So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

All you can hear today is the increase in the number of "metal bands" daily but no "metal music"!