Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and guitarist. She has garnered acclaim for her technical skill and tapping style of guitar play. Stern is also a current member of The 8G Band from the show Late Night with Seth Meyers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth18 March 1976
CountryUnited States of America
brought everybody loves
I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.
bands figure finger lots messing realized stuff type
I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.
explore less looser nature playing tight
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.
dress people stage
For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.
bands bolt tapping
Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
certain entirely help lean listen motivate music thinking towards
Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.
people
People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.
ends few flesh girls guitar lessons point song starting tend voice wanting women
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.
males female
I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.
together band goes-on
When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.
teenager people band
People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.
guitar insane wells
When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.
long usual different
The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.