Lou Barlow
Lou Barlow
Louis Knox Barlowis an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His first band, in Amherst, Massachusetts, was Deep Wound. Barlow was born in Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Jackson, Michigan and Westfield, Massachusetts...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth17 July 1966
normal promotion song sweet validation within
That kind of validation was nice. It was especially sweet because we didn't do anything within the normal promotion process. It was the song itself.
band basically creatively doubt great kicked personally rejected time
I basically worshiped J. Personally and creatively he was such a mentor, and to be rejected by him was crushing. At the same time being kicked out of that band was a great thing for me. Had I stayed, I doubt I would've been able to find my own voice.
entered instead john label logical offers period sign step taken tour worked
We had a lot of offers that if we'd taken them we wouldn't be happy. We didn't sign immediately with the label (Polygram) that put out the soundtrack. It wasn't the logical step for us. We entered a period where we worked really hard. We went on tour and recorded, instead of doing what was expected. No, it was about John and me doing what we wanted.
cutting decided next perform studio
When we approached our next sessions in my house, we decided to completely go for things we couldn't even perform live. We went for a studio approach, really layering and cutting things down.
problem
We've never had any problem not sounding like a band,