King Tuff
King Tuff
King Tuff is a recording artist on Sub Pop Records and Burger Records...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
CountryUnited States of America
chain dad dragging dude remember swinging took
My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.
broke far listening mind music opened rock
I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.
diverse ended good music rock
I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?
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.
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.
bob
Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.
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.
roger
I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.
candles love sit
I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.
kurt looked saw
I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.
albums bobby involved love trust
It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.
downfall food
That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.
music
The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
home love vermont
Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.