Ultimately, I think that's detrimental to the larger body of work and you can have a more sustainable long term career if you put the quality of the work first and not just use it as a means to stay in the public eye.In March 1972 a lonely, severely depressed 17-year-old, named Alden Barrett took his life. You can't force that sort of stuff, even if there's certain pressure from the industry to continually be cranking out product just to stay in the news. When it comes time for a new record, I think that will just occur naturally. Right now, the focus is on the live concert and getting out there and doing a good job and rocking the kids. Sometimes the concept is a little more concrete and easy to wrap your head around, or maybe sometimes I make a greater effort to beat the audience over the head with the concept, but I've tried on every record to make sure there was a thematic through-line that tied the whole thing together as a cohesive statement.īeyond touring, what's next for the band? To my mind, all of our records have sort of been concept albums. What's the difference in how you approach concept albums and non-concept albums? I used to get grumpy about it, but nowadays I see that it's a path for a lot of people to get into the band, and hopefully it's a doorway into a greater degree of fandom and appreciation. But I've started to be more at peace with the degree to which our legacy is controlled largely by that one record. It's too soon to say, because until we put out a new record and everybody says, "Oh, but it's not as good as 'The Most Lamentable Tragedy,'" I have no reason to have a big chip on my shoulder about it.
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