Quotes by Ronnie Vannucci

“You Cant Spell Star Without A&R.”

“I used to go back there with my poker-playing friends and eat really good food.”

“[Writing in 120 degree temperatures in the garage that became their rehearsal room provided a suitably intense hot-housing effect. And when they couldnt get into the garage theyd use Ronnies spymaster knowledge to gain mid-night access to the facilities available at his Universitys music school.] There was about 2000 sq ft of luxurious practice space complete with drum sets, marimbas, cymbals, pianos etc… So, for about a month or two we lugged a Marshall to sing out of, a Deville to play the axe through, a Bassman for the keyboard, a bass cabinet for Mark and I used the UNLV pep drum band set, ... Though Id like to make clear that no instruments were mistreated during this time as we are, and continue to be, respectful, professional and, last but not least, resourceful musicians.”

“Were just looking forward to getting home, but its not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We cant wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.”

“I dont know if Im allowed to say or not, but I think were going to do the album with [producers] Flood and Alan Moulder. Were playing around with a bunch of different ideas, and well never really know what anything will sound like until theyre done. I dont think one would be expecting to have another Somebody Told Me on the record. But who knows? Its not done yet.”