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The ride is bumpy at times. Fallon said that Clutch’s artistic risks can be confusing for some fans. “I think there are people that I meet now who are my age and listened to that when they were adolescents who haven’t let go of that and they want to hear ‘old-school shit,’” he said. “And I always scratch my head and feel bad that that’s all they want to. I figure that sometimes when fans of an artist want to hear that one record, what they’re actually asking the artist to do is to transport them back in time to a better place, when that soundtrack is something they want to relive over and over and over again.  And that’s all well and good, but to do that for 20 years … I can’t imagine doing the same dog-and-pony show over and over again, especially when it’s based in anger. That’s exhausting.” … [Read more...] about The Universal Truth of Clutch’s Neil Fallon

Which brings us to New Year’s resolutions. Resolutions are generally made about habits, not about carefully thought-out decisions. “Starting on January 1, I’m going to stop drinking coffee/eating sugar/biting my nails/throwing my clothes on the floor” – you can fill in the blank. These are all habits. We do them without thinking. But today’s science suggests that these resolutions won’t touch them. Woods agrees that “the long-term memory systems in habit formation don’t shift with new resolutions.” … [Read more...] about Instead of Making Resolutions, Hold on to Your Habits

There were brief moments where DeYoung second-guessed his method and doubted himself as a musician. During our discussion, he described how the hit songs that can still be heard on the radio today did not take off immediately. In fact, “Lady,” one of their most enduring anthems, was not well-received initially. “It didn't sell. And so, as a young man, I thought, well, they hate me. I'm the opposite, I'm the opposite of Sally Field: They hate me, they really hate me. I thought what I did naturally was not acceptable,” DeYoung recalled. “So, it was a very difficult time for me. The next two albums — as the writer and a musician — I tried to be anyone else but myself. And I had no success at that. And then accidentally 'Lady' is picked up on the most powerful radio station in Chicago ... this program director, Jim Smith, goes into the past and picks 'Lady' out of thin air. So, for me, I always knew how close we were to … [Read more...] about How Dennis DeYoung Helped Me Face the Life Ahead of Me