"We as a band, me as a musician, I think the culture of musicians [in general] is kind of getting over the idea of being a rock star. And if you think about it, the period of… being a rock star was pretty short in the history of music… from 1950 until about the year 2000 was the era of the rock star. And it was fuckin' great--for the rock stars, and for the music business. They made tons of money. It was the perfect storm of being able to record music really well and also being able to control the sale of recorded music.
About I See Hawks in L.A., he adds "We're not rock stars. But we're not isolated and totally obscure. We're somewhere in between. We can make records and play shows and we have certain regions where we have really good fan support and others where we don't. We have an audience for the music and they tell us what they like and what they don't like. And for the people who've been following the band for five or six or seven years, this really does feel like a greatest hits record, even though there's no magazine chart that says so."
For now, the Hawks are doing what they've always done--writing songs, doing some touring, and preparing to record another album. Musical outlaws in a city of concrete, they've found a niche they can call their own.
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