you have um a ten week old little girl is that right this is true congratulations thank you very
much yeah i have a brand new baby your second this is my third third i have three girls and
how old are the girls uh eight years old five years old in 10 weeks okay now musically uh the
10 week is probably not a voice in music yet yet yet the eight-year-old for sure is right
my eight-year-old loves music all of my kids have that thing that you need to sing and play and do
the whole thing but um but sometimes their musical uh taste is a little questionable
but i'm not one to judge i was lucky my parents never told me not to listen to
any kind well you can't you can't let them just explore and find out when uh
when violet was young uh when she was about two or three years old she used to listen to music
on my wife's ipod and she was really into the amy winehouse record right which is
an amazing record it's kind of weird to hear a three-year-old uh sing the rehab song you know
i thought it was cute but so i come home from the road once and uh i get and i'm getting the
car and we're driving and all sudden i hear my daughter listening to this like gangster rap song
and i turn to my wife and i'm like what is what is what is that she goes i was trying to download
the song rehab but i messed up and i got this rapper named rehab oh and it was it wasn't like
graphic or bad but it was just it just was not a good i didn't think it was good music this
good song so i turned her and i say uh hey violet what's that and she says oh it's my new song
it's her new song and i said i don't really think it's such a good song and she goes well i like it
and i said well i don't yeah and she said well i do and she listens to it eight times in a
row that's right and it was right then that i realized i i am a parent now parent now and i
have to just allow her to do her thing buckle in and get ready but then i immediately bought her a
beatles record i'm like no no wait you got to get here first isn't that the thing about music music
is music some people love it other people might not love it as much i think what happens is the
reason why different people have music different musical tastes is because you find yourself in
someone else's song so as you're going through life searching for your own identity you hear a
song that you connect with and then that becomes part of you and so that's how she felt about rehab
you have you have a daughter who is a gangster already too now uh and what role did your parents
play in your formative years for music well both of my parents were musical my mother was
in singing groups when she was uh in high school in ohio acapella my father was a classically
trained flautist so he was like studied and trained and had perfect pitch and um so around
the house there was there was a lot of diversity like we would listen to candide you know and then
neil young and then slayer and then you know it was all over the map but what i got to appreciate
was that uh music is such a beautiful art that it's you can't really judge it you just have
to let it in and appreciate it and when when they uh recognized uh early on your direction
were they supportive of that pursuit yeah they were i mean you know my dad was such a
trained musician that he'd say things like uh you know don't just call yourself a musician
because you play an instrument things like that which made me you know start playing punk rock
in your dad's mind what did it take to be a musician other than playing an instrument well
i mean you have to understand like i'm sure as a parent you understand that you want to make sure
the most important thing to you is that your kid is okay and that they make their way through life
smoothly without you know so um you know and here i am with a mohawk or whatever playing the
fastest i could play and uh i don't and there wasn't really much career opportunity in that
so um like when nirvana became popular uh my father he called and he said
you know this isn't gonna last right and i said no of course why would it i can't
imagine this would last at all but then he gave me lots of really great advice