

"We mixed a lot of styles together without making them seem like they don't belong together," said the guitarist. It brought out a lot of good material - not necessarily political music, just emotional music, you know?"Īnd while System had a certain style and sound that put them on top, the band was open to not so obvious influences such as Kraftwerk, the Beach Boys and the Zombies. For one month I didn't know if a bomb dropped on my grandmother's house or, you know what I mean? I didn't know. And we get a phone call and they're OK and we can breathe a little bit. Because it was like not knowing what's going on until we got a phone call. He elaborated to Launch that war back home factored into the process, adding, "The last two or three months or whenever that happened was probably the toughest time of my whole life.
