There were a lot of rock records that did well in those couple years. That has more to do with the time or anything. Does it frustrate you to see rock bands today without those commercial possibilities? Well, yeah. Bands do very well today: They fill lots of seats without having any hit songs.
And I think rock bands make better rock records than solo artists do. Not having the band around me or the band name just gave me a different freedom but there was also a different agenda in those records.
They were never going to have the same kind of appeal that a Wallflowers record might have. Do you view your solo records and Wallflowers material as coming from a different musical space? Any new projects in the works? Just finishing that up. Songs from the mid-Sixties, huh? Are you covering your dad? I got a lot of great people to come and sing and play guitar.
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What kind of feeling did "One Headlight" give you, in the time you were working on it? It still gives me the same feeling. I lean towards those songs usually. When I sing it I still feel like that. Over time though, songs change. What's your feeling on the thematic juxtaposition between the verses and the chorus?
I think so many of the best songs are [juxtapositions], really. I think they are about perseverance and independence and self-reliance. And to not accept the meandering, free-falling feeling of being in the middle. I think everybody clearly usually knows what the right thing to do is and what the wrong thing is. I consider that to be human law.
I guess maybe I suppose I was trying to get that across. Okay, this one is maybe a little bit more pragmatic: Independence Day is not a typically cold time of year. Was there a specific instance that inspired that line "She said, 'It's cold, it feels like Independence Day"? He clearly seems like an idol of yours.
What was it like to connect with him on your own work? Not only did I sing a song with Bruce Springsteen, but he sang one of mine, and I got to rehearse it with him. So I have that validation going forward for always. I mean, yes! You had two things going on. You know, not really. Those things, you get three and a half minutes. So it goes by like a blur, but it was certainly very exciting, and I felt great for my band and myself to be up there sharing the stage with Bruce.
You know, it might have been the cameraman. I think we probably just spoke immediately afterwards and just tried to reassure one another that it was really good. That was in Los Angeles. So when we began again on Interscope Records, there was a lot of attention on that song and getting a version of that song that would be helpful in the record business. I secretly felt that that was fine; I understood why people gravitated toward that song, but I felt we had something bigger in our back pocket.
Interscope Records was such a powerhouse throughout the '90s. What was your experience there? He was a good influence on me, and very involved, and had good ideas for what we were doing. I thought he understood that music very well -- and even though he may have had one foot in that world, and his other in the new world, in terms of what his horizons would involve, he still recognized that music at the time.
He was passionate about it. Well you only get to arrive once. We actually made another video for that song, and it was very dark and very gothic.
I remember being in New York City and getting a VHS and all of us running to a room to watch it and just being horrified that is was such a murky misrepresentation. It was very morbid feeling. A lot of shadows. I think there was coffins in it. I insisted on scrambling and seeing if we could make another video, and we did. I do remember someone from the record company being there and reporting back to the big chiefs at home that the band was wearing suits, and there being a big ruckus to get us out of those damn suits.
It was our attempt at something like that. The brutal, fickle music industry has left scars on Jakob Dylan, the son of a man who has sold over million records worldwide — Bob Dylan, of course.
Those metaphorical marks are bared, tenderly, on his first Wallflowers album in nearly a decade, and seventh since , Exit Wounds. His lyrical themes address the personal and the profound. And Dylan, 51 — in his Buddha-meets-rockstar verbal meandering — likes to talk in profound terms. Jakob Dylan has put out a new Wallflowers album. Credit: Andrew Slater. These songs are vignettes that discuss change, and evolution. That is your life, you are just an accumulated pile of exit wounds and gifts that you give and take.
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