In the "thinking-outside-the-box" department, this should be on top of the list.
I don't know if it's been posted before (from '99), but I was bored, and did a search; came upon "Yahoo! Music"....
...and landed on this
Anybody out there adventurous enough to listen to Neal's "underground" stuff?
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"LAUNCH:
You're into Prodigy? Does this mean you're gonna be pulling out turntables and doing the DJ thing?
NEAL:
No, I don't see us doing that. But I have worked on some dance stuff in the past year. I recorded a bunch of riffs, funky riffs, heavy riffs, and just played to a little rhythm machine beat.
And these guys over in Oakland called Big Ed & the E Team, they do a lot of dance remixes for records, they took all my loops and spliced and diced them and made a record out of it. I listened to it and it's very out, very, very wild. It's way underground, not commercial, four-on-the-floor disco. It's definitely out.
LAUNCH:
You'd think Journey's core audience would be shocked by such a thing?
NEAL:
I don't know. In the older band there were certain limitations, and as we got further down the line it even went more so that way. But really, when you listen to Escape or Frontiers, Frontiers was a pretty experimental record, we were, like, starting to step out and try things out. I was getting more interested in it, but I think everyone else got a little more scared like it was getting too far out. I'm still like the guy that pushes the envelope. I like to walk the line. I love motorcycles and that's just me [laughs]. I like the wild side of stuff. I like stuff that's unpredictable as well as knowing that I have to have stuff that is predictable.
Basically you've got to play both sides, you know? You have to play your own side and make yourself happy as well as cover your ass and make sure that you have something that's gonna compete with everything else that's out there on AC [adult contemporary] radio."
