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Most people will listen to our music through a lens of "How much does it sound like Aerosmith?" But we're just a different band. And they'll assume other things. Like we're just a bunch of brats, or we don't work hard. Typical things. Obviously, I don't think it's true ... But it's par for the course. We're used to it. We don't get pissed off when people ask. You just have to go in there and win 'em over with what you do. And people will either accept you or they won't. But ultimately it's not our problem.
AP: Yeah. But it's funny. We've had those conversations. But it's not like we consciously chose to play this style. We all kind of like rock, pop, guitar stuff from the '60s and '70s. And that music has influenced everyone from my dad to any band that you listen to that has guitars. The commonalities are more due to the fact that we probably have the same influences, not because we're trying to sound like a '70s band. But, yeah, if we didn't play classic-sounding rock 'n' roll, there would be less of those comparisons. But we're not gonna let that dictate what we do.It's funny, I've had this question before. People think we're doing it on purpose, "paying your dues." But we don't have a fucking choice. We're a dirt-poor band. We have no money. We have no label. There is no magical moneybag in the sky that's, like, "OK, you've paid your dues. Now you can go tour stadiums!" ... If we don't pay our dues, we don't have a career. If we don't play The Monkey House, we're not playing Vermont.See the full content of this document
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Tab the Interview
By most measures, TAB the Band are not terribly different from any number of successful, upand-coming indie acts. They've done South by Southwest. They've notched blips on the radars of NPR, PopMatters and Rolling Stone. They've toured the country and parts of Europe opening for big names such as ...
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