Quotes by David Ellefson

“Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardoms illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.”

“It was completely unintentional, really. We did write a few progressive and more traditional metal songs early on, but I think the band sounds best on the ones we ended up putting on the record. Its refreshing to do a debut album with a new band because there are really no restrictions to what you can do.”

“A Drug For All Seasons.”

“Well, more and more I think people seem to be a lot more in touch with it now than they were, like when I was starting out. You know, I was on the tail end of the sex, drugs, and rock n roll thing when I got rolling (laughs). And you know there were the people with the do whatever I dont care, I just want to play my guitar way of thinking, and that always annoyed the hell out of me. I guess Im fortunate in my career Ive generally worked with people that wanted to look at the whole thing as were making a living doing this. Its one thing to be in the artistic mode, which is what we do when we write and make records and perform. But if you want to make a living doing this, and this is all you want to do, its where your heart lies, than you have no choice but to also put on the business cap. In this day and age, especially with the Internet. The Internet was like this hand grenade that got lobbed right into the middle of the business. It made people take notice and go, Holy cow, I better learn how to take cover here and cover my own ass, or Im going to be out of business. Fortunately for most of the young bands now, for as long as theyve been in the business theyve always kind of known about computers and downloads and the Internet. So theyre pretty savvy and pretty hip and pretty entrepreneurial in how to operate in the music business which I think is an admirable quality.”

“I think reuniting original lineups is awesome. Ultimately, thats what people want to see. You know, you see elder statesmen of classic rock doing it whether it be REO SPEEDWAGON or STYX doing it. You know, getting as many of the original members that are still around. You see them doing it, you see metal bands doing it, pop bands — DURAN DURAN , everybodys trying to do that. I think what everybody realizes at some point is that if you can make those things work its really cool. Ultimately, thats what the fans want to see when they go see those bands. They want to relive that piece of their youth or that piece of their life when that band was doing what they do best. So, I think given the right circumstances, those things usually fare pretty well for everybody. And most importantly, the fans are happy about it.”

“Well, theres a few things. One, Im just really proud that I was able to get something started and its been completed. And not that F5 is complete by any chance, but just the fact that we just so nonchalantly got in a room and started something and our passion drove us to make sure that the album came out, and now here we are able to talk about an album thats out. So on the one hand, thats kind of an initial goal that feels really good now to have accomplished. Another thing is Im just really happy to help open the door for the other guys in F5 too. Ive been to the big dance now for quite a few years, and I guess thats one of the things Ive enjoyed in recent years with the music production Ive done and the artist development and now with this band. Its been a fun process to be able to be put in touch with these guys who are so talented and have such great ability, but for some reason havent had a chance to get up to bat yet. That for me brings me a lot of personal satisfaction, especially with F5 .”