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Grunge

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

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Music, Classical Music, Self-Taught

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

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Four, Perfectionists, Perfection

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

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Love, Song, I Love, Helmet

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

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Bigger, Could, Based, La

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

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Three, Grunge, Bands, Seattle

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

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Use, Prefer, Custom, Guitars

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

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Different People, Images, Different Things

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

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Back, Been, Guitar Player, Bass Player

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

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Solos, Lyrics

I like soundtracks and I like film.

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Film, Like, Soundtracks

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

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Music, Been, Listened, Lately

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

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Never, Always, Took, Lessons

I've never worried about how long the song is.

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Song, Never, How, Worried

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

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Art, Me, Band, Tool

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

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Sound, Other, Our, Tool

Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

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Communicate, Vibe, Our, Tool

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

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Like, Very, Solid, Unsafe

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

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Play, Always, Sculptures, Shoot

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

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Play, Like, Sounds, Solo

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

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Me, Doing, Bores, Solo

I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

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Equipment, Like, About, Geek

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

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Think, I Think, Critic, Perfectionist

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

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Making, Going, Right Reasons, Receptive

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

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Songs, Were, Came, Opiate

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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Think, Seriously, Nirvana, Grunge

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

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Seriously, More, Like, Emphasis

I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

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Song, Thought, Part, Heaven

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

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Think, I Think, Putting, Easy Way

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

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How, Market, Record, Record Label

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