"Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction."

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"Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction."

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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."

Performance

"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

Audience

"We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me."

Age

"I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage."

Play

"The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in."

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"We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player."

Now

"There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time."

Technology

"Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then."

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"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."

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"People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things."

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