During the band’s initial line-up, was the creative process diplomatic or dictatorial?
The creative process in the Bags was a bit like the people in it—erratic and eclectic. Some of our songs were spontaneous; most were not. Craig Lee became the principal writer and I think he was the only real business-minded person in the band. I thought of him as an older brother who I respected but enjoyed irritating from time to time. At the time, did you genuinely feel that you, your band, and your peers were revolutionizing music? Did you know that you were making something as relevant to the future as it was to you at that moment in time? I know many people have said that they knew that they were in the midst of something important. I never did. I thought it was important to me, but I had no idea that punk would touch so many lives and give rise to many deep cultural changes. For many people who believe in punk, it is much more than a type of music or a clothing preference. Punks take things into their own hands, question authority, circumvent mass production, create, originate,
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