I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there’ll be cold McDonald’s and jam sandwiches with several cakes.
The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it’s got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It’s leading the charge.
I’m a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there’s an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming ‘Death in Paradise,’ and I played all over the island and had the best time.
For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of jam depends on what particular fruit is being harvested. I learned how to make it from my mother.
‘The Venture Bros’ are my jam.
When people see that we’re signed to Def Jam, the perception has changed.
When Def Jam wanted to sign Method Man, they wanted to sign Method Man and Old Dirty. And Old Dirty wanted to be on Def Jam – everybody, that was like the dream label. But if I had Old Dirty and Method Man on Def Jam, that’s two key pieces going in the same direction, whereas there’s other labels that needed to be infiltrated.
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
I like coal fired. I’m definitely, generally, always a coal-fired guy. Crispy, don’t do a ton of sauce, but kind of a well-done, coal-fired pizza is my jam.
I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The ‘Def Jam Poetry’ on HBO is just so sick to me.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‘You’re going to do it my way.’ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‘You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.’
I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,’ This is my jam!’ It still feels fresh to them.
You don’t hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.
There’s probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
You can’t beat a good doughnut. It has to be a jam one with light pastry and caster sugar on the outside. If I’m really tired, I have to hunt one down, because it gives me that sugar rush to keep me going.
I’m in all my films, I can’t help it. I just jam myself in there if there’s a space.
Static-X has never been a band where the four guys get into a room together and jam and write songs and all that kind of stuff.
When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, ‘Hot House’ was like a standard jam session tune.
To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.
No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it’s hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
Oh, all southern women say they’re sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don’t spread the jam right, you’re always sorry. I’ve had people tell me to stop saying it so much!
Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we’d play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we’d go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn’t need to cover other people’s songs anymore.
My sister and I – she’s a musician – we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she’ll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we’ll just start singing and doing stuff.
Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
I feel like a Space Jam’ creature.
You gotta have a Swaggy in ‘Space Jam.’ If you want to sell tickets, you got to have me. I can give them swag once they get their powers taken. They can come to me and I can be a sorcerer of Swag. I can hand it out to them and give them hope.
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn’t have, ‘I love Frank’ on it, it had, ‘I love AC/DC’, ‘Guns N Roses’, ‘Pearl Jam’. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.
