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" My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out. "
King Tuff
Brother
Conformity
Me
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" It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth. "
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" I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself. "
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" I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great. "
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" That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything. "
King Tuff
Food
Eat
Everything
" I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever. "
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" I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world. "
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" Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box. "
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" I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller. "
King Tuff
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Blues
Top
" I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically. "
King Tuff
Happy
Guitar
Think
" Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A. "
King Tuff
Vermont
Always
Heart
" My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere. "
King Tuff
Moments
Out
Best
" My friends always had bands, and we would play together. "
King Tuff
Play
Together
Always
" I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself. "
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Really
Myself
Love
" You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it. "
King Tuff
Will
Attention
Long
" I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. "
King Tuff
Art
Great
Yourself
" I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that. "
King Tuff
Release
Mind
Spirit
" Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them. They're my friends, and we're doing it together. "
King Tuff
Together
Doing
Burger
" You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive. "
King Tuff
Alive
Dive
Down
" I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy. "
King Tuff
Beauty
Place
People
" It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made. "
King Tuff
He
Trust
Made
" I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know? "
King Tuff
King
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Rock
" Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3. "
King Tuff
Rock
Rock And Roll
Me
" I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious. "
King Tuff
Everything
Science
Mysterious
" I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain. "
King Tuff
She
Blink
Show
" I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. "
King Tuff
Weird
Sit
Light
" I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter. "
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Challenge
Live
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" I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll. "
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Mind
Rock
Think
" Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal. "
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Liberal
Town
Small Town
" I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. "
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Music
College
Listening
" I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music. "
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People
Dog
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