King Tuff
King Tuff
King Tuff is a recording artist on Sub Pop Records and Burger Records...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
CountryUnited States of America
knew record
I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.
lyrics trying
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.
bob
Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.
learned steal took trying
I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically.
ask best biggest dad grew listening met music parents vermont
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.
games time
I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.
dive good gotta hope wanna
You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
hard inspiring masters
It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.
art artists embrace extremes fully great key might scared
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.
album few quite release songs
I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.
I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.
beauty came few flipped people totally wall
I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.
biggest both burger difference labels people pop seems stuff super
Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them. They're my friends, and we're doing it together.