i loved when he was gonna go rockabilly, its like nobody told him beforehand that it would take more than two notes and one scale to play, haha. he gets to "actually sing". fucking dying over here, hahaha...
""I had long hair when I was a young teen, and smoked weed and listened to Led Zeppelin," he recalls. "But I was also the one who looked in the back of Cream magazine at the ads for Iggy Pop and Lou Reed."
By the time he was in high school, he was "not buying into '70s limousine rock. ... Most kids called me a freak because I liked David Bowie and they liked Elton John."
When he first heard the Sex Pistols at age 17, "It sounded like how I felt inside" and his punk-rock future was cast.
But now, "country, depression blues and folk are just as significant and inspiring as punk was," he says. "I want to be known as an American songwriter and not just a guy from some punk band from Orange County."
While the live shows don't include the album's big-name guest stars -- Bruce Springsteen, Brian Setzer -- "the response has just been amazing," he says.
The album has "not only helped me develop as a songwriter, but as a performer," he says. "I get to actually sing and not just scream."
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